 | Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings (Library of America)
Release Date: September 10, 2001"If Dashiell Hammett ends up rubbing (or bending) elbows with Mark Twain, why, probably neither man will mind." (Chicago Sun Times, on Hammett: Complete Novels)In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American speech. These texts, along with some revealing essays and an early version of his novel The Thin Man...
 |  | How I Found America: Collected Stories
Publication Date: July 2003An indispensable volume of immigrant literature.Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jews—particularly women—on New York's Lower East Side. ...
|  | Clean Kill: A Sniper Novel (Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels)
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels On the heels of the New York Times bestselling Dead Shot comes the most thrilling installment of the Kyle Swanson series yet, in which an attempt at a new peace in the Middle East is shattered by an unknown attacker, and only Swanson can find out who’s responsible At a 15th Century castle outside Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell is brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli Foreign Minister are scheduled to sign an historic peace treaty—that is, until their meeting...
|  | Deaf Sentence: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 2009The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life comple...
|  | Rhymes of Love (Legas Italian Poetry in Translation)
Publication Date: January 15, 2011| Series: Legas Italian Poetry in Translation This is a translation of Torquato Tasso's Rime d'amore, introduced and translated into English verse by Maria Pastore Passaro. It contains and introduction and the Italian text faces the English translation on the opposite page. ...
|  | The greatest of these is love: A collection of stories and poems
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|  | Dissonance (if you are interested) (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
Publication Date: August 28, 2005| Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues, and the problems of translating from one to the other. Those discrepancies and disjunctions, instead of posing problems to be overcome, have become for Waldrop a generative force and the very foundation of her interests as a critic and poet. In this comprehe...
|  | Haiku for Catholics (Haiku for Life)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007Witty, insightful, inspiring and sometimes just plain weird, Haiku for Catholics is the perfect book for the regular Mass attendee or the recovering parochial student in your life. One hundred seventeen-syllable gifts plus room for you to add a few of your own! The poems are neither catechetical nor catty, just simple observations from years of being around parishes and parishioners. If you're not Catholic, there aren't a lot of inside jokes. But if you want in on a particular punch line, bring the book to a pew and ask someone to explain. After the recessional ...
|  | The Lady's Tutor
Release Date: September 1, 2000An Education In Pleasure - Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. A Lesson In Love - The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasu...
|  | Past Redemption (The Darkwing Chronicles, Book 2)
Release Date: April 4, 2006Scandal, secrets, seduction - it's all in the family. If you passed Daphne Urban on the streets of New York, you'd see a sleek young brunette dressed to kill. You'd never know she was a vampire. But the government knows. Their ultimatum is to spy for the United States, or be terminated. And after all these centures, Daphne is not ready to call it quits...The word is out on Susto. It's a new recreational drug that intensifies sex, it's spreading like wildfire - and it's lethal. Team Darkwing's mission is to track the drug back to its origin. Immersing themselves in ...
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|  | Chicago Blues
Publication Date: October 16, 2007Nobody does Blues like Chicago. This collection of dark stories, from today's best Chicago crime fiction authors, captures the depths to which people sink when they run out of options. The emptiness and pain spawned by greed.The violence--or occasionally, the bittersweet redemption--that springs from a broken heart.The writers who live and breathe in Chicago make Chicago live and breathe in this stunning collection. Contributors include Sara Paretsky, Stuart Kaminsky, Barbara D'Amato, Max Allan Collins, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover, Michael Black, JA Konrath...
|  | The Oxford Book of Villains
Publication Date: December 9, 1993"The world may be short of many things," writes John Mortimer in the introduction to this marvelous volume, "rain forests, great politicians, black rhinos, saints, and caviar, but the supply of villains is endless. They are everywhere, down narrow streets and in brightly lit office buildings and parliaments, dominating family life, crowding prisons and law courts, and providing plots for most of the works of fiction that have been composed since the dawn of history." Now, in the ultimate rogue's gallery, Mortimer (best known as the author of Rumpole of the B...
|  | La Balle de Nausicaa (French Edition)
Publication Date: December 27, 2011D'étranges criminels se sont donné rendez-vous dans ce recueil… Celui de “La Balle de Nausicaa” semble avoir joué au ballon avant de commettre un meurtre ! Difficile de croire qu'un simple bonhomme de neige puisse se transformer en un tueur sans pitié ! Encore plus d'imaginer une vengeance aussi féroce que celle de “L'Étrange regard” ou un plan plus retors que celui du meurtrier de “La Malle sanglante” ! Et que dire de ce clown qui préfère supprimer ses semblables plut&...
|  | Ultimate Sticker Collection: Spider-Man
Publication Date: April 30, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | El gato con botas: Fairy Tale Favorites Pop-Ups: Puss in Boots, Spanish Edition (Mis cuentos favoritos)
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|  | This Is Soccer
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Giant Play and Learn Book (Activity)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature
Release Date: January 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0810849526 | ISBN-13: 978-0810849525Now available in paperback! In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children. Nikolajeva identifies a continuum of texts ranging from those that depict non-linear time, typical of archaic, or mythical, thought, to those that express linearity, typical of contemporary mainstream literature. The author argues that literature is a deconstruction, a displacement, of myth, and that it depicts a symbolic coming-of-age process rather than a stric...
|  | Dragon's Fat Cat: Dragon's Fourth Tale
Publication Date: March 1992| Age Level: 4 and up...
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