 | Salvation
Publication Date: May 28, 2008From the prize-winning author Lucia Nevai comes the smart, poignant, and richly imagined novel Salvation, the coming of age story of Crane Cavanaugh.Born into a family of three former charlatan preachers and two older siblings living in poverty in rural Iowa, Crane is a budding scientist with a rich awareness of the natural world and her own precarious spot in it.Crane narrates her life from the moment of birth through disfiguration in the womb to well-deserved elevation in the halls of academe. Separated from the sister and brother who tried to protect her in i...
 |  | Rock Me
Publication Date: April 5, 2011Loving him couldn’t be worse than losing him. Could it? Candace Andrews has had enough of pleasing others. In an act of birthday rebellion, she sets out to please herself—by walking into the tattoo parlor owned by her cousin’s ex-boyfriend. All she wants is a little ink, and Brian’s just the guy to give it to her. As soon as she submits to his masterful hands, though, the forbidden attraction she’s always felt for him resurfaces…and she realizes the devilishly sexy artist could give her so much more. Sweet, in...
|  | Singing Bird: A Novel
Release Date: November 30, 2004Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to tie up loose ends in her old age, but Lena becomes frightened that something more threatening lies behind the call, and she sets off on a journey to Ireland, with her best friend, to find her daughter's birth parents - little knowing the extraordinary truths which she will uncover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Love on the Line
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world ... which makes it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder.Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman is the last thing he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgie in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line. ...
|  | The Hawk and the Jewel (Kensington Chronicles, Book 1)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004The first in the newly repackaged Kensington Chroniclesseries, The Hawk and the Jewel sweeps readers from the tapestried halls of Victorian England to the alabastercourts of Arabia.Everyone thought little Sunny had perished with LadyGallagher in storm-tossed seas off the Arabian coast, but the beautiful toddlerhad been found, taken to the palace of Darhabar,and raised as the ruler's own child. Now the emir, Ahmad Khan, is sending herhome, and Sunny's uncertain, new life is completelyin God's hands.This classic series, which has sold more than 375,000cop...
|  | Exposure: A Novel
Release Date: April 4, 2009When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she's a little crazy. Kaycee's popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee's mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and ps...
|  | The Blood of Cain
Publication Date: October 20, 2009Teagan Dacre loves fast cars, loud music and beautiful women, however he carries a secret that keeps him isolated from the general population; he has strange silver eyes, heals really fast and hasn't aged in over a hundred years. The darkest secret of all - he has a blood thirst that must be satisfied by each new moon. Believing himself unique, Teagan's world gets turned upside down when he meets an unruly family of immortals seeking their father and maker, none other than the world's first murderer, Cain. Everything Teagan thought he knew about himself is t...
|  | Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation (English and Italian Edition)
Release Date: March 28, 2000At the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio. Led by Virgil, inspired by his love for Beatrice, Dante makes the arduous journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed to prepare them for the ultimate ascent to heaven. Presented with the original Italian text, and with Merwin's notes and commentary, this luminous new interpretation of Dante's great poem of sin, repentance, and salvation is a profound...
|  | Poesia Hispanoamericana Colonial - Historia y Antologia - (Coleccion Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1992La poes...
|  | Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century
Publication Date: February 1, 1998Joseph Brodsky's life was epic in scope. From imprisonment in the Soviet Union and subsequent flight to the West to a new beginning in the United States and international fame -- culminating in a Nobel Prize -- Brodsky is one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time. Ironically, he was also a humble and quiet man, given to intense reflection, self-deprecation, and wry humor.Cultural critic Solomon Volkov interviewed Brodsky over a period of 15 years and has created a portrait of him using the best and most representative of their conversations. W...
|  | Shi yu mei (Xin ren wen lun cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Art of the Poetic Line
Release Date: December 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 1555974880 | ISBN-13: 978-1555974886The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. "Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens this provocative...
|  | Critical Essays on Constance F. Woolson: C. Fenimore Woolson (Critical Essays on American Literature)
Release Date: June 15, 1992| Series: Critical Essays on American Literature A 175 page book that presents 12 articles and essays plus an Index. ...
|  | Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: July 10, 1997| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture Bookend challenges distinctions between prose and poetry as well as between popular and academic culture, embodying a wide array of poetic techniques to argue that form and structure are themselves essential to artistic and cultural meaning. It critiques the current media environs, a hybrid reality in which the individual encounters his or her public and private selves in the midst of a crisis of values. Each of the five anatomies represents both a personal and a local account of where the author finds himself in s...
|  | Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text
Publication Date: August 15, 1997Hardly the quiet conservator of the Victorian status quo she is often thought to be, Elizabeth Gaskell gravitated toward some of the most daunting subjects - prostitution, industrial conflict, evolutionary theory - that a nineteenth century woman writer could represent in her fiction. In Dissembling Fictions, Deirdre d' Albertis uncovers the tactics of disguise which Gaskell skilfully employed in order to evade the prescribed notions of what a woman writer should be. D'Albertis unveils the complex patterns existent in Gaskell's works, and examines her use of ...
|  | The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (October Books)
Publication Date: September 3, 2010| Series: October Books The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade--Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. ...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Victorian Mystery The evidence was all there: a dead body, two dessert plates, and a gun. As if poor Mr. Ashbury had been sharing cake with his own killer! Now, Mrs. Jeffries and her staff must do some snooping around. They're more than happy to help dish up some clues... ...
|  | Key Concepts in Crime Fiction (Palgrave Key Concepts: Literature)
Release Date: October 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230551254 | ISBN-13: 978-0230551251An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format....
|  | Beowulf
Publication Date: August 6, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking . . .Thus begins the battle between good and evil, for lying in wait and anxious to challenge the ogre Grendel is a young man, strong-willed and fire-hearted. This man is Beowulf, whose heroic dragon-slaying deeds were sung in the courts of Anglo-Saxon England more than a thousand years ago.Award-winning author and illustrator James Rumford forges his own account of Beowulf with the few Anglo-Saxon words still...
|  | Let's Find Treasure (Bear in the Big Blue House (Board Books Simon & Shuster))
Publication Date: February 1, 2001 ...
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