 | The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (British Library - British Library Sound Archive)
Publication Date: July 15, 2010| Series: British Library - British Library Sound Archive Sylvia Plath is widely regarded as one of the most influential American authors of the twentieth century. Her frank, confessional style of writing, combined with her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her tragic suicide at age thirty have created an enduring literacy legacy and public fascination. This CD brings together BBC recordings from the British Library Sound Archive and features Plath reading many of her poems, such as “Leaving Early,” “Candles,...
 |  | Camino Real (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: October 31, 2008| Series: New Directions Paperbook The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with a new introduction, the author's original foreword and afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller.In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real (pronounciation: Cá-mino Réal) is a long highway, a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, a nightmare, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature—Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron&...
|  | Letters to My Daughters
Publication Date: April 6, 2004 In Letters to My Daughters, famed political consultant and TV personality Mary Matalin shares the moral, ethical, and occasionally comic life lessons gleaned from her mother's experiences and her own. These letters range from the spiritual to the practical, from giving life to accepting death, from civic to personal responsibility, from looking and feeling good to dealing with those pesky boys, and more.Here's a sampling of the mother wisdom within:• "When I tell you I understand what you're going through, it's not just because I remember what it felt...
|  | To Skin a Cat (Joe Box Mystery Series, Book 3)
Publication Date: July 12, 2006In To Skin a Cat, Joe Box battles pornography mogul Cyrus Alan "Cat" Tate. Joe sides with the family-values groups that have been trying to shut down Tate's cankerous world of video and printed porn, but Tate has other ideas. Tate offers Joe a lucrative position as head of corporate security.The stakes grow even higher with the introduction of "virtual porn," a type of pornography with more allure than anything Joe ever imagined—and the onslaught of a personal attack he thought he'd never have to face....
|  | Door to Alternity: The Unseen Trilogy, Book 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel crossover)
Release Date: June 26, 2001| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Unseen (Book 2) Part two of the three-volume crossover series featuring Buffy and Angel. In Los Angeles, the pair compare notes and realise that both are dealing with cases of missing teenagers, most of them children of rich and powerful parents. Coincidence? Or is there something more sinister at work? ...
|  | Lucian: The Passing of Peregrinus. The Runaways. Toxaris or Friendship. The Dance. Lexiphanes. The Eunuch. Astrology. The Mistaken Critic. The ... Disowned. (Loeb Classical Library No. 302)
Publication Date: January 1, 1936| ISBN-10: 0674993330 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993334Lucian (ca. 120–190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in w...
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|  | Der Arme Heinrich
Publication Date: December 1, 1997This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy th...
|  | Signs in the Sky: Poems (Papua Pocket Poets, 19)
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|  | Intimations of Postmodernity
Publication Date: December 13, 1991| ISBN-10: 0415067502 | ISBN-13: 978-0415067508This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity. ...
|  | Dali A&I (Art and Ideas)
Publication Date: May 23, 1997One of the best-known and most visually influential artists of the 20th century, Salvadore Dali achieved fame on an international scale as both painter and celebrity. Bridging the gap between high art and popular culture, he created in his Surrealist works a startling imagery that moved freely into the Freudian world of the subconcious - and which has subsequently been widely adopted by media and advertising. Robert Radford traces Dali's career from the Spanish town of Figueras to membership of the Surrealist Circle in Paris, then on to New York and Hollywood - ...
|  | Highland Hunger
Release Date: September 4, 2012"Dark Embrace" by Hannah Howell. While searching for his clan's demon Lost Ones, Raibeart MacNachton encounters anethereal beauty running for her life - and discovers they share a powerful connection..."The Guardian" by Michele Sinclair. The immortal Dorian vows never to fall in love with a mere human - until he meets the Beguiling, arousing Moirae Deincourt. And when her true nature is revealed, the lust thatrages between them can no longer be controlled..."A Knight Beyond Black" by Jackie Ivie. Vampire Iain Duncan MacAvee has stepped forward to claim the woma...
|  | Mystery Writers of America Presents The Rich and the Dead
Publication Date: May 2, 2011The truly wealthy live in another world. From their multi-national businesses to their palatial mansions to their exotic vacations at glamorous places all around the world, they do everything in a big way. And sometimes, that even includes crime.In this anthology, you'll read about a wealthy writer who plots murder his hopeless agent, an aging actress who clings to her past of wealth and fame, and a spoiled rich boy who steps into dangerous territory with his mean antics, among others.THE RICH AND THE DEAD features mystery and crime stories set among the upper cr...
|  | The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing (Vintage International)
Release Date: February 14, 2012| Series: Vintage International One of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham was also a fearless and constant traveler who chronicled his adventures with a rare mix of wit and excitement. In The Skeptical Romancer, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham's wise and vivid prose that track his transformation from a boyish traveler in Spain to a worldly man of letters, looking back on India, China, Russia, and America. Beginning with an early book on Spain and culminating in excerpts from old age, this collection ...
|  | The Piccadilly Plot (Thomas Chaloner Mysteries)
Publication Date: December 1, 2012| Series: Thomas Chaloner Mysteries The seventh Thomas Chaloner adventure in Restoration London Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned back to London after his master, the Earl of Clarendon, sent him to Tangier to investigate a case of corruption. Chaloner will be glad to be home and reunited with his new wife, but the trivial reason for his recall exasperates him—the theft of material from the construction site of Clarendon's embarrassingly sumptuous new house just north of Piccadilly. Within hours of his return, Chaloner considers these thef...
|  | The Sixth Man and Other Stories (Severn House Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 18, 2006| Series: Severn House Mysteries With two entirely new Harpur and Iles stories, three more never-before-published together, plus a spicy little interlude with some crooks from the series and a fistful of other tales from the seamier side of life, this anthology is a must-read for fans of Bill James's dark, gritty thrillers. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra
Publication Date: May 12, 2004"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths!"A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal destined to be chronicled by Dr. Watson as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes' next adventure, the lost adventure, starts mundanely enough with the theft of a typewriter but for one outré fact: The death of the beautiful supplicant's manservant. More thefts and purloined documents carry Holmes and Watson acro...
|  | Sentence Building: An early literacy resource that provides for an endless variety of reading and grammar games! (Open-Ended Learning Games)
Release Date: September 3, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Lions (Living Wild)
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|  | Why Am I a Fish? (Classifying Animals)
Publication Date: September 14, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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