 | Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
Release Date: January 10, 2013| Series: Library of America In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it was with the story collection Winesburg, Ohio that he found his ideal form, remaking the American short story for the modern era. Hart Crane, one of the first to recognize Anderson’s genius, quickly hailed his ...
 |  | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations ofreaders with its unforgettable cast of characters,carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertainingview of the world and its absurdities.With the arrivalof eligible young men in their neighborhood, the livesof Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters areturned inside out and upside down. Pride encountersprejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, andquick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, buteven...
|  | The Art of Finding Nemo
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Awardwinning creators of Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, and Monsters, Inc., are bringing a new animated movie, Finding Nemo, to the screen this summer. This visually stunning underwater adventure follows eventful and comic journeys of two fish-a father and his son Nemo-who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef. The underwater world for the film was conceptualized and developed by the creative team of artists, illustrators, and designers at Pixar, resulting in a lush landscape rich with detail. The Art of Finding N...
|  | Daring to Speak Love's Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book
Release Date: June 1, 1993Both a handbook for gay and lesbian Christians looking for words and liturgies to express their own experience of life - from coming out to dealing with AIDS - this book is also offered to the clergy wishing to minister more fully to the needs of its congregation. It is a challenging book which combines practical help with inspirational psalms and prayers. ...
|  | Redemption Road
Publication Date: November 21, 2011Redemption Road is an intense, expertly crafted end-of-times thriller of biblical proportions.Fast-paced and emotion-filled, this action-packed thrill-ride takes readers through the early days of the events depicted in the book of Revelation.The body of Jacques Denerovic, charismatic Chairman of the World Economic Association, lies in state in the famed Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome, just paces away from the Vatican. The non-Christian world mourns the loss of their beloved leader who died as a victim of an assassin's attack.To the unchurched, Denerovic was ha...
|  | Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space (Bailey City Monsters Super Special, 4)
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|  | The Freud Scenario
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|  | Late Imperial Romance
Publication Date: July 17, 1994As the US imperium lurches towards its economic twilight, comparisons with the fate of the British Empire have become increasingly commonplace.Surpassed as the world's most vigorous capitalist manufacturer by Japan and Germany, the US now seems bound for the same rocky shores as those on which Britannia foundered at the end of the nineteenth century.John McClure charts the course of decline, first in the works of Joseph Conrad, chronicler of high imperialism's contradictions, then in the post-war fictions of Joan Didion, Robert Stone and Thomas Pynchon. He maps...
|  | El modernismo: Apuntes de curso, 1953 (Biblioteca filologica hispana) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Roving Mind
Publication Date: December 1997Isaac Asimov's death on 6 April 1992, was a great loss to the world of literary science and free thought. The prolific author's vision is unmatched today, and his pointed honesty shines through in "The Roving Mind", now reissued in this special tribute edition. This collection of essays is wide-ranging, reflecting Asimov's extraordinary skill in disseminating knowledge from across the spectrum of human thought. Some of the areas explored in this volume of 62 essays include creationism, pseudoscience, censorship, population, philosophy of science, transportation...
|  | The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Publication Date: January 1, 2000There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it. Uses of the Erotic shines among Audre Lorde's powerful legacy of speeches and essays, and has influenced feminist thinking for more than 15 years. The false dichotomies that Lorde debunks persist in our cultural imagination: the separation of the erotic from the spiritual and political. Now, Kore ...
|  | The Shadows in the Street: A Chief Superintendent Simon Serailler Mystery (Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries)
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|  | Sinister Spiders of Saginaw (Michigan Chillers)
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|  | Dark Encounters (Star Wars: A Long Time Ago..., Book 2)
Publication Date: July 10, 2002 ...
|  | Alphabet Rescue
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Bestselling writer Audrey Wood and her artist son Bruce Wood team up to present an alphabet book in this popular series.Now the little letters build a fire truck and save the day!Engaging alphabet books are perennial bestsellers with unlimited demand, and so are books about fire trucks. This splendid book is a surefire winner! As in their previous collaborations, the Woods bring lowercase letters to life in a fun adventure that is sure to have children learning their alphabet without even realizing they are stud...
|  | Strega Nona: An Original Tale
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|  | Junior Seau: High Voltage Linebacker
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Profiles the personal life and football career of the hard-working linebacker for the San Diego Chargers who helped his team get to Super Bowl XXIX. ...
|  | Soccer Skills (How to Play Like a Pro)
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|  | Jesse Owens (A & E Biography)
Publication Date: April 1999| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | Beastly Rhymes to Read After Dark
Release Date: August 12, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up DANGER! WARNING! KIDS beware! Bound in the bilious green-spotted fur (100% fake) of an unidentified weird beast, here is a book that kids will love—quite literally—from cover to cover. In the macabre spirit of the Halloween season, funny rhymes range from “Parasite Lost” to “Leap Halloween,” and are illustrated with gruesome graphics. Elementary school kids will want to be the first to own this outrageous fur-clad book, but librarians may prefer the standard library bound edit...
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