 | Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence
Release Date: February 1, 2011I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.—with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor,” Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at The New Yorker in the early 1950s. From 1933 until her death in 1979, Bishop published the vast majority of her poems in the magazine’s pages. During those forty years, hundreds of letters passed between Bishop and her editors, Charles Pearce, Katharine...
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|  | The Ladies of Garrison Gardens: A Novel
Release Date: May 31, 2005Charles Valley’s legendary dowagers, the three Miss Margarets, have lost one of their own: Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune but was constantly overshadowed by the legacy her husband’s first wife, the great Myrtis Garrison. When Peggy’s will is read, the news of who will take over the Garrison fortune shakes the town to its core. To everyone’s shock, Peggy has left all of the Garrison holdings–the world-famous botanical gardens, the massive resort, and the lovely Garrison “Cottage,” where FDR once visite...
|  | Red Cloud's Revenge: Showdown On The Northern Plains, 1867
Release Date: November 1, 2011Seven month of small reprisals since the Fetterman massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders--both Indian and White--steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted--drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed: the Hay Field Fight and Wagon Box Fight of 1867. ...
|  | The Lone Ranger Volume 5: Hard Country TP
Publication Date: September 11, 2012| Series: The Lone Ranger It's been two months since Lone Ranger and Tonto hit the trails of the old west, looking for injustice. They've found plenty. Now, they come across settlers who have been victimized in a way that stirs memories in John Reid. It's loss, vengeance, and redemption as pioneer idealism meets the reality of hard life on the prairie! Continuing and expanding on Dynamite's past Lone Ranger series, with new writer Ande Parks at the helm, this epic six-part story (The Lone Ranger Volume 2 #1-6) will test the mettle of the west's most legend...
|  | The Black Comedy of John Guare
Publication Date: January 2002| ISBN-10: 0874137632 | ISBN-13: 978-0874137637This study explores American playwright John Guare's unnerving and paradoxical theater through an examination of black comedy. It attempts to make Guare's theater more accessible by arguing that Guare's black humor has its roots in the tradition of farce_broadly satirical dark comedies in which humor is discovered in pain, despair, or horror. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Xin yue pai ping lun zi liao xuan (Zhongguo xin wen xue she tuan, liu pai cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Information Literacy Instruction Handbook
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0838909639 | ISBN-13: 978-0838909638Information Literacy Instruction Handbook is designed primarily for librarians new to teaching or management of information literacy instruction. In addition, it serves as a one-stop refresher source on key topics for more experienced librarians. The approach is practical, with an emphasis on up to date situations and approaches. It contains concise and practical chapters, written by experienced information literacy instruction librarians, providing the basics but with references to other key sources for those w...
|  | The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830
Publication Date: November 4, 1999As today's new technologies challenge the reign of writing, Clifford Siskin puts our current concerns about such change into history. In the 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain, he argues, the "new" technology was writing itself. How did its proliferation—in print and through silent reading—coalesce into the dominant forms of literary modernity, and with what consequences?What changed, strikingly and fundamentally, were ways of knowing and of working. Admonitions against young women reading novels were not merely matters of Augustan conser...
|  | The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
Publication Date: March 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 0691150389 | ISBN-13: 978-0691150383| Edition: Reprint The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. For them, calculus is more than a branch of mathematics; it is a game they love playing together, a constant when all else is in flux. The teacher goes from the prime of his career to retirement, competes in whitewater k...
|  | Lincoln And The Civil War (Da Capo Paperback)
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|  | Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage
Publication Date: June 11, 2012“You emerge from its pages as if from a top-level security briefing—confident that you have been let in on the deepest secrets.”—Washington PostSomeone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA unit trying to buy peace with America’s enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who’s doing the killing and why. Unfortunately for Sophie, nothing is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and revenge, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not hav...
|  | Nimitz Class (Arnold Morgan, Book 1)
Publication Date: June 1997The unthinkable has happened.The nuclear-powered Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier Thomas Jefferson, the most powerful warship in the world, home to a crew of 6,000 sailors and navy fliers, has been vaporized at sea in what appears to be a nuclear accident. The loss of life is devastating. It is the greatest peacetime disaster in U.S. history, and the shockwaves reverberate around the world. Yet even as America grieves, Lt. Commander Bill Baldridge of Naval Intelligence, brother of one of the victims, begins to piece together reports that suggest something sinister lur...
|  | DESIGNATION GOLD ROGUE WARRIOR
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Series: Rogue Warrior The Rogue Warrior is in Moscow with murder and mayhem on his mind. The reason: his old friend, Paul Mahon, Washington's defense attache in Russia, has been assassinated. Marcinko knows who killed him-- Andrei Yudin, a godfather in the Russian mafia-- and he just wants to know why. But Yudin's not talking. In fact, he's been silenced forever. The Rogue Warrior can't raise the dead, but he can uncover a cabal of Russian politicians in bed with the mob. The revelation buys him a one-way ticket to Washington, courtesy of the Russian Ministry...
| | Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes: Un crimen extra
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|  | The Dinosaur's New Clothes
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 3 and up In this retelling of the familiar story about two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes, the characters are presented as dinosaurs. ...
|  | Track & Field (Great Moments in Sports)
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Marcella: A Raggedy Ann Story
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up Raggedy Ann, Beloved Belindy, Uncle Clem and Raggedy Andy sat very, very quiet, their cotton-stuffed bodies tingling as happily as Johnny Cricket's cheery tune, for they had looked through the door into Fairyland.It's summertime, and Marcella packs up her beloved dolls, Raggedy Ann and Andy and all their friends, for a trip to the seashore. Nighttime is when the dolls come to life, so once Marcella is tucked in bed, Raggedy Ann and the rest of the dolls embark on a series of adventures, including a magical encounter with fairies. They ...
|  | The Playground/El Parque (I Like to Visit/Me Gusta Visitar)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Elmer and the Big Bird (Elmer Books)
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