 | Archival Reflections : Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)
Publication Date: April 2000Archival Reflections explores the works of Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Julio Cortázar of Argentina, and Ismael Reed and E. L. Doctorow of the United States from two innovative perspectives—the new forms of the historical novel and the current debate on postmodernism. It explores North-South relations in the Americas and the question of cultural borders within the New World order. It has implications for the literary histories of Spanish America and the United States, as well as for the fields of inter-American and cultural studies, literary theory, and h...
 |  | Foundlings
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Foundlings...Awarded Best Book 2010-2011 from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine! Foundlings, the #1 Bestseller in Historical Fiction from Christian Book Distributors Spring 2011! Foundlings, the Top Ten Bestseller in Christian Fantasy from Christian Book Distributors Winter 2012! Praise for Foundlings, Book One of The Peleg Chronicles,"Next to the Narnia series your book has been the only other book that my kids have begged me to read. My boys remind me several times a day that this is one of their favorite books." - the Myers family, fl...
|  | Thug's Passion
Publication Date: June 30, 2007To those on the outside looking in, Passion Hill seems to have it all. She's stunning, self-assured and spoiled. She looks and acts like she's living a charmed life. But looks can be deceiving. Passion's life has been anything but picture perfect. In her 23 years, she's lost a lot. At the age of nine, she was left to mourn her mother's brutal death at the hands of her father's enemies. Thirteen years later, she found herself standing over yet another gravesite crying bitter tears. This time, it was her boyfriend, Lorenzo who was stretched out in the casket. He ...
|  | The Guest: A Novel
Release Date: October 7, 2008Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America returns to his home village, where his older brother once played a notorio...
|  | Science of Folklore
Publication Date: May 20, 2003Folklore is a historical science, having its own methods of research and admitting of the same system of checks and verifications as any other. With its sister sciences it may combine to make up the cycle of our knowledge of man's past life. From this follows that it may assume the rank of an ancillary science to any or all of them, and it has done so repeatedly, notably to the various philogies, history, ethnography, and the history of religion. The author would therefore be particularly happy if his book could prove useful to fellow workers in such related fie...
|  | Much Adoe About Nothing: Applause First Folio Editions (Folio Texts)
Release Date: March 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1557834407 | ISBN-13: 978-1557834409(Applause Books). If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio isthesource of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent e...
|  | Salome (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 14, 2002| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Originally published in 1906. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | All the Best Programs for Kids 2: A Year of Sketches, Plays and Music for All Ages
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|  | Kenenroku ko: Jotei Sanjin iko. Baiton shisho (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Publication Date: November 29, 2010| Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelander...
|  | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3
Publication Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Best Horror of the Year What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nineteen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. ...
|  | Screaming in the Silence
Publication Date: October 27, 2010Running away from a complicated life, Raleigh finds herself plunged into a nightmare. While hitchhiking across the country, she and her companion are struck by a car. Her friend is killed but Raleigh survives and her life is thrown into the hands of the three men involved in the accident. Bruised and in shock, Raleigh is locked in the basement of their remote country house, unsure of her fate. Kaden, one of her captors, is handsome and at times protective, and he convinces his friends to spare Raleigh’s life to ransom her. But the safety he provides i...
|  | An Independent Woman
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Juliana Holcott grew up poor in a joyless householdOnly one person ever treated her kindly -- Nicholas Barre, the orphaned heir to the estate, who suffered equally at the hands of their indifferent guardians. But wild, rebellious Nick left home -- and Juliana -- while both were still young, and Juliana never thought to see him again.Forced to seek employment as a lady's companion, Juliana fears she'll never experience for herself what it's like to be young and merry and in love . . . until she spies Nicholas at a ball, all grown up and more handsome than ever.M...
|  | The Jewel Fish of Karnak
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the Pharaoh decides to give the two friends one last chance: they must journey up the River Nile to the temple of Karnak and bring back something that has been taken from her a beautiful and precious Jewel Fish. But she has a warning for the two:“Do not take anything else while you are in Karnak. And know that the Jewel Fish is magical. &#...
|  | Hardy Boys Boxed Set Vol. #17-20 (Hardy Boys Graphic Novels: Undercover Brothers)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Snowboarding (Extreme)
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|  | Indian Design Tattoos (Dover Tattoos)
Publication Date: August 23, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Ogre Fun
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upOne sluggish afternoon young Gronny decides to scare up some fun for his ogre friends and family. Instead, he catches a contagious case of yawns from a deceptively safe-looking creature in a playground, and he brings them back to the ogre homestead, where no one has ever seen a yawn before. The yawns spread like crazy and inspire ogre hysterics....
|  | Glass Town: The Secret World of the Bront' Children
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up This look into the secret world of the Bronte children focuses on their austere daily lives and reveals the rich inner lives that helped three of them grow up to become writers. Sadly, only after they died did the hundreds of tiny books of their adventures come to light. Full color. ...
|  | Sarah Whitcher's Story
Publication Date: September 1, 1994| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up That Sunday night, when Sarah heard the rain pattering on the leaves high above her head, she knew that she must find some kind of shelter.It was dark in the forest and everything looked different.Peering around her, she saw something in the distance that looked like a cabin.Little Sarah wanders away from her family's cabin into the New Hampshire forest, and settlers come from all across the countryside to help her.As the long days pass, the searchers grow desperate, but her father's trust in God holds firm."The...
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