 | Fault Lines: A Memoir (2nd Edition) (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers—both familiar and new—Alexander reveals her difficult rec...
 |  | Hines Ward and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl XL (Super Bowl Superstars)
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|  | The Temptation (The Mustard Seed Series #3)
Release Date: June 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1590528794 | ISBN-13: 978-1590528792The Temptation continues the sagas of Haven, Nebraska, visitors Julia, Kathy, Del, and Walter as they live out the commitments they made in The Quest. Now successful in their separate pursuits, the Havenites think all is going well-and therein lies great danger. As complacency attacks the characters' focus on God, they start believing their achievements have risen from their own savvy and power. When Del decides to organize a reunion, the characters face Satan's chaotic interference and learn the true nature of temp...
|  | Chasing Margaret
Publication Date: May 1, 2001Amelia Chloe Emmansard, the world’s top female tennis player and darling of the Australian public, has already earned $80 million from the game, and she’s not yet twenty. Despite her success, her earnings seem increasingly hollow and she desperately wants touse her wealth to make a difference to the world.Doing that is not as easy as it sounds, even for a woman of Amelia’s determination and intelligence.Will Amelia and her dreams survive the Third World’s politics and greed? The sheer difficulty of her desires, coupled with the challen...
|  | Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 29, 2004Out of the intellectual ferment of the English Renaissance came a number of outstanding critical works that sought to define and defend the role of literature in society and to comment on the craft of writing. Foremost among these is Sir Philip Sidney’s “The Defence of Poesy,” an eloquent argument for fiction as a means of inspiring its readers to virtuous action. George Puttenham’s “The Art of English Poesy” is an entertaining examination of poetry, verse form, and rhetoric, while Samuel Daniel’s “A Defence of Rhyme&...
|  | Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy
Publication Date: September 1975The pervasive and unrestrained use of obscenity has long been acknowledged as a major feature of fifth-century Attic Comedy; no other Western art form relies so heavily on the sexual and scatological dimensions of language.This acclaimed book, now in a new edition, offers both a comprehensive discussion of the dynamics of Greek obscenity and a detailed commentary on the terminology itself.After contrasting the peculiar characteristics of the Greek notion of obscenity to modern-day ideas, Henderson discusses obscenity's role in the development of Attic Comedy...
| | Last Bread Pudding (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: August 1997| Series: Acting Edition The committee of an amateur dramatic group is meeting to discuss a new play written by one of its members. We notice that, strangely, the presentation of the meeting to us is reflecting the ideas put forward by the committee - making the play a demonstration and discussion of those ideas. ...
|  | A TODOS SE NOS ANTOJA MORIR (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Un libro de poemas diferente, innovador, joven, fresco, comprensivo. Esta complementado con fotos y dibujos. De lectura ágil, pero profunda. Es una poesÃa joven, atormentada, pero al mismo tiempo soñadora, que atrae a un importante segmento de la juventud. / AverydifferentPoemBook,innovative,youthful,fresh,daring. Itiscomplementedwithphotographsanddrawing. Veryagilereading,butyetverydeep. Itisyoungpoetry, tormentedbutatthesametime,dreaming,whichattractsaveryimportantsegmentoftheyoungpopulation. ...
| | Vspolokh: Poeticheskii sbornik (Russian Edition)
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|  | My World, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Publication Date: April 28, 2010 My World, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow This book is filled with common sense ideal of every day situations. As you read it i am sure you will see a poem that may pertain to one of you. You may or may not find a answer to some questions that may be private, personal or similar to a recent reaction of the past, present or future. ...
| | Wan Tang Wu dai ci yan jiu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Imperialism and Juvenile Literature (Studies in Imperialism)
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|  | The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature (University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: February 15, 2012| Series: University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages Fromthe twelfth century on, the legends of King Arthur and his knightsspread across Europe, resulting in a wide range of adaptations and oftencompletely new stories. Central to this expansion were the Germans andthe Dutch, both of whom contributed works of outstanding quality. Thisedited collection surveys German and Dutch Arthurian literature, all thewhile documenting how the legends were modified as they came intocontact with northern and central European traditions. The Arthur ...
|  | Last Whisper
Release Date: August 29, 2006Someone is tracking her every move.A killer who knows that true nightmares never end…And that the perfect murder is always worth waiting for…Brooke Yeager's childhood ended the night she crept downstairs to find her beautiful, gentle mother, Anne, lying in a pool of blood. Standing above Anne's shattered body, a gun aimed right at the terrified little girl, was Brooke's stepfather, Zachary Tavell. Luck saved Brooke that night, and in the years since, she's managed to build a good life in Charleston, West Virginia, secure in the knowledge that Zach i...
|  | Salvation of a Saint
Release Date: October 2, 2012From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring “Detective Galileo” In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as “stunning,” “brilliant,” and “ingenious.” Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective Galileo—returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts cla...
|  | I Survived #5: I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The Girl Who Spun Gold
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Stirring...with a rhythm just right for reading aloud...a West Indian version of the universal little-man (Rumpelstiltskin) folktale. Quashiba's mother...boasts that her daughter can spin and weave a whole field of the finest gold thread. Dramatic words and pictures." - Booklist, starred review. "A charming and visually stunning tale of cunning, greed, and quixotic good fortune." - School Library Journal, starred review ...
|  | My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande
Release Date: October 9, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Stories as beautiful and mysterious as the Rio Grande itself... A young Spanish man named Rolando journeys to the New World to find the legendary Fountain of Youth. But at what price will Rolando taste the waters of eternal life? On a dare, Lupe goes down to the river one night to search for la Llorona, a ghostly woman who walks in search of her drowned baby.Abel, a shepherd, saves a snake from a fire and in return is given the ability to understand the speech of animals.In these ten stories, Rudolfo Anaya, author of...
|  | Daddy And Me Go To A Georgia Tech Game
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|  | Swim Like a Fish (Bank Street Level 1)
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