 | Dawn
Release Date: March 21, 2006“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past a...
 |  | The Great Santini: A Novel
Release Date: March 26, 2002Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine—fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy’s most exp...
|  | The Amityville Horror
Release Date: July 26, 2005In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the property complete with boathouse and swimming pool and the price were too good to pass up.Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror.This is the spellbinding, best-selling true story that gripped the nation, the story of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. --This tex...
|  | Touch Not the Cat
Release Date: November 29, 2005Bryony Ashley knows that her family's grand estate is both hell and paradise -- once elegant and beautiful, yet mired in debt and shrouded in shadow. Devastated by her father;s sudden strange death abroad, she is nonetheless relieved to learn the responsibility of running Ashley Court has fallen to a cousin. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams. ...
|  | Land of Night: Scarlet and the White Wolf Book 3
Publication Date: October 31, 2008| Series: Scarlet and the White Wolf Struggling to come to terms with his new life in Rshan na Ostre, young Scarlet is trying to find his place in a decadent, foreign society that bears an ancient hatred for all Hilurin. As Liall is pulled away from Scarlet and into the jaded intrigues of a royal court, the young pedlar wonders if they’ve made a terrible mistake in journeying to Rshan.Each passing day, Liall seems more like a stranger, more like one of the haughty Rshani nobility and less like the bandit leader Scarlet knew in Byzantur. As Liall conte...
|  | Doc Holliday (Gunfighter Chronicles)
Release Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Gunfighter Chronicles (Book 1) Doc HolidayMatt Braun He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word spread quickly he never walked away from a fight, and he never drew too late.Now, from Dodge City to Denver and Cheyenne, from boomtown to sinkholes, "Doc" Holliday was driven by the demons of his past, a skilled gambler and a seasoned mankiller--his nam...
|  | A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Release Date: October 12, 2010A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe’s Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover’s Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves. ...
|  | Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Publication Date: April 25, 1991| Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythica...
|  | Inmensidad de Amor: Antologia de Poemas (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 22, 2010Colección de poemas religiosos que exaltan el amor de Dios. ...
|  | Old English Enigmatic Poems And the Play of the Texts (Studies in the Early Middle Ages)
Publication Date: December 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 2503515304 | ISBN-13: 978-2503515304Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts consists of a close study of a number of verse texts, most of which are preserved in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are riddles; others are riddle-like in their manner of simultaneously giving and withholding information. A number of them feature the literary use of runes. The author approaches these poems as microcosms of the art of Old English poetry in general, which (particularly in its more lyrical form...
|  | Cricket Songs, Japanese Haiku
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|  | Private Libraries in Renaissance England: Plre 87-112
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|  | A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Publication Date: January 30, 2002| ISBN-10: 0313314071 | ISBN-13: 978-0313314070Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written b...
|  | Mercy Mission
Publication Date: August 14, 2000"Christies realistic characterizations involve readers vicariously." A SHOCKING ATTACK It began with four U.S. Marines sitting in a Guatemala cafe, drinking beer. They were a security detachment, assigned to protect a diplomatic mission. Nothing unusual at all. Until the gunmen opened fire. When the shooting stopped only one Marine was left alive to tell the tale, a tale that sent shockwaves straight to Capitol Hill. Washington had to know the truth of what happened, and they had to know right away happened. A JUNGLE WAR It was up to Rich Welsh to get to the ...
|  | A Desert Year
Publication Date: August 1991| Age Level: 9 and up This exquisite nature study, with its lucid prose and true-to-life paintings, explores how plants and animals commonly found in the Southwestern U.S. adapt to the rigors of their environment through the seasons. ...
|  | Pinch Hit
Release Date: March 20, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upTrevor and Sam look alike. But their lives couldn't be more different. Trevor is a movie star, living the Hollywood life in a huge mansion with his own limo, pool, and bowling alley. There's nothing he doesn't have except the one thing he wants most: to play baseball for real. Sam is a regular kid who seems to have what it takes to make it to baseball's Major Leagues. He's determined to get the scouts at the big USC tournament to recognize his talent. And he really wants to see his dad, a struggling screenwriter, ...
|  | Snow day
Publication Date: January 1, 2001 Snow,Covering trees.Blanketing bushes.Burying road.White,Glorious white,Everywhere!There's nodaylikeaSnow Day! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Scholastic Reader Level 1: I Spy I Love You
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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|  | The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets) by Hass, Robert published by The Ecco Press Paperback
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