 | The Believers: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: January 19, 2010| Series: P.S. When a stroke fells radical New York lawyer Joel Litvinoff, a secret is revealed that forces Audrey, his wife, to reexamine everything she believed about their forty-year marriage. In the meantime Joel's children are struggling with their own dilemmas and doubts. Disillusioned revolutionary Rosa has been drawn into the world of Orthodox Judaism. Karla, a devoted—and married—social worker hoping to adopt a child, is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper stand. Lenny, the ne'er-do-well, faces yet another relapse into heroin addic...
 |  | Annie John
Release Date: May 1, 1986"Annie John "is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye "and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, "Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice--urgent, demanding to be heard--is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very cente...
|  | Girlchild: A Novel
Publication Date: May 28, 2012Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she's checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.Rory's been told that she...
|  | Dark Angel (Casteel)
Release Date: May 25, 2011| Series: Casteel (Book 2) At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for...free from the scorn and contempt of her past!In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again.But even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. ...
|  | Zaftan Entrepreneurs
Publication Date: January 4, 2011Tired of reading scifi and fantasy stories that take themselves too seriously?Zaftan Entrepreneurs is a unique First Contact story; it is part adventure and part corporate and political satire spiced with comic relief.Here, you'll find nasty, snarly aliens, fantasy creatures, humans, romance, magic, and--just like thereal world--incompetent politicians and feuding bureaucracies.What more could a fantasy/scifi reader ask for? Aliens, fantasy creatures and humans in one story? They don't mix very well.Neither do untrustworthy aliens and deceitful government bur...
|  | Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals
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| | Aristophanes: Wasps (Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0856682128 | ISBN-13: 978-0856682124Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1983) ...
|  | Cinema for Italian Conversation: Ciak... si parla italiano
Publication Date: May 2005| ISBN-10: 1585100943 | ISBN-13: 978-1585100941Ciak… si parla italiano is a new text designed specifically for courses in Italian conversation that focus on cinema as the context for discussion. This text covers sixteen films ranging from Pietro Germi’s Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce Italian Style, 1961) to Pupi Avati’s Il cuore altrove (The Heart is Elsewhere, 2003). Exercises include vocabulary building, character analysis, narrative comprehension, scene analysis, advanced grammar, imaginary interviews, creative script writing, further research ...
|  | Life Is a Dream: And Other Spanish Classics (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire)
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire This wonderful collection of Spanish drama from the golden age features four plays translated into English by Roy Campbell, and expertly edited by Eric Bentley: Siege of Numantia (Miguel de Cervantes), Fuente Ovejuna (Lope de Vega), The Trickster of Seville (Tirso de Molina) and Life Is a Dream (Calderon de la Barca). Includes an introduction by Bentley. ...
|  | Elvis Monologues
Publication Date: December 3, 1997| ISBN-10: 0435070444 | ISBN-13: 978-0435070441Are you looking to throw some gyration in your oration? These days, when auditions are bogged down with endless regurgitations of The Swan of Avon, why not get things all shook up with the King from Memphis? Certainly no stranger to the stage or screen, Elvis once said "the only thing worse than seeing a bad movie is being in one." Well, certainly the same goes for monologues. Fresher than untrod-upon new blue suede, this one-of-a-kind collection provides an untapped resource of inspiring, witty, and enterta...
|  | Dreamsongs: Volume I
Release Date: October 30, 2007Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.Gathered here, in Volume I, are the very best of George R.R. Martin’s early works, including never-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Neb...
|  | Midnight Pleasures
Publication Date: November 17, 2003Handsome and sensual, surrounded by an aura of danger, mystery, and the forbidden, a lover steps from the shadows. But is he mortal? Or is he an ancient god, a sorcerer, or a mythical beast who can possess a woman's heart...and her very soul?Four of romance's most popular authors have created this spellbinding collection of stores filled with dark passion and desire. Under the cover of darkness, their heroes inhabit worlds haunted by ageless hungers and deadly forces stronger than any seen by day...and vanquished only by the power of love.Now travel into re...
|  | Lu Xun: Selected Poems
Publication Date: January 2001Lu Xun's poems combine revolutionary political content with subtle artistry.Employing metaphor, symbolism and satire, Lu Xun's poems make a strong impact on their readers.Not many of Lu Xun's poems survive.The forty-seven in this selectioninclude the majority of them.His later pieces in particular exposed the role of imperialism and the Chiang Kai-Shek government, expressed sympathy for the sufferings of the masses and praised the revolutionary cause of the proletariat.They bear the imprint of the stirring years of the 1920s and 1930s and reveal the course of th...
|  | Tuntun de Pasa y Griferia (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 2003| ISBN-10: 0847701115 | ISBN-13: 978-0847701117Este clásico de la literatura caribeña trae el negrismo a las Antillas hispánicas y celebra nuestra nacionalidad. En Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería, ganador del primer premio otorgado por el Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña, gozamos de la cultura e historia de Puerto Rico, y de la gran influencia de este tipo de escritura afroantillana en la modernidad. ...
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Publication Date: January 1, 1987| Series: Obras Completas En el Peregrino en su patria, Octavio Paz (1914-1998) recoge los hilos de una trama tejida desde El laberinto de la soledad hasta los ensayos posteriores a El ogro filantrópico yLas trampas de la fe. Historia pero también crítica de la historia, reflexión sobre las tradiciones y acontecimientos decisivos de la vida política de México. ...
|  | Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 4)
Release Date: November 2, 2010Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. Family secrets ensnare them both, as Tolliver learns his father is out of jail and Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister Cameron so many years before. And what she finds will change her world forever. ...
|  | Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
Publication Date: February 1967Taken from Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories, the Spoon Lickers, Dirty Bibs, Musical Soup Eaters, Easy Ticklers, and others are all dolled up and parading in single file in the wedding procession. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Being a monster isn't all frightening villagers and sucking blood. Monsters have their trials, too. Poor Frankenstein's cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help, and it's best not to get started on Dracula’s hygiene issues. What could be scarier? Nineteen hilarious poems delve into the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla, and others. In a range of styles that pay homage to everyone from Charles Schulz to John James Audubo...
|  | New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Release Date: June 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230308562 | ISBN-13: 978-0230308565Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders, now in paperback for the first time, shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the last fifteen years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible...
|  | The Lantern Bearers
Publication Date: June 30, 1994| Age Level: 10 and up Threatened by a tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are to leave Britain forever. But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land....
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