 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
Release Date: March 13, 2007Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the eve...
 |  | Phantom Noise
Publication Date: April 1, 2010In the aftermath of best-selling Here, Bullet, Brian Turner deftly illuminates existence as both easily extinguishable and ultimately enduring. These prophetic, osmotic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting. ...
|  | At Paradise Gate
Publication Date: March 2001In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter. By the author of "A Thousand Acres". --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | A Rose by the Door
Publication Date: November 1, 2001A lonely woman prays and yearns for reconciliation with the son who left her many years ago. Her trust in God is shattered when she learns that this beloved son has been killed in a tragic accident. A knock on the door produces a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter she never knew she had, leading to a restoration of her faith in God but opening old wounds as they discover a dark family secret. Conflict builds to the breaking point until only God can bring grace and healing. ...
|  | The Road to Philadelphia
Publication Date: August 10, 2003The First Dwellers had reaped a harvest of annihilation for their bankrupt ideals.A new world has arisen from the ashes.Pockets of civilization have grown in a post-apocalyptic sword and bow culture as the Second Dwellers recover information from the former world.Will this new people rise to the challenge of pioneering a better society or will they reap the same harvest at an intensified pace?One group of men and women will rise to the challenge; to strive and conquer their own inner battles and those that rage around them in this allegory of paradise lost an...
|  | Cruel Sister: A Haunted Ballad
Release Date: October 17, 2006Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes's brother has returned from Hong Kong with a comfortable fortune and a new bride and is planning to build a house on land he's inherited. Because they want a house as much like an Elizabethan mansion as its "mod cons" will allow, they ask Penny's lover, Ringan Laine, to work on it as a consultant. Ringan is not only a noted musician but also a designer and architect well versed in the first Elizabeth's colorful period.The house is to be on the Isle of Dogs, and Penny's brother, his new wife, and Penny herself are delighted with the site....
|  | The Doom Stone
Release Date: August 2, 2004| Grade Level: 6 and up "Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Hyperion (August 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN: 0786851511 Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches Grade 7-10 While driving past Stonehenge on his way to visit his anthropologist aunt, Jackson, 15, s" ...
|  | Cold Plague
Release Date: April 15, 2008Pristine water—hidden for millions of years, untouched by pollution, and possessing natural healing powers—is found miles under Antarctic ice. The scientists who make this astonishing discovery stand to win worldwide acclaim and earn billions. While people around the world line up for a taste of the therapeutic water, a cluster of new cases of mad cow disease explodes in a rural French province. Dr. Noah Haldane and his World Health Organization team are urgently summoned.Fresh from a brush with a pandemic flu, Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion...
|  | Women of Mystery: An Anthology
Publication Date: January 2005This title contains 14 dazzling tales of mystery and murder from the best-known lesbian crime writers. Harrington Park Press proudly presents "Women of Mystery", an anthology of short lesbian suspense fiction from the best known lesbian mystery writers in the business. Edited by Katherine V. Forrest, author of the three-time Lambda Literary Award-winning, "Kate Delafield" mystery series, this book contains an unprecedented collection of never-before-published stories of mystery and imagination that'll keep readers thrilled as well as enthralled. ...
|  | Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
Publication Date: March 7, 2011Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragment...
|  | Dolls House, A
Publication Date: September 20, 2010| ISBN-10: 0573608148 | ISBN-13: 978-0573608148Drama / Characters: 3 males, 4 females, 2 childrenThis epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized homelife collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self. ...
|  | Poemas: Journal D / Poems (Puertas al Sol) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1999| Series: Puertas al Sol Poemas, journal D, diario del poeta ...
|  | Neue Gedichte: Der Neuen Gedichte Anderer Teil (German Edition)
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|  | Letters from Sea, 1882-1901: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood
Publication Date: January 2000In June of 1881, on the very night of their wedding in Searsport, Maine, Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord and his new wife, Jane Sweetser Colcord, departed for sea to begin a two-year voyage on the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield. The voyage would take them around the world and witness the birth of their daughter Joanna amid the South Sea Islands and young Lincoln's arrival during a treacherous winter storm off Cape Horn.Fifth-generation seafarers, Joanna and Lincoln Colcord spent their youth at sea aboard their father's ships. the Colcord's richly detailed journal-l...
|  | Plotinus: Volume III: Ennead 3 (Loeb Classical Library No. 442)
Publication Date: January 1, 1967| ISBN-10: 0674994876 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994874Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and t...
|  | Virgil's Garden: The Nature of Bucolic Space
Publication Date: July 26, 2011| ISBN-10: 071563867X | ISBN-13: 978-0715638675Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen s...
|  | The Book and the Body (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, 14.)
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|  | Indiscretion: A Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2007When your father is a man of expensive tastes and schemes but very little money, you soon learn to make do. So when Captain Fortune, a well-meaning but profligate ex-soldier in Regency England, tells his daughter Caroline that they are ruined, she automatically starts seeking employment as a governess. Her father, however, has far grander designs for Miss Fortune.…Caro is to become the companion of Mrs. Catling, the rich, fierce widow of her father's old colonel. As Mrs. Catling amuses herself by tormenting her relatives and servants, Caro resolves to mak...
|  | Chinese New Must Read Classics: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(Famous Teacher Guide) (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011This is a beautifully-designed new edition of the definitive ""Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Includes 7 complete short stories, comprising the best-known cases of the world's best-loved sleuth. ...
|  | Magical Tales from Many Lands
Release Date: September 1, 1993Fourteen folktales from around the world, illustrated in folk-art style, include a Zulu tale of a devoted mother and an Inca story about a beautiful and proud magician, along with tales representing the Jewish, Arabic, Amerindian, and other traditions. ...
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