 | Light and Lively: Humorous American Short Stories
Publication Date: August 1996| ISBN-10: 0201834138 | ISBN-13: 978-0201834130| Edition: 2nd High-Intermediate Level. Light and Lively and Laugh and Learn are collections of unabridged and unadapted humorous American short stories which will motivate and encourage students to read, while exposing them to American literature, life, and culture. Pre- and post-reading discussion and writing activities, and generous glossing, make these stories accessible to students, Follow-up activities provide extensive practice and vocabulary, idioms, and grammar. ...
 |  | The Moor's Last Sigh: A novel
Release Date: January 13, 1996In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century. ...
|  | Poems of a Son, Prayers of a Father
Publication Date: June 1, 1992The poems of a teenage Afro-American boy about his thoughts and feelings are accompanied by prayers his father wrote in response to the poems. ...
|  | Talking With Angel: About Illness, Death, And Survival
Publication Date: November 30, 2005This is the moving story of a young girl battling leukemia who realizes she is going to die. She receives hope and comfort through nightly conversations with her favourite doll, Angel, who helps her to embrace a new perspective on dying, and the possibility that consciousness could survive after death. Her fear of death is ultimately lifted by her new-found spiritual wisdom and by the account of a near-death experience told to her by a young companion. Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino's extensive knowledge of near-death experiences informs this astonishing book. I...
|  | The Foundling
Release Date: September 1, 2009"What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hookey from his suffociaating dignity..."—Kirkus Reviews The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. A mysterious beauty provides the perfect opportunity When Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cou...
|  | roMANIA After 2000: Five New Romanian Plays
Publication Date: September 1, 2007The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, roMANIA after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. Includes Stop the Tempo, Romania. Kiss Me, Vitamins, Romania 21, and Waxing West. ...
|  | Fuenteovejuna (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
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|  | Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: August 25, 1995| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement. This new translation reveals his complex, beautiful, and wholly contemporary poetry. P...
|  | El haiku de las palabras perdidas / The Kaiku of the Lost Words (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Yeats: An Illustrated Biography
Publication Date: April 21, 1998T.S. Eliot said of Yeats that he was "one of those whose history is the history of our time." Frank Tuohy gives us a revealing portrait of Yeats, his family, his friends, his many-sided activities as a poet, playwright, politician, and even statesman. We learn of his development as a writer from his early days in Dublin and London, and the influence upon him of the Pre-Raphaelite movement; of William Morris, Ruskin, Pater; of Wilde, Beardsley, and Dowden; the Irish dramatists Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey; the groups that gathered around Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce,...
|  | Fire Study (Study, Book 3)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008The apprenticeship is over— now the real test has begun.When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before.… Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is f...
|  | A Rake's Vow (Cynster Novels)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Cynster Novels He vowed he′d never marry.To Vane Cynster, Bellamy Hall seems like the perfect place to temporarily hide from London′s husband hunters. But when he encounters irresistible Patience Debbington, Vane realises he′s met his match ...She vowed no man would catch her.Patience isn′t about to succumb to Vane′s sensuous propositions. Yes, his kisses leave her dizzy and his caresses made her melt; but Patience has promised herself she′ll never become vulnerable to a broken heart. Is this one vow...
|  | The Happy Lion Roars (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Are You a Bully? (Little World Social Skills)
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|  | American Coins and Bills (Study of Money)
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|  | Colombia (A Visit to)
Publication Date: August 16, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Kids Can Draw Arctic Animals (Kids Can Draw Series)
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|  | Cause of Death (Forensic Crime Solvers)
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|  | Spiritual Protection (Biblical Truth Simply Explained)
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|  | The Promised One (A 10-week Bible Study): Seeing Jesus in Genesis (Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament)
Publication Date: July 7, 2011| Series: Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament (Book 1) “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, [Jesus] interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27)After the resurrection, when Jesus used Scripture to explain who he was and why he came, where did he start? In the Old Testament. And this is where The Promised One begins to look for Christ, finding him in the people, promises, and patterns of the Old Testament scriptures.With contagious passion and theological soundness, Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie shows h...
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