 | State of Wonder: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: P.S.In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she w...
 |  | Art, science, and human progress: The Richard Bradford Trust lectures given between 1975 and 1978 under the auspices of the Royal Institution
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|  | The Thirteenth Gift
Publication Date: March 1, 2011While on assignment in Eastern Europe, Claire, a U.S. journalist, learns of a local legend. The deceptively simple story about "the thirteenth gift" has a profound effect on Claire, which soon transforms her marriage, her work, and the way she sees the world. The Thirteenth Gift is both a cautionary tale and an inspirational fable as it shows a way through the perilous consequences of greed, arrogance, and abuse of power to an uplifted state of consciousness and community. The Thirteenth Gift invites readers to renew their own sense of wonderment, which can lea...
|  | The Surrender (The Last Cavaliers)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: The Last Cavaliers (Book 3)Follow along as an upright man is caught up in the horrific events of the Civil War in the final book of the Last Cavaliers series. When Morgan Tremayne follows his employer, Robert E. Lee, into battle, he leaves behind everything he’s worked hard to build: a horse farm, a good reputation, and a young orphan he has raised. It will take a life-changing injury on Gettysburg’s blood-soaked fields to open Morgan’s eyes to what’s really worth dying for. (20120501) ...
|  | Am I Evil
Publication Date: June 28, 2006Journey with William Smith as he documents his outlandish, yet very real, voyage from the Navy brig to the boundaries of Hell. Discover the burden of being forced to choose sides between the pure evil of a madman and the inherent evil of the drug dealers in the shadows of Virginia Beach. A vague offer takes Smitty, an escaped military fugitive, off the streets as a vagabond and puts him into a role that supports a strange man's dark endeavor. Prior to learning of Louis Hamburg's bizarre mission, Smitty naively professes allegiance to him in return for much need...
| | Wissen, Arbeit und Liebe in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein: Studien zur romantischen Mythenumdeutung (Anglistik in der Blauen Eule) (German Edition)
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|  | The Peacemakers
Publication Date: March 16, 2012The twin specters of starvation and genocide stalk the southern Sudan when the tyrannical regime in Khartoum unleashes the Janjaweed, horseback-mounted Baggara tribesmen, on the defenseless Dinka and Nuer tribes.The prize is control of the oil reserves lying beneath tribal lands, and a weary United Nations responds with a half-hearted attempt riddled with corruption to rescue a beleaguered people. The United States sends six aging Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and 165 personnel to support the UN peacekeepers and fly relief into the heart of the war-t...
|  | 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays (Contemporary Playwrights Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1575257726 | ISBN-13: 978-1575257723Again this year, Smith and Kraus combined its two annual ten-minute play books into this one volume, divided into two sections: Plays for Two Actors and Plays for Three or More Actors. Now, you can get the best ten-minute plays produced during the 2009 2010 theatrical season all in one book!In this volume you will find a plethora of ten-minute plays, culled from hundreds received. All have been produced successfully. Some have even won awards. These plays are written in a wide variety of styles. Some are re...
|  | Every Man Is a Race (African Writers)
Publication Date: May 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0435909827 | ISBN-13: 978-043590982618 short stories which look at the issues of civil war, petty officialdom and curruption against the backdrop of post-independence Mozambique. They tell the wider Mozambican story through tales of individual men and women, and contain many strange and fantastic incidents. ...
|  | The Poems of Meleager (English and Greek Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 1975Poetica 1Meleager of Gadara (c. 140-70 B.C.) was the last and most inventive of the Hellenistic epigrammatists. He was also the editor of the `Garland', a collection of poems which is the basis of our `Greek Anthology'. No poet wrote more lyrically, with such mastery of every mode of Greek epigram - especially the love-poem. In his air of playful experiment and his rehandling of traditional material, he anticipates Catullus, the Roman lyric poet with whom he has much in common.Peter Whigham - poet and translator of Catullus - has made delightful versions of Mel...
| | The Grammar of Silence: A Reading of Marguerite De Navarre's Poetry
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|  | Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (Opus Books)
Publication Date: January 31, 1985| ISBN-10: 0192891324 | ISBN-13: 978-0192891327This study of the Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Bryon, Shelley, and Keats--places these richly varied writers into their proper historical setting. Butler relates the French and American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the expansion of agriculture, trade, and industry, and growing economic and social pressures to the cultural forces which shaped their work. She reveals the common factors which engaged the separate efforts of so many individual creative minds, and the fierce persona...
| | The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature (New Version))
Publication Date: January 17, 1991| Series: Oxford History of English Literature (New Version) (Book 13) This volume covers the great novelists of the high Victorian age, from the death of Scott in 1832 to the death of George Eliot in 1880. In this period, as the political unease of the first two decades of the century gave way to stability, the novel came into its own. Providing an overview of both the major and minor novelists, The Victorian Novel devotes separate chapters to Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Trollope, and Meredith and sets the writers and their works aga...
| | Surrealism and Communism: The Early Years (American University Studies Series IX, History)
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|  | Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation
Publication Date: December 1, 1991Literary scholars explore the significant yet largely ignored field of textual and editorial scholarship in the work of modern authors ...
| | J. D. Robb In Death Collection 5: Origin in Death, Memory in Death, Born in Death, Innocent in Death, Creation in Death
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Origin in Death: New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas enters the Wilfred B. Icove Center for Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery on a case. A hugely popular vid star has been beaten to a bloody pulp. Before they can leave the building, another case falls into their hands. Dr. Wilfred B. Icove himself has been found dead in his office. Known as “Dr. Perfect,” the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is too clean for Dallas. As Dallas follows her darkest instincts into the Icoves’ pasts, what she discover...
|  | Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher #13)
Release Date: March 23, 2010Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye....
|  | The Case Files of Doyle & McCraken
Publication Date: July 3, 2012Whether it is fraud, arson, or even murder, Bernie Doyle and Duffy McCraken are on the case. A man is killed when a bomb explodes in his office, can Doyle & McCraken piece the clues together before the murderer strikes again?When a fire burns down the warehouse of a fur wholesaler, can Doyle & McCraken prove it was arson before the insurance company has to pay up?When it appears that a real estate mogul is trying to swindle a young couple out of their life savings, can Doyle & McCraken prove that there is more going on than meets the eye? Here are seven cases fr...
|  | Football (On the Team (Gareth Stevens))
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|  | Track and Field (Successful Sports)
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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