 | More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publication Date: November 8, 1999This stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy carries on in the tradition of its companion volume--the enduring classic Wandering Stars--breaking new ground with every story.Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah... all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding humor, pain and humanity in the unlikeliest of places and situations. Filled with wit, vigor, and sharp insight, this is a fantastic ...
 |  | Welcome to Harmony
Release Date: June 1, 2010Never-before-published-from the New York Times bestselling author of Rewriting MondaySixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony-and Reagan learns the true meaning of family, friends, and home. ...
|  | Needles and Pearls: A Beach Street Knitting Society Novel
Release Date: May 11, 2010The warm and witty sequel to The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn ClubSlip one . . .Two weddings and a year after her husband’s funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well—thanks to Jo’s improvements—and she’s just about keeping her head above water.Knit two together . . . But a man from Jo’s past and a new romance with the hunky local carpenter come along and make life a whole lot more interesting.Cast off . . .Can Jo cope when ...
|  | Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969
Release Date: August 16, 1999A vivid, sexy, and titillating journey into the steamy underworld of the dime novel.In the scandalous world of pulp fiction in the 1950s and into the 60s, detectives, gangsters, and mad doctors were joined on the racks by bad girls, dissolute youths, drug-crazed beatniks, and other assorted miscreants and misfits. Where romance met with soft porn there was also a surprisingly large population of butch brunettes pursuing and seducing blond femmes.This was an alternate universe of erotic pulp fiction where gals and dolls were exploring the illicit pleasures of le...
|  | Christmas at Fairacre
Publication Date: November 7, 2007| Series: Fairacre Have a happy Christmas in the English countryside with a volume of three heartwarming holiday tales from Miss Read.As frost sparkles on cottage roofs and smoke rises from chimneys, the English village of Fairacre is a perfect vision of Christmas joy — but even in this cozy community, celebrations of the season do not always go as expected. In this enchanting holiday collection, Miss Read shares three of her most beloved and memorable Christmas tales.In Village Christmas, the Emery family is preparing to celebrate their first Christmas...
|  | Sins of Sor Juana: A play in two acts
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|  | Granville-Barker Plays: 1: Voysey Inheritance , Waste , Secret Life , Rococo , Vote by Ballot
Publication Date: March 11, 1993| ISBN-10: 0413675300 | ISBN-13: 978-0413675309No one in Barker's generation did more to change British TheatreIn The Voysey Inheritance, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; A Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain) deals with a young man's life thrown away; The Secret Life is a portrait of spendthrift, indolent Edwardian aristocracy; Rococo is a one-act farce set in a vicarage and Vote by Ballot shows the teething troubles of mass democracy. ...
|  | The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time
Publication Date: September 1, 2002The stories that comprise this collection will surprise the reader even after numerous readings. They reflect innermost fears and head for spaces where reality is blurred by imagination, where insanity and madness are shrouded in mystery and where humanity is haunted by repressed passion and obsession. ...
|  | Greek Lyric: Volume IV, Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others (Loeb Classical Library No. 461)
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0674995082 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995086Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes—poems celebrating victories in athletic contests—as well as dithyrambs and other hymns. He was a master of the captivating narrative. Also represented in this volume is the Boeotian Corinna, whose work, versions of local myths, survives in greater quantity than that of any other Greek woman poet except Sappho. Ancient authorities regarded Corinna as an older contemporary and ...
|  | Tolkien Through Russian Eyes
Publication Date: November 14, 2003Tolkien Through Russian Eyes examines the sociological impact of the translation and publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's works in post-Soviet Russia. After 70 years of obligatory State atheism, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian society began actively seeking new sets of spiritual values. The Christian-like doctrine of Tolkienism has attracted a substantial following. During the Soviet era, The Lord of the Rings was a banned book, which was translated independently by a number of underground translators. The result of this is that there are numerous conte...
|  | The Absence of God in Modernist Literature
Release Date: May 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 1403977585 | ISBN-13: 978-1403977588| Edition: First Edition This book combines literary criticism, postmodern theology, philosophy, and musicology in a rethinking of the relationship of modernist literature and religion. Erickson argues that theological modes of thinking are ingrained in the very roots of our metaphysical assumptions, and are impossible to escape, even and especially in the skeptical and experimental woks of modernism. By concentrating on moments of difficulty and ambiguity in works such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl, Marcel...
|  | Critical Prose and Letters
Release Date: January 16, 2009Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, was one of the greatest poets of the Soviet period. He was also a brilliant essayist who took the destruction of his culture as one of his main subjects. This comprehensive volume contains most of Mandelstam’s essays, reviews, memoirs, reportage, sketches, polemics, forewords, fragments, and notes—and the major long prose works of the 1930’s, including: "Fourth Prose," "Journey to Armenia," and "Conversations about Dante." ...
|  | A Companion to Classical Receptions (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
Publication Date: December 21, 2010| ISBN-10: 1444339222 | ISBN-13: 978-1444339222| Edition: 1 Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classicsBrings together 34 essays by an international gro...
|  | Lethal Agent
Release Date: February 1, 2005CIA "consultant" Aaron Korda wages a war against a faction of terrorists who plan to poison the world's pharmaceutical supplies. Without support from the American government, Korda can only rely on his wits-and possibly a beautiful German spy-to save the lives of millions. ...
|  | Last Seen in Massilia: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Release Date: March 29, 2011In the city of Massilia (modern-day Marseille), on the coast of Southern Gaul, Gordianus the Finder's beloved son Meto has disappeared--branded as a traitor to Caesar and apparently dead. Consumed with grief, Gordianus arrives in the city in the midst of a raging civil war, hoping to discover what happened to his son. But when he witnesses the fall of a young woman from a precipice called Sacrifice Rock, he becomes entangled in discovering the truth--did she fall or was she pushed? And where, in all of this, could it be connected to his missing son? Drawn int...
|  | The Power of Cute
Release Date: October 11, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The Power of Cute features lift-the-flaps, pull-tabs, and simple pop-ups and is told in a young graphic novel style. A hilariously dressed monster confronts a superhero baby and is very miffed that he is not scaring the baby. And why isn't the baby scared? Because the baby has a superpower—the power of cute—and, through this superpower, transforms the scary monster into a cute baby monster.This funny story also addresses children's fears and provides a morale-building solution to confronting them. ...
|  | T-Ball Trouble (My First Graphic Novel)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | How to Draw Animals (Dover How to Draw)
Publication Date: May 19, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Rose and Crown: Letzenstein Chronicles
Publication Date: December 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Horse Diaries #7: Risky Chance
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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