 | The Cold War
Publication Date: May 17, 2011100 Best Books of 2011, Publishers Weekly2011 Notable Books, Academy of American PoetsFrom the powerful drama and formal boldness of "The Status Seekers" to the various theories of criticism in "The Nervousness of Yvor Winters," Kathleen Ossip's second collection takes up the crazed threads of modern experience and all its contradictions. Each poem, each new approach is an attempt to extract something concrete from an era not yet past. Yet as the poet probes and wonders, she gradually reveals another narrative, built on strangled emotion and subdued lyricism. Th...
 |  | Blow Fly
Publication Date: January 2001When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it back to the base for someone to claim, but when no one does, he finds himself always carrying the photo in his pocket. Soon Thibault experiences a sudden streak of luck-winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat that kills two of his closest buddies. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph-his lucky ...
|  | The Adventures and Misadventures of Don Quixote: an up-to-date translation for today's readers.
Release Date: October 26, 2006This is a brilliant new translation of Cervantes' masterpiece paired with a remarkably comprehensive introduction. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (New Directions in Anthro Writing)
Publication Date: October 15, 1994| ISBN-10: 0299142248 | ISBN-13: 978-0299142247Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José E. Limón works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of its rich Mexican-American folk culture. This folk culture, he shows—whether expressed through male joking rituals, ballroom polka dances, folk healing,...
|  | SIX IRONIC COMEDIES
Publication Date: September 19, 2008Six Ironic Comedies, appealing to a wide audience. ...
|  | Collected Plays & Short Stories (2 Vol.set)
Publication Date: January 1, 1971Sri Aurobindo, in his dramas, shows very pointedly, by the labor he has spent on personalities and situations set in a variety of climes and ages that, despite being a yogi and a philosopher, he never shies away from the touch or clutch of man as he is.He refuses nothing, he takes every chance to seize on multi-coloured life and, within matters mundane and along roads of day-to-day history, he renders visible the ideal, the highest motive possible to whatever may be the complex of circumstances, the maze of desire and ambition and vocation. ...
|  | McDougal Littell Literature Connections: Things Fall Apart Student EditonGrade 12
Publication Date: March 25, 1996| ISBN-10: 0395775590 | ISBN-13: 978-0395775592Great book. ...
|  | El camino (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 3, 2010Daniel el Mochuelo intuye a sus once años que su camino está en la aldea, junto a sus amigos, sus gentes y sus pájaros. Pero su padre quiere que vaya a la ciudad a estudiar el Bachillerato. A lo largo de la noche que precede a la partida, Daniel, insomne, con un nudo en la garganta, evocará sus correrías con sus amigos Roque el Moñigo y Germán el Tiñoso a través de los campos descubriendo el cielo y la tierra, y revivirá las andanzas de la gente sencilla de la aldea. La simpatía humana...
|  | Temptation at Twilight: Lords of Pleasure
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Lords of Pleasure A fantasy resort that offers all the pleasures of life-and death...Vampire brothers Aldric, Soren, and Luc Fontaine own and run LaPetite Mort, an adult fantasy resort for the adventurous of heart-andbody. Humans, shifters, Fae, and other beings gather to enjoy two weeksof fantasies-come-true at the New Orleans estate. The brothersthemselves have experienced everything life, and death, have tooffer...except finding their true mates.Soren makes a bargain with a Voodoo Priestess, binding him to herforever in exchange for the return of th...
|  | Sam (Outlaws)
Publication Date: May 2001| Series: Outlaws A New York Times Bestselling Author Down and out, his face on wanted posters across the West, Sam Gentry needed a job and the foreman of the B & G ranch was hiring cowhands. But who was the behind-the-scenes owner the ramrod mentioned? Surely this Lacey wasn't the same one who'd haunted his dreams for the last five years. This Texas rancher couldn't possibly be the dyed-in-the-wool Yankee whose betrayal had sent him to a Northern prison camp. Most unlikely of all, this widowed mother simply could not be the hot-blooded wife who'd once warmed his be...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2: Memorias de Sherlock Holme (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Esse volume das facanhas de Sherlock Holmes traz, na sequencia em que foram originalmente publicados na Strand Magazine entre 1892 e 1893, os 12 contos que compoem 'As memorias de Sherlock Holmes'. ...
|  | 3 Sherlock Holmes Titles: Die Teutelskralle, Das Gelbe Gesicht and Das Heilige Schwert
Publication Date: 1984In German ...
|  | Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 23)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about "my maid". Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to avoid her. She is a malicious gossip and she bangs around the furniture and clanks pots--he wonders how on earth she managed to get such a good reputation. Then she is found dead in a large house belonging to a retired professor who was out the day she was killed. ...
|  | Snowmen at Night
Release Date: September 23, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details about the secret life of snowmen and where they go at night, while Mark Buehner's roly-poly snowmen are bursting with personality and charm. From the highly successful team that created such winning titles as Fan...
|  | The Sisters Grimm: A Very Grimm Guide
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Hebrew Alphabet Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books Stickers)
Publication Date: November 25, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
Release Date: March 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Twenty-eight rollicking rhymes from the undisputed master of hilarious verse for children, Jack Prelutsky, are matched with enchanting illustrations by Petra Mathers in this uproarious poetry collection. From Minneapolis to the Grand Canyon, Tuscaloosa to Seattle, families across the country will love this irresistiblemodern classic! ...
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|  | William the Outlaw (Just William TV Tie in)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Christmas Story: The Brick Bible for Kids
Publication Date: November 2, 2012| Grade Level: P and up The greatest story of all time illustrated through kids' favorite toy!Santa, sleigh bells, mistletoe, reindeer, and presents: these are the tell-tale signs of Christmas. But December 25 is also the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and what better way to introduce your kids to the story of the Savior's birth than through LEGO! Every year, children of all ages revisit the scene in Bethlehem with Joseph, Mary, the three wise men, the angels and shepherds, and the baby Jesus, swaddled and lying in a manger. Kids will love seeing the ...
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