 | Selected Poems, 1945-2005
Publication Date: January 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 0520251962 | ISBN-13: 978-0520251960| Edition: 1st This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power. ...
 |  | Lost In Translation
Publication Date: January 5, 2007Meet John Taylor, a man plagued by phantom voices - or translators, as he calls them - that have shared his head ever since he was abducted by aliens as a 10 year old boy. Most people think he's crazy. He's not. The doctors think he's Schizophrenic. He's not. The government thinks he might just be humanity's last flicker of hope, but he's not that either. What he is, is something no one - including himself - could ever have imagined... ...
|  | Breaking Stride (One Flight Fiction)
Publication Date: September 2, 2006| Series: One Flight Fiction On a late July evening, two runners tear by each other in the middle of Elm Creek Nature Reserve.Their eyes meet.In the cold stare ofthe enemy comes the sudden realization that the State Title is no longer a certainty.Each runner had thought nobody else could possibly be training with the same ferocity.They thought wrong.Now an inevitable confrontation looms. ...
|  | The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe EditioThe most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volumeThe Brontë family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics unites these two enduring favorites with the lesser known but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne. Drawn from Anne's own experi...
|  | The Tempest (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 052129374X | ISBN-13: 978-0521293747The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most suggestive, yet most elusive plays. It is a magical romance, yet deeply embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. This edition attends to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his "colonialist" control of Caliban. The Tempest was also Shakespeare's response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theater, and careful attention is accordingly given to the play's drama...
|  | I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz and Lalla
Publication Date: April 1, 2001Complete with more than 50 poems, vocals, pan flute, harmonium bells, and hand drums, this audiobook presents an inspired evening featuring works by three literary legends of the 14th-century Middle East: Jelaluddin Rumi; Hafiz, the all-time favorite poet of the Persian world; and Lalla, the astonishing Kashmiri woman poet, singer, and dancer. 1 cassette. ...
|  | Desiderata and Other Inspirational Words for All Seasons
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|  | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Publication Date: March 5, 2012When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he...
|  | The Interpretation of Dialogue
Publication Date: February 13, 1990| ISBN-10: 0226504344 | ISBN-13: 978-0226504346| Edition: 1 This superb collection offers an array of rich variations on a theme central to a multitude of disciplines: the nature of dialogue. Drawing on literary, philosophical, and linguistic concepts, the essays range from broad questions of the representation of knowledge and interpretation of meaning to case studies of dialogue's function in specific fields. ...
|  | Hannah More: The First Victorian
Publication Date: November 18, 2004| ISBN-10: 0199274886 | ISBN-13: 978-0199274888Hannah More was a public figure at a time when domesticity was regarded as women's chief virtue. Her career as playwright, bluestocking, Evangelical educationalist, anti-slavery campaigner, political writer, and novelist made her one of the most influential women of her day. This is the first substantial biography of More for fifty years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence. Anne Stott reveals her as a more lively and attractive character than previous stereotypes have sugge...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 21 Victorian Novelists Before 1885
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|  | Jay DeFeo and The Rose (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
Publication Date: November 13, 2003| Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation of San Francisco, was just starting to garner widespread national recognition, the visionary work occupied the artist for eight years. Massive in scale, layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint, the overpowering painting was already famous before its first exhibition in 1969 at the Pasadena Art Museum. It was next exhib...
|  | The Art Of Desire (Arabesque)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Series: Arabesque TROUBLE COMES IN THREES...One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men.Now, she's determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career.Little does she know that a chance meeting with a strikingly handsome stranger, a mysterious obelisk, and lost kingdom will change her life forever.As Alex is about to discover, truth can be stranger--and far more dangerous--than fiction....BUT TRUE LOVE COMES ONLY ONCEAfter three years inside a terrorist organization, Phillip Turman is trying to rebu...
|  | Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 4)
Release Date: November 2, 2010Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. Family secrets ensnare them both, as Tolliver learns his father is out of jail and Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister Cameron so many years before. And what she finds will change her world forever. ...
|  | Fell Purpose (Detective Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Detective Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student, prefect, future Head Girl lies deadnear the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good Christian girl doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with schoolfriends? Asecret boyfriend from a run-down estate and a recently-released rapist look tasty; orcould the nearby fairgroundor prison have something to do with it? ...
|  | Queen in Disguise (Step into Reading, Step 2, paper)
Release Date: March 28, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Roberto Clemente: Young Ball Player (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Release Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Classics in the Classroom: Designing Accessible Literature Lessons
Publication Date: June 9, 2004| ISBN-10: 0325005907 | ISBN-13: 978-0325005904| Edition: 1Grades 9-12 Reading the classics isn't easy. Students often balk at the difficult syntax, unfamiliar settings, and descriptive passages. Length alone keeps some books out of the curriculum. For a teacher to persist–sometimes coaxing, sometimes driving–requires an act of will. In Classics in the Classroom Carol Jago provides practical ideas for making these challenging texts come alive for contemporary students. Continuing in the tradition of her popular book With Rigor for All,...
|  | Medieval Tournament Sticker Picture Book: With 25 Reusable Peel-and-Apply Stickers (Sticker Picture Books)
Publication Date: October 3, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Meghan Rose and the Not-So-Silent Night
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