 | The Invitation - Boxed Set
Release Date: April 25, 2006 In The Invitation, Oriah expands on the poem that started it all, exhorting us to fully examine our lives, learn to live with intimacy and joy, and, above all, be true to ourselves. The Dance is the celebrated follow-up that reveals how to let go and enjoy the dance of life. To dance, alone or with others, is to slow down and realize that who we are is enough. Finally, in The Call, Oriah shows that each of us has our own call, our own specific place in the universe, and a contribution that only we can make....
 |  | Nicholas
Publication Date: June 14, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Where Love Dwells (Candlewood Trilogy, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008A warm, inviting romance set in 1850's New York, celebrating families, faith, and the promise of love. Candlewood Trilogy book 3. ...
|  | A Father's Quest
Publication Date: July 11, 2012Raymond Morgan’s life would appear successful to the casual observer: a securities trader with all of the money and prestige afforded to his elite position. However, his personal life could not be more chaotic with a nasty divorce that poisoned his relationship with his only son, Eric. In an attempt to salvage the fraying relationship with Eric, Raymond takes his son on a weekend trip to Raymond’s grandparents’ house. In the midst of enduring his son’s contempt and reminiscing about the happier days of his past, Raymond finds himself...
|  | My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty
Publication Date: May 1, 2007This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... Not Those People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music in her life, and the many remarkable people who populated her life and the lives of her family. The author describes economic hardship and social challenges as being as "regular as...
|  | 2025 City of Gold
Publication Date: April 19, 2012A new beginning...a new world...a new life. Transferred from Fort Thompson to the nation's capital to serve on the President's Youth Council, Daniel Jordan is shocked to find he does not arrive in Washington D.C., but lands in the nation's heartland, Kansas. Standing on top a helipad Daniel views the incredible beauty of rainbows reflecting off the blue-glass City of Gold designed by the president. Solar cars move silently along streets of gold. Streams wind their way under footbridges and even in winter, flowers bloom-all protected by a solar shield. In the C...
|  | Cambridge
Release Date: February 2, 1993One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman. ...
|  | Priests of Mars (Warhammer 40,000)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Warhammer 40,000 An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet ventures beyond the borders of the Imperium, in pursuit of arcane technology. Who knows what perils may lie outside the dominion of mankind? ...
|  | Shakespeare's Impact on His Contemporaries
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|  | A Penelopean Poetics, Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey
Publication Date: February 20, 2004| ISBN-10: 0739107232 | ISBN-13: 978-0739107232A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replication of the process of oral poetic composition itself. Penelope's web is thus a discourse and it can be construed specifically as feminine. Her gendered poetics celebrates process, multiplicity, and ambiguity and it resists phallocentric discourse by undermining stab...
|  | A Quiet Room: Poetry of Zen Master Jakushitsu
Publication Date: April 2000The poetry of Rinzai Zen master Jakushitsu remains as fresh and resonant today as when it was written centuries ago. Now his brilliant, poignant poetry, carefully translated by Zen practitioner Arthur Braverman, is available in English for poetry and Zen enthusiasts to read and savor. This, the most complete selection of Jakushitsu's work, is also put into context by Braverman with thoughtful excerpts from Buddhist scripture and other relevant sources. Here we see the full scope of Jakushitsu's timeless thinking, and along the way gain a greater understanding of Z...
|  | Piano Hill
Publication Date: April 1, 2010This striking new collection features meditations on the universal themes of desire, love, death, and the passing of time. A convergence of the poet, the composer, and the performer, these poems are deeply influenced by music and encompass personal lyrics, contemplation, and narrative. ...
|  | Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Publication Date: February 11, 2004Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences...
|  | The Town That Moved (Carolrhoda on My Own Books)
Publication Date: February 1983 ...
|  | The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (Modern Contemporary Poetics)
Publication Date: January 6, 2004| Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spenser's Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines. As critic Jed Rasula explains, "McHale is wonderfully resourceful in changing the subject from chapter to chapter to fit the poems discussed, and while his approach adheres to the conventions of textual e...
|  | Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky
Publication Date: January 30, 1995 Apocalypse and After examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism as it occurs in the works of three major poets and attends closely to the social and political dimensions of that development as embodied in these writers’ distinctive poetics. Modernism’s struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from the failure of Modernist strategy both to avert World War II and to come to terms with ...
|  | Writing Through Literature
Publication Date: December 18, 1995| ISBN-10: 0023035641 | ISBN-13: 978-0023035647| Edition: 1The only book of its kind to date, thisprocess-oriented book emphasizes writing through literature, offeringaccessible and multicultural reading selections. Helping users becomebetter writers and readers through their study of literature, itcontains writing assignment sequences wrapped around 17 thematicallyarranged "clusters" consisting of 5 — 10 readings apiece.Integrating writing assignmentsthroughout the book to help users better understand and appreciate theliterature, it includ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Third Edition)(Vol. Package 2: Vols. D, E, F)
Publication Date: March 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393933660 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933666| Edition: Third Edition A classic, reimagined.Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Third Edition—a completely new team of scholar-teachers—have made this respected text brand-new in all the best ways. Dozens of new selections and translations, all-ne...
|  | Truly, Madly: A Novel
Release Date: February 2, 2010Lucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it’s Lucy’s turn to step up and help out—in the name of love. Plus, her rent is due.Here’s the problem: Lucy doesn’t have the knack for matchmaking. According to family legend, every Valentine has been blessed by Cupid with the ability to read “auras” and pair up perfect couples. But not Lucy. Her skills were zapped ...
|  | The Martian Chronicles
Release Date: February 1, 1997Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, a...
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