 | Another Country
Release Date: December 1, 1992Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s. ...
 |  | The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifeti...
|  | Celebrating the Golden Years
Publication Date: August 199896 pages ...
|  | All That Remains
Release Date: August 17, 1992#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's heart-stopping thriller featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay ScarpettaIn Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a...
|  | This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0140186247 | ISBN-13: 978-0140186246| Edition: Reissue Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published...
|  | Arden of Feversham (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: August 1984| Series: New Mermaids Series New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:• The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards• Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings• Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play• Critical, contextual and staging notes• Photographs of productions where applicable• A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging convent...
|  | Dynamics of Russian Verse
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| | The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature (New Version))
Publication Date: January 17, 1991| Series: Oxford History of English Literature (New Version) (Book 13) This volume covers the great novelists of the high Victorian age, from the death of Scott in 1832 to the death of George Eliot in 1880. In this period, as the political unease of the first two decades of the century gave way to stability, the novel came into its own. Providing an overview of both the major and minor novelists, The Victorian Novel devotes separate chapters to Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Trollope, and Meredith and sets the writers and their works aga...
|  | Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist
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|  | L'Homme Qui Plantait Des Arbres (French Edition)
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|  | Madre mia, que estas en los infiernos / Oh My Mother, Who art in Hell (Nuevos Tiempos / New Times) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | College Boys: Gay Erotic Stories
Publication Date: March 9, 2010Is it any wonder that college boys are the stuff of fantasies the world over? These dreamy hunks stride across campus, stirring lust in their wake. Whether toweling off after a swim, lurking in the library stacks, or engaging in some male bonding at the frat house, these gorgeous undergrads are good for page-turning, arousing action. An explicit collection of gay erotica, College Boys explores the first feelings of lust for another boy, all-night study sessions with a classmate, and the excitement of a student hot for teacher. This steamy collection relishes th...
|  | Moonshadows
Publication Date: March 23, 2009From the author of the Award Winning "Remember Me With Love," comes...The Intrigue Of The Lancaster LegacyJanetBelieves herself to be the last of the old-monied family.But is she?EtienneWayward cousin with a claim to half the inheritance.But does he want it all?StephenMysterious stranger with whom Janet is falling in love.But is he trying to kill her?The secrets of the Lancaster family breed deception and greed and murder. ...
|  | Betrayed
Release Date: April 26, 2011From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to the darkest realities of a terrorist conspirator, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum draws District Attorney Butch Karp deep into a combustible courtroom game of politics, power, lies, and murder.Awaiting trial in the Tombs, Manhattan’s infamous criminal detention complex, is Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque. Charges against his terrorist attack on the city were dismissed once, and now that the Islam convert is being held on new allegations, New York District Attorney...
|  | Cezanne's Quarry: A Mystery
Publication Date: September 22, 2009A beautiful young woman is found murdered . . . and the clues to her death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cézanne.In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a raging cultural debate. Initially assuming that Solange’s murder was a simple crime de pa...
|  | The Burning (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 6)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Folk Tales from Russia (Library of Folklore)
Publication Date: October 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Pig in the Spigot
Publication Date: October 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry? Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, he reveals that you must choose your words carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them! ...
|  | In Flanders Fields
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier, who risks his life to cross the no-man's land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces, dug into their trenches. This moving picture book is a plea for compassion and would make a perfect Veteran's Day gift. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
Publication Date: July 17, 2008“Makes for seriously sexy (and smart)summerreading.”—Elle“I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To provesomething. To shock someone.... I behave badly because Ican.” That’s how Ellen Sussman describes her mischievous endeavors. In thisanthology ofpersonalessays, she’s invited twenty-five other bad girl writers to share their stories. AnnHoodlies; Mary Roach confesses.Erica Jong, the originalbad girl, challenges her own claim tothat fame. Caroline Leavitt marries andcheats.These pages...
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