 | The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975 (A Black Sparrow Book)
Publication Date: November 30, 2005Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants. He was an original, a blood-and-bone New Yorker who walked the city's waterfronts and breathed the life of the Jewish tenements into a lifetime of remarkable poetry. Black Sparrow Books is proud to publish his complete shorter poems - all of his poetry except the book-length works Testimony and Holocaust - scrupulously edited, with notes, by Seamus Cooney. ...
 |  | The Dream of the Rood (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0859895033 | ISBN-13: 978-0859895033 The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction Professor Swanton describes the Vercelli Book, in which the full text of The Dream of the Rood is found, and gives an account of the Ruthwell Cross, the sources for which are scattered and not normally familiar to stude...
|  | The 4400: Welcome to Promise City
Release Date: November 8, 2010| Series: 4400Based on the hit USA Network series The 4400, an original novel about a group of 4400 people taken out of their time and returned to the present day with special powers, only no one, including them, is sure if they are a force for good...or for evil.Over nine thousand people were killed in Seattle, when promicin was unleashed within the city limits. Now the Federal government has to decide how to deal with citizens who have powers and abilities that cannot be legislated. An uneasy truce has arisen between Jordan Collier, the self-styled leader ...
|  | Away From Hannah's Castle
Publication Date: June 23, 2006Dakota half-breed Hannah Hops Along lives on the edge. She lives on theprairie’s edge between the Badlands and the reservation. She lives at the edge ofcontemporary culture, fiercely protecting the ancient traditions of her tribe. Andleapfrogging the edge of the new century, she jumps head long into the distantfuture that most will not know for decades.Able to share mind space with the planet earth, Hannah finds herself exploringforeign territory. Though first tantalized by her adventure, she later loses herconnection to home and fights for her life. Garne...
|  | Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has c...
|  | The Complete Father Brown Stories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Penguin Classics Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the "Father Brown" stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: "The Donnington Affair", in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solv...
|  | Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry & Imperialism
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|  | Sophocles Electra (Focus Classical Library)
Publication Date: April 23, 2008| Series: Focus Classical Library Translation with introduction, extensive notes and interpretive essay. Introduction discusses theatre and performance in ancient Greece, the Electra myth, the three playwrights who wrote about Electra at that time, and a plot summary. Text also includes "afterlife" essay which discusses adaptations of the play, as well as touching on other ways Electra has had influence. ...
|  | Frogs in the Rain Barrel
Publication Date: January 1, 1995In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a "pool of still and nether depths/ whose mirrored surface was all." Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and Japan. Hers is a distinct poetic voice, equally at ease with such diverse images as an aged Chinese man on the train, the...
|  | Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
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|  | Poesia Completa (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Life And Death of Alexander Pushkin: A Genius at Odds with Himself
Publication Date: April 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0773458247 | ISBN-13: 978-0773458246In this book, the author constructs a new scholarly version of Pushkin as an artist profoundly at odds not only with his society, but also with himself. While investigating the last and unhappy period of Pushkin's biography (1830-1837), e.g. 'the end of Pushkin's life,' the author restores paradoxical circumstances that eventually led to the poet's death. ...
|  | Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima (Young Reader's Abridged Edition)
Release Date: May 13, 2003New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima–and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island’s highest peak...
|  | The Book in Finland, 1488-1988
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|  | Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Penguin Classics A trio of tales offering an eye-opening alternative view of ancient Greece's literary culture.A fascinating counterpoint to the monumental epics of ancient Greece, Greek Fiction features three novelistic works written between the first and fourth centuries AD. Chariton's "Callirhoe"-perhaps the first novel ever written-is the stirring tale of two star-crossed lovers who are torn apart when Callirhoe is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Longus's "Daphnis and Chloe" tells the story of a boy and girl-both abandoned at birth-who grow up t...
|  | Correspondence: Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition (Melville)
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|  | Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: April 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. AESOP'S FABLES are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand. ...
|  | The Math of Basketball (Sports Math)
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|  | The Second Jumbo Book of Hidden Pictures
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up Here are more Hidden Pictures to test the wits of young readers. Hidden Pictures is one of the most popular features of Highlights for Children. Once again the editors have gathered more than 70 hidden pictures--containing more than 1,000 objects that they dare young Hidden Pictures enthusiasts to find. An answer key is provided in the back of the book. ...
|  | Using Division at Sports Camp (Math in Our World Level 3)
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