 | Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
Release Date: April 6, 2006| Series: American Poets Project (Book 22) With an ear tuned to the most delicate musical effects, an eye for exact and heterogeneous details, and a mind bent on experiment, Louis Zukofsky was preeminent among the radical Objectivist poets of the 1930s. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Zukofsky's poetry-containing short lyrics, versions of Catullus, and generous selections from "A", his 24-part"poem of a life"-and provides a superb introduction to a modern master of whom the critic Guy Davenport has written: "Every living American poet wort...
 |  | Austenland: A Novel
Release Date: May 29, 2007Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined. Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen--...
|  | SCARS: A CHARITY ANTHOLOGY FEATURING SHORT STORIES BY NEW YORK CITY'S HORROR WRITERS
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|  | Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories
Release Date: August 26, 2008Many of Ian Fleming?sshort stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only. The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the film?s release, as well as to continue Penguin?s centenary celebrations of Fleming?s birth. ...
|  | Brain Dead
Publication Date: June 1998When trauma nurse Timmie Parker moves from California to her old hometown in Missouri, it seems her hope for turning her life around will finally be realized: She is miles away from her bitter ex-husband, respected and admired by her new coworkers and renewing her ties to her family. Then the bodies begin to pile up.Elderly patients from Restcrest, a highly regarded and innovative senior citizen care facility attached to the hospital, keep dying in her ER, and Timmie wants to know why.But when she tries to search for answers, she gets caught in a tangled mystery ...
|  | Bond Cars and Vehicles
Publication Date: August 16, 2010Witness all the Classic Cars, the Air and Sea Vehicles, and the Secret Weapons. Bond Cars and Vehicles features James Bond cars such as the world-famous Aston Martin DB5, many of the other boats and aircraft he has piloted, as well as some of his most hair-raising chases and escapades. Includes spectacular movie images capturing classic Bond moments and enhanced with memorable script quotations and fascinating props.007 [Gun Logo] and related James Bond Trademarks © 1962-2010 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved. 007 [Gun Logo]...
|  | Doctor Who and the Cybermen
Publication Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Doctor Who (Book 148) In 2070, the Earth's weather is controlled from a base on the moon. But when the Doctor and his friends arrive here, they discover all is not well. There are unexplained drops of air pressure, minor problems with the weather control systems, and an outbreak of a mysterious plague. With Jamie injured, and members of the crew going missing, the Doctor realizes that the moonbase is under attack. Some malevolent force is infecting the crew and sabotaging the systems as a prelude to an invasion of Earth. And the Doctor thinks he k...
|  | The Picture of Contented New Wealth: A Metaphysical Horror (Zero Books)
Publication Date: September 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 1846942705In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire Sunset Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound, and complaining of a rare bone disease that no Doctor can diagnose, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older, more malign energy has passed, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector, their unlikely saviour. Or are he and...
|  | Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories
Publication Date: December 1, 1995| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style. With eighty photographs, index, map of Native California, and listing of California Indian resources.Native Ways has been approved by the California Department of Education and is listed in the Instructional Materials Approved for Legal Compliance Catalog. ...
|  | Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World
Publication Date: January 5, 1987Drawing upon their rich religious and cultural heritage--a heritage that stretches back to Biblical times and passes through many varied epochs and environments--Jewish sages, artists, writers, and storytellers have continually created imaginative and evocative formulations of Jewish philosophy, literature, art, law, liturgy, ritual, and especially new forms of folklore. Miriam's Tambourine presents fifty classic Jewish folktales that come from virtually every corner of the globe and every historical period.Readers of all ages will delight in the Jewish versi...
|  | Soldier's Play, A
Publication Date: March 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 0573640351 | ISBN-13: 978-0573640353| Edition: 81st Charles FullerFull Length, DramaChararcters: 13 male (10 black, 3 white)Unit Set In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain is assigned to investigate and Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assigning of a black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and,...
|  | Way to Heaven (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1840025778 | ISBN-13: 978-1840025774Juan Mayorga's work has been produced in Spain and around Europe as well as the USA. ...
|  | "Beowulf" and the Seventh Century
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|  | Charles Brockden Brown (University of Wales Press - Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions)
Publication Date: November 30, 2011| Series: University of Wales Press - Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions The American author Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a controversial figure within the field of Gothic studies. He was admired by nineteenth-century literary figures such as Poe, Hawthorne, George Lippard (who dedicated his gothic novel Quaker City to him), and John Greenleaf Whittier; identified as an important figure in the development of the American literary tradition by critical heavyweights including R. W. B. Lewis, Richard Chase, Harry Levin, and Leslie Fiedler; and c...
|  | I'll Be Watching You
Release Date: December 27, 2005 "I'll be watching you . . ."the cryptic e-mail read.Taylor Halstead, psychologist and successful radio personality, is terrified that she'll never be safe again. Coming on the heels of a series of tragic and terrible events, the e-mail sends chills racing up her spine. Her safe, secure world has already been violated by her cousin Stephanie's boyfriend, Gordon Mallory, in her own apartment. Only the door buzzer and Stephanie's intervening voice rescue her, but not before Gordon promises to return. Soon after, he is killed along with Stephanie in an inexplica...
|  | A Beginner's Guide to Rakes
Release Date: October 4, 2011All of London is abuzz with the return of the utterly alluring, recently widowed Diane Benchley. Will she remarry? What will she do with her late husband’s fortune? Sociey is shocked by her announcement—at the Grand Ball, of all places!—that she plans to open an exclusive gentleman’s gaming club in the family mansion. But no one is more stunned than the Marquis of Haybury, Oliver Warren.Years ago, Oliver and Diane shared a private indiscretion. Now Diane threatens to reveal Oliver’s most ungentlemanly secrets…unless he agrees t...
|  | Tug of War
Publication Date: July 1, 2012April – May 1942Captain John Garrett of the Australian Army has been ordered back to Melbourne from Townsville to investigate a suspected intelligence leak in Central Bureau.Garrett and an American Captain, Al Tucker are placed into the unit ostensibly as intelligence officers with no one, including the current section leader Captain Anthony Myers, aware of their mission. Tucker begins to work against Garrett who desperately tries to track down the spy operating in the city. In doing so he discovers the most closely guarded secret of the Pacific war. As h...
|  | Ogres Don't Hunt Easter Eggs (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, Holiday Special)
Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up There are some weird grown-ups living in BC.But could the man fixing up the park for the town Easter egg hunt really be an ogre?It's another EGG-cellent adventure in the best-selling series!There are some weird grown-ups living in Bailey City.But could the man fixing up the park for the town Easter egg hunt really be an ogre?It's been raining ever since Brutus Bigg arrived in town.And even though he's supposed to fix up the park, he seems to be messing it up so no one will go there and bother him.Is Mr. Bigg an ogre trying to claim the ...
|  | Dora's Storytime Collection (Dora the Explorer)
Release Date: December 2, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Odysseus and the Odyssey (Graphic Mythical Heroes)
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