 | The Art of Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: April 15, 1966| ISBN-10: 0226486877 | ISBN-13: 978-0226486871| Edition: 1 This concise introduction to Chinese poetry serves as a primer for English-speakers eager to expand their understanding and enjoyment of Chinese culture. James J. Y. Liu first examines the Chinese language as a medium of poetic expression and, contrary to the usual focus on the visual qualities of Chinese script, emphasizes the auditory effects of Chinese verse. He provides a succinct survey of Chinese poetry theory and concludes with his own view of poetry, based upon traditional Chinese concepts...
 |  | American War Library - Weapons of War: The Persian Gulf
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: American War Library Unleashing a fierce bombing campaign followed by a mere four days of land warfare, a U.S. - led coalition of nations liberated Kuwait from Iraqi military occupation in 1991. Combining intense firepower and advanced weaponry, U.S. - led forces won decisively, demonstrating the face of modern high-tech warfare. (20010801) ...
|  | Breaking the Silence
Publication Date: November 24, 2009Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing—except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make.But Laura's promise results in another death. Her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it…to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help. A man she's met only once—six years before. A man ...
|  | Written on the Body
Release Date: February 1, 1994| Series: Vintage International The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. ...
|  | Brush of Angel's Wings (A Heaven On Earth Novel)
Publication Date: April 10, 2012| Series: A Heaven On Earth Novel He doesn’t plan to stay Amish. She doesn’t have a plan. Then an angel draws their hearts toward God . . . and each other. A buggy-racing champion, a hardworking field-hand, and a terrible cook, Rachel Hartzler does not fit her Amish community’s standards for an eligible bride. Hurt by their rejection and still grieving the loss of her brother, Rachel is ready for change.She’s not, however, ready for Jordan Engles. Rachel’s father hired him to help tend the fields so Rachel can learn to cook...
|  | Hallelujah: The Poetry of Classic Hymns
Release Date: September 1, 2005By setting their doubts, hopes, and gratitude to song, the authors of classic hymns have comforted and guided people for centuries. From soulful spirituals pleading for release to heartfelt hymns of praise, HALLELUJAH pairs the poetry of our language's most beautiful and moving hymns with stunning artwork inspired by their words. From standards such as "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, ""Go Down, Moses, "and "Simple Gifts, "to less famous but equally lovely treasures, this selection spans centuries of hymns, spirituals, and carols from most Christian denominat...
|  | Dakota Dawn
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Dakota ''Soldahl! Next stop, Soldahl!'' When Nora Johanson heard the conductor's words, her heart began to race. At last she would be in the arms of the man she had promised to marry - Hans Larson. At fifteen she was so sure of their love. Now, three years later and far from the mountains and fjords of her beloved homeland, Norway, she wondered. . . .She stepped off the train, found her trunk full of quilts, hand-embroidered linens, and household treasures painted with rosemaling designs, and looked anxiously for Hans. The pelting March snow stung...
|  | Dreams Deferred
Publication Date: September 5, 2012A story of strength through chasing our dreams and dealing with a series of death, Darren Wright is a young Black man trying to get his life together. Recently out of prison for selling drugs, he is fighting to find employment and not be tempted to return to the lifestyle that got him in trouble. A Blessing helps him out of one situation and into a world he only dreamed of as an artist. Darren realizes the circle of life is helping others as he has been helped. Dreams Deferred captures moments of self-doubt and self-realization while this young man finds hi...
|  | The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mystery
Release Date: January 1, 2007Bewildered patients…Missing narcotics….Dying colleagues…...And a shocking family secret.Just another day at the office for Dr. Nora Sternberg.When her great aunt, a retired nurse, dies unexpectedly after routine surgery, Dr. Nora Sternberg turns sleuth. Amid a brewing scandal over missing narcotics, she uncovers a sinister plot involving retired doctors and nurses—and a secret that will change her family forever.As Nora collects her clues, we meet the Sternbergs, Nora’s “stoic” (i.e. repressed) family; her colleagu...
|  | Marilyn's Last Sessions: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2012At 4:25 am on August 5, 1962, the LAPD received a phone call. Marilyn Monroe was dead from an overdose-an apparent suicide. Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychoanalyst, friend, and confessor, was the last person to see her alive and the first to find her dead.This acclaimed novel brilliantly recreates Marilyn's final years through her sessions on Dr. Greenson's couch. The doctor's intimate relationship with the world's most famous and elusive actress reveals her glamorous Hollywood life, surrounded by the likes of Arthur Miller, Truman Capote, and John Huston.A rema...
|  | Leadership Presence
Release Date: October 14, 2004BRING THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STAGE TO THE BOARDROOM. For more than a decade, Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to the work of their company, The Ariel Group. Halpern and Lubar have helped tens of thousands of executives at major companies around the country and the globe, including General Electric, Mobil Oil, Capital One, and Deloitte. In Leadership Presence, they make their time-tested strategies available to everyone, from high-profile CEOs to young professionals seeking promotion...
|  | Humanist Tragedies (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: February 15, 2011| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 45) Humanist Tragedies, like its companion volume Humanist Comedies (ITRL 19), contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume—Albertino Mussato’s Ecerinis (1314), Antonio Loschi’s Achilleis (ca. 1387), Gregorio Corraro’s Progne (ca. 1429), Leonardo Dati’s Hyempsal (ca. 1442), and Marcellino Verardi’s Fernandus servatus (1493)—were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medie...
|  | A Century of Yiddish Poetry
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|  | This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS)
Publication Date: December 4, 1997| ISBN-10: 019289286X | ISBN-13: 978-0192892867| Edition: 2 The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of wome...
|  | Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918
Publication Date: March 26, 1963The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million copies in 21 impressions, a second edition appeared in 1939, extending the book by a hundred pages and increasing the representation of the early part of the twentieth century. Concentrating for the most part on lyrical poetry, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch sought to ra...
|  | Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Series: Southern Quilting Mystery (Book 1) No Description Available --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | White Heat: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (Edie Kiglatuk Mysteries)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Edie Kiglatuk Mysteries Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, White Heat is the first book in a gripping new mystery series with "an Arctic setting so real it’ll give you frostbite" (Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder)Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from her community's Council of Elders. While Edie is leading two tourists on a hunting expedition, one of them is shot and killed. The Council wants to call it an accident,...
|  | Rapunzel's Revenge
Release Date: August 5, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother.Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked over into the mines and desert beyond.Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale...
|  | The Smurfs #3: The Smurf King
Release Date: November 23, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Ocean of Blood (Saga of Larten Crepsley)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011 ...
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