 | Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings : Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles (The Library of America, 75)
Release Date: February 1, 1995| Series: Library of America (Book 75) The second of a two-volume collection follows a theme of African-American heritage and folklore and includes Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, and Hurston's controversial autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road....
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Publication Date: October 19, 2010As the California borderland newspaper wherethey work prepares to close, three reporters areoddly given assignments to return to storiesthey ve covered before each one surprisinglypersonal. The first assignment takes reporterAaron Klinsman and photographer Rita Valdez toan abandoned motel room where the mirrors aredraped with towels, bits of black tape cover thedoorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman sbody is imprinted on the bed sheets. From thissexually charged beginning on land his familyused to own Klinsman, Rita, and their colleague,Oscar Medem unde...
|  | The Tombs (A Fargo Adventure)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: A Fargo Adventure Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan—a trail that t...
|  | Mr. Palomar
Publication Date: September 22, 1986| Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or a gorilla’s behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual perception. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book ...
|  | Fangoria Vampires
Publication Date: November 1996Since the nineteenth century, the vampire has inspired a wealth of unforgettable cinema, television, and literature, and now this anthology brings together the best of the worst, from Vlad the Impaler to Tom Cruise, from Nosferatu to Anne Rice, into one collector's edition....
|  | Mal the Mischievous Mermaid (Little Horrors)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Song of Roland
Release Date: March 6, 2012One of the crowning achievements of medieval artistic genius, TheSong of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778.At the center of this heroic epic is Roland, the supreme embodimentof the chivalric ideal who leads his men into combat and fightsvaliantly to the death.As Robert Harrison, the translator of this acclaimed edition,explains, "The carefully balanced structure of The Song ofRoland is designed like a folding mirror to reflect the battlebetween Good and Evil at all levels of meaning." ...
|  | Poison of Love Are We Frying Our Children's Brains?
Publication Date: January 11, 2010Poison of Love is a passionate, heart-wrenching novel about the life of one family, their turbulent marriage and a horrible tragedy they will soon have to face.When Ellen Brown marries her college sweetheart, she has no idea that her life journey is about to take a different course. After supporting her new husband through Harvard Medical School with the agreement that she would then go to grad school, she is "tricked" by him into getting pregnant, not once, but twice, dashing her hopes for grad school. Their third child comes along, and soon tragedy occurs....
|  | The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary (Rechy, John)
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| Series: Rechy, John This angry, elegant outcry against homosexual oppression is an explosive nonfiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground of Los Angeles in the seventies. ...
|  | Elizabeth Bathory: A Memoire: As Told by Her Court Master, Benedict Dese
Publication Date: July 8, 2011Accused of having murdered hundreds of her servants, Countess Elizabeth Báthory was walled alive in her castle until she died.Years later, desperate to know the truth behind his infamous mother's crimes, young Count Paul seeks out the only man still alive who can tell her story: Countess Báthory's court master and confidante, Benedict Deseö.However, revealing the truth could destroy the old man's sanity and, very possibly, ruin the family reputation which the count so desperately wishes to preserve.Using real names and places, this historic novell...
|  | Best of Zane Grey, Outdoorsman, The: Hunting and Fishing Tales (Classics of American Sport)
Publication Date: August 1, 1992| Series: Classics of American Sport Stories by a master storyteller recapture an era of wild adventures, legendary sportsmen, and rugged landscapes in some of the world's most exotic locales. ...
|  | Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies
Publication Date: July 2005MYTHOLOGY: Myths, Legends, & Fantasies! Global Book Publishing, 2003, 527 page oversized (coffeetable type) hardbound book w/dustjacket. Retail $75US. ...
|  | Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.)
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| Series: ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit. In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry in the Commedia. Examining Dante's treatment of questions of language, personhood, and the body; his engagement with the theological tradition he inherited; and the implications of his work for contemporary theology, the contributors argue for the close intersection of theology and poetry in the text as well as the ...
|  | A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights
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|  | The Swastika Strain
Publication Date: March 20, 2000Long after the end of WWII, Dr. Franz Ehrlich is still fighting for Nazi Germany, and his Swastika Strain is nearly ready. Soon it will be possible for one person with an aerosol dispenser to destroy the entire adult population of an area the size of New York City. The United States has two options commission a small commando team to stop Ehrlich and destroy his laboratory in Vietnam or launch a nuclear strike on the research complex. The President of the United States will order the nuclear attack only if the mission fails. Dan Pierce, a CIA operative whose f...
|  | Heart of a Samurai
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up In 1841 a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan’s borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way.Manjiro, a 14-year-old boy, is curious and eager to learn everything he can about this new culture. Eventually the captain adopts Manjiro and takes him to his home in New England. The boy lives there for some time and then heads to San Francisco to pa...
|  | Moopy on the Beach (Stone Arch Readers - Level 3 (Quality)))
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Bachelor and the Bean (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Publication Date: March 10, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Howliday Inn (Bunnicula)
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up...
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