 | Windy City
Release Date: April 14, 2009In a novel as brawling and boisterous as Chicago itself, Scott Simon delivers a tale both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, capturing the multiethnic tumult of big city politics.The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, murdered, facedown in a pizza. As police race to find the killer, the interim mayor, Sundaran “Sunny” Roopini, tries to juggle his responsibilities as a recently widowed father of two teenage daughters while herding his forty-nine fellow city aldermen toward choosing a new mayor. Over the course of four days, this...
 |  | Nick and Jake: An Epistolary Novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2012In the comic tradition of Catch-22, the protagonists of Hemingway and Fitzgerald return.America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on a red-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles is starting to dabble in nation-building. Into this moment of history wander Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. They begin a correspondence that leads to a close friendship, and wide...
|  | Matilda's Last Waltz
Publication Date: May 4, 2000Churinga sheep-station in the Australian Outback is a parting gift from Jenny's husband - a legacy she only learns about after his tragic death. With nowhere else to turn for comfort she makes her way there to find a harsh, unforgiving place but with its own quiet beauty. It also has its secrets. Jenny's new neighbours seem reluctant to talk about Matilda Thomas, Churinga's former owner. But the longer Jenny spends on the farm, the more she is aware of her predecessor's lingering presence. Then she discovers Matilda's diaries and finds herself drawn into a tale m...
|  | I Fell for a Sailor (Fred Urquhart Collection)
Publication Date: October 28, 2011| Series: Fred Urquhart Collection Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart's first collection of short stories brings to life the modern Scotland of the 1930s, using his inimitably vivid dialogue.He shows the struggles of working-class women, whether labouring in a sweatshop, facing death in a tuberculosis hospital or seeking escape on a bike of her own.His male characters also have problems, caused by army life, religion or homosexuality in a period of oppression.Life is sometimes overshadowed by the approach of war.But there is comedy too, for exa...
|  | The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (Military History Series)
Publication Date: February 2, 2000| Series: Military History Series In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how American government and military officials developed a disturbingly limited concept of war -- what he calls "technowar" -- in which all efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy's body count, regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into account their enemy's highly e...
|  | French Without Tears (Acting Edition)
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|  | Poems from the Soul
Publication Date: October 19, 2011These poems are dedicated to my gentle mother Cynthia, as well as to humble souls the world over. These poems came from my heart and soul and are based upon the lives of real people who have affected my life. ...
|  | Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) (Hellenic Studies, 2)
Publication Date: April 15, 2004| ISBN-10: 0674011058 | ISBN-13: 978-0674011052This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic. These texts are considered as individual poems and as collective artifact, an early poetry book. The volume will be of interest to readers of Greek and Latin epigra...
| | Adirondack Haiku: Kayaking Through Fog
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|  | Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems
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|  | Cold Snack
Publication Date: July 1, 2007A well-loved New Zealand poet returns to territory that will be familiar to all readers in this collection of verse that takes on the uncelebrated, even mundane aspects of everyday life: family, work, suburbia. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with a midlife career change; the second looks back to a period earlier in the poet’s life, when she was a receptionist for a television company; and the third is a more intimate, bittersweet offering of personal poems. With her moving, lyrical lines, the author documents and ties togethe...
|  | Hwswas (Volume 1) (Amharic Edition)
Publication Date: June 15, 2011Book of Poetry about Ethiopian history, politics, philosophy and stories of wisdom. ...
|  | Architecture as Cosmology
Publication Date: November 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 1433113163 | ISBN-13: 978-1433113161| Edition: First printing Architecture as Cosmology examines the precedents, interpretations, and influences of the architecture of one of the great buildings in the history of architecture, Lincoln Cathedral. It analyzes the origin and development of its architectural forms, which were to a great extent unprecedented and were very influential in the development of English Gothic architecture and in conceptions of architecture to the present day. Architecture as Cosmology emphasizes the relation of the arch...
|  | Julian, Volume II. Orations 6-8. Letters to Themistius. To The Senate and People of Athens. To a Priest. The Caesars. Misopogon (Loeb Classical Library No. 29)
Publication Date: January 1, 1913| ISBN-10: 0674990323 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990326Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate", Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar", and made him governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overth...
|  | Strategies for Reading and Arguing About Literature
Publication Date: March 21, 2006| ISBN-10: 013093853X | ISBN-13: 978-0130938534| Edition: 1For courses in English Composition, Argumentative Writing, and Introduction to Literature.Strategies for Reading and Arguing about Literature brings together the often divergent studies of argumentation and literature. This textbook teaches the art of academic argumentation through a focus on classic and contemporary literature. Using this book, students will learn, practice and master critical reading strategies, critical writing and research strategies, the essentials of...
|  | Paul Gauguin: Letters To His Wife And Friends
Release Date: September 2, 2003"May the day come--and perhaps soon--when I can flee to the woods on a South Sea island and live there in ecstasy, in peace and for art," Gauguin wrote to his wife, Mette, in 1890. As both art history and enduring legend have shown, Gauguin's life in the South Seas was anything but ecstatic or peaceful, even as he created some of the most revolutionary and iconic objects of his time. This book, to date the most comprehensive volume of the painter's letters to be published, offers an uncensored glimpse into Gauguin's life, from his days as a young newlywed repor...
|  | The McKettrick Legend
Release Date: December 28, 2010New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling sensation Linda Lael Miller returns with these classic McKettrick tales in one great collection!Sierra's HomecomingWhen she moved to her family's ancestral ranch, single mom Sierra McKettrick was disconcerted by the Triple M's handsome caretaker, Travis Reid. But when her son claimed to see a mysterious boy in the house, and an heirloom teapot started popping up in unexpected places, Sierra wondered if the attraction between her and Travis might be the least of her worries.In 1919 widowed Hannah McKettrick lived at the r...
|  | Tall, Dark and Fearless: Frisco's Kid\Everyday, Average Jones (Hqn)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Hqn New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author SUZANNE BROCKMANN returns with two more classic tales of tall, dark and dangerous men who face the msot daring adventure of all — FALLING IN LOVEFRISCO'S KIDBeing a Navy SEAL is more than a career to Alan "Frisco" Francisco—it is his whole world. So when a bullet wound threatens his future in the Navy, he is determined to achieve a full recovery…all on his own. But his lovely neighbor Mia Summerton has other plans for him. She can't mend his wounded body, but can she heal his heart?EV...
|  | Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
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|  | Ireland-Molly's Magic (Probelm Solving Children's Book)
Publication Date: June 1, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Molly is a clever pig. She can dance an Irish jig, balance a tin plate on her head, and catch a ball in midair. But can Molly help rescue the O'Malley farm from its financial woes? That, thinks young Miles O'Malley, would take the talents of a magician. Molly is no magician, but her great ideas for solving problems work like magic!This is the story of how Molly conjures carloads of tourists and sends them flocking to the rescue of the O'Malley family and their Seaside Tea Garden. British-born author Penelope Paine ha...
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