 | Selected Levis: Revised Edition (Pitt Poetry Series) Publication Date: January 26, 2003| Series: Pitt Poetry Series Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left isevement that will enrich our lives. Each of his books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books: Wrecking Crew (...
 |  | The Queen of Wolves: The Vampyricon, Book III Release Date: September 4, 2007| Series: Vampyricon (Book 3) After rescuing Pythia, the creature who turned him into a vampire, Aleric follows her back to the land of the Saracens. There, they must raise an army, for Aleric's lost love, Enora, has become the Queen of the Wastelands. Aided by her minions and her legions of wolves, she has begun the quest to call the Dark Madonna from beyond the Veil into the world of man. To stop the end of all, Aleric must become what he was destined to be-the Messiah of the Damned-and lead the undead in a final battle against the Mother of Darkness. ...
 |  | Doctor Who: Wishing Well Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Series: Doctor Who (Book 46) The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor's warnings a...
 |  | Sticks of Fire: The Turning Point Publication Date: November 1, 2007At 27, Orlando loses the desire for life after the death of his wife and unborn child. Five years later, alcoholic and short on job offers, he takes a job at the Lighthouse Inn, a recovery halfway house. He decides to stay sober and work for a year before leaving Tampa in search of a fresh start, but his abstinence plan doesn't work. Having witnessed another way to live at the Lighthouse, he accepts recovery. Working at the inn, he experiences the healing power of helping others and rediscovers himself. Based on the talent of the residents brought to the inn...
 |  | Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (New Middle Ages) Release Date: June 19, 2012| ISBN-10: 1403973229 | ISBN-13: 978-1403973221In a broad reassessment of tales at the center of debates about Chaucer's gender politics, John Pitcher maps out the coordinates of a Chaucerian theory of identity and desire. Chaucer's Feminine Subjects locates a provocation to consider sexual difference in the deconstructive logic of Chaucer's figurative language....
 |  | Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) Publication Date: March 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on the part of Beckford, youthful millionaire, dreamer, and eventually social outcast. B...
 |  | Working Shakespeare: The Ultimate Actor's Workshop The Consumer Edition Release Date: December 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 1557835381 | ISBN-13: 978-1557835383| Edition: Pap/DVD (Applause Books). How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private sch...
 |  | Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic Publication Date: July 21, 2011How the Romans came to have a literature reflecting native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. This book explores the development of Roman literary sensibility from early interest in epic and drama, through invention of satire and eventual enshrining of books in public collections important to Horace and Ovid. The "early" literature is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when t...
 |  | Letters from a Stranger Publication Date: December 15, 1998This collection of poems by James Tipton contains a Forewardby Isabele Allende.Each poem testifies tothe bedrock of Tipton'simagination and taken together, the poes are extravagant yet earthy,tender yet passionate, wild yet intimate, crazy yet hopeful.It is apoetry of transformations, an invocation of exuberant vitality. ...
 |  | Allotria und Ritual (German Edition) Publication Date: October 17, 2005Neujahrsverse?Neujahrsverse im Multipack?Was soll denn die Vielzahl von Variationen über das Thema «Jahreswechsel»? Silvester und Neujahr begleiten die Jahreswende und spannen damit einen Bogen von der Vergangenheit zur Zukunft. Sie stehen für einen Abschluss und einen Anfang. Sie laden zu Rückblick und Ausblick ein, mahnen zur Einkehr und ermutigen zum Aufbruch in die noch verborgene Zeit. ...
 |  | The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief Release Date: May 25, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312429568 | ISBN-13: 978-0312429560| Edition: First Edition Published when he was thirty-three, The Broken Estate is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American readers to a new kind of humanist criticism. Wood is committed to judging literature through its connection with the soul, its appeal to our appetites and identities, and he examines his subjects rigorously, without ever losing sight of the mys...
 |  | Discourse and Lifespan Identity (Language and Language Behavior) Publication Date: September 2, 1993| ISBN-10: 080395106X | ISBN-13: 978-0803951068How are human and social development, maturation, ageing, stability and change reflected and constituted in interaction and social texts? This volume explores these questions from the viewpoint that rhetorical accomplishment plays a significant role in lifespan development and in the quality of our developmental experiences.Whether the focus is on transitions through student careers, mother-daughter relationships or marital communication, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume provide specific an...
 |  | The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Shorter Twelfth Edition) Publication Date: January 17, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393931730 | ISBN-13: 978-0393931730| Edition: Shorter Twelfth Edition Read by millions of students since it was firstpublished in 1965, The Norton Reader is the bestselling collection of its kind.Withreadings in a wide variety of genres, subjects,and styles, it offers the largest and mostthoughtfully chosen collection of essays forcomposition students today. The Twelfth Editionhas been carefully revised, with 25 percent ofits readings new and an extensive newintroduction to reading and writing withguidelines to all the elements cited in the W...
 |  | Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President Publication Date: December 1993A collection of letters written to Abraham Lincoln between the years of 1860 and 1865 offers insight into a cultural and political era and contains both letters of hate and letters of admiration. ...
 |  | This Curious Human Phenomenon: An Exploration of Some Uncommonly Explored Aspects of BDSM Publication Date: August 13, 2008The actual mechanics of much of BDSM---otherwise known as S&M or leather---is well-documented in numerous how-to books, various movies, and numerous novels. It is often seen as kinky sex, and is commonly portrayed as involving skin-tight black leather clothing, chains, ropes, and nude or semi-nude participants writhing in delicious erotic ecstasy while being flogged or whipped by domineering "masters" and "mistresses".And maybe this is what it is to many of the people involved. And, in fact, it doesn't really sound half bad.But there's much more to it than th...
 |  | Pocket Guide to APA Style Publication Date: January 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0495912638 | ISBN-13: 978-0495912637| Edition: 4 The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 4th Edition, is an essential tool for writing research papers across the disciplines! Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help the writer produce properly documented papers in the latest APA style. Not only less expensive and easier to use than the APA Manual, the POCKET GUIDE also includes extensive coverage of electronic sources, preparing writers to both evaluate and correctl...
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 |  | Silly and Sillier: Read-Aloud Tales from Around the World (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays) Release Date: September 10, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
 |  | Nuit blanche Publication Date: September 4, 2012Athur est un jeune homme employé au journal local de Cadbury Hill en Angleterre. Chaque soir, il enfourche son vélo et traverse la campagne anglaise pour rejoindre le journal.Mais cette nuit-là, un effroyable orage s'abat sur Cadbury Hill et oblige Arthur à se réfugier dans un vieux château qu'il n'avait jamais vu auparavant. Le jeune homme est loin de se douter du piège qui l'attend... ...
 |  | Abner Doubleday: Boy Baseball Pioneer (Young Patriots series) Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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