 | The John McPhee Reader
Publication Date: June 1, 1982The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said “is bringing his work to levels that have no m...
 |  | A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
Publication Date: May 15, 1967Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture." ...
|  | Nick Virgilio:A Life in Haiku
Publication Date: March 22, 2012Nick Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s and was a pioneer of American haiku poetry, penned some of this country’s most elegiac and memorable haiku. Born and bred in Camden, New Jersey, he was a legend to some, an inspiration to others. He spent countless hours in his cellar at his Remington typewriter, writing haiku about nature, the people of Camden and south Philadelphia, and his family. In particular, he detailed the deep sense of loss that affected him and his family when his youngest brother, Larry, was killed in Vietnam. Edited and introdu...
|  | The Plague of Doves: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Series: P.S.The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation. Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical inj...
|  | Hater
Release Date: April 13, 2010Soon to be a major motion picture—produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by J.A. BayonaREMAIN CALM DO NOT PANIC TAKE SHELTER WAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened 'Haters' by the media, the attackers strike without warning, killing all who cross their path. The assaults are brutal, remorseless and extreme: within seconds, normally rational, self-controlled people become frenzied, vicious killers. There are no apparent link...
|  | My Soul to Keep
Release Date: April 8, 1998When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ri...
|  | The Discovery of Slowness
Publication Date: May 1, 2005The Discovery of Slowness--a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's master piece--recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Slow and deliberate from boyhood, Franklin appeared destined to be a misfit. But he escaped f...
|  | The Shadow Catcher: A Novel
Publication Date: June 3, 2008Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy.The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a...
|  | Mansfield Park (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 17, 1998The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816.Supporting materials include an introduction, annotations, and a map. "Contexts" includes contemporary materials on the slave trade, religion, conduct literature for women, and landscape design that illuminate this dark and often disturbing novel. Elizabeth Inchbald’s adaptation of Lovers’ Vows (the play staged by the characters in Mansfield Park) is included, as are writings by Humphry Repton, Thom...
|  | TOLKIEN: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia
Publication Date: October 20, 1992This encyclopaedia offers guidance to Tolkien's world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands. It draws together every important aspect of his vast cosmology in over 500 alphabetic entries covering five subject areas - history, geography, sociology, natural history anad biography. By drawing on Tolkien's works, the entries are intended to offer readers a detailed background to the characters and creatures of his extraordinary imagination. ...
|  | Wasps
Publication Date: January 15, 1971...an outstanding edition.'___ Classical Outlook . ...
|  | Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Publication Date: November 1, 1997Abingdon Press Paperback/Pamphlet with 63 pages. Six plays for the Lenton Season Featuring Persons at the Passion. ...
|  | Antologia Poetica/ Poetic Anthology (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 4, Utopia
Publication Date: March 11, 1965| ISBN-10: 0300009828 | ISBN-13: 978-0300009828| Edition: Second Printing Although numbers as Volume 4, this is the second of the Complete Works to appear, following The History of King Richard III. The Latin text is based on the editions of 1516, 1517, and 1518, fully collated and with the variant readings; the parallel English text is a thoroughly revised version of the translation by G. C. Richards. Also included are the letters on the book exchanged by More and his friends, their tributes, and the marginal glosses of the early editions. The text ...
|  | The Thorn Birds (Modern Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Modern Classics With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, here is the towering epic about three generations of a remarkable family in the Australian outback that was the basis for one of the most beloved television miniseries of all time. The Boston Globe called it "the kind of book the word 'blockbuster' was made for."The inaugural edition of our Modern Classics series, this is the only hardcover edition of The Thorn Birds currently in print. ...
| | Shakespeare'S Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery
Publication Date: July 1, 1994Demonstrates the evolution of Shakespeare's art, and similarities of dramatic theme and artistic practice that connect Shakespeare's earliest romantic comedies to his dark comedies and his late romances. New light is shed on such issues as the "unsatisfactory" endings of many of the comedies, the troubling fates of "scapegoat" figures like Shylock and Malvolio, and elements of sadness in these plays. ...
|  | Bedtime Erotica
Publication Date: June 30, 2008Bedtime Erotica is a collection of eight explicit short stories that will leave a lasting impression. It starts off with a cautionary tale in Another Woman and quickly shifts to the more subtly erotic Double The Trouble, a story of a woman desired equally by her boyfriend and his identical twin. Lexy constantly turns the heat up and down with each story, leaving the reader's passions simmering until they get to Oxford Blue, a beautifully written tale of a mature woman's seduction by her son's friend that will make you question your morals and ends in a bang wit...
|  | A Halloween Collection Anthology: Sweet
Publication Date: September 22, 2010Five complete sweet stories to satisfy your romantic cravings by five talented authors.Go On Without Me by Markee Anderson Lydia Sanders is spending a lonely Halloween until Ian shows up to make sure she's not depressed. They go for a drive then the car dies in the middle of nowhere in the rain. They have no cell phone reception. Their only hope is an old house within walking distance and the two eerie people inside. At midnight? On Halloween?Honor Cafe by Charlotte Raby Adrianne is satisfied running her cafe for the homeless and believes her life is compl...
|  | El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile y otros relatos/ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Tales (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Borderlines (Joe Gunther Mysteries)
Publication Date: December 1, 1994| Series: Joe Gunther Mysteries (Book 2) The second novel in the Joe Gunther re-release promotion finds Gunther in Gannet, Vermont. The quiet town is rocked by violence and murder when five members of a back-to-nature cult die in a suspicious fire. ...
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