THE RETURN OF RAFE MACKADEBad boy Rafe MacKade has finally come home. Cleaned up and successful now—though still dangerously good-looking—Rafe’s return sets tongues wagging. With the help of Regan Jones, who owns the local antique shop, he is restoring the old Barlow house into an inn. Though Regan claims to not want to get involved with a rebel, Rafe’s pretty sure that her reaction to their sizzling kisses suggests otherwise.THE PRIDE OF JARED MACKADEJared MacKade can’t resist a challenge. So when his work as an attorney brings him up against Savannah Morningstar, her defenses aren’t nearly enough to scare him off. While Savanah is understandably reluctant to let another man into her and her son’s life, Jared can’t help but fall for the sinfully sexy woman. And the more he gets to know her, the more determined he is to stand by her always.THE HEART OF DEVIN MACKADESheriff Devin MacKade’s destiny is to serve and protect—and a future he always thought would include Cassie Connor. She’s the only woman he has ever loved, but he’d never worked up the nerve to tell her. When Cassie married the wrong man, Devin did the honorable thing and kept his feelings to himself. Now that Cassie’s divorced, Devin can finally follow his heart. Question is, can Cassie?THE FALL OF DEVIN MACKADEShane MacKade is used to getting what he wants, especially when it comes to women. He’s shocked when he is rebuffed by the brilliant Dr. Rebecca Knight. The alluring academic is conducting a research experiment at his family’s ancestral farm, and her work has left her too busy to make any time for romance. But Rebecca can’t help but succumb to the MacKade charm…

    

    Honest Illusions Private Scandals Hidden Riches True Betrayals Montana Sky

    Gallant was never afraid to push the boundaries of the form: many of her longer stories stray into novella territory, and even her shortest pieces often defy the expectations created in the first few pages. Gallant's characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, 20th century seekers often marked by World War II and its aftermath. Gallant, a Canadian expatriate, spent much of her life in Paris, and that city of exiles and emigres provides the setting for some of her most memorable stories.

    With good-natured wisdom, love, and gentle humor, these books ease the way for kids - and their parents - through these first times. Collected in this treasury are: The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The Berestain Bears in the Dark, The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, and The Berenstain Bears' New Baby.

    Writer Brian Daley adapted the film's highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of radio, creating a more richly textured tale with greater emphasis on character development. Director John Madden guided a splendid cast--including Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels, reprising their film roles as Luke Skywalker and the persnickety robot See Threepio--through an intense ten day dialogue recording session. Then came months of painstaking work for virtuoso sound engineer Tom Voegeli, whose brilliant blending of the actors' voices, the music, and hundreds of sound effects takes this intergalactic adventure into a realm of imagination that is beyond the reach of cinema.

    This is a collection of three works by Shirley Jackson: the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the short story, "The Lottery".

    The well-loved verses that fill these pages cover such universal topics as Aging, Beauty, Bereavement, Brotherhood, Celebration, Courage, Greed, Faith, Farewells, Friendship, Fun, and of course, Love. Here are such favorites as Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” with its haunting verbal images, captures the emptiness of disillusionment, while Alexander Pope’s “Epigram” (“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: / Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home”) offers pure, wry amusement. Everyone who appreciates the power of words to reaffirm the soul and express the deepest and most intimate of feelings will treasure these masterpieces.

    In a long preface, "Frame Structures," written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the iconography of the written word.Susan Howe is a professor of English at the State University of New York—Buffalo. Most of her later poetry has been collected in The Nonconformist's Memorial (New Directions, 1993), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (Sun Moon Press, 1990), and Singularities (Wesleyan University Press, 1990). She is also the author of two landmark books of postmodernist criticism, The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) and My Emily Dickinson (North Atlantic Books, 1985).

    Illuminated Poems contains two never-before-published works, an introduction by Ginsberg and thirty-four poems from 1948 through the present day, including the poem "Howl" in its entirety. "Howl," perhaps the single poem that best captures the anguish and aspirations of the Beat Generation, was originally published forty years ago and is one of the most widely read poems of the century.

    (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Shelley's life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* ALL 7 novels, with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original gothic works* Includes both the original 1818 version of FRANKENSTEIN and the revised 1831 version* Special bonus text of Peake's famous play adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN, giving a flavour of the novel's immediate popularity* Excellent formatting of the texts* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read* Features rare short stories and poems appearing here for the first time in digital print* The complete travel books appear here for the first time in digital publishing* Includes Shelley's letters - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence* Features two biographies - discover Shelley's literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresCONTENTS:The NovelsFRANKENSTEIN (1818 version)FRANKENSTEIN (1831 version)MATHILDAVALPERGATHE LAST MANTHE FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECKLODOREFALKNERThe Short StoriesLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe Children’s FictionPROSERPINEMIDASThe PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe Travel WritingHISTORY OF A SIX WEEKS’ TOUR THROUGH A PART OF FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, AND HOLLANDRAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY, IN 1840, 1842, AND 1843The Non-FictionNOTES TO THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAn AdaptationTHE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN by Richard Brinsley PeakeThe BiographiesTHE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY by Florence A. Thomas MarshallMRS. SHELLEY by Lucy M. Rossetti

    With stories of the Four Directions and the Universal Circle, these once-secret teachings offer us wisdom on circle gatherings, natural herbs and healing, and ways to reduce stress in our daily lives.

