 | The Lords and the New Creatures
Release Date: October 15, 1971Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison's persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer "Lizard King" was during The Doors' peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial more than twenty years later.The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison's first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society's dark side -- drugs, sex, fame, and death -- captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left th...
 |  | God Still Don't Like Ugly
Release Date: September 1, 2003Sequel to God Don't Like Ugly An Essence BestsellerA Selection of theBlack Expressions Book ClubIn this haunting and powerful new novel, national bestselling author Mary Monroe revisits Annette Goode, Rhoda Nelson, and the other unforgettable characters from God Don't Like Ugly. After a five-year separation, Annette is ready to take tentative steps to re-establish her friendship with Rhoda, but has her troubled girlhood companion come to terms with her past?Group Discussion Guide Included. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | The Testament of Mary
Release Date: November 13, 2012PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING AND INDELIBLE, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was ...
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|  | The Dark Half
Release Date: October 3, 1990Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has committed a series of monstrous murders. But he can't. He created it. ...
|  | Street Fighter 2013 Wall Calendar
Release Date: August 28, 2012Ever since the first coin dropped in a Street Fighter arcade machine in 1987, the game has dominated the combat genre and been a favorite for arcade and home players around the world. Featuring action-packed exciting images of the game's best-loved characters, from the heroes of the original game like Ryu and Guile through Hakan, Juri, and the latest lineup in Super Street Fighter IV, the Street Fighter 2013 Wall Calendar is a must for anyone who's ever knocked knuckles in this classic video game.(c) CAPCOM ...
|  | Twelfth Insight (Celestine 4)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Celestine 4 The Twelfth Insight is the fourth book in the hugely successful Celestine series. It is an adventure tale that is both suspenseful and contemplative, and builds on the insights introduced in Redfield's previous books. It describes a new wave of tolerance and integrity that is emerging in reaction to years of conflict, warfare and political corruption. With unsurpassed insight, James Redfield continues the astounding spiritual journey that is the Celestine series. Through deep intuition of the world within and without he moves the series...
|  | One Apple Tasted
Publication Date: June 1, 2011An irresistibly witty and charming comedy of manners examining the effect of long-ago events on one woman's search for a fairytale ending in the present Meet Dora Jerusalem, features assistant to the assistant features editor of Modern Woman, a glossy magazine whose employees are all thin, rich, and beautiful. New to London and desperate to succeed, Dora is drawn into a whirl of launches and parties where she meets a striking young man named Guy Boleyn. Follow Dora as she navigates her way through a maze of jealous colleagues, weddings that ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: November 10, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521680832 | ISBN-13: 978-0521680837| Edition: 1 More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its...
|  | Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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|  | Reminiscences (Persian Edition)
Publication Date: July 25, 2010In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing, would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thoughts; and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for the truth through search and investigation. However, just as the young have wishes and desires that may never come true, the elderly have reminiscences which may have never been true, nor may have happened, and the only evidence is the written words, the sole evidence is in the writings. The poems of this book (written in Per...
|  | The Poet and the Sea (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 2009“This is a very valuable book! Dozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done beautifully transferring Juan Ramon's enthusiastic calm from Spanish to English. Terrific.”—Robert Bly“As he observes metaphysical somersaults of sea and land, Juan Ramón is the master of replete simplicity. 'A steel sea' pops up on a 'hard flat field/of exhausted mines/in a devastation of ruin.' Or, like Emily Dickinson’s 'hope falls down a hill,' Jiménez has, 'Hope, a se...
|  | A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800
Publication Date: March 29, 2001| ISBN-10: 0948170115 | ISBN-13: 978-0948170119This dictionary attempts in nearly 2,200 entries to cover all workers in the various branches of the Dublin book trade until the Act of Union in 1800. All grades of workers from apprentice to master, and papermakers, engravers, hawkers and other peripheral traders are considered, as well as the all-important printers and booksellers. ...
|  | Playing Dirty (Hqn)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Hqn When old enemies are thrown together, all bets are off…Way back in high school, golden boy Cade Gallari publicly revealed he'd slept with "fat girl" Ava Spencer to win a bet. Now a decade older and a head turner with her own concierge business, Ava isn't the gullible dreamer she once was— and she plans to prove it when Cade, hotter than ever, breezes back into town with an offer she can't refuse.A documentary film producer, Cade is shooting a movie about the mysterious mansion Ava inherited. And he wants her as his person...
|  | The Coast Road (Cliff Hardy series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005| Series: Cliff Hardy series Cliff Hardy trades the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, a rugged undeveloped area of Australia, in this latest hard-boiled detective novel. First hired by the daughter of the late, wealthy Frederick Farmer to investigate his mysterious and fiery death, Hardy is then called in on a second case—the disappearance of the young daughter of Marisha Karatsky, an exotic, dark-eyed interpreter who gets under Hardy's thick skin. Questionable insurance agents and feral bikers round out the colorful cast as Hardy battl...
|  | Mega Mash-Up: Spies vs. Giant Slugs in the Jungle
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Chip 'N' Dale Rescue Rangers: Slippin' Through the Cracks
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)
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|  | The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation: From Snow White to Wall-e (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Publication Date: June 2012| ISBN-10: 1409437493 | ISBN-13: 978-1409437499| Edition: 2 In the second edition of "The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation", David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, "WALL-E". As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with "Snow White", Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animati...
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