 | Selected Poems (Melville, Herman) (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 27, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics A comprehensive collection of the poetry of a presiding genius of American literatureWhile best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville’s poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, along with Melville’s own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land; selections from Melville’s...
 |  | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Release Date: November 11, 2010 A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time.Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by shooting, and Ptolemy is too suspicious of anyone else to allow them into his life. until he meets Robyn, his niece's seventeen-year-old lodger and the only one willing to take care of an old man at his grandnephew'...
|  | Dragon's Den
Publication Date: February 15, 2007For nearly three years, Karazamon (Raza) Toa Kalandyn has been stuck inside the Dragon's Den, a private training facility hidden on the icy and isolated world of T'Panabar. There he serves as master of martial arts, counting the days until he can come home. When his father arrives playing chaperone to a young woman of high status, Raza is set on a mission to locate an illegal mining operation. With both treachery and sorcery afoot, Raza must confront the most dangerous dragon of all: himself. ...
|  | The Cottage
Release Date: September 30, 2008Danielle Steel’s New York Times bestseller weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles…and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at . . . A gleaming Rolls-Royce pulls through the gates of the magnificent Bel Air estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is legendary, Coop exudes old-fashioned glamour. But Coop is broke. And with no major roles coming...
|  | Sin & Seduction
Publication Date: August 10, 2012Dorian Grant is king of the New Orleans underworld, but he isn't mafia and doesn't appreciate the assumption. He's simply a crude businessman anyone in his right mind would think twice about screwing over. Life in the Big Easy is all about sin, and violent, short-tempered Dorian has committed them all. But not all New Orleans sins leave a bad taste in the mouth, as Dorian discovers the night a man stage-named Sweet Heat dances into his life at a club called Sin and Seduction. Dorian was expecting a hot lay. He damn sure wasn't looking for a relationship, and ...
|  | Sharpe's Siege: Richard Sharpe & the Winter Campaign, 1814 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #18)
Publication Date: April 29, 1987A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814.The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career.Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander and the machinations of his old enemy, French spymaster Pierre Ducos, Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory, facing overwhelmin...
|  | The Dutiful Daughter
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0954691261 | ISBN-13: 978-0954691264A group of troublesome actors arrive at a harbor, gather a crowd and tell the story of Ke Xin, the dutiful daughter. Inspired by the legend of Pericles and based on real-life experiences, the story is a timeless tale of love, power and transformation that explores many of the key issues faced by young people growing up in today’s society. ...
|  | Civil War (Penguin Ancient Classics)
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Penguin Ancient ClassicsA magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about thesundering of the Roman Republic. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. HisCivil War portrays two of the most colorful and powerful figuresof the age-Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a viciousstruggle for power that severed bloodlines and began the transformationof Roman civilization. With Right locked in combat with Might, law andorder broke down and the anarchic violence that resulted left its markon the Roman people forever, ...
|  | One Card At A Time: Stories of Inspiration
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|  | The Cuckoo's Haiku: and Other Birding Poems
Release Date: March 10, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up A joyful primer on the pleasures of bird-watching merges haiku, notes for identifying species, and exquisite watercolor illustrations.In spare and graceful words, poet and birder Michael J. Rosen capturesthe forecasting call of the mysterious cuckoo as well as essential characteristics of more than twenty commonly seen North American birds. This artfully compiled fi eld notebook — enriched by the evocative artwork of watercolorist Stan Fellows — captures the excitement of recognizing a bird, whether a dar...
|  | The Pursuit of Happiness
Publication Date: March 15, 2012The Pursuit of Happiness collects shorter poems written during and after the composition of Crab & Winkle, and concludes with 'The Nathan Papers', an earlier and longer work written in Australia. The poems address the state of the art and the state of the nation, investigating the spaces left for pleasure in this new dark age. As anthropological investigations, they shift from Robert Creeley, burgers and South African wine on Charing Cross Road to images of Santa Claus in Anglo-Greek Paphos and Japanese tourist signs in the Bronte country. ...
|  | Zhongguo bai jia xian dai shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Letters From Prison, Volume 2
Publication Date: April 15, 1993Antonio Gramsci (1891--1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote extensive letters while incarcerated, rich with insight into the physical and psychological tortures of prison. In meticulous detail, Gramsci records how political prisoners, himself included, contend with the fear of illness and death and the rules and regulations that threaten to efface their individuality. F...
|  | Rival's Desire (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 104) Sultry singer Vivian Desmond would do anything for her grandmother—anything but work with her childhood enemy, Caesar Morrison. He's all grown up, but the famous pro athlete still enjoys getting under her skin. Now their matchmaking grandmothers think handing over the family business will turn spitfire rivals into lovebirds, but the man makes Vivian's blood boil.Okay, there was definitely something…hot…under all the years of feuding, and maybe it's time Caesar did something about it. Vivian always made him los...
|  | Talking About Detective Fiction (Vintage)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Vintage P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many m...
|  | The Magic Thief
Release Date: April 21, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Purplicious (Pinkalicious)
Release Date: October 16, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Basketball (DK Eyewitness Books)
Publication Date: April 11, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Kids Cookbook: An Ideal First Cookbook for Children
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|  | Tiger Trouble!
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up Jack and his pet tiger, Lily, go everywhere and do everything together. Life is great for the two friends until Mr. Mud buys the apartment building Jack lives in. Mr. Mud hates cats, and so does his pet bulldog, Fifi. One day, he exclaims, "I want that cat out by tomorrow morning!" That night, while everyone except Lily is asleep, a burglar breaks into the building to steal all of Mr. Mud's valuables, including Fifi! Fortunately, Lily comes to the rescue, and the next day, she's the neighborhood hero. ...
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