 | Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: February 1991| ISBN-10: 0393960420 | ISBN-13: 978-0393960426| Edition: 2nd This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H.Page and F.N.Doubleday, discusses the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher. "Criticism" includes twelve essays that seek to identify Dreiser's literary naturalism in "Sister Carrie", the sources of fiction...
 |  | The Latest Bombshell
Publication Date: June 29, 2004Kate Boothe is sitting pretty in Rome, drinking good wine, and trying to take a well-deserved breather from her work as a political consultant in Washington, D.C. Then her business partner, Jack Vanzetti, flies out to tell her that someone has been selling military secrets to the Chinese and that her least-favorite ex, muckraking reporter Lyle Gold, has been fingered as the guilty party. With the country in a state of patriotic panic, nobody is willing to take Lyle’s side. By stepping in to defend him, Vanzetti & Boothe could finally have the big win they ...
|  | The Flamer
Publication Date: February 15, 2012All boys tinker with fire. Oby Brooks holes up in a backyard shed to experiment with napalm recipes. He has a hand in burning down his own house, twice. He can't help it: his very DNA seems made of TNT. Meanwhile, amidst the detonations, Oby's sexuality is up for grabs. Parents, mountain men, chemistry teachers, neighbors, and arson inspectors all try in their own quirky ways to usher Oby into adulthood with his fingers and eyelashes intact. In the end, the question is whether Oby's nature will be nurtured, or neutered. Oh, and, will he land a Nobel Prize? ...
|  | Bacchai
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1840022612 | ISBN-13: 978-1840022612Dionysos, the God of Wine and theatre, has returned to his native land to take revenge of the puritanical Pentheus, who refuses to recognize him or his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humor, the god drives Pentheus and all the city to their shocking fate. ...
|  | PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
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|  | My Journey Home: Changes Through Writing
Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0943283248 | ISBN-13: 978-0943283241My Journey Home: Changes Through Writing is a look into the life of a struggling mother of four who, at 30 years old, returned to the college classroom and found a love of writing, teaching and herself. This book includes poetry and essays written for her teachers, writing which became a way to rediscover the true writer lost within the real woman. This book chronicles her struggles through divorce and becoming the single mother of four children all the while trying to redefine herself as a woman, teacher and wr...
|  | Sue
Publication Date: December 1, 2001A new collection of 66 poems, with English and Spanish versions printed side by side, by Philippine-American poet Edwin Agustín Lozada. Also in the book is Philippine hero José Rizal's 19th century poetic masterpiece in Spanish, "Mi último adiós" (My Last Farewell), an important piece of Philippine literature, with a new English translation by the author.This book of poetry not only contributes to Philippine-American literature, but also to an often forgotten body of literature in Spanish by Filipinos that had its golden age approximately...
|  | Seleccion Poetica de Federico Garcia Lorca
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|  | Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Intensely emotional and honest, this collection of searing poems about love, loss, jealousy, and fear, explores the literary and social landscape of post revolutionary Russia. Sharply addressing the conflicts between the life of a poet and that of a mother and wife, this enlarged volume, masterfully translated, includes five major poem sequences, one of which was written in 1915 for the poet's lover Sofia Parnok and another in response to poet Rainer Maria Rilke's death. Invoking Stalinist Russia as an underlying theme, this compilation also ...
|  | Vampyres of Hollywood
Release Date: September 15, 2009Hollywood, California: three gruesome deaths within two weeks and every one of them a major star - an Oscar winner, an ingénue, and an action hero. A serial killer is working through the Hollywood A-list and celebrities are running scared.Each crime scene is worthy of a classic horror movie, and all three victims share a connection to the powerful scream queen, Ovsanna Moore. The stunning and formidable Moore is the legendary head of a Hollywood studio, as well as the writer and star of seventeen blockbuster horror films (and a few that went s...
|  | Love Across Time
Publication Date: May 20, 2002Love Across Time is a mixture of adventure, romance, and a little science fiction. It shows that love has no bounds—not even time. There are two stories going on simultaneously, Frank and his friend, George, in the future and Sue and her friend, Rebecca, in the present. Frank buys an ancient computer and discovers he can send and receive email from the past to the previous owner, Sue. Sue becomes Frank’s email pen pal disbelieving his claim to be from her future. Love gradually unfolds between them. The girls fly to the Caribbean for a vacation whe...
|  | Mercy Watson Fights Crime
Release Date: June 4, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Patrick's Pals #5: Schoolin'
Release Date: January 6, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The Math of Hockey (Sports Math)
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|  | Sock Monkey's Family Reunion (Sock Animals)
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Boshblobberbosh (Creative Editions)
Publication Date: October 1998| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Carnival of the Animals
Release Date: August 31, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up But oh! what a fabulous night he had had, When his world was turned into a zoo!After wandering off from a school field trip, a young boy falls asleep in the Natural History Museum. There he sees his classmates, teachers, and family transformed into a menagerie of animals, from wild hyenas to stately peacocks.John Lithgow's exhilarating word play, inspired by Camille Saint-SaËns's 1886 composition, provides a narrative arc to the piece for the first time. Lithgow created the text for the New York City Ballet, where the Carnival of th...
|  | Go Away, Spot (Read with Dick and Jane)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Millions of Americans remember Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot, too!). Now Dick and Jane and all their pals are back with revised editions of these classic readers for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy! Go Away Spot Dick said, "Down, Spot. I cannot play. Down, Spot, down. Go away, little Spot. Go away and play." ...
|  | Cajun Night Before Christmas /Gastonthe Green-Nosed Alligator (The Night Before Christmas Series)
Release Date: September 30, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | I Wonder Why Snakes Shed Their Skin
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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