 | The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: September 23, 2008| Series: New York Review Books ClassicsThe Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and assert...
 |  | Abigail's Story: A Novel (Women of the Bible)
Release Date: March 1, 2005They were women of conviction and courage, whose stories inspire the faithful to this day. Now, Signet launches Women of the Bible,a compelling new series for fans of historical fiction and romance. This is the story of Abigail...To settle her brother's gambling debt, Abigail of Carmel convinces her boorish lord to marry her. Then exiled by him to the life of a shepherdess, she grows to love David, the warrior son of Jesse, who will come face-to-face with her husband in a senseless war-and destroy her hopes of peace. ...
|  | Can't Lose This Dream
Publication Date: February 15, 2010Fannie Lou Harris is a dreamer. As a young African American girl sharecropping with her family in rural North Carolina, she dreams of becoming a doctor. But after migrating north to New York City, Fannie finds that academic success is no small feat growing up in the Rosa Parks Housing Projects in the South Bronx. Despite the odds, young Fannie Lou learns to do well in school, stand up for her beliefs, and - smoke! After putting forth much effort, she finally gains admission to medical school where she meets a cast of colorful and comical characters. The tou...
|  | Liberty: A Jake Grafton Novel (Jake Grafton Novels)
Release Date: February 3, 2004| Series: Jake Grafton Novels On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin’s message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the pre...
|  | Drums Along the Mohawk (New York Classics)
Publication Date: February 1997| Series: New York Classics Gilbert Martin and his new bride Lana, pioneers in the Mohawk Valley, live and protect their land through weather disasters, love and hate and Indian attacks. ...
|  | Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
Publication Date: September 10, 1988In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Comic in Renaissance Comedy
Publication Date: December 1980| ISBN-10: 0389200131 | ISBN-13: 978-0389200130Comic in Renaissance Comedy, by Farley-Hills, David. 8vo. ...
|  | The Poetics of Speech in the Medieval Spanish Epic
Publication Date: July 1, 2010The Poetics of Speech in the Medieval Spanish Epic explores the composition of manuscript texts in thirteenth-century Spain. Of the vernacular epic poems originating with the minstrels of this era, only three full-length works remain: Cantar de Mio Cid, Poema de Fernán González, and Mocedades de Rodrigo, all preserved and recorded by members of the clergy. By analyzing expressive traits found in these three poems, Matthew Bailey links them to the cognitive processes that take place in the minds of speakers as narration unfolds.In Latin and other ve...
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|  | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: March 17, 1982| ISBN-10: 0393951375 | ISBN-13: 978-0393951370This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaining unfamiliar references within the text."Backgrounds and Sources" includes selections on King Arthur from the Oxfo...
|  | Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (Continuum Discourse)
Publication Date: June 23, 2006| ISBN-10: 0826477259 | ISBN-13: 978-0826477255<p> This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:</p><br/><p>* collocations,<br/>* keyness<br/>* concordances<br/>* dispersion plots<br/>* building and annotating corpo...
|  | Arthurian Period Sources: Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Documents (v. 7)
Publication Date: December 1, 1980| ISBN-10: 1860772021 | ISBN-13: 978-1860772023Gildas, The Ruin of Britain ...
|  | Dead By Day (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Bks. 4-5)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Omnibus edition - contains two complete books."Dead to the World" and "Dead as a Doornail"------Southern Vampire Mysteries ...
|  | Unruly Passions
Publication Date: June 1, 1999Margaret Phillips is a powerful woman, one of the first women to become an Archdeacon. Intelligent, confident, and capable, she has reached a stage in her life where both her career and her private life are harmonious. And there's one thing she can be sure of—the love of her husband Hal. Valerie Marler, best-selling author, is in control of her fictional world and her own life as well. Beautiful, rich, and with as many men as she wants, Valerie calls the shots. Until she meets Hal Phillips, a happily married man with no interest in what she has to offer. Ro...
|  | Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Release Date: November 11, 2008| Series: Inspector Rebus Novels Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from "North of the Border" to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can't, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks and tears on each victim's body. Now it's only a question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules--or the pyscho painting London with blood......
|  | Marvel Adventures Avengers: Thor
Publication Date: January 26, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | AIO Platinum Collection: Producers' Picks Showcasing Our First 20 Years (Adventures in Odyssey)
Publication Date: May 15, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Where is Dear Dragon?
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|  | The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
Release Date: October 14, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Secret Lives of Teachers: Revealing Rhymes
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A humorous collection of poems about the sort of things children imagine teachers do in their spare time and behind the classroom door. Brian Moses's work has also appeared in titles such as Snoggers, Dracula's Auntie Ruthless, and Rice, Pie and Moses. ...
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