 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: February 21, 2012| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head.But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge--against the man who tried to killer her and against the corrupt go...
 |  | Oulipo Compendium
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Poetry. Make Now Press of Los Angeles and Atlas Press of London have released a revised and updated edition of The OULIPO COMPENDIUM in a limited edition print run of 1,000 copies to be released from Los Angeles and 1,000 copies to be released from London. THE OULIPO COMPENDIUM is a dictionary of mathematical constraints used in the composition of literature. The Oulipo's foremost concern has been to devise formal constraints and compose a few examples of each for the express purpose of pointing to the potential these formalisms create. Oulipian constraints ...
|  | In a Dark Dark House: A Play
Release Date: March 4, 2008Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined for observation and has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man from many summers ago. Drew's request releases barely-hidden animosities between the two: Is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend? Through pain and acknowledged betrayal, the brothers come to grips with and begin to understand the legacy of abuse, both inside and outside their family home...
|  | French and Indian War
Release Date: April 4, 2003A comprehensive overview of the French and Indian War, including biographies and full or excerpted memoirs, speeches, and other source documents. ...
|  | The Sacrifice (Abram's Daughters #3)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004Beautifully Repackaged: The Betrayal and The SacrificeIn The Betrayal, Leah Ebersol and her beloved Jonas Mast are separated by hundreds of miles when he accepts an apprenticeship in Ohio. They are confident their love is strong enough to survive, but more than time and distance are conspiring to keep them apart.In The Sacrifice, Leah Ebersol has no choice but to believe the worst: Her older sister, Sadie--and Leah's own beloved Jonas--have betrayed her. Now, two years later, Leah still misses them both, though loyal neighbor Gid continues to bide his time. But w...
|  | Love's Unending Legacy (Love Comes Softly Series #5)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004Book 5 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to Clark's crutch, and Clark and Marty recognize their children's new maturity and independence. But Nandry seems unable to come to terms with Clark's handicap; is she blaming God for the accident? The "baby of the family" is going to be a doctor. Ellie ha...
|  | Process: A NOVEL
Publication Date: May 1, 2001"Process" is the first novel written by Kay Boyle, one of the most enduring writers of modernist American literature. Written in 1924 and 1925, when Boyle was a young American living in France, "Process" was circulating among potential publishers when the manuscript disappeared. Three-quarters of a century later, Sandra Spanier, preeminent authority on Boyle, discovered a carbon copy of it while preparing an edition of Boyle's letters. Set off by Spanier's substantial introduction, it is published here for the first time. "Process" is a classic Bildungsroman and ...
|  | Rainbow Boys
Release Date: May 1, 2003Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys.Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents.Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends.Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolera...
|  | The Gunsmith #352: Unbound by Law (Gunsmith, The)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Gunsmith, The (Book 352) Clint Adams's investigation into the deaths of over a dozen people brings him to the attention of those responsible for the massacre- people who have no qualms about putting the Gunsmith at the top of their hit list. ...
|  | Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque
Publication Date: July 25, 2005On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, on...
|  | Sound That Remains: Historical Collection of Frisian Poetry (Holderrige)
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|  | The Early Seventeenth Century 1600-1660: Jonson, Donne, and Milton (Oxford History of English Literature (New Version))
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 0198122330 | ISBN-13: 978-0198122333| Edition: 2 Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature", this volume covers the first 60 years of the 17th century. The literature it examines ranges from poetry, prose and heroic verse to religious and scientific treatise. ...
|  | Herodotus Book I (Greek Commentaries Series; Book 1) (Bk. 1)
Publication Date: June 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0929524136 | ISBN-13: 978-0929524139Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. The volumes in the seri...
|  | Holy Grail: The Galahad Quest in the Arthurian Literature
Publication Date: February 24, 1993The Holy Grail is central to the Arthurian literature.The lighthearted journeys for women and adventure build up to the journeys of the soul.It becomes clear that these earlier journeys were also not really what they seemed to be, not really journeys on horseback and clothed in armor, but journeys of the spirit.Contents: The Holy Vessel and its Literature; Holy Grail in its Manifestation and Removal; The Conte Del Graal; Cycle of Robert De Borron; Vulgate Cycle of the Holy Grail; Other and Later Texts of the Grail Legend; German Cycle of the Holy Grail; Wel...
|  | Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii
Publication Date: July 1, 1975"I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in Twain's efforts when he finally did put pen to paper. ...
|  | The Monk (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 5, 2002| Series: Oxford World's Classics (Book 22) One of the most extravagantly dark works of Gothic fiction ever written in English, admired by the likes of Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade, The Monk drew a firestorm of criticism when it was published in 1796. Contemporaries condemned it as "lewd," "libidinous and impious." "Lust, murder, incest, and every atrocity that can disgrace human nature," one critic cried, "brought together, without the apology of probability, or even possibility." Of course, it was an immediate best seller.Written by Matthew Lewis at...
|  | The Necklace Affair: and Other Stories
Publication Date: October 22, 2011An anthology of shorter works from the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series.The Necklace Affair: Captain Gabriel Lacey agrees to track down the necklace of a society matron and prove the innocence of her maid, who has been arrested for its theft. The investigation reveals scandal and past secrets, and Lacey finds himself competing with the underworld criminal, James Denis, for the necklace's retrieval.The Gentleman's Walking Stick: Captain Lacey untangles a web of deceit involving an old army friend, his only clue being a missing walking stick.The Disappea...
|  | Classic Fairy Tales: Candlewick Illustrated Classic
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Dragon Tales (Naxos Junior Classics)
Publication Date: February 3, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Carly's Dragon Days
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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