 | Driving Miss Daisy.
Publication Date: January 1998Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
 |  | Three Viewings
Publication Date: October 1, 1996A funeral parlor in a small Midwestern town is the setting for these three darkly funny and touching short plays. In Tell Tale, we enter the private thoughts of a respectable married mortician, lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker who markets to the bereaved. In Thief of Tears, we meet Mac, the attractive daughter of an upper-class WASP family who frequents the Viper Room and steals jewelry from corpses. And in Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti, a newly widowed suburban matron finds her world crashing about her only to be rescued by love from ...
|  | Unending Nora
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Unending Nora is a love story, though not in the ordinary sense. Having retreated to the streets of the east San Fernando Valley amidst an intense heat wave, Nora Yano, who has lived the first 29 years of her life as a devout Christian and an outcast, strikes up a relationship with a stranger and experiences sexual intimacy for the first time. When Nora mysteriously disappears, her best and only friends Caroline and Melissa, each with their own lives to consider, must decide what they’re willing to risk to find her. The complications that ensue, al...
|  | The Geometry of Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: March 23, 2010New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters, in an unforgettable story of loss, redemption, and forgiveness The storm off Mackinac Island that engulfed Maura Shaw’s husband and elder daughter,Carrie, also swept away the illusion of her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother. Now, after years away, Maura has returned to Rhode Island to teach English at the fabled Newport Academy and to seek a new beginning. Newport has never failed...
|  | 26a: A Novel
Release Date: September 6, 2005A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary sceneIn the attic room at 26 Waifer Avenue, identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter share nectarines and forge their identities, while escaping from the sadness and danger that inhabit the floors below. But innocence lasts for only so long—and dreams, no matter how vivid and powerful, cannot slow the relentless incursion of the real world. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Release Date: September 2, 2008Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manu...
|  | Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus
Release Date: January 14, 2004A comprehensive overview of the Western perennial tradition--the hermetic tradition and the ancient earth wisdom of shamanic indigenous peoples• Provides practical exercises to reawaken mystical awareness and reconnect with the ancient mystery traditions of our ancestors• Reveals how earth wisdom and high magic complement one anotherIn Walkers Between the Worlds, the authors reveal the development of both these traditions that were never far beneath the surface of Western culture and how they complement each other.As the orthodox structures of the We...
|  | Ghosts and Legends of Lake Erie's North Coast (OH) (Haunted America)
Publication Date: August 20, 2010| Series: Haunted America The residents of Lake Erie s North Coast have trouble leaving even after they die. The area is flooded with the spirits of locals, some friendly, some not. See the sorrowful eyes of the Hauntingly Beautiful High School Student, who floats the corridors looking for her lost boyfriend, and head to an old Port Clinton hotel to watch the ghost of a maintenance man wander haphazardly through the inn, making routine repairs. Read about the figure that lurks in the clock of the Port Clinton Courthouse every night, never moving, simply watch...
|  | The Pistoleer
Release Date: August 1, 1996Killers of men and lovers of life, they fought for freedom. For the Revolucion. For Villa. In return, they received a soldier's highest honor. They shared life -- and death -- with the mightiest hero in all of Mexico. ...
|  | Oxford Bookworms Library: Anne of Green Gables: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary
Publication Date: February 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0194790525 | ISBN-13: 978-0194790529| Edition: New Ed This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected tit...
|  | The Tragedies of Sophocles in English Prose
Publication Date: August 19, 20041870. Sophocles is one of the great playwrights of the golden age. In his first competition, Sophocles took first prize-defeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow; with only seven surviving in their entirety. Of these, Oedipus the King is generally considered his greatest work. This tragedy of fate explores the depths of modern psychoanalysis as Oedipus unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother in an attempt to avoid the very prophecy he ultimately fulfills. This volume contains: Oedipus Tyrannus; Oedipus Coloneu...
|  | Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
Release Date: September 24, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of exceptional stories and poems selected to inspire a lifelong love of reading. As television, video games, and the Internet threaten to distract young people from the solitary pleasures of reading, Bloom presents a volume...
|  | Purgatorio (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, 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: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parod...
| | Come. Experience with me a Love. (Selected Verse From "Come love with me and be my Life")
Publication Date: 1979A Versemonger Missive One book ...
|  | Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn (Jewish Poetry Series)
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| | Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism
Publication Date: September 4, 2001| ISBN-10: 0820451045 | ISBN-13: 978-0820451046Once one of the most popular fiction writers in all of American literature, Thomas Wolfe now stands in a tenuous position in the American literary canon. This book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism. The experimental nature of Wolfe's fiction, his troubling associations with other writers and artists, his complicated publishing practices, and the development of his late political conscience are analyzed to reestablish h...
|  | Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)
Release Date: June 10, 2008| Series: Vintage International From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveli...
|  | Resurrection
Release Date: April 3, 2007A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery. It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest friend, and his enigmatic sons. While she's there she stumbles across her father's last and most closely guarded archaeological project, one that could change the Christian world forever: the discovery of the legendary Lost Gospels. Torn between two brothers and beset by ominous warnings, Gemma finds herself caught in an intricate web of love and betrayal wher...
|  | I Like Being Me: Poems for Children About Feeling Special, Appreciating Others, and Getting Along
Publication Date: August 14, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up From the author of Make Someone Smile, this delightful collection of 26 rhyming poems is perfect for reading aloud. The themes—being kind, solving problems, learning from mistakes, telling the truth, dealing with feelings, making decisions, being a friend, and more—are clear, understandable, and relevant to the everyday lives of young children. ...
|  | Bread and Roses, Too
Publication Date: August 12, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Newbery-author Katherine Paterson's tale of the 1912 mill workers' strike--in paperback!Rosa’s mother is singing again—union songs. She’s joined the strike against the corrupt mill owners. Rosa is terrified. What if Mamma is jailed or, worse, killed?Jake’s dad threatened to kill him if he joined the strike. For Jake, that is reason enough to do so.Then Rosa, Jake, and the other children living in the middle of the strike are offered a very special opportunity: To live in Vermont until the st...
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