 | Burn Lake (National Poetry Series)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| Series: National Poetry SeriesSelected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey Set in southern New Mexico, where her family's multicultural history is deeply rooted, the poems in Carrie Fountain's first collection explore issues of progress, history, violence, sexuality, and the self. Burn Lake weaves together the experience of life in the rapidly changing American Southwest with the peculiar journey of Don Juan de Oñate, who was dispatched from Mexico City in the late sixteenth- century by Spanish royalty to settle the so-called Ne...
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|  | Cold Literature: Selected Works by Gao Xingjian (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature)
Publication Date: November 16, 2005| Series: Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chines novel and drama." The collection, which aims to present the diversity of Gao's literary talents, contains the highlights of his essays, stories, plays and poems. ...
|  | Some Chinese Ghosts
Publication Date: June 11, 2008Richly atmospheric, this collection features supernatural tales rooted in ancient Chinese legends. The author, an expert in Oriental lore, was praised by The New York Times for his "rare skill" and "gorgeousness of description." The originality, power, and literary charm of these stories will captivate readers of all ages. ...
|  | Gabriel
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Marten Weber’s Gabriel is a complex tale of innocence lost and love won. Against the backdrop of a rising China, we witness culture shock and racism, cruelty and greed, while also gaining a fascinating insight into the world of diplomacy and big business. Overwhelmed by the world around them, two men lose everything they believe in, in order to find each other.This fantastic tale of a modern-day angel is a parable of human avarice and selfishness, a political thriller, a story of self-discovery, but ultimately a simple love story. ...
|  | Gorgeous Carat Volume 3: (Yaoi) (v. 3)
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|  | The Seeker Academy
Publication Date: April 5, 2007Using the tools of literary fiction, The Seeker Academy explores the holistic healing (mind-body-spirit) movement, which has its roots in the beat-hippie counterculture and, earlier, in a romantic movement dating back three centuries. Author L. D. Gussin populates the story with characters struggling with how to live their lives. At local centers and retreats, they engage in wellness and spiritual practices, some which go beyond current Western norms. While middle class, their anxiety in the face of modern culture makes them, or some of them, seekers after puri...
|  | La de Dios es Cristo: El mesias vuelve a la tierra y se arma . . . (Papel de Liar) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Papel de Liar After spending more than four and a half million years trying to fix the flaws in the world He created, God decides to take a short, well-deserved rest. When He leaves His son Jesus in charge, everything seems to be right on track; it is the beginning of the Renaissance, and the works of Copernicus, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci have convinced God that it was worthwhile to create human beings. Four hundred years later, God returns to find His precious creation ruined by greed, corruption, and a sick obsession with celebrities—...
|  | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set)
Publication Date: November 17, 2004A cause for international celebration—the mostimportant Sherlock Holmes publication in fourdecades.This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould's 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Kling...
|  | The Interpretation of Dreams & Portents in Antiquity
Publication Date: March 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0865162565 | ISBN-13: 978-0865162563Humankind's awesome fascination with dreams and the occult is ageless. Between the covers of The Interpretation of Dreams and Portents in Antiquity, readers will find some of the earliest examples of this fascination.Collected for the first time are translations of some of the basic works used by ancient seers. Here, in their own words, are their interpretations of dreams, unraveling of signs, and their views on the significance of many kinds of unusual occurrences.This reprint of the 1976 Samuel Stevens Ha...
|  | Henrik Ibsen's the Wild Duck (Theatre Classics)
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|  | Serenity Through God
Publication Date: September 28, 2010 didn't believe that a person called God was real. Why did he let men take my body from me, having nothing to feel? My dad died when I was seven; he was a trucker. I sometimes wonder if he went to heaven, leaving my mom with six kids to raise, not knowing where our next meal would come from. She did her best and for that, I praise her. After being married twice by men who were mean, I felt something was wrong with me. I met Matthew and his whole family. They told me I wasn't responsible for things done to me, only by me. Matthew asked me to go to the cowbo...
|  | Ryokan (Art in Hand)
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|  | Diu Cr
Publication Date: March 21, 2002| ISBN-10: 0859916367 | ISBN-13: 978-0859916363Interesting and persuasive... will surely influence the future critical discussion of Heinrich's poem and the medieval Arthurian cycle. ARTHURIANA Diu Crône (The Crown) is one of the most neglected of Arthurian romances, perhaps because it does not fit into the canon of orthodox Arthurian stories: it is Gawain, not Perceval or Galahad, who achieves the Grail, and Heinrich's Arthur is not a predestined, assured imperial figure but a ruler who struggles through reverses and challenges as he attempts to esta...
|  | The Blind Singer
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1869404335 | ISBN-13: 978-1869404338Drawing on a wide range of material, this compendium of poetry integrates science, legend, history, biography, and film into a fiery collection of verse. From melody and empiricism to skepticism and superstition, the work's dialogue between poetry and science is by turns observant, charming, and dramatic. Bursting with musical elements from bells, nursery rhymes, and traditional ballads to Chaplin and Einstein playing string quartets, this poetry collection is a luminous performance that reverberates long after ...
|  | Shi ge chang tan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Yong lao shi ci jian shang (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | X-Men Mutant Empire : Book 1 - Siege
Release Date: May 1, 1996| Series: X-Men The X-Men's oldest and deadliest enemy, Magneto, has taken overthe Sentinels, powerful mutant-hunting robots, and the X-Men must fightthe Acolytes, Magneto's mutant followers, and the United Statesgovernment, which holds the X-Men responsible for the takeover.Original. ...
|  | My Kind of Heroes (Texas Heritage Series)
Publication Date: June 18, 2004| Series: Texas Heritage Series My Kind of Heroes was first published by State House Press in 1995 as a collection of four selected speeches by Elmer Kelton. This revised second edition, or Signature Edition, includes three of those pieces plus two new ones. The five essays are: "My Kind of Heroes," "Real Cowboys," "Oil Boom Days in West Texas," "The Truth of Fiction," and "Politically Correct or Historically Correct?" The signature on the front cover is Elmer Kelton's. As an author, he has always been generous about autographing books for his thousands of fans...
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Publication Date: February 22, 2011| Series: Divine Creek Ranch [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, sex toys] Angel Martinez has worked patiently for months to draw the fragile beauty out of her shell, wooing her with gentle kindness and falling for her delightful two-year-old in the process. Teresa left her painful past behind and built a new life for her and her son. She cares deeply for Angel, but is afraid to let down her guard. Just when she thinks she might be able to handle the flirtatious Divine Creek Ranch foreman, a holiday visitor arrives and th...
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