 | The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century.The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-95), and her later explorations of "the woman of fifty."Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.About the Series...
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 | Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition
Publication Date: October 14, 2005The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic,...
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 | The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories
Publication Date: May 1, 1982The Punishment of the Stingy, first published in 1901, has become a classic of American Indian literature. George Bird Grinnell’s retelling of Indian tales like “The Star Boy,” “The Girl Who Was the Ring,” “The First Medicine Lodge,” and “Nothing Child” retains the humor and mystery of their sources.Featuring the twin themes of generosity and stinginess, this is the only one of Grinnell's collections to embrace narratives from a number of tribes--Blackfoot, Pawnee, Blood, Piegan, and Chinook. Plucky y...
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 | Twelve Months
Release Date: August 14, 2012Don DiMarco has a very good life – a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately felled most, Don now wonders if he has time enough. Time enough to show his wife the romance he didn’t always lavish on her. Time enough to live out his most ambitious fantasies. Time enough to close the circle on some of his most aching unresolved relationships. Summoning an inner strength he barely realized he possess...
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 | The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
Release Date: November 7, 2006| Series: Perennial Fiction Library The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. ...
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 | Fortune's Deadly Descent (Fortune Series)
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Fortune Series Memories of her dire past fade as Celia Hagen enjoys life in Switzerland as a best-sellingauthor, surrounded by an extended family, her beloved Benicio, and their imaginative youngson Benny. But when Benny disappears from a train during an unexpected stop in the FrenchProvencal countryside, Celia suspects her past may not be buried after all. With Benny gone,she quickly realizes her life wasn’t nearly as idyllic as she believed. Infuriated by theunorthodox search efforts of Interpol and the French police, Celia, along with her o...
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 | Poetae Comici Graeci: Menander : Testimonia Et Fragmenta Apud Scriptores Servata (Greek Edition)
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 | Night Out Pb (Acting Edition)
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 | East of the West: A Country in Stories
Release Date: June 5, 2012"Penkov’s teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times A grandson tries to buy Lenin’s corpse on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. Every five years, a boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov’s strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are th...
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 | Archestratus: Fragments from the Life of Luxury
Release Date: June 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 1903018625 | ISBN-13: 978-1903018620| Edition: Revised The big fact about Archestratus is that the fragments that survive constitute the earliest written culinary text to come down to us from the classical world (pedants might argue that the Babylonian and Egyptian materials are earlier but they in no way resemble a book.) This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has long since vanished but these fragments or quotations enshrined in a much ...
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 | The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time
Publication Date: January 2003Words of Love ...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction. Revisit the Classics: "He Is More Than a Hero" by Sappho Sonnet 18 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds") by William Shakespeare "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron Enjoy Old Favorites: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear "When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Housman Make Surprising Discoveries...
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 | Dirfyan Elegy: Hebrew Translation (Hebrew Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010A song to a lost friend. Hebrew translation with the original Greek poems. ...
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 | The Voice Unheard
Publication Date: August 15, 2012Have you ever sat next to someone and wondered, what's his/her story? Gruesome pasts of depression and heartache could be included in his/her story. Has that individual triumphed or are they still dealing with inner demons and uncertainty surrounding the troubles they face. What's funny is that, most people don't think this way. Those that do just aren't brave enough to ask. But what if you did? Are you prepared to experience their journey through their poetic words? Can you bear to visualize and imagine their pain and attempts of survival? You should be warn...
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 | The House of Intellect
Publication Date: March 21, 1978| ISBN-10: 0313200718 | ISBN-13: 978-0313200717The House of Intellect embraces: persons who consciously and methodically employ the mind, the forms and habits governing the activities in which the mind is so employed, and the conditions under which these people and activities exist. ...
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 | (Quinn's Way (Harlequin American Romance, No. 558)
Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Series: Timetwist (Silhouette) Worlds ApartOne wrong turn and twenty-fourth-century explorer Quinn had fallen through a crack in time -- three hundred years the past . . . and straight into the arms of the woman of his dreams. Now he was stranded in another time and entranced by Houston Malloy, the beauty who had taken him in.She had never experienced anything like the sexy stranger who had tumbled into her world. Common sense told Houston he must be lying about who he truly was, yet his eyes, his touch compelled her to believe in something so extraordinar...
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| THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES LONG STORIES
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 | Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader
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 | The Book of the Sword: The Darkest Age
Release Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Iliad and the Odyssey
Publication Date: October 2, 2006"The Iliad" tells the story of the war between Greeks and Trojans; the love between Helena and Paris; Achilles and Hector's deadly combat; and the Trojan Horse. "The Odyssey" depicts the perilous voyage home of the Greek warrior Odysseus; his struggles against the one-eyed Cyclops; the terrible Sirens; the dreadful, six-headed Scylla. These classic Greek stories have been retold with lively text and a dramatic cartoon style, making them accessible and fun for young children. ...
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 | Soccer Reader (Easy Olympic Sports Readers)
Release Date: November 16, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up...
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