 | The Children of Children Keep Coming: An Epic Griotsong
Release Date: January 13, 2009 The Children of Children Keep Coming is an awe-inspiring contribution to literature. A breathtaking form of poetic expression, this unique work presents a riveting chronicle of the African American experience in the United States.The dramatic odyssey opens with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey's end they hope to find liberation. Along the way, they encounter fields of laborers sowing seeds, plodding hard under sun high and moon low, working to end slavery. The toilers are sustained by work songs that at one moment expr...
 |  | Tomo, Vol. 5: Secret Alliance
Release Date: August 14, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Having entered Argon Falls, Hana meets her spoiler and grieves for people suffering under oppression. The time arrives to employ her skills and the Spirit Sword as she and Tomo pursue deadly assassins returning to earth to remove the source of protective prayer. As the struggle against evil and oppression continues in book five, Hana learns that, because of the power of prayer, not all warriors fight with fists and swords. ...
|  | El gran pacificador del Infierno (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 10, 2012El GRAN PACIFICADOR DEL INFIERNO es un libro que nos sorprende por sus detalles escatológicos y la procedencia de sus personajes principales dentro de la novela. Tal parece que se nos anuncia la próxima verdad ominosa, ciega ante nuestras sabiolas entumecidas mientras caminamos entretenidos por entre el laberinto de los últimos acontecimientos faranduleros vomitados por las corporaciones mediáticas. En esta obra el lector encontrará a una Bestia humana que anheló convertirse en un instrumento de vida y terminó sus d...
|  | Emily Dennistoun
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Emily Dennistoun lives alone with her elderly tyrannical father at Borriston Hall on the Scottish coast. Her mother died many years before, and her younger brother is at Oxford, presented with opportunites that Emily can only dream of. She has few friends and lives through her writing. Then she meets Francis, and despite vicissitudes of fortune, despite uncertainties, loneliness and unhappiness, Emily holds steadfast to a love she knows is true. ...
|  | Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Release Date: August 4, 2009John Milton was one of the world’s greatest poets, the renowned author of Paradise Lost. But he was also deeply involved in political and religious controversies of his time, and authored a series of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and civil rights that proposed a rethinking of the nature and practice of government. In countless biographies, Milton has been crudely sketched either as a blind, saintly artist or as a domestic tyrant. Yet as Anna Beer shows, he was neither ogre nor paragon. By closely examining all aspects of Milton’s life and ...
|  | Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.) (Music in American Life)
Publication Date: April 17, 2000| Series: Music in American Life "Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition. " ...
|  | The Visitor : A Play in Three Acts
Publication Date: July 1, 2000This delightful play and homage to Jane Austen followsMacKensie, a bright but disillusioned graduate student who has come toa standstill in her life and her Austen dissertation -- that is, untilshe gets a 'visit' from Jane Austen herself, who turns MacKensie'sworld and the entire campus upside down with her adventurous charm andwit. ...
|  | The Complete Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 1981Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet of colloquial language, ample generosity, and intimacy, Jarrell wrote beautifully "of the American landscape," as James Atlas noted in American Poetry Review, "[with] a broad humanism that enabled him to give voice to those had been given none of their own."The Complet...
|  | P'u Ming's Oxherding Pictures & Verses, 2nd Ed.
Publication Date: June 8, 2011In these translations of the mysterious P'u Ming's work, Red Pine is demonstrating the way in which the ox became a significant metaphor in Chinese Zen literature. This is a beautiful reprint of Red Pine's extremely successful earlier version. The string-bound book includes drawings as well as poems. ...
|  | Farsi Khayyam
Publication Date: December 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1883819156 | ISBN-13: 978-1883819156This book is intended for those who speak and understandPersian (farsi) but are not familiar with the Arabic script. Itpresents a new Farsi script based on Latin.The book includes a complete set of Edward Fitzgerald's Englishtranslation of Khayam and a French translation by J.B. Nicolas andC. Grolleau. ...
|  | Rain
Publication Date: July 5, 2006In this beautiful, inspiring treasure of a book, Sudeep Sen, reflects on rain, its passion and politics its beauty and fury, its ability to douse and arouse.He ultimately explores the various moods that water and fluids inherently unravel. ...
|  | Suetonius: Nero, Second Edition (BCP Latin Texts)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 185399541X | ISBN-13: 978-1853995415| Edition: 2nd This new edition of Suetonius' "Nero" is updated to take account of research on Suetonius. It includes the original author's corrections and updating, his complete revision of the commentary, with suggestions from regular users of the book, which was first published in 1977. This edition brings together the life of one of the most enduringly fascinating Roman emperors with the most interesting of Roman biographers, with succinct but authoritative scholarship on both. ...
|  | A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger
Publication Date: August 14, 2003Bernard Bergonzi has written an absorbing and fascinating biography of Thomas Arnold the Younger (1824-1900), son of the celebrated headmaster of Rugby and younger brother of Matthew, father of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and grandfather of Aldous Huxley. A scholar, teacher, and self-styled "wanderer," Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once more to Dublin, where he died in 1900. This biography explores Arnold's diverse path through academia, his complex relationship ...
|  | Romance Writer's Sourcebook: Where to Sell Your Manuscripts
Publication Date: January 1996| ISBN-10: 0898797268 | ISBN-13: 978-0898797268| Edition: First edition. Writers ardent about romance will welcome this newest addition to Writer's Digest Books' market book line. Romance Writer's Sourcebook combines how-to-write instruction with where-to-sell direction--information useful to both new romance writers and those who long ago embraced the genre. ...
|  | Key Witness
Release Date: March 1, 2001A corporate attorney gives up his prestigious position for the life of a public defender and tackles a case he cannot possibly win: the defense of a young black man with a criminal record who has been accused of seven rape-murders. The defender's only chance is to discredit the testimony of the prosecution's key witness, but as the city seethes with racial tension, he realizes that the verdict is far more important than just one man's guilt or innocence. Is he willing to risk his hard-earned reputation and take the chance of losing the wife he loves for true justic...
|  | El inocente (Spanish Edition) (Mickey Haller)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Mickey Haller El abogado defensor Michael Haller siempre ha creido que podria identificar la inocencia en los ojos de un cliente, hasta que asume la defensa de Louis Roulet, un rico heredero detenido por el intento de asesinato de una prostituta. Por una parte, supone defender a alguien presuntamente inocente; por otra, implica unos ingresos desacostumbrados. Poco a poco, con la ayuda del investigador Raul Levin y siguiendo su propia intuicion, Haller descubre cabos sueltos en el caso Roulet, puntos oscuros que le llevaran a creer que la culpabilida...
|  | Agents of Treachery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
Release Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.Including:* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special ops cell. * James Grady writing about an Arab undercover FBI agent with an active cell.* Joseph Finder riffing on a Boston architect who's convinced his Persian neighbors are up to no good.* ...
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|  | Tut Tut
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 0 and up...
|  | La Iliada/ The Illiad (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 2007La Iliada. Provided in Spanish only. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
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