 | Little Women (Signet Classics)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Signet Classics Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature of the time, and has a telling message for the modern world. ...
 |  | The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Publication Date: October 22, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521835380| Edition: 2 This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the USA, plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major US cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and p...
|  | I Come from India (This Is My Story)
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|  | The Quilter's Homecoming (Elm Creek Quilts Series, Book 10)
Release Date: January 8, 2008A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in The Quilter's Homecoming, as Jennifer Chiaverini continues her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series "that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting" (Library Journal). As young bride Elizabeth Bergstrom Nelson sets off with her husband, Henry, from her family home of Elm Creek Manor in Pennsylvania, this rich historical narrative travels to the unfamiliar terrain of southern California, where the adventurous newlyweds embrace a life as dramatic as the landscape. Expecting to assume ownership of Triumph Ra...
|  | Franny and Zooey
Publication Date: January 30, 2001The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them...
|  | Hoofbeats of the Devil
Publication Date: January 21, 2010Murder. A shocking secret.A lurking evil. An edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller with a sci-fi twist by two veteran journalists. Special Feature: Choose your own ending to the story. Harrison Danforth is just settling into his new job as the executive editor of The Dolphin Breeze in the coastal Florida town of Dolphin Beach, when a young pastor is murdered in his own church. Danforth doesn't trust the corrupt Seagrove County sheriff to handle traffic tickets, much less a murder. So Danforth, his psychologist girlfriend, Jill Hedley, and ace investigator Sam ...
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|  | This Dark Earth
Release Date: July 3, 2012The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he's being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant Knock-Out to become the next lead...
|  | A Long Long Way
Release Date: September 8, 2005Praised as a “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his “flawless use of language” (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains...
|  | GO HARD - The Takedown of Ace Capone
Publication Date: July 23, 2012GO HARD The Takedown of Ace Capone A must read novel!You ain’t read nothing until you read this action-packed filled with suspense novel.Inspired by a true story:This is a dramatic/exceptional story of love, sex, passion, murder, betrayal, drugs and politics….. This novel will take you on a bizarre twist as Ace Capone, leader of a $25 million dollar violent drug trafficking organization is subject to a federal investigation.This classic novel is a very suspenseful page turner that will constantly keep you on the edge of your seat, anxiously wonder...
|  | Whitetail Dawn
Publication Date: April 12, 2006If you love deer hunting, the realistic and unforgettable characters in these stories will leave you with a deeper appreciation of hunting. short stories will capture your imagination. ...
|  | Brida: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 10, 2009| Series: P.S.Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasure...
|  | The Aeneid
Publication Date: March 27, 2007Follow Aeneid as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire. Thrill with him as he gets caught up in conflicts between the gods, all the while striving to complete his own grand destiny. Virgil intended this book to be a sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and as such it takes up with events just after the finish of the Odyssey. Inscribed here are myths and legends and tales of bravery destined to last for all time. ...
|  | Americans
Publication Date: October 30, 2003At the turn of the 20th century, the president of the United States is shot by an anarchist. Is the crime a protest against America's imperial ambitions - or a cry for attention by an angry young man? Provocative, edgy, and compelling, this first play by the author of "Fast Food Nation" and "Reefer Madness" is about patriotism, power, the allure of violence. Morally complex and original, "Americans" explores the origins of the American empire and the imprint it now leaves on the world. ...
|  | Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics)
Publication Date: May 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521394724 | ISBN-13: 978-0521394727"Digenis Akritis" is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of "double descent" on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab territory in Asia Minor in the ninth and tenth centuries. It survives partially in six versions, of which the two oldest are edited here. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem, and to provide a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background. ...
|  | Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0804727996 | ISBN-13: 978-0804727990This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. ...
|  | Wan qing yi shi hui (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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|  | In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Release Date: October 12, 2010In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house in Ireland. The halcyon visit sparked a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of highly entertaining correspondence. When something caught their interest and they knew the other would be amused, they sent off a letter—there are glimpses of President Kennedy’s inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, filming with Errol Flynn, the wedding of Princ...
|  | Documents in Medieval Latin
Publication Date: July 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0472085670 | ISBN-13: 978-0472085675This handbook of medieval Latin texts is designed for historians of the Middle Ages with some knowledge of Latin who wish to be able to read a wide range of original source material. It broadens the traditional scope of medieval Latin readers by including historical documents such as deeds and charters along with traditional literary samples. Within the context of a running narrative, Thorley starts with texts from the Anglo-Saxon period and then moves through subsequent centuries genre by genre. Each text is ac...
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