 | Waiting for Autumn
Publication Date: April 7, 2009“Waiting for Autumn is a warm and revealing book about personal transformation. Its narrative reveals the honesty of one who has really walked the path of forgiveness and divine connection and found the rewards of intuition, mission, and synchronistic flow. This book will speak to everyone.” — James Redfield, the author of The Celestine Prophecy “A thrilling story, a deep metaphysical message, a breath of fresh air.” — Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., the author of Five Wishes and co-author of Conscious Loving “A journey of person...
 |  | The Other City (Eastern European Literature) (Czech Literature Series)
Publication Date: June 11, 2009| Series: Czech Literature Series In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists. The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, "other Prague," overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as well as the long and distinguished li...
|  | The Wolfman
Release Date: February 2, 2010The Wolfman is one of the great classics of modern horror. Now, based on the upcmoing film, is a terrifying new novelization novel written by Jonathan Maberry, based on the screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self Based on a motion picture screenplay by Curt SiodmakLawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the ...
|  | Being There
Publication Date: September 20, 1999| Series: Kosinski, Jerzy A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he...
|  | At Woomeroo: Stories
Publication Date: June 28, 2012At Woomeroo is a land . . . where mirrors wink in the sunlight as people signal one another from the hilltops . . . where a squirming pink infant, babbling with excitement, arrives by mail . . . where a man turns his kite over to his small son, who is borne off by it over the hill . . . where a rooster says,"Oh good. Wonderful fine beautiful good. Really. Because now I'm going to kill you" . . . where between Tiffany's and Ferragamo stands Tetwilder's, a boutique dealing in designer children . . . where a king struggles to evade an inescapable curse . . . where...
|  | Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Release Date: February 16, 2006Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of lit...
|  | Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters
Publication Date: October 14, 2002Poignant, hilarious, and brutally frank, Dear Editor reveals the personalities and untold stories behind the creation of modern poetry."The history of poetry and Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," A. R. Ammons wrote. Dear Editor, in gathering over 600 surprisingly candid letters to and from the editors of Poetry, traces the development of poetry in America: Ezra Pound's opinion of T. S. Eliot ("It is such a comfort to meet a man and not have to tell him to wash his face, wipe his feet") and of Robert Frost ("dull as ditch w...
|  | Beach Blanket Bad Boys
Release Date: May 31, 2005Linda Lael Miller - "Batteries Not Required": The only boyfriend Gayle Hayes has is the battery-operated kind. But when she returns to her small Montana hometown, rodeo bad boy Tristan McCullough gives her a whole new lesson in power surge...Alison Kent - "Sara Smiles": Six months ago, Sara Wade has turned down her boyfriend Jax's proposals. Now, it's her turn to convince the hunk she wants it all, starting with a steamy fantasy weekend in sultry Puerto Vallarta...Lucy Monroe - "Seducing Tabby": Everybody always wants Tabby Payton's beautiful sister. But not sexy En...
|  | The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
Release Date: October 2, 2001| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle "These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become."So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice...
|  | Offer of Proof
Release Date: October 26, 2004A beautiful businesswoman is robbedand murdered. With her last breath, she identifies her assailant. Or does she?Damon Tucker, a young kid from Harlem, is quickly charged with the murder. He maintains his innocence from the beginning despite some incredibly damning evidence. Soon the only person standing between Damon and a possible death sentence is his public defender, Arch Gold, a tough courtroom veteran who knows every move in the game of criminal justice in New York City. But in this case Gold quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems and the rules of...
|  | Baynard's List
Publication Date: June 19, 2011October 1262 should have been a quiet month, that melancholy time following the death of summer dedicated to the chores of readying Ludlow for the onset of winter and the hard months ahead. But the game of spies is afoot. A valuable list identifying the secret supporters of both King Henry and his rival for power Simon de Montfort has disappeared following the murder of Henry’s master spy in the west of England. Whoever possesses that list obtains a significant advantage in the open war that is soon to break out between them.Stephen Attebrook, the part-t...
|  | easy to appreciate the masterpieces of English: Sherlock Holmes stories (with CD)
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|  | W.I.T.C.H. Graphic Novel: Between Light and Dark - Book #4
Release Date: February 2, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | DK Readers: Star Wars: Darth Maul, Sith Apprentice
Publication Date: January 16, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Spider-Man Jumbo Color & Activity Book
Release Date: January 4, 2005Action packed color & activity books! Classic images of Spider-Man as he battles evil villains for control of the world fill the pages of these coloring books. But there’s more…cool activities like connect-the-dots, crosswords, word jumbles, and look and finds will keep kids entertained for hours! ...
|  | Moopy on the Beach (Stone Arch Readers - Level 3 (Quality)))
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | If I Were a Chicago Cub (Picture Me Books NBA Series)
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|  | Gaspard on Vacation (Gaspard and Lisa Books)
Release Date: March 13, 2001| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: Ten Spooky Stories (Goosebumps Special Edition, No. 3)
Publication Date: November 1997Originally packaged with boxer shorts, this spooktacular short story collection is now reissued with a redesigned cover. ...
|  | Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity: The Mechanical Body (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: October 25, 2011| ISBN-10: 0415890969 | ISBN-13: 978-0415890960| Edition: 1 This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchi...
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