 | Breaking Even
Publication Date: December 1997Eighteen-year-old Val leaves his West Texas hometown to search for his long-lost father. The quest takes him to the gaming table of Reno, Nevada and offers Val an escape from an impending marrieage and an existence in a town where life has been difficult because his mother is Mexican. Ultimately, the reunion not only gives him the father he'd thought dead but also a newfound pride in his Mexican heritage and the courage to follow his dream. ...
 |  | Daughter of the Fox
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|  | At the Back of the North Wind
Publication Date: January 1, 2009A classic children's story written in England in 1871, this enchanting fairy tale follows a sweet little stable boy in Victorian London who goes on adventures with the majestic North Wind. She is personified as a lovely and mysterious woman, both severe and kind, who teaches young Diamond about herself on their journeys. The innocent, perceptive Diamond is caught up by this powerful entity, and he acts as the perfect character for MacDonald to acknowledge social injustice, explore the place of death in the lives of human beings, and realize the deep need we h...
|  | Frankenstein & Dracula (Classic Library Series)
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|  | Ramage's Prize (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 5)
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 5) The West Indian bases are desperate: post vessels—a vital communications link between England and the West Indies in the war against France—are mysteriously disappearing and no packets have arrived with orders in months. Were the privateers out in full force again? Had Napoleon's navy a secret new weapon? Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage sets out from Jamaica to discover what treachery is threatening to throw the British navy into chaos. ...
|  | The Microscripts
Publication Date: May 31, 2010W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser “a clairvoyant of the small,” and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his “microscripts.”Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956.At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically ...
|  | Popular Tales and Fictions (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: December 10, 2002| Series: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales This classic study of popular tales and fictions is a global map of human imagination reaching back to a time that the author calls "the childhood of the world."First published in two volumes more than a century ago, the book traces familiar themes from strikingly different times, places, and cultures: invisible caps and cloaks, shoes of swiftness, inexhaustible purses, gold-producing animals, life tokens, bird maidens, forbidden rooms, fairy hinds, magic barks, thankful beasts, and magical transformations. The author ...
|  | Monarch Notes: The Plays of Euripedes, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes
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|  | Five Fun Plays For Christian Kids: Including Two Christmas Plays
Publication Date: January 11, 2012Five Fun Plays for Christian Kids is exactly what it sounds like fun! These plays are loaded with Bible hero adventures, funny lines, wild props, and page after page of action! Travel through time to see the birth of Christ. Call down fire from heaven with Elijah. Swim away from a hungry whale with Jonah. Leap into the Lions' den with Daniel. Each adventure will leave kids laughing as their imaginations run wild! Children will be eager to design their costumes, paint their props, and set up the stage for each adventure. They might even learn something, too! ...
| | You you qiu shui: Qiu shui 20 zhou nian shi xuan (Shi wen zhi mei) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre
Release Date: June 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0230524990 | ISBN-13: 978-0230524996This the first sustained study of the interest of John Ruskin in the theatre of his time. It examines Ruskin's active engagement with and influence on the Victorian popular theatre. Ruskin was an enthusiastic and catholic theatre-goer, enjoying pantomime as much as Shakespeare. Through the lens of Ruskin's discussions of pantomime, melodrama, Shakespearean tragedy, and painting and the stage, Newey and Richards offer a new view of the late Victorian stage focusing on London's West End in its heyday. ...
| | Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
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|  | Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars
Publication Date: February 25, 1999Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, underminin...
|  | The Glass Butterfly
Release Date: August 28, 2012The only way therapist Victoria Lake can think to protect her estranged son, Jack, from a case turned deadly is to make a complete break from the past. As painful as it is, it's safer for him if he - and her enemies - think she's dead. Jack never wanted to believe in his mother's psychic abilities. Yet he can't deny his own conviction that she's alive, despite the meticulous police investigation and the somber funeral. To survive, Victoria knows she has to reinvent herself completely. She can't even listen to her beloved Puccini. But without the music in her ears...
|  | Flowers for Algernon
Publication Date: June 14, 2004With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins hi...
|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977
Publication Date: August 23, 2010The Mystery Fancier, Volume 1 Number 6, November 1977, contains: "Raymond Chandler on Film: An Annotated Checklist, Part I," by Peter Pross, "The Degeneration of Donald Hamilton," by George Kelley, "The Mysterious John Dickson Carr," by Larry L. French, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part IV," by Guy M. Townsend. ...
|  | Watson's Last Case (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Publication Date: April 2000| Series: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Mystery ...
|  | Cosmic
Release Date: June 14, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upLiam has always had trouble keeping his feet on the ground. Being 239,000 miles from earth doesn't make it any easier....
|  | Martial Arts, Boxing, and Other Combat Sports: Fencing, Judo, Wrestling, Taekwondo, & a Whole Lot More (Olympic Sports)
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|  | Civil War Cooking: The Confederacy (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000 ...
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