| The Heart of Midlothian (Oxford World's Classics) Publication Date: February 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the center of the story is Edinburgh's forbidding Tolbooth prison, known by all as the Heart of Midlothian.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made avai...
| | Chaucerian Theatricality Publication Date: October 1990Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalesque" and the "d...
| | Summit Avenue Publication Date: May 15, 2000How can you weave a life from fairy tales? Set in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul during the First World War, Mary Sharratt's debut novel is the story of a young German immigrant experiencing her spiritual and sexual awakening.As the poet Mandy Sivers says, Summit Avenue is A book about Woman and the tremendous, multiplied hurdles and barriers which women had to overcome as immigrants. This turbulent tale, while apparently telling of a lesbian relationship, is talking even more about the flight back into the mythic depths of womanhood-the old, pre-Christian, woma...
| | Pintora de Shangai, La (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 15, 2008Desde las aguas pantanosas del Yangtsé y los desaseados cuartos interiores del Salón del Esplendor Eterno hasta el estridente encanto del Shangai anterior a la guerra y el París bohemio de los años veinte, para volver de nuevo a una China desgarrada por la guerra civil y los albores de la revolución, esta novela cuenta la historia de Pan Yuliang, una de las más talentosas y provocadoras figuras del arte chino del siglo XX. / Jennifer Cody Epstein's epic brings to life the woman behind the lush, Cezannesque nude self-portraits, ...
| | Italian Vocabulary (Quickstudy: Academic) Release Date: June 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 1572228288 | ISBN-13: 978-1572228283| Edition: Crds Packed with useful information for beginners of all ages. For the student, traveler or those who just need a little help.6-page laminated guide includes: • pronunciation • measurement, numbers, clothes • bank, to buy • travel, greetings, directions • months, days, seasons • when, time, weather • habitat • there is, there are • family, people, person • computer • studies, workplace, sports • food, meal, meat, fish ...
| | Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History Publication Date: January 13, 1999For thousands of years, the legend of a great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Few believed that such a catastrophic deluge had actually occurred. But now geophysicists have discovered an event that changed history, a sensational flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, they discovered clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the ...
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| | Together: Stories and Poems by Julius Chingono and John Eppel Publication Date: June 16, 2011Together is a joint collection of stories and poems by two of Zimbabwe's most talented writers, Julius Chingono and John Eppel. Though they barely knew each other and lived in different settings, Chingono and Eppel are kindred souls.Each poem and story explores the culture of mankind in its every disaster and delight. ...
| | Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics) Release Date: February 28, 1980| ISBN-10: 0140443630 | ISBN-13: 978-0140443639| Edition: Reprint After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, "The Reveries." In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has come to terms with his alienation, as he walks around Paris, gazing at plants, ...
| | Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft ...
| | Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective Vol III Publication Date: June 1, 2011The Baker Street Sleuth returns in five new original mysteries told in the classic style of Arthur Conan Doyle. Here are tales by Aaron Smith, Ian Watson, Joshua Reynolds and Andrew Smith guaranteed entertain any mystery fan. Throw on your deerstalker cap and load your pistols, there's murder and mayhem about and the game is afoot once more. ...
| | Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste Release Date: June 23, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Sunny: The Yellow Fairy (Rainbow Magic: The Rainbow Fairies, No. 3) Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up The seven Rainbow Fairies are missing!Rachel and Kirsty search for one in each RAINBOW MAGIC book.Read all seven books to help rescue the fairies and bring the sparkle back to Fairyland!Fairyland is home to seven colorful sisters.Together, they are the Rainbow Fairies!They keep Fairyland dazzling and bright.But when evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the sisters are in big trouble.If they don't return soon, Fairyland is doomed to be gray forever!A trail of sparkly yellow dust lands Rachel and Kirsty in a very sticky situation!Could Sunny ...
| | Otto's Orange Day (Toon) Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Essential Defenders - Volume 6 Publication Date: October 12, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Three Strong Women (Viking Kestrel picture books) Release Date: June 1, 1990| Age Level: 5 and up...
| | Casey at the Bat (Visions in Poetry) Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Swimming (Training to Succeed) Publication Date: March 26, 2009 ...
| | Math Play! (Williamson Little Hands Series) Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 2 and up...
| | Sesame Street Silly Snacks: Cooking with Kids (Sesame Street (Publications International)) Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up...
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