 | Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Publication Date: November 29, 2009This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces. ...
 |  | Other Things Being Equal
Publication Date: March 2002A timely reissue of Emma Wolf's 1892 novel, which boldy interrogates the implications of Jewish-Christian marriage and examines the role of the "new woman" within the traditions of the Jewish home. ...
|  | The Lake Shore Limited (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Meet Billy Gertz: a fiercely independent playwright, whose newest drama imagines the story of a man waiting to hear if his estranged wife has survived a cataclysmic event. As her life touches three other unforgettable characters, Billy’s play—the emotion behind its genesis and its powerful performance—forms the thread that binds them all together. A moving love story and a tale of connection and loss, The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best. ...
|  | Mini Shopaholic: A Novel
Release Date: January 24, 2012Nothing comes between Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) and her bargains. Neither act of God nor budget crunch can shatter her dreams of wall-to-wall Prada. Every milestone in her well-shopped life (travel, long-lost sister, marriage, pregnancy) inspires new vistas to explore in the name of retail therapy. But now she faces her greatest little challenge yet: Becky’s two-year-old daughter, Minnie.While motherhood has been everything Becky dreamed it would be—Baby Dior, Little Marc Jacobs, and Dolce & Gabbana for toddlers—adorable Minnie is w...
|  | The Pastor's Wife
Release Date: November 20, 2007The Pastor's Wife Most men barely survive one mother, but Terrance Ellis has three -- his aunts. His grandmother Essie's sisters -- Eva, Dorothy Mae, and Mamie -- lovingly raised him after Essie died in a tragic accident. They made sure that troubled young Terrance got on the right path and made something of his life. And now that he's all grown up and the rising pastor of Houston's Lily Grove church, the endlessly argumentative sisters agree on one thing: Terrance needs to find a wife. And not just any wife -- but the right young woman to stand beside him as...
|  | In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Father Tim Another stirring page-turner about Father Tim—this time set in County Sligo—from Jan Karon, bestselling author of the Mitford SeriesJan Karon's new Father Tim series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post. In this second installment in the series, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ...
|  | What Is That Smell?
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|  | Ways of Dying: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2002Winner of the M-Net Book PrizeShortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each ot...
|  | Russian Folk Belief
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|  | Antologia Poetica (Poetas Argentinos Contemporaneos) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Unhaunting (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Publication Date: July 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 1844713482 | ISBN-13: 978-1844713486"The unhaunting" has great variety of tone, preoccupation, style and form, ranging across countries and situations with an ear for the music of language and the harmonies and dissonances of human experience. Taylor's Collected Poems showed him as a poet of ceaseless experiment and continual relevance, and this new collection reinforces his reputation as both a consolidator and innovator. ...
|  | Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 041550970X | ISBN-13: 978-0415509701| Edition: 1 This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-wor...
|  | Aristotle: Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices. (Loeb Classical Library No. 285)
Publication Date: January 1, 1935| ISBN-10: 0674993152 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993150Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip...
|  | Fatal Cure
Release Date: February 1, 1995Public health care is one of the most important issues inAmerica today.Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense,confronts this controversial subject with an all-too-possible scenario aspowerful--and terrifying--as his groundbreaking blockbuster,Coma...With its state-of-the-art facility and peaceful Vermontsetting, the Bartlet Community Hospital seemed like a dream come true.Itoffered doctors David and Angela Wilson new career opportunities, a chanceto work within an enlightened system of "Managed care" --and a perfect placeto raise their daught...
|  | Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
Release Date: July 28, 2003| Series: Victorian Mysteries (Overlook) A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction and a moody Victorian backdrop--it all adds up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery.Howard Engel is the award-winning writer whose Benny Cooperman mysteries garner rave international reviews--fans stretch to thirteen countries from Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and the U.S. His latest, Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell, is a brilliant departure from the Cooperman series, set in the Edinburgh of late 1800s and pe...
|  | Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
Release Date: February 15, 2011 When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. At the end of 2004, following the death of Christie's daughter, Rosalind, a remarkable legacy was revealed: seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists, and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays, and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in the beloved author's unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Full of details she w...
| | Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Vespers Rising (The 39 Clues, Book 11)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O'Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend—Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis—and world domination. It all begins when Casper spends money from his granny on a spectacularly convincing fake mustache, the Heidelberg Handlebar #7. With it he’s able rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president. Is Lenny the only one who can s...
|  | The Crayon Box that Talked
Release Date: October 21, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up "While walking through a toy store, the day before today, I overheard a crayon box with many things to say..." Once upon a time, Shane DeRolf wrote a poem. It was a deceptively simple poem, a charming little piece that celebrates the creation of harmony through diversity. The folks at the Ad Council heard it--and liked it so much that they made it the theme for their 1997 National Anti-Discrimination Campaign for Children. Following on the heels of nearly a year's worth of televised public service announcements, Rand...
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