 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books (1-5)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | The Pond: Puerto Rico's 19th-Century Masterpiece
Publication Date: May 1999| ISBN-10: 155876092X | ISBN-13: 978-1558760929| Edition: 1st Markus Wiener Publishers Ed Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia's La Charca, published in 1894, and widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. In the co...
|  | Self-Conscious Art: A Tribute to John W. Kronik (Bucknell Review)
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|  | Hustlin' Divas
Release Date: July 3, 2012From the award-winning, national bestselling author hailed as the 'Duchess of Street Lit' comes a steamy, sexy, gritty tale about Memphis' ride-or-die chicks, who'll do whatever it takes to get what they want. In South Memphis, four women live in high-stakes, high-risk territory. Ta'Shara has no interest in following her sister into the street game, but when she falls in love with the brother of a rival, her own sister orders a severe punishment. LeShelle didn't get where she is by being nice. When a drug mule tries to take her spot next to her man, Python, she pull...
|  | The Clockmaker
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0887548431 | ISBN-13: 978-0887548437A new play by the award-winning author of Mary's Wedding. ...
|  | The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: September 18, 2008A deluxe edition of Kerouac?s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publicationFirst published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac?s most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans?mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer?whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco?s Bohemia to solitude and ...
|  | The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Publication Date: September 13, 2002If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Over twenty years in print, here is the original uncut version of this classic text. Illustrated with photographs of phenomena in progress, every sentence in the book is true. Used as a text in seminaries and classrooms, this is one book you can't put down. ...
|  | Alarums
Publication Date: January 13, 1994Melanie Conway is a pale and lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks frequently get her into trouble. Captivated by these two sisters, Melanie's boyfriend Bodie finds himself drawn into a strange mystery. ...
|  | Ghost Stories of New England
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|  | MAD About Star Wars
Release Date: October 16, 2007A long time ago (thirty years) in a galaxy far, far away (California) . . . It is a period steeped in cinematic lore. Rebel filmmaker George Lucas, striking from a base in Northern California, won a tremendous box office victory against all odds with Star Wars, his sci-fi spectacular. During the ensuing craze, MAD’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” managed to steal a few laughs at the movie’s expense, soon discovering that Star Wars was the ultimate pop culture punching bag.Pursuing each Star Wars film’s release with more mockery, the MA...
|  | Our Kingdom, Volume 2 (v. 2)
Publication Date: March 28, 2006Country boy Akira is finally getting used to life at the Takatou mansion, where he is one of two candidates to be heir to the vast Takatou fortune. The other candidate is his princely cousin Rei, who is completely smitten with Akira. Things get hectic however, as new troublemaking members join the household. First to show up is Akira's uncle Yuji. Dead set against the stuffy customs of the Takatou matron, he has refused to take over as heir to the Takatou name. Next to reappear is the troublemaking Raoul. As he and Rei lock horns over Akira's attentions, Akira...
|  | Easter Program Builder No. 26: Creative Resources for Program Directors
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Easter Program Builder (Book 26) (Lillenas Publications). Like our other program builders, this Easter collection features graded recitations for kids and short sketches and plays for everyone. Special programs include: 2 short pieces for children; "The Sacrifice," a double monologue of two mothers; "Born to Die," a candlelight service; and "The Dream Store," a play for all ages. ...
|  | Rethinking Tragedy
Publication Date: January 7, 2008| ISBN-10: 0801887402 | ISBN-13: 978-0801887406This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in aNew Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The ne...
|  | Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art
Publication Date: November 1984Clean but shows light marks to text. Large format softcover. ...
|  | After the Death of Young Werther: Poems
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|  | The Paradox of Prosperity: The Leiden Booksellers' Guild and the Distribution of Books in Early Modern Europe
Publication Date: January 1, 2009In The Paradox of Prosperity, Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt against Spanish rule. She traces the migration of printers from the Southern Netherlands to Leiden and observes how they congregated within the city and sought contracts with the city's new university. But this is only the beginning of a multifaceted analysis of the development of a market-driven industry that eventually is organized under the protective umbrella of a guild. And this guild, in turn, is something other ...
|  | The Arthurian Name Dictionary (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815328656 | ISBN-13: 978-0815328650| Edition: 1 This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Information is drawn from significant Arthurian sources between Gildas's "De Excidio Britanniae" (c.540) and Tennyson's 19th-century "Idylls of the King". The book contains names extracted from over 250 original Arthurian texts and includes information on characters such as Lancelot and Gawain, places such as Camelot and Camlann, objects ...
|  | Mysterious Destiny Beckoning Corridors
Publication Date: July 7, 2010How do lives intertwine or do they?Do the actions of one person affect other lives, centuries later?Set in the 16th, 18th and 21st centuries, this is a Mystery Romance where three extraordinary couples are held together by one common bond. ...
|  | The Wench Is Dead
Publication Date: May 1990In 1856 the body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford canal. In 1989 Inspector Morse is taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital with a perforated ulcer. As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation of Joanna's death and subsequent murder trial. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Study in Scarlet (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 1, 2001| Series: Penguin Classics In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Their search for the murderer uncovers a story of love and revenge-and heralds a franchise of detective mysteries starring theformidable Holmes. ...
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