 | Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Release Date: January 15, 2008Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of age. But they do so with few resources-material or emotional-in a world where the cards are stacked against their success.Journalist Kai Wright paints vivid, intimate portra...
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 | The Changeling (The Wormling)
Publication Date: September 24, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | The Ultimatum (The Reluctant Prophet Series #2)
Publication Date: July 29, 2008T. Davis Bunn's Ultimatum in back in print! Buy it today! ...
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 | Bend Sinister
Publication Date: December 20, 2010The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modernclassic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay,it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a policestate. Professor Adam Krug, the country’s foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader ofthe Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and...
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 | Half Moon Street: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Release Date: March 22, 2011For Superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. The corpse lies in a battered punt drifting through the early mist, clad in a torn green gown and bestrewn with flowers. Pitt’s determined search for answers to the victim’s identity leads him deep into London’s bohemia—to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman, and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of ph...
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 | Firbank: Five Novels
Publication Date: May 17, 1981Firbank, Five Novels. Part high-camp comedy of manners and part fairy tale. ...
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 | Nights at the Circus (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Series: Oberon Modern Plays Opened at London's Lyric Hammersmith in 2006. ...
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 | Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles’ late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century BCE play adapted from an infamous incident during the Trojan War. In Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” and the Great Soul Robbery, Austin examines the rich layers of text as well as context, situating the play within the historical and political milieu of the eclipse of Athenian power. He presents a study at once of interest to the classical scholar and acce...
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 | A Preface to the Nibelungenlied
Publication Date: June 1987Although there are introductory works in English as well as German, no book undertakes to establish the literary-historical setting of the epic for general students of medieval literature. The author tracies antecedent literary developments (Part I) and suggests the immediate literary context of the poem at the time it was written (Part II). Includes appended translations and summaries of previously un-translated materials that are crucial to an understanding of the Nebelungenlied. ...
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![The bedbug [a play] and selected poetry](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-sm._AA500_V192198896_.gif) | The bedbug [a play] and selected poetry
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 | Wild Dogs Under My Skirt
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0864734743 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734747This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture. ...
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 | A Dictionary Of Printers And Booksellers In England, Scotland, And Ireland, And Of Foreign Printers Of English Books 1557-1640
Publication Date: June 2005Reprint of the 1910 edition. Hardbound. Oversized octavo. 2 p. l., [vii]-xxiii, 346p. London, Printed for the Bibliographical Society, by Blades, East & Blades, 1910. New Copy. This volume is intended to contain the names of all printers, booksellers, binders and other persons connected with the book trade who are known to have worked in Great Britain and Ireland, or to have dealt in English books on the Continent during the years 1557-1640. The notices are the work of H.R. Plomer, who did the London printers and Stationers. Aldis wrote the Scottish articles, and D...
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 | Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Publication Date: April 25, 2011| Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History This innovative study explores the history of Puritanism and the history of reading in the long seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of significant but understudied source materials, it seeks to advance our understanding of Puritan or 'godly' culture by examining the place of reading within that culture between c.1580 and 1720. In contrast to long-standing claims about the connections between advanced Protestantism and emergent individualism and interiority, the book demonstrates the importanc...
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| John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism
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 | The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 3, 1994| Series: Penguin Classics "Screech's translation brilliantly captures the directness, energy, and pithiness of Montaigne's writing."—The Christian Science Monitor. ...
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| Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde, 1875-1895: A Critical Edition
Publication Date: December 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 0773425438 | ISBN-13: 978-0773425439A collection of the correspondence between Lady Jane Wilde and Oscar Wilde. ...
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 | Heart of the Phoenix (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
Release Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories From the ashes he was born and in the thunderous flames he will soon die. But not before branding her heart. Tayla Hampton thought she had escaped her past. She was wrong. It’s caught up with her. Luckily she has a guardian angel… or something like that.Thaddeus Delos is not you’re ordinary protector. His mythical DNA is proof of that. Still he hungers like a hot-blooded man, loves fiercely and will protect Tayla with his life. Only that life isn’t promised to him for much longer. --This text refers...
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| THE CONTENTS OF A LUMBER-ROOM: A CATALOGUE OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION.
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 | Pandora Gets Jealous
Release Date: December 23, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | My Mothers' Daughter
Publication Date: March 5, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up...
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