 | This is the World
Publication Date: October 31, 2000In this first collection of short fiction, renowned American Indian writer W. S. Penn reveals a writing life that has been both difficult and fortunate. Penn has moved away from conventional narrative methods, through what his own oral tradition encompasses, to arrive at telling stories as they must be told as opposed to the ways they might be told. In This Is The World, Penn moves through spaces, encounters characters, and confronts humanity with a sage's omnipotence, yet at the same time with an unassuming voice, devoid of pretentiousness. His words are un...
 |  | El canalla sentimental / The Sentimental Bastard (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 15, 2008En primera persona, Jaimito, un hombre en la cuarentena, cuenta su peculiar vida (pasada y presente). Jaimito vive solo en Miami donde graba su programa de television, Sofia, su ex mujer, vive con sus dos hijas en Lima, y su novio, Martin, en Buenos Aires. Jaime viaja constantemente a estas tres ciudades para atender a las diferentes facetas de su vida. Odia y ama con la misma intensidad la television... aunque por lo general le trae muchos problemas. Adora vivir solo y tener el piso lleno de calcetines, clips... Siempre tiene frio, es un frio cronico, asi ...
|  | The Dreamseller: The Revolution: A Novel
Release Date: September 18, 2012International bestseller AUGUSTO CURY returns with this enlightening fable about the mysterious dreamseller who continues to touch lives.The Dreamseller, a philosopher dressed in rumpled clothes, travels the country gathering followers and delivering lessons to those in despair. In this uplifting journey, the Dreamseller demonstrates that societies are comprised of anonymous heroes who go unrecognized for their deeds: cancer patients who fight for their lives like warriors, parents who exhaust their bodies and minds to support and educate their children, and t...
|  | Easy Street
Publication Date: August 27, 2012Jay Warren, Harvard, 1876, discovers that his father, Tecumseh, has left him some cash and a rail ticket to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Also a note that says the West is a good place to make something of himself. Tecumseh is a self-made shipping magnate, and he wants his son to make his own way in the world. So the son heads west, appalled at what life has dealt him, and soon is making all the wrong choices, looking for easy money, a quick killing, instead of knuckling down into a useful occupation. Jay gets himself into bad company, makes reckless moves, and eventual...
|  | The Hand of Ethelberta
Publication Date: March 21, 2002This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, Bombay, Calcutta, Melbourne. The Wessex novels. Volume X. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Euripides - Plays - Vol II
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
|  | Epistles Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: November 25, 1994| ISBN-10: 052127754X | ISBN-13: 978-0521277549This volume comprises an edition, with introduction and commentary, of the first book of Horace's Epistles. These are imaginary letters in verse, and represent the Roman poet's most original contribution to Latin literature. The introduction discusses poetic form and style, the addressees of the letters and the main topics, as well as the layout of the poems and their organization within Book I. The commentary gives ample help with the language, paying particular attention to its poetic qualities. ...
|  | Little Boy Lost: Sacrificed
Publication Date: July 2, 2012Little Boy Lost #6 Reunited with his father but missing the one man he loves more than any other, Jamie Mayfield attempts to put his life back together amid rehab, seizures, and the gutting loneliness of Brian's rejection. As he tries to cope, Jamie finds that relying on his friends isn't nearly as difficult as he'd imagined, and soon he can once again stand on his own two feet. While recovering from his addiction, Jamie starts a new phase of his life at college, working to become the man Brian needs him to be. Only one question remains: Can Jamie earn Brian's f...
|  | The Kissing Stars (Sonnet Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Sonnet Books Geralyn Dawson pens poignant historical romances brightened by laughter, glistening with tears, and offering "pure reading enjoyment" (Laurel Gainer, "Affaire de Coeur)." Now, she takes readers to a little town deep in the heart of Texas, where mysterious stars light the way for a long-separated couple to find love...A STARLIT LADYTess had run away from a broken heart and followed the stars right to Aurora Springs, Texas. There, halfway to nowhere and far from anywhere, she joined a dusty frontier settlement filled with eccentric drea...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Victorian Mystery The evidence was all there: a dead body, two dessert plates, and a gun. As if poor Mr. Ashbury had been sharing cake with his own killer! Now, Mrs. Jeffries and her staff must do some snooping around. They're more than happy to help dish up some clues... ...
|  | The Dark Pond
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The author of Skeleton Man returns with another chilling tale. What kind of sinister creature lurks in the dark pond in the forest? Armie can feel it calling to him . . . and he suspects the answer may lie in the legends of his Shawnee ancestors. Joseph Bruchac, the award-winning author of Skeleton Man, puts a contemporary spin on Native American lore to create a terrifying tale of monsters and darkness. ...
|  | The Boy at the Dike: A Dutch Folktale (Folktales from Around the World)
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|  | Lucky Jack & The Giant
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|  | Brett Favre (Sports Superstars (Rosen))
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | My Pops Is Tops! #25 (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo)
Release Date: May 10, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Story Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (History in Literature)
Publication Date: January 15, 2007| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | The Quangle Wangle's Hat
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|  | Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)
Publication Date: September 21, 2006| Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky is famous for his use of long takes, languid pacing, dreamlike metaphorical imagery, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul. His Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror are considered landmarks of postwar Russian cinema. Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews is the first English-lan...
|  | Mary; Maria; Matilda (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 4, 1993| Series: Penguin Classics This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft, radical feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Mary Shelley, her daughter, author of Frankenstein.In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette. In the posthumously published Maria (1798) she c...
|  | Pepo and Lolo Are Friends: Super Sturdy Picture Books
Release Date: May 11, 2004| Age Level: 1 and up...
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