 | Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor (Humor in Life and Letters)
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 |  | Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
Publication Date: February 16, 2007Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 1987. His journey back to health awakened a new life. In his latest book, Nepo explores how sacred and useful everything is. As such, this book is for everyone, not just for those facing illness or pursuing poetry. The poems affirm that surviving has more to do with our authenticity than our longevity. The sixty-eight poems gathered here are the culmination of many years of inquiry. As a teacher, Nepo has journeyed with others around these themes across the country and abroad. In l...
|  | Slash and Burn: A Dr. Siri Mystery Set in Laos
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Dr. Siri Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’s national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty, and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death (which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller).But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after all. He’s dragged into one last job for the Lao government: supervising an excavation for the remains of U.S. fighter pilo...
|  | Summer Lies: Stories
Release Date: August 14, 2012From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In ”After the Season,” a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal a...
|  | Downward Dogs and Warriors: Wisdom Tales for Modern Yogis
Publication Date: August 15, 2007Downward Dogs and Warriors de-mystifies traditional India stories of gods and goddesses by showing their connection to universal human emotions. Connecting these stories to common yoga poses opens a deeper dimension of practice. ...
|  | The Promised Land
Publication Date: January 13, 2012The pain, fear and rage of changing cultural landscapes explode in this provocative and sobering look at America's south during the mid-1960's. Twelve-year-old Joy Bradford moves with her mother Jessica from their white Connecticut suburb to the racially divided town of Willets Point, Florida.Her friendship with Clay, who is a mixed-race boy in her school and also a newcomer in town, sends shockwaves that dovetail with a growing sense of tension and unease in the community as a whole. Clay's well-educated, African-American father Clytus attempts to open a cl...
|  | With Honour in Battle
Publication Date: April 7, 2003This exciting novel thrillingly portrays the deadly tension of life at sea, where courageous men must again and again venture forth to face an overwhelming enemy in a battle they know is already lost. Pitting technology against a triumphant foe, With Honour in Battle tells a compelling story of courage, determination and sacrifice in the face of hopeless odds. ...
|  | Summer in the City
Release Date: February 22, 2005Suze Wilding and Lloyd Rockwell are complete strangers. She lives in London; he lives in New York. But when their advertising firm sponsors a job swap, having them trade apartments and jobs for the summer, they find themselves living each other’s lives. From the beginning, these two seem polar opposites—Suze is impetuous, brash, and commitment phobic, whereas Lloyd, cautious and thoughtful, is looking to settle down with his suitable girlfriend. But when Suze discovers a plot at work to get Lloyd fired, the two begin communicating long-distance, and...
|  | The Tiger in Winter (Methuen Book)
Publication Date: October 9, 2006| ISBN-10: 0413772276 | ISBN-13: 978-0413772275Containing six award-winning plays by contemporary Irish writers, thisis an exciting collection of the best writing to come out of Ireland inthe last six years. The volume is edited with an introduction by JohnFairleigh, editor of earlier collection, Far From the Land, also published by Methuen Drama. The six plays in the volume are:Gerald Murphy: Take Me Away (2004) GeraldMurphy is a Dublin based writer and actor. His first play, 'TheWelcome', was staged by Druid Theatre Company in 2001. His first radioplay,...
|  | Oedipus Tyrannus
Publication Date: March 2000| ISBN-10: 0872204928 | ISBN-13: 978-0872204928Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their Oedipus Tyrannus features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage directions and a translation characterized by its clarity, accuracy, and power. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director o...
|  | The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: January 11, 1993(Jacket Status: Jacketed)Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century Americ...
|  | Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version
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|  | Poems of the five mountains: An introduction to the literature of the Zen monasteries
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|  | The History of Reading, Volume 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics
Release Date: September 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230247563 | ISBN-13: 978-0230247567| Edition: 1 We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society. ...
|  | Borgia: Power and Incest
Publication Date: June 30, 2006Excellent art and very good dialog storytelling. It's fairly short, but it's a good value for the price. There are actually three books altogether which kind of continue the storyline. This is not a graphic novel for kids. Lots of sex, incest and nudity ...
|  | Dark Angel (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Signet Regency Romance Betrothed to the impeccably upright and honorable Lord LionelKersey, Jennifer Winward is baffled--and dismayed--by her attraction tothe licentious Earl of Thornell, Regency England's most notorious rake. ...
|  | Side Effects
Publication Date: June 27, 2000"Maintains a fast pace until its satisfying denouementlikable charactersjust the right amount of anthropology, biomedicine, ecology, pharmacology, romance and intrigue."Publishers Weekly "fast-paced, credible talegives Robin Cook a run for his money."Orland Sentinel From the boardroom to the rain forest, Dr. Kate Martin hazards her life to discover the terrifying truth behind a new breakthrough drug. ...
|  | Training Basketball
Publication Date: October 15, 2009"Training Basketball" is especially written for kids. It is easy to understand and offers a lot of fun while practicing and playing basketball. You are no longer a beginning basketball player and already have a number of training sessions and tournaments under your belt. You are familiar with the fundamental basketball techniques, enjoy playing with your teammates, and know the feeling of victory as well as defeat. And now you want to continue to learn more and play better. This book is the right training companion for you. The basic techniques are built upo...
|  | Maya's World: Mikale of Hawaii (Pictureback(R))
Release Date: September 14, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Grains (Blastoff! Readers: The New Food Guide Pyramid) (Blastoff! Readers: New Food Guide Pyramid)
Release Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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