 | The Return of the Red Elk
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 |  | Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
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|  | The Summer We Came to Life
Release Date: May 31, 2011Every summer, Samantha Wheland joins her childhood friends—Isabel, Kendra and Mina—on a vacation, somewhere exotic and fabulous. Together with their mixed bag of parents, they've created a lifetime of memories. This year it's a beach house in Honduras. But for the first time, their clan is not complete. Mina lost her battle against cancer six months ago, and the friends she left behind are still struggling to find their way forward without her.For Samantha, the vacation just feels wrong without Mina. Despite being surrounded by her friends—the closest...
|  | A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: October 31, 2000| Series: New York Review Books Classics In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the...
|  | Ride With the Devil
Publication Date: November 1, 1999 Daniel Woodrell's shattering coming-of-age novel brilliantly captures the lawless universe of war as seen through the eyes of a young secessionist.The 1860s: While the great battles of the Civil War rage in the East, Jayhawkers and bushwhackers wage their own vicious heartland war, savaging all in their wake without conscience or pity. Where the First Kansas Irregulars ride, no one is safe.At sixteen, Jake Roedel joins this piratical band, and partakes in brutality excused in the name of retribution. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions h...
|  | The Faerie Queene: Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos (Bk. 6)
Publication Date: September 7, 2007| ISBN-10: 0872208915 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208919Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of cont...
|  | Medea
Publication Date: August 1, 2008Euripides' Medea, first produced in 431 BC, has long been considered one of the great masterpieces of classical Greek drama and has attracted attention in modern times as one of the first great works of feminist drama. The play pits Medea, a murderously passionate barbarian princess, against her husband, Jason, the leader of an expedition of Greek heroes who set out to capture the fabled Golden Fleece. Jason was successful on that voyage largely because of Medea's help, which required her to turn against her own family. They returned together, became husband a...
|  | Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres (Arethusa Books)
Publication Date: November 17, 2006| Series: Arethusa Books The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles. Unlike the writers of tragedy, who prefer a uniformly elevated tone, Aristophanes articulates his dramatic dialogue with striking literary and linguistic juxtapositions, producing a carnivalesque medley of genres that continually forces both audience and reader to readjust their perspectives. In this energetic and original study, Charles Pla...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: July 3, 2008| Series: Tierra Firme La compilación es un reencuentro con cuatro décadas de la vida -literaria y personal- de ese solitario que para Marco Antonio Flores es el poeta. Su escritura nace de la interiorización de elementos cotidianos: imágenes, emociones, pasiones, experiencias. Los recuerdos se trasforman a través del lenguaje en experiencias únicas, vueltas a formular para expresar su esencia subcutánea. Cada poema es una migaja dejada en el camino, las observa con curiosidad, como tirada por una mano ajena: un instante de la ...
|  | Facets of European Modernism: Essays in Honour of James McFarlane
Publication Date: June 17, 1996| ISBN-10: 0902171143 | ISBN-13: 978-0902171145This collection of critical essays is devoted to literary Modernism. The first part explores Modernism as a European phenomenon, including essays on the Berlin Theatre, Edvard Munch, and Beckett. The second part investigates the manifestations of Modernism in Scandinavian literature in general, and in the works of individual authors such as Karen Blixen, Knut Hamsun, and Dag Solstad. ""Prof. McFarlane, Scandinavianist and Comparatist, throughout his career, has focused on the relationships between the literatur...
|  | Arizona Caress (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Zebra Historical Romance For a man of Chance Broderick's charm and wealth, Boston offers plenty of tempting distractions. But when he receives word that his brother is in danger in Arizona Territory, Chance dutifully travels west. There he finds a wild, lawless land full of surprises. The biggest shock is discovering that the tracker he's hired is not the brash boy he assumed, but a beautiful, thoroughly independent young woman. Raised by her grandfather after the death of her white father and Pima mother, Rori has learned to fend for herself. Nothing woul...
|  | The Detonators (Matt Helm, No. 22)
Release Date: May 12, 1985Product DetailsMass Market Paperback: 345 pagesPublisher: Fawcett; First Edition edition (May 12, 1985)Language: English ...
|  | A Cold Day for Murder: A Kate Shugak Mystery (Kate Shugak Mysteries)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Kate Shugak Mysteries It’s December in the Park, and a ranger is missing. It’s no great lossto the rest of the Park rats, they figure he’s stumbled into a snowbankand will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the ground to thaw andthem to bury him. But when the man sent to look for him alsodisappears, Kate Shugak, ex-investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and Parkhomesteader, is sent in search of them both. First in the KateShugak series. ...
|  | The Cheaters / Dial M for Man
Publication Date: October 28, 2011THE CHEATERSClint Mayer is a big man with big dreams. Or so he thinks. When Clint leaves Beaverkill for the rough and tumble dock town of Wilton, he hooks up with Charlie Fletcher, good time saloon owner and businessman. One of the businesses Charlie runs out of the bar involves a string of working girls, but he has to pay off Detective Red Brandon and it's wearing him down. He's had enough. Clint agrees to buy him out, butthen he meets Charlie's wife, Debbie. Clint thinks he can find a way to keep the bar, manage the girls and stay away from Brandon. He may...
|  | Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
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|  | One Perfect Shot: A Posadas County Mystery
Publication Date: January 3, 2012When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation--that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains--is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the road grader, in full view of the victim--who did nothing to defend himself. In addition to the demands of the investi...
|  | Memories of a Future Past 2nd Edition
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| | Siesta De Tres Anos (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Adventures in SportsLand - The Baseball Bully (Adventures in SportsLand: The Bully)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Diary of a Surfing Freak (Diary of a Sports Freak)
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