 | Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Release Date: April 3, 2007In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying place–with endless comic potential.–If your girlfriend gives you some “love coupons” and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid?–What kind of performance pressure does an endangered male panda feel when his captors bring the last remaining ...
 |  | This Is What They Say: Stories
Release Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0295989335 | ISBN-13: 978-0295989334"An invaluable book on how to be and not to be, on work and dedication, on the inner life of scholarship, and on life and death in the Old Ways."--Gary Snyder.This astonishing Chipewyan story cycle from one of the unsung heoroes of Native American literature reveals a rich and nuanced picture of traditional life and thought in the northern Athapaskan world. ...
|  | A Kid's Guide to Asian American History: More than 70 Activities (A Kid's Guide series)
Publication Date: May 28, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Object Lessons (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 23, 1997| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."-THE NEW YORK TIMESIt is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to...
|  | Scottish Ghost Stories
Publication Date: March 1, 1996This is a collection of ghost stories based on a mixture of local history and folklore. The stories are from past and present. Some, such as The Hauntings of Glamis Castle and The Tale of Major Weir are well known, while others are less familiar, such as The Deil of Littledean. ...
|  | Hollister House: The Banyan Tree Awakens
Publication Date: October 19, 2011From the moment Eve Hollister stepped into Hollister House, her family's ancient Victorian home, she felt welcome. Even the banyan tree in the yard held an unexpected feeling of kinship. Eve's initial sensations were wrong, though, and things went badly as the ghosts of Hollister House came out to play and threatened the lives of every Hollister in Mississippi. But that was then; this is now, and the old Victorian is free-finally-of evil. In Hollister House: The Banyan Tree Awakens, return to the mystical American South, rife with ghosts and dark magic. Eve ...
|  | My Sweet Audrina
Release Date: May 24, 2011Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead. Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except... Sweet Audrina. ...
|  | Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: B&N Classics Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes...
|  | In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi's Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1907784071 | ISBN-13: 978-1907784071In the Shadows of the Master offers original translations and analysis - and provides anecdotal and historical context - for five important odes written by four of the Arab world's most influential poets in the 10th and 11th centuries C.E. These odes span the broad spectrum of the Arabic-speaking Middle East, starting with al-Mutanabbi at Sayf al-Dawlah's court in Aleppo (located in northern Syria), and concluding with Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli at the courts of al-Munsur and Mundhir b. Yahya in the Iberian Penin...
|  | At the Well (Korea's Golden Poems) (Korean Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1565911695 | ISBN-13: 978-1565911697| Edition: Bilingual: Korean and English "Kim So-yeop's poetic sense, simultaneously so tender yet very astute, creates ears and eyes with her poetic diction. She describes light as life, depicts love as color and makes them meet together so that man, life and love may unite, creating a love that penetrates into our minds at this time when people think so meanly of love." Yun Jai-gun, Literary critic and Professor at Hanyang University ...
|  | Connaissance Du Soir (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Chan Interpretation of Wang Wei's Poetry: The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry: A Critical Review
Publication Date: April 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 9629962322 | ISBN-13: 978-9629962326| Edition: annotated edition Wang Wei (698--759) is one of the greatest High Tang poets. His works are often claimed to take a Buddhist perspective, combining appreciation of the beauties of nature with awareness of sensory illusion, and thus rendering Wang widely known as "Poet Buddha." The book is an original and ambitious attempt to criticize the prevalent assumptions about Chan Buddhist implications in Wang's nature poetry. The author weaves in information and perspectives from literal and historical sourc...
|  | Political Theology and Early Modernity
Publication Date: October 1, 2012Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern concept...
|  | Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein (Worlds Classics)
Publication Date: August 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0192823310 | ISBN-13: 978-0192823311Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764).Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers.These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy withscenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to dam...
|  | Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public
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|  | A Duchess to Remember (The Ministry of Marriage)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: The Ministry of Marriage (Book 3) Lady Cecily Westruther is nothing if not practical. By agreeing to marry an older duke who already has an heir and a mistress, she can assume a wifely role—without the wifely duties. Only one thing stands in her way—a letter that could destroy her betrothal. Desperate to retrieve that letter, Cecily must match wits with the most dangerously seductive man she’s ever known…Disguised as a footman, Cecily gains entry to her adversary’s house—only to be unmasked by London’s most ...
|  | Ride the Free Wind (Savage Destiny, No 2)
Release Date: June 1, 1996| Series: Savage Destiny (Book 2) Abigail Trent and her husband, Zeke Monroe, a half-Cheyenne scout, head across the wilderness to rejoin his tribe and start a new life together. Reissue. ...
|  | Manslaughter
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|  | Two Locked Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn
Publication Date: July 22, 2009This collection presents three short stories by Max Afford. Two tales feature sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, his wife Elizabeth, and Inspector William Read: 'Poison Can Be Puzzling' and 'The Vanishing Trick' were originally published in Australian periodicals in the 1940s, and appear to be the only published short crime fiction tales by Afford. 'The Gland Men Of The Island' appears to be Afford's sole foray into science-fiction; the story first appeared in WONDER STORIES in 1931. ...
| | Doyle, the Oz connection: An essay
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