 | Who Would Have Thought It? (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics A major rediscovery—the first novel by a Mexican American Woman María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in English and the first nineteenth-century California writer to publish a novel in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her first book, Who Would Have Thought It?, tells the story of Lola, a young, orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian captors by one Dr. Norval, who returns with Lola to his New England home. Though the townspeople initially shun the interloper, they beco...
 |  | Western Writers in Japan
Publication Date: February 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 031221670X | ISBN-13: 978-0312216702Sumie Okada discusses Japan and Japanese culture as depicted by 17 Western writers in this book. The foreword by John Bayley concerns the interplay of Anglo-Japanese literary sensibilities, noting that fundamental differences between two such strong traditions in literature, society and even humor are probably inevitable. ...
|  | The Tombs of Anak (The Cooper Kids Adventure Series #3)
Publication Date: July 14, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up An angry terror lurks at the bottom of a dark pit… Jay and Lila Cooper are back for another adventure, this time in search of a young treasure-seeker whose ambitions drove him to the bottom of a pit, never to return. In their struggle to understand what happened to him, the Coopers learn of a greedy, man-eating creature known as Ha-Raphah, who terrorizes locals into worshiping him. Although they are certain he is extremely dangerous, Jay and Lila are determined to uncover the truth. This story of dangerous ex...
|  | At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
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|  | The Third Man
Release Date: May 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0140286829 | ISBN-13: 978-0140286823| Edition: 0050-Anniversary Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty...
|  | Love in the Age of Zombies
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Chip Morris, book worm extraordinaire, must come to grips with his crush on jock Junior Bentley who has tormented him for years. Worse, he must do so during the zombie apocalypse and while the entire world has gone mad. Their escape from chaos brings them together to lead a life they never thought possible. In this coming of age, LGBT young adult novel, the strength of the meek overcomes the power of the strong, and the possibilities for the modern family are re-imagined. ...
|  | Great Apes
Publication Date: September 1997Like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Great Apes is a strange and twisted tale, a surreal satire on the human condition, and an omen for those who wander too far. After a long night of partying, Simon Dykes, a successful British painter, wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. In fact, the world Simon once knew has become a planet of apes. Convinced he is still human, Simon is confined to the emergency ward of a hospital and put under the care of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, radical psychoanalyst, maverick drug researcher, and...
|  | The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Drama Classics A burlesque of knight errantry and a parody of Heywood’s Four Prentice’s of London from the English Elizabethan dramatist. ...
|  | Crossroads and Unholy Water (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Marilene Phipps’s poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx’s riddle. Through voices, nostalgic and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always ric...
|  | El trasfondo de la sombra (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 20, 2011"He leído los matices que conducen mi destinoClaro brebaje de la muerte". Afirma el poeta en uno de sus textos, y con esta premisa vamos surcando un paisaje desolado, cifrado bajo leves matices que de cuando en cuando nos dejan entrever una bitácora de claves que se abren paso por la niebla, para entregarnos esa mixtura entre lo metafísico y lo cotidiano, que del otro lado de la sombra contiene imágenes de una fuerza arrolladora, imágenes que como diría Gaston Bachelard “tienden a llevarnos a la frontera de la ensoñaci...
|  | Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
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|  | Elvis: All Shook Up: Stories and Insights from Family Members, Journalists, and Those Who Were There
Publication Date: July 3, 2012Elvis remains the “King” of rock--and this engaging collection pays tribute to his enduring power. Admirers from all walks of life weigh in, including award-winning journalists, acclaimed authors, music critics, influential thinkers, co-stars, family, and friends. There are even declassified FBI documents pertaining to this groundbreaking cultural and musical icon. Entertaining and illuminating, this anthology shows why people are still “all shook up” over Elvis. ...
|  | Typhoon: A Novel
Release Date: October 27, 2009Charles Cumming, lauded internationally as the successor to John le Carré, returns with his biggest, most ambitious thriller to date. Beginning in 1997, just as the British are about to re - turn Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young opera tive for SIS (MI6), loses both his girlfriend and his first high profile asset—a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house. The girlfriend he lost to Miles Coolidge, a hard-bitten CIA agent; the asset to collusion between his bosses and the CIA. Over ten years later, during the run-up to the Beiji...
|  | Classic Goosebumps #22: Stay Out of the Basement
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Scooby-Doo: Space Fright! - Volume 6 (Scooby-Doo (DC Comics))
Release Date: February 1, 2006| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Beauty & The Beast & Other Stories (Great Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: March 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Southern Living: Kids Cookbook: 124 Recipes Kids Will Love to Make and Love to Eat (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor))
Release Date: September 1, 2008 ...
|  | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy; The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Perkin Warbeck (The World's Classics)
Publication Date: December 21, 1995| ISBN-10: 0192822535 | ISBN-13: 978-0192822536Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. Setting Ford's earliest surviving independently-written play, The Lover's Melancholy, alongside his three best-known works, The Broken Heart, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore, and Perkin Warbeck, this edition includes an introduction with sections on each play, addressing ...
|  | Dog in Charge
Release Date: May 10, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up When the going gets tough, Dog . . . takes a napDog can Sit.He can Stay.He can even Dance.But when he's in charge, can he keep the cats in line?All one, two, three, four, five of them?With slapstick silliness and utterly earnest charm, Dog will quickly wiggle his way into preschoolers' hearts. ...
|  | DK Eyewitness Books: Cat
Publication Date: August 2, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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