 | The Crack-Up
Publication Date: February 27, 2009A self-portrait of a great writer 'srise and fall, intensely personal and etchedwith Fitzgerald's signature blend of romanceand realism.The Crack-Up tells the story ofFitzgerald's sudden descent at the age ofthirty-nine from glamorous success to emptydespair, and his determined recovery. Compiledand edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F.Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealingcollection of his essays—as well as letters toand from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S.Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gai...
 |  | Selected Poems, 1960-1990
Publication Date: December 17, 1998Gathered from nine collections representing three decades of work, these poems—newly available here in a rich and varied volume—celebrate the growthof a major artist.Since the publication of her first book of poetry, Halfway, Maxine Kumin has been powerfully and fruitfully engaged in the "stuff of life that matters": family, friendship, the bond between the human and natural worlds, and the themes of loss and survival. ...
|  | Moving Lila: A Novel
Publication Date: March 11, 2000Mira De Land inherits her childhood home -- a house named Lila in Ona Island, North Carolina. The catch is that she must move it to her family's current home in Arkansas. Moving Lila forces Mira and her much younger sister, Kat, to unearth long-buried family secrets as their own relationship changes. Ultimately, they reconcile the family's past and present by realizing that each one is guilty of something, which has the paradoxical effect of absolving them all. ...
|  | Wish You Well
Publication Date: April 3, 2007Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determin...
|  | In a Far Country
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|  | Elizabeth I: The Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012The latest New York Times bestseller from Margaret George-acaptivating novel about history's most enthralling queen.One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret Georgedazzles here as she tackles her most complicated subject yet: thelegendary Elizabeth Tudor, England's greatest monarch. Thismagnificent, stay-up-all-night page-turner is George's finest-aspectacular portrait of the alluring yet elusive woman who ruled overthe golden age of British history and culture. But what was she reallylike? In this novel, her flame-haired, look-alike cousin, LetticeKno...
|  | A Lone Palm Stands
Release Date: August 6, 2009Set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in 1989, A Lone Palm Standsfollows the sometimes zany, sometimes tragic life of Angela Jenkins, a seventeen-year-old singer-songwriter whose world is turned upside down by Hurricane Hugo, a category four storm that all but destroyed Charleston and its surrounding sea islands. With the help of an eccentric aunt, Angela begins a new life, and embarks on a remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her from the rural South to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. But her promising future as a pop star is threatened by the je...
|  | Edinburgh: A Novel
Publication Date: November 9, 2002Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive college daysand after, until the day he meets a beautiful young student named Warden and is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past....
|  | Alice I Have Been: A Novel
Release Date: January 12, 2010Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater trag...
|  | The Robin Wood Tarot
Release Date: March 5, 2012A Tarot for Pagans and Non-Pagans AlikeThe Robin Wood Tarot has rapidly become one of the most popular Tarot decks in the world. Its beautiful art, vibrant imagery and luminous energies, enchants everyone.The 22 Major Arcana cards are filled with life that was previously unseen in the Tarot. It is also filled with the energy of nature, taking the images outside of rooms and into the beautiful abodes of the gods. For example, The High Priestess is an ageless woman wearing a lunar headband. Behind her are trees and a darkened sky lit only by the moon.The shining stre...
|  | Agamemnon (Plays)
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|  | Galileo
Publication Date: January 11, 1994Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. This version of the play is the famous one that was brought to completion by Brecht himself, working with Charles La...
|  | Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal (2nd edition) (English and French Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2000Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aim Csaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the twentieth century writing in French, and his celebrated long poem, Cahier dun retour au pays natal (Notebook of a return to the native land), is his best known work. In addition to containing the most forceful statement of Ngritude (a term coined by Csaire and appearing in print for the first time in this poem), Cahier is a masterpiece of modern French poetry. In his 1947 preface to the first edition, Andr Breton hailed it as the greatest lyrical monument of the age. The onl...
|  | Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements
Release Date: November 3, 2009 This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century.New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed and best-selling books of the twentieth century, including The Great Gatsby, Ulysses, On the Road, Invisible Man, Lolita, Silent Spring, The Joy of Sex, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, White Noise, and dozens of ...
|  | Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) (5th Edition)
Publication Date: January 19, 2011| ISBN-10: 0205032192 | ISBN-13: 978-0205032198| Edition: 5 A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature. New selections include: Short story authors new to this collection include award winners Tobias Wolff, Helen Simpson, and Susan Perabo, as well as the Pulitzer-prize winning Indian-American, Jhumpa Lahiri. The poetry collection brings new selections from classic and cont...
|  | The Trojan Horse: The Fall of Troy: A Greek Legend (Graphic Myths & Legends)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls (Goosebumps Series 2000)
Publication Date: November 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Marvel Adventures: Thor and Spider-Man
Publication Date: May 25, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Sacramento Kings (Inside the NBA)
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | My Name Is Legion: A Novel
Release Date: May 16, 2006The Daily Legion is a rag that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. The secret is that its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending this corrupt dictatorship, the newspaper faces off against Father Vivyan Chell, an Anglican monk and missionary who is working to overthrow the corrupt regime. The newspaper wages a smear campaign against the priest. Freedom fighters join the battle. Violence escalates. My Name Is Legion is a savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain--its press, its poli...
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