 | Carry On, Jeeves: A Wooster & Jeeves Comedy
Publication Date: June 21, 2011From the moment that Jeeves walks through Bertie Wooster's door, Bertie gives up running his own affairs and lets Jeeves take charge. Whether it's the color of a tie, the style of a hat or a coat, Jeeves is always right. He is there to depend on in times of trouble, and such times are frequent in the lives of Bertie and his friends. Whether it's Corky's artistic career that needs boosting or Bingo Little's gloom that needs lifting, Jeeves can always be relied upon. ...
 |  | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Release Date: April 19, 2011On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she’s privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father’s detachment, her mother’s transgression, her brother’s increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can’t discern. ...
|  | Love Trumps Game (Zane Presents)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Zane Presents After her daughter disappears, a world-weary grandmother becomes the sole guardian of two streetwise kids—but their dangerous, no-good father will do anything to get them back. Hattie Sims has paid her dues. She is retired and looking forward to her peaceful golden years. Unfortunately, her tranquil life changes forever when her daughter mysteriously disappears, leaving Hattie with two unruly grandchildren whose crazed father, Topps Jackson, is determined to regain custody at any cost. Hattie is the only person standing in the way of T...
|  | The Old Bunch
Publication Date: June 6, 2012First published in 1937, Meyer Levin's novel The Old Bunch recounts the lives of 19 teenagers-11 boys and 8 girls- from the same neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Too young for World War I, they will later be too old for World War II. But they are not too young or too old for the Great Depression that begins to unravel their lives. Their choices are not easy: whether or not to identify with the suffering of the Jewish people, to seek love rather than status in marriage, to see African Americans as fellow sufferers. Harold Strauss called the book "a landmark i...
|  | Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformation (Religious Traditions of the World)
Publication Date: October 1984| Series: Religious Traditions of the World A solid basis for understanding the whole spectrum of the religions of Africa! Concise, expert, and fully accessible, this is an excellent introduction to the complex, diverse religious traditions of Africa practiced by peoples with vastly different cultures and languages. Religions of Africa outlines and clarifies the historical development of indigenous African belief systems, discusses the impact of colonization, Christianity, Islam, and liberation movements on the continent's religious evolution, and examines the i...
|  | The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays
Publication Date: April 27, 1999Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (includingThe Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramati...
|  | The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 24, 2000| ISBN-10: 0486414205 | ISBN-13: 978-0486414201| Edition: Unabridged Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and his sons. After the city of Thebes has banished Oedipus, the former ruler's sons vie for the crown. The victor, Eteocles, expels his brother, Polyneices, who then recruits 7 champions to lead an assault on Thebes, with a tragic results. ...
|  | Poesia Completa/ Complete Poetry (Poesia/ Poetry) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592-1598
Publication Date: June 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0226201325 | ISBN-13: 978-0226201320England’s Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of Elizabeth’s translations from and into Latin, French, a...
|  | Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture
Publication Date: December 12, 2011Altruism and self-assertiveness went hand in hand for Victorian women.During a period when most lacked property rights and professional opportunities, gift transactions allowed them to enter into economic negotiations of power as volatile and potentially profitable as those within the market systems that so frequently excluded or exploited them. They made presents of holiday books and homemade jams, transformed inheritances into intimate or aggressive bequests, and, in both prose and practice, offered up their own bodies in sacrifice.Far more than selfless ...
|  | Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 041550970X | ISBN-13: 978-0415509701| Edition: 1 This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-wor...
|  | The Perilous Cemetery (L'Atre perilleux) (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
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|  | Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, The, a Selection, 1768-1820
Publication Date: November 2000| ISBN-10: 1860942040 | ISBN-13: 978-1860942044Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters. He circumnavigated the globe with Lieutenant James Cook on HMS Endeavour, 1768-1771, taking with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of #10,000. Together they made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in many of the places HMS Endeavour visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland in 1772. Later, he settled in London, and assembled an enormous library and herbarium at 32 S...
|  | Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publication Date: March 3, 2011| ISBN-10: 0521174368 | ISBN-13: 978-0521174367| Edition: Reissue The century and a half following the Norman Conquest of 1066 saw an explosion in the writing of Latin and vernacular history in England, while the creation of the romance genre reinvented the fictional narrative. Where critics have seen these developments as part of a cross-Channel phenomenon, Laura Ashe argues that a genuinely distinctive character can be found in the writings of England during the period. Drawing on a wide range of historical, legal and cultural contexts, she discusses how ...
|  | In Too Deep: Book One of the Looking Glass Trilogy (An Arcane Society Novel)
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: An Arcane Society Novel The New York Times bestselling author begins a new trilogy setin a secluded coastal town in Northern California-a mysterious placewhere danger and passion run deep... ...
|  | Out of the Shadows (Shadows Trilogy)
Release Date: October 31, 2000| Series: Shadows Trilogy To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground.Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation. Is the terror just beginning? Or have the good citizens of Gladstone harbored a dark secret for a long time?Sheriff Miranda Knight is determined to make her small town safe once more. And she does what she swore she would never do: involve FBI profil...
|  | Dear Zoo (Mini Edition)
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| | Journalism (Merit Badge Series)
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|  | The Puppet Wrangler
Release Date: April 1, 2004| Grade Level: 3 and up When Bitsie, psycho puppet, escapes the set, Muppet mayhem ensues. ...
|  | The Berenstain Bears: The Trouble with Secrets (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights)
Release Date: July 29, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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