 | Billy Budd and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
Release Date: June 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0451530810 | ISBN-13: 978-0451530813| Edition: Original A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story. ...
 |  | Crossbones
Release Date: September 1, 2011A gripping new novel from today's "most important Africannovelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his belovedMogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law,Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil.What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however,but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearingwhips.Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the regionnotorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is se...
|  | I've Always Meant to Tell You : Letters to Our Mothers : An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers
Publication Date: May 1, 1997In a collection of original letters, more than seventy-five distinguished daughters, including Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Ntozake Shange, and Hilma Wolitzer, speak to their mothers, both living and deceased, with messages from the heart. ...
|  | Nasty (Zane Presents)
Release Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Zane Presents Extremely nasty things happen when a rich divorceÉ, an ambitious music mogul, and an extremely horny high school virgin all cross paths in a delicious web of insatiable lust, obsession, and revenge.Nicola is beautiful, wealthy—and newly divorced. Angry and bitter with the world over her life’s failures, she goes on a sexual rampage and destroys everything in her path. She begins to slowly move in on one unsuspecting family with her sexual charms. She starts up a hot-and-heavy relationship with Vinny, a young music pro...
|  | Savage Passage (Deadlands: The Weird West Dime Novels)
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|  | Ballpark Blues: A Novel
Release Date: March 25, 2003Russ Bryant, a lonely and downtrodden reporter trapped in a job he hates, stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he is befriended by Casey Fox, a promising rookie catcher on the local minor league team. Possessed of mythic talents but mortal insecurities, Casey isn’t even sure he wants to play in the major leagues (and unless he improves his attitude toward the team’s management, he may never get the option). Still, when circumstances in Boston lead to an offer from the Red Sox, the lure proves irresistible, and Casey moves on the fast track from...
|  | The Masqueraders
Release Date: December 1, 2009"A treasure beyond price. The Masqueraders is a wicked delight, worth more than its weight in gold." —Anne Stuart Such a daring escape… Their infamous adventurer father has taught Prudence Tremaine and her brother Robin to be masters of disguise. Ending up on the wrong side of the Jacobite rebellion, brother and sister flee to London, Prudence pretending to be a dashing young buck, and Robin a lovely young lady. Could cost them both their hearts… Then Prudence meets the elegant Sir Anthony Fanshawe, and Robin becomes the mysterious hero of the cha...
|  | The lady and the hermit: 30 Chinese poems
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|  | Book Collecting 2000 (Collected Books)
Release Date: January 10, 2000| Series: Collected Books A brand-new, expanded handbook of estimated market values of first printings of first books, revised and updated for the new millennium. Like its previous editions--hailed as "the standard guide to market worth" (The Washington Post) and "required reading" (Southern Living)--Book Collecting 2000 is more than a simple listing.It is an exhaustive guide to the basics and finer points of book collecting and the book trade for novice and professional collectors, as well as dealers and librarians. It identifies which books to collect, where a...
|  | The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (Yale Paperbound, Y-99)
Publication Date: September 10, 1963| ISBN-10: 0300001223 | ISBN-13: 978-0300001228"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole."Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period pieces," critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for us-a bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their inte...
|  | Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: January 26, 1990| ISBN-10: 0521330858 | ISBN-13: 978-0521330855Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealizing principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mal...
|  | Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Oxford English Monographs)
Publication Date: September 26, 1991| Series: Oxford English Monographs This study relates Conrad's work to the cultural crisis of the late nineteenth century, the post-Nietzschean phase of modernity.It discusses "faultlines"-- ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures-- in nine of the major novels and novellas.These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between Conrad's temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate implications.Presenting Conrad as a modernist at war with modernity, the author studies t...
|  | Geography, Volume II: Books 3-5 (Loeb Classical Library) (v. 2)
Publication Date: January 1, 1923| ISBN-10: 0674990560 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990562| Edition: Vol. 2, Books 3-4 Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history.Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books ha...
|  | The Grand Finale
Release Date: February 24, 2009 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" (Detroit Free Press); she's "a blast of fresh air" (Washington Post); "side-splitting funny" (Publishers Weekly) and "a winner" (Glamour). In other words, she's Janet Evanovich. Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn't prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer's pizza and won his heart! B...
|  | Lost Echoes: A Time Travel Romance
Publication Date: November 20, 2010A love story that transcends time itself, a romance that battles with destiny. Peter Vincent journeys into the past to Elizabethan England. He searches for the beautiful and tempestuous Aurea. Finding her, he falls hopelessly in love, but is this to be an ill-fated romance? History says Aurea is soon to disappear, probably to be murdered. Can she survive or will their love down through the centuries become just mere Lost Echoes? ...
|  | The Speed of Perception
Publication Date: July 17, 2002Until now, man's division of the atom, so quick and barely detectable, has lacked true purpose-to create as we were created. The frequency of human thought was simply too slow. But after the splitting of matter, the technology to split time must naturally follow.The frequency of human thought is but a singular point between infinite ends. With the proper technology, one human mind can incorporate others and reside in a thousand skulls. Geniuses in every discipline can be subordinated to a single common mind, one man, thinking and living through others. Each man...
|  | The Golden One: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: February 22, 2011| Series: Amelia Peabody Mysteries A richly woven tale of greed, treachery, intrigue, and murder in a breathtaking realm of ancient wonders and crumbling splendorA new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous—where death will be the ...
|  | Steve Nash: Leader on and Off the Court (Sports Stars With Heart)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Marion Jones: The Fastest Woman in the World
Publication Date: September 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and upRace for the record!At the Sydney Games, Marion Jones strove to become the first person ever to win five gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics, making headlines for simply believeing she could do it. Driven to succeed at a very early age, Marion won multiple titiles at the Junior National Championships and set a junior record in the 200 meters. A multisport athlete, she helped lead the University of North Carolina women's basketball team to a national championship during her freshman year and also ...
|  | Carreras De Motos: a Toda Velocidad (Spanish Edition)
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