 | Barrio in the heart
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 | | London Magazine 1961-1985 (Paladin Books)
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|  | The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
Release Date: August 23, 2011Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes go missing, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent tourists running for their...
|  | A Cruel Madness
Publication Date: July 1985When a part-time worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting, and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from romantic obsession to feelings deeper and more disturbing. Colin Thubron creates a world of passion, delusion, and reality mingling with unreality, pervaded by an all-consuming sense of longing and of loss. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Faster Than Light
Publication Date: August 20031st edition trade paperback, fine ...
|  | La agencia little lady/ The Little Lady Agency (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World
Publication Date: April 1, 2005The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine beautiful stars clustered together in the night sky. While particular attention in this cross-cultural study is paid to the influence of the Pleiades cluster on the living traditions of indigenous people in North America, Australia, Japan, and the Pacific, much ancient mythology passed down through written and visua...
| | On Stage for Teen-Agers
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|  | A Brief Excursion and Other Stories (European Classics)
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|  | The Feast: A Dramatic Retelling of Ireland's Epic Tale (Ulster Cycle)
Publication Date: February 3, 2001| Series: Ulster Cycle (Book 2) The Feast is a modern translation of Fled Bricrend, one of Ireland's most thrilling and humorous legends. Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm, enter into a battle of wits and words in an effort to enjoy the privileges accorded to the national champion. As the heroic competition unfolds, visits to and from the otherworld threaten to unmask the true nature of the gathering. and at the center remains Bricriu, god of mischief and creator of the most delicious and devilish banquet the world has ever s...
|  | The Racing Tribe
Publication Date: May 17, 2005 It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world--places with monsoons, mud huts, and malaria. In this volume, social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment, the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox, field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead of an amorphous racing crowd, the author finds a complete subculture with ...
|  | Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry (International Library of Iranian Studies)
Release Date: July 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 1848853394 | ISBN-13: 978-1848853393The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical philosophy of the classical Persian love-lyric (ghazal) as particularly exemplified by Hafiz (who, along with Rumi and Sa'di,...
|  | Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry
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|  | A QUATRAIN ON SLEEPING BEAUTY'S TOMB
Publication Date: September 1, 2011A QUATRAIN ON SLEEPING BEAUTY'S TOMB is a new translation of seventeen poems by nobel prize winner Boris Pasternak.Acclaimed American poet and novelist William Benton (author of MADLY) captures in fresh and finely wrought versions the nuance, passion and intensity of Pasternak's work. ...
|  | One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Release Date: October 27, 2011Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping soeasy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost besummed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with JeffBezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traitsand business strategy have driven Amazon to the top of the online retailworld.Richard Brandt charts Bezos's rise from computer nerd to world- changing entrepreneur. His success can be credited to his forward-lookingin...
| | Reality Versus Romance in South Central Africa: Being an Account of a Journey Across the Continent from Benguella on the West Through Bihe, Ganguella ... African Studies. Missionary Researches and T)
Publication Date: November 1, 1969| ISBN-10: 0714618713 | ISBN-13: 978-0714618715| Edition: 2nd Revised edition This is an account of a journey across the continent from Beguella on the West through Bihe, Ganguella on the West Barotze, the Kalahari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Garongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the Mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast. ...
|  | The Thirty-Nine Steps
Publication Date: May 27, 2008| ISBN-10: 0141033738| Edition: Reprint Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich imaginations and inner lives at which most can only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent to capture their fantasies of extraordinary adventure and epic bravery. Inspired by the success of The Dangerous Book For Boys, the six titles of the Penguin Great Books For Boys collection celebrate the adventurer within every boy with tales of shipwreck, murder, espionage, and survival. With a striking series look that is nostalgic and, at the same time, completely modern, these Gre...
|  | A Treasury of Stories for Four Year Olds
Publication Date: September 15, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up...
| | Freedom Beyond the Sea
Publication Date: July 2003Fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, a Jewish girl disguises herself and signs on as a ship’s boy, little knowing that she is headed for unknown waters with Christopher Columbus.In Spain at the end of the 15th century, Jews are persecuted, robbed, expelled from their homes, and murdered. Esther, the daughter of the rabbi of Cordoba, flees from home dressed as a boy. She is the only one in her family who escapes the bloodhounds of the Inquisition.Esther is lucky: Through craft and bribery, she manages to sign on as a ship’s boy to get out of the country. A...
|  | ULTIMATE FIELD TRIP 2: Digging into Southwest Archaeology
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
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