    The animals often need Percy's help, and he is always there to lend a hand.Read about what happened when a chilly fox needed warming up, or when a dirty badger was offered a bath. Find out how Percy helped an unhappy hedgehog hold a balloon, or a squirrel find her lost acorns. Laugh along as the animals take charge whilst Percy is unwell – with unexpected results!Learn all about Percy, his friend the mole and his friend the owl, in their special tales. Find out where Percy's favourite spot in the park is, what colour the owl likes best and all about the mole's secret friend. Enjoy these stories and more in this classic treasury edition.

    Spawned of centuries of Anglo-Scottish conflict, they are a festering sore that breeds treason and rebellion, threatening the fragile stability of Elizabeth I's realm. With just a handful of horsemen and a taciturn sergeant with a dark past, Carey, in his lace-collared, pearl-sashed courtly finery, will be expected to bring order to this bloody flux.Carey has his own reasons for taking the post (closer to his true love's arms, farther from his creditors' gimlet eyes), but the courtier may find, in this land of duplicity and blood-feud, that he's merely traded one set of troubles for another.Plunging readers straight into the raucous world of late-sixteenth century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan intrigue, Guns in the North is a historical fiction high-water mark and the first chronicle of Sir Robert Carey's adventures, collecting the novels A Famine of Horses, A Season of Knives and A Surfeit of Guns under one volume.

    This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections.This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.

    

    Extraordinary baths instead are complex and distinctly elemental; earthy, sensual and animistic. They are created by natural geologic processes by composers of sensory arousal working in an intuitive, poetic, open-minded manner. incapable of creating deeply satisfying bathing environments?

    Written by successful authors, the books include colour illustrations which add a touch of humour and help pace reading.

    Readers see the prisoners as people, de-mystified.           Brief text accompanies each portrait, the voice of each prisoner speaking openly about the crime each has committed, the utter violation of another person each has caused. They speak of loneliness, missing their children growing up, dealing with the vacuum, caught between death and life. A timely book.

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

     Juxtaposing the works of emerging writers with those of American classics, this book comes organized into eight thematic sections - language, family, and multicultural histories, transformation, music/spirituality, work, love, and happiness. It includes a variety of genres in each section - fiction, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama - moving from one to another with ease and a sense of discovery. Presenting an original interview at the end of each section with a distinguished author, it provides clearly and concisely written headnotes for each section. Spanning a broad historical range, from Margaret Walker (1915) to the present day, it includes brief biographies for each author, along with contextual notes for each reading. For professors of American literature and/or women's studies; librarians.

    here, together with the complete plays and poems, is The Aran Islands, Synge's chronicle of the life and the people that inspired his work and his words.

    Set in various locations, from New York to the west coast of Ireland to the nameless realms of the imagination, his stories conjure a world where beautiful but deranged kids make lethal bombs, where talented sculptors spend their careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, where wasters ris up with axes and turn into patricides. "Getting It in the Head" is a brilliant, bracing tour de force.

    An international collection of 18 nursery tales for young children, grouped by theme, such as "Runaway Cookies," "Slowpokes and Speedsters," and "Chain Tales," and brillantly illustrated with full-color borders.

    Film critics and academics examine American Westerns during the period 1939 to the present, analyzing classic films and discussing issues such as masculinity and machismo in Westerns; the Westerns of Marlene Dietrich; class structure in the Western; and the way Westerns have shaped and have been sha

    Illustrated throughout, some in color.

    Filled with over 600 activities covering 48 themes, this book is jam-packed with ideas that were tested by teachers in the classroom.These are ideas that work, and there are enough to keep children learning and happy for days, weeks and months. Many activities include suggestions for extending the circle time or group activity into other areas of the curriculum such as math, science, snack, language, or field trips. Books and songs related to the activity as well as original songs and poems are included.

    Tis the season for ho-ho-ho and a stocking full of honey when Christmas comes to the Hundred-Acre Wood! Winnie the Pooh and his friends certainly have quite a lot of planning and celebrating to do in this generous five-story collection.

    

    O'Keefe [as by Gavin O'Keefe]

    The Life and Works of Arcimboldo (The Life and Works Art Series)

    Favourite original Peter Rabbit tales