 | The Selected Writings of Mordecai Noah: (Contributions in American Studies)
Publication Date: May 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 0313310440 | ISBN-13: 978-0313310447Mordecai Noah, whose writings span from the 1800s to the 1840s, is the first important Jewish writer to appear on the American scene. In his own time, he was ranked with Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper as among the finest writers of the day. Noah is primarily known today as the visionary who proposed a Jewish homeland, to be called Ararat in upstate New York. But Noah also had a political career which was equally colorful. As American Consul to Tunis, Noah's plan to rescue American sailors held by th...
 |  | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Release Date: August 7, 2007 The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . an...
|  | The Magic of Ordinary Days
Release Date: June 25, 2002Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters who are living at a nearby internment camp. When Olivia unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a crime an...
|  | Man in the Middle
Publication Date: January 6, 2007Despatched to investigate thesuicide of one of DC's most influential defence officials- an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq -Drummond and his female partner find themselves in themiddle of a tug-of-war between Washington's mostinfluential power brokers and his own personal allegianceto the soldiers dying overseas. What he uncovers are thesecrets that led to the war, secrets that once exposedwould destroy public support and undermine thepresidency.Now, Drummond faces the greatest moral quandary ofhis life: What is the true meaning of patriotism? ...
|  | Harvitz, As to War
Publication Date: November 11, 2011A member of the first generation to come of age during the "War on Terror," Sammy Harvitz is fighting his own internal war, struggling to figure out who he is and where he belongs amidst the institutions that have surrounded him since childhood. Follow Sammy as he stumbles towards "manhood" and strives to become "baptized by fire" through the Punk Rock scene, organized religion, and the US Army. ...
|  | Sun River
Publication Date: July 15, 1989| Series: Sun River (Book 1) They call him Mister Skye He's big, he's tough, and he knows the West as few others do the trails, the people, the weather - everything from which a tenderfoot needs to be protected. Skye's biggest problem is protecting people from themselves. Mister Skye has agreed, reluctantly, to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne. To get there, they must also stop fighting among themselves, fighting about everything: about the Roman ...
|  | Fuenteovejuna (Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Series: Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics (Book 6) Una coleccion de textos adaptados que reivindica el valor y vigencia de los clasicos en pleno siglo XXI. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | A Mi Hija Con Amor / To My Daughter With Love: Sobre Las Cosas Importantes De LA Vida / On the Important Things in Life
Publication Date: July 1992When I gave birth to my daughter, Jordanna, I never knew what a special relationship a mother and daughter could have. As my daughter got older and started to understand more about being a female, I felt as if I were once again going through many of the stages of growing up. I felt a very strong urge to protect Jordanna from anything that could possibly hurt her, but I knew that if I did this, it would hurt her later on because she would not be prepared to face the real world. So instead, I tried to show her and explain to her what I consider to be the important th...
|  | El Legado de un Mortal (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011En el texto “El legado de un mortal”, Mario Méndez se pasea por un universo de temas, que van desde lo amoroso hasta lo político, y los aborda con una dosis de ironía, tan necesaria y saludable siempre cuando el hombre se acerca a las cosas y a sus semejantes. Méndez no hace concesiones: se muestra crudo y rudo cuando lo requiere la circunstancia, vuela y no se arrastra cuando abraza la poesía para ciertas elevaciones. Las ilustraciones que acompañan el libro, más que distraer, contribuyen a elongar las suge...
|  | Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Publication Date: October 15, 2000The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. ...
|  | Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas
Publication Date: February 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0226306704 | ISBN-13: 978-0226306704| Edition: 1 Love poetry dominated European literature during the Renaissance. Its attitudes, conventions, and values appeared not only in courtly settings but also in the transatlantic world, where cultures were being built, power exercised, and policies made. In this major contribution to our understanding of both the Age of Exploration and early modern lyric, Roland Greene argues that love poetry was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation.European encounters with the ...
|  | Fashioning Gothic Bodies
Release Date: August 12, 2004This innovative book explores the role played by clothing in the discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between the veils, masks and disguises of Gothic convention, and historically-specific fashion discourses, from the revealing chemise-dress popularized by Queen Marie Antoinette to the subcultural style of contemporary Goths. In so doing it sheds new light on the cultural construction of Gothic bodies. Taking an original interdisciplinary approach, Catherine Spooner offers readings of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts in the cont...
|  | The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings
Release Date: November 22, 1992| ISBN-10: 0253207215 | ISBN-13: 978-0253207210"... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The ÂMonist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome ÂEssential Peirce; they are by Peirce's standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness."Â —London Review of BooksA convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars...
|  | Naked Justice Volume 1
Publication Date: October 25, 2003The erotic artist Wolf has created a bizarre and juicy little fetish niche unlike anything before - superheroines in bondage! "Capes and kink" works for a growing legion of fans who just can't get enough of the nasty, nasty stuff! Horny apes, evil lesbians, maniacal mad scientists, all taking turns seeing just how much punishment these "so-called" super-types can really take! Fiendishly clever and expertly created, Wolf has pretty much cornered the market on this new form of entertainment. ...
|  | Schloss Roncanet: Roman aus der Gegenwart. Band I (German Edition)
Release Date: November 26, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1874 edition by Carl Rümpler, Hannover. ...
|  | Laced (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 10)
Release Date: February 19, 2008 A haunted Irish castle, international jewel thieves, and a hotel fire -- New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark has sent Regan and Jack Reilly on a honeymoon like no other!Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her new husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are off to Ireland. But their very first night at romantic Hennessy Castle is interrupted by a fire alarm that distracts hotel employees from the theft of a valuable antique lace tablecloth out of the castle's memorabilia room. A taunting note is left for Jack by the culprits -- a...
|  | 36 Yalta Boulevard
Release Date: July 11, 2006Olen Steinhauer's first two novels, The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession, launched an acclaimed literary crime series set in post--World War II Eastern Europe. Now he takes his dynamic cast of characters into the shadowy political climate of the 1960s.State Security Officer Brano Sev's job is to do what his superiors ask, no matter what. Even if that means leaving his post to work the assembly line in a factory, fitting electrical wires into gauges. So when he gets a directive from his old bosses---the intimidating men above him at the Ministry of State Security,...
|  | Stuck
Release Date: November 10, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers!Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that got stuck, along with! a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things!Will Floyd ever get his kite back?A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending. -...
|  | The Year Mom Won the Pennant (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)
Publication Date: April 30, 1986| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Motocross History: From Local Scrambling to World Championship MX to Freestyle (Mxplosion!)
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