 | Backing into Forward: A Memoir
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer’s cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and ’70s—featured in the Village Voice, but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer describes himself as “lucking into the zeitgeist,” and there’s some truth to the sentiment; Feiffer’s brand of satire reflected Americans’ ambivalence about the Vietnam War, changing social mores, and much more.Feiffer’s memoir, Backing into Forward, like his cartoons, is...
 |  | Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Publication Date: October 1, 1982| ISBN-10: 0573607648 | ISBN-13: 978-0573607646Drama / Characters: 1 male, 8 femaleScenery: InteriorIn a small town dime store in West Texas, the "Disciples of James Dean" gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived with Dean during the shoot. The ladies' congenial reminiscences mingle with flash backs to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning but familiar stranger sets off a series of c...
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|  | Magick in the West End: Stories of the Occult
Publication Date: November 8, 2005 Step inside Malynowsky's Central, a nearly-two-hundred-year-old bookstore teeming with tomes on magick and esoteric lore. Maybe you recognize the young woman sitting in the shop window reading Tarot for customers. That's Kala, who brought us inside a fascinating otherworld of true magick and myth at The Magick Bookshop in Oxford. Kala continues her urban forays into Qabalah, Witchcraft, and the occult at this not-so-ordinary bookshop on the gritty West End streets of modern-day London. These seven vivid tales are filled with metaphysical happenings and unfo...
|  | Love Letters from Vampires
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|  | Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire Novels)
Publication Date: November 2, 1989| Series: Barsetshire Novels This book is intended for general; all Trollope fans, students of Victorian literature. ...
|  | Naked in the Rain
Release Date: January 15, 2007LOVE. SEX. POWER. They seem like opposites: River's a troubled teen who loves to fight; Brian is a piano prodigy who attempted suicide. But together they forge a bond beyond anything they imagined. River and Brian run away with dreams of escaping their abusive homes and exploring the world. But reality hits as they wander the streets of Los Angeles: no money, no food, nowhere to go. Until they meet a stranger who will change their lives forever.... Lured into a world of drugs, sex and power; a world of seductive beauty and terrible secrets. Can they escape? Do t...
|  | House of Wolves
Publication Date: September 19, 2011Enveloped by the native spirits of the Pacific Northwest, Roy Wallace and David Moreau s newfound relationship begins. David soon introduces Roy to the House of Wolves, a community of gay men where honor, companionship, spirituality, erotic desire and brotherhood guide the way. Each man living in the house represents a totem from the spirit world, and each one has committed himself to finding a unique path in life. Having lost their visionary founder to AIDS, the household has been faltering and losing faith in the dreams that brought them together. Energi...
|  | Candide (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1984Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachin...
|  | Interpreting Aeschylus' Agamemnon Through the Cateoriges of Aristotle: How Greek Tragedy Shaped Ethical Citizens
Publication Date: May 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0773415211 | ISBN-13: 978-0773415218A work that demonstrates that Aeschylus utilizes the Chorus in his play Agamemnon to demonstrate a growth in moral competence according to free moral action, parallel to the philosophy of Aristotle's Nicomachaen Ethics. ...
|  | The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese Series)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese SeriesThe definitive anthology-unrivalled in scope and contentA millennium and a half old, Japan's poetry is widely known and loved around the world. Covering the earliest primitive period through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muramachi, and Edo periods, right up to the modern day, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse contains more than 700 poems, including short forms such as tanka and haiku, as well as folk-poetry, and more complex verse with which Western readers may be less familiar. Whether read f...
| | Anata ni kataru Nihon bungakushi (Japanese Edition)
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|  | 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0816082324 | ISBN-13: 978-0816082322| Edition: 2 From Gossip Girl to The Kite Runner a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature.Praise for the previous editions: "A must-have for all of us who enjoy the right to choose what we read." Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties UnionThroughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time an...
|  | Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Publication Date: September 17, 1994Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson'sgreatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantlyportrays the vast political, spiritual, andmaterial crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirtyrepresentative Americans.Critical/biographical portraits of such notablefigures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, AbrahamLincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, MaryChesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and OliverWendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era inAmerican history. ...
|  | An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
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|  | The Poet of Tolstoy Park: A Novel
Release Date: March 28, 2006“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel based on the true story of Henry Stuart’s life, which was reclaimed from his doctor’s belief that he would not live another year.Henry responds to the news by slogging home barefoot in the rain. It’s 1925. The place: Canyon County, Idaho. Henry is sixty-seven, a retired profes...
|  | Fudge Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen)
Release Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Hannah Swensen Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose...For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain flavour lately. Maybe it's the local sheriff's election that's got her down. For years, Sheriff Grant's been the iron hand in town. But now, Hannah's brother-in-law Bill is giving the old blowhard the fight of his long, dubious career - and Grant's not taking it well, especially once the polls show Bil...
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|  | A Child's Book of Virtues
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|  | Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
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