 | The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics) Release Date: April 13, 2004| Series: Modern Library Classics This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrati...
 |  | Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish Publication Date: November 1, 2009First published in 1934, this collection of tales was recorded and edited by Thelma Adamson (1901–83), a student of Franz Boas and one of the first women to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest. A major contribution to our knowledge of western Washington Salish oral traditions, Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish contains 190 texts from nineteen consultants—most collected in English or in English translation. The 155 stories represent Upper Chehalis and Cowlitz Salish narrative traditions, primarily myths and tales, and constitute...
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 |  | 20th Century Ghosts Release Date: September 16, 2008 Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard ...
 |  | Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle No. 1) Release Date: January 31, 2006 In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight....
 |  | River of Smoke: A Novel Release Date: September 27, 2011A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck-hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her lover, Kalua.The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. And the Redruth, a nursery...
 |  | The Servant of Two Masters & Other Italian Classics (Paperback) (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire) Release Date: April 1, 2000| Series: Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire (Book 4) An anthology of four classic Italian plays edited by Eric Bentley. Also includes directorial and technical notes. ...
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 |  | Speaking With Skill: A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training (Methuen Drama) Release Date: September 30, 2012| ISBN-10: 140815689X | ISBN-13: 978-1408156896Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. Janet Madelle Feindel - Associate Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University.Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in ot...
 |  | France in Mind Release Date: March 11, 2003In her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powers–editor of Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind–explores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors.The food and the people, the culture and viniculture, the architecture and theexpatriates, the pleasures (and frustrations) of France aredescribed by intrepid travelers who also happen to be brilliant essayists, poets, and novelists. From Gertrude Stein’s Paris to Ezra Pound’s Pyrenees; from Tobias Smollett, who grumbled, to Peter Mayle, who set...
 |  | Song shi jing hua lu (Mandarin Chinese Edition) ...
 |  | Booked to Die:A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway Release Date: January 23, 1992Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge.Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop -- all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-aft...
 |  | After Theory Release Date: November 30, 2004As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public intellectuals."-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What's needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today's gl...
 |  | Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, Book 1) Release Date: January 31, 2006Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself....
 |  | Lucifer's Daughter: A Novel of Horror Publication Date: September 15, 2012After eighteen long and friendless years in an orphanage, Julia has finally traced her father, the handsome Dr. Lucius Cagliostro, to a small New England village. But her happiness soon turns into nightmarish terror. The town of Belham is home to unspeakable evil, and the dark and sinister forces that have tormented her all her life are also present too. She quickly finds herself the prey of a demon-worshipping society that wants to make her a slave--or a sacrifice--to the great Lucifer himself. A gripping novel of supernatural horror by a master storytell...
 |  | The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Publication Date: November 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521008719 | ISBN-13: 978-0521008716In addition to covering the "detective" fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, this collection of British and American crime fiction considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. Ranging over the last three centuries, it includes chapters on the analysis of crime in eighteenth-century literature; French and Victorian fiction; women and black detectives; crime on film and TV; and police fiction and postm...
 |  | Dragonology: Field Guide to Dragons (Ologies) Release Date: October 9, 2007 ...
 |  | El dragon rojo (Dragones De Colores/ Color Dragons) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: January 1, 2007 ...
 |  | Maisy Goes Swimming Publication Date: September 4, 1990| Grade Level: P and up...
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