 | Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig
Release Date: July 31, 2012A heartwarming debut introduces readers to the adventures of its overachieving porcine narratorBlending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife, Toby tours the country, wowing circus audiences with his abilities to count, spell, and even read the minds of ladies (but only with their permission, of course). He goes on to study at...
 |  | Belong to Me
Release Date: June 28, 2011 Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly tested by her impeccably dressed, overly judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt—the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she'd find in suburbia. With Lake, another recent arrival, Cornelia shares a love of literature and old movies—as she forms an instant bond with this warm yet elusive woman and her perceptiv...
|  | Rabbit's Foot: A Gift from My Father
Publication Date: February 14, 2011The gift that Joshua Brown receives from his father is a desperately needed understanding that every minute of our lives is precious, but never more so than when we are with the people we love. Magically though, this gift comes to Josh more than twenty-five years after the sudden death of his father. Since that fateful day, Josh has become a successful thirty-six year old executive, but sadly he has also become a man who hasn't let anyone into his heart, not even his wife or children. Then one day, Josh's carefully crafted life takes a surprising twist when...
|  | The Walls of Westernfort
Publication Date: March 1, 2005The Celaeno Series. All Natasha Ionadis wants is to serve the Goddess as a Temple Guard, and she volunteers eagerly for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a band of renegade warriors and imprinters. But, once away from the temple, the issues are no longer so simple and she must revaluate her beliefs, especially in light of her growing attraction for one of the outlaws. Is it too late to work out what she really wants from life? ...
|  | According to Mary Magdalene
Publication Date: March 1, 1999Long ater the death of Christ, the apostles seek out Mary Magdalene. They have come for her memories of Jesus, as she was closest to and most loved by him. Thus begins her story: her childhood and the murder of her parents; her education and service at a brothel; her first love. Mary recounts her intimate experience with Jesus of Nazareth--of meeting this remarkable man, their all-too-human relationship, and his journey toward destiny.Later, when she realizes the apostles are intentionally altering Christ's teachings to suit their own goals, Mary struggles to s...
|  | Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Publication Date: September 1, 1992Griffin—Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you. —Sabine Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness. But she threatens to become embodied, to appear on his doorstep, in fact. So he runs.Griffin & Sabine, the most creative and talked-about bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. With Sabine's Notebook, they begin—along with Griffin—the f...
|  | The Theban Plays of Sophocles (The Yale New Classics Series)
Publication Date: October 27, 2009| Series: The Yale New Classics Series In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of the plays and those encountering them for the first time. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and energy of the dramas, engaging the reader—or audience member—directly with Sophocles’ great texts. Slavitt chooses to present the plays not in narrative sequence but in the order i...
|  | Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History
Publication Date: June 5, 2002Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the art of talking and living among Beijing back alley folk and provides a vivid contrast to the concerns and lives of China's el...
|  | Homer: The Poetry of the Past
Publication Date: June 1992Ford here addresses the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for, focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing."Ford's Homer is an ingenious and subtle inquiry into ancient poetics, innovative in conception, informed but not burdened by exhaustive scholarship, and executed in an accessible and elegant style.It is a mini-masterpiece that both the scholar and the informed general reader will devour with pleasure and profit."--Choice ...
|  | A Different Silence: Selected Poems (Poets' Voices)
Publication Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Poets' Voices Inspired by the immediate and the intimate, Árni Ibsen's poems celebrate the wonders and peculiarities of life.They are lyrical observations infused with philosophical questioning. Yet Árni Ibsen is a deeply humorous poet, whose work is brimming with a "spirited seriousness."His work testifies to the conviction that poetry is a vital necessity.A compact disc featuring a selection of the poems, read by A compact disc featuring a selection of the poems, read by Árni Ibsen in Icelandic and in English accompanies this book....
|  | Broken/Open (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Series: Salt Modern Poets S. These poems are traces and markings through continuous topographies - streets, shores, bodies. They use the soundtracks of modern lives to negotiate difficult harbours and debatable terrains with richness and tenderness in these times which seem broken and open. Many of them are shards, borrowings and reshapings of forms, overheard dialogue and writings and art by others, signs and relics of the concrete world, tensions in a moment. ...
|  | Fir-flower tablets Poems translated from the Chinese
Publication Date: 1921This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We a...
|  | The Canterbury Tales (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: June 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 0764585908 | ISBN-13: 978-0764585906The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.Join Chaucer's band of pilgrims on their journey in CliffsNotes on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's narrators represent a wide spectrum of society with various ranks and occupations. From the distinguished and noble Knight, to the pious a...
|  | The Bikini Diaries
Release Date: February 3, 2009While on business on Florida's gorgeous Emerald Coast, Wendy Carnes spots a woman who unknowingly changes her life. "White Bikini Babe" is the personification of sex, clearly ready for action. Watching her makes Wendy wonder whether, by putting on a sexy bikini and getting a new attitude, she could land a hot beach guy of her own. Armed with a daring bikini and a new attitude--along with the journal in which she records her secret thoughts on the whole adventure--Wendy soon finds herself engaging in a wild and naughty affair with her perfect fantasy man, who pus...
|  | The Cost of Eternity
Publication Date: June 29, 2007For over two hundred years, the cost of eternity for Lorcan MacKenna has been unending loneliness. Territorial creatures of darkness, vampires can't peacefully exist near each other. Human companions age and die, leaving him to face the long nights alone. After the death of his last lover, Lorcan vows to avoid the pain of loss. Until a down-and-out actor finds himself in danger and Lorcan can't resist saving the young man.Kevin St. James never expected to find himself offering sex for money, especially not to men. A desperate need for quick cash, a dark alley, ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Sabina Hall
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|  | Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them! Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure! Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills it takes to make a comic – they j...
|  | Classics Illustrated #12: The Island of Dr. Moreau (Classics Illustrated Graphic Novels)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | I Like Football--For Boys Only
Publication Date: August 22, 2010Are you a boy who likes football? Do you like it a lot? Is it a time you and your dad can get together with something in common? Then this is the book for you! The hero of this book tells a very funny story about what happens when he goes to a football game with his mom and dad, and I’ll bet you might even have a story to tell that is something like his. Written and illustrated by award winning author and poet, attorney and former K-12 teacher, Penelope Dyan, this book is certain to tickle your funny bone! And, after all, everyone has a funny bone! Thi...
|  | Winning Soccer for Girls (Winning Sports for Girls)
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