 | The Language of Life
Release Date: March 1, 1996"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda M...
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|  | Virginia Folk Legends (Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series)
Publication Date: October 22, 1991| Series: Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful ta...
|  | Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)
Release Date: June 30, 1950| Series: Shaw Library This Qontro Classics paperback edition of Arms and the Man by author George Bernard Shaw is designed and competitively priced with the consumer in mind. Arms and the Man is highly recommended for those who enjoy the worksof George Bernard Shaw and for those discovering his writings for the first time. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Poetic Edda: Volume II: Mythological Poems
Publication Date: December 4, 1997| ISBN-10: 0198111819 | ISBN-13: 978-0198111818This new edition of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the imagination of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). Setting text and translation side by side, Dronke provides full introductions and commentaries for each of the poems. ...
|  | Squaring the Circle (New Russian Writing)
Publication Date: January 4, 2010| Series: New Russian Writing (Book 47) Squaring the Circle is Russian prose by a new generation of authors from various parts of Russia who never lived in the USSR and who, unlike older writers, are not fighting the Soviet past. Young people have no algorithms for building their lives and careers. There are no guarantees, but anything is possible. ...
| | Cantos De Vida Y Esperanza
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|  | Matuhi I Needle
Publication Date: November 2004Many worlds converge in the poetry of Hinemoana Baker, most obviously her parents' Maori and Pakeha ancestries. Matuhi | Needle explores the conflict between the need to belong and the desire to remain an individual. Cultural concepts in the Maori world are given new life through Baker's recovery of "Te Reo" — the voice. There are poems of praise, love, and gratitude. Others are inscribed with the surly and the sordid, or admit to feelings of inadequacy and avoidance. Co published with Victoria University Press, Matuhi| Needle offers a fresh perspective on...
|  | The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance (Dover Books on Music)
Publication Date: March 24, 2005| Series: Dover Books on Music This classic study remains one of the foremost works on the music of the 16th-century composer known as Palestrina. A rigorous and valuable analysis of the composer's handling of rhythm, line, and harmony, it explores his treatment of dissonance as well as the evolving concept and treatment of dissonance by his predecessors. ...
|  | Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
Publication Date: September 1, 2012The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “century of the encyclopedias.” Variously referred to as a speculum, thesaurus, or imago mundi—the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century—these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations be...
|  | The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 27, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521884780 | ISBN-13: 978-0521884785| Edition: 1 Examining Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective, Valerie Sanders dismantles the persistent stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the intimate family lives of influential public men. Beginning with Prince Albert as a high-profile patriarchal role-model, and comparing the parallel case histories of prominent Victorians such as Dickens, Darwin, Huxley and Gladstone, the book explores the strains on men in public life as they managed their priv...
|  | Double Dare
Publication Date: March 25, 2010What could be better than waking up next to a hot guy? Waking up sandwiched between two of them.Quinn Preston, a financial analyst, is not happy when her friends dare her to pick up a handsome stranger at a wedding reception. What better reason to give up men when her previous long-term relationship had not only been lackluster in the bedroom but he had cheated?Logan Reed, a successful business owner, can't believe that he's attracted to the woman in the ugly, Pepto-Bismol pink bridesmaid dress. And to boot, she's more than tipsy. After turning down her invita...
|  | The Sound of Snow
Release Date: April 13, 1999Her love reawakened his heart. His touch taught her the meaning of desire . . .Sometimes what happens between a man and a woman can be miraculous.Bestselling, award-winning author Katherine Kingsley casts her beguiling spell once again in this magical, unforgettable story of betrayal, seduction, and the redeeming power of love. . . . The whisper of scandal . . .After years of exile on the Continent, Joanna was returning to the aristocratic English society she left in disgrace. Nothing--not even the gossip mongers--could keep her from Wakefield Abbey, wh...
|  | Homecourt Advantage
Release Date: April 27, 2004The sports pages trumpet the exploits of the superstar players of the New York Flyers basketball team -- while the gossip columns hint of their infidelities and steamy off-court activities. And in the shadows behind the bright spotlights, the wives and girlfriends struggle to keep the insanity at bay and their relationships alive in a world of fame, big money, shady dealings, and easy sex. Now, with the playoffs looming and the team's future in jeopardy, the temptations to sin are even stronger than ever. And before the season's out, the women behind "the great me...
|  | I Went to Vassar for This?
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|  | The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
Publication Date: December 1999| ISBN-10: 0312215541 | ISBN-13: 978-0312215545| Edition: 1st An indispensable and lively guide to the world of mystery writingThe Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is an A-Z of whodunit and how it was done. From Edward Sidney Aarons to "Zorak, " Bruce Murphy moves beyond the names and characters every mystery fan knows by heart (Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, etc.) to talk about newer writers like Patricia Cornwell, and authors not traditionally considered mystery writers, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Auster. Murphy catalogues...
|  | E.X. Ferrars: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction (Book 2) E.X. Ferrars was one of the most popular and prolific British crime writers of the twentieth century. This literary companion is designed to introduce readers to the full range of possibilities inherent in E.X. Ferrars's canon, connecting novels and short stories that share themes and strategies, and providing biographical data that yield insights into Ferrars's interests and concerns. A brief biography is included, as well as explanations of relevant genre terminology. This work is a pathway to bette...
|  | Elves Can't Dunk
Publication Date: September 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Sebastian doesn’t feel that his friends like him. Inorder to gain their acceptance, he decides to tryout for his favoriteprofessional basketball team. Only there is a problem – Sebastianis an elf and elves can’t dunk! To solve his dunking dilemma,Sebastian takes some of Santa’s special feed corn - the stuff thatmakes Santa’s reindeer fly - with him to the tryout. This corn willgive Sebastian more hang time than Michael Jordan on the moon! WhenCoach Frank Tanner finds out about the corn, he ...
| | Fantastic Football Fun Book
Publication Date: June 3, 1996Starting in June, The European Football Championships will be the biggest sporting event in Britain since the 1966 World Cup Finals. This is a fun-packed activity book for all football fans with jokes, puzzles, amazing facts and more. ...
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