 | Red Rascal's War: A Doonesbury Book
Release Date: November 22, 2011| Series: Doonesbury Readers and critics were wowed by G. B. Trudeau's epic masterpiece 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, and they'll rejoice when they see this beautiful follow-up volume. Featuring an innovative format and an all-new collection of strips, Red Rascal's War is the first all-color Doonesbury book ever.Both Trudeau and his fans have followed Doonesbury's ever-expanding cast through four decades of cultural turbulence and change. With its arresting cover and rich interior, Red Rascal's War showcases the most recent additions to a body of work the New...
 |  | Crap Cars
Release Date: September 15, 2005A visual feast of fifty of the most craptastic cars ever to hit the American highway. Crap Cars is a window into the vanity and silliness of almost any decade as expressed through that ultimate of status symbols: your car. Traveling from the ’60s to the ’90s, it showcases the cheapest, the tackiest, and the mechanically inept, including cars made by companies like Porsche and BMW that put them to shame. There’s also the blobby Merkur Scorpio, the ungainly Rolls-Royce Camargue, the squarish Maserati Biturbo, and the (ironically) flammable R...
|  | The image of Asian Americans in children's literature from 1980 to the present
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|  | Tales of a wayside inn, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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|  | The Dark Forest
Publication Date: July 21, 2005Christian fantasy fun, and dread, move readers in a thrilling page-turning race through The Dark Forest's demonic regions, to the Second Coming of Christ and the Millennium on the other side! ...
|  | Changeling (Sisters of the Moon)
Publication Date: January 26, 2009| Series: Sisters of the Moon We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we are savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Menolly is a vampire trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I'm Delilah. When I'm under stress, I transform into a tabby cat-and a series of violent murders is really getting me bent out of shape...Someone's been slaught...
|  | Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Vintage International First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and V...
|  | Blind-Sided
Publication Date: October 2003Jeanette LaFleur, newly graduated and qualified as an ophthalmic technologist, starts her dream job as Clinical Coordinator for the Epi Project. When she discovers irregularities in record keeping for the project, she chalks it up to her predecessors' lack of organization and sets about fixing the problems. But when she finds that records are missing or maybe never even existed, she takes her concerns to her boss, Dr. Byron Rutherford, the charismatic head of the project and a nationally renowned corneal specialist. While he expresses his concern, he assures her...
|  | The Other
Release Date: June 3, 2008From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.John William Barry has inherited the pedigree—and wealth—of two of Seattle’s elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they’re brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Wa...
| | Norse Myths
Publication Date: July 31, 1993With colour artwork by Gillian McClure, a collection of Norse myths. ...
|  | The Poems of Sappho
Publication Date: April 14, 2011Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English.--(Text refers to a previous edition) ...
|  | Federico Garc
Publication Date: June 1, 2010J.L. Gili’s selection of Lorca’s poems in Spanish, with his own unassuming prose versions as guides to the originals, first appeared in 1960. With its excellent introduction and selection it remains a perfect introductory guide to the great poet. The book is ideal for newcomers to Lorca who know, or are prepared to grapple with, a little Spanish. It influenced a generation of readers and poets, including Ted Hughes who first encountered Lorca through this book.Spain’s most celebrated modern poet, Federico García Lorca was born in 1898 n...
| | No Siege is Absolute: Versions of Rene Char
Publication Date: March 1984poetry, tr Franz Wright...
|  | Haiku One Breaths: A Voice Through a Tangle
Publication Date: September 27, 2004A combination of how-to write haiku, plus anthology of poems. The how-to section gives practical suggestions for the writing and editing of haiku, and the anthology is organzied by categories including the seasons of the year and examples of the haiku-essence in longer poems. Brush calligraphy pictographs give insight into the original meaning of haiku and other Asian perspectives. Excellent for beginning haiku poets; helpful reminders for those more experienced. The meaning of haiku, according to ancient pictographs, is explained. ...
| | Anecdotal Evidence {SIGNED By AUTHOR)
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|  | The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
Publication Date: September 1, 1978Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses.Iser's focus is on the theme of discovery, whereby the reader is given the chance to recognize the deficiencies of his own...
|  | British Modernism and Censorship
Publication Date: February 12, 2009Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit as well as harm writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship and of British modernism. Throughout, Marshik draws on an extraordinary range of evidence, including the files of government agencies and social purity organisations. She analyse...
|  | Dark Angel (Bound in Darkness)
Publication Date: December 26, 2006| Series: Bound in DarknessA deadly quest . . . The sworn knight of an English lord, Gareth returns to the Highlands to pay a debt of blood to his uncle, the man who killed his father. But when his uncle's men murder his companions and leave him for dead, a mysterious beauty rescues him. Tender one moment, cruel the next, she bewitches him to his core. A hidden desire . . . Roxanna, a vampire princess, is sworn to break the curse that banished her kind to the dark. Awakened from her years-long slumber by Gareth's voice, she preyed on his attackers and kep...
|  | A Distant Magic (Guardians (Del Rey))
Release Date: May 20, 2008| Series: Guardians (Del Rey) Mary Jo Putney’s passionate, vivid characters and captivating stories have earned enthusiastic acclaim from reviewers and readers everywhere. Now the New York Times bestselling author weaves a new tale in the Guardian series–a dazzling romantic fantasy that takes readers not only from the elegant streets of London to a dangerously tempting Mediterranean island but across time.Jean Macrae’s family is one of the most prominent clans of Guardians, humans whose magical powers come from nature, but Jean considers her ski...
|  | Vulture's Wake
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Even though he is half dead, Callum is lucky. It is Bo's roboraptor who finds him--not the rogue Outstationers from whom the boy has escaped. But even as Bo nurses Callum back to health, the Outstationers are homing in. The two barely escape capture when Callum discovers something incredible: Bo is a girl, maybe the last girl in a world in which females are thought to be extinct. And now, by helping Callum, she has put her own life at risk. With the Outstationers in hot pursuit, the two set off across a dangerous c...
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