 | The Iliad (Signet Classics)
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Signet Classics Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amidst the devastation and destruction of the Trojan War. To this day, the heroism and adventure in The Iliad have remained unmatched in song and story. @RageAgainstTheAchaean Pissed. I am so, so very pissed. First I have to go to this beach. Then I have to kill all these dudes. And NOW – now! This prick stole my biscuit. Who does that? Am I right? Can’t resolve this problem on my own – calling Mom! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books ...
 |  | Family Matters
Release Date: November 18, 2003Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine,Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal,have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and ...
|  | Jazz
Release Date: June 8, 2004In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life. ...
|  | Asian Mythology: Myths and Legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Mythology AN Authoratative a-z guide to the mythologies and legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia ...
|  | Ugly Ways
Publication Date: January 17, 1995| Series: Harvest American Writing The bestselling tale-powerful, compassionate, humorous-of the three Lovejoy sisters reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia, on the occasion of their mother’s death. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother’s funeral, the spirit of the selfish and manipulative Mudear hovers above them, complaining about her daughters’ “ugly ways” in death as she did in life. ...
|  | Hopes Promise (Sierra Chronicles V2)
Publication Date: August 3, 2010| Series: Sierra Chronicles (Book 2) Jake Bennett is finally wed to the love of his life, Jessica Hale-but he isn't convinced she won't leave him. Life is a constant struggle for the Bennetts as they battle drought and live in fear of raids on Southerners, and he is not sure that Jess knew what she was getting herself into when she married him. Jess, however, despairs for another reason-she is unable to conceive a child. While trying to prove their unconditional love for each other, the Bennetts are devastated to discover that a former friend of Jess's parents...
|  | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Collector's Edition (Radio Theatre)
Publication Date: October 31, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford Paperbacks)
Publication Date: January 14, 1993| Series: Oxford Paperbacks "'I think it must have been two o'clock at least when I thought I heard a sound in that--that odious dark recess at the far end of the bedroom....Without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left. He had something under his arm; his ...
|  | Through with the Looking Glass: The Continuing Adventures of Alex in Wonderland
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|  | Sports Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Sporting's Best Short Stories series The energy and drama of the sports arena is unsurpassed as inspiration for the short story, and here, in these 24 stories from some of the world’s great writers, is all of the bone-crunching action, the devious strategy, the devastating defeats, and the high-soaring victories of some of the best-loved sports of our time. The lineup includes Pulitzer Prize winners E. Annie Proulx, John Cheever, Howard Nemerov, and Paul Horgan, as well as favorites such as Joyce Carol Oates, André Dubus, W. Somerset Maugh...
|  | Roman Comedy
Publication Date: May 1983This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Shaw: An Autobiography 1856 - 1898
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|  | Time of the Icebergs: Poems
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1877578029 | ISBN-13: 978-1877578021Time of the Icebergs is a collection of poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present "hurtling globalization's highway" where "Google tells Google that Google saves." As poet David Eggleton says, "I think of it as a collection for browsing and discovering things: soundscapes, seascapes, landscapes, contemporary politics and contemporary people, histories, traditions, and other things besides." Titles of poems reflect the absurdities of 21st-century existence: Kate Winslet Promotes a Credit Ca...
|  | Ulysses (New Casebooks)
Publication Date: March 4, 2004| Series: New Casebooks This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings. The essays are framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, including its role in modern literature. ...
|  | Madman on the Water
Publication Date: April 28, 2011Few people can tell a story as powerfully and bluntly as Kenner McQuaid.Fed-up with reading works that gloss over the sometimes harsh and graphic reality of life, McQuaid tackles issues head-on such as depression, sex, drugs, religion, relationships, and the Star Wars prequels in his debut novel, Madman on the Water.Despite the wide range of material, the high-traffic legal blog Constitutional Daily observed that “the story flows naturally” and “all topics are handled with great wit and insight.”The book is written in the first pers...
| | Case of the Philosophers Ring, The Amid the Drugs & Cult Mysticism of the Edwardian Underworld, Sherlock Holmes Encounters the Worlds most Evil Genius & His Plan to Destroy Western Civilization(Holmes and Watson become involved with Bertrand Russell,
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|  | Cases of Identity: Real People in the Sherlock Holmes Canon
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|  | Spider-Man: Birth of Venom
Publication Date: April 4, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up The Beyonder's Battleworld might seem a strange place to get new threads, but it's Spider-Man who becomes unraveled when his shape-changing costume attempts to darken his life as well as his fashion sense! But ridding himself of his riotous raiment proves an even greater mistake when its alien enmity bonds with mortal madness to form our hero's most dedicated decimator! Plus: the first appearances of Puma and the Rose! Mary Jane Watson's startling secret! And the debut of the battling...Bag-Man!? Guest-starring the Black Cat, the Fantast...
|  | Smelly Socks
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Bestselling team Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko create another funny adventure about a girl named Tina, who loves her brand-new socks so much that she's never ever going to take them off!Tina loves her brand-new socks so much that she's never ever going to take them off!But when her wonderful socks start to get smelly, her friends have to take action! ...
|  | The Story of the Golden State Warriors (The NBA: a History of Hoops)
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