 | Someone Cares (Helen Steiner Rice Products)
Publication Date: December 29, 2005| Series: Helen Steiner Rice Products This book contains classic poems from Helen Steiner Rice accompanied by the beautiful watercolor artwork of Cathi Freund.It is wonderfully packaged with its padded front cover, gold-foiled title and a ribbon marker. ...
 |  | The Psalms: Finer than Gold, Sweeter than Honey
Publication Date: April 1, 2006The psalms are among the most sublime poetry in the world, offering us inexhaustible wells of meaning. Herbert O'Driscoll adeptly dips into their sacred depths and draws up sparkling insights to refresh the soul. Our contemporary spirits can feel at home in the world of psalms. All of human experience is there - joy and sadness, love and anger, trust and despair. The gift of the psalms lies in their challenge to us; they invite us into dialogue with them and with the God who inspired them. The psalms guide us to express our deepest feelings to God, and their re...
|  | The Vision of Emma Blau
Release Date: January 16, 2001The Vision of Emma Blau is the luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream: the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and...
|  | The Assistant (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: July 17, 2007| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 1071) The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time.Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as ...
|  | The Exeter Book Riddles
Publication Date: March 2, 2009The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the peaceful pursuits of music and writing, they are full of sharp observation, earthy humor and, above all, a sense of wonder. The main text of this volume contains Kevin Crossley-Holland's newly-revised translations of the ...
|  | Measure for Measure (Critics Debate)
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|  | Antony and Cleopatra (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 26, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare's most powerful tragedies. Fascinating characterizations of a pair of history’s most charismatic lovers, fast-paced action in scenes throughout the far-flung Roman Empire, and peerless poetry make this immortal drama a must for students of the theater and literature. ...
|  | Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid (Faber Plays)
Publication Date: May 29, 2000| Series: Faber Plays A new dramatization for the stage of Ted Hughes's highly acclaimed translation of Ovid's MetamorphosesWhen it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, a classic in its own right and a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. For Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read poets of our day, had translated twenty-four of Ovid's stories--legends connected by their transformational motifs--with the elegance and passion that distinguished his own poems.His vigorous, fluid poetr...
|  | Hafiz 2006 Calendar
Release Date: July 7, 2005"A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful, parched, holy mouth." The poetry of Hafiz, the 14th century Persian poet, has been referred to, along with Rumi, Shakespeare and Dante, as one of the seven great literary wonders of the world. To Persians, the poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished wisdom, humor and love from a dear friend. For centuries Hafiz has been called "the tongue of the invisible," and through these modern versions, he continues to sing wild and beautiful love son...
|  | Claridad errante (Fondo 2000 Series) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Series: Fondo 2000 Series En estas páginas se reúne Piedra del sol, poema fundamental de la literatura mexicana contemporánea, con un grupo de textos expresamente seleccionados para esta edición por Octavio Paz, uno de los autores más importantes del siglo XX. ...
|  | A Scattering of Salts
Release Date: March 14, 1995The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of this, his last book of poems. "In these last poems, lucid, deft, fond, shrewd, faithful, Merrill once again reveals himself as our most visual poet, combining a superb eye with an unfailing ear."--Peter Davison, Boston Globe.From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
|  | "A Man who does not exist": The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
Publication Date: January 15, 1996"A man who does not exist" is about just that- the Irish peasant as an imaginative construct. Yeats and Synge were two of the writers who established the terms of an argument that has affected all subsequent Irish politics as well as literature. The Revivalists' task was to counter English stereotypes- the cavorting, drunken "Paddy" who, while entertaining and colorful, was not to be trusted to govern himself- and to provide a cultural context for the foundation of a new country. To write about "peasants" was to give life to old stories and thus to create a ...
|  | Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac: Texts, Translation and Notes
Publication Date: November 29, 1985Written around 730-740 the Life of Guthlac by the monk Felix is an important and colourful source for the obscure early history of East Anglia and the Fens. It describes how the youthful Guthlac (674-714) won fame at the head of a Mercian warrior band fighting the British on the borders of Wales before entering the monastery at Repton at the age of twenty-four. Distinguished from the first by his piety and asceticism, Guthlac moved on around 700 to a solitary life on Crowland, an uninhabited island accessible only by boat deep in the wild and desolate marsh...
|  | A Cinderella Affair (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Kimani Romance Clothing designer Camille Davis is sophisticated, ambitious, talented…and riddled with self-doubt—except when it comes to selling her father's home. No deal, no way. But Las Vegas real estate mogul Adam Donovan's negotiating skills are leaving Camille weak in the knees…and maybe, just maybe, willing to compromise?Adam, the youngest of the "Triple Threat" Donovan brothers and the sexiest bachelor in town, is drawn to Camille's seductive mix of vulnerability, sweetness and strength. As for her take-it- or-leave-it deal...
|  | Trial and Terror
Publication Date: August 13, 2012The good news is that public defender Summer Neuwirth just won her first case, which involved a brutal rape and kidnapping. The bad news? Her client was guilty. What's more, he knows all about Summer's past. As Summer pursues her next case, this time to keep an innocent woman off death row, elements of that past--a mysterious case of childhood amnesia, her police officer father's involvement with a serial killer, a terrifying attack she survived just months earlier--entwine with her present legal work, her missing mother, and her rocky relation...
|  | Wild Life
Release Date: May 10, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that’s been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik can’t keep him. But Erik has already named her Quill and can’t bear to give her up. He decides to run away, taking the dog and a shotgun, certain that they can make it on their own out ...
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|  | Hello Toes! Hello Feet! (DK toddler story books)
Publication Date: March 15, 1998| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Sophie's Drama (Faithgirlz!)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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