 | Cellar
Publication Date: March 15, 1990Visitors flock to see the Beast House with its blood-soaked corridors and creaky doors. Armed with video camcorders, these poor sould enter the forbidden house, never to return. The deeper they go into the house, the darker their nightmares become. Don't even think about going into the cellar. ...
 |  | Closure
Publication Date: March 27, 2011Moving from a heavily intoxicated, anti-establishment gypsy punk lifestyle full of blood, bruises and broken bones, travels via freight train, meals scavenged from dumpsters and abandoned buildings for homes into a less chaotic life full of decent people, a decent job, warmth on cold nights and an overall honest stab at white-picket-fencedom, Closure is a story of one girl finding a much needed ending to a wearisome chapter in her life and a boy realizing the unmendable destruction of his actions. Weaving between memories of a happier day and an observation of...
|  | Man, Myth & Magic (The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion and the Unknown, Volume 4)
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|  | The Shows of London (Belknap Press)
Publication Date: January 1, 1978| ISBN-10: 0674807316 | ISBN-13: 978-0674807310| Edition: 1ST A berserk elephant gunned down in the heart of London, a machine for composing Latin hexameters, and the original rock band (1841)—these are but three of the sights that London curiosity–seekers from every walk of life paid to see from the Elizabethan era to the mid–Victorian period. Examining hundreds of the wonderfully varied exhibitions that culminated in the Crystal Palace of 1851, this generously illustrated book sheds light on a vast and colorful expanse of English so...
|  | Birds and Other Stories (Virago Modern Classics)
Publication Date: July 12, 2003| Series: Virago Modern Classics How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew ...' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree;...
|  | Words of Paradise Selected Poems of Rumi (Sacred Wisdom)
Publication Date: February 2004| Series: Sacred Wisdom Illustrated with miniatures and borders from ancient Islamic scripts, this volume features 55 poems from the works of Jalaluddin Rumi. Rumi was a 13th-century Persian mystic who believed that all human beings can, if they surrender themselves to the power of love, live in a condition of infinite bliss. Raficq Abdulla uses rhythm and powerful imagery to recreate the ecstatic state which Rumi considered so crucual to reach enlightenment. An introduction to the book sets Rumi's life and philosophy in context and provides some explanatory gu...
|  | Come Into My Garden: Volume 2
Publication Date: May 24, 2010Poems written during the "LONG WAIT' Imagine the all consuming yet innocent young love of a 15 year old boy and a 14 year old girl.Suddenly all contact is lost due to a conspiring grandmother who intercepted and destroyed U. S. mail. 60 years roll by:They each had married and raised large families and they meet again. Time passes. Another six years before they are both widowed and thenn........... ...
|  | Love Hound
Publication Date: October 1, 2006Chilean poet Oliver Welden’s volume Love Hound, written over 30 years ago and highly praised at the time, disappeared during the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and has recently resurfaced with power and artistry undamaged by the passage of time. Written three years before the military overthrow of the government by Augusto Pinochet, these poems offer concise but penetrating language that still resonates today. Opening with spare meditations on solitude, suicide and murder the volume then reflects on degraded familial relationships ending in a po...
|  | Complete Poems
Publication Date: March 3, 1976Here is the real Emily Dickinson -- the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade editions of the poet's work. While it is today universally acknowledged that Dickinson was a poet of the highest order, the startling originality of her poems doomed her work to obscurity in her own lifetime. Early posthumous publication efforts -- including the 1924 Complete Poems edited by the poet's niece and published by Little, Brown -- did not fully and fairly represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, or the range of her intellectual and...
|  | Kyogoku Tamekane: Poetry and Politics in Late Kamakura Japan
Publication Date: April 1989The annals of Medieval Japananese poetic history are crowded with the names of poets whose lives and works follow patterns so conventional as to make comments about their "personalities" nearly impossible. There are, however, a few exceptions to the rule. One of them is Kyogoku Tamekane, 1254-1332, the subject of this book. ...
|  | Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism
Release Date: February 10, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403944466 | ISBN-13: 978-1403944467Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity are considered in texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter among others. ...
|  | First Steps in Academic Writing (The Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 2) (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: August 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0132414880 | ISBN-13: 978-0132414883| Edition: 2 The second edition of First Steps in Academic Writing, by Ann Hogue, provides high-beginning to low-intermediate students with essential tools to master basic academic writing. The text's time-proven approach integrates paragraph organization, sentence structure, grammar, mechanics, and the writing process.First Stepsleads students to build strong academic writing skills that will last them throughout their writing careers. Features: A step-by-step approach guides students...
|  | Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios Mystery)
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Cats and Curios Mystery When frogs begin appearing in the antiques shop Rebecca has inherited from her Uncle Oscar, her cats Rupert and Isabella instantly give chase. But why are frogs turning up in San Francisco's City Hall building? And what does her late uncle's mysterious note to "follow the frogs" mean? ...
|  | Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes - including = The Adventures - The Memoir.
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|  | Araminta Spookie 4: Vampire Brat
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Escape from Horror House (Give Yourself Goosebumps, No 37)
Publication Date: July 1999| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Virtually Perfect
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Yip Turner spends more time playing computer games than with other kids. For him, virtual reality usually beats reality! So when his dad, a movie special-effects designer, brings home new software for creating virtual actors, Yip is psyched. He and his sister create "Victor," a boy who is smart, handsome, and charming-perfect in everyway. But when Victor leaves cyberspace and invades their world, Yip realizes that there are bugs in the virtual-actor software. Now his family-and possibly the whole country!-may be in...
| | BASEBALL'S GREATEST PITCHERS ( (Step Into Reading. a Step 4 Book)
Release Date: March 17, 1992| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Sammy Sosa (All Aboard Reading)
Release Date: July 19, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Hottest Sports Cars (Wild Wheels!) (Wild Wheels! (Enslow))
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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