 | Writing Ulster: v. 4: Francis Stuart
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 |  | My French Whore
Release Date: February 5, 2008World War I has almost come to an end, but for a young Minneapolis railway employee and amateur actor named Paul Peachy, whose marriage has become one-sided, it’s time to enlist. Shipped off to France, Peachy realizes how out of his depth he is—and never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything, Peachy—who as a child of immigrants speaks German—makes the reckless decision to impersonate one of the enemy’s most famous spies.As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller, Peachy enters a world he never ...
|  | Bingo (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)
Publication Date: July 1989| Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series The acclaimed author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Six Of One retums to Runnymede, Maryland, for an outrageous, poignant, and surprising story of passion, rivalry, and small-town fun. Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line since before the Civil War is Runnymede. And it seems that ever since then, most people in the town have been inherently split: between good and bad, or love and sex, or male and female, or politics and sobriety. Nicole ("Nickel") Smith is in such a dilemma hers...
|  | Dream of Freedom (American Dreams, Book 1)
Publication Date: February 5, 2005Best-selling author Michael Phillips gives readers a glimpse into the past in this epic historical novel. One man and his family make the decision to follow God's will for their lives and free their slaves. The controversy over his decision sets off sparks as the lines are being drawn between North and South over slavery. ...
|  | No Irish Need Apply
Publication Date: March 11, 2008Kevin Borden has a secret, and that secret is about to shake the world around him - a tame and suburban world ruled by his widow mother, Sarah and peppered by his study-mate, Louis. Teenagers sometimes do the darndest things, but in Kevin and Louis' case, it's a stroke of wisdom wrapped in fool's gold. In a time not so long ago, in the days of JIM CROW and NO IRISH NEED APPLY signage, the world made it clear to those regarded as the fringe. "Stay away." To those who know no better - or perhaps know best, such lines are only meant to be crossed, or why else wou...
|  | Euripides ""Hekabe"": Edition und Kommentar (Texte Und Kommentare) (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 3110229455 | ISBN-13: 978-3110229455| Edition: 1 In medieval Byzantium Hecabe was Euripides´ most popular tragedy, so that it is this play for which we have the most manuscripts. Although this means that the production of a critical edition to satisfy modern criteria is particularly difficult, such an edition can now be presented. It comprises a revised text, a collection of testimonials, an extensive textual criticism, a prose translation, an introduction that pays particular attention to the history of the transmission and the receptio...
|  | The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963
Publication Date: May 1, 1986"Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit."—The Romanic Review"A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging."—Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News"This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expert...
|  | Christina the Astonishing Pb
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|  | 14 Poems: A Collection
Publication Date: May 8, 2009This is the first collection of poems by Nisa West. These origninal poems inspire a lucid form for the imagination to explore different dimensions of time and space. ...
|  | Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand
Publication Date: April 6, 2009Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world - as well as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction. Fasten your seatbelts as editors Mark Pirie and Tim Jones present some of New Zealand's best poets - past and present - shining the flashlight of science fiction on our universe, and relishing the strange images that result. Bristling with insight, sections like Back to th...
| | Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory, and Text
Publication Date: June 1988| ISBN-10: 0631160175 | ISBN-13: 978-0631160175Steven Connor draws on the poststructuralist theories of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze to show the centrality of repetition in Beckett's work. Taking issue with those critics who have seen repetition simply as a unifying, totalising principle in Beckett's writing, Connor explores the paradoxical forms and effects of repetition across a wide range of Beckett's texts, from the early fiction through to the most recent drama. He examines Beckett's translations of his own works to and from French and English, and h...
|  | Epigrams, Volume I: Spectacles, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0674995554 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995550Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves and generous hosts populate his witty verses. We glimpse here the theater, public games, life in the countryside, banquets, lions in th...
|  | Huxley's Brave New World (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: June 13, 2000| Series: Cliffsnotes Literature Guides The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.The new world in CliffsNotes on Brave New World is not a good place to be. Readers have used the word "dystopia," meaning "bad place," to describe Huxley's fictional world.But your experience studying this novel won't be bad at all when you rely o...
|  | If I Should Die (with bonus novella Love Is Murder): A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: November 22, 2011If I Should Die includes Allison Brennan’s chilling novella Love Is Murder, formerly available exclusively as an eBook!A TRIP TO THE DARK SIDE Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, are heading to the Adirondack Mountains for a pleasant romantic getaway when they detour to help troubled friends, owners of a new resort who are battling malicious vandals. After Lucy and Sean pursue an arsonist into an abandoned mine shaft, Lucy stumbles upon an even more heinous crime—and the perfectly preserved remains of its victim....
|  | The Ape Who Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesAfter eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more—only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into their hands, and the corpse of an unscrupulous deale...
|  | Transformers Dark of the Moon: Autobots Versus Decepticons
Release Date: May 17, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Greek Myths
Release Date: November 9, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up A gorgeous collection of classic Greek myths welcomes readers of all ages into a legendary world of beauty, tragedy, and miracle.Enter a world where anything is possible. A god might be a mountain or a shower of gold. A nymph may be a stream or an echo in the wind. The myths of ancient Greece are full of such wonders, as well as a host of courageous heroes, cunning heroines, and terrible monsters. Ann Turnbull’s compelling prose enlivens sixteen of the most celebrated myths, from the sadness of Persephone to ...
|  | The Primer
Publication Date: May 1, 2009This primer, first published in 1910, is intended for early readers, and for those who teach them. It has a relatively small vocabulary of just over 200 words, and presents nine classic stories: The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Boy, The Old Woman and the Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Licken, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, and Little Spider's First Web. Charming black and white illustrations accompany each story. ...
|  | Coyote Steals the Blanket (Ute Tales)
Publication Date: March 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Off the Rim (All-Star Sports Stories: Basketball)
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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