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Release Date: October 19, 1994The story of Moss, a young Native American boy, and the events surrounding his clan's traditional harvest feast by the acclaimed author of Morning Girl. (Ages 8 and up) ...
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|  | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1970: Final Quarry; Murder Will In; Runesmith; Fourth Tense of Time; Fabulous Bartender; Nobody Believes an Indian; Science: Playing the Game; Voices Answering Back: The Vampires
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|  | Emily Dennistoun
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Emily Dennistoun lives alone with her elderly tyrannical father at Borriston Hall on the Scottish coast. Her mother died many years before, and her younger brother is at Oxford, presented with opportunites that Emily can only dream of. She has few friends and lives through her writing. Then she meets Francis, and despite vicissitudes of fortune, despite uncertainties, loneliness and unhappiness, Emily holds steadfast to a love she knows is true. ...
|  | An Eye of the Fleet (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics) (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 1) Nathaniel Drinkwater's life at sea begins with the HMS CYCLOPS's capture of the SANTA TERESA during Admiral Rodney's dramatic Moonlight Battle of 1780. Subsequently, Drinkwater's courage and initiative are put to the test as the CYCLOPS pursues American privateers threatening British trade and is later dispatched to the swamps of South Carolina, where many lives are lost both at sea and ashore. Gradually, Drinkwater matures into a capable and self-assured sailor. As he contends with enemy forces, the tyrann...
|  | By Force of Arms (Revolution at Sea #1)
Publication Date: April 1999Fleeing the New England coast after foiling a British man-of-war's attempt to seize his cargo, merchant sea captain Isaac Biddlecomb finds himself in the middle of a brewing rebellion and at the mercy of a sadistic captain. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Prodigal Wife: A Novel
Release Date: January 5, 2010“Deservedly compared to her countrywomen, Binchy and Pilcher, Willett is an equally gifted storyteller.”—Booklist In Marcia Willett’s latest novel, Jolyon, who had been abandoned by his mother, Maria, is living at the Keep with his father and his stepmother Fliss. Now that Jolyon is a successful television presenter of gardening programs, the recently widowed Maria, lonely and impressed by her son’s fame, reappears and hopes to step back into his life. But Jolyon finds it difficult to trust his mother and forgive the hurt she ha...
|  | Goodness (Parks, Tim)
Publication Date: January 21, 1994| Series: Parks, Tim George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with an apparently insoluble problem. Except that the word 'insoluble' just isn't part of the man's vocabulary. George will stop at nothing, nothing, to get his life back on the rails again. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The First Man
Release Date: August 6, 1996Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood."The First...
|  | The Complete Fragments of Menander (Some Assembly Required) & Other Plays
Publication Date: October 5, 2011Menander, the master of New Comedy, with a little help from Aristophanes, the master of Old Comedy, learns about the history of ancient Greek comedy in the form of a short new comedy complete with romance, mistaken identities, crusty hicks, trickster servants and profoundly unhelpful deities.Originally produced for the San Antonio Museum of Art's Greek and Roman Family Day. Also included are: The 27 Minute Odyssey, a short theatrical adaptation of The Odyssey for children and discerning adults. The 15 Minute Odyssey, an even shorter adaptation of The Odyssey ...
|  | Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures
Publication Date: August 10, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415937639 | ISBN-13: 978-0415937634| Edition: 4 A classic fable of German literature, Till Eulenspiegel is a cheerfully scatological collection of 95 loosely related vignettes depicting the life and times of a famous roving jester. ...
|  | Euro-haiku: A Bi-lingual Anthology
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|  | The Waste Land and Other Poems
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|  | Reflections and Sunsets (Kachere Books)
Publication Date: September 5, 2000| Series: Kachere Books (Book 25) The collection brings together some 40 poems by the Malawian poet Hoffman Aipira. The poems are divided thematically into sections entitled 'Reflections and Sunsets', 'Another Winter', 'Distant Drums', and 'Telling Tales'. ...
|  | The Most Beautiful Bibles (25th Anniversary Special Edtn)
Publication Date: September 2, 2008| Series: 25th Anniversary Special Edtn In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages was the zenith of the Bible. It was a time when bibles were commissioned by kings, princes, and high-ranking members of the Curia, whose wealth and influence begat ornately illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. The Most Beautiful Bibles covers examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, presenting the Bible as it was visualized in both theological and historical contexts. As the beauty and significance of the illustrations are undeniable, the manuscr...
|  | The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde (Hopkins Studies in Modernism)
Publication Date: June 18, 2012| Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity.Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen,...
|  | Love Letters of Great Men
Release Date: November 25, 2008Remember the wonderfully romantic book of love letters that Carrie reads aloud to Big in the recent blockbuster film, Sex and the City? Fans raced to buy copies of their own, only to find out that the beautiful book didn't actually exist. However, since all of the letters referenced in the film did exist, we decided to publish this gorgeous keepsake ourselves. Love Letters of Great Men follows hot on the heels of the film and collects together some of history's most romantic letters from the private papers of Beethoven, Mark T...
|  | Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews
Publication Date: February 11, 2005In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published a series of books that established his reputation as a world-renowned communications theorist and the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media. And it was he who coined the phrases "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and popularized other memorable terms including "feedback" and "iconic."McLuhan was far more than a pithy phrasemaker, however. He foresaw the development of personal computers at a time when comput...
|  | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5-Book Boxed Set
Release Date: November 1, 2005| Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5 Books in Very Good Condition. All Paperbacks. ...
|  | The Mastersinger from Minsk: An Inspector Hermann Preiss Mystery
Release Date: June 18, 2012| Series: An Inspector Hermann Preiss Mystery (Book 2) It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg. It has been a difficult few years for him, and much depends upon the success of this new work. Following the tense auditions, an anonymous note warns Wagner that the premiere will be the date of his ruination.Enter Inspector Hermann Preiss, who discovers a complication. Her name is Cornelia Vanderhoute, and she claims to have been made pregnant after a typical brief Wagner fling.A series of mur...
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