 | Faults: A Novel (Djuna Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Djuna Books Chapter ThreeDecember 31: MorningToniA monotonous hum wakes me, but I'm afraid to open my eyes to verify my surroundings. I lie still. Am I on the train? Did I simply dream I came home? I am stationary, not rocking with the ceaseless motion of the railway car. I smell coffee and the down-home aroma of freshly made tortillas de harina. If Mama is here, she is being unnaturally quiet.I wonder if the continuous mechanical sound is the echo of the Santa Monica Freeway a few blocks south. As if to test my speculation, the hum intensifies, f...
 |  | The Vampires of Malibu High
Publication Date: November 15, 2006The Vampires of Malibu High is the first collection of Chris Bunch's short fiction. We've gathered the very best of his stories published in magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Dreams of Decadence, and Realms of Fantasy. Each story is a polished gem waiting to satisfy Bunch's legion of readers. Bunch is best known as a novelist, but these science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories demonstrate Bunch's mastery of the short form. ...
|  | 24-Karat Kids: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2007Meet Dr. Shelley Green, newly minted pediatrician. After graduating from medical school at the top of her class, Shelley is hired by Madison Pediatrics, the most exclusive practice on New York's Upper East Side. Hyper-parenting has reached epidemic proportions, and Madison Pediatrics is its over-privileged epicenter. Shelley, a superb doctor with a kid-friendly touch and a genius for diagnosis, quickly becomes the Upper East Side's latest must-have accessory, the darling of the fabulously-wealthy-with-kids crowd. Now this self-described "sch...
|  | Pay the Devil His Due
Publication Date: April 1, 2010The biotech industry, arguably the last bastion immune from corporate corruption, is the unlikely setting for Pay the Devil His Due, where the machinations of former Marines turned rogue executives lead to a series of gruesome interrelated crimes. As the national economy experiences a financial crisis, greed and abuse of power invade the penthouse suites and board room of Genomic Biotherapeutics, erupting in interplays of embezzlement, blackmail, and a demonic quest for revenge with devastating results. Amidst the board room's old-boys'-network and law enforcem...
|  | Mr. Bean's Definitive and Extremely Marvelous Guide to France
Release Date: August 21, 2007A hilarious, fully illustrated, madcap book published to coincide with Rowan Atkinson's new Mr. Bean movie, which releases September 28. England is wet, and Mr. Bean is fed up. He dashes off a note to the queen to let her know he won't be available to chat for a few days, indulges in a few fantasy drawings of himself as a tanned man in swimwear, and sets off for the south of France. Mr. Bean has a new video camera (although he had intended to buy a kettle) and records every detail of his journey, culminating in his trip the Cannes Film Festival, where the re...
|  | The classic myths in English literature and in art: Accompanied by an interpretative and illustrative commentary
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|  | The Miracle Worker
Publication Date: June 25, 2002| ISBN-10: 0743457587 | ISBN-13: 978-0743457583 NO ONE COULD REACH HERTwelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her, fighting tooth and nail with a strength born of furious, unknowing desperation.Then Annie Sullivan came. Half-blind herself, but possessing an almost fanatical determination, she would begin a frightening and incredibly moving struggle to tame the wild girl no ...
|  | Zigger Zagger, Mooney & His Carav (Penguin Plays)
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|  | A Wind Harp
Publication Date: November 2005When leading New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen reads her work audiences are captivated not only by her accessible and wide ranging poems, but also by the drama and musicality of her performance. This strong performance is encapsulated in a new sound recording. "A Wind Harp" features the voice and lyrics of Cilla McQueen, supported by original music from Dunedin musicians, The Blue Neutrinos. The approximate running time is 45 minutes. ...
|  | The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art
Publication Date: April 16, 2011Demonstrates how Chinese literary traditions have echoed throughout Japan and Korea for more than 1,000 years.Collection includes landscape paintings, figure paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and calligraphic scrolls.Chinese classical poems are an international culture code in East Asia. Many diverse factors account for the phenomenon of cross-cultural merging in this region. Using works from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this catalogue concentrates on the classical Chinese poetry that Japanese and Korean elites learned and then applied to the...
|  | The Character of Truth: Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction (A Chicago Classic)
Publication Date: June 26, 1990| Series: A Chicago Classic Can the novel survive in an age when tales of historical figures and contemporary personalities dominate the reading lists of the book-buying public?Naomi Jacobs addresses this question in a study of writers such as William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, and Robert Coover, who challenge the dominance of nonfiction by populating their fictions with real people, living and dead. Jacobs explores the genesis, varieties, and implications of this trend in a prose as lively as that of the writers she critiques.Using as a case study Robert Coover...
|  | Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalog of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists
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|  | Modernist Women Writers and War: Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
Publication Date: January 1, 2011In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged--one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men. In the past, Goodspeed-Chadwick explains, scholars have not considered writings by women as part of war literature. They have limited "war writing" to works by men, such as William Butler Yeats's poem "An Irish Airman Fores...
|  | Spadework: A Collection of "Nameless Detective" Stories
Publication Date: June 1996Detective stories ...
|  | The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 2009Hard Cover Edition of the Night Shade Books trade Paperback published by the Science Fiction Book Club ...
|  | No Passengers Beyond This Point
Release Date: February 16, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A reality-bending adventure from a Newbery Honor-winning authorSiblings India, Finn, and Mouse are stunned when their mom tells them they are flying that night--without her--to their Uncle Red's home in Colorado. But things take an even more dramatic turn when their plane lands in a very unusual place. A mysterious driver meets them at the airport; when he drops them off at their "destination," each kid suddenly has a clock with a different amount of time left. If the time runs out, they have to become pe...
|  | Captain America by Jack Kirby Omnibus (Marvel Omnibus)
Publication Date: March 30, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Spark the Firefighter
Publication Date: September 18, 2008When the town of Hardscrabble placed an ad for a new firefighter, they never expected a dragon to apply. But Spark wants the job because he has a secret. He’s afraid of fire . . . and that’s not good when you are a fire-breathing dragon! Spark knows the only way to conquer your fear is by facing it. A funfilled tale with plenty of fire safety tips. ...
|  | Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
Release Date: September 4, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders.Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cinderella. Her story has been passed down the centuries and across continents. Now Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis craft its many versions into one hymn to the rich variety and the enduring constants of our cultures.A Junior Library Guild Selection Glass Slipper, Gold S...
|  | Kaleidoscopic Design Coloring Book (Dover Design Coloring Books)
Publication Date: January 11, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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