 | Home Fires
Release Date: January 18, 2011Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person—while ...
 |  | The Hive: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 1990In this extraordinary novel of life in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War, Camilo Jose Cela conveys with startling immediacy not only the brutality but also the vitality of life in the city. His style—economical but vivid—carries the reader through a series of vignettes, following Cela’s many characters through the streets and tenements and brothels and, above all, the cafés of the great beehive—la colmena—of Madrid. Both a social document of its time and place and a moving tale of human suffering—and human trium...
|  | Scandalmonger (Harvest Book)
Publication Date: June 7, 2001| Series: Harvest Book The bestselling historical novel that exposes the less than honorable side of our Founding Fathers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.In this gripping and timely work, William Safire unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by t...
|  | The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head (Volume 1)
Publication Date: March 9, 2012An apocalyptic alien invasion set humanity on the edge of extermination. Unable to match technology with the invaders, humanity bet their existence on their physical strength overcoming. In a desperate last stand by the world’s greatest scientists, the cataclysm electromagnetic pulse wiped out all technology on the planet, stranding the aliens on earth, effectively locking them in the cage with the beasts of humanity that remained. Using pre-industrial weapons of war, the surviving humans fought back… Six years later, Gieo, the self-proclaimed las...
|  | Convoy of Death
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Can the special relationship take the strain? Autumn '42, and the special relationship created by Churchill and President Roosevelt has been in existence for six months. Now FDR wants action namely the invasion of France, to take the pressure off embattled Russia. Churchill thinks it will be a disaster for the British Army, which will field most of the invasion force. He suggests sending an all-American convoy to Russia bearing arms and the like to support the hard-pressed Soviet Union. But the plan has already been betrayed to the Germans. Should Churchill go ah...
|  | Lone Man Out: More Tales by Louis L'Amour
Publication Date: June 1, 2012[Read by: Tom Weiner, Stefan Rudnicki, and William Dufris] No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here are eight stories by America's favorite Western author, with texts restored to the state of their initial publication in magazines. In ''The Lion Hunter and the Lady,'' Cat Morgan is about to bag a live mountain lion with the help of old Long John Williams when they are interrupted by a lynch posse. They accuse Cat and Long John of stealing horse...
|  | Luminous Airplanes: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2011A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died, and that he has to return to Thebes, a town which is so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, in order to clean out the house where his family lived for five generations. While he’s there, he runs into Yesi...
|  | Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus (Myths, The)
Publication Date: August 10, 2008| Series: Myths, The In the latest retelling of the world’s greatest stories in the Myth series from Canongate, the highly regarded novelist Salley Vickers brings to life the Western world’s most widely known myth, Oedipus, through a shrewdly told exploration of the seminal story in conversation between Freud and Tiresias.It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die fift...
|  | Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Vol. II
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Great Translations for Actors Series Aeschylean tragedy represents the earliest extant Greek tragedy of the late-6th and 5th centuries B.C.E., as well as being one of the pinnacles of the art form. It is the product of an Athens that in the late 6th century devised and implemented a form of government known as democracy; not of a parliamentary or representative sort, but a direct democracy, one in which the Athenian citizen governed himself, which is what democracy means: rule by the people. Along with this gift to civilzation came trial by jury, and f...
|  | Conduite Und Text: Paradigmen Eines Galanten Literaturmodells Im Werk Von Christian Friedrich Hunold (Menantes) (Fruhe Neuzeit/ Studien Und Dokumente ... Im Europaischen Kontext) (German Edition)
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|  | Frank Kafka and Literary Modernism
Publication Date: October 18, 2011Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the best writers of modernism. He was a neo-romanticist, expressionist and surrealist. The existentialists considered him as their writer of atheism, dread, angst and alienation. The parishioners of the Theatre of the Absurd spoke of him as a writer who spoke of the purposelessness of life. Of course, Kafka was both and he was more than that. ...
|  | The Civil War: With the anonymous Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars (World's Classics)
Publication Date: December 11, 1997| ISBN-10: 0192831518 | ISBN-13: 978-0192831514The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B...
|  | Lavender Muse: Three Short Stories About Women Who Find True Friends in Former Strangers
Publication Date: May 17, 2011This collection of three short stories centers around the strength of three women and how strangers thought to be true friends helped them. The stories take place shortly before or after the new millennium. The heroines in each story range in age from their early twenties to their early sixties. The stories in this collection are titled, “Red Hats and Satin Sandals”, “Bluebeard and the Heiress”, and “Sea Cabin Sisters.”Ms. Hunt’s books are filled with spark and excitement, with many of her stories centered around ...
|  | Wolf Pack
Release Date: October 12, 2004| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Finalists for the 2005 Aurora Award – Best Long-Form Work in English category.After a devastating forest fire, a ranger discovers a litter of wolf cubs. He and his wife soon learn that they are no ordinary wolves. They are both animal and human. Although the young ones try to fit into the human world, their true nature makes the challenges of being teenagers all the more difficult.When one of the pack is kidnapped, the others must draw on both sides of their nature – human and wolf – to find the...
|  | Super Hero Squad: Dr. Strange Versus the Sentinels (Marvel Super Hero Squad)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | X-Men Pop-Up (Marvel True Believers Retro Character Collection)
Release Date: August 14, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Metallic pop-ups on every spread!Celebrate the select team of mutant teenage heroes known as the X-Men! This second in a series for real Marvel fans features original 1960s comic-book excerpts, leap-out-at-you metallic pop-ups, dramatic action-packed gatefolds, and slide-out fact files on such classic Marvel characters as Professor Xavier, Cyclops, Magneto, Storm, Nightcrawler, Banshee, and Colossus. Kwa-thoom! ...
|  | What Do You Hear When Cows Sing?: And Other Silly Riddles (I Can Read Book 1)
Release Date: January 3, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: September 19, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Greedy Fox and Mother Duck
Publication Date: July 31, 2008One fine sunny day, a greedy fox was roaming the woods when he spotted a duck with her eight ducklings swimming in a river. The fox thought to himself, "These ducklings look good to eat. I will wait and snatch one of them!" And so begins the The Greedy Fox and Mother Duck. Teach your children the importance of many life lessons by buying this book! ...
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