 | The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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 |  | In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Release Date: February 17, 1997Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid-1960's, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of the wilderness and into despair, Kim's father dug in and determined to stay. It was then the family turned fervently toward Pentecostalism. It w...
|  | The Last of the Mohicans and Other Novels
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|  | A Lineage of Grace: Five Stories of Unlikely Women Who Changed Eternity
Publication Date: September 17, 2009In this compilation of the five books in the best-selling Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers, we meet the five women whom God chose—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Each was faced with extraordinary—even scandalous—challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling.Each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner! ...
|  | Rabbit-Proof Fence
Release Date: November 20, 2002Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be cultural...
|  | Oliver Wiswell
Publication Date: June 1940| ISBN-10: 0385047932 | ISBN-13: 978-0385047937| Edition: 1st Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran ...
|  | Lords of the White Castle
Publication Date: April 9, 2002Westminster, 1184-- in the court of King Henry, playful competition is about to turn into something far more serious. Young courtier Fulke FitzWarin would not be an obvious companion for Prince John, but the boy from the Welsh Marches is there as a reward for his family's loyalty to the crown. The FitzWarins are as proud as they are true, and when Fulke is accused by John of cheating during a game of chess, he cannot help but respond. Thus begins a bitter rivalry that will resonate throughout their lives.The FitzWarins dream of reclaiming their family estate an...
|  | Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library) (English & German Edition) (English and German Edition)
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|  | The Preacher: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012International literary sensation Camilla LÄckberg takes the drama, suspense, and passion of her #1 bestseller The Ice Princess to new heights, returning to the Swedish fishing community of FjÄllbacka, where life is remote, peaceful— and for some, tragically short. Police detective Patrik HedstrÖm and his girlfriend, writer Erica Falck, are anticipating the arrival of their first child when grim news comes: a boy playing on a perilous outcropping has stumbled across a woman’s bloody corpse, a discovery that leads investigators to uncover ...
|  | The Haunted South: Where Ghosts Still Roam
Release Date: October 1, 1988This collection features such stories as "Passenger Train Number 9"; "The Little People"; "The Phantom Rider of the Confederacy"; "The Demon of Wizard Clip"; "Room for One More"; "Tavern of Terror"; "The Surrency Ghost"; "The King's Messengers"; "The Haunted Gold Mine"; "The Singing River"; "The Gray Lady"; "Railroad Bill"; and "The Haunted Car". ...
|  | Complete Pelican Shakespeare: The Comedies and the Romances
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|  | Archestratos of Gela: Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century BCE Text, Translation, and Commentary
Publication Date: April 20, 2000| ISBN-10: 0199240086 | ISBN-13: 978-0199240081Archestratos of Gela's Life of Luxury is a fundamental source for our understanding not only of fourth-century literature but also of the significance of food and dining, and the reception of epic poetry in the late classical period. This edition is based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts and is the first to combine a critical text of the poem with a translation, a detailed commentary, and an extensive introduction situating the work in its literary, social, and cultural context. ...
|  | Poem a Day, Vol. 1
Release Date: June 1, 1998| Series: Poem a Day (Book 1) Once upon a time men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems- Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegiesfor the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. Poems are meant to be voicedand A Poem a Day includes 366 poems old and new - one for each day of the year -worth learning by heart. Only two criteria were demanded of each poem for inclusionin this collection - it had to be short enough to learn in a day, and good enoughto stand among the great poetry of the E...
|  | Selected Works (Engaged Writers)
Publication Date: June 16, 2012| Series: Engaged Writers This famously dark and linguistically innovative Venezuelan poet can now be read for the first time in English.Born in 1890, Sucre is one of Venezuela’s most important poets, although scorned by critics until an avant-garde revival of his work in the fifties and sixties. He was educated at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, and worked as a teacher and translator for the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry....
|  | Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason
Release Date: July 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 0230521649 | ISBN-13: 978-0230521643| Edition: First Edition Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - and reveals the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It challenges previous accounts of Coleridge's philosophical engagements, forcing a reconsideration of his reading of figures such as Schelling, Jacobi and Spinoza. This exciting new study establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridg...
|  | Russian Literature of the Twenties: An Anthology
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|  | Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works
Publication Date: March 26, 2007Guillaume de Machaut, fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets, and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, the coronation site of French kings. From this penetrating study of his music, Machaut emerges as a composer deeply involved in the great crises of his day, one who skillfully and artfully expressed profound themes of human existence in ardent music and poet...
|  | The divided self;: A perspective on the literature of the Victorians
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|  | Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Release Date: October 30, 2012The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances. Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful spiritual healers to the Insane Clown Posse’s juggalo fans. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspective...
|  | Sunset (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 6)
Release Date: September 25, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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