 | This Is a Book
Publication Date: April 10, 2012From the renowned comedian, creator and star of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes the paperback debut of his bold, original, New York Times best-selling humor book.THIS IS A BOOK was an instant and long-lasting New York Times best seller, and is the renowned comedian's hilarious foray into prose comedy. In these pages, Martin expands on the sensibility he's developed on stage as an award-winning stand-up comedian and on television as a writer-performer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and his own Come...
 |  | Hisp Wrtr 2 (Hispanic Writers)
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|  | Torn
Publication Date: March 8, 2011In Torn, C. Dale Young continues his earnest investigations into the human, depicted as both spiritual being and a process, as "the soul and its attendant concerns" and as a device that "requires charge, small / electrical impulses / racing through our bodies." What Young tells and shows us, what his poems let us hear, does not aim to reassure or soothe. These are poems written from "white and yellow scraps / covered with words and words and more words-- // I may never find the right words to describe this." ...
|  | The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I—although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, c...
|  | The Prodigal Daughter
Release Date: May 4, 2004With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president.Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to build a future with the woman he loves. With Florentyna's ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of...
|  | 1982, Janine (Canongate Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Series: Canongate Classics An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock. This is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover, and businessman.Yet there is hope here, and the humor—if black—and the imaginative and textual energy of the narrative achieves its own kind of redempti...
|  | The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio
Publication Date: April 8, 2004| Series: Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (Book 2) The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of...
|  | Travels with Odysseus: Uncommon Wisdom from Homer's Odyssey
Release Date: September 15, 2006Travels with Odysseus retells the earthy and profound adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus as teaching stories which hold insight and guidance for our own present day journey.On his winding odyssey, Odysseus meets magical and powerful beings, who are not shy about meddling in his affairs. Some see him for who he really is and help him; they bring him wisdom and attainment, and unlock creative possibilities.Others, aggravating and difficult strangers, try to do him in: Odysseus gets sidetracked, enchanted, waylaid.Some truths he learns easily and others he res...
|  | Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
Publication Date: September 11, 2008| Series: Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Word and Story in C.S. Lewis
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|  | The Response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1994: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature)
Publication Date: March 30, 1996| ISBN-10: 0313295360 | ISBN-13: 978-0313295362| Edition: First Edition A member of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg was central to many of the social controversies of the 1960s. As that decade has become a part of history, Ginsberg has continued to write and has become the topic of a growing amount of scholarly literature. He has been the subject of numerous interviews, and articles have been written about him in newspapers and popular magazines. His archives were recently purchased by Stanford University. He has secured recognition as a cultural icon ...
|  | Antologia de cronica latinoamericana actual (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 8, 2012''Journalistic writing is the most thrilling and finest written narrative prose in Latin America today.'' Dario Jaramillo Agudelo,This anthology, bedside book for everyone who wishes to understand the boom of narrative journalism, includes texts by established writers such as Juan Villoro, Martin Caparros, Alberto Salcedo Ramos or Leila Guerriero, among others, and unveils an impressive source of talented journalist whose works are true gems. Spanish Description: Esta antologia, libro de cabecera para todo aquel que quiera entender el boom del periodismo narrativo,...
|  | Nos tomamos la palabra (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 20, 2005College Reader: Critical Anthology of works by Latinamerican Women Writers for Advanced level of Spanish courses: Survey of Latinamerican Literature and Latinamerican Women Writers. ...
|  | Wayward Dreams (Indigo Love Spectrum)
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|  | Hide Park
Release Date: July 6, 2006Twelve years into a life sentence for the brutal murder of his fiancee, Jake Park grabs at the opportunity to escape from his Massachussetts prison. Consumed with a desire for truth and justice, he'll settle for revenge. First, though, he has to contend with a raging northeaster blizzard; no possessions but the prison clothes on his back; and being the target of a state-wide manhunt. "Bruce Anderson's first literary effort turned out to be a realistic interest-keeper that spends more time in your hands than on the nightstand. It stood up to some of the world's m...
|  | Trophy Hunt (A Joe Pickett Novel)
Release Date: April 5, 2005| Series: A Joe Pickett Novel It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident." "Days later, after the discovery of a small herd of mutilated cattle, Joe realizes this something much more terrifying than he could have...
|  | Ghostopolis
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Batman Adventures: The Lost Years (The Batman Adventures)
Publication Date: February 1999Spanning the gap between the animated series The Batman and Robin Adventures and the current Batman: Gotham Adventures, these stories detail many changes as Dick Grayson quits being Robin to take on the new heroic guise of Nightwing, young Tim Drake becomes the new Robin, and Batgirl becomes a frequent guest in the Batcave. Also featuring the Joker and Two-Face! ...
|  | Mike and the Bike
Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up "This is a boy whose name is Mike. This is Mike’s pride and joy—his bike…" So begins the inspiring tale of a boy, his best friend, and the adventurous relationship that many children begin when they are young and continue the rest their lives! Illustrated in a retro-contemporary style, Mike and The Bike rhymes its way through Mike's choosing of his favorite toy - his bike (of course!) - and follows him off on adventures around the world and back home, where he goes to bed wearing his helmet, ready for the next day! Mi...
|  | The Ultimate Martial Arts Encyclopedia for Kids
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