 | Tender Buttons
Publication Date: July 10, 1997Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques. ...
 |  | My Best Friend Martha Rodriguez: Meeting a Mexican-American Family
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|  | Mazel (Library of American Fiction)
Publication Date: August 26, 2002| Series: Library of American Fiction Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe’s daughter Phoebe grows up to become a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the sort of domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected. ...
|  | The Enormity of the Tragedy
Publication Date: February 11, 2008By teasing out the relationships between sex and death. . . The Enormity of the Tragedy presents the fundamental loneliness of a sex-driven culture. . . a plotty read that manages to be fun depsite heavy subject matter and two dislikable leads.""The Philadelphia Inquirer ...
|  | Mom in My Heart
Publication Date: March 12, 1997Like Joe Wheeler's popular Christmas in My Heart books, Mom in My Heart is a touching collection of classic short stories that will tug at your heart and take up permanent residence in your memories. These stories about the selfless love of mothers, stepmothers, surrogate mothers, and mentors are suitable for reading aloud to your family or enjoying alone for a cozy evening's entertainment. ...
|  | All In The Family
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|  | Fear
Publication Date: October 1992A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn't believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing — slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you f...
|  | Ian and the Pirates
Publication Date: June 8, 2011High on a clifftop on the coast of Colville stands a lighthouse. Leaning over and completely deserted. Ian, a seventeen-year-old runaway thinks he found in it the perfect hideaway. He could not have been more wrong! The lighthouse holds secrets that have been kept silent for a long time. Ian runs into a bunch of pirates who appear as ghosts at night. He's not allowed to leave Colville before he settles "the final battle" between the pirates and the King's vessels. ...
|  | The Inheritors
Publication Date: September 25, 1963| Series: Harvest Book Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
|  | John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 4, 2007| ISBN-10: 0393926486 | ISBN-13: 978-0393926484“Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is thebest text of Donne now available. It isscrupulously edited, and equally useful forstudents and for scholars.”—Harold Bloom, YaleUniversityThe texts reprinted in this newNorton Critical Edition have been scrupulouslyedited and are from the Westmoreland manuscriptwhere possible, collated against the mostimportant families of Donne manuscripts—theCambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and theO’Flahertie—and compared with all seve...
|  | Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies)
Publication Date: April 17, 2000| ISBN-10: 0631210660 | ISBN-13: 978-0631210665| Edition: 1 Robert Cummings's important new anthology offers in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets writing between 1600 and 1700. ...
|  | Classic Sitcoms: A Celebration of the Best in Prime-Time Comedy
Publication Date: March 1998I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, M?A?S?H, The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Taxi and Cheers. What do these shows have in common? These are the ten sitcoms that 45 TV critics from across America voted to be the all time best. This guide provides sitcom fans, trivia buffs, and TV scholars with the inside information on each of these classic shows. Included are: Behind-the-scenes stories of how each show got on the air; Storylines for every episode; Complete credits; Backstage anecdotes from the s...
|  | Early Spenser
Release Date: May 1, 1989The Early Spenser ...
|  | Murder Must Advertise: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)
Publication Date: August 10, 2010| Series: BBC Audio Crime The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization.When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, no one seems to mind. That is, until Lord Peter joins the firm incognito as Dean's replacement and starts asking questions which lead him into a network of blackmailers, drug pushers, and one of the most deadly...
|  | Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries: 40 New Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solve
Release Date: March 2, 2004Another installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries offers more than 40 new intriguing cases to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! Astute readers can test their powers of observation and deductive reasoning, then turn to the end of the book for ingenious solutions to each case. ...
| | Four Sherlock Holmes Plays: One - Act Plays from Stories By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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|  | My Favourite Fairy Tales
Release Date: October 4, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up The perfect companion to My First Nursery Stories, Ross's magical collection is guaranteed to enchant Ideal for reading aloud to young children, this humorous and imaginative collection of classic fairy tales consists of seven easy-to-read stories with hilariously detailed accompanying illustrations: "Beauty and the Beast," "Fairy Gifts," "Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Sweet Porridge," "The Hedley Kow," and "The Musicians of Bremen." ...
|  | Snorp on the Slopes (Stone Arch Readers - Level 3 (Quality)))
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Wings of Merlin (Lost Years Of Merlin, Bk. Five)
Release Date: October 9, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Winter's longest night is rapidly approaching as Merlin faces the most difficult challenge of his life: to unite all the people of Fincayra against an invasion by the evil Rhita Gawr. But how can one man, in two weeks' time, gather them all—the dwarves, the canyon eagles, the walking trees, the living stones, and more—when none of them will listen? And now comes the mysterious Swordarms, who is hunting down Fincayra's children. Only if Merlin can unite the battling forces within himself, can he save the c...
|  | The Very Little Princess: Rose's Story (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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