 | H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
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 |  | Hungry Hearts (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Release Date: July 1, 1997| Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970) portrays the immigrant's struggle to become a "real" American. Set mostly on New York's Lower East Side, the stories brilliantly evoke crowded streets, shabby tenements, poverty, and ethnic prejudice. These stories are still relevant today, except the ethnic backgrounds are Latino and Asian. ...
|  | A Log Cabin Christmas Collection
Publication Date: September 1, 2011 Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love can flourish. Marvel in the blessings of Christmas celebrations without the trappings of modern commercialism where the true meaning of the day shines through. And treasure this exclusive collection of nine Christmas romances penned by some of Christian fiction’s best-selling authors. (20110831) ...
|  | Monster's Ink
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|  | Callsign: Queen - Book I (A Zelda Baker - Chess Team Novella)
Publication Date: September 15, 2011At the beginning of her search for Rook, a missing Chess Team member, Zelda Baker, Callsign: Queen, is redirected to Pripyat, Ukraine, a ghost town on the radioactive outskirts of Chernobyl. Intel indicates that a splinter cell of Manifold Genetics--a ruthless corporation dismantled by Chess Team--may be operating in the area. Tasked with confirming the existence of a Manifold facility, Queen begins a recon sweep of the abandoned town in search of clues, but soon finds herself fighting for her life. Something sinister lurks beneath the decaying, surreal re...
|  | Tats
Publication Date: June 14, 2011Lee Hammond’s girlfriend has moved on to other women.Deciding she’s done the last of her now ex’s laundry, Lee hops on the Harley, ripe for adventure. One thunderstorm, a brief stint as a funeral crasher, two ruined shoes and several cheerleaders later, she’s still planning to run away. Better yet, she’s got one of the cheerleaders along for the ride.Not just any cheerleader, either. Vivian Baxter is that cheerleader, the one that made Lee certain back in high school that she was never going to be like all the other girls.Dest...
|  | Embassytown
Release Date: January 31, 2012NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the frag...
|  | Folk and Fairy Tales
Publication Date: April 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 1551110636 | ISBN-13: 978-1551110639| Edition: 2nd This anthology is designed to provide a solid foundation for courses in Children's Literature, Folklore, and the Literature of Fantasy. The editors offer a broad selection of tales, grouped by theme and era, as well as variants of individual tales that invite cross-cultural and comparative analysis. Each group is preceded by an introduction by the editors. Selections from influenctial works of criticism range from a segment of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic essay "On Fairy Stories" to recent work by Ja...
|  | Iceland
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|  | Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism
Publication Date: January 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 0415920310 | ISBN-13: 978-0415920315| Edition: 1 Fredric Jameson has been described as "probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today" and he is widely acknowledged as the foremost proponent for the tradition of critical theory known as Western Marxism.Yet his work has not been given the systematic review like other contemporary thinkers like Fooucault and Derrida. Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism is a thoroughly up-to-date, detailed review and analysis of the work of this influential intellectual. C...
|  | The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: September 16, 2008| ISBN-10: 0230608132 | ISBN-13: 978-0230608139| Edition: Revised and Updated This book examines a medieval text long neglected by most scholars. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them. The perspectives presented here are very different from the view related by Abelard in his "History of My Calamities," an account which provoked a much more famous exchange of letters between Heloise and Abelard after they ...
|  | Celluloid
Publication Date: June 27, 2011Erotica for the mind and eye by a comics giant.A woman arrives at an apartment, but her partner can’t get away from work. She is disappointed and settles in for a night alone, but finds a film projector with a reel of film loaded. The film is scratched and blurry, but she can make out a couple making love. When the film burns out, a door is revealed which leads to a misty town square... and a series of fantastical sexual encounters.But the plot doesn’t really matter. Celluloid is a rare instance (especially among Anglo-Saxons) of a top-flight ca...
|  | 92 Pacific Boulevard (Cedar Cove)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Cedar Cove Dear Reader,I'm not much of a letter writer. As the sheriff here, I'm used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. But my daughter, Megan—who'll be making me a grandfather soon—told me I had to do this. So here goes.I'll tell you straight out that I'd hoped to marry Faith Beckwith (my onetime high school girlfriend) but she ended the relationship last month, even though we're both widowed and available. There were a few misunderstandings between us, some of them inadvertently caused by Megan.However, I've got pl...
|  | Dreaming of the Wolf
Release Date: December 1, 2011A FIERCE HUNTER... Alicia Greiston is a no-nonsense bounty hunter determined to bring a ring of mobsters to justice. Her dogged pursuit of the crime family has forced her to avoid relationships— any man would only become a target for retribution. Luckily, Jake Silver is more than a man, and his instincts are telling him to stop at nothing to protect her. AN ANIMAL PASSION... However, the mob isn't entirely human either, and soon Alicia must flee for her life. When Alicia and Jake's passion begins to spill over into their dreams, Jake learns he will have t...
|  | Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7
Publication Date: September 16, 2012| Series: Inspector Roderick Alleyn Ah, the London Debutante Season: Giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances. And much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn’s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord “Bunchy” Gospell, everybody’s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than loveable; he’s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can unmask the blackmailer, a murder is annou...
|  | The Valley of Fear
Publication Date: 1994BEAUTIFUL BRAND NEW. NO REMINDER MARKS. VERY NICE JACKET AND END PAGES. ILLUSTRATIONS. FIRST ISSUED 1914. ...
|  | David Wright: Gifted and Giving Baseball Star (Sports Stars Who Give Back)
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|  | Read-it! Chapter Books Historical Chinese Tales (Read-It! Chapter Books: Historical Tales)
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|  | The Cup and the Crown
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upNight after night, Molly has visions of a beautiful goblet: one of her grandfather's loving cups, which he filled with magic that bound people together. So it hardly surprises Molly when handsome King Alaric asks her to find a loving cup to help him win the heart of the beautiful Princess of Cortova. As Molly and her friends Winifred and Tobias journey far beyond the safe borders of Westria, a mysterious raven appears to guide their quest. It leads them through the rugged northlands and through the mountains to the...
|  | Beyond the Reef (Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Literature Experience, Level 6)
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