 | We the People: An Introduction to American Politics (Shorter Eighth Edition (without policy chapters))
Publication Date: December 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393935248 | ISBN-13: 978-0393935240| Edition: Shorter Eighth Edition (without policy chapters) Politics is relevant.The best book for engaging students in American politics is also the most effective for helping students study and learn. We the People emphasizes the ways that government and politics matter and the ways that people can get involved in politics and influence government. In the Eighth Edition, We the People offers a more contemporary approach to engage students in American politics with new features based on how today’s s...
 |  | 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11
Release Date: August 4, 2004| ISBN-10: 0814799353 | ISBN-13: 978-0814799352Visit the 110 Stories web siteNew York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11. Now, in 110 Stor...
|  | Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0872860175 | ISBN-13: 978-0872860179| Edition: Reissue "Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg ad...
|  | The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 6, 2007 Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel ...
|  | Barely a Lady (The Drake's Rakes series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: The Drake's Rakes series (Book 1) Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived those years at the edge of respectability. Then she stumbles over Jack on the battlefield of Waterloo, and he becomes an even more dangerous secret. For not only is he unconscious, he is clad in an enemy uniform.But worse, when Jack finally wakes in Olivia's care, he can't remember how he came to be on a battlefield in Belg...
|  | The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Change Series (Book 5) Rudi McKenzie-now Artos, the High King of Montival-must fulfill hisdestiny. He wields the sword crafted for him before he was born. He hasmade friends of his enemies. He has won the heart of the woman heloves.And now he must defeat the forces of the Church Universal andTriumphant, knowing he may lose his life in the final battle... ...
|  | Fudge-Laced Felonies: Summer Meadows Mystery Series #1 (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #17)
Publication Date: June 24, 2008 While transplanting the rosebush her church’s handsome greeter, Ethan Banning, inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody gardening glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer. As Summer gets closer to the truth—not only of the theft but of her true feelings for Ethan—the diamond thief hatches a plan to hush the feisty sleuth. Ethan’s love for Summer stays buried beneath his teasing, especially when she appears ...
|  | Local Girls
Release Date: May 1, 2000From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family..."Pulls the reader in effortlessly...Hoffman has the power to make you really laugh and really cry." --USA Today"Moving and deadpan funny...Epiphanies about passion, pain, and resiliency induce smiles and shivers in equal measure." --Entertainment ...
|  | The Last Hunter - Descent (Book 1 of the Antarktos Saga)
Publication Date: March 8, 2011**The Last Hunter - Pursuit (Book 2 of the Antarktos Saga) is now available. Pick up both books while you're here!DESCRIPTION:I've been told that the entire continent of Antarctica groaned at the moment of my birth. The howl tore across glaciers, over mountains and deep into the ice. Everyone says so. Except for my father; all he heard was Mother's sobs. Not of pain, but of joy, so he says. Other than that, the only verifiable fact about the day I was born is that an iceberg the size of Los Angeles broke free from the ice shelf a few miles off the coast. Again,...
|  | Colours
Publication Date: April 28, 2012She knew him better than she knew herself. Cora was trying to forget about the arguments, the divorce, and Nate couldn't have come at a better time. he was a little messed up, like all the kids, but there was something more to him.It wasn't hard to learn about Nate, but something ends up breaking them both.Wanting things to be easier doesn't work out all of the time. ...
|  | When God Laughs
Publication Date: November 28, 2011Tom Pierson's freshman obsessions--with American literature and with the pert assistant to the dean of Abbott College--dominate his first term. When his idealism, inspired by Jack London's portrayal of working class struggles, collides with establishment forces, he learns to rue a lesson from London: that fate is often capriciously twisted "when God Laughs."Steve Dhondt brings passion and literary sophistication to the coming-of-age novel. The telltales themes--idolization of inspiring role models, youthful bravado undermined by self-doubt, first ...
|  | Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, a Muslim Chinese People
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|  | Measure for Measure
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|  | Ph
Publication Date: February 28, 2000A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racin...
|  | Menander: Samia (Classical Texts) (Classical Texts)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 085668225X | ISBN-13: 978-0856682254Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1983) ...
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|  | Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell
Publication Date: October 25, 1994"No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century," Joseph Brodsky writes of Marina Tsvetaeva. And yet Western readers are only now starting to discover what Tsvetaeva’s Russian audience has already recognized, "that she was one of the major poetic voices of the century" (Tomas Venclova, The New Republic).Born to a family of Russian intelligentsia in 1892 and coming of age in the crucible of revolution and war, Tsvetaeva has been seen as a victim of her politicized time, her life and her work marked by exi...
|  | One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Release Date: October 27, 2011Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping soeasy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost besummed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with JeffBezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traitsand business strategy have driven Amazon to the top of the online retailworld.Richard Brandt charts Bezos's rise from computer nerd to world- changing entrepreneur. His success can be credited to his forward-lookingin...
|  | A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest
Publication Date: February 1, 2007If Chrissie Hayward knew that morning she'd be going back in time to rescue her crazy coworker Kat, she'd have worn better shoes. Doubly so if she'd expected to meet her true love. According to the mysterious gypsy, Chrissie was the "gentle soul who would tame an outlaw's thirst for revenge" -- aka the real Robin Hood. So how come the guy was such a dud?LOST...IN SHERWOOD FOREST?No, Robin of Locksley was no Prince Charming. And the part about robbing the rich to feed the poor? He didn't get the memo. In fact, all the guy seemed to do was mope. (And he and hi...
|  | The Clown of God
Publication Date: September 6, 1978| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up In this retelling of the old French legend, a juggler offers to the Christ Child the only Christmas gift he has. “The full-color pictures with subtle tonal modulations are an integral part of the design of the lumious pages full of movement and vitality. The Italianate aspects of the setting are beautifully realized.”--The Horn Book ...
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