 | 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 21, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe's "The Raven," Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
 |  | The Mother
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences. ...
|  | A House Named Brazil
Release Date: September 5, 2000In her exuberant, darkly funny new novel, the critically acclaimed author of The Cage and Swimming with Jonah turns her dazzling talent in a new direction. A House Named Brazil exposes the deep roots of a delightfully twisted family tree. When the phone rings at precisely six o'clock one evening, it shatters the silence of the farmhouse where Fran has lived alone since her mother abandoned her at age fourteen.She recognizes the voice on the line immediately. Though it has been four years since she left, Fran's mother offers no apologies or explanations. She is ...
|  | A Bride's Flight from Virginia City, Montana
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Join the chase as an unlikely foursome, threatened by a ruthless gang of ne'er-do-wells, strives to reach safety. Montana ranchers Zephaniah Parker and Charlotte Spence are determined to get two Amish children, who witnessed their family's massacre, back home to relatives in Pennsylvania. Will they succumb to the plans of blood-thirsty outlaws or reach Bird-in-Hand alive? Along the treacherous trek, Charlotte and Zephaniah's friendship blossoms into love. Will wedding bells soon chime, or will Charlotte's startling admission forever silence potential peals? H...
|  | The Secret Sharer
Publication Date: November 22, 2007The Secret Sharer, actual accident at sea, is an exciting adventure tale that reveals truths about human nature on several levels. Albert J. Guerard of Stanford University wrote that these two stories are "among the finest of Conrad's short novels, and among the half-dozen greatest short novels in the English language." And Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." A publication of Boomer Books, especially desi...
|  | The Seekers (Kent Family Chronicles)
Release Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Kent Family Chronicles (Book 3) The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Abraham Kent seeks to build a new life on the untamed Western frontier......
|  | A Change of Climate: A Novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2003Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were. ...
|  | Polyeuct/Cinna/Le Cid (Absolute Classics)
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|  | Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Publication Date: June 17, 1992A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil. ...
|  | Casa del ahorcado, La (Musarisca poesia/Colihue) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Reading Cavell
Publication Date: March 17, 2006| ISBN-10: 0415346398 | ISBN-13: 978-0415346399| Edition: 1 Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. This state-of-the-art collection explores the work of this original and interesting figure who has already been the subject of a number of books, conferences and Phd theses.A philosopher whose work encompasses a broad range of interests, such as Wittgenstein, scepticism in philosophy, the philosophy of art and film, Shakespeare, and philosophy of mind and lan...
|  | X-Men #2: Firestorm
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|  | The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 6, 1984| Series: Penguin Classics Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister Unnamed' in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, ...
|  | Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose (Oxford History of English Literature (New Version))
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 0198122292 | ISBN-13: 978-0198122296Aims to study the age of Chaucer and the events that shaped his career, and to show how the age made the poet. It also pays considerable attention to the precise poetic means Chaucer used to produce his effects. The writings of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton and other unknown writers of the 15th century are also assessed. Their work covered subjects such as love, war, religion, history, medicine, travel and practical affairs. This book sums up the contribution of the 15th century to the body and c...
|  | The Prelude: A Novel for Managers
Publication Date: January 1, 1993The Prelude is a novel for managers in any organization that are experiencing the challenges of fast changing technology and a shifting economic base.It's 1998.the world is a mess.And the telecommunications industry in Australia is out of control.Bob Cheshire, a manger with Comlink, is trapped by a dilemma.The organization is in a crisis and he is under mounting pressure to speed production of a revolutionary new product.But Bob lacks faith in the solution he is directed to adopt.He believes it will result in destruction of the embattled organization.Bob sets...
|  | In a Teapot (Scott Elliott Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Scott Elliott Mysteries A film version of THE TEMPEST, William Shakespeare's final play, featuring the cream of Hollywood's aristocratic British Colony? When the project is announced in 1948, it sounds like an idea that can't miss. But then the whispers start about one of those British actors and a burlesque queen, and murder follows shortly. Enter Scott Elliott, top operative of Hollywood Security and the soon-to-be husband of the lovely Ella Englehart. To get to the altar, Elliott must dodge blonde bombshells and gangsters, and so...
|  | The Dragon Players (The Knights of the Lunch Table #2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Three Billygoats Gruff and Mean Calypso Joe
Publication Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and upIn this bright and breezy retelling of the Brothers Grimm storytime favorite, the three Billygoats Gruff find themselves yearning for the delectable treats on the other side of their island. However, to get there, they first must cross a bridge...a bridge guarded by Calypso Joe, the self-proclaimed "meanest troll dis part of de island." Joe demands a toll from the goats, warning of a "big problem" if it isn?t paid. But Joe soon learns that he?s the one with the "big problem" -- in the form of a goat twice his size.Told in a lilting Ca...
|  | Duck & Goose
Release Date: January 24, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Case of the Runaway Dog (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #7)
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up Jigsaw's dog Rags is missing! It's the most important case yet for super-sleuths Jigsaw and Mila....
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