 | A Gathering of Old Men
Release Date: June 30, 1992Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer ...
 |  | I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel
Release Date: May 26, 2009An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in AmericaI was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunat...
|  | Confessions of a Shopaholic (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Shopaholic Series)
Release Date: January 20, 2009| Series: Shopaholic Series Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible heroine. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic—a young woman with a big heart, big dreams…and just one little weakness.Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only ...
|  | An Amish Kitchen
Publication Date: December 18, 2012 The Amish Kitchen is the Heart of the Home – and the Ideal Setting for Stories of Love and Hope. Fall in Paradise, Pennsylvania always brings a brisk change in the weather. This time also provides unexpected visitors, new love, and renewed hope for three women.Fern has a green thumb for healing herbs and flowers, but longs for love to bloom in her life. The next-door neighbor’s oldest son Abram comes running into Fern’s kitchen seeking help for his little sister. The crisis soon leads to a promise of romance—until an inc...
|  | Insatiable
Release Date: November 1, 1993No ordinary vampire, Richard Venneman derives no pleasure from bloodsucking but instead provides his victims with an unbearable ecstasy they never stop craving. Original. ...
|  | Scarecrow Returns
Release Date: January 3, 2012SCARECROW IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION Deep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base enshrouds a weapon of unimaginably destructive force—a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet. When a mysterious and brutal terrorist group known as the Army of Thieves seizes control of the remote base and unleashes the weapon upon an unsuspecting world, there is only one team close enough to sabotage them: a ragtag band of Marines and civilians led by Captain Shane Schofield, call sign “Scarecrow.” Outnumbered, outgunned, ...
|  | To Have and Have Not
Release Date: March 20, 1996Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and LoveTo Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure...
|  | Eighteen Wheels And Jesus: Trucking For The Cross
Publication Date: July 21, 2010This book is about a professional driver who is a minister living in a fast paced world where everybody is in a hurry to go no where and the love of many has waxed cold. ...
|  | Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Penguin ClassicsNew to Penguin Classics-a transcendent selection of poetry from the early Islamic era.Poetry has been the most powerful vehicle for conveying Sufism-the mystical dimension of Islam-from the early flowering of mystical Islam in Baghdad to the later heights it reached through Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) and Jami (d. 1492). Starting with the writings of eighth-century mystics, this anthology moves through the twelfth century with Ibn Arabi in Spain and Ibn Farid of Cairo, then onto the Maghrib prayer of Abul Ala Al Maari, Aynul quddat Ha...
|  | Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: April 21, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook “Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. —Ch’ien Ch’iThis exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, m...
|  | Bocas del Tiempo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Este libro ofrece una multitud de pequenas historias que cuentan, juntas, una sola historia. Es una travesia por los temas mas diversos: el amor, la infancia, el agua, la tierra, la palabra, la imagen, la musica, el exodo, el poder, el miedo, la guerra, la indignidad, la indignacion, el vuelo... Sus protagonistas aparecen y se desvanecen para seguir viviendo, historia tras historia, en otros personajes que les dan continuidad. Tejidos por los hilos del tiempo, ellos son tiempo que dice: son bocas del tiempo. ...
|  | Qing ci cong lun =: Qing ci cong lun (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution
Release Date: June 24, 2004All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative histories. Frederick C. Corney draws on a wide range of sources-archives, published works, films-to explore the potent foundation narrative of Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution. He shows that even as it fought a bloody civil war with the forces that sought to displace it, the Bolshevik regime set about creating a new historical genealogy of which the October Revolut...
|  | Salvador Dali's Literary Self-Portrait: Approaches to a Surrealist Autobiography
Publication Date: August 1, 2009This book remedies decades of critical neglect that has deprived the fields of art and literary criticism of one of the most important autobiographical and surrealist works of the twentieth century. It reveals the origins of the text, its relation to and role within Dalí's corpus, as well as its reception, provocative power, and lasting popular success. The study examines the literary contexts and sources of the text as well as its structural and narrative devices, and reveals its complex parodic mechanics that caricaturize the Freudian self. In addition,...
|  | Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History
Release Date: March 29, 2005In the vein of Brunelleschi's Dome, Galileo's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Poker, Dante in Love is a geographic and spiritual re-creation of the poet's travels and the burst of creativity that produced the greatest poem ever written.Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Rubin follows Dante's path as the poet, exiled from Florence, walked the old Jubilee routes that linked monasteries and all roads to Rome and Tuscany -- a path followed by generations of seekers from T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Primo Levi to Bruce Springsteen. F...
|  | The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Wrath of the Titans: Minotaur
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|  | Musicians of the Sun
Publication Date: September 1, 1997 ...
|  | The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Sterling Classics)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Tales And Stories By Hans Christian Andersen
Publication Date: May 15, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Stories that have delighted children and fascinated adults for over a century are the heritage of Hans Christian Andersen. This collection displays the full range of Andersen's authorship, from parable to science fiction. ...
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