 | The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: April 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poetsrepresented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CDwith W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the 20th century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: Down by the Salley Gardens, The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Secret Rose and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. They are read by a strong cast led by Olivier award winner Jim Norton. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
 |  | Final Beginnings: The Tunnel
Publication Date: August 1, 2006Four families. One tunnel. And the survival of the country is at stake. Against the backdrop of serial terrorist attacks in New York City, psychic medium John Edward’s second novel follows the lives of four people and their diverse experiences with life and death on personal and global levels. There’s the cantankerous Brooklyn police chief on the brink of retirement who lost his two sons in 9/11 and is assigned to the big case; the powerful Wall Street mogul who’s betrayed by his secretive family; the Long Island dad trying desperat...
|  | Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Series: Penguin Classics Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgardsson. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile ...
|  | Montana Untouchable
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Luke's voice was heavy as he stepped closer to the agent. 'How many of you guys are on my property?' ...
|  | Jerzey: A Novel by Joel A.M. Blumenau
Publication Date: April 13, 2012A heart wrenching, coming-of-age tale seen through the eyes of Rafer Cleer, an eighth grade boy whose troubled and mysterious older brother, Jerzey goes on a mission to find his girlfriend’s kidnapper. Set against the backdrop of a disturbing, enigmatic small town full of off-beat characters, Rafer’s awestruck admiration and protective instinct for his brother leads them both on a dark adventure that ends in a shocking, unexpected twist… Great read for teens to adults. ...
|  | To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
Release Date: October 31, 2006To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major three-part Mastpiece Theatre drama in 2006. ...
|  | Captain Mugford
Publication Date: May 23, 2010While these thoughts were passing through my mind, I heard the first mate say that be could make out something white on the shore, which he took for a tent or a boat's sail. As we drew nearer it became evident that there was a tent, but no human being was stirring that we could see. Nearer still a boat was observed, drawn up on the rocks. On further inspection she was discovered to be a complete wreck. Melancholy indeed was the spectacle which told so clearly its own story--how the shipwrecked mariners had been cast on the island in their boat--how they had gone...
|  | Blood Song (Plainsmen)
Release Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Plainsmen (Book 8) Blood SongTerry C. Johnston Frontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy horse have defied the federal Government and refused to lead the wild tribes of the Northern Plains onto the reservation, and Washington decides to end the Indian problem once and for all.Donegan joins us with General George Cook who is leading the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry and a rough-and-tumble band of scouts and interpreters into the bloody battle. For Sea...
|  | The Savage Pigs of Tulla and Other Stories
Publication Date: October 2000| ISBN-10: 1856353230 | ISBN-13: 978-1856353236In the title story of this superb collection, a farmer meets an unfortunate fate at the hands of his own pigs after an unsuccessful journey to market, and the village priest and the local garda sergeant clash over what should be done in the aftermath of the event. The other stories arc: 'The Man Who Couldn't Dream', 'The Lady in White' and 'The Magic Hammer'. ...
|  | Elizabethan Tragedy (Hulton Drama Series)
Publication Date: June 1985| ISBN-10: 0717512339 | ISBN-13: 978-0717512331Traces the evolution of English drama from 1560 to 1642, examining dramatic styles, actors, playwrights, and playhouses. Includes scenes from three tragedies. ...
|  | Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community
Publication Date: January 1, 2005Acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert on audience development involving America’s growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By offering strategic collaborations and efforts to develop and sustain nontraditional audiences, this book will directly impact the stability and future of America’s cultural and artistic landscape. Donna Walker-Kuhne has spent the...
|  | The Darker Fall: Poems
Publication Date: October 2002Winner of the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry."Barot’s mature linguistic skills really come down to a metaphorical and musical intelligence that refuses to value one element over another, that will not let the language or the longing take over."—From the Foreword by Stanley Plumly"This is a book of lyric wonders: wit that turns dark, darkness that blazes up again in music and story."—Eavan Boland Rick Barot is currently Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. He was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Ar...
|  | Seven Trees Against the Dying Light: A Bilingual Edition (Avant-Garde and Modernism Collection)
Publication Date: October 23, 2007| Series: Avant-Garde and Modernism CollectionStanding against the visible landscape—the mountainous volcanoes, the jungles and savannahs—the seven trees conjured in these narrative poems by one of Latin America's masters also evoke another, more mysterious terrain. It is this other landscape, as invisible as poetry before it is written down but etched by history and animated by the collective memory of a people, that speaks through Pablo Antonio Cuadra’s Seven Trees against the Dying Light. ...
|  | The city of dreadful night,: And other poems;
Publication Date: 1899This unique collection brings back into print some of the lesser known poems of James ('B.V'.) Thomson (1834-82) as well as his acclaimed The City of Dreadful Night.Composed in the later half of the nineteenth-century, many of Thomson's post-Christian poems challenge the securities of Victorian religious comfort and sceptically view the human condition as devoid of connection with any providential sustenance.First published in instalments in 1874 and then in book form in 1880, The City of Dreadful Night is recognised as a powerful precursor to the modernist imaging of t...
|  | Golden Dreams : A Science For Mystery of Fates (Page I) Peace.
Publication Date: July 1, 2001'Golden Dreams: A Science For Mystery Of Fates' is a mind-boggling, eye-opening, wonderfully unique book.It's strong message is that of the paramount necessity to securemankind's futureon a social relations principle founded on peaceful co-existence. As a universal society-norm. Man's destiny secured by relentlessness at higher ground pursuits which, which, hitherto, has been uplifting and defining humanity.This is not your typical set of one topic, two or three paragraph sentimental passages. No decoder-wearying, words- sentenced-to-maze-ward polemics here.Just...
|  | Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England
Publication Date: July 21, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521824346 | ISBN-13: 978-0521824347| Edition: First Edition This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts.Reputable contributors cover topics that include the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relationship of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. ...
| | Eight Late Victorian Poets Shaping the Artistic Sensibility of an Age: Alice Meynell, John Davidson, Francis Thompson, Mary Coleridge, Katharine Tyna
Publication Date: December 1992| ISBN-10: 0773491872 | ISBN-13: 978-0773491878For each of the poets in this study there is a brief biographical sketch, an examination of the literary influences on each, major themes, ideas and motifs in their poetry, and representative poems. ...
|  | James Cameron's Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook
Release Date: November 24, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Voyage of Fear (Bionicle Adventures #5)
Publication Date: October 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up A new quest will test the Toa Metru in ways they can't anticipate.Share in the legend with books based on LEGO's BIONICLE action figures.Driven from Metru Nui by a shattering earthquake, the six Toa Metru take a dangerous journey by water in search of a new land. Their cargo: six Matoran locked in what may be eternal sleep. Ahead of them lies terrible danger, the dark secrets behind Metru Nui's fall, and a discovery that will change their future forever! ...
|  | Moon Princess
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Sixteen year old Delia wants to do something different to celebrate her seventeenth birthday---so she gets a tattoo of a design someone painted on a rock she found in her school locker. When the tattoo begins glowing in the dark and pulsing, she knows something is wrong. She discovers her mother's quiver of arrows, her bow and her dagger in the attic. Who was her mother? Why did she have these things? Delia's journey of discovery takes her to a deserted island off the coast of Greece to battle mythological creatures and to the Underworld of Hades to rescue those...
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