 | When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
Release Date: December 2, 2008The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel García Márquez.?( Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women)Nítido Amán knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn?t know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When Nítido loses his father to Alzheimer?s disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and Nítido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing. Seeking answers, Nítido travels to Guatemala against his...
 |  | A Short History of a Small Place
Release Date: September 30, 2003Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboy...
|  | Poltergeist (Greywalker, Book 2)
Release Date: August 7, 2007View our feature on Kat Richardson's Greywalker.Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper's been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper's investigation reveals something else ent...
|  | Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
Publication Date: September 1, 2006"While the tension that never leaves these poems is, on the surface, erotic, what lies beneath the sensual energy is an awareness that sex, as the articulation of love, is tainted by our notions of how pure love should be. It's Gonzalez's lyricism that joins the physical and the ideal, and demonstrates that the impulse to speak is a form of the impulse to touch. Gonzalez's honesty is itself a kind of poetry: there is an exacting focus here that speaks of hope without using the word. If we can look, we can change. These are poems of transformation." --Bob Hi...
|  | La vuelta al mundo en la "Numancia" / Return to the World in "Numancia" (Episodios Nacionales: Cuarta Serie / National Events: Fourth Series) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Coach
Publication Date: January 11, 2011In The Coach, the newest novel from author Tom Speaker, follow 'Dart' Darnell through eight years of playing elementary, middle school, and high school basketball, four army years during WWII, four years of playing college basketball, and forty-one years of coaching.Coach with him, not just through the X and O's, but the ecstasy of winning, the lessons learned from losing, and the joy of his experiences as he see young kids grow to success in basketball, but more importantly grow to be successful in life and becoming good fathers and family men. Make the dec...
|  | The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: July 8, 2003| Series: Vintage Classics Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation ofThe Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even befo...
|  | The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
Publication Date: November 15, 2006Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit. These fantastic episodes recount the adventures of Xuanzang, a seventh-century monk who became one of China’s most illustri...
|  | Troubled in Toyland: And Three Other Scripts Celebrating Christmas
Publication Date: December 1, 1992(Lillenas Publications). A collection of four Christmas scripts. The material is a great resource for Christmas services and special theatrical events. Script titles are: "Troubled in Toyland" (19 persons); "Through Joseph's Eyes"(20 persons, extras); "They're Not Expecting You!" (7 persons); "A Christmas Play" (15 persons, extras). ...
|  | Collected Poems: In English
Publication Date: December 31, 2010Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically, in both Marathi and English, publishing in magazines and anthologies from 1955, but did not bring out a book of poems until he was 44. Jejuri (1976) won him the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and was later published in the US in the NYRB Classics Series (2005). His third Marathi publication, Bhijki Vahi, won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004. ""[Kolatkar] approached poetry with quality and a certain thoughtful speaking. . . . A key addition to any international poetry colle...
|  | Don't Tell the Scarecrow, and Other Japanese Poems,
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| | My zhili togda na planete drugoi--: Antologiia poezii russkogo zarubezhia, 1920-1990 (pervaia i vtoraia volna) : v chetyrekh knigakh (Russian Edition)
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| | Russkii stikh nachala XX veka v kommentariiakh (Russian Edition)
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| | Garden of Peonies; Translations of Chinese Poems Into English Verse
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|  | The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Publication Date: July 13, 2010From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the event...
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|  | The Promise
Publication Date: January 2002The mine called out to Cara from deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, near the town of Silverthread. It was rich in ore, overflowing with wealth that could make a family's fortune—or destroy it.In it had begun the weaving of a web of deceit, a murderous tapestry of lies that had meant the deaths of many innocents.But also in its shadowy maw lay the path to redemption and love.Its labyrinthine tunnels held a magic that could draw a woman one hundred years into the past, into the arms of one who could make her life whole.But crossing time was just the begin...
|  | Sunburn
Publication Date: September 22, 2000When Joey Goldman's illegitimate father, a nefarious godfather from New York, heads to Key West, Joey has the bright idea of letting a Kew West reporter help write his memoirs, a book that no onethe Mafia, the FBI, or the real heir to Delgatto's family businesswants to see published. ...
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|  | Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Poland
Release Date: April 25, 1995| Age Level: 8 and up Intriguing characters and surprising turns fill this collection of tales from old Poland. ...
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