 | Midnight Robber
Publication Date: March 1, 2000It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival-until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime.Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach i...
 |  | Selected Poems (Revised and Enlarged Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: April 17, 1997| Series: New Directions Paperbook This second edition of the late Robert Duncan's Selected Poems, first published in 1993, includes eleven additional poems and excerpts.Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a "useful and portable compilation," says critic Tom Clark, that "provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet." Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the or...
|  | Girlfriend!: A Fable for Friends
Publication Date: March 1, 2010Same book, new title! Girlfriend, You Are The Best is now Girlfriend!.In Girlfriend! author Carol Lynn Pearson celebrates the joy of true friendship, with all its ups and downs, sorrows, surprises, and triumphs. Taking you through the milestones of life, Girlfriend! is a celebration of the women who are always there for each other. The perfect gift for celebrating friendship....
|  | Ancestor: A Novel
Release Date: June 7, 2011“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.”From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadia...
|  | Grief
Release Date: June 5, 2007Now in paperback, the universally acclaimed novel about loss and yearningReeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, an exhausted, lonely professor comes to our nation's capital to escape his previous life. What he finds there -- in his handsome, solitary landlord; in the city's somber mood and sepulchral architecture; and in the strange and impassioned journals of Mary Todd Lincoln -- shows him unexpected truths about America and loss. ...
|  | Dark Side Of The Spoon
Publication Date: May 20, 2012Comedy / Screen Play. Two 30-something white supremacists move to Portland to rent a house together. The two of them are trying to make it in the city when they run into some problems with the local Aryan Nation. ...
|  | The Luzhin Defense
Release Date: August 11, 1990Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championshi...
|  | Eigo haiku: Aru shikei no hirogari (Japanese Edition)
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|  | New World Literacy: Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700 (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
Publication Date: April 7, 2011| Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. The author argues that diatribes against chivalric fiction and the Index of Prohibited Books did not prevent proscribed literature from circulating freely on both sides of the Atlantic. On the contrary, he notes, such prohibitions may have increased the lure of certain books....
|  | A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 11, 1999| Series: Oxford World's Classics In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics.This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy. ...
|  | Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (2nd Edition) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 13, 2001| ISBN-10: 0130618578 | ISBN-13: 978-0130618573| Edition: 2Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literatures—from pre-Colombian times to the present—covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.It features detailed historical introductions to each period and writer, selections drawn from literary, historical, and socio-political contexts, and instructional aids that make the language accessible and e...
|  | Home Again (The Chesapeake Diaries)
Release Date: July 27, 2010Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, she’s an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, Dallas’s charmed life turns tabloid nightmare. Determined to shield her young son, Cody, from the ugly uproar, Dallas seeks refuge in sleepy St. Dennis, Maryland—the Chesapeake Bay town where her happiest childhood days were spent. Reunited with her boisterous great-aunt, Dallas wants nothing more than to ...
|  | Believe (Heartspell)
Publication Date: July 1998| Series: Heartspell Tessa St. James thinks as little of love as she does of the Arthurian legend--it's a myth. But when an enchanted tome falls into the teacher's hands, she finds she must rethink her philosophy. Suddenly in Merlin's Camelot, Tessa will learn that the legend is nothing like she remembered. ...
|  | Dead and Living: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1993NOMINATED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL.Jane Bow covered the trial of Rodger Pearse Brown, and this novel is the fictionalized result of that experience and of the many hours spent with the accused. Dead and Living is a compelling examination of the Canadian justice system, the effects of such a trial on the accused’s family, and the timless power of guilt and the human spirit. ...
|  | The Uncanny X-Men: An Origin Story
Release Date: June 21, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up Sworn to protect a world that fears them... ...
|  | The Hunt for The Eye of Ogin (The Winnitok Tales)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | About the B'nai Bagels
Release Date: March 4, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up Mark Setzer has a lot on his mind. He's worried about his upcoming bar mitzvah, and he misses his best friend, who's moved to the rich side of town and started hanging out with the obnoxious kid they used to make fun of. Mark doesn't need the aggravation of his mother signing on to manage his Little League team. But if "Mother Bagel" complicates Mark's life, she's great for the team. Suddenly, they're winning games and headed toward the championship. The problem is, Mark has some information that could change everything, and he doesn't know wh...
|  | Let's Go to a Park (Welcome Books: Weekend Fun)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | I Am David
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic...
|  | Raggedy Ann Stories
Release Date: September 30, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up...
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