 | The Wedding Beat: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012Sometimes the best man isn't even in the wedding party...Gavin Greene is a hopeless romantic. He's also a professional one: Hewrites the wedding column for a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, coveringspectacular parties from coast to coast. But there's a thin line betweenbeing a hotshot reporter on assignment...and being a single guy alone on a Saturday night at someone else's wedding.Everything changes on New Year's when Gavin meets Melinda, a travelwriter with an adventurous spirit. A moonlit stroll across a Manhattan rooftop seems to seal the deal. But the...
 |  | Chicago: City on the Make
Publication Date: August 15, 1987Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, "the best book about Chicago.""Algren's Chicago, a kind of American annex to Dante's infern...
|  | How the Losers Love What's Lost
Publication Date: April 10, 2012In his prize-winning debut, How the Losers Love What's Lost, Frank stares, unflinchingly, into the many faces of disappointment and loss: loss of control, perspective, position, a loved one, the self. Exploring a variety of received forms, he inhabits persona after persona of outsiders, both loser and witness for the lost. Frank is "a sly cartographer" of this landscape steeped with human failings and lushly populated by the 'losers' who try to live, even thrive, within it. ...
|  | A Quilter's Holiday: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Elm Creek Quilts Novels The Elm Creek Quilters are home for the holidays in this heartwarming Christmas story from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year, in keeping with the season’s spirit of gratitude, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper is eager to revive a cherished family tradition. A recent remodeling of the manorR...
|  | Annie John
Release Date: May 1, 1986"Annie John "is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye "and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, "Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice--urgent, demanding to be heard--is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very cente...
|  | When Love Blooms
Publication Date: January 20, 2009From the moment Gavin Blake set eyes on Emily Harris he knew she would never make it in the rugged high country where backbreaking work and constant hardship were commonplace. She would wilt there like a rose without water. He'd be sending her back to Boise before the first snows. He'd be willing to bet on it. She could say what she wanted. Emily Harris didn't belong in the hard life of the Blakes. Beautiful and refined, she was accustomed to the best life had to offer. Heaven only knew why she wanted to leave Boise to teach two young girls on a ranch miles ...
|  | Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 11th Edition
Publication Date: February 10, 2011| ISBN-10: 0495897965 | ISBN-13: 978-0495897965| Edition: 11 An authoritative bestseller for over fifty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for today's students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as "Is some literature better?" and "How can it be evaluated?" A r...
|  | Complete Works - Volume V - Studies and travels (Persian Edition)
Publication Date: May 31, 2011Published in Farsi language by the „Sadegh Hedayat Foundation" and the renowned „Iranian Burnt Books Foundation", this is the third volume of the revised and according to original manuscripts comparatively updated complete works of Sadegh Hedayat, the renowned Iranian novelist. This volume contains his studies on vegetarism (fàvaede giahxari), animal protection (ensân à heyvan), essays on literature and music as well as the Rubaiyat and Dobeyti of Khayam in Farsi language. Sadegh Hedayat was born on 17 February 1903 in Tehran, at his...
|  | A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public
Publication Date: January 28, 1993| ISBN-10: 019507582X | ISBN-13: 978-0195075823| Edition: First Edition This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans.Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves.He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public.A Fictive Peopl...
|  | The Case Against Johann Reuchlin: Social and Religious Controversy in Sixteenth-CenturyGermany
Publication Date: November 23, 2002The case of Johann Reuchlin, one of the best-known controversies of the 16th century, has been interpreted in many ways: as a case of anti-Semitism, a controversy between humanists and scholastics, or a case foreshadowing the Reformation debate.The last interpretation was facilitated by Luther himself, who repeatedly linked his case with that of the biblical humanists Lefevre, Erasmus, and Reuchlin.In this lively critical analysis, Erika Rummel describes how the second interpretation, which was promoted in the 19th century, was replaced after WWII by a new ...
|  | The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture
Publication Date: May 15, 2010In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain—from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery—The Modulated Scream attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages. Esther Cohen brings to life the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics. In considering how peo...
|  | Duchamp
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 1861890273 | ISBN-13: 978-1861890276Marcel Duchamp's stature in the history of art has grown steadily since the 1950s, as several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father. But although his influence is comparable only to Picasso's, Duchamp continues to be relatively unknown outside his narrow circle of followers. This book seeks to explain his oeuvre, which has been shrouded with mystery.Duchamp's two great preoccupations were the nature of scientific truth and a feeling for love with its natural limit, death. His works all ...
|  | Life's Spices from Seasoned Sistahs: A Collection of Life Stories from Mature Women of Color
Publication Date: March 2005"Life's Spices From Seasoned Sistahs"A Collection of Life Stories From Mature Women of Color These are true stories and poems from the voices of women of color. These "seasoned sistahs" hail from all across the United States and also include a sistah living in India. They boldly share the defining events in their lives. They tell of relationships, parenting, family, self esteem, mothers, forgiveness, death, and finding a spiritual path. They describe how they walked these journeys in their lives.This first volume of stories and poetry is foryounger women just expe...
|  | Downriver
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up Will Hobbs’s classic tale of whitewater adventure is back in print with an exciting new look.No adults, no permit, no river map. After fifteen-year-old Jessie gets sent to Discovery Unlimited, an outdoor education program, she and six companions “borrow” the company’s rafting gear and take off down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon on their own. Floating beneath sheer red walls, camping on white sand beaches, and exploring caves and waterfalls, Jessie and the others are having the time of their lives—at...
|  | The Five Chinese Brothers (Paperstar)
Release Date: June 18, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone, and Sea
Publication Date: October 9, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A classic collection of Greek myths withspecial emphasison adventure and heroic quests. The ten stories include: Creation of the Gods, Pandora's Box, Atalanta, Perseus, Pegasus and Bellerophon, King Midas and the Gift of Gold, King Midas and the Donkey's Ears, How Arachne Became a Spider.The stories are written to appeal to a wide age range, to be read aloud to children of six to eight and for children of nine and above to read to themselves. ...
|  | Mr. Pak Buys a Story
Publication Date: March 1997| Age Level: 6 and up The unusual story that a wealthy couple's servant buys from a thief proves to be well worth the price. ...
|  | El Patito Feo / The Ugly Duckling
Publication Date: 2007Spanish & English versionWhen the newborn ducklings make fun of the 'ugly' gray duckling, he sets off on his own adventure & makes a beautiful discovery about himself.Cuando los patitos se rien del patito gris feo, este se aparta de ellos y descubre algo maravilloso acerca de si mismo. ...
|  | Cycling in Action (Sports in Action)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Tae Kwon Do For Kids
Publication Date: December 31, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up Instill pride, self-confidence and discipline in your child! Tae kwon do can do that--and it's fun, so kids will want to keep on practicing and learning. You'll see...this sport's not just about kicks and punches! How do you get children started--the right way? Choose the right teacher: Take your time, watch a class, and follow these hints before signing up. Know what to expect: Here are all the basic moves and positions kids will encounter--including the respectful bow that opens and closes every class. * Warm them up and build them u...
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