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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Erskine Caldwell - American Writers 78 " was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This pamphlet series has been hailed by critics, teachers, and librarians as an ideals means of introducing both students and general readers to American writers of all periods. Choice has commented: "For the small library this series offers at small cost introductions by reputable critics o dozens of significant authors, and the larger the library the greater the number of undergraduate students looking for a place to start on some writer." "The New York Times Book Review" has called the pamphlets "extraordinarily good," pointing out that "they are just long enough (48 pages) to permit a real survey of an author's work and short enough to attract the casual reader, the anxiety-ridden student, and the professor desperate for the straight word on an unfamiliar writer." Features Summary Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers... Author James Korges Publisher University of Minnesota Press Pages 48 ISBN 0-8166-0528-9 ISBN 13 978-0-8166-0528-6

 The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry (Paperback)   otton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’ re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria. A cradle of ideas–historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious–the Library of Alexandria was unparalleled in the world. But fifteen hundred years ago, it vanished into the mists of myth and legend–its vast bounty of wisdom coveted ever since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its untold secrets hold the key to ultimate power. Now a cartel of wealthy international moguls, bent on altering the course of history, is desperate to breach the library’s hallowed halls–and only Malone possesses the information they need to succeed. At stake is an explosive ancient document with the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to shake the world’s three major religions to their very foundations.  Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the globe in search of answers. His quest will lead him to England and Portugal, even to the highest levels of American government–and the shattering outcome, deep in the Sinai desert, will have worldwide repercussions.    

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that will encourage students to read. Muhammad Ali was an American Olympic and professional boxer widely regarded as the People's Champion. Renowned for his physical and verbal prowess, this fascinating biography is about a talented sportsman who became an inspiring activist. Features Summary Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that encourages students to read. Muhammad Ali was an American Olympic and professional boxer renowned for his physical and verbal prowess... Author Jane Rollason Publisher Scholastic Press Release date 20170202 Pages 56 ISBN 1-4071-6983-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4071-6983-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that will encourage students to read. Muhammad Ali was an American Olympic and professional boxer widely regarded as the People's Champion. Renowned for his physical and verbal prowess, this fascinating biography is about a talented sportsman who became an inspiring activist. Features Summary Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that encourages students to read. Muhammad Ali was an American Olympic and professional boxer renowned for his physical and verbal prowess... Author Jane Rollason Publisher Scholastic Press Release date 20170202 Pages 56 ISBN 1-4071-6983-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4071-6983-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Never before has any biographer had such close access to Fidel Castro as did Tad Szule.  The outcome of a long, direct relationship, this riveting portrait reveals astonishing and exclusive information about Cuba, the revolution, and the notorious, larger-than-life leader who has ruled his country with an iron fist for more than forty years. Only Tad Szule could bring Fidel to such vivid life--the loves and losses of the man, the devious tactics of the conspirator, the triumphs and defeats of the revolutionary leader who challenged an American president and brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. From Jesuit schools to jungle hideouts and the Palace of the Revolution, here is Fidel...The Untold Story. Never before has any biographer had such close access to Fidel Castro as did Tad Szulc. The outcome of a long, direct relationship, this riveting portrait reveals astonishing and exclusive information about Cuba, the revolution, and the notorious, larger-than-life leader who has ruled his country with an iron fist for more than forty years. Only Tad Szulc could bring Fidel to such vivid life--the loves and losses of the man, the devious tactics of the conspirator, the triumphs and defeats of the revolutionary leader who challenged an American president and brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. From Jesuit schools to jungle hideouts and the Palace of the Revolution, here is FIDEL...THE UNTOLD STORY. Features Summary Based on personal interviews with Castro and his closest associates, this definitive biography covers Castro's life from birth to the present and features information drawing on access to thirty years of previously unavailable records... Author Tad Szulc Publisher AvonBooks Release date 20000229 Pages 704 ISBN 0-380-80888-9 ISBN 13 978-0-380-80888-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days A genius of literary suspense, known to millions as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of interviews, Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author, firmly placing Jackson within the American Gothic tradition. Features Summary Reviving the life and work of a neglected master, this biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature. Author Ruth Franklin Publisher Liveright Publishing Corporation Release date 20171010 Pages 624 ISBN 1-63149-341-8 ISBN 13 978-1-63149-341-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land. 'Sweeping, symphonic, empathic... subtle, infinitely skilful... an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless' Daily Mail 'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women... the distaff equivalent of a war memorial' Daily Telegraph 'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience... Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire 'An understated masterpiece... she conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without losing sight of the distinct experience of each' San Francisco Chronicle Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City. Features Summary Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet.. Author Julie Otsuka Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20130207 Pages 129 ISBN 0-241-95648-X ISBN 13 978-0-241-95648-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963 and finishing with Part Four in 1985. Now, Dale Jacobson, his colleague, has prepared an authoritative text of the whole poem working from McGrath's archival notes, making available for the first time in a single volume the greatest epic poem of our time. By turns modern and Homeric, McGrath's semi-autobiographical Letter explores American history, politics, and mythology, guided by the Blue Star Kachina of Hopi mythology as we move toward the poem's conclusion in the American heartland on Christmas Eve, criss-crossing the landscape in what Library Journal has called "a tremendous odyssey of sense and spirit". Features Summary One of the English language's great poems available for the first time in one volume. Author Thomas McGrath Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Release date 19950101 Pages 375 ISBN 1-55659-078-4 ISBN 13 978-1-55659-078-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Dumas Malone's classic six-volume biography "Jefferson and His Time "was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson's life. Volume 6. The Sage of Monticello This final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jefferson's accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the realm of politics to his roles as family man, architect, and educational enthusiast. Describing Jefferson's retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed Jefferson's final years, particularly the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, in which he played a major role. Features Summary Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. Author Dumas Malone Publisher University of Virginia Press Release date 20091030 Pages 551 ISBN 0-8139-2366-2 ISBN 13 978-0-8139-2366-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Praise for Jan Heller Levi: "It's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses."--Bob Holman "Orphan," Jan Heller Levi's new collection, is an unabashed confrontation with loneliness, otherness, and abandonment. These poems--ancient, immediate, serene, disgruntled, wickedly humorous, unsettlingly earnest--are also daring explorations of what love is. In the new millennium, with so much loss to mourn--and so much more still to lose--"Orphan" contemplates how "we make our griefs our tools." What Love Is "To forsake all others. To float the beloved on your back from flood to land, to wrench bread from the beggar's hand, snatch the oxygen mask from a child's face. To ransack hospitals and nursing homes for drugs to ease the beloved's pain, to stumble down 101 floors, beloved slung on your back, not stopping for the other ones in wheelchairs waiting at the landing doors." Jan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, "Once I Gazed at You in Wonder," won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, "Skyspeak," won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of "A Muriel Rukeyser Reader," served as consulting editor for the new edition of "The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser," and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College. Features Summary Praise for Jan Heller Levi: "It's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses."--Bob Holman "Orphan," Jan Heller Levi's new collection... Author Jan Heller Levi Publisher Alicejamesbooks Release date 20140109 Pages 62 ISBN 1-938584-03-1 ISBN 13 978-1-938584-03-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. "The Pillars of the Earth" is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of "The Pillars of the Earth," Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, "World Without End." In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you ("Chicago Tribune")and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. "World Without End" takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of "The Pillars of the Earth," The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, "World Without End" breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. Features Summary In 1989, Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in 12th-century England that centers on the building of a cathedral... Author Ken Follett Publisher New American Library Release date 20081007 Pages 1014 ISBN 0-451-22499-X ISBN 13 978-0-451-22499-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Immensely intelligible, thought-provoking guide by Nobel prize-winner considers such topics as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, inductive logic, intuitive knowledge, many other subjects. For students and general readers, there is no finer introduction to philosophy than this informative, affordable and highly readable edition that is "concise, free from technical terms, and perfectly clear to the general reader with no prior knowledge of the subject."-The Booklist of the American Library Association. Features Summary Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.. Accenting theory of knowledge issues over metaphysics in this classic, Russell's ability to make philosophy accessible clinches his case for students reading great philosophers' works rather than secondary texts... Author Bertrand Russell Publisher Dover Publications Inc. Release date 19990126 Pages 121 ISBN 0-486-40674-1 ISBN 13 978-0-486-40674-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm, sunny morning--for no particular reason--they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do you know who sank the boat? "Funny... just right for the very young".--The New Yorker. An American Bookseller Pick of the List Book. Library of Congress Books for Children. Full color. Features Summary The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row. Author Pamela Allen Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Release date 20120416 Pages 32 ISBN 0-698-11373-X ISBN 13 978-0-698-11373-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm, sunny morning--for no particular reason--they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do you know who sank the boat? "Funny... just right for the very young".--The New Yorker. An American Bookseller Pick of the List Book. Library of Congress Books for Children. Full color. Features Summary The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row. Author Pamela Allen Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Release date 20120416 Pages 32 ISBN 0-698-11373-X ISBN 13 978-0-698-11373-2