 | The Pull of the Moon: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Release Date: March 23, 2010| Series: Random House Reader's Circle In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness—and the allure—of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, including a handsome man appearing out of the woods and a ...
 |  | In a Heartbeat (In a Heartbeat Series #1)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Miss Rachel Goldberg had no idea a knightin shining armor was about to enter her classroom. A Chicagofirefighter was expected, an everyday city worker come to tell fourth gradersall about his job in 30 minutes or less. But when Vic Koskilifts Rachel to demonstrate the firefighter's carry, she is--literally andfiguratively--swept off her feet.Love leads to a happy marriage and homefor just the two of them, but after a few years Rachel's inner clock begins totick. As months go by, her longing for a child becomes a consuming passion.Though Rachel tries not to qu...
|  | Not Your Mother`s Vampire Vampires in Young Adult Fiction
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|  | Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: The Cairo Trilogy (Book 1) Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tra...
|  | After Kinship (New Departures in Anthropology)
Publication Date: November 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521665701 | ISBN-13: 978-0521665704What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology which will be of interest to anthropologists as well as to other social scientists. ...
|  | Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: May 20, 1994| Series: Dover Thrift Editions This edition of 32 works combines a number of the English poet's best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter works, along with her long masterpiece "Goblin Market." Others in this choice collection include "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," "No, Thank You, John," and "After Death." ...
|  | The Portable Edmund Burke (Portable Library)
Release Date: July 1, 1999| Series: Portable Library The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English rape of the Indian subcontinent; and, most famously, his denouncement of English Jacobin sympathizers during the French Revolution. The Portable Ed...
|  | Remus: A Roman Myth
Publication Date: August 25, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521483662 | ISBN-13: 978-0521483667This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate socie...
|  | After Troy (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1849430268 | ISBN-13: 978-1849430265A contemporary retelling of Euripides' Women Of Troy, and Hecuba, After Troy exposing the cruelties of war both then and now. ...
|  | Teachings of Rumi
Release Date: July 6, 1999Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led the quiet life of an Islamic teacher in the central Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of thirty-seven, when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz—through whom he encountered the Divine Presence in a way that utterly transformed him. The result of this epiphany was the greatest body of mystical poetry the world has ever seen, and the establishment of a spiritual movement that would eventually stretch from Africa to China, enduring to our own day.This collection of versions of Rumi by Andrew Harvey contains some of t...
|  | Poems from the Soul
Publication Date: October 19, 2011These poems are dedicated to my gentle mother Cynthia, as well as to humble souls the world over. These poems came from my heart and soul and are based upon the lives of real people who have affected my life. ...
|  | Antologia de la poesia espanola siglo XX / Anthology of Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry (Coleccion Fundamentos) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Jazz Poetry Anthology (A Midland Book)
Release Date: June 22, 1991| Series: A Midland Book "... in a class by itself... sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery... the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." —Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the meaning of jazz. These poems hit it right on the head, and the book is certainly essential for anyone who is interested in our music." —Dizzy Gillespie"To those interested in the impact of jazz upon the poetry of our century I recommend this anthology altogether without reservation." &...
|  | And the Mountain Laughs. | HAIKUS
Publication Date: June 1, 2009Website: http://www.gracielaaranda.comTwitter: @arandagracielaYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipExh4BKJR8AND THE MOUNTAIN LAUGHS. Haiku is a style of Japanese poetry, which arises when the country erupts in the literature in the eighth century or so. Literature influenced by China (which, at that time was more than 20 centuries old) and after a logical evolution by the routes of Zen and Taoism, haiku emerges as the voice of nature and moments everyday life, reflected in a few syllables short poems (traditionally: 5-7-5). In them, the everyday events and ...
|  | L'ordinaire de la poesie (Etudes francaises) (French Edition)
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| | Zhongguo gu dai cha shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
Publication Date: October 18, 2011G.K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written.The only problem with Chesterton's essays is that there are too many of them. Over five thousand! For most GKC readers it is not even possible to know where to start or how to begin to approach them.So three of the world's leading authorities on Chesterton - Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Aidan Mackey - have joined toget...
|  | Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin)
Publication Date: November 30, 1979| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Disney Tesoro de cuentos: Coleccion de cuentos (Un Tesoro De Cuentos / a Treasure of Stories) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 30, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | While You Are Sleeping
Release Date: September 5, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Being a plush toy might sound like an easy job, but when a newcomer joins their group, the bedside toys show him everything that goes into taking care of a child while he is sleeping. Every night, they make sure that he isn?t too hot or too cold, and that he stays safely in his bed. They chase away bedbugs and bad dreams. And on Christmas Eve they have the very important task of making sure the child does not awake until morning. The new toy ? and the reader ? will find a lot to learn before the night is over. ...
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