 | Rumi and the Savage Mountain
Publication Date: September 12, 2012When the mysterious Messenger arrives bearing magical gifts and the pronouncement that Tayta Siwar--the village holy man and 11-year-old Rumi’s only close friend--will die unless he eats some of Mt. Salcantay’s snowcap, Rumi knows that he and his dog Junior must make the journey. On their way up the mountain, they face dangers that can only be overcome with the Messenger’s gifts. But the greatest danger of all proves to be the ancient spirit of Mt. Salcantay himself. ...
 |  | Necronomicon II: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema (Bk. 2) by Black, Andy published by Creation Books Paperback
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|  | Amuse Bouche (Russell Quant Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Russell Quant Mysteries A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant—cute, gay, and a rookie private detective. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the smudgy streets of Paris, he cajoles and sleuths his way to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. ...
|  | Babyji
Release Date: February 8, 2005Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys.With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charmi...
|  | Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
Publication Date: August 4, 2000In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Re...
|  | Inspector Calls (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1948| Series: Acting Edition An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges pre...
|  | Last Schwartz, The
Publication Date: October 13, 2008| ISBN-10: 0573663505 | ISBN-13: 978-05736635053m, 3f / ComedyThe Schwartz family is on its last legs. Their father's dead and their Catskills home is up for sale. Norma's husband hasn't spoken to her since she turned their 15 year old son in for smoking pot. After five miscarriages it appears Herb's wife won't provide him with an heir. Simon has one foot on the moon. Gene's girlfriend is about to have an abortion. And nobody seems very clear about what it is to be a family anyway.What is it to be a family? Does anybody care any more? Is Judaism all ther...
|  | Theatre of the Ridiculous (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: December 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0801856981 | ISBN-13: 978-0801856983| Edition: Revised & enlarged "What is Ridiculous? Here's one way to describe it: an anarchic undermining of political, sexual, psychological, and cultural categories, frequently in dramatic structures that parody classical literary forms or re-function American popular entertainments, and always allude to themselves as 'performances.'... It is comedy beyond the absurd because it is less intellectual, more earthy, primal, liberated. Not tragi-comedy but metaphysical burlesque, the Ridiculous offers a new ve...
|  | Naming Achilles
Publication Date: September 24, 1987F.A. Wolf set the "Homeric Question" nearly two centuries ago when he argued convincingly that "Homer" was a non-literate bard incapable of composing and performing the monumental Iliad and Odyssey as we have them. In the long debate that has followed, one of the most prominent figures has been Milman Parry, who argued that there was great economy and extension of formulaic diction in the Homeric poems, that the poet was in effect highly constrained by this formulaic diction and by the strict metrical requirements of the oral tradition. He concluded that o...
|  | Deep Song and Other Prose
Publication Date: September 17, 1980A collection of prose writing and lectures from the great Spanish poet. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
| | Flaubert and Postmodernism
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| | King Arthur Through the Ages, Vol. 1 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1269)
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|  | Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, AP Edition
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|  | Respuesta a sor Filotea (Religion) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Religion En plena madurez literaria, sor Juana criticó un sermón del padre Vieyra. Ello provocó que el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, le pidiera que abandonase la literatura y se dedicase por entero a la religión. Sor Juana se defendió con una aguda respuesta. ...
|  | The Doomsday Missile (Anthony Steel Action Novels)
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|  | Monument to Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Capital Crimes Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. It’s not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah’s power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization that’s been offing “troublesome” politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former attorneys Mackensie and Annabel Lee Smith to investigate the organiza...
|  | November Hunt (The Murder-By-Month Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 8, 2012| Series: The Murder-By-Month Mysteries (Book 7) November in Battle Lake, Minnesota, is cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table. lt's also deer hunting season. When Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James is hired to investigate—a job that brings her closer to a P.I. license. Braving subzero temps and shrieking blizzards, Mira uncovers a decades-old scandal that has never quite died, unlike the cold stiffs who are piling up in the town morgue. As she pieces together the clues, Mira discovers that Battle Lake's good-old boys have be...
|  | Spider-Girl, Vol. 7: Betrayed (Spider-Man)
Publication Date: November 15, 2006| Grade Level: P and up Who will lead the New York underworld? Will the Green Goblin go good or give grief? What secret is Mary Jane keeping? And who is the NEXT true Spider-Man? Guest-starring the Fantastic Five! Collects Spider-Girl #34-38, 51. ...
|  | Tripping Over the Lunch Lady
Release Date: July 20, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up School is great—lots of friends, fun sports, and interestingclasses. But then there are the days that are horrible: arguingwith your best friend, being laughed at in front of your class,meeting up with the school bully, failing a test you really studiedfor. We’ve all been there, including these authors. In thishilarious and diverse collection of short stories, ten well-knownwriters, including Avi, Angela Johnson, David Lubar, JamesProimos, and Susan Shreve, tell of those funny and memorablemiddle school momen...
| | Little Treasury: Yellow Treasury
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