 | Kapitoil: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: April 13, 2010| Series: P.S."Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company. At first an introspective loner adrift in New York's social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who ma...
 |  | The Vine of Desire: A Novel
Release Date: January 15, 2002In a novel that reunites the beloved characters of Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the emotional ties between two lifelong friends–and how they change when the husband of one is dangerously attracted to the other. The Vine of Desire continues the story of Anju and Sudha, the two young women at the center of Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart. Far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, and after years of living separate lives, Anju and Sudha rekindle their friendship in America. The deep-seated love they fee...
|  | All the Rage (A Repairman Jack Novel)
Publication Date: October 14, 2001Can you imagine a new chemical compound, a non-addictive designer drug that heightens your assertiveness, opens the door to your primal self, giving you an edge wherever you compete? Whether on the street or the football field, in a classroom or a boardroom. Wouldn’t you be tempted to try it . . . just once? What happens if it releases uncontrollable rage and makes you a killer? ...
|  | Lord Ruthven and the Vampires
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|  | Don't Mix The Bitter With The Sweet
Release Date: December 26, 2006Everybody wants something. Some will go to any extreme to get it. The question is.... was it all worth it?Dontae is released from prison with a desperate demand for fast money. Quickly, he turns to what he is familiar with--the streets, but at a higher level. When Dontae thinks he has layed aside his feelings for his ex-girl, Naija, his urges to see her, make love to her, and wanting her back resurfaces until Q Tee comes along and takes his mind off Naija, momentarily.Tony thought he had the perfect girl in Naija. To him, she was the total package every man wan...
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|  | The Heracles of Euripides (Focus Classical Library)
Publication Date: February 1, 1988| Series: Focus Classical Library This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Heracles on how Heracles is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with affective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his...
|  | Garden of the Prophet
Release Date: June 27, 1933Kahlil Gibran's Legacy is the powerful simplicity of his words, which continue to inspire those who long for peace, search for love, and strive for justice. "Work is Love made visible" he wrote in The Prophet. Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931.Before his death, Gibran expressed the wish to be buried in his place of birth, Besharri. Almost one centry today, Gibran remains the most popular Lebanese-American writer ever.Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 in the city of Besharri near the biblical cedars of Lebanon. In boyhood he immigrated to Boston where he b...
|  | Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Convention of the Mid-Victorian Novel
Publication Date: July 15, 1996First published in 1972, the second edition of this highly respected classic of Trollope criticism will be welcomed by Trollope scholars everywhere. David Skilton examines the literary background against which Trollope wrote, and drawing on the vast evidence of mid-Victorian periodical criticism, he shows how this criticism controlled the novelist's creativity. He then goes on to examine Trollope's particular type of realism in the context of the theories of literary imagination current in the 1860s. ...
|  | Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
Publication Date: April 2, 2012A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, little-known, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture, sophistication, and drama that only Par...
|  | Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories
Publication Date: December 11, 2006| ISBN-10: 0978984803 | ISBN-13: 978-0978984809| Edition: 1st This collection of previously published short shorts by Emerson alumni celebrates the short short genre and the important role Emerson College's writing program has played in the history of that genre. The anthology features authors: Derrick Ableman, Joann Avallon, Rusty Barnes, Jane Berentson, Stace Budzko, Leslie Busler, JenniferCarr, Keith Carter, Chip Cheek, Amy L. Clark, Kirsten Culbertson, Mark DeCarteret, Erin Dionne, Denise Duhamel, Elizabeth Kemper French, Lee Harrington, Jen Heller,...
|  | Monsters and the Critics
Publication Date: January 6, 1997Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all. Two of them are concerned with Beowulf, including the well-known lecture whose title is taken for this book, and one with Sir Gawain a...
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|  | Bone 1: Out from Boneville (Bone (Prebound))
Publication Date: February 1, 2005| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
| | A Light in Space (Annick Young Novels)
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|  | Barry Bonds (Amazing Athletes)
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Roger Clemens: Rocket (Superstar Series #19) (Baseball Superstar)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Everything Kids' More Amazing Mazes Book: Wind your way through hours of adventurous fun!
Publication Date: July 18, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Ready, set, find! In The Everything Kids' More Amazing Mazes Book you'll discover more than 100 mazes waiting to be solved by you. Sharpen your pencil and get ready to enter a world of twisted paths and surprise dead-ends. There's only one way out and you've got to find it! Can you... Help the lion cross the grassland? Dribble a soccer ball around the defense to score? Sort recyclable materials into their correct bins? Direct the construction truck to all of the potholes? Find your way to the baseball hall of fame? ...
|  | The Snail and the Whale
Release Date: March 30, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When a tiny snail meets a humpback whale, the two travel together to far-off lands. It's a dream come true for the snail, who has never left home before. But when the whale swims too close to shore, will the snail be able to save her new friend? From the creators of Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo comes this touching tale of adventure and friendship. With vibrant illustrations and rhymes that are both playful and lyrical, here is a story that shows us that even the smallest creatures can help other...
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