 | John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956-1987 (Library of America, No. 187)
Release Date: October 2, 2008With this volume, The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of America?s preeminent living poet. Beginning with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original and individual course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. At once hermetic and exuberantly curious, meditative and unnervingly funny, dreamlike and steeped in everyday realities, and alive to every nuance of American speech, these are poems that constantly discover new worlds within language. This first volume of the collected Ashber...
 |  | The Gold Digger's Guide: How To Marry The Man And The Money
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|  | The Reunion: A Novel
Release Date: September 1, 2012Aaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He’s lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him. With deep insight into the human heart, consummate storyteller Dan Walsh gently weaves a tale of a life spent in the shadows but meant for the light. Through tense scenes of war and tender moments of romance, The Reunion wil...
|  | The Midnight Mystery (The Cul-de-Sac Kids #24)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Dunkum Mifflin's end-of-school party turns into a huge mystery when his cousin's guide-dog, Honey, suddenly disappears after the celebration. At midnight!Feeling responsible, Dunkum starts looking for the pup and gets some help from the Cul-de-sac Kids. Abby Hunter and the rest of the others gladly join in playing detective. But it's not all fun and games.Who'd want to steal Ellen's beloved dog in the first place? And what will happen if Dunkum doesn't unravel the mystery? It's the dognapping adventure of the year...
|  | The Sea Hawk
Publication Date: May 23, 20041923. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The Sea-Hawk begins: Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining room of the handsom...
|  | Vagabond Blues
Publication Date: December 15, 2006The players in minor league football in the early 1980s were drug-users, Vietnam Vets, and NFL misfits. Robbie Santos is a young man with dreams of NFL stardom thrust into this world. Over the course of one season, Robbie is forced to make decisions that could compromise his ideals, his football career, and his future. ...
|  | Summer Snow: A Merlin Fanshaw Western
Publication Date: February 26, 2012U.S. Deputy Marshal Merlin Fanshaw is out of town on the day George Starkweather and his outlaw band hold up the Cattleman's Bank of Dry Creek. Upon his return, Fanshaw's boss, U.S. Marshal Chance Ridgeway suggests the deputy volunteer to infiltrate the gang as an undercover agent. Fanshaw hesitates only a moment before agreeing. He and Starkweather have a dark history, and he's eager to bring his old nemesis to justice. The winter of 1886 brings Fanshaw face-to-face with Starkweather as he becomes a member of the outlaw band. As the bitter winter deepens s...
|  | Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics
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|  | Gilgamesh
Release Date: October 19, 2004In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilga...
|  | The Hávamál: With Selections from Other Poems of The Edda, Illustrating the Wisdom of the North in Heathen Times (English and Old Norse Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2011First published in 1923, this volume provides the entire text of the Hávamál in the original Old Norse, together with a facing-page English translation. At the time of publication, the poem had only been made available within editions of the Poetic Edda or still larger collections. This was therefore a significant book, which considerably increased the accessibility of the Hávamál. A long introduction and generous notes are also provided, together with extracts from three other poems (including the greater part of the Sigrdrífumál)...
|  | Poems
Publication Date: 1887This 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 process, and hope you enjoy this valuable ...
| | Tang shi yin pu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela
Publication Date: January 1, 2007In the original Spanish, this book is an recreation through letters of muralist Diego Rivera's relationship with his first wife, Russian painter Angelina Beloff. When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting through the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from the Russian painter Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego became famous for his Mexican murals or was applauded for his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, he was married to Beloff. She was his wife for over ten years while the young Rivera lived...
|  | The Honey Well
Release Date: August 1, 2005Money has put Arnell Rayford's mother, Esther,exactly where she's always to be---comfortably ensconced in the 16-room Victorian mansion where her own mother had worked as a housekeeper. Now Esther is running a thriving business that's surely making the previous owner turn in her grave.For Esther, money is the root of all happiness and nothing and no one will stand in the way of her making it however she wants to make it---not even her only child, Arnell.There are laws against pimping one's own underage daugher, which is exactly what Esther did to Arnell when she w...
|  | The Case of the Troubled Trustee
Release Date: March 1, 1995An erstwhile young man has his hands full as trustee of a wild young woman's inheritance. But his love and her money don't mix. Perry Mason may be able to prove his client is no embezzler--but what happens when murder rears its head? HC: William Morrow and Co. ...
|  | Secret Dead Men
Publication Date: March 20, 2007Del Farmer isn't your ordinary hardboiled private eye. Instead of collecting fingerprints or clues, he collects souls of the recently dead. His latest dead guy, Brad Larsen, might just be the key to destroying Farmer's longtime nemesis, The Association. Of course, Farmer is sadly mistaken. An FBI agent unstuck in time is toying with him. A mysterious couple keeps trying to kill him. Another job - a mundane babysitting gig that pays the bills - is threatening to steer him way off course into a violent hell of sexual deceit, fractured identities and cheap apartm...
|  | Miss or Mrs? / The Haunted Hotel / The Guilty River
Publication Date: April 15, 2009The three novellas gathered here--Miss or Mrs? (1871), The Haunted Hotel (1878), and The Guilty River (1886)--demonstrate Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and create an atmosphere of mystery and menace. Fast-paced and psychologically absorbing, all proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. These stories, varied in setting and tone, demonstrate Collins's plot-making skill at its most succinct and intricate.Featuring excellent critical apparatus, this edition also includes Collins...
|  | Little Witch Goes to School (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3)
Release Date: August 4, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Get to Work, Hercules! (Myth-O-Mania)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep
Release Date: August 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Nineteenth-century Cape Cod is the backdrop for this lyrical picturebook about a young girl waiting for her father to return from an ocean journey. As the seasons pass, her baby brother learns to walk, storms come and go, and the girl wonders how her father is and whether he's thinking of her, too. Susan Lendroth's gentle, rhyming text pairs with first-time illustrator Ra?ã‚Ñ¢l All?©n's stunning illustrations to produce a timeless tale about the absence of a parent, and the power of love to cro...
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