 | Strange Light
Publication Date: March 15, 2012Derrick Brown's fourth and final collection of poetry and short stories is a unrelenting machine of honesty that has been called his finest collection of new work.Strange Light takes us back to the docks, to a violent drama class and boring prom, an undersea conversation with Jacques Cousteau,and into his famous romantic bursts of verse. The epic poem, Strange Light, anchors this collection as one of the most inventive and potent collections of modern American poetry. About.com called his 2009 collection Scandalabra, one of the best books of the year. Everythi...
 |  | The Guardian of Hope
Publication Date: February 9, 2010Since his birth seventeen years ago, Dalor has been told he is the Guardian of Hope. The prophecy has been revealed in him, the Diloron Prince, and it is in him that the people place all their hope for survival. Without Dalor they will succumb to the fearsome Lord Daknar Shatana, who threatens to dominant Kana with his growing power and followers of evil. After a 10,000-year-long war, the tension is escalating into what the Dilorons and the Sarjhians believe are the final moments of this battle between good and evil. Dalor's entire life hinges upon the foret...
|  | Hercules, my shipmate,: A novel
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| | Studien zu den Quellen und zum Verstandnis des Prometheus Desmotes (ABHANDL.D.AKAD.DER WISSENSCH. PHIL.-HIST.KLASSE 3.FOLGE)
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|  | The Poetic Edda
Publication Date: January 10, 2012Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. ...
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|  | The PIP Anthology of World Poetry, no. 7: At Villa Aurora: Nine Contemporary Poets Writing in German (EL-E-PHANT Books) (German Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1933382686 | ISBN-13: 978-1933382685| Edition: Bilingual The seventh volume of this noted series is devoted to contemporary German-language poets, all of whom had fellowships at the Villa Aurora center for German writing in Los Angeles, representing some of the most innovative writing. ...
|  | Victorian Fantasy
Publication Date: August 31, 2005| Series: Provost Far from being just children's literature, Victorian fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of "Victorianism." In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques--nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds--to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development...
|  | My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: October 6, 1999| Series: Perennial ClassicsWidely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. InMy Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature....
|  | Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Publication Date: October 10, 1994In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted are both those philosophers who argue that Plato espoused his theory of forms uncritically and those who argue that Plato in some sense rejected the theory and moved toward the categorical analysis developed byAristotle. Dorter's reexamination of Plato's insights...
|  | Blowout in Little Man Flats: And Other Spine-Tingling Stories of Murder in the West (Great American Murder Mysteries)
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|  | London Calling
Release Date: February 12, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin?Martin is stuck in between--floundering.But during the summer after 7th grade, Martin meets a boy who will change his life forever. Jimmy Harker appears one night with a deceptively simple question:Will you help?Where did this boy come from, with his strang...
|  | Dear Tooth Fairy
Release Date: January 5, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An inquisitive little girl gives the Tooth Fairy a run for her money-and exchanges several removable messages-in this sweet, humorous story.Dear Tooth Fairy,Thank you for coming last night. . . . I have a few questions. Why do you want my tooth? Holly’s tooth has fallen out, but she’s not sure she wants to give it to the Tooth Fairy just yet. She has a few questions to ask first, about how fairies operate and where her tooth will end up. Luckily, the obliging Tooth Fairy responds- five times! Readers wil...
|  | NASCAR Shaped Book with Sounds: Bobby LaBonte
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|  | Language Smarts, Level B (Grade 1)
Publication Date: 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up These fun, mind building books teach standards-based language arts and develop critical thinking skills. Language Smarts can serve as a core curriculum for language arts or as a supplemental resource. ...
|  | The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish
Publication Date: February 26, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up In 1913, a boat named Karluk, Aleutian for “fish,” part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, became stuck in the Arctic ice. On board were a captain and crew, scientists and explorers, a cat, forty sled dogs, Inupiaq hunters, and an Inupiaq family with two small girls. Even with the Inupiaq and their skills of hunting and sewing, even with the family’s care and wisdom, even with the compassion and courage of their captain, odds for survival in the cold, dark Arctic seem against the passengers of t...
|  | Friendly Foal (Winnie the Horse Gentler #7)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Coals of Fire
Publication Date: December 1, 1954| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A children's classic since 1954, Coals of Fire offers 17 true stories about returning love for hate, good for evil, taken from various cultures and time periods, that will challenge readers, regardless of their age. (All Ages) ...
|  | Gibbons (Monkeys)
Publication Date: December 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Anacondas (Snakes) (Checkerboard Books)
Publication Date: September 1995| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this water boa which lives in the Amazon Basin. ...
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