 | Conversations with Clarence Major (Literary Conversations)
Publication Date: July 25, 2002| Series: Literary ConversationsFor over forty years, Clarence Major (b. 1936) has engaged several artistic and literary pursuits, garnering acclaim for his paintings, edited anthologies, poetry collections, essays, and novels.His work within literature ranges from his popular dictionary of slang, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994), to such experimental novels as Emergency Exit (1979), Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), and My Amputations (1986). He has gained a reputation as one of America's most visionary and experimental African A...
 |  | Poems and Tales of War and Brentford Memories
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|  | The Jury Master
Publication Date: March 21, 2006In the tradition of Scott Turow and Brad Meltzer, this debut novel introduces a bold and entertaining new voice to the legal thriller genre. As he fights for his life, an attorney gets closer to the explosive truth about who he is, how little he knows, and who is really the master of his fate. ...
|  | G.I. Joe: Disavowed Volume 6 (G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: August 28, 2012| Series: G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels) G.I. JOE: Disavowed continues with issues #34-38. Containing the two-part "Bad Moon Rising" where General "Joe" Colton returns to lead the JOEs for the recovering Hawk and the first three parts of the "Union of the Snake" storyline that leads to the conclusion of the Real American Hero story arc. ...
|  | Boomer
Publication Date: September 19, 2006Social Security is facing a crisis with the impending retirement of the Baby Boomers, and Washington is bickering over partisan solutions, while nothing is actually being accomplished.Senator Wayne Bettencort decides to enlist the Treasury Secretary and a colleague from across the aisle with something to lose to participate in a scheme to "thin the herd." But their plan has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.An NYPD detective begins to notice a disturbing trend in deaths, but his theory is widely discounted until his own encounter with one of Senator...
|  | The McAtrix Derided: A Parody ... Or Is That Just What They Want You to Think? (Gollancz Sf S.)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Gollancz Sf S. Give a cheer: another pompous blockbuster is knocked down to size and turned into a source of unstoppable laughter. Hot on the heels of Bored of the Rings comes an indispensable parody of the most humorless big screen epics of all time: The Matrix and its completely confused sequels. In spite of featuring a lead actor who can barely speak, and quotations from philosophers most of its audience hadn’t read, the movies spawned an immense following. Now the entire trilogy has been transformed into comedy. You’ll recognize ...
|  | Seventeenth Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology
Publication Date: August 1994| ISBN-10: 0133025977 | ISBN-13: 978-0133025972| Edition: annotated edition This anthology of 17th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative single-author edition. Selected poets include John Donne, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. The salient features include detailed annotations following on from each poem and a concise biographical essay for each poet, outlini...
|  | KEBRA NAGAST (THE GLORY OF KINGS)
Publication Date: February 17, 2001KEBRA NAGASTLost for centuries, the KEBRA NAGAST (The Glory of Kings) is a truly majestic unveiling of ancient secrets.These pages were excised by royal decree from the authorized 1611 King James version of the Bible.Originally recorded in the ancient Ethiopian language (Ge'ez) by anonymous scribes, The Red Sea Press, Inc. and Kingston Publishers now bring you a complete, accurate modern English translation of this long suppressed account.Here is the most starting and fascinating revelation of hidden truths; not only revealing the present location of the Ar...
|  | Novecento (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1849430381 | ISBN-13: 978-1849430388The story was made into The Legend of 1900, a 1998 film starring Tim Roth.Told through the eyes of Novecento’s (the greatest pianist who ever played on the ocean) best friend, trumpeter Tim Tooney, Baricco’s virile text echoes heroic fables and great myths, whilst winking at the beautiful and terrible minutiae that makes up life. ...
|  | On the Edge of Scent and Spice (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: August 16, 2011This is a small poetry collection in Arabic.Background:In 1989, Sudan Islamists toppled the country's democratically elected government through a military coup that they first denied they had been plotting all along. They then moved immediately to purge the country's civil service, military and police from anyone whose allegiance to them was in question, and installed their largely unqualified cadres in their stead. But most devastatingly, theyinjected their brand of militant Islamism into the ongoing war with the country's south, hosted many known terrorists...
