 | Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology Publication Date: October 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0312463197 | ISBN-13: 978-0312463199| Edition: Third Edition Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. Poems, Poets, Poetry demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long, celebrated career. Guided by Vendler’s erudite yet down-to-earth approach, students at all levels can benefit from her authoritative instruction. Her blend of new and canonical poets includes the broadest selection of new and multi-raci...
 |  | Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations) Publication Date: May 1, 1989| Series: Literary Conversations This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here come from a variety of sources--newspapers, radio, journals, and review--and show this celebrated author in all his eloquence, anger, and perception of racial, social, and literary situations in America.Over the years Baldwin proved to be an easily access...
 |  | On a Day Like Today Publication Date: September 1, 2008In this novel from Thorne, one woman's whole world is about to change. After Eleanor is involved in a near-fatal car crash, her daughter returns home to care for her. Under these most difficult of circumstances, the two women are forced to reassess what they mean to each other. ...
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 |  | Rabbit at Rest Release Date: August 27, 1996Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bu...
 |  | Love and Other Illusions Publication Date: December 15, 2009Enter the world of Jillian Barrister and those who orbit around her-Clay, David, Norma and Dr. Allison-players in a riveting drama of love and loss, happiness and anguish, innocence and guilt. It is Dr. Allison's task to study and understand his patients through the process of analysis, and Jillian is no exception-or is she? The more deeply he probes, the closer he comes to unearthing the childhood tragedy that has isolated her from herself and others, and could topple the precarious defenses of her internal world-a fragile but guarded state of consciousnes...
 |  | My Best Friend's Boyfriend Publication Date: May 1, 2011If Gavin Mecklenburg thought his job of working on high voltage power lines in Seattle was risky, he was taking an even bigger chance for a disaster by messing around with his best friend’s boyfriend.Trina Yamagachi was what Gavin called a ‘serial engager’. She chewed men up and spit them out, breaking off relationships with men just before her wedding day.Gavin met Trina one afternoon while buying a watch for himself at the jewelry store she worked for. He and beautiful Trina became best friends instantly. But when Gavin realizes that his ne...
 |  | The Return of Little Big Man: A Novel Publication Date: March 1, 2000Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Doc Holliday, and even travels with Buffalo Bill Cody to meet Queen Victoria. Part mischief, part historical fact, The Return of Little BigMan is a true literary achievement and a rollicking good read.-- Tremendously well reviewed, this sequel is a hit with critics and readers alike.-- The perfect book for any lover of Westerns, Mark Twain, and Berger himself.-- With a lovable h...
 |  | Written on Water: Five Hundred Poems from the Man'yoshu Publication Date: July 1995Despair and hope are two emotions commonly voiced by poets in the Man'yoshu, the oldest and most important collection of Japanese poetry. Although written over thirteen hundred years ago, the poems retain a rare freshness, an originality that delights and fascinates even today. Part of the collection's originality is due to its variety of authors, from members of the aristocracy to commoners from the lowest ranks. The poems cover a wide range of content and expression, from court poets' highly polished verses to anonymous poems that read like folk songs. Poems abou...
 |  | Masterwork Studies Series: Wind in the Willows (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) ...
 |  | Aristotle's Ethics (SparkNotes Literature Guide) Publication Date: June 13, 2003| Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...hold the course which he desires, sails the nearest to it possible; and of two evils prefers the least. We ought next to consider to which of the two extremes or faults we are most prone; for different men are more or less easily beset by different faults or vices, and what these are by which each is most liab...
 |  | Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers, Publication Date: April 27, 2009This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... XXII. MR. RUSKIN (concluded). ENOUGH must, have been said in the last paper of the singular weaknesses and contradictions which meet us everywhere in Mr. Ruskin. It remains to say something of their probable causes, and of the merits which accompany, and, as I think, far outweigh them, everywhere but in his dabblings with economics. The sources of Mr. R...
 |  | The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology Publication Date: June 1, 2003This collection of vivid and compelling literature ranges across Montana's literary landscape in descriptions of explorers' discoveries, stories from mining and agricultural frontiers, and powerful memoirs from Native Americans, as well as unforgettable images created by contemporary writers. ...
 |  | Erasmus's Parabolae Sive Similia: Its Relationship to Sixteenth-Century English Literature (Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies) ...
 |  | The Devil's Bones: A Body Farm Novel Release Date: January 27, 2009| Series: Body FarmA burned car sits on a Tennessee hilltop, a woman's lifeless, charred body seated inside. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman's death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder? But his research into the effect of flame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline. The arrival of a mysterious package—a set of suspiciously unnatural cremated remains—is pulling Brockton toward a ...
 |  | Ice Break Publication Date: September 1996The maiden voyage of the world's largest icebreaker, billed as "a short V.I.P. cruise, " turns into a long nightmare when environmental terrorists hijack the CCGS Canadian and uses it to destroy European fishing boats on the Grand Banks. ...
 |  | Filastrocche Italiane Volume 2 - Italian Nursery Rhymes Volume 2 (Italian Edition) Publication Date: October 27, 2010Bring back childhood memories or create new ones with this fun collection of over 20 traditional Italian Nursery Rhymes. The book includes nursery rhymes, children's songs and tongue twisters, each one followed by the English translation. Included are also notes and instructions on how to play, and colorful illustrations. Large print suitable for young readers. Bilingual. Ages: 0-8 ...
 |  | Tusk and Stone Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up While traveling, Arjun's caravan is waylaid by robbers who kidnap his beloved sister and murder his guardian uncle. Arjun's life is spared, but he is captured and sold into slavery, losing his privileges as a Brahmin. Instructed in the care and training of elephants, he becomes a legendary warrior. At the height of his fame he is captured again, and as a slave once more, he finds unexpected fulfillment and inspiration as a stone carver. Malcolm Bosse, a master of description and historical detail, gives Arjun's story...
 |  | Romp, Stomp, Waddle Home! Publication Date: June 10, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up There's a hippo in my pool! And a zebra on the soccer field! And penguins in the ice cream shop! Jump in the fun and help Jungle Jack Hanna lead these mixed-up animals back to the correct habitats. Children will learn all about animals in the wild as they take animals from crazy places such as an ice cream shop back to the places they are supposed to live! Using real photographs and movable magnet pieces, children will instantly engage in learning the appropriate places for wild animals to make their homes. ...
 |  | Barney Goes To The Dentist Publication Date: November 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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