| Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Release Date: May 31, 2002 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty....
| | English Authors Series: Andrew Marvell Revisited (Twayne's English Authors Series) ...
| | Contagious: A Novel Release Date: December 29, 2009From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity’s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.Standing against this unimaginable ...
| | Ring (Ring Series, Book 1) Release Date: April 25, 2004A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure. Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes...
| | I'm Going to Costa Rica to Kill Myself Publication Date: January 27, 2012An angst-ridden young man in his late twenties, Lee, disenchanted with the life he deems a failure, starts to re-evaluate his existence. Taking stock in various components of his life, Lee begins to question whether or not it’s all worth it. Disappointed by his profession, rejected by the opposite sex, unfulfilled creatively,Lee begins to contemplate the options available to him. Too scared to walk away, too inept to make it on his own, Lee must decide what course of action he’s going to take with his life. Does he have any choice in the matter...
| | Letter Z & Paris A to Z Publication Date: August 13, 2012The Letter Z With the help of their friends Matt and Jared, Zach and Angelo have settled into a new life in Colorado. They're working out the particulars of their relationship, but when they make a decision Jared disagrees with, Angelo finds himself at odds with his partner's best friend. And his best friend's partner. When the four decide on a quick trip to Vegas, Angelo thinks he and Jared may be back on track. Then a chance encounter with Zach's ex makes Angelo question everything about himself and their romance. Paris A to Z Zach Mitchell and his lover, A...
| | Landslide: The Detective Series (Volume 3) Publication Date: September 4, 2012Landslide is book number three of four in the Detective Series.Everything has come down around private investigator Cornelia Osgood, Oz to most. Her sister has split town, leaving her newborn daughter in Oz's arms. And just before her sister ran off, Oz's girlfriend Abby left too. Oz loves her niece, but parenting is definitely cramping her style, both professionally and personally, and her mother, who doesn't seem like herself these days, isn't much help. It doesn't seem like things can get any worse, but things almost always can. Next thing Oz knows, she ...
| | Die Wirklichkeit der Mythen: Untersuchungen zum Werk Gerhart Hauptmanns aufgrund des handschriftlichen Nachlasses (Veroffentlichungen der Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft e.V) (German Edition) ...
| | More Service with a Smile: Another Helping of Humorous Sketches for Sunday Worship Publication Date: January 1, 2004Another helping of humorous sketches for Sunday worship. "Service with a Mile" has been such a popular seller that demand prompted this follow-up book. Those who have discovered how laughter promotes learning know that these short dramas will reinforce many worship service themes including unity, relationships, materialism, family and compassion. The characters are great fun to play in both ordinary and extraordinary situations. Some outrageous spoofs, some physical humour, but every sketch supports Christian concepts. As with the original collection, these s...
| | Euripides ""Hekabe"": Edition und Kommentar (Texte Und Kommentare) (German Edition) Publication Date: December 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 3110229455 | ISBN-13: 978-3110229455| Edition: 1 In medieval Byzantium Hecabe was Euripides´ most popular tragedy, so that it is this play for which we have the most manuscripts. Although this means that the production of a critical edition to satisfy modern criteria is particularly difficult, such an edition can now be presented. It comprises a revised text, a collection of testimonials, an extensive textual criticism, a prose translation, an introduction that pays particular attention to the history of the transmission and the receptio...
| | Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy (Artists and Issues in the Theatre, Vol. 7) (v. 7) Publication Date: February 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 0820440604 | ISBN-13: 978-0820440606| Edition: 2nd Theatrical tragedy, like all other major civic institutions of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian democratic patriarchy, was exclusively male. The course of western drama changed when women characters (played by transvestite male performers) were introduced. Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy explores themes and issues of gender identity and political ideology in plays by Aeschylus (Suppliant Maidens, Oresteia), Sophocles (Antigone, Philoctetes), and Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, Orestes, Helen,...
| | The I. L. Peretz Reader Publication Date: June 1, 2002| Series: New Yiddish Library Series Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is an influential figure of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This volume, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue and 26 stories by Peretz, also provides a detailed essay about Peretz's life by Ruth R. Wisse. This edition also includes Peretz's g...
| | Poetry as Individuality: The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan Publication Date: January 1, 2010The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem. Hillard argues that individuality is the crux of poetry for Celan because the Holocaust effectively eviscerated the individual. He investigates the core figures of individuality in Celan's poetry and prose: semblance, madness, and the wound. Celan's enigmatic poetry of a depopulated textual universe has p...
| | Akhmatova and Pushkin (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs) ...
| | Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works Publication Date: September 19, 2005Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as the Large Glass). The work is over nine feet tall, and on its glass surface Duchamp used such unorthodox materials as lead wire, lead foil, mirror silver, and dust, in addition to more conventional oil paint and varnish. Duchamp's declared subject is the relation between the sexes, but his protagonists are biomechanical creatures: a "Bride" in the upper panel hovers over a "Bachelor...
| | The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Publication Date: March 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0871568772 | ISBN-13: 978-0871568779| Edition: Revised Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the landfrom the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in his Afterword to this...
| | Winning It All: Pregnant with the Playboy's Baby\His Accidental Fiancee (Silhouette Desire) Publication Date: August 10, 2010| Series: Silhouette Desire (Book 2031) This summer, enjoy twice the scandal in this compelling anthology!Pregnant with the Playboy's Baby by Catherine MannMeet the shocked father-to-be: Nicolas Valera had indulged himself with society gal Vanessa Hughes, knowing it would lead nowhere. But the Argentinean was more than tempted to persuade her back into his bed. He never expected their torrid affair would result in a surprise pregnancy.His Accidental Fiancée by Emily McKayStepping up as the fake fiancé: Connor Stone could not forget his one night wit...
| | Mud Creek Publication Date: July 27, 2012At age seventeen, Helen Pendleton considered herself to be a modern woman, eager to embrace the new century.While the normal path for a female in her New York town was matrimony and children, she shocked her parents by planning to attend college and hoping to eventually become a schoolteacher.So when her neighbor, Albert, surprised her by proposing marriage, she was smugly confident in her decision to decline his offer. Yet time and adversity changed everything. Three years later, with her parents deceased, and college a fading memory, she and her sister, Viole...
| | The Faithful Spy Release Date: August 2, 2011 Years ago, John Wells was an all-American boy from Montana. Now, he is wandering through Pakistan as a member of al Qaeda. After a decade away from home, he despises the United States for its decadence. He hates America's shallow, mindless culture of vice and violence. He is a devout Muslim. He is a brave warrior for Allah.He is a CIA operative.And he is coming home... ...
| | My Life as a Haunted Hamburger, Hold the Pickles (The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle #27) Publication Date: October 31, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Everybody says the old house at the edge of town is haunted. But Wally has some major doubts. Unfortunately, in exposing the hoax he undergoes some of the craziest catastrophes and mass mayhem of his life. To name just a few, Wally experiences: falling into mirrors that others claim show the future; shorting the sheets on so-called ghosts; and supposedly being turned into a talking hamburger. All this as our young hero learns what God really says about sorcery, ghosts, and the supernatural. ...
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