 | Of Love and Dust
Release Date: May 31, 1994Ernest J. Gaines is best known for his prize-winning THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN, but OF LOVE AND DUST has equal power and fascination. It zeros in on an explosion in the making between two men, one black and one white, trapped in the vise of Southern back country prejudice. When young Marcus is bonded out of jail, he is sent to the Hebert Plantation to work in the fields. He treats Sidney Bonbon, the Cajun overseer, with contempt and Bonbon retaliates by working him nearly to death. Marcus decides to take his revenge. --This text refers to an out of prin...
 |  | Midwinter Day
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 876) Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts."Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I ...
|  | Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen (Perverse Modernities)
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0822338181 | ISBN-13: 978-0822338185Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends that the radically fragmented form of modernist poetic texts is ...
|  | Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Publication Date: September 1999Love, betrayal, petty larceny, and high fashion fuel this deliciously comic novel from the author of Fight Club and Survivor.The fashion-model protagonist of InvisibleMonsters has just about everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But one day she's driving along the freeway when a sudden"accident" leaves her with half herface, no ability to speak, and next to noself-esteem. From being the beautiful center ofattention she becomes an invisible monster, sohideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supr...
|  | The Hundred Brothers: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2011With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning steal; the eldest, the youngest, and the celebrated “perfect” brother, Benedict. In Donald Antrim’s mordantly funny novel The Hundred Brothers, our narrator and his colossal fraternity of ninety-eight brothers (one couldn’t make it) have assembled in the crumbling library of their family’s estate for a little sinister fun. Executed ...
|  | Bunner Sisters
Publication Date: September 11, 2008In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square. It was a very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a side-street already doomed to decline; and from the miscellaneous display behind the window-pane, and th...
|  | The Best of Hammer and Bolter: Volume I
Release Date: June 26, 2012Sample the best short fiction from Black Library’s monthly magazine, from our most popular established authors and a host of new talent. Available for the first time in print. ...
|  | The Forest and the Trees
Publication Date: January 12, 2004A realistic but humorous look at the workings of both bodies and hospitals,The Forest and the Trees is written for the enjoyment of medical professionals and the lay public alike.This story of Midlin's medical education covers the first six months of his internship, a period filled with role models, competitors, and nemeses.Midlin immerses himself in his new culture of memorization and repetition and soon feels master of every situation.Only in the surprising conclusion does he realize the shortcomings of his beloved approach to medicine, and readers will fi...
|  | Boy Trouble
Publication Date: February 15, 2012Percy DeForest Spock has a successful writing career, a new boyfriend, and is just settling into life in Bloomington, Indiana when a knock at the door turns his world upside down.Waiting on the other side is Caspian, his fifteen-year-old, Goth nephew.Caspian has just lost his parents, his home, and his been ripped away from the only life he has ever known.Can the mismatched pair make a new life together or are they doomed from the start? Tyler is excited to meet Percy’s nephew, but Caspian is nothing like Tyler expected.Caspian is rude, angry, and a ...
|  | Lettres D'une Peruvienne (MLA Texts & Translations)(French Edition)
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|  | The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
Publication Date: October 17, 1994America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic.Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making today's cocktail-party circuit and shows why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true.The eponymous episode—"The Baby Train"—sheds light on certain predawn activities that have linked unusually high birth rates to the whim ...
|  | Lives of the Saints - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0822217465 | ISBN-13: 978-0822217466THE STORIES: ENIGMA VARIATIONS. Zany hijinks as a pair of lookalikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-g...
|  | The Source Within: A Collection of Poems Inspired from the Heart.
Publication Date: August 1, 2012The Source Within, is a collection of poems inspired from the heart, a place where all positive energy thrives.Each poem is a unique art piece, designed to inspire the creative energy that lives within each of us. The entire collection presents itself as an inspirational work of art, created to awaken the curiosity and goodwill of mankind. A portion of the artist proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit children with autism, asperger's, tourette's, ADHD, dyslexia and other learning disabilities and processing disorders. ...
|  | Selected Tales and Poems
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|  | Life Riddles of Hope for Tomorrow: Life isFull of Riddles
Publication Date: January 26, 2011This Book Is Designed to Help People Solve Individual Problems. We all need problem solvers and this book has interesting reading to help you do just that. ...
|  | A Book Lover's Diary
Publication Date: September 6, 2003| Series: Diary "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."-- Oscar WildeA Book Lover's Diary is a journal for noting personal discoveries from the books read and recording the books on a wish list. A Book Lover's Diary is a welcome companion during forays to libraries and bookstores when the titles of books wanted can vanish from memory.Well-organized and practical, this book features separate sections for:Books to readBooks read and a personal review Books to buyBooks loaned out or borrowedFavorite...
|  | Latin Grammar (Advanced Language S.)
Publication Date: December 5, 2008| ISBN-10: 1853995215 | ISBN-13: 978-1853995217| Edition: Bilingual First published in 1867 and later revised, this grammar incorporates an account of morphology and accidence, a detailed and exemplified syntax and a final section on prosody (metrics). A Latin and English index and list of citations from individual authors is also included. ...
|  | Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow.Along the way, new light is shed on the radical sensibilities of Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Friedrich Schlegel while the poetics of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and William Blake are revealed to be profoundly oppositiona...
|  | Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
Publication Date: December 17, 2008This absorbing autobiography in lettersoffers aremarkable window into the life of one of thegreatest novelists of our time. "The BestBook of the Year." --David Lodge, The Guardian[UK]One of the undisputed masters of twentieth-century English prose,Graham Greene (1904-1991)wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This exemplary volume presents a newand engrossing account of hislife constructed out of hisown words. Impeccably edited byscholar Richard Greene, the letters--including manyunavailable evento his officialbiographer--give a newperspective on a l...
|  | All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 7)
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 7) Betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse must now not only deal with a possible new man in her life-the oh-so-handsome shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with a long-planned vampire summit. With her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans, the local vampire queen is vulnerable to those hungry for a takeover. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she'll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe. --This text refers...
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