 | Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (Onion Ad Nauseam)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| Series: Onion Ad Nauseam Hot off the reprint presses!Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered ...
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 | Warrior's Bride (full-length western contemporary romance, The Warriors)
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 20, 2003| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | Faust, Parts 1 and 2 (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: May 20, 1965| ISBN-10: 0822004798 | ISBN-13: 978-0822004790| Edition: First edition & printing This dramatic poem in two parts is Goethe's greatest work. The poem is based on the legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil and deals with the man's sense of alienation and his need to come to terms with the world as it is. ...
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 | Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: March 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674026861 | ISBN-13: 978-0674026865 This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of herreception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of "Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellen...
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 | Cricket Songs, Japanese Haiku
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: June 19, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521536839 | ISBN-13: 978-0521536837Popularly known as the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the first major prose writer in the history of Western literature whose work has survived in full. At a time when the ancient Greeks' knowledge of the past relied on orally transmitted memories, he was a pioneering historical practitioner who explored the interplay of myth and history and the role of narrative in history. Contributors to this volume analyze Herodotus' Histories and their influence. Taking a thematic approach, they explore the Histories an...
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 | All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Release Date: October 30, 1989A modern classic, and a phenomenal bestseller, this simple collection of thoughts and gentle opinion has struck a deep chord in readers all over the world. Observing our times in his unique way, Robert Fulghum has tapped into the community that we all share and tells us something about ourselves and how to be the best we are capable of. He reminds us to share, clean up our own mess, take a nap every afternoon, and to be aware of wonder."Within simplicity lies the sublime."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"A healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in ...
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 | The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence)
Publication Date: November 23, 1999Everyone knows 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. And who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids and finally the full percussion section of the Liverpoool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas? ...
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 | 1984.
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 3453164210 | ISBN-13: 978-3453164215| Edition: 1st. Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, and the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English Language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | The Rapids (Mira)
Publication Date: December 1, 2004| Series: Mira U.S. diplomatic agent Maggie Spencer is working on a high-profile criminal investigation involving an international fugitive when U.S. Marshal Rob Dunnemore shows up asking questions. But when the two stumble on a dead body, they have only each other to trust to crack the case and stop the assassin from killing again in this combination of suspense, romance and adventure. ...
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 | Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington)
Release Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Stone Barrington Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene-of-the-crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still... ...
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 | The Laughing Princess
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 | Born to Read
Release Date: August 12, 2008THE AWARD-WINNING COLLABORATORS of the New York Times #1 picture book bestseller Wild About Books are back with a new story that promotes books and reading. Told in Judy Sierra’s inimitable read-aloud rhyme, the narrative chronicles the amazing successes of Sam—thanks to his early love of books. The story ranges from Sam’s infancy, when his mother reads him a picture book (“then another, then another, then another . . . such a perfect, patient mother”), to school age, when he cleverly uses some of his favorite books to rid his t...
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 | Agua para elefantes (libro de la pelicula) / Water for Elephants (Movie Tie-in) (Spanish Edition) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 16, 2011As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth . It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an un-trainable elephant who ...
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| Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (St. Antony's Series)
Publication Date: November 1996| ISBN-10: 0312164025 | ISBN-13: 978-0312164027This text examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture. It shows that while Bakhtin's account of carnival culture sheds considerable light on the work of these writers, they need to be considered with reference to both the concrete forms of Russian and Soviet popular culture and the changing institutional framework of Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s. --This text refers to an out of pr...
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 | Don Segundo Sombra (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Letters) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1988| Series: Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Letters (Book 82) Entre los tópicos inicialmente esgrimidos contra esta novela está su carácter popular, su respeto casi periodístico por el habla y las costumbres de los gauchos. Sin embargo, desde el principio mismo del texto se percibe que no estamos ante un retrato localista o una exhaltación ingenua de un tipo social. El relato es moderno por su construcción y ritmo, por su tratamiento de los personajes, por la yuxtaposición de las escenas y por su descripción de la «...
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 | Super Duck
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | Zoo Do's and Don'ts
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Grade Level: P and up What should you do when you go to the zoo? Do brush your hair with a lion / Don't braid his mane. Do take a nap with a hippo / Don't let him steal all the covers.What makes a best friend? Best friends will say you look good even if you have a bad haircut. Best friends will let you make dinner for them even if you serve spaghetti and worms.Here are two colorful, bold, quirky books to add to Todd Parr's bestselling series. Readers of all ages will want to add these two new titles to their collection. ...
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 | The Legend of Wisconsin (Legend (Sleeping Bear))
Publication Date: June 15, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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