 | Night Screams (Stalkers)
Release Date: November 1, 1995| Series: Stalkers Twenty-three short horror stories include the works of suchwriters as F. Paul Wilson, Charles de Lint, Clive Barker, LawrenceBlock, David Morrell, Rick Hautala, Katherine Ramsland, and RayBradbury....
 |  | Night Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Lucas Davenport Mysteries A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast. ...
|  | Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Classical Presences)
Publication Date: July 17, 2008| ISBN-10: 0195336917 | ISBN-13: 978-0195336917Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first book of its kind to treat the role of the Cretan myths in the modern i...
|  | Through the Leaves and Other Plays (TCG Translations)
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|  | Henry IV, Part I (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) (Pt. 1)
Publication Date: October 20, 1995| ISBN-10: 019831969X | ISBN-13: 978-0198319696| Edition: 2nd Henry V and Merchant of Venice are two wonderful additions to the all-new Oxford School Shakespeare, the series teachers have chosen time and again as the preferred introduction to the Bard's works. Designed specifically for students unfamiliar with Shakespeare's rich literary legacy, these new editions present Shakespeare's sometimes-intimidating Middle English in a way that is easy-to-read and engaging for ages twelve and up. The notes and introductions have been completely revised, allowing...
|  | French Symbolist Poetry And the Idea of Music
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0754656411 | ISBN-13: 978-0754656418What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through an ever-shifting set of...
|  | Figures de Val
Publication Date: April 2000| Series: Critiques litteraires 'Figures de Valery' analyzes written portraits drawn byPaul Valery of model thinkers, fellow artists and friends such asGide, Mallarme, Degas, Catherine Pozzi, but also Descartes and HenriPoincare, in which the poet sees himself in others, through his ownwritings.These multiple portraits, either fictional, biographical, or based onhis correspondence constitute a series of reflecting mirrors, fromwhich emerges the poet's complex problematics of self, if his own canonly be seen through others in its "multiplicities." This concept,whic...
|  | Hors Les Murs (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Sevastopol: On Photographs of War
Publication Date: October 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1879378299 | ISBN-13: 978-1879378292Poetic responses to 42 photographs taken from 1854 to 1997, mostly in times of war.The reader looks at the photo on the left page and measures the author's response on the right, meanwhile living through trying moments of history. ...
|  | Mythology & the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry
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|  | Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 30, 1963Composed by soldiers who fought in the Holy Wars, these two famous French chronicles are among the most important portrayals of both the dark and light side of the two hundred year struggle for possession of Jerusalem. The first trustworthy and fully informed history of the Crusades, Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople describes the era of the Fourth Crusade the period between 1199 and 1207, during which a planned battle with Moslem forces ironically culminated in war against Eastern Christians that led to the sacking of Constantinople. The Life of Saint L...
|  | Crimen y castigo (Crime and Punishment) (Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Clasicos (Book 23) The first great novel of the author's ""mature period"" of writing, Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovick Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money; arguing that the good deeds he can perform with the money counterbalance the crime while riding the world of a worthless parasite. The murder also serves to test his own hypothesis that some people are not only capable of, but even have the right to do ...
|  | Killer Secrets (Tempting SEALs)
Release Date: March 4, 2008The new, sexy Navy SEAL novel from New York Times bestselling author Lora LeighTHE FIGHT OF HIS LIFEAs the illegitimate son of Diego Fuentes, Ian Richards faces danger at every turn. Neither his father nor his fellow Navy SEALs knows which side he’s fighting for—or against. Which is exactly how the game must be played…until Agent Porter enters the picture.STIRS HER DESIRE FOR LIVINGKira Porter, undercover agent for the Department of Homeland Security, shadows Ian on his journey. She thinks she can see the real man beneath Ian’s bad-boy e...
|  | Megan
Publication Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Women of Primrose Creek (Book 4)Megan McQuarry returned to Primrose Creek after attempting to become an actress -- and innocently losing both her heart and her beloved land. But instead of the healing homecoming she needs, Megan is met with a shocking revelation that changes everything she believed about her family. Feeling lost and betrayed, she finds herself befriending Webb Stratton, the handsome new owner of her land.Webb can see this lovely lady is in need of refuge, and he could certainly use her help around his ranch. He offers her a posit...
|  | A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
Release Date: September 2, 2003| Series: An Anna Pigeon Novel Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool dam...
|  | Fantastic Four, Vol. 5 (Marvel Masterworks)
Publication Date: February 23, 2011| Grade Level: P and up The legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are back to take the Fantastic Four on some of their greatest adventures! Watch as the First Family does battle with the Invincible Man, the Fightful Four, Dr. Doom and fights alongside the Sub-Mariner for the very first time! All this plus the fights, frustrations and financial troubles that make up the world's most fantastic family! Collecting: Fantastic Four #41-50, Annual #3 ...
|  | Sports Cars (Torque Books: Cool Rides) (Torque: Cool Rides)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ultimate Sports, Grades 1 - 2: Level 3 (Extreme Readers)
Release Date: June 1, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | You Are My I Love You
Release Date: April 2, 2001| Age Level: 2 and up I am your parent; you are my child.I am your quiet place; you are my wild.I am your favorite book; you are my new lines.I am your nightlight; you are my starshine.A day in the life of parent and child--full of smiles and giggles, messes and meals, boundless energy and well-earned rest.Not to mention lots of love.Here, in simple rhyming verse accompanied by colorful, playful illustrations by world-renowed artist Satomi Ichikawa, is one such day.Share it with others and treasure the memories. ...
|  | Cat Tails
Publication Date: December 3, 2010A must read for all ages!!! Children who are just learning to read will find this book among their favorites. The words dance and flow out of their little mouths so easily as they discover the joy of reading!!This should be a staple in every kindergarten, preschool and library story time. The perfect gift for mommies, daddies, grand-moms and grand-dads to spend quality reading time with their babies on their laps. Buy today!! ...
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