| Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings ...
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| The Maypole Warriors (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) Publication Date: August 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0935480587 | ISBN-13: 978-0935480580| Edition: First edition. novel, US/Chilean, tr Carlos Lozano ...
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| 18 Best Stories By Edgar Allan Poe Publication Date: September 1983| ISBN-10: 0606006001 | ISBN-13: 978-0606006002A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including: The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tal...
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| Living Myths: How Myth Gives Meaning to Human Experience Release Date: April 6, 1999An intriguing exploration of the enduring significance of the world's great myths--from the dawn of time to the present dayAs ancient as speech, as essential as law, myths are the stories we tell to find our identity in the cosmos. It is through mythology that we attempt to unravel not only the meaning of our actions and impulses but the significance of human existence itself. Now in Living Myths, classical scholar J. F. Bierlein explores the enduring patterns and messages of myths from every culture.Myths, writes Bierlein, are "the eternal mirror in which we see o...
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| Lost Empire: A Fargo Adventure Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: A Fargo Adventure Sam and Remi Fargo, heroes of Spartan Gold, return in this extraordinary new adventure from the number-one New York Times- bestselling author.With Spartan Gold, a daring thriller that Publishers Weekly proclaimed "solidly in the Cussler tradition, [and] sure to please new fans and old," Clive Cussler introduced husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo.In their electrifying new adventure, the Fargos make a startling discovery that others would kill to keep hidden... While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo c...
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| Justice at Risk Publication Date: September 23, 2008Benjamin Justice's new assignment as a TV documentary writer takes a dire turn when the producer disappears from his hotel room in a trail of blood. As Justice delves into his predecessor's notes and follows his tracks, he enters a world of pleasure and peril--and deadly secrets. By the Edgar Award-winning author of "Simple Justice". ...
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| 1066 And All That (Literature/Arts) Publication Date: May 1993| Series: Literature/Arts A comical look at English history since the beginning of time -- no one, no event is spared. A strong knowledge of English history is not needed to enjoy this fun read. ...
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| Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Release Date: April 1, 2001| Series: Penguin Classics Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry. This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces M...
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| Phantom Release Date: October 2, 2012Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong—fleeing the traumas of life as a cop—he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't ...
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| El hablador (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: December 10, 2010| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other-our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment. Steering the reader in a vertiginous journey through the collective mind of the Machiguenga Indians, Vargas Llosa expounds, once again, on one of his obsessions: the role fiction plays in the life of humanity. ...
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| Classical Comedy (Penguin Classics) Release Date: May 29, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics The ideal single-volume introduction to the greatest masterpieces of ancient comedyFrom the fifth to the second century B.C., theatrical comedy flourished in Greece and Rome. This new anthology brings together four essential masterworks of the genre: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative The Birds; Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehavior; and two later Roman comic plays-Plautus's The Brothers Menaechmus, the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors; and Te...
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| Angry Voices: An Anthology of the Off-Beat New Egyptian Poets Publication Date: May 1, 2003A new movement is emerging in Egyptian literature--urban in its energies; cosmopolitan in its national, Arabic, and western influences; and independent and rowdy in its voice. For centuries, Arabic literature mandated traditional, unchanging, highly structured language and forms. In the 1960s and 1970s, writers rebelled to write in a variety of vernaculars. Now, young Egyptian poets are inventing new ways of writing. ...
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| Podium III: An anthology of poetry and storytelling from Samhlaiocht Chiarrai-Kerry Arts Festival '98 ...
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| Romancing the Past : The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France (New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, No 23) Publication Date: February 10, 1995| Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics (Book 23) In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy. ...
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| Secrets: The Best in Women's Sensual Fiction, Vol. 5 Publication Date: December 1, 1999The best in Women's Erotica provocative...seductive...stories ...
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| The Scandal of Father Brown: 7 Unabridged Stories Publication Date: August 6, 2001Father Brown uses his distinctive style of deduction to solve the seemingly unsolvable. His cherubic face, his dull eyes behind thick glasses, and his air of outward confusion disguise an amazing perspicacity. ...
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| Kung Fu Panda: I Can Read (Spanish edition) (I Can Read Book 2) ...
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| The Pommel Horse and the Rings (Compete Like a Champion) ...
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| Little MissMatched's Pajama Party in a Box Publication Date: August 16, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Food Technology (Sci-Hi: Science and Technology) Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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