 | Leaving Home
Publication Date: June 1999Clare is a talented young Irish pianist. When she wins a scholarship to London, her rich, pretty best friend, Eve, talks her own family into letting her join Clare. But London is a very different place from County Wicklow, and both girls attract attention from the wrong kind of men. ...
 |  | The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English ( A Pure Gold Classic) (Pure Gold Classics)
Release Date: July 1, 1998| Series: Pure Gold Classics Carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original Scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an index of words, meanings, titles, characters, and places. 50+ illustrations.Website address and instructions for free audio excerpts download are located on page IV. ...
|  | Evil That Men Do
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|  | Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Publication Date: February 26, 2009Sixteen of Mexico's finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery. Many of these writers, and most of these stories, have never before appeared in English. Readers will meet an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder.The write...
|  | ReadWest: Stories of the American West
Publication Date: August 6, 2012The Western novel is unique to America, its characters diverse, and its canvas of subject matter infinitely broad. The authors in this story collection make up a perfect model of these criteria. Elmer Kelton, who wrote primarily about Texas, is regarded by his peers as the best to ever write in the genre. Literary scholars have considered his novel The Time It Never Rained a classic American work. Multi award-winning author John D. Nesbitt is noted as one of the fresher voices writing Westerns today. In 2009 and 2010, Nesbitt won three back-to-back Spur Awards...
|  | Old Actors Never Die...: They Simply Lose the Plot
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|  | Americans
Publication Date: October 30, 2003At the turn of the 20th century, the president of the United States is shot by an anarchist. Is the crime a protest against America's imperial ambitions - or a cry for attention by an angry young man? Provocative, edgy, and compelling, this first play by the author of "Fast Food Nation" and "Reefer Madness" is about patriotism, power, the allure of violence. Morally complex and original, "Americans" explores the origins of the American empire and the imprint it now leaves on the world. ...
|  | Guia De Las Obras Del Bodhisatva: Un Poema Budhista Para La Vida Moderna (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 1, 2005This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us ...
|  | The Clay Sanskrit Library: Poetry: 9-volume Set
Release Date: November 9, 2009| ISBN-10: 0814717470 | ISBN-13: 978-0814717479Including poetry whose masterful artistry addresses themes such as love, Indian epic and religion with as much aesthetic appeal as thematic, the poetry included in this set contains the poetry of well-known poets such as Vedánta Déshika while giving a voice to the work of other important writers such as Bhanu·datta who have been given less modern attention. Included in this set:Bhatti's Poem: The Death of Rávana By Bhatti. Translated by Oliver Fallon. 550 pages / 978-0-8147-2778-2The Bi...
|  | A Year of Birds
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|  | Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
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|  | Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin
Publication Date: May 13, 2008| ISBN-10: 1405177063 | ISBN-13: 978-1405177061| Edition: 3 Enriched by James Kirby Martin’s expanded and updated introduction, this classic memoir provides a compelling history of the Revolutionary War as seen through the eyes of one courageous soldier. Includes an expanded and updated introduction, annotations, and suggestions for further reading New maps give an overview of Joseph Plumb Martin’s travels Brief headnotes introduce each chapter ...
|  | Mythologies
Publication Date: January 1, 1972| ISBN-10: 0374521506 | ISBN-13: 978-0374521509"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith...
|  | The Incurable Matchmaker (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: May 1, 1990| Series: Signet Regency Romance Diane Ingram was impeccably virtuous and exquisitely beautiful. The handsome and charming Marquess of Kenwood was the most successful seducer in all of aristocratic society. Never had the game of love been played for higher stakes--as the divine Diane tried not to lose her honor, and the masterful marquess tried not to lose his heart. A Regency romance original. ...
|  | The Legend of Zelda, Vol. 3: Majora's Mask
Publication Date: February 3, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Essential Captain America, Vol. 6 (Marvel Essentials)
Publication Date: April 6, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up Captain America and the Falcon continue their partnership against some of their greatest foes and some of their most bizarre! Featuring guest appearances by the Hulk, Nick Fury and Sharon Carter! Plus: the debuts of the Constrictor and the Super-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collecting: Captain America #206-230, Annual #4; Incredible Hulk #232 ...
|  | The Magic Brocade : A Tale of China (English/Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: December 2000| Age Level: 4 and up THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN SEVERAL EDITIONS: ENGLISH ONLY, ENGLISH/SPANISH, ENGLISH/VIETNAMESE, AND ENGLISH/CHINESE (TRADITIONAL) TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS -- A READER'S THEATER SCRIPT OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN AARON'S BOOK "FOLKTALES ON STAGE," OR FREE ON AARON'S WEB SITE. No brocades are more lovely or lifelike than the ones the widow weaves to sell at the marketplace. One day she returns home with a marvelous painting of a fairy palace, and her son Chen suggests that she weave the image as a brocade. Devoting a...
|  | Venus and Serena Williams: Athletes (Women of Achievement)
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|  | Every Time I Climb a Tree
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Grade Level: 2 and up Twenty-five poems with short lines on such varied subjects as a lost turtle, a fence, the wind, jam, a witch, and bananas and cream. ...
|  | Lions (Big Cats)
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