 | We Happy Few
Publication Date: April 30, 2006In the tragicomic novel, We Happy Few, internationally recognized author Rolando Hinojosa takes us inside the politics of a tumultuous university campus set in a quiet university town on the Texas-Mexico border. The chaotic politics of faculty promotions and tenure, the zany protests of a student group representing the majority Mexican-American ethnic group on campus, and the complex work of a search committee to replace a high-level university administrator unfold at Belken State University in Klail City, Texas. From the offices of deans and professors to tho...
 |  | Secret Daughter: A Novel
Release Date: April 5, 2011 Somer’s life is everything she imagined it would be—she’s newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco—until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter’s life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds ...
|  | Nin
Publication Date: October 2000Fiction. NIN is a mystical, mythical, magical fable set in the high-tech, modern-day world of air travel, telephones, computers, and the World Wide Web. Nin Creed is a feminist poet embarking upon a quixotic journey to recover the lost writings of her late mother, a scholar and linguist, who died the day she was born. Traveling from Minnesota to Israel in search of her mother's life and work, Nin finds herself accompanied upon her pilgramage by a few of the legions of women writers who lived and wrote centuries ago and whose work, too, was lost to future generat...
|  | Darkness at Noon
Release Date: October 17, 2006Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrumen...
|  | Mind Invaders
Publication Date: November 15, 2005THE COLD WAR FOR PSYCHIC DOMINION HEATS UP. Ken Inman experienced an exhilaration beyond his wildest imagination. He had made contact! Excitedly he listened: “We’ve been watching your development—we’re here to help you take the next step. Open up. There’s nothing to fear.” Spine-tingling action follows this incredible breakthrough in mind research. Opening doors to the unlimited vistas of the mind, the Archons share their gift of psychic power, promising a new era of peace. But then governments get involved... Discovering the C...
|  | The Narnia Picture Book Box Set
Release Date: October 17, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Chilled To The Bone: A Chill Anthology of Horror and Dark Fantasy
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|  | Harvest Home
Release Date: May 12, 1973One of the touchstone horror novels of the 1970s, Harvest Home was Thomas Tryon's second novel and was published to wide critical and commercial acclaim. This new edition features the original color dust jacket art by Paul Bacon, new interior works by Alex McVey, a new introduction by Tim Curran, and an afterword by a number of Tryon associates. ...
|  | The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
Release Date: August 12, 1986| Series: Lord of the Rings (Book 2) The prequel to The Lord of the Rings—The Hobbit—is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship is scattered. Some are bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some are contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, to be destroyed in Mordor, the dark realm where Sauron is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and lust-...
|  | bean: The definitive fictional biography of Kobe Bryant
Publication Date: August 23, 1978The definitive fictional biography of Kobe Bryant, with two forewords and an afterword by Kobe Bryant. John Christy advances the daring hypothesis that Bryant is a contemporary incarnation of Nietzsche's ubermensch, a striving and becoming toward a higher form of man, a model for all those who seek an escape from the postmodern malaise of modern life. Christy's extended study of Bryant ultimately affects the author himself, who travels to Los Angeles in search of the man and the ideal. Also by John Christy - Fuck and Destroy: http://www.amazon.com/Fuck-and-De...
|  | A Shropshire Lad
Publication Date: March 1, 2009"The enduring appeal of A. E. Housman's lyrical English poem, A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896, lies perhaps in its gentle accessibility and in its universal theme of loss, of love and the passage of time. Certainly its popularity today appears undiminished as it continues to console and delight.The timeless quality of the Shropshire countryside, from the bucolic Clun valley to the bleak hills of Caer Caradoc, is captured by one of Shropshire's finest wildlife and landscape photographers, Gareth Thomas.Christopher Ricks, Professor of Poetry at Oxford U...
|  | Twelfth Man
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| | The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Publication Date: November 1992An interpretation of Botticelli's painting which relates it closely to works of poetry by Lorenzo, Politian and Pulci. The author suggests how the idea of love as portrayed by Botticelli incorporates the actual cultural renovation imagined and sponsored by Lorenzo the Magnificent. ...
|  | The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fantasy Literature (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Publication Date: November 30, 1996| ISBN-10: 0313300844 | ISBN-13: 978-0313300844Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in the revolution not only of children's literature, but of the general conception of childhood. In contrast to the traditional moral tales of the 18th century that were written with the express purpose of instructi...
|  | Cronica del pajaro que da cuerda al mundo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 2008Tooru Okada, un joven japones que acaba de dejar voluntariamente su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un buen dia la llamada anonima de una mujer. A partir de ese momento la vida de Tooru, que habia transcurrido por los cauces de la mas absoluta normalidad, empieza a sufrir una extraña transformacion. A su alrededor van apareciendo personajes cada vez mas extraños, y la realidad, o lo real, va degradandose hasta convertirse en algo fantasmagorico. La percepcion del mundo se vuelve magica, los sueños son realidad y, poco a poco, Tooru Okada ...
|  | Murder in the Dark: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries Itas Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation.Phryne is in two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly decides to accept the invitation. No one tells Phryne Fisher what to do.At the Manor House, she is accommodated in the Iris room, and at the party dallies with two polo-playing women, a Go...
|  | Baseball Ballerina Strikes Out! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3)
Release Date: April 11, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.But when Little Bill asks his parents to buy him the game, they say no. So Little Bill and his friends go to their friend Andrew's house to play the game.What they discover, though, is that the video game isn't nearly as much fun nor as challenging as what their imagi...
| | American Short Stories: 1920 to the Present
Publication Date: May 2003American Short Stories introduces students to important works of fiction since 1920 and presents a unique new way of looking at them. Literature study is approached through each author's writing style- a process that requires deep analysis of both the ideas and structure of a literary work. ...
|  | Heart of Steele (Ready-For-Chapters)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003 ...
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