 | Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Includes 4 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
 |  | Natural Born Hustler: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Release Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Nikki Turner Original The reigning Queen of Hip-Hop Lit, Nikki Turner returns with a fresh and fierce tale sure to satisfy longtime fans and create new ones. Desember Day is beautiful, confident, and smart. She has more game in the streets than a basketball player does on the court, and her boyfriend, Fame, loves every single inch of her. But unlike her mother, who has been in one bad relationship after another, Desember is not going to wait on a knight in shining armor to save her, and even her love for Fame can’t stand in the way of Desembe...
|  | New Collected Poems (with CD)
Publication Date: November 17, 2008“Michael Davidson has done a masterful job of editing this new edition of the Collected Poems.... Few poets significantly alter and enhance the state of the art. Oppen is one of them.”—Michael Palmer, BookforumGeorge Oppen’s New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet’s books published in his lifetime (1908–84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Press in th...
|  | The Faggiest Vampire
Publication Date: March 27, 2009Deep in The Land of Broodsarrow, just outside the village of Gneirwil, and high on a cliff overlooking the Everbleed Sea, there stands the faggiest gothic castle that any mortal being has ever seen. Living in this ancient faggy castle is none other than the well-renowned vampire, Dargoth Van Gloomfang.The citizenry of Broodsarrow sure has its share of faggy vampires, but old Dargoth has always been by far the faggiest of them all.That is, until a new vampire came to town.A younger, hippper vampire.One that emits such a grand amount of fagginess that one cannot...
|  | The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel
Release Date: August 31, 2010The first three books set in Zamoniathe mythical land created by Walter Moers, whose work has been compared to J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silversteinhave achieved raucous critical acclaim and created hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans here and all over the world. Now Moers returns with a fourth "relentlessly whimsical" fantasy (Library Journal). ...
|  | Dominion (Ollie Chandler, Book 2)
Release Date: May 1, 2006Sweet Revenge?When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murders—and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcorn’s powerful bestseller spins off from Deadline and of...
|  | Vampire The Masquerade Volume 2: Blood and Shadows
Publication Date: December 22, 2003Another thrillogy of emotional, macabre, & blood-sucking tales that will leave you breathless! This volume contains the critically acclaimed fourth, fifth, and sixth graphic novels based on the White Wolf role-playing game: "Giovanni," "Assamite," and "Lasombra." Also includes a bonus, never-before-seen 48-page "Tremere" story by David Gallaher, Andy Bennett, and Ken Wolak! Tales of hidden motives, lost treasures, assassinations, and judgment. What more could you want? ...
|  | "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"
Release Date: March 22, 2011"In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state, and federal authorities unable to commence basic operations of rescue and sustenance, not just in New Orleans, but in towns and villages all along the Gulf Coast. . . He knew exactly what he had to do. . ."So begins the vivid fictional account by political activist and bests...
|  | The Cure
Publication Date: May 25, 2001Dr. Robin Vastbinder, a staff oncologist at Brookln University hospital, receives a call from the E.R. that forever changes her life. A young woman rolls through the door of the E.R. and dies of end-stage lymphoma with a slew of unanswered questions. She had lived six years with a rare cancer that usually kills in months without treatment. And her now orphaned six-year old son holds something so dark in the depths of his mind that he may never speak again.With the help of Dr. Orpheus Martin, chief of Pathology at Brooklyn University hospital, she uncovers the tr...
|  | The Roman Poets: Everyman's Library (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: November 11, 1997| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism - by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous - of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical splendor of Lucretius's meditations, the relentless imagina...
|  | Te Doy una Cancion (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Rudiments of Runelore
Publication Date: December 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 1898281165 | ISBN-13: 978-1898281160This little volume provides a useful introduction and guide to the ancient runes of the Germanic peoples. It discusses the origins and meaning of all the known runes, and includes text and translations of rune poems and riddles from England, Norway amd Iceland, as well as two short essays on `The Norfolk TIW runes' and `The Brandon runes'. ...
|  | On Basho's Trail to the North, In Search of the Father of Haiku in Modern Day Japan
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|  | The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture
Publication Date: June 23, 1997Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of art. Jerrold Seigel offers a wholly different view, revealing a web of interrelated themes that unify Duchamp's work and tie it to his life.At the book's center is a reinterpretation of the famous "readymades," of which the urinal "Fountain" and the defaced Mona Lisa...
|  | Survey of Modernist Poetry and a Pamphlet Against Anthologies
Publication Date: September 26, 2002| ISBN-10: 1857545680 | ISBN-13: 978-1857545685The books paired here make up the first collaborative study of 'Modernist' poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. In "A Survey of Modernist Poetry", Laura Riding and Robert Graves produce a contemporary reaction to the early experimentation of writers such as Eliot, Pound and E.E.Cummings. Their close critical readings are deployed, along the way, in an engagement with Shakespeare's punctuation, issues of populism and elitism and an attempt to define - perhaps to invent...
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|  | More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
Publication Date: July 1, 2006Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms, impossible disappearances, and other so-called miracle crimes. More Things Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam s extraordinary cases solved between 1927 and 1931, including impossible murder in a house that whispers; poisoning by a gargoyle on the courthouse roof; the case of the Devil in the windmill; the houseboat that resembles the Mary Celeste; the affair of the vanishing Gypsies; stabbing in the locked cockpit of a ...
|  | Fire World (The Last Dragon Chronicles)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | An Island Like You
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- a...
|  | The Trial of Fast Fingers
Publication Date: February 8, 2010A light hearted story taken place in Zambia Africa,about a monkey name Fast Fingers who steals a pan cake and must stand trial for his actions.About The Author: A former teacher and police officer whose extensive travels and adventures have provided exciting material for this book. ...
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