 | Ghosts along the Texas Coast
Publication Date: April 30, 1998A collection of strange occurences, this book brings to light tangible evidence and first-hand testimony to validate a wide range of ghostly tales. Whether they haunt the place of their death or a place they loved in their lives, these spirits are found up and down the Texas coast. Author Docia Williams brings us the best of these stories, where they happen, and provides some of the history surrounding these spooky spots. ...
 |  | Farishta
Release Date: June 2, 2011An American diplomat is forced to confront the devastation of her past when she is assigned to remote northern Afghanistan. Twenty-one years ago, diplomat Angela Morgan witnessed the death of her husband during the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Devastated by her loss, she fled back to America, where she hid in the backwaters of the State Department and avoided the high-profile postings that would advance her career. Now, with that career about to dead-end and no true connections at home, she must take the one assignment available-at a remote British army ou...
|  | Alchemy
Publication Date: January 12, 2010The summer of 1984 was a golden time in America. From California, where gymnast Mary Lou Retton was winning Olympic gold, to Cape Cod, where explorer Barry Clifford was discovering pirate gold, the nation seemed obsessed with the precious metal. But for 15-year old Al, that obsession hits a little too close to home when he finds a code-filled notebook belonging to his missing father that may contain the ancient formula for turning lead to gold. Convinced that his father’s sudden disappearance is connected to his secret experiments in alchemy, Al sets ...
|  | The Internationalist (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1840028548 | ISBN-13: 978-1840028546Lost-in-translation business trips and global travel are put under the microscope in The Internationalist, a play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication.Lowell goes abroad on business. He thinks he's in one of those great American films where you go to a foreign land and there's romance and adventure. However Lowell soon discovers that he's not in one of those movies, he's in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no clear hero, and most importantly...
|  | You Are Free: Stories
Release Date: May 3, 2011From the bestselling author of Caucasia, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing.Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still sing...
|  | Essays on the Odyssey, Selected Modern Criticism
Publication Date: June 1963Editor Charles H. Taylor, Jr. has selected seven essays designed to enhance the reader's and student's understanding of the Odyssey by exploring its fundamental and most significant features. The selections include: God and Men in Homer by Wk>C. Guthrie, Personal Relationships by W. B. Stanford, The Odyssey and the Western World by George DeF. Lord, The Name of Odysseus by Grogre E. Dimock, Jr., Calypso and Elysium by William S. Anderson, The Obstacles to Odysseus' Return by Charles H. Taylor, Jr. and The Reunion of Odyessus and Penlope by Anne Amory. ...
|  | The Aeneid
Publication Date: August 31, 2006The classic epic tale ...
|  | A Hundred Verses From Old Japan (Myths, Legend and Folk Tales from Around the World)
Publication Date: November 23, 2009 ...
|  | Cotidianas
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Biblioteca Mario Benedetti In Cotidianas, Mario Benedetti’s poemsillustrate the fleeting moments that occur in daily life which areseldom recognized or even acknowledged for their unique beauty.Within the mundane, we are victorious against intolerance ormanipulation each time a voice speaks out against impersonal drudgery. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Keller's Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
Publication Date: October 1, 1995This work by the Swiss/German poet, Gottfried Keller, is part of the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series. The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing high school and undergraduate market for texts in the German language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context ...
|  | haiku Emily!
Publication Date: December 10, 2011haiku Emily! is the result of a haiku poet's fascination with Emily Dickinson. Convinced that the elements of haiku could complement the hymnal lyric style of Emily Dickinson's poetry (both often relate nature to human nature, and even to the very nature of human existence), Everett Decker devoted a year to creating 1,789 haiku-influenced poems based on Dickinson's 1,789 poems, in the process distilling the best of both poetry worlds.This book commemorates the 125th anniversary of Emily Dickinson's death with 125 outstanding examples of this innovative work...
|  | Children & Libraries: Getting It Right
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|  | Oficio de tinieblas
Release Date: August 1, 1998| Series: Penguin Ediciones A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction, "Oficio de Tinieblas" draws on two centuries of struggle among the Maya Indians, the white landowners, and the conflicted mestiza class in the Chiapas region of Southern Mexico. The novel transposes historical events to the Chiapas of Castellanos's own childhood in the 1930s, and explores, too, the struggle of Mexico's women for independence from the British oppression of their husbands and lovers. ...
|  | The Quest: The Legend of Blackbeard's Chalice Book Three
Publication Date: August 31, 2010Book Three in the Legend of Blackbeard's Chalice series... Jackson Porter seeks to fulfill his mother dying request-and answers about the imaginary lover who haunts his nights. His future, he learns, is in a place called Ohio, miles and centuries away from his barrier island home in 1745. The land is his legacy and belongs to him. His mother urges him to claim it. In the year 2032, Kari Upton is driven to fight federal sanctions to save her land and her crops. Her upcoming marriage is one of convenience. Marrying Tye Gentry will save her Ohio farmland. There ...
|  | A Certain Justice (Abe Glitsky)
Release Date: February 7, 2006| Series: Abe Glitsky When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black man, Kevin Shea was the only one who tried to stop them. He failed, and now, thanks to a deceptive news photo taken during the melee, he is wanted for the murder himself-and the real culprits have threatened his life if he says a word. As riots rage and politicians posture, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky finds himself under pressure to bring Shea in at all costs. And as respect for the law crumbles-even among those sworn to uphold it-true...
|  | Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
Publication Date: January 2, 2006The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, worked. One man props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. "I'm going to the moon," it reads. "I took the cash." The wives drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives and shaking off the belief in an American dream that, like their husbands, has proven to be a thing of the pas...
|  | The Water Puppets: A Story from the War in Vietnam
Release Date: September 8, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family’s Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew Shulamit meaning “peace,” to honor the Jewish part of their ancestry. Critically-acclaimed author Carolivia Herron (Nappy Hair) shares this engaging, multicultural tale is based on her own family's herit...
|  | Bulfinch's Mythology: The Illustrated Age of Fable- The Classic Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths Accompanied by the World's Greatest Paintings
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Bulfinch's definitive retelling of Greek and Roman mythology is illustrated for the first time with 100 of the world's most stunning and dramatic masterpieces.-- The panorama of artists includes Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Rubens, and Burne-Jones, among many others.-- The marriage of classic painter and ancient mythology showcases how Ingres imagined Oedipus solving the riddle of the Sphinx; the terrifying head of the Medusa as painted by Caravaggio; the building of the Trojan Horse by Tiepolo; and countless other visions inspired by myth.-- ...
|  | Franklin's Bad Day
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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