 | Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Publication Date: March 25, 2004| ISBN-10: 0864924062 | ISBN-13: 978-0864924063| Edition: No edition In 1841, the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heard the story of Acadian lovers, separated by the Expulsion and reunited at the end of their lives. He elaborated this simple tale into his long narrative poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Published in 1847, it soon gained worldwide popularity, and by 1865, both North American and European French versions were in print. In reinventing “the best illustration of the faithfulness and constancy of women that I have ever heard of or...
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 | Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James
Publication Date: February 9, 2002This collection offers some of the best stories from authors who influenced James, such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Augustus Jessopp, stories from his contemporaries, such as T.G. Jackson and "D.N.J.", and tales from more recent practitioners, including Fritz Leiber and Terry Lamsley. The collection also includes a checklist of writers in the Jamesian tradition. ...
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 | Burning Reactions
Publication Date: June 28, 2011When Michelle Williams' home burns down, her friend Darlene welcomes her and her familytwo sons and her motherinto her home, in which she lives with her husband, two daughters, and a son. If only a full house were the least of these two families' worries. While trying to keep her diabetes-suffering mother in good health, Michelle is also fending off Darlene's husband's unwanted advances and harboring a secret that threatens to ruin her already dysfunctional family. Couple that with Darlene's difficulties with her daughter's abusive relationship with her fianc...
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 | The Fourth Day
Publication Date: August 12, 2003The Fourth Day is about multiple murders on the PGA Tour; murders that have gone unsolveduntil Jim Balfour becomes obsessed with finding answers. A former Tour player, Balfour's search leads him to suspect a serial killer is walking the fairways and he makes it his mission to convince the authorities he is right. When Balfour's meddlesome actions become a threat to the killer and the lifestyle he loves, he retaliates as only he can. The retaliation and its fallout far exceeds any and all of Balfour's naive expectations.The Fourth Day deals with the pursuit of...
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 | Chicago (French's musical library)
Publication Date: 1976| Series: French's musical library Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins 9m, 10f Premiering in 1975 and the hit of the 1997 Broadway season in a production that originated at City Center's Encore! series, Chicago won six Tony Awards including Best Revival and later the Academy Award as Best Picture of the Year.In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Vel...
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 | The Roman Actor (Rsc Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1854596977 | ISBN-13: 978-1854596970New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays. ...
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 | A Yaqui Easter
Publication Date: March 1, 1971The Yaqui Indian Easter Ceremony--from the initial events of Ash Wednesday through the final "Circle" on Easter Sunday--briefly described and interpreted by a long-time student of the tribe. ...
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 | Heron's Canoe
Publication Date: February 1, 2003"Heron's Canoe" is the English translation for the Carib name of a constellation that lies in the region of Ursa Major, significant to Amerindian myths of origins, which Mark De Brito's poem connects to other myths of origin, particularly those of West Africa that reached the Caribbean in the submerged belief systems and religions of the African slaves. There has been a very significant growth of social involvement in and respect for the African-derived religions of the Caribbean: Orisha, Santeria, Voudun, Cumfa; and de Brito is one of a number of poets and ...
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 | Poetry of Light & Quietness: Poems and Short Stories
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 | Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility
Publication Date: January 23, 2004Film critic David Sterritt’s Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, juxtaposing their artistry with 1950s culture and achieving what Kerouac might have called a “bookmovie” riff. In clear prose, Sterritt captures the raw energy of the Beats and joins in their celebration of aesthetic freakishness. Tapping into the diversified spirit of the Beat Generation and its nuanced relationship with postw...
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 | The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 4: 1844-1846 (Dickensletters Pilgrim Series)
Publication Date: March 23, 1978| ISBN-10: 0198124759 | ISBN-13: 978-0198124757| Edition: Pilgrim Ed The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / Classics; ...
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 | The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan)
Release Date: June 1, 1999| Series: Eve Duncan An unidentified skull...A trail of terrifying secrets...And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct—a face no one was ever meant to see.
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| The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume I
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 | Walt Disney's Christmas Classics
Release Date: November 24, 2009| Age Level: 8 and upDon't be a Scrooge McDuck this Christmas season!It's the perfect present!BOOM Kids! has raided the Disney publishing archives and searched every nook and cranny this Christmas season to find the best and the greatest stories from Disney's vast comic book publishing history for this "best of" compilation -- Disney's universally appealing characters starring in stories written and drawn by creators who are legends in the field!A timeless classic from the world's most iconic characters that should be on every shelf, Walt Disney's Chr...
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 | Well Witched
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upRyan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins? The well witch does. And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of her well. Each takes on powers they didn't ask for and don't want. Ryan grows strange bumps—are they eyes?—between his knuckles; Chelle starts speaking the secrets of strangers, no matter how awful and bloody; and ...
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 | Z. Apocalypse (Hunting)
Release Date: October 11, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Coach John & His Soccer Team (Our Neighborhood (Childrens Press Paperback))
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 6 and up...
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 | Detroit Red Wings (NHL Today)
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 | Weebles: Meet the Weebles!
Release Date: May 5, 2005| Age Level: 1 and up...
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