 | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Release Date: September 11, 2012I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students. Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the ho...
 |  | The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
Publication Date: April 1, 2003For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original unce...
|  | The Midnight
Publication Date: May 2003| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 956) New poetry and prose from a most acclaimed experimental American poet.In The Midnight's five sections, three of poetry and two of prose amply illustrated with images Susan Howe has collected, we find bed hangings, unfinished lace, ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Lady Macbeth, Thomas Sheridan, Michael Drayton, Olmsteda restless brood confronting, absorbing, and refracting history and language. With an inspire...
|  | Wings of a Dream
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Debut Author Delivers Sweet Heartwarming Historical FictionRebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promised adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he's the man she's meant to marry.While she waits for the Great War to end and Arthur to return to her so they can pursue all their plans, her mother's sister falls ill.Rebekah seizes the opportunity to travel to Texas to care for Aunt Adabelle, seeing this chance to be closer to Arthur's training camp as God's approval of her...
|  | The Divine Comedy
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|  | Dormar II: Gath
Publication Date: July 30, 2012Dormar, the Dlarmian prince and master of the lance, continues his war with the remnants of the Zexon Empire.He is faced with evil spiritual powers and creatures of which he has never conceived.He wields his steel blades with awesome consequences for other men but there are things that cannot be fought with physical skills alone. In this land of darkness and fear Dormar becomes more aware of supernatural entities both holy and wicked.Sometimes legends and stories told to scare children at night stand before men to present them with the opportunity to either fig...
|  | The Cinnamon Colt: and other stories
Publication Date: November 27, 2007I was a full-time cowboy when I wrote these stories. Nothing made me FEEL better than to see a cow baling off a hill trying to get away and me ready to stop her. Nothing made my heart beat more pleasurably than the moment when I turned my horse toward home in the evening. Nothing has ever been better for me than cowboying and writing about it.Writing is a gamble. We put everything on the line and hope to keep on living after that. Everything I believe and love about horses, cattle and people were gambled in these stories. ...
|  | The Hanging Tree
Publication Date: June 1, 1998This compelling work of literary fiction raises disturbing questions about love and jealousy, cruelty throughout the history of humankind, and sexual obsession. With a profound knowledge of Africa's landscape, animals, and myths, Lambkin sheds light on the deepest human instincts. ...
|  | The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations
Publication Date: December 7, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199228337 | ISBN-13: 978-0199228331From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies. ...
|  | The Haiku Year
Publication Date: March 29, 2004Seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The result is The Haiku Year. Michael Stipe's entries recall his twilight-drenched lyrics for R.E.M. Douglas Martin's spare, elegant prose illuminates the hidden corners of life while Grant Lee Phillips thoughtful storytelling is pared down to the simplest language. Hinting at the transcendence and banality of everyday life, the short verses signify an appreciation for small moments of beauty and ultimately urge readers to let these realizations pierce thr...
|  | Selected Poems (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2008A bilingual (English & Chinese) collection by Dalian-based poet-editor, Mai Cheng. This is the first collection of his work to be made available in translation.[Mai Cheng] would seem to have no regard for the conventional limits of the poetic, but he rarely falls into a disorder that cannot be remedied. He has calmly but firmly placed the anvil of his poetic art in the space between saying too much and disclosing secrets, between the investigations of life and the cure of aesthetics, in order to forge his individual poetic voice. The risks he takes with langua...
|  | El Hombre y Su Poesia
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|  | The Collected Poems of James Clarence Mangan (Collected Poems of James Clarence Mangan, 1818-1937)
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|  | Song shi xuan (Zhongguo shi ge bao ku) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Arthurain Literature and Society
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|  | Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing (Postmodern Studies 33)
Publication Date: June 2003| Series: Postmodern StudiesBorderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdóttir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography’s relationship to postmodernism by i...
|  | A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 28, 2009| ISBN-10: 0631206876 | ISBN-13: 978-0631206873| Edition: 1 This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholarsAllows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contextsContributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of Af...
|  | Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare)
Publication Date: June 22, 2004| ISBN-10: 1411401026 | ISBN-13: 978-1411401020No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Richard III on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains ...
|  | Running from Legs: And Other Stories
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|  | A Guilty Mind
Publication Date: September 10, 2012When secrets have deadly consequences... George Vandenberg is a broken man with a volatile temper, haunted by the memory of the young woman he once loved and "accidentally" killed. Wrestling with the guilt and pushed by his psychiatrist to confess the circumstances of her death, he teeters on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The past collides with the present when the doctor turns up dead, brutally stabbed to death in his office. Stunned and confused, George emerges as the primary suspect even as he becomes a target himself. To prove his innocence, George ...
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