 | Horse in the Dark: Poems
Publication Date: August 31, 2012In the next chapter of the Cave Canem/Northwestern University Poetry Prize, we enter the poetic world of Vievee Francis. Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas and the fluid details of the African American South. Her poems become panhandle folktales revealing the weight of memories so clear and on the cusp. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people and geography will keep the reader rooted in a good earth of extraordinary verse....
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|  | The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Release Date: April 6, 2010A crime lost to time. A secret buried deep. One book unlocks an unimaginable truth. Salem, Massachusetts, 1681. Fear and suspicion lead a small town to unspeakable acts. Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1991. A young woman is about to discover that she is tied to Salem in ways she never imagined. "A sensational debut novel . . . carries on every page Howe's unique passion, wit, intelligence, and spirit."--Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow "A terrific debut novel . . . a captivating thriller of the hidden powers of women...
|  | The Devil's Apocrypha: There are two sides to every story
Publication Date: November 13, 2002The battle between good and evil began long ago.Before the birth of humanity, God and Satan fought for the domination of heaven. And, as everyone knows, God was triumphant over Satans evil. The tale has been told for thousands of years.But its all a lie.A manuscript has been discovered, written over a century ago by a priest who was visited by the Devil himself. A priest who left the church to seek out Three Mad Prophets and learn the truth.An Amazon.com bestseller, The Devil's Apocrypha is a tale that begins in another universe, before creation, and ends w...
|  | Vegas Vampires
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Since San Francisco's origins as a Gold Rush town, vampires have secretly owned a worldwide chain of casinos. Come the first nightfall of winter, the Gaming Guild will hold the 25th Dark World Gambling Games. Dirk DeVault is obsessed with winning and returning the guild to its former glory. ...
|  | Grid Down Reality Bites
Publication Date: August 17, 2011The author of Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide for Xtreme Safety, Survival, Profit, Pleasure. This is now a collector's book. His new novel brings you a working man's guide to the end of the world. If you enjoyed One Second After and Lights Out then you will love this fast paced novel of 3 different groups surviving the confusion and terror of The End Of The World As We Know It.Two young men, Mark and Eric struggle desperately trying to make it to their retreat in Northern California. Their truck is dead from an EMP. They have to walk 200 miles. Wi...
|  | Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
Publication Date: January 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0226169162 | ISBN-13: 978-0226169163This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Dugaw demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history. ...
|  | Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
Release Date: May 5, 2006For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world -- from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland -- have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear. While the most famous lake monsters of Loch Ness and Lake Champlain have gained international notoriety, hundreds of lakes around the world are said to shelter these shadowy creatures. Lake Monster Mysteries is the first book to examine these widespread mysteries from a scientific perspective. By using exhaustive research and results from firsthand investig...
|  | The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
Publication Date: October 17, 1994America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic.Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making today's cocktail-party circuit and shows why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true.The eponymous episode—"The Baby Train"—sheds light on certain predawn activities that have linked unusually high birth rates to the whim ...
|  | The London Merchant (Regents Restoration Drama)
Publication Date: November 1, 1965| Series: Regents Restoration Drama Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder."What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool’s wisdom and the coward’s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he b...
|  | Alla Mia
Publication Date: October 9, 2008The author lives in the United States since 1989. She writes humorous, satirical comedy screenplays and musicals in Russian language. The screenplays are intended for a professional stage, amateur theater, home theater or for Кapustnik-theater. Some of them have already been successfully staged in Washington, DC. Автор живет в Америке с 1989 и пишет смешные, с...
|  | Steampunk
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, Jame...
|  | The Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy: A New Edition and Commentary (Making the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: March 20, 2002| Series: Making the Middle Ages (Book 4) Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 and in 1770 published his translation of Mallet's very influential work on early Scandinavian literature and culture as Northern Antiquities (with extensive annotations and additions by Percy himself). In publishing Five Pieces, Percy was influenced by the success of Macpherson's first volume of Ossian poetry (1760) and his own wide-ranging interest in ancient, especia...
|  | Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as "Prometheus," he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while "To the Moon" is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe’s use of Classical meters in an homage to ancient Rome and its poets, and "The Diary," suppressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is combined ...
| | Yuan long zhi men (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Salvador
Release Date: April 26, 1994"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool o...
|  | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
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|  | Saratoga Snapper: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery
Release Date: August 4, 1987| Series: Charlie Bradshaw Mystery With his detective agency facing hard times, Charlie Bradshaw moonlights as night manager at a Saratoga Springs hotel. Victor, his partner, snaps pictures of the happy tourists. But not all the tourists are happy with this self-styled Saratoga Snapper. When one "candid" subject runs Victor down and steals his camera, Charlie gets caught up in a dangerous scheme worthy of Saratoga's colorful past. It proves that passions still roil in this quiet resort town. "The Bradshaw mysteries are among the most enjoyable currently being writ...
|  | Wind Dancers #1: If Wishes Were Horses
Release Date: November 11, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Release Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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