 | We Were Here First: Baby Blues Looks at Couplehood with Kids (Baby Blues Scrapbook)
Release Date: April 20, 2010| Series: Baby Blues Scrapbook We Were Here First is the declaration from Wanda and Darryl MacPherson to their three small children, as they hide in the closet for one precious second of “alone” time. In the day-to-day world of sippy cups, diapers, tantrums, and spit-up, life can get pretty crazy! ...
 |  | The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Nonpareil Book, 78)
Publication Date: October 30, 1997| Series: Nonpareil Book, 78 In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism. ...
|  | Case of Desire (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 257) Rich, super-successful New York attorney Maxwell Wade has never lost a case. Hired by Hopewell General to settle a potentially explosive lawsuit, the freewheeling bachelor plans to continue his winning streak by getting Camille Hunter into bed. The spunky PR manager is arousing a healthy dose of desire…but seems to be the only woman immune to his sensual charms.Camille wasn't expecting Prince Charming when she meets the suavely handsome hotshot lawyer. Forced to work together to protect the Virginia hospital from ...
|  | GLOBE ADAPTED CLASSIC: RAISIN IN THE SUN C2000 (Adapted Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0835955427 | ISBN-13: 978-0835955423 0 The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more! ...
|  | Almost an Evening - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 21, 2010Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan CoenRaising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading–the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. In these three short plays that ran to sold-out audiences Off-Broadway in 2008, the theme is hell–both on earth and in the hereafter.In “Waiting,” a man faces an uncertain future in an uncertain location that seems to be some kin...
|  | The Polysyllabic Spree
Publication Date: November 30, 2004"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in The Believer. "If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Supper v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on point And every now and again you'd get a shock, because that happens in sport, so Back to the Future III might land a lucky p...
|  | The Friendly Guide to Mythology
Release Date: December 28, 2000From Athena to Zorya, a clever compendium of myths from ancient Greece and around the worldFrom classic literature and Jungian psychology to pop lyrics and Nike sneakers, mythology informs every aspect of our culture and thought. These timeless myths tell surprisingly modern-sounding tales of love and devotion--and of carnage, adultery, and incest. Whether they come from a Native American, Asian, African, or Greek and Roman tradition, they offer endless revelations and insights into the human psyche. ...
|  | Thorn Rose
Publication Date: January 1, 1977Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years. ...
|  | My Father's Martial Art: Poems
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Series: Western Literature Series Stephen Shu-Ning Liu is a unique figure in contemporary letters--a native of China, from a family of scholars, who left his country as a young man and now writes in English, a language he learned only after emigrating. His poetry is compelling and intriguing, as hybrid as his life's experiences, strongly informed by the ancient traditions and aesthetics of his homeland, but equally shaped by the mobility and rootlessness of modern urban America. The poems reflect the delicate vision of Chinese art--its attention to the nat...
|  | Cahier de Verd Apres (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Begegnung mit Gedichten: 66 Interpretationen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (German Edition)
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|  | The Divine Comedy (The Classics of World Spirituality)
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|  | The Book History Reader
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415226589 | ISBN-13: 978-0415226585| Edition: 1 The Book History Reader brings together a rich variety of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture, much of which is otherwise inaccessible. It looks at the development of the book, the move from spoken word to written texts, the commodification of books and authors, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in the electronic age. The Reader is arranged in thematic sections and features a general introduction as well as an introduction to ...
| | A catalogue of one hundred rare books and autographs, reviews and comments
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| | Autopsy on Surrealism: Essays on Art and Revolution
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|  | Tamed by a Laird
Publication Date: July 1, 2009National bestselling author Amanda Scott sweeps readers back to the turbulent fourteenth-century Scottish Borders, where valiant men and women risk everything for their land.Jenny Easdale is ready to accept her fate.She's agreed to marry a man she will never love - yet not before slipping away for one last adventure.Following a traveling minstrel troupe, she's whisked into a world of intoxicating freedom.Then, all too soon, she finds herself in danger - from a vengeful political plot against Scotland and from the man who has come to take her home.Dutybound to re...
|  | Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street (Oxford Portraits)
Publication Date: April 13, 2000| Series: Oxford Portraits Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, yet he considered them only a small part of his literary output. He expected to be remembered for his historical fiction, especially The White Company. He also wrote science fiction novels, short stories, and horror tales. He was knighted for a pamphlet he wrote justifying England's actions during the Boer War, in which he served as a physician in a field hospital. After one of his sons was killed during World War I, he turned to spiritualism for...
|  | The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition (Dark Is Rising Sequence)
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|  | Throwing Heat (Fred Bowen Sports Stories)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War (Landscapes of Childhood)
Publication Date: May 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0814334040 | ISBN-13: 978-0814334041Under Fire is an eclectic, multidisciplinary collection that explores the representation of war and its aftereffects in children s books and documentary film. This richly illustrated volume brings together internationally known contributors to examine the ongoing influence of violence and war on children's literature by studying the childhood experiences of authors writing for children, the children represented in war stories, and the experiences of children who make up the stories readership. Under Fire opens t...
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