 | Bartleby and Benito Cereno
Publication Date: July 1, 1990Two memorable and stirring works in one volume. "Bartleby," (also called "Bartleby the Scrivener") is a haunting moral allegory set in the business world of 19th-century New York. "Benito Cereno," a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship, is regarded by many as Melville's finest short story. ...
 |  | Abe Gilman's Ending
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Recently widowed, confined to a wheelchair, and placed in an elderly-care facility, Abe Gilman wants no part in any of the activities of the other residents, preferring to live out his life in cynical near-isolation.But among those activities is a collective oral history project that two of the members, Samuel Hersh and Hannah Cohen, are attempting to turn into a book.The two of them fall in love while writing the intriguing story-within-a-story about the young man Elie Wasserman, whose father has disappeared during WWII.Is he alive or dead? Is he a hero or s...
|  | Strands of the Cable (Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers)
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|  | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Movie Storybook (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up An ordinary game of hide-and-seek leads to the discovery of a lifetime! Before they know it, Lucy Pevensie and her siblings have traveled through a dusty old wardrobe and entered the magical land of Narnia. Once in Narnia, the real adventure begins as Peter, Susan and Lucy race to save their brother Edmund from the White Witch, the evil Queen. With help from the kind creatures of Narnia, the Pevensies seek out Aslan, the mysterious Great Lion, who is their only hope in the struggle against the White Witch. With this ...
|  | Lucifer, Book 11: Evensong
Release Date: January 24, 2007From the pages of Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN comes the story of Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell who is unexpectedly called back into action after he receives a mission from Heaven. In this final volume, the war is over and a new order is rising from the ashes. His own fate now decided, Lucifer begins to settle his affairs -- only to discover that he still has one deadly enemy unaccounted for. ...
|  | The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising: A German Tragedy (Harvest Book)
Publication Date: November 23, 1966| Series: Harvest Book A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. ...
|  | Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actos: East End Tales; The Odyssey; The Playground; Stuff I Buried in a Small Town; Sweetpeter; Wan2tlk? (Play Anthologies)
Publication Date: June 23, 2008| ISBN-10: 1408106736 | ISBN-13: 978-1408106730Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance.Varying in style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the mythological world of The Odyssey to a dramatisation of two hundred years of slavery that will take the audience on a journe...
|  | A Glimpse of Red : The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku
Publication Date: February 1, 2001The fifth volume of the annual collection of the best writing in the haiku world from around the world compiled into a single volume. Includes haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, articles and essays about the world’s shortest form of poetry. ...
|  | Songs of Enlightenment
Publication Date: August 1, 2002This book contains selected poems of enlightenment, give from and voice through the personal experiences of Dr. Lee. Ilchi Lee's beautiful words are both inspirational in their power to stir the soul, as well as straight forward in their message or truth. A CD contains 15 poems read by Tony Carito & Laurie Burke with Arang Pakr's music is available. ...
|  | Parts of Speech
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0702236152 | ISBN-13: 978-0702236150A sure-footed collection that won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2006, these poems are invigorated by compelling investigations of memory and politics. Sharing an emphasis on science and other realms of knowledge that poetry often avoids, individual poems take a variety of forms but offer intimate and lucid reflections on family life, nature, art, technology, and the imagination. ...
|  | Vanishing Point (UQP Poetry Series)
Publication Date: May 14, 2010| Series: UQP Poetry Series A surreal vision of creativity and mourning opens this collection of original poetry, returning to such human themes as desire, memory, and dreams. Exhibiting a dynamic range, the author traces the currents of eroticism and imagination, while charting the skeleton of feeling and the blood of beginnings. Using her voice as a guide through light and dark, chaos and order, the poise and passion of the pieces are striking, as they counterbalance a lyrical grace with a wild formalism. ...
|  | The Scarlet Letter (SparkNotes)
Publication Date: January 10, 2002"Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception "SparkNotes(TM) has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. "SparkNotes'(TM) motto is "Smarter, Better, Faster because: - They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.- They're easier to understand, because the same people who use them have...
|  | The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Vol. 2: From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century
Publication Date: December 2002| ISBN-10: 0814330231 | ISBN-13: 978-0814330234The second of a three-volume comprehensive anthology of Armenian literature in English translation, this work covers the medieval period. ...
|  | Never Seduce a Scoundrel (The School for Heiresses, Book 1)
Release Date: February 28, 2006Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries's enticing new series introduces the spirited graduates of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies -- unconventional heiresses who are more than matches for society's most irresistible rogues...."Be careful, Amelia -- you know how reckless you can be!"-- Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistressLady Amelia Plume has many admirers -- it's too bad they're all fortune hunters and fops who can't provide the exotic adventures she seeks. But the ballrooms of Mayfair have become much more appealing since the arrival of Major Lucas...
|  | Enchanting Kittens (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: August 1, 1999| Series: Zebra Regency Romance Product DetailsMass Market Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Zebra (August 1, 1999) Language: English ...
|  | In a Country of Mothers
Release Date: April 5, 1994No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient—unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter.This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationships blurs.Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of career and love on her mind.But Claire Roth, her therapist, keeps changing the focus of their sessions to Jody's parentage—Jody was adopted; Claire gave up a baby for adoption who would now be exactly Jody's age.As the two women become increasingly involv...
|  | Fedora
Publication Date: July 2001| Series: Alan Rodgers Books This ain’t your Mama’s anthology and these tales ain’t for the faint-hearted. These are raw, gritty stories exploring the dark abyss of men’s souls.With the sound of gunfire ringing in their ears and the stench of blood on their clothes, these private eyes and tough guys face their darkest fears and most cunning adversaries.Here are tales of love and hate, sex and power, crime and punishment, fear and retribution — tales that grab you by the throat, slam you against the wall, then drag you back for more.Here are...
|  | Catch as Cat Can
Release Date: February 26, 2002Never have two species co-created a work of such suspense and humorous catitude as the wildly popular mystery series by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. This time out, that agile-witted tiger puss Mrs. Murphy makes the round of parties where Virginia’s Very Best People mingle with some of the worst. Together, she and her human must unravel a veritable cat’s cradle of ambition, greed, and murder at the center of which waits a killer with the most tangled of motives.CATCH AS A CAT CANSpring has come to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and spring fever ...
|  | Poisonous Pythons Paralyze Pennsylvania (American Chillers)
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|  | Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire
Release Date: April 27, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Jemma Hartman knows that her first summer at beautiful Camp Star Lake is going to be amazing. There will be swimming, sailing, and overnight trips – not to mention her best friend, Tammy, who moved away a year ago. But when Tammy’s cousin, Brooke, decides to come to camp as well, Jemma’s perfect summer starts to crumble. Brooke never laughs at Jemma’s jokes, and she thinks she rules the cabin. She even convinces Tammy to be her sailing partner, sticking Jemma with the camp weirdo. Jemma just...
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