 | Dragonfly, Walking Stick
Publication Date: June 5, 2012Based on John Josselyn's 1646 record of an English woman who was found guilty of allowing an Indian man to have carnal knowledge of her and was sentenced to wear an armband with the outline of an Indian on it, Dragonfly, Walking Stick explores the complex relationships among and between Algonquin Indians and English Colonists.Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the crea...
 |  | La Tierra de las Cuevas Pintadas = The Land of Painted Caves (Hijos de la Tierra) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Hijos de la Tierra (Book 6) Traducida a 35 idiomas, LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA® es una de las series más conocidas y de más éxito de la historia del mundo editorial. Sus ventas suman por el momento más de 45 millones de ejemplares, 3 de ellos sólo en España y América Latina. Jean M. Auel combina sus brillantes dotes narrativas y unos personajes atractivos con una sorprendente recreación de la manera de vivir de hace miles de años, plasmando el terreno y convirtiendo los lugares, los deseos...
|  | The Spoiler
Release Date: April 10, 2012A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by their (not-so-) brief (head-on) encounter.At the novel's center--a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day "The Newsroom Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) now in her eighties, at the end of her career, who, over the decades, as the intrepid golden girl o...
|  | The Spirit of Shaolin
Publication Date: October 15, 1991A well-known martial arts expert describes the philosophy behind Kung Fu, discussing the ancient wisdom of the Chinese masters, the principles of Shaolin thought, and the inner meaning of martial arts. Reprint. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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|  | A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers)
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Series: Penguin African Writers The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writerSet in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly ...
|  | A bag of tricks (Phonics chapter book)
Publication Date: 1998| Series: Phonics chapter book Scholastic Phonics Chapter Books ...
|  | Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Publication Date: January 21, 2008| ISBN-10: 052105463X | ISBN-13: 978-0521054638| Edition: 1 This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters and his language in relation to the language of the comic fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic categories in the Terentian corpus explored include colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal features. Terence is shown to give his old men an old-fashioned and ve...
|  | Body in Flames/Cuerpo En Llamas
Publication Date: March 1, 1990Poetry with text in English and Spanish!!! ...
|  | Meetings With Mallarme (EUROPEAN LITERATURE)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0859895629 | ISBN-13: 978-0859895620| Edition: 1 In this work, the contributors explore the significance of Mallarme's influence on some of the major works in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory. The book demonstrates how the presence of Stephane Mallarme informed the projects of such figures as Valery, Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, de Man, Bonnefoy, Kristeva, Blanchot and the Oulip group. ...
|  | Poems...
Publication Date: January 27, 2012This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjo...
|  | The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
Publication Date: November 1, 1989Collected works of short fiction by Edgar Allan Poe ...
|  | Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela
Publication Date: January 1, 2007In the original Spanish, this book is an recreation through letters of muralist Diego Rivera's relationship with his first wife, Russian painter Angelina Beloff. When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting through the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from the Russian painter Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego became famous for his Mexican murals or was applauded for his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, he was married to Beloff. She was his wife for over ten years while the young Rivera lived...
|  | Plutarch: Lives, Vol. III, Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1916| ISBN-10: 0674990722 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990722Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies p...
|  | Alien Diplomacy (Alien Novels)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Alien Novels Being newlyweds and new parents is challenging enough. But Jeff andKitty Martini are also giving up their roles as super-beingexterminators and Commanders in Centaurion Division while mastering thepolitical landscape as the new heads of Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps.Enter a shadowy assassination plot and a new set of anti-alienconspirators, and nothing will ever be the same... ...
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Publication Date: July 1993Private eye Fred Carver investigates the slaughter of an ex-cop, the murder of a man who was found stuffed to the gills with cocaine, and other crimes. Reprint. ...
|  | El dragon rojo (Dragones De Colores/ Color Dragons) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007 ...
|  | The Dragon of Krakow and Other Polish Stories (Folktales from Around the World)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Surf's Up: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers
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|  | The Cat in the Hat: Mini Book and Finger Puppet (Mini Book and Puppet)
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