 | Butcher's Crossing (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: January 16, 2007| Series: New York Review Books Classics In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full o...
 |  | The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975 (A Black Sparrow Book)
Publication Date: November 30, 2005Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants. He was an original, a blood-and-bone New Yorker who walked the city's waterfronts and breathed the life of the Jewish tenements into a lifetime of remarkable poetry. Black Sparrow Books is proud to publish his complete shorter poems - all of his poetry except the book-length works Testimony and Holocaust - scrupulously edited, with notes, by Seamus Cooney. ...
|  | Steel Magnolias(DPS Acting Edition)
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|  | The Rage
Publication Date: October 1, 2012The Rage is a gripping drama of two young men whose lives become catastrophically entangled. Roland's broken life drives him to the unthinkable crime of murder. This event destroys his emotional state and pushes him into a drug and murder binge, leading a darkly fascinated media to label him the "Red Ghost." Although he fights to pull his life back together, his bitterness leaves him no other path but a criminal lifestyle, and he becomes an extraordinarily good criminal. He perfects his use of steroids, becomes a master thief, develops a network of criminal c...
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|  | Mount Misery
Release Date: July 1, 2003From the Laws of Mount Misery:There are no laws in psychiatry.Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who ...
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Publication Date: January 1, 2005Eduardo Galeano es uno de los más relevantes escritores latinoamericanos. Autor, entre otras obras, de Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), Espejos (Mirrors), El fútbol a sol y sombra (Soccer in Sun and Shadow), El libro de los abrazos (The Book of Embraces). Días y noches de amor y de guerra (Days and Nights of Love and War) puede calificarse de obra de ficción pero, quizá, no lo sea. Como avisa el autor al principio, «Todo lo que aquí se cuenta, ocurri...
|  | Tiny Elephants with Precious Toes
Publication Date: July 21, 2012"..whimsical, surreal, dark and seductive..." Tiny Elephants with Precious Toes, is a collection of magical realism poems. Each poem short or long is a story of it`s own. Didi`s poetry has been influenced by her ancestor`s main style which is Magical Realism. Overall her poetry is filled with imagery, juxtaposition, and surreal descriptions. ...
|  | Byron
Publication Date: December 20, 2000| ISBN-10: 0742511626 | ISBN-13: 978-0742511620Byron: The Erotic Liberal is the first book to focus on the erotic dimension of Byron's political career, as expressed in both Byron's poetry and his prose. Jonathan David Gross draws on extensive archival research into the life and letters of Lady Melbourne, whose correspondence with Byron shaped his erotic imagination and influenced his engagement with the biblical story of Joseph. Gross places Byron's politics in the context of the writings of other European aristocratic liberals, such as Madame de Sta`l...
|  | The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Release Date: July 5, 2001The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. This edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998. A general introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduct...
|  | Death in the FUNhouse (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol 2)
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|  | The Art Of The Victorian Stage: Notes And Recollections (1907)
Publication Date: September 10, 2010This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
Publication Date: June 28, 2006Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation’s famous icon with societal changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac’s “wild form”—writing that is free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions—moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. Action Writing highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of “something beyond the novel̶...
|  | Isaiah Berlin: Letters 1928-1946 (v. 1)
Publication Date: June 4, 2004Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of the post-war era, and the focus of growing interest and discussion.Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. 'Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends,' wrote Berlin to a correspondent.This first volume inaugurates a long awaited edition of his letters that might well adopt this remark as an epigraph. Berlin's life was well worth living, both for himself and for ...
|  | La tregua (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2001| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) Martín Santome, widowed with three children, begins to write his journal shortly prior to his retirement. He portrays his life as very dull and unfulfilling until one day he meets Laura Avellaneda, a new employee under his management. ...
|  | Legend
Publication Date: October 1, 1996This masterfully written work of fiction by the bestselling author of The Heiress, A Holiday of Love, Remembrance, The Invitation, and Sweet Liar tells the story of Kady Ling, a celebrated chef about to married to a drop-dead gorgeous man. But an antique satin wedding dress first makes her dizzy and then transports her to 19th-century Colorado, where she winds up tricked into marrying a stranger to keep him from being hanged. ...
|  | Nauti and Wild
Release Date: September 4, 2012You’ve seen them. Looking for trouble, and looking irresistible. Boys with an edge so hard it takes a special kind of woman to satisfy them. But some women are made for it… Lora Leigh, the New York Times bestselling author of Nauti Intentions and Nauti Dreams revisits that sultry and “sinfully good” (Joyfully Reviewed) Southern landscape with a story of a young woman whose desire for a Boston attorney draws them both into a dangerous undercover investigation, and an adversary as lethal as he is relentless. Jaci Burto...
|  | The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (Harper Trophy Book)
Release Date: June 3, 1988| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Everybody Tells Me to Be Myself but I Don't Know Who I Am: Building Your Self-Esteem (Faithgirlz!)
Release Date: April 5, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Cats (First Discovery (Moonlight Publishing))
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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