 | The Housekeeper and the Professor
Release Date: February 3, 2009He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive w...
 |  | Empire (Tor Science Fiction)
Release Date: November 27, 2007| Series: Tor Science Fiction The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop, and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic gen...
|  | Flanagan's Run (Classic Fiction)
Publication Date: February 2, 2010| Series: Classic Fiction It is depression-era America and notorious huckster, Flanagan, plans the ultimate race, reeling in contestants with the promise of a glittering jackpot prize. Two thousand audacious hopefuls line up at the starting line from every walk of life and all ends of the globe, each with something to prove. As they run themselves ragged across America, they come up against numerous hazards, including the precipitous Rockies, shady mobsters and crooked officials. Their different stories, ambitions and dreams converge through a shared determi...
|  | Cock and Bull
Publication Date: March 9, 2005"Cock: A Novelette" is the story of a woman who grows a fully functional penis. "Bull: A Farce" is the story of a man who acquires a vagina and all its companion parts. There are, however, complications. Cock & Bull, the book that introduced an enfant terrible of English letters to an American audience, has quickly become a classic of blistering satire. ...
|  | Mythology Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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|  | As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare)
Publication Date: June 13, 2002| ISBN-10: 0198320485 | ISBN-13: 978-0198320487| Edition: Revised The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with th...
|  | Gay Plays, Vol. 1
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|  | King Rocker
Publication Date: August 22, 2001Told as a series of snapshots and dramatic images, King Rocker chronicles the lives of a group of young men in a rock n' roll band. Love, loneliness, friendship, and small town America are all explored in this stark and original work of fiction. ...
|  | My Father's Tears: And Other Stories
Release Date: May 25, 2010“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father’s Tears, the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes—Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity—in a gallery of portraits of his aging generation, men and women for whom making peace with the past is now paramount. The S...
|  | How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
Publication Date: March 6, 2012Designed to work with the acclaimed course textHow to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, theHow to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form. Also a remarkable stand-alone resource, the volume illuminates China's major poetic genres and themes through one hundred well-known, easy-to-recite works.Each of the volume's twenty units contains four to six classical poems in Chinese, English, and tone-marked pinyin romanization...
|  | Dengonban messages: Oneline haiku and senryu
Publication Date: 1981Collection of oneline poems from James Kirkup, many of which appeared in the haiku magazine Shikai from Nagoya, Japan, and other publications. Japanese-style publication, text in English. ...
|  | A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: Samson Agonistes
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|  | Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publication Date: November 9, 1995| Series: University of Toronto Romance Series (Book 71) The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism, the emblematic sign forms a bridge between late medieval allegory and the Romantic metaphor. These intricate combinations of picture and text, where the picture completes the ellipses of an epigrammatic text...
|  | Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm
Publication Date: March 1, 1993"In her interesting and provocative book, Robin May Schott focuses our attention on two central themes emerging from the context of an examination of sexual relations in which philosophy has operated. First, she asks the reader to wonder about the philosophical significance of the historical absence of women from philosophy, and, second, to consider the social implications of a philosophy constructed on this basis. Her conclusions are to see the suppression of the erotic theme of human existence from philosophical contemplation to be an expression of a philosop...
|  | Burning Lamp (An Arcane Society Novel)
Publication Date: April 20, 2010| Series: An Arcane Society Novel In this second novel of the Dreamlight Trilogy from New York Times-bestselling author Amanda Quick, psychic power and passion collide as a legendary curse comes to a burn...The Arcane Society was born in turmoil when the friendship of its two founders evolved into a fierce rivalry. Nicholas Winters's efforts led to the creation of a device of unknown powers called the Burning Lamp. Each generation of male descendents who inherits it is destined to develop multiple talents-and the curse of madness.Plagued by hallucinations ...
|  | A Reader's Guide to the Classic British Mystery (Reader's Guides to Mystery Novels)
Publication Date: June 1988| Series: Reader's Guides to Mystery Novels From 19th century classics to as recent as 1985, this complete source book of British Mystery covers more than 1440 titles by 121 authors. Each is fully annotated without giving the ending away. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Bill Bradley (Basketball Hall of Famers)
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|  | Little Dinosaur ABC Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books)
Publication Date: June 15, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Contrary Bear
Release Date: May 16, 1996| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A little girl blames her contrary behavior on her best friend, Bear.It's Bear who throws sand in the playground.It's Bear who wants a big piece of cake, not a small one.And it's Bear who certainly does not want to be quiet during naptime.After an entire day of naughtiness, the little girl realizes that Bear has gone too far . . . and her attempts to make amends result in a grateful kiss from her beleaguered dad.But once Dad leaves the room . . .A blissfully mischievous story sure to strike a chord with contrary bears, co...
|  | The Richest Doll in the World
Publication Date: April 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Her parents having died, Emily faces the worst Christmas Eve ever. She decides to set off in the middle of a snowstorm for a spooky old mansion in hopes of seeing "the richest doll in the world." ...
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