 | At the Rainbow: Poems (Mary Burritt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: September 1995| Series: Mary Burritt Poetry Series Robert Vasquez's refreshingly diverse and undogmatic bookcrosses all boundaries: racial, ideological, and aesthetic. He is thewinner of the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award andfinalist in the AWP Award Series in Poetry.A native Californian andChicano, Vasquez eschews political rhetoric and stereotypes anddiscovers the extraordinary in the ordinary world: "I look up at thenight's broad back / gone crazy with tattoos of light, seasonal /signs almost beyond stoppage, and let / the unsayable build skyward."His w...
 |  | Starting Over
Publication Date: January 10, 2002It seems a long time since life was good for Liz Dewhurst. Her happy marriage to Gregor ended six months ago when she discovered he had been having an affair with another local woman for two years. But if that wasn't enough, Liz and Gregor's family businesses were also intertwined. Growing up on neighboring farms on the East coast of Fife, an area blessed with rich soil and beautiful, unspoiled landscapes, the marriage made it perfect sense to merge. The separation, however, has come at the worse possible time. With business bad, the two farms are barely str...
|  | Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English
Release Date: June 1, 1971Retold by James H. Thomas. The best allegory ever written is rewritten in modern English, making it clearer and more forceful to the modern reader. (More than 100,000 in print) ...
|  | F.A.I.R.I.E.S.: Baptism by Fire
Publication Date: December 5, 2011Unwittingly chosen to join an army of fairies, who fight for the Light of the One, a teenaged girl learns about spiritual warfare as she attends a military academy with fantastical beings. ...
|  | Skeleton Crew
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm ...Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears.Do the dead sing?In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, the water dividing her from the mainland; a gramma who only wants to hug little George, even after she is dead; an in...
|  | Roses
Publication Date: January 3, 2011Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with the deceit, secrets, and tragedies of their choice and the loss of what might have been--not just for themselves but for their children, and children's children. With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses co...
|  | Nine Coaches Waiting (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Series: Rediscovered Classics A governess in a French château encounters an apparent plot against her young charge's life in this unforgettably haunting and beautifully written suspense novel. When lovely Linda Martin first arrives at Château Valmy as an English governess to the nine-year-old Count Philippe de Valmy, the opulence and history surrounding her seems like a wondrous, ecstatic dream. But a palpable terror is crouching in the shadows. Philippe's uncle, Leon de Valmy, is the epitome of charm, yet dynamic and arrogant—his paralysis littl...
|  | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cliffs Complete)
Publication Date: May 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0764587277 | ISBN-13: 978-0764587276In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.CliffsComplete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since its publication has been able to identify with some of the novel's themes, including freedo...
|  | Red White Black and Blue (Donald Strachey Mystery)
Publication Date: June 2, 2011| Series: Donald Strachey Mystery In an election year, Don finds himself in the unlikely role of political operative. Rumors about the Tea Party's opportunistic gubernatorial candidate, Kenyon Louderbush, paint him as an unfaithful, callous exploiter of young men...young men that he puts into the hospital...or perhaps the morgue. Don smells truth in those rumors. But, he's confounded by a shadowy conspiracy, witnesses' fear and a grieving family appallingly willing to give up on justice for a brutalized son and brother.In RED WHITE AND BLACK AND BLUE, series cre...
|  | Two Years Before the Mast (Signet Classics)
Release Date: April 7, 2009| Series: Signet Classics A Breathtaking adventure of the high seas—and a true storyIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea—and still rings true as a portrayal of man’s endurance. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Working Shakespeare: The Ultimate Actor's Workshop The Consumer Edition
Release Date: December 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 1557835381 | ISBN-13: 978-1557835383| Edition: Pap/DVD (Applause Books). How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private sch...
|  | Children's Gate
Publication Date: November 10, 2005Nathan Adams and his younger brother Jared and twin sisters Jenna and Sophia are your typical small town children. That is, until they are abducted by an evil wizard and brought to another world where magic rules. This family has something of value, something that could prove to be fatal to all of them, and they must discover what it is and find a way to escape before it is too late. With the help of some interesting new friends they meet along the way the children begin to uncover clues as to why they were brought to this world in the first place, and the ...
|  | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam for Students of Persian Literature
Publication Date: July 2, 2012Since leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians who were eager to learn more about their own heritage, but who were unable to read the language of their parents. He decided to use the quatrains of Omar Khayyam as a vehicle to introduce a small section of Persian literature, philosophy and culture to his children and grandchildren's generation. Khayyam's poems are well-known both in the Persian original and in the English speaking world through the translations of Edw...
|  | Puertos abiertos. Antolog
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|  | The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey, Together With 150 Illustrative Texts from English, American, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Mexica
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|  | I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Publication Date: February 14, 2006| Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Have you ever wondered why there are so many "dumb blonde" jokes—always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the"flaxen Saxon" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra—about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon—and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing field for women and men had leveled considerabl...
|  | Livy: Book I (Bk. 1)
Publication Date: June 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0862922968 | ISBN-13: 978-0862922962Part I of Livy's great history of Rome covering the 'mythical' period from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, including the founding of Alba Longa and Rome, and the prioed of Kingship up to the banishment of the Tarquins and election of the first consuls. This edition with its annotation, vocabulary and introduction, aims to elucidate essential points of content but, more importantly, to provide all the linguistic tools needed for the student to read the text with comparative ease. ...
|  | Lifelong Love: 4 Steps to Creating and Maintaining an Extraordinary Relationship
Publication Date: June 19, 2012Does your relationship feel stale, stalled and strained? Have you tried, and failed, to sustain a successful connection with a partner?Clinical psychologists Peter Sheras and Phyllis Koch-Sheras have helped thousands of people rejuvenate their relationships to create a meaningful and deeply fulfilling love. Their effective 4-step "Couple Power" program is based on a dramatic shift in the way in which relationships are viewed—where the couple is seen as an entity in and of itself, greater than the sum of its individual parts.Discover the 4 Cs of Lif...
|  | The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Kirby Puckett: Fan Favorite (Achievers)
Publication Date: June 1993| Age Level: 9 and up...
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