 | The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2002A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readersNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of fou...
 |  | The Loved One
Publication Date: September 1999Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet. ...
|  | What Might Have Been Me
Publication Date: January 19, 2012Suzanne expected me to come home but my life was here in New York. Almost eleven years with Eddie - eleven years of working, watching movies, making love, doing laundry, going to yoga. These things made up a life, didn't they? And if they didn't, then what did? While Carla Matthew's friends went back to college in Ireland at the end of the summer, she decided to stay in New York. She'd fallen in love - with her musician boyfriend Eddie, with the city. In New York she could write, go to the best universities, become the person she wanted to be. Someone she co...
|  | Witness on the Run (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense A gun firing. A man killed. Running for her life. That's all Robin Strand remembers of the shooting she saw. With fear-induced amnesia, she can't identify the killer, no matter what the police say. The only one who believes her is private investigator Jake Walters. And he's the one who steps in to rescue her when her safe house is discovered. As they struggle to stay one step ahead of danger, Robin needs Jake more than ever. With his faith and training as a guide, they work together to bring back her memory. Before the killer can ...
|  | Myrriddin: Book II of The Merlin Factor
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: The Merlin Factor (Book 2) <DIV>Many generations have passed since the harrowing journey of Centurion Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with his spear while the condemned one hung from the cross, as told in Longinus: Book I Of The Merlin Factor. Now, in Myrrriddin, it is the 4th Century A.D. A young boy, Myrriddin has found sacred relics of the early Christians in the ruins of an ancient Druid temple on the Isle Of Mystery in Old Britain. For reasons beyond his immediate comprehension, the lad connects with one item i...
|  | Map of Ireland: A Novel
Publication Date: May 5, 2009Set during the desegregation of the Boston public schools in 1974, Map of Ireland is a funny and tender coming-of-age story and a brave and ambitious depiction of race relations in America. This stunning novel takes on race and sexuality with beauty, grace, and humanity. When Ann Ahern, a 16-year-old born into a tight-knit Irish-American community, begins her junior year of high school South Boston is in a tumult - Catholic mothers are kneeling in the streets blockading buses of black children from the public schools and teenagers are raising havoc. Ann, an outsi...
|  | Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Myron Bolitar Mysteries Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent.Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood,primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier.That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number one suspect.Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough.Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death.But why is his phone numbe...
|  | But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury
Publication Date: April 1, 2007This fictitious account of the Bloomsbury Group-an unconventional and forward-thinking artist collective-follows the lives and careers of those who had a profound effect on art and literature in the first half of the 20th century. Central members Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf are sympathetically brought back to life with their husbands, lovers, and friends as their ideals, beliefs, and artistic pursuits developed. ...
|  | Jewish Wisdom
Release Date: November 1, 1993"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."SOLOMON IBN GABIROL"Where there is no vision, the people perish."PROVERBSThose who desire wisdom can hardly do better than to start with this book. Through nearly four thousand years of history, the Jewish people have learned a thing or two, and have extracted from their experiences, both good and bad, a rich essence that speaks to every time and every heart. JEWISH WISDOM gathers more than a thousand proverbs, wise sayings, common-sense observations, and memorable quotations that instruct, inspire, and guide the reader ...
|  | Plays 1: Small Towns & Sea: Horseplay, Flipside, Trick of the Light (No. 1)
Publication Date: April 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 0864734948 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734945Each of these three plays takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders. In Horseplay novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K. Baxter meet and share the stage with the rear end of a horse, while in Flipside four sailors confront the elements for 119 days, adrift on the overturned boat Rose-Noëlle. Finally, Trick of the Light revisits the infamous Crewe murders when a brother and sister bring their mother's ashes to a motel room that hasn't been open...
|  | Plays and Playwrights 2001
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Anthology of new works from the New York theatre, all ofwhich premiered during 2000. Includes: "Washington Square Dreams" byGorilla Repertory Theatre, "Fate" by Elizabeth Horsburgh, "VelvetRopes" by Joshua Scher, "The Language of Kisses" by Edmund DeSantis,"Word To Your Mama" by Julia Lee Barclay, "Cuban Operator Please..."by Adrian Rodriguez, "The Elephant Man -- The Musical" by Jeff Hylton& Tim Werenko, "House of Trash" by Trav S.D., and "Straight-Jacket" byRichard Day. With an Introduction by Martin Denton and a Preface byRobert Simonson. ...
|  | Beowulf (The Standard Translation)
Publication Date: August 18, 2012This is the famous story in verse about Beowulf, a warrior hero in Scandinavia who comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king, who has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. Beowulf must try to slay this hideous creature. And he wants to become a king in his own right. As if that isn't enough, Beowulf must defeat a dragon, which turns out to be his greatest battle of all. This translation of the heroic epic was the first to truly popularize the saga of what is without a doubt one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. ...
|  | WATIE'S SURRENDER AND OTHER CIVIL WARNARRATIVES
Publication Date: November 9, 2010This is Brian Walters third collection of poetry. As with his previous collections, Watie's Surrender and Other Civil War Narratives has something for everyone. Walters ranges effortlessly from brutal epic narrative poetry to gentle whimsical verse. His narrative poetry is as easy to read as the finest prose, pulling you in so completely that you often forget that you are reading poetry and not a novel. His verse celebrates life and all that comes along with it. Sometimes touching, sometimes stirring, always engaging, Walters' poetry will remain with you lon...
|  | Howling at the Moon
Publication Date: 2002Born into a wealthy family, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886–1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry. Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including Poe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dostoevsky. His major works of poetry, written in 1917 and 1923, were Howling at the Moon and Blue, collected in this volume. These books transformed modern Japanese poetry, and changed forever the face of the future poetic landscape in Japan.Brilliantly translated by Hiroaki Sato, this book was originally published by the University of Tokyo Press, a...
|  | Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964 - The Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Concord Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 1996| Series: Concord Library Rachel Carson's landmark book Silent Spring set the modern environmental movement in motion.This very special collection of letters from Rachel Carson to her Maine summer neighbor Dorothy Freeman offers an intimate, spellbinding look at Carson's private life and thoughts.An intimate collection of letters from the woman who sparked the modern environmental movement."What is revealed in this selection of letters is the extraordinary, private person of Carson and her relationship with Freeman, the nature-loving, homebody friend of her late...
|  | French Quarter (Hot in the City)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Hot in the City The decadence of Bourbon Street is beckoning… When prim, proper Liz Marsh suspects her fiancé is cheating on her, she’s almost too embarrassed to hire a P.I. to prove it. And when she gathers her courage and walks into Jack Wade’s office, she has no idea he’ll be the sexiest man she’s ever encountered, nor that his light Cajun accent will make her tingle in all the wrong—or is that right?—places. After Jack brings her questionable yet undeniably arousing evidence, ...
|  | The Icarus Agenda
Release Date: February 1, 1992Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared.Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted.Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the ...
|  | Metadata Murders
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|  | Ponyo Film Comic, Vol. 1
Publication Date: August 4, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | The Everything Kids' Hidden Pictures Book: Hours Of Challenging Fun! (Everything Kids Series)
Publication Date: October 18, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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