| Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 (No. 1) Publication Date: September 15, 2008Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic to a fat, all-new annual graphic-novel length package that will be available in bookstores. Jaime launches the new format with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad with grief and rampaging through the galaxy. A motley group of superheroes assemble to try to stop her. Only the first half of the saga, it combines Jaime's razor-sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style action. Gilbert Hernandezhas these stories...
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| | Goldengrove: A Novel Release Date: September 16, 2008 At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the myst...
| | The Sabastian Cane Chronicles Book III (Bk. III) Publication Date: June 2003Here at last after ten years is Book III. Dennis Alexander has taken us from the deep steamy jungles of Venezuela, to the far reaches of space. He has presented strong women, and godlike men -- men who their women are always saving. In his thinking rocks and trees have life. Plants walk and talk. Crabs have families. Lucifer and his wife are thought to be most evil presence in the Universe. In this the final book of the trilogy, Lucifer discovers an evil force more powerful even than he. When this evil so corrupt is unleashed on all living things, God, alone, can i...
| | My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things Release Date: October 31, 1987| Age Level: 6 and up How can Nick believe his mother's telling him there aren't any monsters when she forgets what his favorite flavor of ice cream is? Or when she makes him wear boots and it doesn't even rain? Well, sometimes Mamas do make mistakes...but sometimes they don't. Judith Viorst's appealing text combines with Kay Chorao's wickedly evocative drawings in this all-new edition of a favorite book. ...
| | To the Death Publication Date: April 14, 2009From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson comes his most provocative international thriller and the much much-anticipated conclusion of his renowned series starring Admiral Arnold Morgan and his terrorist nemesis, General Ravi Rashood.The hunt begins when a bomb explodes in Boston’s Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, the most trusted advisor to President Bedford, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible for the bloodshed. As Morgan ships the Islamic fanatics to Guantanamo Bay for containment, the Hamas high co...
| | Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder Release Date: January 6, 2009I am Silver, and there is no other pirate like me on these waters. . . .This being the last testament of the infamous pirate Long John Silver, you would do well not to trust a word in its pages. Held captive aboard his own ship, the Linda Maria, he is to be taken to England, where he will hang at the King’s pleasure. But he has another plan: to exact revenge upon his captors by disclosing their secrets in a journal. It tells a tale of treason, murder, his own ascent from pickpocket street urchin to pirate captain, a lost treasure that would rival King Georg...
| | Viajes con mi tia/ Travels with my Aunt (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition) ...
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| | Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber)) (v. 2) Publication Date: June 30, 1999| Series: Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber) Plays Two:Dancing at LughnasaFathers and SonsMaking HistoryWonderful TennesseeMolly SweeneyIntroduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage.From the troubled family life of five sisters in 1930s Donegal that is the core of Dancing at Lughnasa (now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep) to the current-day birthday celebration that is the major external event of Wonderful Tennessee, Brian Friel demonstrates his emotional ran...
| | A Companion to Sophocles (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Publication Date: May 8, 2012| ISBN-10: 1405187263 | ISBN-13: 978-1405187268| Edition: 1 A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles.First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragediesFeatures new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on SophoclesPresents readings that histo...
| | A Best of Fence, The First Nine Years, Volume I (Poetry & Nonfiction) Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Poetry & Nonfiction A historical document so significant it requires two volumes. FENCE evades tedium with this anthology, co-edited by editors past and present. In addition to presenting a compendium of poetry, criticism, and creative nonfiction, this volume includes editors’ reflective essays, and serves as an indispensable record of the inception & continuation of the most influential literary journal of its time.? ...
| | The Random House Treasury of Favorite Love Poems Release Date: December 28, 1999A new collection of 250 love poems, classic to contemporary, in an appealing gift package for Valentines, brides, and romantics of all ages.Two hundred and fifty poems about love and the object of one's love are grouped into categories such as New Love, Enduring Love, Passionate Love, Lost Love, and Irreverent Love. From Shakespeare and Shelley to Dorothy Parker and Langston Hughes, this collection includes a wealth of styles--from short to long, serious to mischievous, formal to free verse.The Random House Treasury of Favorite Love Poems is perfect for Valenti...
| | Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic (Lannan Translations Selection Series) (English and Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in the modern-day Dominican Republic. Translator Judith Kerman, who began the anthology as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most underserved group...
| | Six Choral Songs for Treble Voices Publication Date: 1990Six choral selections from Rachmaninoff, including:- Slava (Glory to Our People)- Nochka (Night)- Sosna (The Pine Tree)- Zadremali Volni (The Waves are Slumbering)- Nevolia (Captivity)- Angel (The Angel)Words in Russian (with English Translation), Soprano and Alto vocal staves, as well as piano accomp. ...
| | Aristotle:Poetics.; Longinus: On the Sublime; Demetrius: On Style (Loeb Classical Library No. 199) Publication Date: January 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0674995635 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995635| Edition: Revised This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, naturne, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reason...
| | Trois Contes (Folio Plus Classique) (French Edition) Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Folio Plus Classique (Book 6) This Book Is In French. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | Scarlet (Dead World, Book 2) Release Date: June 2, 2009Thrust into a world full of creatures she never dreamed existed, Gina “Red” Santiago is coming to grips with the fact that she's a werewolf while adjusting to her new life in the small town of Nuria. The transition isn’t easy, especially since her boyfriend, alpha werewolf Morgan Hunter, is called away on an important mission.Unfortunately, someone doesn't want Red to get too comfortable with her new life – someone who will resort to anything, including murder, to run her out of town. Alone among hostile strangers, Red must fight to prove...
| | Brick Lane: A Novel Release Date: May 25, 2004After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naÏve and disillusioned Chanu?As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and ...
| | Datashark Publication Date: June 25, 2005HACK OR DIEEvery day, government and industry networks are under worldwide attack by hackers. The National Security Agency, responsible for safeguarding US computer systems, has run out of options. Behind its impenetrable veil of secrecy, the NSA has taken the law into its own hands. Skilled hackers are captured and ordered to work on an information warfare program called DATASHARK. Those who refuse "disappear." But one of the hackers imprisoned by the NSA has powerful friends, able to threaten even the US government.Ryan Jones is an aerospace engineer with exp...
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