 | Oil!
Release Date: December 18, 2007| ISBN-10: 0143112260 | ISBN-13: 978-0143112266There Will Be Blood wins a 2008 Golden Globes Award. Read about it here. There Will Be Blood wins two 2008 Academy Awards. Read about it here. Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnets, Hollywood film ...
 |  | Writings in Bronze
Publication Date: July 20, 2011For 40 years, pulp historian Will Murray has been writing about Doc Savage and Lester Dent in the pages of many fanzines. Long out of print and very tough to find, the best of these articles have been updated and collected in this new book. Includes over 450 pages of Doc info, spread across over 50 articles. ...
|  | The Greater the Honor
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Baldwin and his shipmates are in for a rollicking adventure. Under Decatur's careful eye, the young men in his command learn to hand, reef, steer and fight! ...
|  | Too Much Happiness: Stories
Release Date: November 17, 2009Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides b...
|  | Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
Publication Date: October 4, 2011In mainstream media, the erotic identities, sex lives, and fantasies of transgender and genderqueer people are often oversimplified, sensationalized, or invisible. Take Me There is an erotica collection unlike any other that celebrates the pleasure, heat, and diversity of transgender and genderqueer sexualities. The power of seeing and being seen is a central theme in the anthology; it’s not simply about passing or not passing (an idea often explored with transgender characters), but about being acknowledged and desired in a sexual context.The book take...
|  | Thistles: Selected Poems of Esther Raab
Publication Date: January 1, 2002Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated and introduced by Harold Schimmel. Esther Raab was the first native-born Israeli woman poet and an important if often-overlooked figure in the emerging literature of the Hebrew language. Her work, marked by its strong voice and idiosyncratic rhythms, is painterly in its direct apprehension of her physical surroundings. Translator Harold Schimmel's selection conveys what he calls the "strange intensities" and "astounding propinquities" of a singular writer. "One of the most innovative and revolutionary poets to appear in Hebr...
|  | Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems (Hispanic Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0856687642 | ISBN-13: 978-0856687648Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteach...
|  | A Crown of Roses (Haiku Collection)
Publication Date: January 25, 2007Sayumi Kamakura: the timelessness of the veil behind the veil behind the veil.There is much positive to say about the haiku of Sayumi Kamakura. In her recent haiku collection A Crown of Roses , and in her haiku collection from 2000 entitled A Singing Blue: 50 Selected Haiku , Sayumi Kamakura presents several impressive haiku all speaking with the quiet authority of an artist who knows her impulses and skills so well that she can make herself heard without raising her poetic voice, without over-dramatizing and without overwriting. Kamakura understands quite w...
|  | From Cover to Cover (revised edition): Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
Release Date: April 27, 2010 The revised edition of From Cover to Cover offers a fresh, up-to-date look at some of the best examples of children's literature today and also includes practical advice on how to write clearly articulated, reasoned opinions so that others can learn about books they have not yet read. A brief, updated introduction explains how children's books evolve from manuscripts into bound books, the importance of the many different parts of a book (jacket flaps, title page, copyright, etc.), and changes in the children's book industry, such as the creation of two new majo...
|  | The Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis' Fantasies : A Phenomenological Study
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| | Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture
Publication Date: February 1, 2000The essays in this collection reveal a variety of discursive practices of the marvelous and establish the variety of uses to which the marvelous could be summoned. ...
|  | Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Publication Date: July 1, 1987The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation.Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentiè...
|  | Victorian Spectacular Theatre, 1850-1910 (Theatre Production Studies)
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|  | King Richard III: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)
Release Date: October 27, 2009| ISBN-10: 1903436893 | ISBN-13: 978-1903436899| Edition: Third Edition Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be, especially in the earlier parts of the play. Siemon also places King Richard III in its historical context; as Elizabeth I had no heirs the issue of succession was a very real one for Shakespeare's audience. The introduction is well-illustrated and provides a comprehensive account of the play, critical...
|  | Making a Literary Life
Release Date: August 26, 2003As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you’re sure is out there somewhere.Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this m...
|  | The Forgotten Locket (Hourglass Door Trilogy)
Publication Date: June 9, 2011| Series: Hourglass Door Trilogy (Book 3) The future is uncertain. The battle to control the past has begun. The final book in the riveting Hourglass Door trilogy begins when Abby steps through the black door, and she doesn't dare look back. Though it means leaving Dante wounded, bleeding, and possibly blind she knows it is the only way to save her family and stop Zo from manipulating the river of time and throwing the future into chaos. In the end, Abby must face a final confrontation that will take her to the very origins of the hourglass door. ...
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|  | Six Suspects: A Novel
Release Date: August 17, 2010From the author of the New York Times bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly textured social thriller. Seven years ago, Vivek “Vicky” Rai, the playboy son of the home minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police arrest six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated ...
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|  | Coyote Steals the Blanket (Ute Tales)
Publication Date: March 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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