 | Fly On The Wall
Release Date: March 28, 2006His Story: "I could have any chick at West Dade Senior High, but I went after the one I was told couldn’t be broken, Ms. Patrick, my English teacher and my coach’s ex-wife. It started with me proving something to myself, but ended with me trying to prove to her that I was all the man she’d ever need."Her Story: "I struggled to treat him like any other student. All I asked was that he arrive to class on time and I encouraged him to complete class assignments. However, the lustful way he looked at me, the intimate things his words implied, and the w...
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|  | Lightning: A Novel
Publication Date: May 31, 2011Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time,Lightning is a captivating tale of one man’s curious fascination with the marvels of science.Hailed by the Washington Post as “the most distinctive voice of his generation,” Echenoz traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the age of twenty-eight to work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a long-lasting rivalry. After his discovery of alternating current, Gregor quickly be...
|  | A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Publication Date: May 1, 2002“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and...
|  | Ten Plays by Euripides
Release Date: August 1, 1990The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are. ...
|  | Tom Stoppard Plays Two: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' Is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?
Publication Date: February 6, 1997| Series: Faber Contemporary Classics Plays Two:The Dissolution of Dominic Boot'M' is for Moon Among Other ThingsIf You're Glad I'll Be FrankAlbert's BridgeWhere Are They Now?Artist Descending a StaircaseThe Dog It Was That DiedIn the Native StateIntroduced by the author, this second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, written between 1964 and 1991. These plays reflect the full range of Stoppard's gifts as well as his craftsmanship and versatility. His work for radio complements (and sometimes prefigures) his work for the stage.Inclu...
|  | Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: October 16, 2003| Series: Methuen Drama In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on political corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.This version of the play was premiered in London in 2003.Commentary and notes by Joseph Farrell. ...
|  | An Ordinary Day
Publication Date: February 1, 2002Permeated with the loneliness of exile, these sensual lyric poems straddle the gap between Chinese and American sensibilities, politics, and culture. The poems contain both autobiography and a kind of universal biography—they weep, and sing, for us all. ...
|  | Larenopfer
Publication Date: July 1, 2008 René Maria Rilke was born in Prague on 4 December 1875 and died near Montreux in Switzerland, on 29 December 1926. The foremost lyric German poet of the 20th century, he is remembered primarily for his Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus, the Neue Gedichte, the Buch der Bilder, the Stundenbuch, and the Cornet. Although his mature poetry has been translated into many languages, his early poetry remains accessible only in the original German. This translation of the Larenopfer, or offerings to the Lares, the Roman household deities, are s...
|  | Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A.d. Hope
Publication Date: December 2005The notebooks of A. D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet’s intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, forming them as a celebration of the joy and terror of human existence. Stripped of intimate revelation, the entries give witness to Hope’s view that art is a superior force in the creation of new being and values, and a guide for the conduct of our lives.Seeking to find pathways through the maze of an intellectual life, this is a ...
|  | Platonic Theology, Volume 4: Books XII-XIV (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: July 30, 2004| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 2)The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, an...
|  | Aristotle: Metaphysics, Books I-IX (Loeb Classical Library No. 271) (Bks.1-9)
Publication Date: January 1, 1933| ISBN-10: 0674992997 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992993Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip...
|  | Thunderball
Publication Date: September 1995James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Jazz Bird: A Novel
Publication Date: June 10, 2008An exquisitely written novel of love and betrayal, of money and power, set at the apex of that time of glitz and innocence known as the Jazz AgeCINCINNATI, 1927...Lawyer George Remus became the country's biggest bootlegger, grossing over$80 million until his arrest. Upon his release from prison, he learns that his beautiful wife, Imogene, has left him and that his bank accounts are empty. On the morning of their divorce, he runs her car off the road in the middle of rush hour in Eden Park and shoots her to death.Shocked and fascinated by this horrible crime, th...
|  | Somewhere In Crime
Publication Date: November 11, 2011Historical mysteries are nothing new to literature, but these short stories certainly are!Join us as we go back in time to unravel tales of mystery and suspense from award-winning authors as well as new ones.Set in a variety of locales, settings and conditions you'll be swept along in a current of crime. ...
|  | Los Caballeros Des Rey Arturo (Aventuras Fantasticas) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | El sueno de Amina / Amina's Dream (Caja De Cuentos / Box of Stories) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The First Thanksgiving (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: September 27, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Dragon and the Mouse: Together Again
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|  | Just So Thankful (Little Critter)
Release Date: August 22, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up There's a new kid in town who has everything Little Critter wants -- a Super Streak scooter, his own cell phone, and even a limousine! But Little Critter soon realizes that he has something money cannot buy -- a family who loves and adores him. ...
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