 | Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing
Release Date: September 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0385422431 | ISBN-13: 978-0385422437| Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed The history of African-American life and thought presented in this anthology represents a far-reaching written and oral tradition, which is thought-provoking, inspiring, and impressive in its breadth. It includes poetry and prose by today's best and most well-known writers. ...
 |  | A Hanukkah Present
Publication Date: September 16, 2007A joyful collection of eleven multigenerational tales and a brand-new novella for families of every background. Written by an award-winning author and storyteller. ...
|  | Erotic Poems
Publication Date: February 8, 2010E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume.Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage.from “16”may i feel said he(i’ll squeal said sheju...
|  | La Luna Nueva, El Jardinero, Ofrenda lirica / The New Moon, The Gardener, Liric Offering (Literatura / Literature) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | John Cheever: Complete Novels
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|  | The Singles: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012 Take an instantly recognizable social dilemma—attending a wedding alone—add a good laugh (and maybe a cry), and meet The Singles, the warm and witty debut by Boston Globe “Love Letters” columnist Meredith Goldstein. Beth “Bee” Evans’s first vow as a bride is that everyone on her list be invited to bring a guest to her lavish, Chesapeake Bay nuptials. When Hannah, Vicki, Rob, Joe, and Nancy one by one decline Bee’s generous offer, the frustrated bride dubs them the “Singles,” adrift on her seating chart a...
|  | Future Hope: Book 1 of the ITP Series
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Itp Future earth has forgotten God. Science and technology reign supreme. A benevolent government banishes hunger, poverty, and disease and provides a luxurious lifestyle for an ever-increasing population. However, even science has its limits, and the world faces a crisis of diminishing resources.Dr. Deborah Tennyson, a brilliant mathematician, devises the only answer for mankind: Discover new resources through the Interdimensional Transport Protocol (ITP). A brash, self-centered, but remarkably talented astropilot, Major David Sanders, takes the ...
|  | The Survivors of the Chancellor, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
Publication Date: June 22, 2009| Series: Tantor Unabridged Classics Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks, and starvation are just some of the many travails that beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them survive the wreck of the Chancellor? ...
|  | InVerse 2012: Italian Poets in Translation
Publication Date: May 31, 2012Poetry bySebastiano AgliecoAnnelisa AllevaElisa BiaginiElisa DavoglioAlessandro De FrancescoSonia GentiliGiuliano MesaLuigi NacciElio PecoraMaria Luisa SpazianiAndrea ZanzottoFederico Zuliani Edited byBrunella AntomariniBerenice CocciolilloRosa Filardi On the occasion of John Cabot University’s fortieth anniversary, we are proud to present the fifth edition of the InVerse poetry anthology. In publishing InVerse, the University is true to its deepest mission and commitment: to bring together Anglo-American and Italian cultures.Franco PavoncelloPresident...
|  | The Event of Literature
Publication Date: May 29, 2012In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common.In a highly unusual combination of cr...
|  | Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure
Publication Date: February 7, 2001Who has not heard of the mutiny on the Bounty? For two hundred years this event has fired the imagination of millions of people, countless books have been written on it, and five motion pictures so far dramitized it on the screen. This book is unique in the literature on the mutiny and is the first companion volume to the story. The first part, the Bounty Chronicle, gives a panoramic, yet detailed, month-by-month account of the events, starting before the Bountys departure and ending with Fletcher Christians death on Pitcairn Island. It even chronicles Capta...
|  | The Writings of Carlos Fuentes (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1996| Series: Texas Pan American Series Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes of short stories, numerous essays on literary, cultural, and political topics, and some theater. In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes' work, particularly in his complex, major n...
|  | A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger
Publication Date: August 14, 2003Bernard Bergonzi has written an absorbing and fascinating biography of Thomas Arnold the Younger (1824-1900), son of the celebrated headmaster of Rugby and younger brother of Matthew, father of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and grandfather of Aldous Huxley. A scholar, teacher, and self-styled "wanderer," Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once more to Dublin, where he died in 1900. This biography explores Arnold's diverse path through academia, his complex relationship ...
|  | Making Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive: A Practical Approach to Reading, Writing, and Using Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Across the Curriculum
Publication Date: August 14, 2003| ISBN-10: 0205366090 | ISBN-13: 978-0205366095| Edition: 1 Short but yet informative, this practical text has many ideas and suggestions for the teaching and learning of nonfiction the classroom. ...
|  | The Winter Man: Silent Night Man\Sutton's Way
Release Date: September 29, 2009Silent Night ManWhat does Millie Evans want for Christmas? To feel safe. Even though her stalker is dead, he arranged for a hit man to kill her. Now the special government agent Millie has loved from afar for years has vowed to protect her. Tony Danzetta moves the prim librarian into his home and guards her 24/7. Dare she dream of keeping Tony, her own silent night man, by her side forever? Sutton's WayWyoming rancher and single father Quinn Sutton is raising a child he knows isn't his own. All the love left in his guarded heart goes to the boy. But when a bea...
|  | The Woman in the Fifth: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2011From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World and The Moment comes the riveting story of a luckless college professor for whom Paris becomes a city of mortal danger.A runaway bestseller in the UK and France that has been made into a film starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas, this suspenseful tour de force from the internationally renowned Douglas Kennedy is the quintessential sophisticated commercial novel.Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his ...
|  | The Ambler Warning
Release Date: October 31, 2006On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn't crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out...
|  | ChocoMimi, Vol. 3
Publication Date: January 5, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Cyberbully
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up In the tradition of the mega successful DIARY OF A WIMPY KID and DORK DIARIES, JOURNAL OF A SCHOOLYARD BULLY: CYBERBULLY by Farley Katz chronicles the life of Niko Kayler, habitual trouble-maker. For the second time in the series, Niko Kayler makes a triumphant return from bully rehab and must once again put the nerds in their places--but what happens when the tables are turned? After his mom transfers jobs and towns, Niko Kayler, notorious calculating bully, gets a second chance to be good, or be evil. Though he tri...
|  | El fuego del dragon/ Dragon's Fire (Eidolon) (Spanish Edition)
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