 | Firmin
Release Date: December 30, 2008In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a l...
 |  | Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar N
Publication Date: September 23, 1993This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways (Naufragios), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hernán Cortés.In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way, learn...
|  | Therapy
Release Date: July 1, 1996By all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he is almost bald and his nickname in "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummridge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy, and his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his TV show that's bugging him or even the persistent pain in his knee; it's this deeper, nameless unease. Is it a spiritual crisi...
|  | Dance Into Destiny (Urban Christian)
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|  | The Emigrants
Publication Date: September 17, 1997| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 853) "A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times.Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of four elderly German/Jewish exiles. The Emigrants is composed of four long narratives which at first appear to b...
|  | Summer's Child
Release Date: May 31, 2005THERE’S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES…From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made...On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden–and was never seen again.Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who’d known her: Maeve Jameson, stil...
|  | The Genius
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1612035167 | ISBN-13: 978-1612035161The Genius is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene.It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. Despite heavy editing, The Genius was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. It was not released until 1923, and thereafter the episode confirmed Dreiser's status as a writer ahead of his time. Theodore Dre...
|  | My Father's Voice
Publication Date: June 18, 2000Angelo Mann has it all- A prestigious career, devotedfamily, plenty of money...everything he could possibly desire. Exceptfor one crucial missing piece: He is empty and aching inside. Angelodoesn't know who he is. Even more troubling is Angelo's fear that hewill hurt his son in the same way his father hurt him.Suddenly life sends Angelo an experience that forces him torethink everything about the way he is living, and he sets out on anincredible adventure which leads him to a discovery that could changethe world-if he can find the courage to deliver it. ...
|  | German Short Stories 2 (Parallel Text, Penguin)
Release Date: September 30, 1976| Series: Parallel Text, Penguin The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt. With reading notes and parallel texts in German and English, this anthology is valuable to the German student of English as well as the English student of German. Reflecting trends in German literature, the stories have been selected for thei...
|  | Flawed Landscape: Poems, 1987-2008
Publication Date: December 30, 2008"Flawed Landscape is an extraordinary book that verges between the grief of being displaced and the joy of being alive. Elmusa speaks with the anger of the aggrieved, but also with tenderness and understanding for those he left behind and those he meets along the way. Elmusa is a true poet, a yearner for a better life and for the constancy of time." --Pablo Medina, poet, author of Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo "Sharif Elmusa writes with exquisite energy and empathy, and has, for decades, been one of my favorite poets. His work is original and necessary....
|  | The Shimmering Light: An Anthology of Isma'ili Poems
Publication Date: March 15, 1997Although a large body of the great poetry of the Islamic world has been translated into English, except for a few fragments, the poetry of the Isma'ilis is still only accessible in the original.This anthology should enable lovers of devotional and mystical poetry to sample the great range and depth of Isma'ili poetry. The selection spans 1000 years of Isma'ili history, from the time of the Fatimid caliphate to the present day. It includes both sophisticated and popular verses from the Isma'ili poets of Arabia, Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, In...
|  | Antologia Poetica del Renacimiento al Barroco (Clasicos Esenciales Santillana) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1996| Series: Clasicos Esenciales Santillana Represents two centuries worth of Spanish poetry spanningfrom the 15th to 17th century. Starting from the Renaissance, aliterary movement of rigorous rules about inspiration and form, to theBaroque, a revolutionary movement that put an end to forms andrules. Includes works by Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Gngora,Francisco de Quevedo, and Flix Lope de Vega. ...
|  | Arthur Rimbaud (Outlines)
Publication Date: October 1998| Series: Outlines Consortium welcomes Outlines from Absolute Press, an impressive and mature series chronicling the lives of some of the most exceptional and influential gay and lesbian artists of our time. ...
|  | Bloodclot
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0864735936 | ISBN-13: 978-0864735935Blending Samoan oral tradition and myths with the author's own life, this provocative, confrontational collection of poetry explores the experience of living in the South Pacific....
|  | Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Publication Date: June 30, 2010Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights...
|  | Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Publication Date: February 21, 2007| ISBN-10: 0810855984 | ISBN-13: 978-0810855984Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts t...
|  | The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story
Release Date: January 17, 2012One enchanting romance. Two lovers keeping secrets. And a uniquely crafted book that binds their stories forever.When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . .The Thorn and the Blossom is a remarkable literary artifact: You can open the book in either direction to decide whether you’ll first read Br...
|  | Dona Perfecta
Release Date: January 14, 2008ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.How the advent of technology and other revolutionary beliefs were fought off by the populace has been beautifully depicted by Galdos. In a picturesque manner, he depicts the idiosyncratic...
|  | Keep a Lid on It, Pandora! (Myth-O-Mania)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Enough
Release Date: December 30, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up This heart-warming Ukrainian folktale, set during the Great Famine of the 1930s, tells of a young girl's attempts to save her village from starvation.When soldiers take the village's wheat, Marusia hides just enough to survive.She and her father share with the other villagers over the winter, then plant the few remaining grains in the spring.A gigantic stalk of magical wheat grows attracting the attention of an equally large and magical stork.The stork flies with Marusia on a magical journey to the prairies, where farmers give Marusia enou...
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