 | Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
Release Date: September 27, 2011*A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Poetry Book of Fall 2011* We brave into ourselves each time we put on our lantern-light and step out—as a gleam steps out its overlapping forms to lift a path from its nest of darkness. —from "Midnight Lantern" In Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, Tess Gallagher collects her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland. Included in this generous book...
 |  | A Streetcar Named Desire (Modern Classics (Penguin))
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Modern Classics (Penguin) Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness. ...
|  | Dangers of the Rainbow Nebula (Daystar Voyages Series #7)
Publication Date: May 10, 1999Captain Edge and the crew of the Daystar are off on another exciting mission, this time to save the crew of the Wellington from certain destruction by the gravitron threads of the Rainbow Nebula.But there is a troublemaker in the ranks.Greedy Hector Jordan has another plan to make himself rich, and this time it means stealing supplies on board the starship to build a virtual reality machine.After enlisting Ringo to help him build the computer that runs the machine, Heck puts the crew's lives in danger by stealing power from the ship's main fuel cells.Join the Da...
|  | V for Vendetta: Library Edition
Publication Date: April 2006| Series: Library Edition Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy: a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost, but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman who is saved from death by a masked vigilante calling himself only V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and seizes the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens...
|  | Myths to Live By
Release Date: February 1, 1993What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, retuning always to the source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination. Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always followed th...
|  | Playing With Fire: Taboo Erotica
Publication Date: April 7, 2009Why should you play hard to get when you can play with fire? The forbidden has never been so appealing as it is in Alison Tyler's latest collection. In these incendiary stories that explore the taboo side of erotica, couples go about setting their boundaries aflame. Committed to each other without question, they play out their naughtiest fantasies, pushing the limits of sex, lust, and the imagination as far as they can to please each other. Playing it a bit riskier and playing it a bit more daring will send readers and their partners steaming towards the next s...
|  | Anthology of Medieval Music (The Norton Introduction to Music History)
Publication Date: May 17, 1978| ISBN-10: 0393090809 | ISBN-13: 978-0393090802| Edition: First Edition This anthology is designed to accompany Medieval Music, the initial offering in the Norton Introduction to Music History series. It will also undoubtedly provide a welcome addition to the heretofore severely limited repertoire of medieval pieces available in contemporary notation.Most of the seventy-one works have been freshly transcribed, and all have been newly engraved for this collection.In choosing the works for inclusion in this collection, many of which have been available in a mo...
|  | Machaut's Mass: An Introduction (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Publication Date: May 28, 1992| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks One of the most widely studied and performed works of music written before 1600, Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame stands as an enduring monument of medieval musical art. The mass itself, however, is surrounded by uncertainty; its date of composition remains unknown, its purpose is unclear, and its construction yields much ambiguity. A controversial new approach to Machaut's composition technique, this volume provides a case study in the application of music ficta and a detailed introduction to performance. Relating the Mass to other w...
|  | Piensa como multimillonario (Think Like a Billionaire) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: January 1, 2007Donald Trump has proven again and again that he knows how to make the right decisions. In 3 main parts, the quintessential American business titan, TV megastar and #1 bestselling author, shows readers the process for thinking about success, real estate, and life; he also takes us on a tour of his glamorous lifestyle, while offering many practical tips on how to be successful at just about anything. Trump's biggest and best book yet, offers the unique and shrewd wisdom of one of our most celebrated icons. Description in Spanish: Este libro trata sobre aprender a p...
|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 10 No. 3) Summer 1988
Publication Date: September 3, 2010The Mystery Fancier, Volume 10 Number 3, Summer 1988, contains: "Ellery Queen, Sports Fan," by Joe R. Christopher, "The Gold Medal Boys," "Further Gems from the Literature," by William F. Deeck, "An Australian Bibliomystery," by Michael J. Tolley, "Reel Murders," by Walter Albert, "Mystery Mosts," by Jeff Banks and "The Backward Reviewer," by William F. Deeck. ...
|  | My Crazy Pet Frog (The perfect bedtime story!)
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|  | How Much is it? (My First Math Discovery Library)
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|  | Welcome to Greece (Countries of the World (Chelsea House Publications))
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|  | Wanted Dead Or Alive: The True Story Of Harriet Tubman
Publication Date: February 1, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, Harriet Tubman dreamed of following the North Star to freedom.When she did escape, she risked her life many times to lead 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.This is the dramatic biography of a woman whose faith, courage, and intelligence have carved her a place in history....
|  | Writing for Freedom: A Story About Lydia Maria Child (Creative Minds Biographies)
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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|  | Leadership Axioms: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Release Date: April 3, 2012The best leaders not only lead well but also reflect on their leadership long enough and thoughtfully enough to articulate the philosophies that cause them to do so. Whether serving in the marketplace or in ministry, as executives or rank-and-file employees, as salaried staff or volunteer servants, good leaders can pinpoint the rationale for their actions and decisions with the ease of reciting their home address. In Axiom, author Bill Hybels divulges the God-given convictions that have dictated his leadership strategy for more than three decades as senior pastor o...
|  | Product Design Review: A Methodology for Error-Free Product Development
Publication Date: March 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 1563270412 | ISBN-13: 978-1563270413| Edition: 1 The goal of the world class company is to produce a product or service that offers customers the highest quality at the lowest cost and in the shortest time possible. Product Design Review describes a highly effective method for quality control in product design, as well as its applications in a wide variety of business settings.Take care of the problems that erupt during product development by nipping them in the bud (during the design stage). Takashi Ichida describes a powerful tool insuring qual...
|  | The $21 Challenge: Save $300 in a week! No coupons required!
Publication Date: October 5, 2011If you want to be wealthier, happier and in control,then this is the book for you. It will change your life! How does it work? Simple - this week, with our help you are only going to spend $21 on food. We will use that money to stretch the food in your home to feed your household for the entire week. This will change the way you think about food and force you to throw out your old, ‘easy-to-take-advantage-of’ poor habits and replace them with new, smarter, wealthier ones. It is going to be great! You will love it! Thousands have already done it ...
|  | The End of Food
Publication Date: May 6, 2009Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, riots, and skyrocketing prices are only the latest in a series of food-related crises that have illuminated the failures of the modern food system. In The End of Food, Paul Roberts investigates this system and presents a startling truth—how we make, market, and transport our food is no longer compatible with the billions of consumers the system was built to serve.The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production forever changed our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. H...
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