 | The Seven Year Bitch
Release Date: May 3, 2011Take a "fun ride" (Entertainment Weekly) with the national bestselling author of High Maintenance.Isolde Brilliant had a great job, great husband, and great life. Her only wish was to be a mother, and when it came true she lost her job, her marriage became shaky, and dirty diapers appeared. When her best friend leaves her husband after the "the seven year itch," Isolde wonders if she'll fall victim to a similar fate. Can she make the life she has become what she actually wants? ...
 |  | Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Publication Date: January 7, 2002Alone among important American writers, Ambrose Bierce fought for four years in the Civil War.The writings he produced about that conflict comprise a body of work unique in our nation's literature. This volume gathers for the first time virtually everything Bierce wrote about the war, from letters composed on the field of battle to maps he drew as a topographical engineer, from his masterful short stories to his final bittersweet ruminations before he disappeared into Mexico in 1914.The collection is organized chronologically, following Bierce's participation...
|  | Miriam the Medium
Release Date: September 24, 2007In the tradition of Susan Isaacs comes a charming debut novel featuring a lovable phone psychic, whose talents will either save her family from financial ruin -- or ruin her family altogether.What do you do when your husband's business is failing, your daughter is ashamed of you, and your faith in your own talents hits rock bottom? Miriam is a modern-day Long Island housewife, who just happens to be a professional phone psychic. But while she can heal broken hearts, mend relationships, and help others find new careers, her own life is in shambles.It starts...
|  | Long Gone Anybody
Publication Date: September 1, 2004When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can t...
|  | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 1994 (The 1995 Rhysling Anthology)
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|  | The Mummy
Release Date: May 1, 1999Based on the universal studios major motion picture starring brendan fraser!Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time.His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke--but to British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon it's the archaeological find of the century.The city contains all the treasures of Egypt and possibly the secrets of life and death.Leading Evelyn's expedition deep into the Sahara isn't exactly easy money, though, as Rick must dodge death traps, escape the jaws of man-eating beetles, and even duel a hook-handed ...
|  | Boy Princess Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 2, 2006| Series: Boy Princess (Book 1) Current online bestseller in Korea! Boy Princess is a pulse-quickening tale of swords and sorcery, far-away kingdoms, and the fairest princess in all the land. Except?this is a fairy tale with a twist. When a prince's soon-to-be-bride elopes two days before their wedding, her desperate family dress up their young son and send him to get married in her place. With his deep blue eyes and flowing blond hair (and strategically placed apples), nobody bats an eye at the pretty pubescent standing before them. But how long can he keep up t...
|  | The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: February 23, 1993(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century. Translated by Matthew Ward ...
|  | Der Kinoerzaehler (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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| | The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the Word (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs)
Publication Date: June 29, 1995| Series: Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs Acmeism is chiefly known through the three leading Russian poets--Nikolai Gumilev, Ann Akhmatova, and Osip Mandel'shtam--each of whom are discussed here, along with less well-known Acmeists, in the first extensive study in English of the movement. Doherty's fascinating study shows how early twentieth-century Acmeism developed into a specific way of thinking about poetry and the Russian literary tradition, and how this thinking evolved out of poetry criticism as practiced in the main Acmeist forum, Tsekh ...
| | Wan ren shi hua ba zhong (anhui gu ji cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: November 10, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403966990 | ISBN-13: 978-1403966995| Edition: First Edition The virtuous pagans who appear in medieval English texts have often been analyzed for their theological significance, but Representing Righteous Heathens argues that such figures also functioned as an innovative resource for framing and thinking about questions of history, difference, and the uses of antiquity, as well as a flexible formal device for structuring a diverse array of vernacular literary fictions. In travel writing, dream visions, hagiographic narrative, chronicle-romances,...
|  | A Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (An Academy Victorian Classic, reprint of the 1897 Third edition)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005This novel describes in graphic detail the life of a child living inslum conditions in London's East End (re-christened by Morrison as "the Jago") in the Nineteenth Century including the permeation of violence into everyday life.Nineteenth Century London illustrations are included along with an essayby Jane Helen Findlater on "The Slum Movement in Fiction".This is one of Mr. Morrison's best known novels.Arthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories.Story Summary...
|  | Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927-1942: The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)
Publication Date: March 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521497477 | ISBN-13: 978-0521497473Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927-1942 examines the evolution of Dalí's art during the 1920s and 30s, when he was associated, first with the Catalan avant-grade, and then with the Surrealist group in Paris.During this period, Dalí's painting style changed radically, a phenomenon that has never been fully accounted for in the extensive literature on this subject.Haim Finkelstein's study is the first to examine these writings in detail as the foundation for the evolutionof Dalí's unique a...
|  | Rock Bottom (Em Hansen Mysteries)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: Em Hansen Mysteries Rivers, oceans, streams, lakes—it doesn’t matter what shape it takes, Em Hansen is terrified of the water. She hasn’t shared her phobia with her new husband, Fritz, and when his best friend, Tiny, organizes a month-long, private, white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon as a wedding gift, she can’t tell him how awful the trip sounds. Fritz and Tiny cobble together a party of fourteen people for the trip, but at the last minute, Tiny finds himself in the hospital and has to miss the trip. He fills his ...
|  | Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference
Publication Date: July 2, 2003The fifth volume in Carroll and Graf’s successful series of literary references, which has included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Hardboiled Mystery Writers, and The Beats, provides an engagingly documented account of Raymond Chandler’s life and work. Born in Chicago in 1888 but raised in Victorian England, Chandler was publishing poetry in London literary magazines when he set out at twenty-four for California and a business career. Two decades later he held the directorship of a lucrative oil conglomerate, until he...
|  | Squish #1: Super Amoeba
Release Date: May 10, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Swan's Stories
Release Date: August 4, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up A beautifully illustrated anthology of twelve of Hans Christian Andersen's imaginative fairy tales includes favorite stories, as well as other, less-well-known pieces." ...
|  | El Futbol (Soccer)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Snowboarding (To the Extreme)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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