 | Native Son (Abridged)
Release Date: September 30, 2003 Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America. This abridged edition includes an introduction, "How Bigger Was Born," by the ...
 |  | The Bride of Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula, Book 3)
Publication Date: September 16, 2008Milagro De Los Santos is having serious problems planning her wedding to fabulous Oswald Grant, M.D. Her future in-laws loathe her, her dog just died, and Oswald's family has a genetic anomaly that makes them crave blood. Then her extravagant best friend hijacks the role of wedding coordinator, and the secretive Vampire Council assigns conniving Cornelia Ducharme to guide the couple through the ancient vampire marriage rituals.To top it all off, Milagro's career is on the skids. She's reduced to ghost-writing the memoirs of a loony little man who claims to...
|  | Eve: A Novel
Release Date: March 21, 2006The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learned the art of the hustle, and by age seventeen she had spent two years in prison. But now Eve is eighteen, back on the streets of Harlem with her gang and up to one of her old tricks: strong-arm robbery. Despite her edge, she's got a soft spot for Felon, the up-and-coming street king.Eve's life takes a serious turn when the powerful DeNardi family, the city's biggest drug supplier, tries to tighten its hold on Harlem. And when Eve's best friend, Cass...
|  | My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
Publication Date: July 3, 2009Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is not living up to his name.It's 1986, and instead of finishing his thesis on the Bard, this grad student is saying "yes" to drugs, bedding coeds, and delivering a giant psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector.Meanwhile (or rather, back in 1582), would-be playwright William Shakespeare is an eighteen-year-old Latin teacher whose world is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome, drawing him into an underground network of Catholic dissidents.When the lives of Willie and William begin to eer...
|  | Beware of Pity (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: June 20, 2006| Series: New York Review Books Classics "Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back."--Salman RushdieThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity,the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The sur...
|  | A Better Place
Publication Date: January 31, 2011A Better Place is the story of two boys from two completely different worlds struggling to find themselves amongst a whirlwind of confusion.Will the strength they find in each other be enough to overcome the hatred and abuse of others?The unlikely pair struggle through friendship and heartbreaks, betrayal and hardships, to find the deepest desire of their hearts.Casper, the poorest boy in school, goes through life as the “invisible boy,” and Brendan, the captain of the high school varsity football team, has it all; muscles, money, fame, and pop...
|  | Sin destino / Fateless (Acantilado / Cliff) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte
Release Date: December 30, 2003It is a generation after the fall of Camelot. The legendary figures of Britain’s brief but shining renaissance—Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere—are gone but not forgotten. Their memories live on in song and story. But Arthur’s dream of a united Britain is fading fast. The hard-won alliance of independent kingdoms is fracturing. Sensing weakness, defeated enemies are returning.Such is the world of Tristan, Prince of Lyonesse. Born with the soul of a poet and the heart of a warrior, Tristan has been pushed aside by his uncle, Markion, who i...
|  | The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935
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|  | Shakespeare's Romances (New Casebooks)
Publication Date: February 8, 2003| ISBN-10: 033367975X | ISBN-13: 978-0333679753This New Casebook offers a collection of the liveliest and most innovative contemporary criticism on Shakespeare's "Romances": Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. The essays gathered in this volume exemplify the current diversity in critical practice and cover a broad range of topics, including gender, religious politics, nationalism, topography, colonialism, and "medico-moral" discourse. Alison Thorne's detailed introduction locates the "Romances" in their generic, critical, and histori...
|  | The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction
Publication Date: July 9, 2002The Chinese Postmodern is a pioneering study of today's Chinese experimental fiction, exploring the works of such major writers as Can Xue, Ge Fei, Ma Yuan, Mo Yan, Xu Xiaohe, and Yu Hua from the perspective of cultural and literary postmodernity. Focusing on the interplay between historical psychology and representational mode, and between political discourse and literary rhetoric, it examines the problem of Chinese postmodernity against the background of the cultural-political reality of twentieth-century China.The book seeks to redefine Chinese modernity and ...
|  | Bedford's Victorian Pilgrim: William Hale White in Context
Publication Date: April 1, 2012This work represents a revisionist approach to William Hale White. It corrects previous studies at some important points, questions existing interpretations, and employs new theoretical strategies alongside freshresearch in primary sources. ...
|  | Dickens Studies Annual : Essays on Victorian Fiction
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|  | Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown
Release Date: February 21, 2006Agatha Christie is the world's most popular fiction writer; her works have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for her classic crime novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. With such masterpieces as 'Witness for the Prosecution' (the basis for the classic film) and 'Three Blind Mice' (the basis for her Mousetrap,...
| | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol 2
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|  | Ben's Big Dig
Release Date: September 1, 2005| Grade Level: P and up "If you dug a hole to the other side of the earth, where do you think you would end up? In this wordless picturebook, pictures tell Ben's story of a midnight journey through the center of the earth and the surprising journey home. Ben's mother has dropped him off for a visit with his grandmother, a woman with a penchant for baking. Ben feels lost and lonely until he discovers a chest full of mining gear. He embarks on an adventure that will make him grateful for the hundreds of pies stacked in his grandmotherís kitchen." (20050901) ...
|  | The Lost Scrolls: Fire (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | This Little Piggy: And Other Favorite Action Rhymes
Publication Date: March 2010| Age Level: 2 and up Sing, wiggle, and clap!Little ones can play along with this collection of traditional fingerplays and action verses.Enjoy more than fifteen favorites including "Pat-a-Cake", "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", "I'm a Little Teapot", and "The Wheels on the Bus"!The soft padded covers, rounded corners and sturdy board pages make this title a perfect fit for preschoolers! ...
|  | Kumon Focus On Multiplication: Numbers 1-10
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|  | The Carpet Boy's Gift
Publication Date: September 2003| Age Level: 8 and up Leadership comes easily for Nadeem, the biggest and oldest boy in a rug factory in Pakistan. But how can he lead the other child laborers to freedom after he’s been shamed and beaten for his first attempt? Nadeem and his fellow workers are bonded laborers, children who work day and night to pay off loans their families have accepted from a factory owner. While Nadeem and his cousin Amina take pride in helping their poor families, they feel trapped. They yearn to go to school and to have time to play. One day a former carpet boy named...
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