 | Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series)
Release Date: May 1, 2004| Series: The Art of the Novella "I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener issimply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in themid-19th century on New York City’s Wall Street, it was also, perhaps,Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up inthe rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?Thetale is one of the fin...
 |  | Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Release Date: December 1, 1990| Series: Dave Robicheaux MysteriesWinner of the Edgar® award for best novel Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a friend, to save what remains of his family—seeking justice and revenge in the Big Sky Country of Montana....
|  | The Last Sacrifice (The Last Disciple)
Publication Date: April 19, 2012| Series: The Last Disciple (Book 2) Helius, Nero’s most trusted adviser, anticipates the death of his sworn enemy, the legendary warrior Gallus Sergius Vitas, scheduled to die a gruesome death in the arena. However, the badly beaten man who appears in the amphitheater is not who he seems. Rescued by a stranger and given a mysterious scroll, Vitas is told he must decipher this letter to find the answers he needs—a letter that Helius is also determined to decipher and to keep hidden from Nero. As Nero’s reign of terror grows, so does his ci...
|  | The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
Publication Date: August 30, 2005THE MONKEY'S PAW and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre, Compiled by Gary Hoppenstand, brings together a unique collection of W.W. Jacobs's horror stories never before collected. There are eighteen stories altogether in this collection of the macabre and supernatural. Jacobs's own boyhood memories of South Devon Wharf lend an authenticity to the many stories with nautical backgrounds or that feature seamen as protagonists. An Academy Chicago original. Second printing. ...
|  | Games Men Play
Publication Date: December 11, 2003As players in a top league basketball team, the guys juggle the demands of the game they love with the pressures of daily life and relationships. ...
|  | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks)
Publication Date: October 30, 1975| ISBN-10: 0192811673 | ISBN-13: 978-0192811677| Edition: Facsimile edition These two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beautiful color reproduction of the design Blake created to illustrate the particular poem. ...
|  | 101 American Superstitions : Understanding Language and Culture through Superstitions
Publication Date: February 9, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844255998 | ISBN-13: 978-0844255996| Edition: 1 This humorous and informative compendium gives the origin and an example of each of 101 familiar superstitions. ...
|  | Oriental Theatre: Drama, Opera, Dance and Puppetry in the Far East (Stage by Stage)
Publication Date: August 31, 2005| Series: Stage by Stage Stage by Stage may well turn out to be the most important study of all facets of theatre to be published in this century""-The Stage. In this second volume of Stage by Stage series Philip Freund takes us beyond the barriers of culture and language to introduce us to the theatrical traditions and stagecraft of India, China, Japan, Korea and the many independent lands surrounding them.He describes the challenges that exponents of both Eastern and Western drama are facing as our cultures clash as never before and at the same time demonst...
|  | The Dance of the Dust on the Rafters: Selections from <I>Ryojin-hisho</I>
Publication Date: December 1, 1989These folk song, amongst the oldest in Japan, originated in the street, with the common people. These songs resonate with spirit—lusty and devotional, they are visions of love and faith. Filled with diverse feelings and experiences, sung by many voices, all of these songs come from the heart. [Former Brooken Moon Press title transferred to White Pine Press.] ...
|  | Chorro De Ciervos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 26, 2012A New Generation of Poets from Afghanistan :This collection of contemporary poems is by noted Hazara writer and journalist, Kamran Mir Hazar.Kamran voices the Hazara experience of the harassed refugee who longs to pursue his art, but is gagged by corrupt authorities at nearly every turn.Though he suffered stifling prejudice, physical violence, and exile, his poems express the most profound joys of life and an abiding commitment to justice and freedom.Translated from Persian/Dari/ Hazaragi and English to Spanish. A poetry from CHORRO DE CIERVOS ( Lines separated...
|  | In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism
Publication Date: February 1989These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language. --This text refers to the Paperback editi...
|  | The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Studies in Canadian literature)
Publication Date: April 13, 1989| Series: Studies in Canadian literature This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and ...
|  | Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Release Date: November 18, 2008The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more, it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing, as the first, Fierce Pajamas. From the 192...
|  | An Unforgiving Temper
Publication Date: February 14, 2011In "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen, what if Elizabeth never went to Pemberley? What if Fitzwilliam Darcy was not the only one with an unforgiving temper? What if the events in Ramsgate ended in an explosive conflict that set their course in another direction filled with implacable resentment and a rapacious thirst for revenge?"An Unforgiving Temper," by Gail Head, is the captivating story of what Darcy and Elizabeth's journey might have been. ...
|  | A Chivalrous Fray for Melinda's Key West Sunset Irises
Publication Date: May 29, 2001Charlie Owens is a twenty-six year old artist with a firm belief in the lessons of Greco-Roman mythology, a wayward thumb, and an eccentric perception of the world around him. In Key West he finds love amidst the choking abundance of today's world. But blocking his path is the conformist ex-boyfriend of Charlie's girlfriend, a personality-eviscerating job, and the calamity of the advanced technology of America. ...
|  | The Widow's Club
Release Date: September 1, 1989Stylish, amusing, and deliciously wicked, the Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell are hired to investigate a woman's organization whose members choose widowhood over divorce. With the help of a newlywed friend, the spinster sleuths stalk the mastermind of matrimonial murder. HC: Bantam. ...
|  | The Rivals of Painful Gulch: Lucky Luke 12 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: January 16, 2009 ...
|  | Angel Vampira, Myka la Diosa Bruja, y Gemelas Vampiras Brujas: Combo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 23, 2012"Angel Vampira" Mi nombre es Anael y soy una ángel. Mi padre me envio a la Tierra en una misión para ayudar a un niño humano. Estaba parada afuera de su ventana, tratando de decidir como presentarme a él, cuando repentinamente senti un dolor intenso en mi cuello. Me desmaye de inmediato. No se cuanto tiempo estuve inconciente. Cuando finalmente abri los ojos, me encontraba dentro de una extraña cueva oscura. Me toqué el cuello por instinto porque aún me dolia. Cuando estaba a punto de pararme escuche una voz que no me era fami...
|  | Baby's Book of Winnie the Pooh: A Disney Treasury of Stories and Songs for Baby
Release Date: March 2, 2001| Grade Level: P and up From bouncy songs to simple, silly stories to hush-a-bye lullabies, this treasury will help babies explore the worlds of rhythm, rhyme, and play. ...
|  | My Little Pony: Mystery Monster
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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