 | The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror
Release Date: July 26, 2005Hailed for her “remarkably accomplished and poignant work” (Washington Post), acclaimed author Elizabeth McGregor returns with a haunting love story about two lost souls brought together by chance—and bonded forever by a mystery that transcends madness, tragedy, and time itself....Catherine Sergeant is adept at going through the motions. After losing her parents at an early age, she buried her grief in the study of antiquities. Now, deserted by her husband without warning or explanation, she reports to work at Pearson’s auction house, ex...
 |  | Mason's Retreat: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012A New York Times Book Review Notable BookThe year is 1936, and the world is on the brink of war. American expatriot Edward Mason, owner of a failing machine factory, is fighting more private battles. In the face of defeat, he abandons his adopted home in England in order to reclaim his inheritance on Maryland’s Eastern Shore---a ruinous, thousand-acre estate known ominously as Mason’s Retreat. Edward, his wife, Edith, and their two young sons struggle to adjust to life in this strange and storied place. But with war drawing closer, England’s hast...
|  | Patterns of Force (Star Wars: Coruscant Nights III)
Release Date: January 27, 2009After the Empire’s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that he’s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself.Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant’s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle–to unlock the secrets of his father’s de...
|  | The Children of the Anarii, Book I
Release Date: June 1, 1996Morgana Brejjard is the oldest daughter in the house of a northern land holder in a a hard-working, quiet societywith no place for daydreams. But Morgana hears voices she cannot understand that seem to call her away from all that she has ever known. With an all-too-real vision calling for her help from Rejat, a Mirii Warrior/Healer, her Aunt Elas' surprising pronouncement of her heritage to the same forbidden order, followed by a heartless betrayal by her father, Morgana begins a journey with Rejat and her aunt to join the Mirii and the spirit companions, the Azerii...
|  | The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations: Volume III (Chuck Bowdrie's Adventures)
Release Date: October 9, 2007| Series: Chuck Bowdrie's Adventures Follow Chick Bowdrie’s adventures in these six classic westerns by America’s favorite storyteller, Louis L’Amour.Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers, and the weather-beaten towns that could explode into chaos at the wrong word. The Rangers were called in to handle the tough cases, ...
|  | Murder's Immortal Mask (Ancient Rome Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Series: Ancient Rome Mysteries When two prostitutes are found with their bodies ripped open and their right eyes gouged out, it is widely feared that a notorious killer, the Nefandus, has returned to the streets of Rome. Rumored to be an former imperial officer, he once waged bloody murder amongst Rome’s prostitutes but vanished before his identity could be discovered. Has he reappeared, or is someone working in his guise? Desperate to retain order, the Empress Helena turns to her most trusted agent, Claudia, to discover the truth behind the Nefandus bef...
|  | Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
Publication Date: December 1993| ISBN-10: 0807012203 | ISBN-13: 978-0807012208Analyzing the practice of five religious traditions of the African diaspora in America, the author of Santeri+a7a traces the history, rituals, and influence of Vodun, Candomble+a7, Revival Zion, Sateri+a7a, and the Black Church. ...
|  | Thomas Usk's Testament of Love: A Critical Edition (Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations)
Publication Date: August 3, 2002| ISBN-10: 0802054714 | ISBN-13: 978-0802054715| Edition: 1 Thomas Usk, a contemporary of Chaucer, was a figure of political and literary importance who became involved in the tempestuous politics of late fourteenth-century London.In 1384 he took part in John Northampton's agitations against the mayor of London and was imprisoned.While in custody, he had an apparent conversion experience and wrote a detailed accusation against Northampton and his followers.Shortly thereafter, while still in custody, he wrote The Testament of Love, which contains an allegor...
|  | Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198129947 | ISBN-13: 978-0198129943Although it is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, little attention has been paid to the ways in which he influenced both their creative practices and theories of the imagination.This work presents the fascinating picture of how the Romantics read Shakespeare and the ways in which his work inspired and informed their own poetry.The book provides the first full critical discussion of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, explores the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge, and...
|  | The Whispering Gallery: Art Into Poetry
Publication Date: January 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 1876832851 | ISBN-13: 978-1876832858This new book contains 55 poems, each prompted by a work of art drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The art works are reproduced alongside the peoms for immediate reference and enjoyment. While Plenty: Art into Poetry is a work of beauty and distinction, critics already consider The Whispering Gallery to be an exciting successor in which the author expands and deepens his imaginative exploration of words and images. ...
|  | Speaking My Mind: In Poetic Verse
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|  | Ying yi Zhong wen xin shi suo yin, 1917-1995 (Han xue yan jiu zhong xin cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (New Middle Ages)
Publication Date: December 8, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312233833 | ISBN-13: 978-0312233839| Edition: 1st Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book surveys popular tastes, the interrelationship between manuscript form and content, a...
|  | Hard-Boiled Masculinities
Publication Date: December 23, 2005The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men. Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex...
|  | Inside Modernism: Relativity Theory, Cubism, Narrative
Publication Date: May 11, 1999| ISBN-10: 0300076134 | ISBN-13: 978-0300076134An interdisciplinary account of modernism. It encompasses physics, the visual arts and literature in an analysis of the period from the 1880s to World War II. They derive six common characteristics of modernism, and describe and analyze these in nontechnical terms. ...
|  | Shadow Of Doubt (Kali O'Brien Mysteries)
Release Date: December 1, 2000| Series: Kali O'Brien Mysteries San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien returns to her Sierra hometown because of her father's death and finds herself coping with a pregnant and grief-stricken dog, the murder of an old high-school friend, and a sexy local journalist. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Higher Standard
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|  | Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Hercule Poirot MysteriesIt is clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister is going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of “Lovely Louise,” wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot is due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late. . . ....
|  | Gemma the Gymnastics Fairy (Rainbow Magic: Sports Fairies #7)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up The Sports Fairies' magical items are missing, and now the Fairy Olympics are going all wrong!This is our ninth group of Rainbow Magic fairies; all seven books will be released at once.It's an exciting time in Fairyland.Everyone is getting ready for the Fairy Olympics!But Jack Frost's goblins have stolen the Sports Fairies' magic objects.Now they're threatening to take over the whole competition!Gemma the Gymnastics Fairy's magic hoop is missing.Do Kirsty and Rachel have all the right moves to get it back?Or will the goblins trip them up?F...
|  | The Barefoot Book of Faeries PB w CD
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Lift the veil between the faerie world and our own and meet a variety of faerie folk through stories, poems and snippets of lore from Britain and Ireland. Each story introduction is filled with fascinating historical and literary details about faerie customs, among the shower of pixie dust, glittery stars and fluttery dragon flies that highlight Gail Newey's whimsical illustrations. ...
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