 | The Forgotten
Release Date: November 20, 2012In Paradise, nothing is what it seems...THE FORGOTTENArmy Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just befor...
 |  | Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (150th Anniversary Edition)
Publication Date: April 15, 2005"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass."So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history.Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed...
|  | The Invitation - Boxed Set
Release Date: April 25, 2006 In The Invitation, Oriah expands on the poem that started it all, exhorting us to fully examine our lives, learn to live with intimacy and joy, and, above all, be true to ourselves. The Dance is the celebrated follow-up that reveals how to let go and enjoy the dance of life. To dance, alone or with others, is to slow down and realize that who we are is enough. Finally, in The Call, Oriah shows that each of us has our own call, our own specific place in the universe, and a contribution that only we can make....
|  | Filipinos in America
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|  | Mandie and the Buried Stranger (Mandie, Book 31)
Release Date: July 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up Mandie and Joe discover a huge pile of mica and no one knows who moved it there. The mystery gets bigger when the whole mound totally disappears the next day. Ages 8-13. Mandie book 31. ...
|  | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Publication Date: November 1, 1977"In this second marriage there was no wooing, and this was as it should be, for it does not look right for a widow to be lovemaking in a corner or the doorway, cuddling, hugging, kissing, embracing, touching here, touching there, hand on breasts, slipping down to thigh.""Poetic, comic, human" is how The Washington Post hailed Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, the international classic by Jorge Amado, Brazil's foremost novelist. This captivating fable celebrates heated passions, conjugal harmony, the rhythms of the samba, and the delectable joys of cooking. Cau...
|  | Silenced
Publication Date: October 18, 2011One of the hottest new writers in urban fiction, award-winning author Kia DuPree has been hailed for her heart-wrenching storytelling and unforgettable characters. Now she takes you to Washington, D.C.'s most notorious neighborhood, where a young woman has one chance to escape-and too many ways to lose . . . SILENCEDShe gets lost in the fantasy of books and poetry. But in Tinka Hampton's all-too-real world, her mother Nicola has lost her job and is struggling to stop her family's fall into poverty. With her sons turning to drug dealing-and worse-Nicola wants...
|  | A Place of Greater Safety
Publication Date: March 1993A praised British author makes her American debut with a dazzling, magisterial novel of the French Revolution--one of the most dramatic and shattering episodes in modern history. Three men who led the revolution against the ancien regime, their families and lovers, feature in a bold, sweeping portrayal of the time, as they become trapped in an escalating spiral of rage, need, terror, and violence. ...
|  | One Equals One Half of Zero
Release Date: July 6, 2006I awoke to the silence of rain the rain stopped falling stopped tapping raindrops stopped tapping on the metal roof of the van I awoke into... Thus begins a poem which catalogues a series of step by step memories of a man looking to try to make some sense of his past. This imagined silence envelopes a variety of anecdotes of a youth spent growing up in Northwestern Minnesota centering around the image of a child being born by his mother. Holding these carefully selected and highly charged images together is a very simple real time narrative structure. A man wakes up...
|  | Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and Greek Edition)
Release Date: October 28, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thousands of years tantalized our greatest thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton presents a p...
|  | Violence and Modernism: Ibsen, Joyce, and Woolf
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|  | The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: October 16, 2001| Series: Perennial Classics Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of the Old Testament, both Christian and Jewish, to gain fresh and deep knowledge of Israel's prophetic movement. The author's profound understanding of the prophets also opens the door to new insight into the philosophy of religion. ...
|  | Prurient Interests
Publication Date: June 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0231110677 | ISBN-13: 978-0231110679 0 Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how -- if at all -- it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decades. While literature abounds on the contemporary politics of obscenity, there has been little inquiry into the historic origins of these issues. Focusing on New York City in the first half of the twentieth century, Andrea Friedman'sPrurient Interests considers the ways in which the evolution of obscenity debates in decades past has significantly affected today...
|  | Root Cause
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|  | Second Inspector Thanet Omnibus
Publication Date: May 4, 1995| Series: Inspector Thanet CLOSE HER EYES: When Charity Pritchard goes missing Inspector Thanet's concern deepens when the first thought of her strictly relgious family is to leave the matter in God's hands. Of course, no detective can put much faith in appearance, but it is only after Thanet finds Charity's broken body before he realises just how wrong he can be...LAST SEEN ALIVE: It was all of twenty years since Alicia Parnell last saw Sturrenden. While she was still a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had tactfully moved away. N...
|  | Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories
Release Date: November 19, 1996A collection of shadowy mystery stories includes works by prominent mystery authors and their children and grandchildren, including Jonathan Kellerman, Scott Turow, Joan Lowery Nixon, and Carole Nelson Douglas. ...
|  | Pok
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up Reads R to L (Japanese Style)Red’s mission in life is to catch and train all the Pokémon in the world...so he needs to get started while he’s still a boy. But these Pokémon aren’t inside his Gameboy or Nintendo or Wii...they’re real! Red has some stiff competition when his path cros ...
|  | Essential Godzilla (Marvel Essentials)
Publication Date: March 22, 2006| Grade Level: P and up "You have your fear, which might become reality.And you have Godzilla, which IS reality."-From Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) And what a reality it was!For two years, Japan's greatest export was one of Marvel's biggest stars, and the King of the Monsters upheld his title against some of the best and worst the House of Ideas had to offer - including the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Nick Fury and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!Godzilla shrinks, goes West, travels through time and hosts one of Spider-Man's monst gratuitous guest-sh...
|  | Billy Bones: Tales from the Secrets Closet
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Grade Level: 3 and up Deep within High Manners Manor, Billy and his skeleton parents live in the Secrets Closet, where they're in charge of filing all the secrets and lies of the unscrupulous Biglum family. Then Billy meets Millicent, Sir Biglum's niece who has been recently orphaned. Together, Billy and Millicent encounter ghosts and other uncanny creatures as they explore each other's worlds and uncover the biggest secret of all: Billy was once a Biglum.Chris Lincoln has created a richly imaginative, highly original world. In this spooky adventure in the t...
|  | See You Later, Gladiator #9 (Time Warp Trio)
Release Date: April 26, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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