 | The Best American Poetry 2012: Series Editor David Lehman
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Best American Poetry Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition. This landmark edition includes David Lehman’s keen look at American poetry in his foreword, Mark Doty’s gorgeous introduction, and notes from the poets revealing the germination of their work. Over the l...
 |  | Once More Around the Block: Familiar Essays
Publication Date: January 1990An exploration into topics such as the pleasures of work, keeping a journal, lecturing, language snobbery, the comedy of gluttony, friendship and middle age. ...
|  | Imagined Land: Essex in Poetry
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|  | The Last Girls
Release Date: January 2, 2003| Series: Smith, Lee On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity. This time, when they reach New Orleans, they'll give the river the ashes of a fifth rafter-beautifu...
|  | Kingslayer, The: Seven Steps to the Arbiter
Publication Date: June 15, 2004A compelling Adventure of interplanetary combat, mystery and intrigue. Charged with an epic task to find and destroy the one man believed to be the evil mastermind of the Galaxy, a brilliant young man's destiny takes on strange and startling dimensions.This spellbinding story opens with high-voltage entertainment in the year 3975, with the abrupt expulsion of Kit Kellan from the School of Engineering of the prestigious Terra University in Washington, D.C., for engaging in original thought. As he is led from the school, Kit is abducted by an organization dedicat...
|  | Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense: With Lear's Original Illustrations
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|  | Walk a Mile in His Truths: More Comedy Sketches on Walking the Truth
Publication Date: June 9, 1994A worthy successor to Martha’s popular These Truths Are Made for Walking. Again, these sketches are a bit longer than her original format, and each has a strong central message. ...
| | Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems
Publication Date: 1962Translations of this collection of ancient Chinese poems was originally written as part of a doctoral thesis with detail to research technically proficient as pertains to dating and authorship. Introductions and notes to poems are brief and simple for the interest of the non-specialized reader. ...
|  | Second Skin
Publication Date: September 11, 2012When Diana Anhalt was eight years old, her family moved from New York City to Mexico. The twenty poems collected in her chapbook, SECOND SKIN, speak of coming to terms with displacement and succumbing to Mexico’s magic. In time she would wear her second country like a second skin, reveling in its spontaneity, the warmth of its people, its natural beauty, the language. When she returned to the United States sixty years later, she was again faced with a culture that was alien to her. Her poems refer nostalgically to the challenge of shedding her secon...
|  | William and Henry James: Selected Letters, Ignas K Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M Berkeley eds.Introduction by John J McDermott
Publication Date: April 22, 1997| ISBN-10: 0813916941 | ISBN-13: 978-0813916941William and Henry James are well known for their master works of psychology and fiction respectively, but the celebrated brothers amassed an impressive collection of letters to one another as well. Through their copious correspondence, readers are privy to the private thoughts of these intellectual heavyweights. Sure, their letters expound on philosophical, political, social, and cultural subjects with imagination and wit, but more often they focus on the quotidian: health, news of friends and family, mutual p...
|  | The Alternate
Release Date: May 1, 1999Hailed by the National Law Journal as one of the top ten trial lawyers in America--and a consultant in the prosecution of O.J. Simpson and the retrial of the Menendez brothers--John Martel is a legal superstar. He has brought his expertise to bear on two top thrillers, Partners and Conflicts of Interest. The Alternate is his boldest accomplishment yet.When a philandering ex-congressman is charged with killing his wife, it seems like an open and shut case. He is abusive, elitist, and unremorseful. He is also--he swears--innocent. Forced to piece together a puzzle that...
|  | Plunder Squad: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Parker Novels“Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left.” When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parker’s aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker can get in on the score?“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a th...
|  | Chasing Shadows: Shadow Ops Book #1
Publication Date: September 8, 2012New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons has been praised as a "Master of the Genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) for her romantic thrillers.Join CJ as she starts a sexy, fun-filled, adrenalin rush of a new series: Shadow Ops.Following a group of covert operatives, men and women who risk their lives to protect our country--but are they ready to risk their hearts? CHASING SHADOWS (Shadow Ops Book #1):Going undercover, playing the part of a disgraced former Marine, is easy for Chase Westin--until a Christmas Eve mission takes him back to his hometown and face to fac...
|  | Presumption of Death
Publication Date: May 26, 2003In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940.Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country.But the war has followed them:glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers;the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London.Then the village's first air raid practise ends with a very real body on the ground - not a war casualty but a case of plain, old-fashio...
|  | The Death of Yorik Mortwell
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Inspired by the artwork of Edward Gorey, Windblowne author Stephen Messer delivers a mock-Gothic tale about poor Yorik (alas!), who meets an untimely demise—in Chapter One.Worry not, Dear Reader, for Yorik returns in ghostly form, intent on revenge. In the course of his hauntings of venerable Ravenby Manor, Yorik discovers that all sorts of otherworldy creatures inhabit the manor grounds, and that he has a part to play in saving not only his orphan sister, but also the manor and everyone in it. For every youn...
| ![Sticker Dolly Dressing on Vacation [With Sticker(s)] (Usborne Activities)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61geP1l%2BVGL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Sticker Dolly Dressing on Vacation [With Sticker(s)] (Usborne Activities)") | Sticker Dolly Dressing on Vacation [With Sticker(s)] (Usborne Activities)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Cooking with Nana
Publication Date: July 27, 2010Through her experiences with her own children and grandchildren, author Nancy Cody realized how invaluable child-based recipes and projects were to busy parents and grandparents. This book will allow you to accomplish your tasks while keeping the children entertained in the kitchen with simple, holiday-based projects and nutritious recipes that preschoolers can do and adults will enjoy. Each project and recipe requires a minimum of materials and assistance and offers a maximum return in fun and pride. ...
|  | Vegetarian Cooking for Beginners (Usborne Cooking School)
Publication Date: September 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Sea So Far
Publication Date: October 2003April 18, 1906. San Francisco is shaken by a nightmare earthquake. Its victims include two teenage girls-Kate Keely, an independent orphan, and fragile Jolie Logan, a scarlet fever survivor.Their lives collide when Kate is hired as Jolie's "personal companion"; before they have gotten used to each other, Jolie's father decides to send them to Ireland.Kate is ecstatic, until he entrusts her with the Logan family secret, one she must keep from Jolie.The girls make the exhausting journey by train and boat to Ireland, where they stay with Jolie's aunt, and thrive-in...
|  | Baby's Shoe
Release Date: August 23, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up “Cock-a-doodle-doo! Baby’s lost his shoe. Is it in the hen hutch? Whoops! No! Shoo!” Join Baby’s big brother as he searches the farmyard for the lost shoe. And giggle as each turn of the page finds him in a sticky situation! While the search party grows ever larger, so does the shout-out-loud chorus—as all the animals join the hunt with a cacophony of quacks, woofs, moos, neighs, bleats, and cock-a-doodle-doos! Writer-illustrator Ros Asquith is the author of many successful books for chi...
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