 | The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Publication Date: January 8, 2009When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be.The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the futur...
 |  | The Furry Trap
Publication Date: July 2, 2012Hard-edged horror from hot young cartoonist.Graphic novelist Josh Simmons (House) returns with a harrowing and genre-bending collection of modern horror short stories that could curl the toes of a corpse in a state of rigor mortis. Simmons’ disturbing, uncomfortable and even confrontational stories often work on multiple levels: straight, uncompromising horror; blackly humorous, satirical riffs on the genre; or as vicious assaults against the political correctness that rules so much of our popular culture. His artwork excels in conveying a feeling of drea...
|  | Sword of Shame (Medieval Murderers Group 2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Medieval Murderers Group 2 From its first arrival in Britain with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and revenge are the cursed sword's constant companions. From an election scandal in 13th-century Venice to the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, the sword of shame brings bad luck and disgrace to all who possess it in this compelling collection of five interlocking mysteries. ...
|  | Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice (Excelsior Literature Series)
Publication Date: 1918This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This text refer...
|  | From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama 1960-1995 (Sun & Moon Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 1995| Series: Sun & Moon Classics (Book 147) Like the 1,200-page volume of American poetry before it, From The Other Side of the Century II explores literature of the last quarter century, this time American dramatic writing, making available important theater texts for reading and teaching.Among the playwrights included in this major collection are Edward Albee, Arnold Weinstein, Jack Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Tennessee Williams, Ed Bullins, Rosalyn Drexler, John Guare, Ronald Tavel, Lee Breuer, Richard Foreman, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Richard Nelson, Je...
|  | Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0967967570 | ISBN-13: 978-0967967578| Edition: 1 Fifty years of reading Homer — both alone and with students — prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. In Homeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his...
|  | Chr
Publication Date: February 28, 1993| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 26) The pre-eminent role of Chretien de Troyes in the formation of Arthurian romance is reflected in the swift and brilliant response of German courtly poets to his works. Within a few years of their composition, Erec et Enide and Yvain were adapted for German audiences by Hartmann von Aue, while Chretien's unfinished Grail-story was taken up by Wolfram von Eschenbach and brought to a triumphant conclusion in Parzival. In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars contrast the treatment and reception of the ...
|  | Hand in Hand
Publication Date: February 9, 2001| ISBN-10: 0330482254 | ISBN-13: 978-0330482257Carol Ann Duffy has selected 36 of the best world poets writing today and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex which will appear opposite their own love poem. The poets have been encouraged to look to other centuries for their choice as well as to our own time. Simon Armitage, Hugo Williams, Billy Collins, Jackie Kay, Don Paterson, Jo Shapcott sit alongside Stevie Smith, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, John Donne. This is a wonderful, heartwarming collection for Valentine's...
|  | Gender and Language Research Methodologies
Release Date: September 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 023055069X | ISBN-13: 978-0230550698This is the first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, Discursive psychology and Queer theory....
|  | The Routledge Queer Studies Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)
Publication Date: July 25, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415564115 | ISBN-13: 978-0415564113The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contex...
|  | Killing Animals
Publication Date: April 24, 2006Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates. "Killing Animals" offers a corrective to this narrow focus by bringing together the insights of scholars from diverse backgrounds in the humanities, including art history, anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, literar...
|  | Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Book 5)
Release Date: February 27, 2007It begins as a mission to protect a politician from an assassination threat. But the operation takes an unexpected turn when Mari, a mysteriously beautiful GhostWalker, is taken hostage. At the same time, Ken Norton, expert assassin and himself a GhostWalker warrior, is on a mission of his own—one that reaches into Mari’s own past. No stranger to the ways of violent warfare, Mari must join forces with Ken and trust his every move—each one more intimate than the last.*Publishers Weekly...
|  | For Love and Grace (The Grace Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004Dr. Gregory Dixon and Attorney Derrick Madison had a modern day biblical David and Jonathan friendship. They are closer than most brothers until Gregory performs a life-saving surgery on Grace, a beautiful college senior who was involved in a car accident that took the life of of Derrick's mother.When Derrick finds out about the operation, he abruptly and abrasively ends his life-long friendship with Gregory. Meanwhile, Gregory's doctor/patient relationship with Grace turns into a deep, abiding love as he nurses her and watches her regain her healthy followi...
|  | Torch (Henry Holt Mystery Series)
Publication Date: March 1994| Series: Henry Holt Mystery Series Disabled Florida private detective Fred Carver takes the case ofa married woman who wants him to follow her and her lover, only to havehis client commit suicide, her husband kill himself, and her loverdisappear. 10,000 first printing. ...
|  | Cat Crimes for the Holidays
Release Date: September 7, 1999CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a veterinarian how a kitten's coat cinched a murder case . . . A smart young woman at Christmas discovers that the way to an old man's inheritance is not through his heart but through his cat . . . A family Hanukkah celebration gives a sharp-eyed cop with a fondness for felines insight into blackmail and murder . . . An abus...
|  | Captain America: Man & Wolf (Captain America (Unnumbered Paperback))
Publication Date: February 2, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Essential Savage She-Hulk, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) (v. 1)
Publication Date: July 5, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up She's been an FF member, an Avenger and the sharpest attorney in the superhuman halls of justice!Now, see her savage starting point in this complete compilation of her first series!Jennifer Walters takes her first thundering steps into stardom against mobsters, monsters and a super-villain who's his own best team lineup!Featuring the Man-Thing, the Man-Wolf and the Man-Elephant!Guest-starring members of the Defenders! Collects Savage She-Hulk #1-25. ...
|  | En bicicleta (Como Nos Trasladamos?) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 15, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | L' Asterix Mai Vist / Asterix and the Class Act (Catalan Edition)
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|  | The Water Puppets: A Story from the War in Vietnam
Release Date: September 8, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up...
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