 | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Vintage Classics Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
 |  | Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: A Reading of Tai Fu's 'Kuang-i chi' (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Publication Date: June 20, 2002| ISBN-10: 0521893224 | ISBN-13: 978-0521893220The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ("The Great Book of Marvels") preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world.Through the eyes of an official, the picture emerges of a complex lay society, served by a mixed priesthood of ritual practitioners.This study develops a style of close reading through which the tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China, a society embarking on fundamental change. ...
|  | Darkest Hour (The Mediator)
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Series: Mediator (Book 4)Summer of TerrorIt's Suze's sixteenth summer, but instead of spending it at the beach, she's trapped working as a baby-sitter at a swanky resort. Never mind that one of her charges turns out to be a budding mediator himself, or that his older brother has major boyfriend potential. Suze has way more important things to deal with, like the discovery of a grave in her own backyard. Does it belong to Jesse, the hot cowboy ghost with whom she shares a bedroom? Is that why he'ssuddenly nowhere to be found? Or is Jesse's disappearance...
|  | The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
Publication Date: May 15, 1998Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this luch, sweeping, and richly detailed saga.Told in Cleopatra's own voice, this is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayl, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, and does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death rather than be paraded in triumph through the streets of Rome.Mo...
|  | Risky Investment
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Investment analyst Lynn Gregory was used to taking risks.But even Lynn has her doubts when Matt, her best friend and roommate, asks her to participate in a charade to hide his sexuality from his parents.The plan seemed simple enough – Matt would introduce his friend Chris as his fiancé.All Lynn had to do was back up the story.The charade seems to be running smoothly as Chris, the straight woman persuaded to pose as Matt’s fiancé, plays her part well.But as the three are thrown closer and closer together, other tensions arise and Lynn is forced...
|  | Camembert: ANational Myth
Publication Date: July 7, 2003| Series: California Studies in Food and Culture (Book 4) Camembert--delectably fragrant, creamy-centered, neatly boxed--is the most popular and most famous French cheese. Originally made by hand in the Norman countryside, it is now mass-produced internationally, yet Camembert remains a national symbol for France, emblematic of its cultural identity. In this witty and entertaining book, Pierre Boisard investigates the history of Camembert and its legend. He considers the transformation of France's cheese-making industry and along the way gives a highly selective...
|  | Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition
Publication Date: April 1999| ISBN-10: 084768752X | ISBN-13: 978-0847687527In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition from the Archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. Sultan studies issues of how husbands and wives survive separation and communicate the painful experience of loss. Focusing on the role women play as obstacles and facilitators during the hero's exile and return, Sultan argues that the hero's reputation, his glory, that which he earns through suffering in exile...
|  | The Bremen Town Musicians: A Folktale Play for Children
Publication Date: December 1996A donkey, dog, cat and rooster have been turned out by their master because they are old and no longer useful.They decide to go to Bremen and become the town musicians.On their way, they stop for the night and discover an isolated house inhabited by four robbers who have plenty of food.The animals decide to scare away the robbers.The robbers leave the house permanently and the animals never go further because they have what they want, a home. ...
|  | Krylatye stroki russkoi poezii: Ocherki istorii (Russian Edition)
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|  | The Poetry of Louis Dudek: Definitive Collection
Publication Date: August 11, 2000When Dudek selected and arranged the poems in the book he intended this to be the "definitive" collection of his poems. Tis contains selections from 20 of his previous book between 1944 and 1997.Louis Dudek ... prolific poet, critic and literary activist ... has had a long and distinguished career as one of Canada's major writers. ...
| | Yeats's Heroic Figures: Wilde, Parnell, Swift, Casement
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|  | Under the Rose: A Confession (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Series: The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series Flavia Alaya was 22 years old, a radiant but sheltered Italian American on a Fulbright in Italy, when she met Father Harry Browne. When the attraction that began in a cafe in Perugia grew too compelling to resist, they embarked on a relationship that violated one of the most powerful taboos of the Church and of society, yet endured for over 20 years. By day, they were subsumed in progressive community organizing. By night, they were subsumed in a relationship carried out, even through the birth of their three child...
|  | Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition
Publication Date: July 2, 2010With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is the most co...
|  | Little Violet's Family Perversions
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Taboo Perversity! Latest installment from the father-daughter team that's been Banned on Three Continents! ...
|  | Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2)
Release Date: August 2, 2005| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress&rsq...
|  | Young Hercules: Cheiron's Warriors
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | Sammy the Dragon
Publication Date: August 23, 2011Sammy the Dragon is lonely and wants to be included. The animals in the forest are afraid of Sammy s fierce fire from his nostrils and his appearance. Sammy decides to take the risk to look for his friends after a snowstorm. The animals learn Sammy is a kind-hearted friend that wants to play with everyone. He learns that it is not so hard to approach his neighbors when he takes this risk. Readers are reminded that we all have strengths that can help each other out and to take time to understand who someone is on the inside. Illustrated with bright colors and ...
|  | Minnesota Twins 101 (101 My First Team-Board-Books)
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|  | The Secrets of Martial Arts: An Isabel Soto History Adventure (Graphic Expeditions) (Graphic Library: Graphic Expeditions)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | HN10 - The Grinch Christmas Cards
Publication Date: June 1, 2004Twelve 4 1/2 x 6" cards with envelopes packaged in a full-color flip-top box. Perfect for sending fun, lovable season's greetings to everyone on your list! Inside Greeting: Merry Grinchmas! ...
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