 | Guide to the Blue Tongue: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Series: Illinois Poetry Series Shimmering with saturated color and heat, "Guide to the Blue Tongue" is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity. In Virgil Surez's vision, the island of Caliban's imprisonment merges with the island of Cuba, where the carboneros make charcoal and sell it door-to-door by the pound, young boxers crackle with caged energy, do...
 |  | Windflowers (Magna (Large Print))
Publication Date: December 2002| Series: Magna (Large Print) Claire has left behind the harshness of life in the outback for college and a career in Sydney.Estranged from her family, she is about to take up a position at a prestigious veterinary practice when her Great Aunt Aurelia summons her home to the family cattle station in Queensland.Claire's relationship with her parents and sister has never been easy, and it is the reunion with her indomitable mother, Ellie, she dreads the most.But coming from a long line of Warratah women famed for their grit and substance, Claire knows better than...
|  | Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula 1)
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Anno Dracula 1 "Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman"Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out“Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne ...
|  | Flesh
Publication Date: June 15, 2012The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On this quest, Tai's entire world will shift. FLESH takes the reader into dark and delightful places in the human condition, places where allies are not always your friends, true love hurts, and your worst enemy may bring you the most comfort. In that emotionally harrowing world, Tai must learn to deal with new respons...
|  | 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-Maturin)
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|  | Charlotte Gray
Release Date: July 11, 2000From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. H...
|  | Tiller and the Pen: A Collection of Sailors' Stories
Publication Date: October 1994Short fiction in a sailing milieu. . . In these stories, characters undergo change amidst the drama of sailing, natural forces and human influence.Themes of tradition, romance and mystery, the lure of faraway and the quest for adventure are woven throughout.The illustrations, drawn in a wood-cut style, are evocative. Although intended for sailors, the general reader will enjoy and gain insight from many of the pieces.Among the contributors are established nautical writers Dan Spurr, Michael Badham, Richard Morris Dey and Marian Blue.Contributor profiles and a gl...
|  | Americanus Rex
Publication Date: September 11, 2009The story begins with the stereotype of a beauty pageant contestant calling for world peace, and then explores what might have to happen in our contemporary world to make such a dream a reality.Includes strong themes of art, women's issues, and American folklore. ...
|  | Vertigo
Publication Date: October 2001| Series: New Directions Paperbook The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time.Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald—the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness—takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed ...
|  | Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories
Release Date: November 9, 2004Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various o...
|  | Joy To You And Me
Publication Date: January 1, 1986| ISBN-10: 0895368323 | ISBN-13: 978-0895368324Joseph, Jesus' Guardian; the Bethlehem shepherds; and aged Simeon are featured in these three new Christmas worship dramas. Any of the three could provide the message for the service for one of the Sundays in Advent, or for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or a special worship time near Christmas. With the use of selected prayers and hymns, any of these dramas can provide a complete worship service. When Joseph Doubted confronts the congregation with the turmoil with which Jesus' guardian was faced when God gave...
|  | Patient A - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1993A three character play developed around Kimberly Bergalis and events surrounding her AIDS illness; 47 pages in this edition. ...
|  | Desire Becomes Her
Release Date: June 26, 2012Gillian Dashwood is a widow with a scandalous past. Half the town believes her guilty of murdering her first husband, a notorious and depraved gambler. Now, two years later, Gillian goes to stay at her uncle's estate and there meets Lucien "Lucifer" Joslyn. Luc arrived in England from France months ago, suffering from the effects of an infected gunshot wound. Once recovered, he won a small fortune at the gaming tables. Knowing her reputation, Luc is suspicious of Gillian and her motives. Gillian is equally suspicious of Luc. She despises gamblers and yet, despite a...
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|  | The Bordella
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Have you ever imagined a place where women can experience their ultimate sexual fantasies with men who step right out of a dream? The Women’s Executive Club, fondly referred to by its patrons as The Bordella, is where your fantasies come to life. Enjoy these twelve tempting stories from ladies of “the Club”: The Masque Ball If Music be the Food of Love The Workout Ghost of a Chance Ice Breaker Sweet Obsessions The Perfect Hero Shameless High Tea Good Cop Bad Cop Hunter Shannon Loses her Cool Enjoy your time at the Bordella. ~Jeanne Camp...
|  | The Conformist
Release Date: November 1, 1999Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist,a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clericiis a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respecthim, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political policeduring the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned to kill his former professor,now in exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state, and falls in lovewith a strange, compelling woman; his life is torn open - ...
|  | The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse Mysteries)
Release Date: February 29, 2000| Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries "Where does all this leave us, sir?""Things are moving fast.""We're getting near the end, you mean?""We were always near the end."For a year, the murder of Yvonne Harrison at her home in the Cotswold village of Lower Swinstead has baffled the Thames Valley CID. But one man has yet to tackle the case--and it is just the sort of puzzle at which Chief Inspector Morse excels.So why is he adamant that he will not lead the reinvestigation, despite two anonymous phone calls that hint at new evidence? And why, if he refuses to take o...
|  | Murder on Route 66
Release Date: July 1, 1999Today's best mystery writers take to the road with a brand-new collection of stories featuring the great American highway, Route 66.Take a ride on the wild side with: *David August*Eleanor Taylor Bland*Barbara D'Amato*Michael Allen Dymmoch*Earlene Fowler*Carolyn Hart*J.A. Jance*Charles Knief*John Lutz*Doris R. Meredith*Gary Phillips*Les Roberts*Lillian M. Roberts*Judith Van Gieson*Carolyn Wheat *All-new stories by Earlene Fowler, Carolyn Hart, J.A. Jance, John Lutz and others ...
|  | The Ink Drinker (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: February 12, 2002| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Little Yoga: A Toddler's First Book of Yoga
Release Date: August 11, 2005| Age Level: 1 and up Yoga Baby spreads his arms out like a butterfly . . .Yoga Baby wobbles like a little bird . . . Yoga Baby says “time for rest—ahh, shh, shh” A perfect introduction to yoga for toddlers Here is a playful introduction to nine simple yoga exercises for young children. Toddlers will enjoy moving along with Yoga Baby as they follow the basic poses. Unlike most books on the subject, Yoga Baby is aimed directly at preschoolers. This interactive picture book also includes helpful information for parents and educators. Fun, acces...
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