 | Someday (Sunrise Series-Baxter 3, Book 3)
Release Date: February 5, 2008Pressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two, but finally something drastic catches Dayne's attention and makes him realize the destruction they're playing with. But will it be too late? The Flanigan family recognizes the deep loss of the Christian Kids Theater program, and they lead a final effort to keep the theater from being torn down. Meanwhile, John Baxter takes the next step in his growing relationship with Elaine, gi...
 |  | Das Kapital: A novel of love and money markets
Publication Date: June 5, 2007Moving seamlessly between the financial skyscrapers of New York and the crisp blue skies of Corsica and Marseille, Das Kapital is an extraordinary homage to Marx's seminal work for the twenty-first century. Wayne is the emblematic Wall Street trader: opportunistic, brash and driven. His position is something of a rarity; he bets against the market's rise, gambling vast quantities of money on the short sell and profiting hugely from the collapse of entire economies and cultures -- in short, from the dissolution of financial and social infrastructure on a global s...
|  | Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems
Publication Date: April 15, 2004Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bul...
|  | Classical Comedy - An Armoury of Laughter, Democracy's Bastion of Defence
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0761813659 | ISBN-13: 978-0761813651Classical Comedy- An Armoury of Laughter, Democracy's Bastion of Defence repudiates Aristotle's claim in Poetics, that tragedy was the jewel of fifth century democracy, arguing that the claim belongs to comedy, as a brilliantly entertaining defense of social values and standards. Tom Rothfield examines every aspect of classicism, analyzing comedy's origins, and structure, to demonstrate the reasons for classical comedy's universal and continued significance. He breaks down theatrical mechanisms, including the ...
|  | Learning to Perform: An Introduction
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|  | Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe 1820-1895 (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
Publication Date: January 10, 1995| ISBN-10: 1571130101 | ISBN-13: 978-1571130105| Edition: First Edition This pioneering work on poetic realism in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Switzerland studies the genesis and history of highly significant international literary movement which has remained outside the literary mainstream.Beginning with the 'father' of poetic realism, Poul Muller (1794-1838) and ending with the novels of the German writer Theodor Fontane (1819-98), Professor Bernd considers virtually all the significant writers of poetic realism, showing how each throws light ...
|  | Moon Flowers: Pems, Tales & Politics
Publication Date: September 25, 2008The book includes three parts , poems, tales, and political ideas concerning Arab Palestinians. An opinion merror of complex sharp issues made by the author in his early years in America. The author is an Arab American scholar, and a former professor of sociology. Dr. Yahya lives in Lansing Michigan, USA. ...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: 1999Nacido en Alejandria, donde, salvo breves periodos, llevo una existencia tranquila y oscura como modesto funcionario hasta el dia de su muerte, C. P. CAVAFIS (1863-1933) es sin duda uno de los hitos de la poesia contemporanea por la originalidad y universalidad de su escritura. Concebida con la intencion de ofrecer al lector una imagen que responde fielmente a la personalidad intelectual y artistica del poeta, la presente ANTOLOGIA POETICA -seleccionada, ordenada, prologada y anotada por Pedro Badenas de la Pena- reune los 154 poemas canonicos (los autorizados expresame...
|  | Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man
Publication Date: April 16, 2010This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetschs The Studhorse Man [1969], examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is disenchanted modernity in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that brought to bear the full force of modern science, invasively to alte...
|  | The Missing
Release Date: November 4, 2008From the national bestselling author whose sexy stories ?you will not soon forget?(Romance Review) comes a brand-new, sinfully sexy romantic suspense novel. Her psychic gift drove away the man she loved? and years later has drawn him back to her? As a teenager, Taige Branch hated her psychic gift. No one could understand?except for Cullen Morgan, the boy who stole her heart. He did his best to accept her, until his mother was brutally murdered?and he couldn?t forgive Taige for not preventing it. Now a widowed father, Cullen Morgan has never forgotten Taige. But ...
|  | The Suicide's Grave: or, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Publication Date: January 14, 2011Young and gifted Robert, second son of George Colwan, Laird of Dalcastle, virtually disowned on suspicions of parentage and thus denied the name of his father, is taken in and raised by the fundamentalist leader Reverend Wringham.Despite a propensity towards jealousy, malice, and backstabbing, young Robert soon finds himself initiated into his adopted father's sect, convinced of his predestined salvation and inability to do wrong.The day of his so-called 'election' to grace, he meets a strange individual that seems to reflect his image and beliefs in every m...
|  | Vital Signs
Publication Date: August 21, 1992Dr. Marissa Blumenthal's dream of becoming pregnant has turned into an obsession. A successful pediatrician, she will try any scientific method available to conceive. Until the horrible secrets of an urban clinic erupt in a nightmare of staggering proportions. 'Vintage Cook ...nonstop action!' Kirkus Reviews ...
|  | The Real Story of Stone Soup
Release Date: January 18, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A stingy fisherman always makes his three young helpers do all his work. One day he scolds the “lazy boys” for forgetting to provide lunch. “Don’t worry,” they say. “We can make stone soup.” The boys dig a hole and fill it with water and “flavored” stones. They trick the fisherman into making bowls and chopsticks, and fetching salt and sesame oil. While he’s busy, they stir in bird eggs, add wild vegetables, and slip fish into the soup. By the time the old man returns...
|  | Tear Up This Book! (American Girl Library)
Release Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | What Will You Be, Grandma?
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up What can Lily’s grandma be when she grows up? An artist, someone that makes candy, a doctor, a fairy . . . so many possibilities!Every child is asked what they would like to be when they grow up, but Lily decides to turn the tables by asking her grandma the same question! What answer will Grandma give? This enchanting book illustrates the touching bond between a grandparent and grandchild. ...
|  | True Mountain Rescue Stories (True Rescue Stories)
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|  | The Book of Peri-rhymes for Little People
Publication Date: May 13, 2008Peri was a pixie Who lived in a magic wood. He helped his many woodland friends As often as he could. His home he made beneath the roots Of a very old oak tree. Carpets were of soft, sheep's wool And given to him free. Peri the Pixie lives in his very old oak tree in the magic wood with lots of friends - Fluff the Rabbit, Flash the Hare, Igor the Eagle, Max the Mouse and many, many more. One day he gets a letter from Blink, one of his friends, and he decides to visit him at the seaside. But. . . oh dear! What is this? While Peri has been away, the wicked goblins...
|  | Walker of Time
Publication Date: May 1, 1993| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A compelling story of a 15-year-old Hopi Indian boy, Walker Talayesva, and his companion, Tag, who stumble into the midst of Walker's ancestral home.Second book in the series: Walker's Journey HomeThird book: Tag Against Time ...
|  | From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850
Publication Date: October 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0195418891 | ISBN-13: 978-0195418897| Edition: 2 The second edition of From Instruction to Delight is a thorough update of Patricia Demers' essential anthology of key works of children's literature from 1000 to 1850. It includes approximately 70 examples of children's literature, ranging from complete and excerpted short stories, verse, and lessons for children, along with critical introductions, headnotes, and original black and white woodcuts. ...
|  | Balloon Toons: The Super Crazy Cat Dance
Release Date: August 18, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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