 | Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America)
Release Date: October 1, 1995| Series: Library of America (Book 81) A scholarly, annotated, and uniquely comprehensive edition gathers all of Frost's major poetry, a selection of previously unanthologized poems, and the most extensive offering of his prose writings ever published, along with an essay on the texts by the editors. ...
 |  | Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Love Finds You Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer Jacob work. But Jacob’s growing interest in Liesel complicates his position in the Amanas. Will he fight to stay in the only place that feels lik...
|  | A Voyage to Arcturus
Publication Date: September 20, 2011Scottish novelist David Lindsay (1876-1945) was born to a middle-class Calvinist family, forced by poverty to work as an insurance clerk instead of attending university, and at the age of forty took up the cause and worked his way to Corporal of the Royal Army Pay Corps in World War I. After the war he moved to Cornwall with his wife and began writing full-time, publishing his first novel, "A Voyage to Arcturus", in 1920. Although the science fiction novel initially sold less than six hundred copies, it has come to be known as a major "underground" novel o...
|  | Chocolate Sangria
Release Date: March 27, 2007Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his ...
|  | Freak in The Sheets
Release Date: August 28, 2007Librarian Raquelle Scott has reached an all-time high boredom level with her job, her love-life, and her social life. The man she loves is engaged to a nasty little socialite, and her ex-con boyfriend has just reappeared in her life.Raquelle's best friend Layla Lane is tired of working like a slave for her high-strung, high-class father, and her relationship with her finace leaves her feeling bland. Raquelle and Layla decide to put their knowledge of sexuality and business to use and open up a freak school, teaching men and women how to please their lovers beyond...
|  | Citrus County (McSweeney's Rectangulars)
Publication Date: June 7, 2011| Series: McSweeney's Rectangulars There shouldn’t be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees should laze and palm trees sway and snakes keep to their shady spots under the azalea thickets. The air shouldn’t smell like a swamp. The stars should twinkle. Shelby should be her own hero, the first hero of Citrus County....
|  | The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis
Publication Date: November 6, 1999| ISBN-10: 1560231262 | ISBN-13: 978-1560231264Discover the deliciously succulent homosexual world of the early 1900s!The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis gives you the history of the influential international gay journal Der Kreis, published in Switzerland from 1932--1967. You’ll gain fascinating insight into the journal’s origins, its development, and the reasons for its demise. Entertaining and informative, this book points out how the events of the day relating to the gay movement were reflected in and influenced by Der Kreis.Der K...
|  | The Hunters
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|  | The Country Wife and Other Plays: Love in a Wood; The Gentleman Dancing-Master; The Country Wife; the Plain Dealer (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics William Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humor, vivid characterization, and social criticism. This edition includes Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Country Wife, and The Plain Dealer. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction, a note on staging, and detailed annotation.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest...
|  | Spiritual Wisdom of Haf
Release Date: July 1, 1998An exploration of the Persian poet's spiritual philosophy, with original translations of his poetry.• The perfect introduction to the man known as the philosopher of love• Speaks directly to the cutting edges of philosophy, psychology, social theory, and education, from the wisdom of a mystic and heartfelt poetFor six hundred years the Persian poet Hafez has been read, recited, quoted, and loved by millions of people in his homeland and throughout the world. Like his predecessor Rumi, he is a spiritual guide in our search for life's essence. Hafez is b...
|  | In Order to Talk with the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier (Texas Pan American) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| Series: Texas Pan American "In order to talk with the deadyou have to know how to wait:they are fearfullike the first steps of a child.But if we are patientone day they will answer uswith a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror,with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace,with a dark return of birdsbefore the glance of a girlwho waits motionless on the threshold."--from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile...
|  | Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Reading Women Writing)
Release Date: October 30, 1991| Series: Reading Women Writing Many of the earliest canonical novels-including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa-were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal himself to readers, and how do our glimpses of him affect our experience of the n...
|  | Hot Zone (Elite Force: That Others May Live)
Release Date: December 1, 2011| Series: Elite Force: That Others May Live "Catherine Mann delivers an emotional and action-packed story that leaves you wanting more." — Sherrilyn Kenyon, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author HE'LL TAKE ANY MISSION, THE RISKIER THE BETTER... The haunted eyes of pararescueman Hugh Franco should have been her first clue that deep pain roiled beneath the surface. But if Amelia couldn't see the damage, how could she be expected to know he'd break her heart? SHE'LL PROVE TO BE HIS BIGGEST RISK YET... Amelia Bailey's not the kind of girl who usually needs res...
|  | Irresistible
Publication Date: February 1, 2010When ex-Marine Walker Buchanan stops to help Elissa Towers change a tire, he tells himself it's just the neighborly thing to do. And when Elissa finds herself baking him a thank-you pie, she's just returning the favor…right?Both of them have sworn off dating—Elissa's determined to protect her little girl, and that means ditching her taste for dangerous men…especially former Marines with dark secrets. Walker knows that he's not cut out for hearth and home…his own crazy family made sure of that. But the sparks won't stop flying betwe...
|  | Captured by the Highlander
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Highlander Lady Amelia Sutherland would rather die than surrender to a man like Duncan MacLean. He is the fiercest warrior of his clan—her people’s sworn enemy—and tonight he is standing over her bed. Eyes blazing, muscles taut, and battle axe gleaming, MacLean has come to kill Amelia’s fiancé. But once he sees the lovely, innocent Amelia, he decides to take her instead…Stealing the young bride-to-be is the perfect revenge against the man who murdered Duncan’s one true love. But Lady Amelia turns out to be more tha...
|  | The Enlightened Gardener: A Novel
Publication Date: March 21, 2001Beset by daily life's trials and tribulations, many people search for the elusive wisdom that will help them make sense of their journey and find inner peace. So, too, do the characters in this wonderful story by Sydney Banks. In this simple but profound tale, four colleagues meet a remarkable gardener whose unique philosophy will forever change their lives. That philosophy is equally powerful for the reader. The wisdom within these pages comes in the form of a straightforward message that is accessible to all who open their hearts to it. ...
|  | The Prophet of Yonwood (Ember, Book 3)
Release Date: May 8, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up It’s 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town’s respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic instruction on how to avoid the coming disaster. If only they can be interpreted correctly. . . .As the people of Yonwood scramble to make sense of the woman’s mysterious ...
|  | Como ser un pirata (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 8, 2006 ...
|  | The Fiery Gloves (Knights of Right)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | A Little Peace (Barbara Kerley Photo Inspirations)
Release Date: May 8, 2007| Grade Level: K and up...
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