 | Agatha H. and the Airship City (Girl Genius)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been sixteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over - and terrorizing - the hapless population with their bizarre inventions and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Hetrodynes' return. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student named Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck. Incapable of building a...
 |  | Midnight in Madrid (The Russian Trilogy, Book 2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca (Conspiracy in Kiev) is back crisscrossing Europe in pursuit of an ancient relic stolen from a Madrid museum---and the chilling secrets behind its theft. With a new partner, danger, and betrayal at every turn, Alex must make the toughest decision of her life---whom should she trust? ...
|  | Ghost Stories of Illinois
Publication Date: July 1, 2000The history of Illinois is permeated with mysterious and ominous tales, from the streets of Chicago to the gentle curves of the Mississippi. Disembodied whispers behind walls and fading screams from across the water have given rise to ghostly legends and folklore around inexplicable events:* Al Capone's victims return in ghostly forms to drive him crazy* The spirit of Abraham Lincoln is felt, both in the White House and in his native town of Springfield* A beautiful young lady flirts in Chicago ballrooms and hitchhikes through the Southwest Side, but invariably ...
|  | Castle Rackrent (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199537550 | ISBN-13: 978-0199537556| Edition: New With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel changes the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class, and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie.The second edition now includes new notes informed by the latest scholarship.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World...
|  | The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Release Date: November 1, 2011For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.Almost unwillingly, Holm...
|  | The Small Bachelor
Release Date: May 7, 1991There seems no reason why the courtship of a wealthy bachelor like George Finch should not run sweetly to its natural conclusion. But George has fallen in love with Molly Waddington. And Mrs Waddington prefers the idea of an aristocrat to the reality of George, whom she suspects is half-witted. ...
|  | Lakota Myth (Second Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. This edition includes classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's own literary cycle based on all he had learned about Lakota myth. Lakota Myth is an indispensable source for students of compara...
|  | The Al-Hamlet Summit
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 190280662X | ISBN-13: 978-1902806624| Edition: Bilingual Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, co...
|  | Acopio (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 22, 2012Acopio de décimas vivenciales del poeta puertorriqueño Pablo León Hernández. ...
|  | Later Travels (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: February 17, 2004| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 10)Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. His travel diaries and letters are filled with descriptions of classical sites, drawings of buildings and statues, and cop...
|  | Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
Publication Date: March 15, 2006| Series: Ray and Pat Browne Book In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and ...
|  | The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0195381378 | ISBN-13: 978-0195381375In Victorian Britain, authors produced a luminous and influential body of writings about the visual arts. From John Ruskin's five-volume celebration of J. M.W. Turner to Walter Pater's essays on the Italian Renaissance, Victorian writers disseminated a new idea in the nineteenth century, that art spectatorship could provide one of the most intense and meaningful forms of human experience. In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by...
|  | Short Sips: Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection 2
Publication Date: March 31, 2012In our ever changing world we seem to become busier with less time to relax and enjoy the little things. We have rare occasions, of mere minutes, to ourselves. This collection of 99 flash fiction pieces is for just those moments. Let these authors take you on a ride through suspense, dreams, fantasy, space, and beyond. Pick up the morning coffee, open this book to any story and read before rushing off to school or work. ...
|  | Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener
Publication Date: April 1, 2010Ann Preston Bridgers, who first studied drama at Smith College and later lived in New York City to be close to Broadway, was the pride of Raleigh, North Carolina, where she founded the Little Theatre, a New Deal Federal Theatre project. In 1927, she coauthored with George Abbott Coquette, starring Helen Hayes. In 1929, Coquette became Mary Pickford's first talking movie. Ann, like George Abbott, was a great encourager of the young. Her talent for friendship and for identifying the talent of others led to her correspondence with Elizabeth Lawrence, who would bec...
|  | Aristotle: Parts of Animals. Movement of Animals. Progression of Animals (Loeb Classical Library No. 323)
Publication Date: January 1, 1937| ISBN-10: 0674993578 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993570| Edition: Revised Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alex...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2 Volumes)
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|  | Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Raymond and Graham: Bases Loaded
Release Date: February 17, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Atlanta Falcons (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Dinghy Sailing (Know Your Sport)
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