 | Western Writers in Japan
Publication Date: February 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 031221670X | ISBN-13: 978-0312216702Sumie Okada discusses Japan and Japanese culture as depicted by 17 Western writers in this book. The foreword by John Bayley concerns the interplay of Anglo-Japanese literary sensibilities, noting that fundamental differences between two such strong traditions in literature, society and even humor are probably inevitable. ...
 |  | Kestrel's Midnight Song
Publication Date: September 1, 2010The land of Gable-renowned for its birds, revered for its legends and secrets-is home to the grandest castle in the known world. Inside this castle, in a narrow cell atop the dungeon tower, the legendary Marauder known as James Kestrel awaits his hanging. Amidst the anticipation and speculation surrounding his execution, rumors are spreading that the Marauders will come out of hiding for the first time in seven years to free Kestrel in order to find the Caelum Flute, an instrument with the power to control the birds, and therefore the world. But only a wand...
|  | Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets.During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests.It includes all his poetry, from best-known works such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "The Windhover" to translations, f...
|  | Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Who Am I? (Bonhoeffer Gift Books)
Publication Date: April 30, 2005| Series: Bonhoeffer Gift Books Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Who Am I? (Bonhoeffer Gift Books) ...
|  | The Matrix
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|  | Stephen King's Dark Tower, Vol. 2: The Long Road Home
Publication Date: October 20, 2010It's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower!Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado.And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain.The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit...and Roland is in a coma! COLLECTING: Dark Tower:The Long Road Home #1-5 ...
|  | Joe Speedboat
Publication Date: April 8, 2010A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat.After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he’s paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life where he must rely on others to complete even the simplest tasks. The only body part he can control is his right arm, which he uses obsessively to record the details of d...
|  | Tales of an American Hobo (Singular Lives)
Publication Date: November 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0877452512 | ISBN-13: 978-0877452515| Edition: 1st "Reefer Charlie" Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939;from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled byfoot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, fromUtah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has allbut passed away from American life.He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses atrailroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, andfish speared by the Indians of the Northwest. He quickly learned boththe b...
|  | A Treasury of Polish Aphorisms
Publication Date: May 1997This collection comprises 225 aphorisms by eighty Polish writers, many of them well known in their native land. A selection of 30 Polish proverbs is included representing some uniquely Polish expressions of universal wisdom. Twenty pen and ink drawings by a talented Polish illustrator Barbara Swidzinska complete this remarkable exploration of true Polish wit and wisdom. ...
|  | American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spirituals
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|  | Plague Lands: And Other Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1847770630 | ISBN-13: 978-1847770639Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. The first of his poetry to appear in English, this collection includes an elegy for the life of a lost city—a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient civilization. Memories of Baghdad’s alleys, smoke-filled cafés, and mulberry-shaded squares are recalled with painful intensity. Karim’s defiant humanity, rejecting dogma, and argumentative nature underscore hi...
|  | From the Spider Bone Diaries: Poems and Songs
Publication Date: January 2002"Like a collage of moving images, From the Spider Bone Diaries, Poems and Songs provides a visual as well as a literary and lyrical feast. Readers will immediately sense movement and varied landscapes in its many poetic genres. The words herein can be sung, chanted, intoned, splashed on sidewalks, painted on murals, scrawled on walls, performed by an ensemble of musicians and actors, or silently absorbed."Spider Bone Diaries can be revisited often. Like a hitchhiker, the reader may want to stay on for all or part of the ride, for the destinations are many and th...
|  | Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du duc de vrais amans
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|  | The Magic Mountain
Publication Date: 1981Part of The Franklin Library's collection of special edition printings of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Chocolate brown faux leather and gilt design with raised spine, gilt page edges and illustrations. ...
|  | The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)
Publication Date: April 15, 2010| Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition in Africa. Born around 1740 at Cape Coast, in what is now Ghana, Quaque was brought to England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In 1765 he became the first African ordained as an Anglican priest. He returned to Africa and served for fifty years as the society’s missionary and also as chaplain to ...
|  | Hell, Yeah
Release Date: August 1, 2010Praise for Carolyn Brown: "Carolyn Brown takes her audience by storm...I was mesmerized."—The Romance Studio "Carolyn Brown creates a bevy of delightful and believable characters."—The Long and Short of It Reviews She's finally found a place that feels like home... When Cathy O'Dell buys the Honky Tonk, the nights of cowboys and country tunes come together to create the home she's always wanted. Then in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to trade in the happiness she's found at the Honky Tonk for a life on the road with him... He lives ...
|  | Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: September 15, 2011"MY NAME IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. IT IS MY BUSINESS TO KNOW WHAT OTHERS DO NOT."In the dark lurk horrible secrets. Long buried and hidden from prying eyes are the twilight tales of the living and the dead - and those that lie in between.From the comfort of the Seine to the chill blast of arctic winds,from candlelit monasteries to the callous and uncaring streets of LasVegas are found arcane tales of men, monsters and their evil...THERE IS A MYSTERY ABOUT THIS WHICH STIMULATES THE IMAGINATION; WHERE THERE IS NO IMAGINATION THERE IS NO HORROR.The stink of a Paris...
|  | The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon)
Release Date: September 14, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | The Hatchling (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 7)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Go Big or Go Home
Release Date: February 19, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . .Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever! Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in Hill City wants to study a sliver of it in search of extraterrestrial bacteria. He's hoping to disco...
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