 | Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village
Release Date: June 7, 1999In Simple Gifts, June Sprigg tells the story of one of America's last Shaker communities--Canterbury Shaker Village, in Canterbury, New Hampshire--during its twilight years, and of its seven remarkable "survivor" women, who were among the last representatives of our longest-lived and best-known communal utopian society. As a college student Sprigg spent a summer among them, and here she gracefully interweaves the narrative of their lives with the broader history of Shakers in America as she shows us how her experiences there affected her own life and opened the door...
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|  | The Fall
Release Date: May 1, 2012The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever. There is Ian, the film buff trying to figure out his life—and how to catch the eye of the football player he can’t stop fantasizing about; Casey, the local football star whose future off the field is frustratingly uncertain; and Haile, the classical-music prodigy seeking refuge ...
|  | Ellie's Crows
Publication Date: December 1, 2009Ellie is a young woman, not so unlike any other young woman in today’s world. She’s in love, perhaps with the wrong man. She’s self-supporting, if always being a week behind counts. She’s kind and considerate, unless crossed. She’s true to herself and others. She is the best of best friends, is attentive to her grandmother, and she loves horses. What is different about Ellie is the fact that she is followed through life by a flock of crows. Ellie’s Crows depicts the last few weeks of her Grandma Betty’s life i...
|  | The Searchers
Publication Date: September 1, 1998The epic American Western classic from the author of The Unforgiven. Twice Mart Pauley had watched as the bloodthirsty Commanches destroyed everything he held dear. The first time he was a helpless child. But the second time, when they slaughtered his adopted family and took a young girl hostage, he was a man. A man who could seek revenge . ...
|  | Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 30, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all timePublished just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous mar...
|  | Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)
Release Date: October 24, 2000(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed. Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a “novel-pamphlet” in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revo...
|  | Ficciones (English Translation)
Publication Date: February 1, 1994The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everyth...
|  | Love and Obstacles
Publication Date: May 14, 2009A new book of linked stories by the author of the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project. Aleksandar Hemon earned his reputation- and his MacArthur "genius grant"-for his short stories, and he returns to the form with a powerful collection of linked stories that stands with The Lazarus Project as the best work of his celebrated career. A few of the stories have never been published before; the others have appeared in The New Yorker, and several of those have also been included in The Best American Short Stories. All are infused with the dazzling, aston...
|  | Homer and the Oral Tradition
Publication Date: January 28, 1977The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, 1962) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition. There are problems here of interest not only to classicists and Homeric specialists but also to students of English and comparative literature, and to anthropologists...
|  | Das andere Blau: Zur Poetik einer Farbe im modernen Gedicht (German Edition)
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|  | Strange Fruit
Publication Date: December 29, 2009Strange Fruit is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic to the bawdy, and to the angry, the melancholic and the steadfast and comforting. It will delight, shock, anger, induce laughter, shock more, delight more. And make you blush. It's a full range. There are poems of brutally honest self-scrutiny - the heart of the collection being a series of poems on the ageing body, loss of love and infertility - and there are poems that capture landscapes with imagist skill and the botanist's detail. ...
|  | Children's Literature of the English Renaissance
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|  | Jean De Florette (French Edition)
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|  | Le Tour Du Monde En 80 Jours (French Edition) (Ldp Classiques)
Publication Date: March 1, 1976| Series: Ldp Classiques This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation proce...
|  | Tyr (Short Tales: Norse Myths)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | 11 Experiments That Failed
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "This is a most joyful and clever whimsy, the kind that lightens the heart and puts a shine on the day," raved Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup—and nothing else—all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step instructions, kids can discover the answers to such all-important questions along with the book's curious narrator. Here are 12 "hypotheses," as well as lists of "what you need," "what to do," and "what happened" that ar...
|  | Only You/Solo Tu (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: March 8, 2004| Grade Level: P and up With tender illustrations and prose as warm as a parent’s embrace, this love poem from a baby bear to his mother celebrates the simple activities—such as reading, playing, and eating together—that are so important to a growing child's development. Now available in a Spanish-English edition, Only You also includes a note from esteemed pediatrician and author Perri Klass. ...
|  | Nursery Poems & Prayers
Release Date: January 11, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Timeless collections of favorite childhood verses and songs, Nursery Poems & Prayers and Nursery Songs & Lullabies are illustrated with full-page reproductions of the most widely recognized paintings by Bessie Pease Gutmann. These reissues of Grosset & Dunlap classics will find their way into any family’s heart. ...
|  | Daniel's Pet/Daniel y su mascota (Green Light Readers Level 1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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