 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Barnes & Noble Classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, 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: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of i...
 |  | Eugene O'Neill and Oriental Thought: A Divided Vision
Publication Date: May 1, 1982“Off and on, of late years, I have studied the history and development of all religions with immense interest as being for me, at least, the most illuminating ‘case histories’ of the inner life of man.”—Eugene O’Neill writing to M. C. Sparrow, 1929 While it is commonly accepted that Eugene O’Neill studied Oriental mystical religions and that this study may be detected in some of his less successful experimental plays (Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, Marco Millions) there has not been an effort to consider...
|  | Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Release Date: August 31, 2004| Series: Dave Robicheaux Mysteries For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers.When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particul...
|  | Finding Bluefield
Publication Date: September 18, 2012When Barbara Phillips arrives in Bluefield, Virginia, to begin her medical residency, she thinks she is headed for an uneventful few years filled with work in an obscure little town where no one knows her—which is exactly what she wants.Everything changes when she enters Nicky’s diner and begins a journey that will last a lifetime as she falls in love against her better judgment and best-laid plans. The free-spirited Nicky later attends the 1963 March on Washington and impulsively and anonymously sleeps with a man in hopes of getting pregnant an...
|  | Steve McQueen Would Be Proud
Publication Date: December 2001Early morning steam rises from the pier pilings of the Subic Bay Naval Base as the shore patrol escorts a handcuffed Fatty Fitzgerald to the quarterdeck of his new ship, the U.S.S. Dermody.From that moment, life changes for the men aboard the Dermody, especially Larson, a young sailor fresh from electronics school.“Steve McQueen Would be Proud” is a coming-of-age story that explores a world that no longer exists, except in the memories of thousands of sailors who served in the Western Pacific during the Vietnam War. --This text refers to the Kindl...
|  | The Wilder Shores of Love
Release Date: October 26, 2010Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkis...
|  | Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought
Publication Date: November 10, 1999| ISBN-10: 0300076487 | ISBN-13: 978-0300076486This intriguing book by a master historian explores the ancient story of Noah and the Flood -- its origins in pre-Biblical culture, its development in Western thought over 2,000 years, and its fascination for theologians, scientists, and even psychoanalysts. Generously illustrated throughout, the book includes compelling accounts of individuals who endorsed or rejected the story, and of painters, sculptors, poets, dramatists, and composers who found inspiration in it. ...
|  | The Liar (Ives) - Acting Edition
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|  | Faust (pt. 2)
Publication Date: June 16, 1998| Series: Faust Goethe's Faust, Part Two is distinguished by its extraordinary range of allusion, tone, and style. Full of variety of historical scene and poetic effect, the masterpiece is at times satirical, witty, and even broadly comic, at others grand and soaring. This sparkling new translation of Faust, Part Two now affords English-language readers much of the pleasure afforded readers of the original German. Award-winning translator Martin Greenberg casts Goethe's verse in a natural, vigorous, lucid English that preserves Goethe's poetic effects while acc...
|  | New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Everyman's Pocket Classics An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of the Sea.Writers have always been enthralled and inspired by New York City, and their vibrant and varied stories provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s high life, low life, nightlife, and everything in between. From the wisecracking Broadway guys and dolls of Damon Runyon to the glittering ballrooms of Edith Wharton, from the jazz- soaked nightspots of Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin to the starr...
|  | The Literary Traveler: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Release Date: November 1, 1996A collection of nineteen stories brings together the works of Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Alice Munro, William Trevor, and others, and follows a theme about new places and perspectives as brought on by travel. By the compiler of The Literary Lover. 15,000 first printing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai'i
Publication Date: January 1, 1998Poetry. Fiction. Pacific Island Studies. The anthology is the product of the combined vision of three organizations dedicated to the enhancement of education in Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press, Curriculum Research and Development Group, and Hawaii Education Association. ...
|  | Platero and I/Platero y yo: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
Publication Date: June 4, 2004| Series: Dover Dual Language Spanish The most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), this is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the 1917 edition. This is the only dual-language edition available. Introduction, Explanatory Notes. ...
|  | Gisants. Poem 3 1980 95 (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) (French Edition)
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|  | Love Songs and Sonnets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: January 28, 1997| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband." Shakespeare is here, of course, and Burnas, whose comparison of his love to a red, red rose remains one of the most celebrated of all poetic similes. This edition also includes a variety of delights by everyo...
|  | Victorian Studies in Scarlet
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|  | Kissing The Man Next Door (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: April 21, 2009| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 140) Hairstylist Mackenzie Reese is feeling fabulous and free! Her teenage son has gone cross-country to live with her ex, so Mackenzie's got a new lease on life--no men, no kids, no problem! Then sexy disc jockey Ian Kelly moves in next door...and it's more than just the barbecue that heats up.Ian moved to Vermont for a job and his own type of freedom. But he hadn't counted on a beautiful, sassy neighbor to stir his deep, delicious longings. And when Ian finally crosses Mackenzie's threshold...it's more than just sugar he wants....
|  | Aching for Always
Release Date: September 28, 2010RITA Award–winning author Gwyn Cready continues the “sexy fun” (BookPage) of her charming time-travel adventures with a high-spirited tale of a modern-day mapmaker and the eighteenth-century English navy captain she can’t resist.Ambitious and feisty Josephine “Joss” O’Malley has spent years fighting to keep her mother’s map-making company alive. Just when she finds herself considering taking a risky next step with bad-boy entrepreneur Rogan Reynolds— whose generosity has helped keep the business af...
|  | Wild Goose Chase (A Quilting Mystery)
Publication Date: February 8, 2008| Series: A Quilting Mystery (Book 1) A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso.Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor&md...
|  | Original Sin
Release Date: July 14, 2009Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishingin this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalglieshand his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity.A murder hastaken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing houselocated in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne,the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm'sfortunes.Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a...
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