 | Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America)
Release Date: August 15, 1984| Series: Library of America (Book 17) The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence, addresses, and 287 letters. ...
 |  | The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England)
Publication Date: April 19, 2002| ISBN-10: 0815338627 | ISBN-13: 978-0815338628| Edition: 1 Taken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf , the Junius 11 poems - Genesis, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan - comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their Christiancontent. Apart from its focus on the Junius 11 manuscript, this collection of essays is also im...
|  | Wizard of the Crow: A novel
Release Date: August 8, 2006From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugl wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words,nothing less than “to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history....
|  | Captain Mary, Buccaneer
Publication Date: May 30, 2000It is 1721 and aboard the brigantine Fury, Captain Maryand her pirate crew fight their way across the Caribbean creating afinancial empire and founding the free nation of Cache Island. Whileembroiled in her enterprises, Captain Mary also juggles the demands ofher three lovers: Dr. Alphonse Coulances, a French doctor and traitor;the first mate, a former slave and master pilot named Petronius; andElaina Mayhew, at first a hostage to be ransomed, but later, so muchmore!This adventure of greed and romance will carry you to a distant timewhen violence was the norm, a...
|  | Under the Green Dome
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Laguna Beach, California. A down-and-out poet suffering apocalyptic visions sets out to rescue an enterprising but naive young heiress from a scheme engineered by her domineering mother, a renowned social theoretician, who conspires to rest control of the family fortune to fulfill her lifelong mission to reorder society to live more as one with Mother Nature. George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Dante's "Inferno" are primer for what living is like Under the Green Dome. ...
|  | The Stories of Paul Bowles
Release Date: October 31, 2006 The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at TecatÉ," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at CorazÓn," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serp...
|  | Arthurian Romances, Tales and Lyric Poetry: The Complete Works of Hartmann Von Aue
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0271021128 | ISBN-13: 978-0271021126"Medievalists from all areas will welcome the appearance of Hartmann von Aue's complete works in this one-volume English translation, which includes his lyric poetry and the difficult and not well known Lament. Tobin, Vivian, and Lawson provide excellent translations of each work and offer informative introductions and stimulating note sections to guide the nonspecialist, all of which will serve to make this most underrated of the German poets of the Middle Ages better known in the English-speaking world....
|  | Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence, 1845-1846: A Selection (Selected Letters)
Publication Date: March 16, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198185472 | ISBN-13: 978-0198185475The love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett are among the most famous in history.Daniel Karlin's selection, based on a fresh examination of the original manuscripts, provides new insight into the clandestine correspondence which led to their elopement in 1846.These complex and subtle letters, in which they explored each others needs and desires, passions and anxieties, tell the story of how they waited many years to finally elope, overcoming certain obstacles such as the neurotic presence of Eliz...
|  | The Place Of Books In The Life We Live
Publication Date: April 14, 2009Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
|  | Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology
Publication Date: October 1, 2012In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a way of responding to the extremely unstable political situation in their country. Despite producing much first-rate work throughout the rest of the twentieth century, Greek surrealists have not been widely read outside of Greece. This volume seeks to remedy that omission by offering authoritative translations of the major works of the most important Greek surrealis...
|  | Le Trone de Fer, L'Integrale - 1 (Semi-Poche) (French Edition)
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|  | Next of Kin (Rebel Ridge Novels)
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Rebel Ridge Novels Beth Venable has seen too much. Witness to a major mob hit, she's placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is riddled with bullets, she goes off-grid to save herself. What the FBI can't do, her kinfolk will.The beautiful but forbidding Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky welcome Beth back, dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from L.A. But her homecoming—even her blissful reunion with strong, silent Ryal Walker—is made bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan'...
|  | Heart of Texas, Vol. 1: Lonesome Cowboy / Texas Two-Step
Publication Date: February 1, 2007Lonesome Cowboy Savannah Weston lives quietly on the family ranch with her brother, Grady. Until a stranger named Laredo Smith comes along—a disenchanted cowboy who just might change Savannah's life! Texas Two-Step After her father's death, Ellie Frasier takes over the feed store in Promise. Still in mourning, she turns to her friends for comfort. But now her long-standing relationship with one of those friends—rancher Glen Patterson—seems to be turning into something else.… ...
|  | Baseball Ballerina Strikes Out! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3)
Release Date: April 11, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Enduro Motorcycles (Torque Books: Motorcycles) (Torque: Motorcycles)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Here Comes the Bride: 6 Dolls and Clothes (Little Golden Books)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Fabulous Book of Paper Dolls (Klutz)
Publication Date: January 1, 1948| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Best of Olomeinu: Succos and Other Stories (Best of Olomeinu)
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|  | Jake the Philharmonic Dog
Release Date: August 22, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Like most dogs, Jake loves playing fetch. Unlike most dogs, Jake loves music even more. He loves to wag his tail to the beat of an ordinary day and "sing" with the birds. When his friend Richie, the principal stagehand at the Philharmonic, brings Jake to work one day, Jake is treated to a lesson in real music. He "woofs!" to the tweeting woodwinds and "ruffs!" to the deep horns, but when he hears the entire symphony orchestra practice, he knows to be quiet and listen. And when a crisis develops at that night's p...
|  | The House at the End of Ladybug Lane
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Angelina Neatolini came from a long line of neat and tidy people. In fact, her great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather invented the garbage can. Her mother ironed her linguini and her father vacuumed the grass. But Angelina liked to roll in the dirt whenever she could.And like most kids, Angelina wanted a pet, but pets are messy and the Neatolini parents did not allow mess in their new house at the end of Ladybug Lane, where they recently moved from the dirty city. Enter a hard-of-hearing and very da...
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