 | Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 23, 2002| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others. ...
 |  | The Voice That Was in Travel: Stories (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies)
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|  | Goldengrove: A Novel
Release Date: September 16, 2008 At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the myst...
|  | Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead .A little magic can go a long way -- to really screwing up a girl's life! .Mara is having the worst month of her life. At least, that's what her cards tell her and they've never been wrong. She's evicted from her apartment, loses her job and is banned from Beverly Hills. So when the tarot cards predict her imminent demise, she uses a little magic to make her world right. .Suddenly, an aunt she's never met dies, leaving Mara as her sole heir. But when Mara moves into her inherited home, she discovers Aunt T...
|  | Anyone Can Dream: From Mud Hut In Kenya to Ranch House on San Francisco Bay
Release Date: January 4, 2007This historical novel chronicles the struggle and evolution of an African boy born in rural colonial Kenya, to become a cosmopolitan adult. It depicts his struggles against poverty, ignorance, nepotism, bigotry and racism. While the narrative is entertaining its focus is to motivate the reader to strive and reach his own chosen goal. As the title implies, much of what you aspire to is within your grasp if determination and desire are present. Its message is universal and relevant to readers of all ages. ...
|  | Pornography (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: July 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 1408110563 | ISBN-13: 978-1408110560Pornography is Simon Stephens' stark and shattering new play that powerfully captures a portrait of a fractured, insecure Britain. Written in reaction to London crashing from the euphoria and promise at being awarded the 2012 Olympics into the chaos and reality of the 7/7 bombings, the play is composed of seven stories that serve as a countdown to the catastrophic attack on London. Each playlet focuses on a different individual dramatising their life in the run-up to the tragedy.Published to coincide with the E...
|  | Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis) (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: August 15, 2011| Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the highly sophisticated world of modern literary theory and criticism. The full Introduction and Commentary, by two of the world's leading scholars in the field, trace the origins and intellectual affiliations of Plutarch's metho...
|  | Catullus: A Reader's Guide to the Poems
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|  | Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Ba: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Postmodernism
Publication Date: October 2003| ISBN-10: 1592210287 | ISBN-13: 978-1592210282Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama Bâ and her fiction rise again and again from their own ashes.Inspired by Mariama Bâ's life and creative work, this volume celebrates her life and art. She is the winner of the first Noma Award for Publishing in A...
|  | Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993
Release Date: August 23, 2011 Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he’s recalling the cold-water artists’ flats of Paris’s Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of Tangier, Paul Bowles imbues every piece with a deep intelligence and the acute perspective of his rich experience of the world. Woven throughout are photographs from the renowned author’s private ar...
|  | The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
Release Date: December 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 0805087257 | ISBN-13: 978-0805087253Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this "useful, entertaining and informative" story of the first great epic (The Washington Post) Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history: The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost to the world, buried beneath ashes and ruins. David Damrosch begins with the rediscovery of the epic...
|  | Flight Of The Intruder
Publication Date: February 15, 1990After too many senseless missions, too many pointless deaths, Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton is a man ready to explode. Now, with a renegade bombadier named Tiger, Jake's flying his A-6 Intruder jet deep into North Vietnam, on one last hell-bent strike for honor--and victory. ...
|  | Dark Goddess (A Devil's Kiss Novel)
Release Date: January 25, 2011| Age Level: 1 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up...
|  | I-Know-Not-What, I-Know-Not-Where: A Russian Tale
Publication Date: March 1994A retelling of a Russian fairy tale in which an archer assigned many dangerous quests by the greedy, cruel czar wins a crown and the woman of his dreams. ...
|  | Small Soldiers: Junior Novelization
Release Date: June 29, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Baking Book
Publication Date: October 17, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Jane Bull uses simple recipes to introduce children to kitchen basics-from creaming and whisking to batters and yeast-and encourages young chefs to be creative in the kitchen. ...
|  | God's Oak Tree
Publication Date: January 9, 2007A beautiful book about God's creation, where each turn of the page reveals more of the oak tree as the acorn disappears. ...
|  | Fancy Nancy's Haunted Mansion: A Reusable Sticker Book for Halloween
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Animal Shelter Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #22)
Release Date: January 1, 1991| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Superdog: The Heart of a Hero
Release Date: February 3, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Dexter is a little dog. He's so little that the other dogs forget to invite him to play, and Cleevis the tomcat bullies him.But little Dexter has dreams -- big dreams. He wants to be a superhero. So Dexter starts a superhero training program. And suddenly, even Cleevis needs his help!In Superdog, husband-and-wife team Mark and Caralyn Buehner have created a timeless story about a true superhero. Dexter has determination, spirit, and heart as he proves, above all, that no matter how little you are, you can still do ve...
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