 | Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
Release Date: April 21, 1999Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni's unmistakable voice.In a career that has spanned three decades, Giovanni has created an indispensable body of work and earned a place amoung the nation's most celebrated and controversial poets; Gloria Naylor calls her "one of our national treasures." Now, in these fifty-two new poems, Giovanni brings the passion, fearless wit, and intensely personal self that have defined her life's work to a new front.Invoking the fates and exalting the rhythm of the everyday, Giovanni...
 |  | Orlando (Annotated): A Biography
Publication Date: July 3, 2006Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista ...
|  | The Foe of Barnabas Collins - Dark Shadows #9
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|  | Nosotros (Biblioteca Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| Series: Biblioteca Juvenil Descripcion en Espanol: Una novela antiutópica, similar a 1984 y Un mundo feliz. Aqui hallamos una sociedad donde, aparentemente, reina la felicidad, bajo la ferrea tutela de un estado unico, regido por una sola persona, al que todos deben obediencia ciega. Han desaparecido los nombtres de las personas: son solo numeros, y estos numeros se visten igual y tienen una vida rigurosamente controlada. En Nosotros, el proyecto utopico se ha desarrollado, pero el resultado es terrible y cruel. Description in English: WE is considered ...
|  | On a Cold April Night: A Tale of the Titanic Disaster
Release Date: September 24, 2007This is the story of Christopher Mitchell, a quartermaster on the Titanic. He is a lonely man who wishes he could get back together with his girl, Diane Daniels. The liner leaves Southampton for her maiden voyage. While leaving harbor she nearly collides with another passenger liner. This raises Mitchell’s hair. As the ship crosses the Atlantic, Mitchell has dreams and flashbacks with his love Diane. He did not read her last three letters and considers doing so, but decides to wait until he reaches New York. The quartermaster dreams of the time he was a d...
|  | Angels of Darkness (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Space Marine Battles)
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|  | The Teed-Off Ghost: A Hawaiian Golf Mystery
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|  | The Impact of Restoration Critical Theory on the Adaptation of Four Shakespearean Comedies (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: October 2000| ISBN-10: 0773477225 | ISBN-13: 978-0773477223This work studies critical doctrines that influenced the alterations of Shakespeare during the restoration. It studies his plays in depth regarding the adapters' own critical beliefs as shown in their criticism and as manifested in their own plays. ...
|  | The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Release Date: January 29, 2008"It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden evil-smelling emptiness. . ."A flamboyant, hard-drinking, ruthless, and womanizing world adventurer comes face-to-face with the one antagonist he cannot conquer: his own ignoble and imminent death. . . . Written in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a classic distillation of the themes Ernest Hemingway obsessively explored throughout his writing career. When Harry, the central character, goes on safari to "work the fat off his mind," his ambitions are cut short when a terrible accid...
|  | A Different Silence: Selected Poems (Poets' Voices)
Publication Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Poets' Voices Inspired by the immediate and the intimate, Árni Ibsen's poems celebrate the wonders and peculiarities of life.They are lyrical observations infused with philosophical questioning. Yet Árni Ibsen is a deeply humorous poet, whose work is brimming with a "spirited seriousness."His work testifies to the conviction that poetry is a vital necessity.A compact disc featuring a selection of the poems, read by A compact disc featuring a selection of the poems, read by Árni Ibsen in Icelandic and in English accompanies this book.&#...
|  | Era La Vispera de Navidad (Twas The Night Before Christmas, Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 7, 2012Era la vispera de Navidad,y en todo el hogar reinaba la paz, no se escuchaba ni un solo ruidito, ni tan siquiera el de un ratoncito. Junto a la chimenea las medias colgaban, pues a San Nicolas ya pronto esperaban. Abrigados, los ninos cada uno en su cama, suenan con los dulces, que tendran manana.A letter from Santa Claus: In this special twenty-first-century edition, select lines have quietly slipped from the pages. Here at the North Pole, we decided to leave all of that tired old business of smoking well behind us a long time ago. The reindeer also aske...
|  | The Divine Comedy (Scots Edition)
Publication Date: May 12, 2010This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such 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 worldwi...
| | Poryv: Novye imena : sbornik stikhov (Russian Edition)
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| | Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839
Publication Date: January 1, 1990When John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket-Book in London in 1744 he was onto something new: the writing and marketing of books devoted wholly to children. Although it was the Age of Reason and Newbery and his contemporaries believed that even the poorest young-ster could "look to his book" to achieve worldly success, there was an element of fun in the juvenile productions that soon flowed from the presses. The adventures of Dick Whittington, Giles Gingerbread, and Little Goody Two-Shoes delighted as they instructed. To read Engines of Instruction, Mi...
| | Avalon Revisited: Reworkings of the Arthurian Myth
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|  | The Jump Off
Release Date: July 25, 2006In Doug Dixon's hip, sexy novel, a dedicated player is about to discover that the free and easy lifestyle can wind up being anything but. . .Charming, successful engineer Troy Sanders likes his relationships short, hot, and hassle-free. Until one day at the beach, looking for his next no-strings fling, he meets Jennifer Stevens--a beautiful, career-driven attorney who's got zero time for Troy's games. What she does have is Troy's number, before he can even give it to her. . .Finally, Troy's ready to do the unthinkable and make a real commitment, even if it means da...
|  | Lady of the Two Lands
Publication Date: April 6, 2003One minute, Hattie Williams is in a museum, sketching a gold necklace that belonged to Hatshepsut, first female Pharaoh of Egypt; and the next, she's lying in a room too archaic to be the museum, with a breathtakingly handsome, half-naked man named Senemut bending over her.Hattie soon discovers she's been thrust into the body and life of Hatshepsut, with no way back to her own time. Tuthmosis, the heir to the throne, hates her; the High Priest of Amun and the commander of the army want to kill her and Tuthmosis; and the best bathroom facilities in the country a...
|  | Fishing in Action (Sports in Action)
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sock Monkey Rides Again
Release Date: December 12, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Yee-haw! Sock Monkey lassoes a part in a singing cowboy movie — if he can only get up the nerve to kiss the leading lady.Sock Monkey, the famous toy actor, can hardly believe his ears. He's landed the starring role in a singing cowboy movie! Now he'll get to yodel, ride a horse, lasso a cow, and — yikes! — kiss the leading lady. Sock Monkey doesn't want to kiss anyone! But it's the role of a lifetime, so the woolen thespian corrals all his friends to help him prepare. Can he resist the urge to r...
|  | Indestructibles: Old MacDonald Has a Farm
Publication Date: February 3, 2011| Age Level: 0 and up Indestructibles are the 100 percent baby proof, chew proof, rip proof, completely washable, and nontoxic series of books. Books built for the way babies read, Indestructibles are printed on an amazing nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to endless chewing, gumming, gnawing, grabbing, bending, and pulling. Then, once the books get dirty, parents can throw them in a dishwasher or washing machine to make them clean as new. The title is adapted from classic nursery rhymes and illustrated by Jonas Sickler. Sickler’s paint...
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