 | Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 19, 2007| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwh...
 |  | The Poems of St. John of the Cross: (Dual English/Spanish)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0151003270 | ISBN-13: 978-0151003273| Edition: 1 St. John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes in 1542, in a small village in Spain.In his youth he met the Carmelite nun Teresa of Avila, and joined her monastic reform movement.He dedicated the rest of his life to founding and administering monasteries and to works of charity.His writing, which began in prison when he was held captive by monks hostile to the reform movement, earned him the reputation as the greatest poet in the Christian mystical tradition, and led to his canonization.In poems of a...
|  | The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Release Date: March 6, 2012Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporaryagency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis-rich, handsome,scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts- has been summoned toinvestigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who ishaunting the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men inlife, it is Sarah's task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught upin a deperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is real, she's angry, and she haspowers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Alistair's assistant, the r...
|  | In the Misty Moonlight
Publication Date: March 12, 2001Vampires and bikers in Atlanta Ga in 1985? Sure. In the Misty Moonlightis a book of intrigue. It has several murders with no blood in the bodies. Violent death, no clues, confused cops, biker fights, motorcycle gangs, all lend a hand to give this novel a feel. A string of violent deaths give the police a headache. A brother and sister team of vampires. She finds a lost love reincarnated in the present and pursues it. How many victims must die before the police can capture the vampires? Can they? ...
|  | Bleeding Kansas
Publication Date: January 1, 2008Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants.Today, the Schapen family, terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s-when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation-has turned to that old- time religion for security. The Schapens keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers. They maintain careful track of everyone's mi...
|  | A Book of Liszts: Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt (Seagull Books - Seagull World Literature)
Publication Date: June 15, 2011| Series: Seagull Books - Seagull World Literature The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811–86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist—whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople—made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt’s own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers’ work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of...
|  | Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
Publication Date: May 1, 1992According to their own mythology, the Hopis emerged into the present world through an opening in the earth, or sipapu. Archaeological evidence indicates that at the very least they are direct descendants of the earliest Southwest peoples.Long considered an ethnographic classic, Old Oraibi is as detailed a picture of Hopi religion as can be shown by an outsider. First published in 1944, it sensitively considers kinship, social organization, ceremonialism, and other lifeways of one of the most fascinating American Indian cultures, both before and after the 1906 sch...
|  | Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: May 17, 2011| Series: Oberon Modern Plays Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian explores human nature and friendship alongside the social climate of modern Britain giving a warm, funny and wise glimpse into the way we live now. ...
|  | Bengal the Beautiful
Publication Date: August 1, 2006In these poems infused with a scent of unrequited love, the great Bengali poet Jibanananda Das captured his country's soul through evocations of village life and natural beauty. Written in 1934, the sixty-two sonnets - discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das wrote them - achieved instant popularity on their posthumous publication in 1957, becoming a totemic symbol of freedom in Bangladesh's 1971 War of Independence. This is the first English version of the complete collection, which was given its title Rupasi Bangla' by the poet's...
|  | Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians
Publication Date: November 25, 1994This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (CUP, 1991) offers a wide-ranging and attactively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief and language in the face of death. ...
|  | From cubism to surrealism in French literature
Publication Date: 1947A comprehensive survey and discussion of the main "modernistic" tendencies of contemporary art and literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
Release Date: April 10, 2007In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to...
|  | Dear Megan: Letters on Life, Love and Fragile X (Capital Cares)
Release Date: July 25, 2006| Series: Capital Cares Mary Beth Busby and Megan Massey have something in common--they are both mothers of two sons with Fragile X syndrome (the most common form of inherited mental retardation and the most common cause of autism). When Mary Beth Busby's sons, Robert and Jack, were born in 1964 and 1965, Fragile X had not even been identified as a genetic abnormality. By the time Megan Massey's sons Jack and Jacob were born in 1989 and 1991, a few researchers had identified it, but few pediatricians knew it existed. Today it is known that Fragile X affects 1 in 40...
|  | Light's Out (Indigo)
Release Date: September 1, 2011| Series: Indigo Piper Renee Knight was sole proprietor of two coffee shops located in Austin, Texas. Lights Out Coffee began two and a half years ago as a joint venture with her father, Macarthur “Lights Out” Knight, former boxing great turned business- man. Joe and Piper meet during Joe’s second visit to her shop and exchange coffee and banter. They both agree to take their attraction further. But before they can start, Piper’s father asks her to look after his two younger daughters, her half-sisters. His third wife has left him.Pi...
|  | The Case of the Lucky Loser
Release Date: January 14, 1990The voice on the phone was young and silky. The woman it belonged to touched something soft in Perry Mason's cool, legalistic mind. The offer she made was too intriguing to pass up. But what began as a request for a simple courtroom visit turned into an intrigue of baffling complexity -- as well as one of the most cleverly rigged frame-ups of Perry's career.Its a case of a family blessed with millions and, riddled with scandal, a case of accidental manslaughter that explodes into a charge of airtight murder, a case of a corpse dying not once, but twice. To save ...
|  | Detecting Men Pocket Guide: Checklist Only
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|  | Hockey Animals (My First NHL Book)
Release Date: November 18, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze!
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: Pre K and up It’s autumn, and Big Bear thinks that his sneezes are causing the leaves and the apples to fall from the trees and the geese to fly away... until the wind convinces him otherwise. Cozy illustrations rendered in pencil and mixed media add warmth and humor to a story that children will love. ...
|  | El almohadon de plumas y otros cuentos (Serie Roja Alfaguara) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Casting
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