 | Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Publication Date: June 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0374523835 | ISBN-13: 978-0374523831| Edition: Reprint A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for. ...
 |  | Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys (Mediaeval and modern Welsh series) (Welsh Edition)
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|  | Olde Mysterium
Publication Date: June 28, 2012Daniel is a middle-aged, unemployed journalist whose reality shatters when the ultimate bomb drops on his marriage.With only pocket change and everything he owns on his back, Dan attempts the cold, wet streets of Seattle alone.He is adrift, discouraged and his path looks bleak until he makes an unusual friend in Saba, the owner of a quirky used bookstore called Olde Mysterium.Saba offers Dan more than friendship -- a path to begin rebuilding upon the ruins of his life.But will he take it? Dan will face his greatest fears, his pain, and discover that everything ...
|  | Daddy's Favorite Pop
Publication Date: February 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1607436973 | ISBN-13: 978-1607436973Tonae was a little girl just trying to be a little girl until she began having the most unusual relationship any child could have with her daddy. She tried to understand her daddy, but he was too complicated and already set in his ways. She had to become a woman at an early age, knowing all along her mama knew about her and her dad's relationship.Tonae had to find out what was up with her mama, and she had to put up with her daddy until she figured out the family's history. So get ready to read and understan...
|  | Selected Poems
Publication Date: March 31, 2009Geoffrey Hill’s poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last fifty years. Imbued with the weight of history, morality, and language, his work reveals a deeply religious sensibility, a towering intellect, and an emotional complexity that are unrivaled in contemporary letters. Now, for the first time ever, readers can observe in one volume how Hill’s style took shape over time. This generous selection spans his career, beginning with poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the ...
|  | Divan-I Kebir: Meters 5, 6, 7a (Ministry of Culture Publications of the Republic of Turkey)
Publication Date: September 1999The first English translation of Rumi's entire Divan contained in 22 volumes. The Divan-i Kebir, or Divan-i Shams, is the anthology of Rumi's poems from the time he met Shams (1244) until the day he died (1277).He recited (he did not write) poems day and night, and four assigned people, called Katib-i esrar ("secret secretary"), followed and recorded him. These 44,000+ verses are the best and most beautiful explanations of the secret of life, love, humanity, God, and more. They also serve as historical sketches of 13th Century life in Konya, Anatolia. ...
|  | You and I Can Change the World
Publication Date: November 1, 2000The poems cover the travel experiences Ada Aharoni had during her tumultuous voyages around the world. Part I is on "Women and Peace," Part II on "Peace With Our Neigbors,"Part III Peace Poems by Israeli poets and poets from the Global Village.Part IV includes her Letters to Kadreya and to Mrs. Jehan Sadat, on the necessity of having peace in the Middle East. And the last part includes some of her poems put to music. This moving lyrical and philosophical collection illuminates several of our dilemmas with hope and fresh vision. ...
| | Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel
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| | From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction (European University Studies, Series 14: Anglo-Saxon Language and Literaturevol 382)
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|  | The Histories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics In AD 68, Nero?s suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors?Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian? emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories vividly recounts the details of the ?long but single year? of revolution that brought the Roman empire to the brink of collapse. ...
|  | Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: October 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230115276 | ISBN-13: 978-0230115279Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer’s poetry and interprets his adaptation of medieval genres through an ecofeminist lens. His self-conscious experimentation with talking birds reveals both a curtailment and an expansion of narrative perspective. The projection of a nonhuman subjectivity in texts not only erodes the edges of human superiority, but also teaches us the power and evolutionary optimism of storytelling itself. This b...
|  | The Nymph King (Atlantis)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Series: Atlantis Females young and old, beautiful and plain crave Valerian's touch. None can resist his blatant sensuality and potent allure—until he steals Shaye Holling from a Florida beach and holds her prisoner in his underwater kingdom. The cynical Shaye wants nothing to do with the mighty warlord, but she's inexplicably drawn to him. For underneath the warrior's arrogant beauty lies a complex and powerful man. A man whose caress is like fire….Now Valerian must fight for the privilege of claiming her as his own. Because there's one thing ...
|  | One Little Sin
Release Date: September 27, 2005National bestselling author Liz Carlyle presents her most tempting romance to date -- a sinfully sensual tug-of-war between heavenly desires and earthly delights....He was a scoundrel, a scamp, and a hopeless skirt-chaser. So it shouldn't have been so surprising when Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on his doorstep...with a baby in her arms.She was beautiful, brazen, and utterly bankrupt. So it shouldn't have been so shocking when Miss Hamilton accepted the rogue's scandalous proposal to move in with him...and become the b...
|  | Artifact (A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery) (Volume 1)
Release Date: August 28, 2012When historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package containing a jewel-encrusted artifact from India, sent by her ex-lover the same day he died in a supposed accident in the Highlands of Scotland, she discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend from the days of the British Raj. But she's not the only one on the trail.From San Francisco to London to the Highlands of Scotland, Jaya must evade a shadowy stalker as she follows hints from the hastily scrawled note of her dead lover to a remote archaeological dig. Helping he...
|  | Pulp
Release Date: May 31, 2002 Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles....
|  | Le Crime (Louis Morgan Mysteries)
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Louis Morgan Mysteries A cross between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Year in Provence, this ingenious thriller gets stunning raves from one and all:“Unforgettable . . . combines elements of Agatha Christie and Robert Ludlum.”---Bookreporter.com“A riveting murder mystery.”---France Today“Steiner sketches such a rich life for his tiny town that he makes you want to get on the next plane.”---Chicago Tribune“A beautiful crime novel.”---Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of Nightlife...
|  | King Arthur and the Round Table (Tales of King Arthur)
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|  | Karate Countdown (Impact Books: A Jake Maddox Sports Story)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | I Love Vegetarian Food: Coloring Book
Publication Date: December 14, 2011Do you like veggies and fruit? How about pasta and soup? You just might be ready to try the vegetarian foods inside this coloring book! Ashley Lucas is a character artist and lover of all animals big and small. She believes in striving to cook vegetarian meals at least a few days out of every week. It takes a little creativity, but meatless options are all around us... just take a look at what's available at your local green market for some great ideas! Each page of this coloring book was drawn by Ashley in her tiny, bright, happy art studio using a little ...
|  | Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Release Date: April 14, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Since their mother Fanny left, Emma has taken care of the Butler children, Sarah and Frances. She wants to raise them to have good hearts, as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart: Sarah and their mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery while Frances and their father Pierce believe in the Southern lifestyle and treatment of blacks. Now, to pay off mounting gambling debts, Pierce decides to cash in on his "assets" and host the biggest slave auction in American history, at the price of his humanity. Dur...
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