 | Sanctuary Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 199618 stories & 5 essays focused on Central Americans ...
 |  | Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel
Release Date: April 9, 2002Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves.A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments–until she meets Miu, an older and much more sophisticated businesswoman. When Sumire disappears from an island off the...
|  | Te quiero, mama (I Love You, Mom) (Blue Mountain Arts Collection) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | South Riding
Release Date: June 6, 2011A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's (Bleak House, Little Dorrit) three-part adaptationThe community of South Riding, like the rest of England, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change. Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fiancé, she returns home to Yorkshire focused on her career as headmistress of the local school—but not everyone ca...
|  | Young and Innocent
Publication Date: September 1, 2011New York, 1960... Take one lesbian editor, well-done, add one sexually curious intern, and one all-man co-editor.Mix thoroughly at a posh Park Avenue women's magazine, and you have another Donald Westlake classic.Cast in the mold of Mad Men with Madison Avenue advertising swapped out for New York's "smart publishing set," this new edition from Blackbird Books sports its original Robert Maguire cover and will take you back to that arousing time and place. ...
|  | Harp of Burma (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: December 15, 1989| Series: Tuttle Classics Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma is the story of a company of Japanese soldiers who are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the jungles of Burma during World War II. In the midst of overwhelming challenges they discover the power of music to make even the toughest situations tolerable, and though they face inevitable defeat, singing the songs of their homeland revives their will to live. ...
|  | Native American Stories (Myths and Legends)
Publication Date: March 28, 1991 ...
|  | Plautus: The Comedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation (Book 3) "The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western literature's greatest dramatists.Born in Sarsina, Umbria, in 254 B.C., Plautus is said to have worked in Rome as a stage carpenter and later as a miller's helper. Whether authentic or not, these few details about the playw...
|  | Empire and The Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the Americas)
Publication Date: July 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0813540763 | ISBN-13: 978-0813540764| Edition: Reprint Mid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the energy and excitement characteristic of the nation's era of expansion. It also reveals the intense anxiety and conflict of a country struggling with what it will mean, socially and culturally, to incorporate previously held Spanish territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a critical anthology of some of the most popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures,...
|  | A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1593760086 | ISBN-13: 978-1593760083Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its seventeen syllables impose a rigorous limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. Here haiku by Matsuo Basho (1644-94) — the greatest Japanese haiku poet — are translated by Robert Aitken, with commentary that provides a new and deeper understanding of Basho’s work than ever before. In pres...
|  | The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry
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|  | Chansons Des Trouveres (Ldp Let.Gothiq.) (French Edition)
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|  | Celan (German Edition)
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|  | The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition
Release Date: November 3, 2005The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that reputation. George M. Logan has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of the History, designed to make More's exhilarating work fully accessible to 21st-century readers. More's text is presented here with modern English spelling and punctuation, and wi...
|  | Rocky Mountain Man (Harlequin Historical Series #752)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Who was this solitary man? Duncan Hennessey had chosen the wild isolation of the Rocky Mountains. Mistrusting and stubborn, he was better off alone. But this cynical man couldn’t leave a lady in danger, even if it meant risking his own life! Wounded, there was no way he could prevent Betsy from nursing him back to health… Sheltered, innocent Betsy couldn’t have been more different from Duncan. Her sweet nature and sunny smiles made him wild with irritation – and maybe something more! But a man as tough as the mountain granite wouldn...
|  | The Divine Invasion
Release Date: October 18, 2011God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. Featuring virtual reality, parallel worlds, and interstellar travel, The Divine Invasion blends philosophy and adventure in a way few authors can achieve.As the middle novel of Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know—...
|  | Flood
Release Date: March 10, 1998Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her—so she can kill him with her bare hands.In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and wri...
|  | Superguides: Basketball
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Over the River and Through the Wood
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up "Recalling a simpler time, this book captures the poem's sense of excitement and celebration. Readers who join the family en route to Grandfather's house will observe many details about life in the 19th century. . . . Manson's woodcuts, painted in the colors of a snowy evening, lovingly depict the wintry countryside".--"School Library Journal". Full-color illustrations. ...
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