| | La Metamorphose dans la poesie baroque francaise et anglaise: Variations et resurgences : actes du colloque international de Valenciennes, 1979 (Etudes litteraires francaises) (French Edition)
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|  | Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Classical Presences)
Publication Date: July 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199298262 | ISBN-13: 978-0199298266This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with poems, performances, and traditions which were often deemed neither literary nor Western: the epics of Yugoslavia and sub-Saharan Africa, the keening performances of Irish women, the spontaneous inventiveness of the Blues. The book contributes to current debates a...
|  | Agap
Publication Date: August 2002The first adult graphic novel in the author’s career, Agape is the story of a sexual encounter among a group of consenting individuals with discerning taste. The multiethnic, multigendered group is free to indulge in the excesses of passion. Meticulously rendered in Herault’s virtuosic style reminiscent of Japanese manga and U.S. superhero graphics and using computer coloring, the story escapes into humorous asides and even includes viewing instructions. Six pages of sketches show the artist at work on his characters. ...
|  | Chosen by the Sheikh: The Sheikh and the Virgin\Kept for the Sheikh's Pleasure (Harlequin Presents)
Publication Date: October 19, 2010| Series: Harlequin Presents (Book 2954) The Sheikh and the Virgin by Kim Lawrence PrinceTariq Al Kamal furiously forbids his brother to marry an unsuitable woman. Then Tariq whisks Beatrice away to his desert home where he becomes intent on seducing her. What he doesn't realize is she isn't his brother's intended—she's an innocent who's about to become his bride!Kept for the Sheikh's Pleasure by Lynn Raye Harris King Zafir bin Rashid al-Khalifa does not care for surprises. Especially ones that involve the reappearance of his ex, Dr. Genie Gray! Now Zaf...
|  | Honeymoons: Journeys from the Altar
Publication Date: December 4, 2009The honeymoon - no other holiday inspires so much anticipation, nor offers such potential for catastrophic disappointment or blissful fulfillment. Using extracts from great and obscure works of literature, together with stories of public marriages and the private lives they joined, Honeymoons: Journeys from the Altar takes the reader on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the heart of human longing, to examine what it is we are seeking, and what we expect when we embark on marriage. The road is littered with pleasures, great and small, not to mentio...
|  | Cows (Little House on the Bowery)
Publication Date: January 11, 2011| Series: Little House on the Bowery "[A] phantasmagoria of extreme violence, death, sex, bestiality, self-surgery, torture, and a really, really, really bad mother-son relationship, all of which takes what the marquis de Sade did and pushes it down the road a little farther. Stokoe is an able craftsman, which makes the content all the more horrifying as he blasts through boundaries and finds increasingly twisted ways of making readers squirm."--Publishers Weekly"Stokoe's vision of Hell is a carnivore's nightmare. A powerful and all too possibly prophetic wo...
|  | Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks Mystery)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Cat in the Stacks Mystery (Book 2) Aging eccentric James Delacorte asks Charlie the librarian to do an inventory of his rare book collection-but the job goes from tedious to terrifying when James turns up dead. Relying on his cat Diesel to paw around for clues, Charlie has to catch the killer before another victim checks out. Read Miranda James's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community....
|  | Gem of a Ghost (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery)
Publication Date: February 8, 2012| Series: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery (Book 3) Emma Whitecastle would rather spend time with her boyfriend than help Joanna Reid get rid of her husband's ghost. But when she finds out Joanna's daughter has broken her engagement and attempted suicide, Emma and Granny Apples are compelled to investigate.The multifaceted mystery unfolds in Hollywood, where a vengeful spirit strikes too close for comfort as Emma and Granny unearth a clue hidden in a haunted diamond. When the case leads Emma and a suave stranger to the historic mining town of Jim Thorpe, Pen...
|  | The All-New Tenchi Muyo! Vol. 9: Family Affair
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