 | Civil War Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 1, 1994| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Sixteen dark and vivid selections by great satirist and short-story writer. "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," "Four Days in Dixie" and 10 more. Masterly tales offer excellent examples of Bierce's dark pessimism and storytelling power. Note. ...
 |  | Psalms of Lament
Publication Date: August 1995Here beloved poet Ann Weems offers a poignant rendering of her own personal psalms of lament. She draws from the rich heritage of Scripture to give voice to the grief and anguish she has felt. Her words will deeply move anyone who has mourned. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings (Asian American Experience)
Publication Date: June 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0252064194 | ISBN-13: 978-0252064197| Edition: First Softcover Edition This volume reprints stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance, along with other previously uncollected stories and journalistic essays by the first published Asian North American fiction writer. During an era of extreme Sinophobia, the Eurasian Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) courageously chose to write of the Chinese in North America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving--in short, as human. Her stories sympathetically portray a group caught between worlds, inheritors of traditional Chi...
|  | A Shooting Anthology
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|  | A Season for Tending: Book One in the Amish Vines and Orchards Series
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Amish Vines and Orchards (Book 1) In a community where conformity flourishes, seeds of Rhoda’s odd behavior were planted long ago. Can she cultivate her relationships with the same care and tenderness that she gives her beloved garden? Old Order Amish Rhoda Byler’s unusual gift and her remarkable abilities to grow herbs and berries have caused many to think her odd. As rumors mount that Rhoda’s “gift” is a detriment to the community, she chooses isolation, spending her time in her fruit garden and on her thriving ca...
|  | Joy in the Morning
Release Date: May 13, 2002| Series: Collector's Wodehouse Joy in the Morning finds Bertie Wooster trapped in the countryside with his bossy ex-fiancé and her fire-breathing father, frightful brother, and beefy new betrothed. Uproar ensues until Jeeves arrives to save the day. ...
|  | Efuru (African Writers)
Publication Date: January 1, 1966| ISBN-10: 0435900269 | ISBN-13: 978-0435900267Flora Nwapa's first novel plants her story firmly in the world of women, where Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by two ordinary, undistinguished husbands....
|  | Mistaken for the Mob (The Mob Series #1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #26)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006PBK ...
|  | The Parables of Joshua
Release Date: March 20, 2001In the latest chapter of his bestselling Joshua series, Joseph Girzone offers fresh inspiration in this collection of fifty never-before-published contemporary vignettes that underscore the most important lessons of the gospel.Joseph Girzone's novels about Joshua, the carpenter who transforms ordinary lives with words of peace and loving actions, have sold more than three million copies and captured the hearts of readers around the world. In The Parables of Joshua, perhaps his most powerful book since the original Joshua, Girzone distills the essence of Christian ...
|  | Terminal Justice (The Barringston Relief Chronicles, Book 1)
Release Date: February 1, 1998HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES? WOULD YOU BREAK THE LAW? LIE, CHEAT, STEAL? WOULD YOU KILL?After an event that shattered his world, David O’Neal courageously sets out to rebuild his life as a speech writer for Barringston Relief’s wealthy and powerful founder–a man committed to bringing food, medicine, and help to thousands around the world. A man capable of great compassion…and tremendous fury. Then suddenly, David realizes AJ Barringston is much more dangerous than he appears.DO THE ENDS EVER JUSTIFY THE MEANS?A bla...
|  | Selfish and Perverse
Publication Date: August 24, 2007Nelson Kunker is trapped in his job as the script supervisor on Aftertaste, the low-rated late-night sketch television show. His life in Los Angeles has come to a halt because he's unable to finish the novel he's writing, doesn't have a boyfriend, and, at the pivotal age of thirty-four, has reached the juncture where he has to decide whether he's really talented or just gay. One day he meets Roy Briggs, a part-time salmon fisherman/full-time archaeology student who's visiting from Alaska. When Nelson attempts to make small talk with the handsome Roy, he refer...
|  | Stories from the Greek comedians: Aristophanes, Philemon, Diphilus, Menander, Apollodorus
Publication Date: 1892This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Flight From Death
Publication Date: April 7, 2009Global food supplies can no longer support world population thereby triggering a nuclear war between the eastern and western hemispheres. Millions of people mysteriously vanish without a trace amid a global rash of grave robbing and accidents involving unmanned motor vehicles, boats and aircraft. Earth is further threatened by a huge comet on a direct collision course with the planet. The environmental catastrophe wrought by the nuclear holocaust and the comet's impact reduce the habitable portion of Earth by two thirds. The problems facing the one sixth of Ear...
|  | Ten Thousand Scrolls: Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph)
Publication Date: September 12, 2011| Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph (Book 76) The Northern Song (960–1126) was one of the most transformative periods in Chinese literary history, characterized by the emergence of printing and an ensuing proliferation of books. The poet Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), writing at the height of this period, both defined and was defined by these changes. The first focused study on the cultural consequences of printing in Northern Song China, this book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang T...
|  | Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Publication Date: September 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0472110373 | ISBN-13: 978-0472110377This book examines the theme of memory in a range of plays by contemporary American and European playwrights, including Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Thomas Bernhard, and Elfriede Jelinek. Jeanette R. Malkin proposes that postmodern drama--that is, drama since the 1970s--can be defined and examined according to the ways it recasts history and engages memories of the past. Details from our cultural and historical past are of course always fundamental el...
|  | Baby Dragon
Release Date: August 12, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Amy Ehrlich spins a resonant tale of separation anxiety, pluck, and reassurance, aided by Will Hillenbrand's charming, lush illustrations.Baby Dragon knows he must wait for his mother by the red fern. He knows she'll be back by morning. So he counts his claws, draws in the sand, takes a nap, and otherwise bides his time, never budging even when friends coax him to run off and play. But as night falls, Baby Dragon starts to worry. What if his mother doesn't come back? Should he climb on sly Crocodile's back and try to ...
|  | Old French Fairy Tales (Vol. 2)
Publication Date: February 28, 2010This second volume of the "Old French Fairy Tales" by Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874) brings us back into the distant realm of the Queen of Fairies and the King of Genii.Luxuriously illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931), "The Little Gray Mouse" and "Ourson" keep testifying until today that good old moral values and, above all, love are the best response and the mightiest weapon against all evil, natural or supernatural.In "The Little Gray Mouse", by the power of love, Rosalie is cured of "her greatest fault": curiosity....
| | The All-Star Game (Great Moments in Sports)
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales (One World, One Planet) (Barefoot Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must Be More To Life
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