 | Thanks a Bunch (Sandra Magsamen)
Publication Date: April 15, 2000| Series: Sandra Magsamen Celebrate every day with the cheerful images and imaginative verse of Sandra Magsamen. This simply beautiful book focuses on thank-yous. Magsamen's magical ability to connect special occasions with the powerful feelings they provoke is showcased here; her unique and colorful illustrations, paired with uplifting prose simply and beautifully toasts the generosity and spirit that one appreciates so much in others. ...
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Publication Date: August 14, 2001Driven by greed and ambition, a pharmaceutical companyexecutive is pushing an unsafe diet drug from the laboratory to thepharmacy.An investigative reporter and a research scientist aretrying to stop him.But will they have the power to stop him on theirown?Or will it take a greater power... ...
|  | The Sea Hawk
Publication Date: May 23, 20041923. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The Sea-Hawk begins: Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining room of the handsom...
|  | The Book of Saladin: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1999| Series: The Islam Quintet Tariq Ali's second novel in The Islam Quintet is a rich and teeming chronicle set in twelfth-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem.The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in the Sultan's memoirs. A series of interconnected stories follows, tales brimming over with warmth, earthy humor and passions in which ideals clash with realitie...
|  | The Pornographer's Poem: A Novel
Publication Date: May 14, 2004The Pornographer's Poem is an edgy, important novel that tests the lines between pornography and art, exploitation and exploration. Introduced at the age of 16 to adult cinema by an eccentric teacher, the unnamed narrator of this controversial novel secretly shoots a short film of his neighbors having a very unconventional kind of sex. Helped by his doomed poet friend Nettie, who thinks such work can be liberating, he uses what are essentially porn loops to try to make sense of the world, to right its wrongs, in the process becoming a cause célèbre in ...
|  | One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi
Release Date: August 30, 2005The extensive body of work by 13th-century mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi continues to fascinate readers with a taste for the spiritual, and his writings, which speak passionately of truth, enlightenment, and love for God, appeal to those of all religions. Translations of Rumi’s writings by the contemporary poet Coleman Barks have sold more than 500,000 copies since 1981. Now acclaimed illustrator Michael Green -- who collaborated with Barks on The Illuminated Rumi-- has produced a new and fabulous mystic fusion of sacred poetry and art. This all-new volume ...
|  | The Songs of Homer
Publication Date: February 17, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521619181 | ISBN-13: 978-0521619189The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of the wanderings of Odysseus, have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can be read and enjoyed, unreflectingly, as tales of adventure; or they can be studied as literature, yielding, as insight and understanding grow, a deeper and more permanent pleasure. Professor Kirk's book is the means to this pleasure. It is a vivid and com...
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| | The Bloomsbury Review Booklover's Guide: A Collection of Tips, Techniques, Anecdotes, Controversies & Suggestions for the Home Library
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| | Aphra Behn (New Casebooks)
Publication Date: April 19, 1999| Series: New Casebooks Aphra Behn's work has been subject to critical fashion, and her literary reputation was only really secured in the closing decade of the 20th century, especially by new historicist and feminist critics. The essays collected here represent a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn's drama and her prose writings. Todd provides an introduction mapping Behn's literary reception, situating the works of the critics included in a broader literary context and pointing towards Behn as a newly politicized figure at the close of...
|  | British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community
Publication Date: December 4, 2008This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in traditional literary history. British Romanticism was once thought of as a cultural movement defined by a small group of male poets. This book grants women poets their proper place in the literary tradition of the time. Behrendt first approaches the subject thematically, exploring ...
|  | Literature and Culture at the Fin de Si
Publication Date: October 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 0321132173 | ISBN-13: 978-0321132178| Edition: 1 This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siècle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study. This anticipated collection features non-canonical stories, poems, and articles alongside well-known works by fin-de-siècle authors. By bringing to the forefront the definition and the significance of the fin-de-siècle movement, this anthology inv...
|  | WHISTLER ON ART PB
Publication Date: December 17, 1994James McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter and etcher. He wrote more than 5000 letters which, with his published writing and conversations, illuminate his work and his contentious relations with the art world of the time. This book includes 75 items: letters (many unpublished before) and material recording his disillusion with English approaches to art and his response to the French, Scottish and American art worlds. Whistler was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelites and a enjoyed a fruitful dialogue with Swinburne and with Wilde (whom he later accused o...
|  | Pirates
Release Date: April 1, 1996New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller writes the kind of high-spirited, totally absorbing novels that captivate us right to the last line.Known for her fast-paced stories and delightful Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy blend of wit and sexual tension, she creates characters who "walk right off the pages and into your heart" (Rendezvous).Now Linda Lael Miller sweeps readers away -- and through time itself -- when a thoroughly modern woman encounters a dangerous, dashing eighteenth-century buccaneer. The result is a sensuous, joyous, utterly heartwar...
|  | The Chamber
Release Date: May 1, 1994In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, A...
|  | Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection
Publication Date: October 1989Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery. ...
|  | Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury, Vol. 3
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|  | Cinderbear
Publication Date: January 2004| Age Level: 8 and up Cinderbear magically transforms the classic Cinderella fairy tale into a charmingly illustrated story with bears as its characters.A classic tale that reminds us that dreams can come true, Cinderbear is one title in the series of Imagination in a Box interactive reading sets.Each Imagination in a Box set comes packaged in a sturdy cardboard "briefcase" with a plastic handle.Inside the case you will find a book, two scenery backdrops, seven stand-up characters, and two adorable finger puppets -- all the makings for an interactive story time....
|  | Hockeytown Hero: The Steve Yzerman Story
Publication Date: April 1, 2001An authorized biography of hockey hero, Steve Yzerman written for hisbiggest fans -- kids! Here is the story of NHL superstar SteveYzerman, from his early hockey-playing days in Nepean, Ontario,Canada, through his second consecutive Stanley Cup championship withthe Detroit Red Wings in 1998. Follow the extraordinary career thathas put Steve in the record books and makes a favorite hero of hockeyfans everywhere. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Scooby-Doo and the Gruesome Goblin (Scooby-Doo Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of all time. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a sequel to the hit movie due in March 04.Surf's up, Scooby! The gang from Mystery, Inc. is headed to the Ocean Land water park for a little fun in the sun. But when they arrive, they discover the park is about to shut down! A slimy sea creature is haunting all the rides - and scaring away all the kids. Looks like another mystery for Scooby and the gang! Can they get to the bottom of a...
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