 | Unending Rooms
Publication Date: November 1, 2008The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chacon’s writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque plain talk at times, but he isn’t afraid to use pretty descriptions as well.Daniel Chacon is author of Chicano Chicanery as well as various short stories and plays. His fiction has appeared in several journals, including ZYZZYVA, New England Review, and Callaloo, and his plays have been produced in California and Oregon. His first novel, and the shadows...
 |  | The New Young American Poets: An Anthology
Publication Date: January 1, 2000Poetry today holds mainstream attention as never before. From community workshops to reading groups, from coffee house poetry slams to small press lit mags, from universities to web 'zines, the world of poetry has become part of our everyday lives. Demonstrating the range and vitality of the new generation of American writers, The New Young American Poets features the work of forty poets born since 1960. ...
|  | On Strike for Christmas
Release Date: October 30, 2007At Christmastime, it seems as though a woman’s work is never done. Trimming the tree, mailing the cards, schlepping to the mall, the endless wrapping—bah humbug! So this year, Joy and Laura and the rest of their knitting group decide to go on strike. If their husbands and families want a nice holiday—filled with parties, decorations, and presents—well, they’ll just have to do it themselves. The boycott soon takes on a life of its own when a reporter picks up the story and more women join in. But as Christmas Day approaches...
|  | Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Publication Date: June 1979| ISBN-10: 0048070033 | ISBN-13: 978-0048070036An invaluable guide for the student, which provides information about classical and Christian ideas in a compact, readable and accessible form. It offers extracts from original sources as well as giving suggestions for further reading. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Play of Heresy (A Joliffe Mystery)
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Series: A Joliffe Mystery (Book 7) From the pages of the national bestselling Dame Frevissemysteries...A FESTIVAL OF MURDER...In the early summer of 1438, Joliffe and his fellow players have arrived in Coventry for the theatrical festival of Corpus Christi Day. Employed by one of the city's rich and powerful merchant guilds, they plan to present two of the many plays which will extravagantly depict all of God's Story in a parade of pomp and pageantry.But even as they prepare to perform the Nativity, Joliffe may be called on to play a wise man off the stage as ...
|  | Virus
Publication Date: August 1996When their hospital is swarmed with patients suffering from abizarre and deadly disease, two doctors join forces to discover itsmysterious origins and to prevent a worldwide epidemic. Reprint. PW. ...
|  | Cooperstown: A Novel
Release Date: June 28, 2005An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new voice in contemporary fiction.Cooperstown, New York, in 1979 (the year Willie Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), is a close-knit community where gossip is sovereign and baseball is the great American religion. Seen through the eyes of Dr. Kerwin Chylak, a psychiatrist who has recently moved to town with his family, the citizens of Cooperstown are a wildly eclectic team of players that includes an alc...
|  | Devi!: A Fable
Publication Date: February 15, 2012In Devi! A Fable, Joshua and Catherine Maxwell introduce us to Devi, a 3 ½ foot, pink and purple polka-dotted demon.When Hell proves to be too much for him, Devi leaves for the surface.Enter the Charity family, who are determined to welcome Devi into their home with open arms.In his quest to understand humanity, Devi begins to learn just what it is that make people so special. ...
|  | Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199538042 | ISBN-13: 978-0199538041This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, and The Dance of Death.Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the...
|  | The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1984| Series: Texas Pan American Series Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. ...
|  | The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
Release Date: August 5, 2008A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great works of world literature. It has been translated into English many times since 1785, and has had a profound influence in America, beginning with the transcendentalists and continuing today. It is taught in introductory world literature, religion, and Eastern religion c...
|  | The Voices of Love: Great Love Poems
Publication Date: January 13, 2005Love: it is the single human emotion that has inspired the most passionate and despairing poems in the language. Words sprung from the heart, this collection of our greatest love poems speaks to our deepest memories, our most ardent longings. In The Voices of Love, ten talented actors read the enthralling testimony of poets over the centuries, who write of the heart’s desires, the soul’s choice. Here is life at its most intense. Listen, and be changed forever. The CD is packaged with a perfect-bound book containing the text of all the poems and...
|  | The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader
Publication Date: December 22, 2009Any discussion of the great masters of American English must include the writings of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher. For more than sixty years, in her writings about family, food, and travel, Fisher amassed a body of work that belongs on any shelf of classic American writing. Assembled here in this new edition is a generous selection from the books from throughout her career, arranged chronologically, and with this volume, we fortunate readers are now offered a magnificent, intimate survey of her life and writing. Whether reflecting on her father’s affin...
|  | ABC for Book Collectors
Publication Date: April 1995| ISBN-10: 1884718051 | ISBN-13: 978-1884718052| Edition: 7th This reference contains over 450 alphabetical entries ranging in length from a single line to several pages. Each entry consists of a definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with comments on such subjects as auctions, facsimiles, fakes and pirated editions. It should be a valuable book for any collector baffled by the technical language of an auction catalogue, or a bookseller wanting to widen his or her knowledge of these bibliographical term...
|  | Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1557288739 | ISBN-13: 978-1557288738| Edition: 2 Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah’s Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth story of the OBC phenomenon.Kathleen Rooney combines extensive research with a dynamic voice to reveal the club’s far-reaching cultural impact and its role as crucible for the clash between “...
|  | The Renaissance (Journey Through History Series)
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| | Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality
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|  | The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Inspector Montalbano The latest mystery in the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano seriesWith their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's hugely popular Sicilian crime novels continue to win more and more fans in America. The day after a storm, Inspector Montalbano encounters a strange woman who expresses interest in a certain yacht scheduled to dock that afternoon. Not long after she's gone, the yacht's crew reports finding a disfigured corpse. Also at anchor is a luxury vessel with a somewhat shady crew. Both boats will have ...
|  | On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Nova Audio Books)
Release Date: June 1, 1997| Series: Nova Audio Books High in the air of the Swiss Alps a set-up is planned.A man is hunting respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe's most ruthless criminal.Nothing is to stand in his way.Especially not 007. And Bond, too, has a lot on his mind. . . she is so beautiful, so sensual, that the charms of bachelorhood seem oddly tarnished.Bond is skating on very thin ice. ...
|  | The Shortest Journey
Publication Date: April 19, 2010Mrs. Edith Rossiter, a rich matron, also has a wealth of greedy relatives--a cold-blooded daughter, a wastrel son, and a desperate sister. Because she is in excellent health, none of them can hope to inherit anytime soon ... So when Edith vanishes from Taviscombe’s finest nursing home, the police suspect the worst, despite the lack of evidence. Mrs. Rossiter was a close friend of Mrs. Sheila Malory, who as usual applies her skills as an amateur detective to delve into the lives of the missing woman and her hopeful heirs. Was Edith addicted to sleeping p...
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