It's the end of the year, and Gemma's looking forward to living it ip in Londen. Balls, Fancy gowns and Dancing with the hadsome Simon Middleton beckon. Best of all, it's time away from Spence Academy - and from the Realms. But the lure of the enchanted world is strong, and the Magic flows freely. Gemma's visions intensify - visions of three girls dressed in white, suffering horor and Menace. Clearly all is not well in the realms - or out of them. Set against the rich backdrop of victorian...

by Gilbert Harman  (Author) Hardcover: 118 pages ISBN-13: 978-0262083607 In Reliable Reasoning, Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni -- a philosopher and an engineer -- argue that philosophy and cognitive science can benefit from statistical learning theory (SLT), the theory that lies behind recent advances in machine learning. The philosophical problem of induction, for example, is in part about the reliability of inductive...

by Toni Morrison  (Author) Hardcover: 80 pages ISBN-13: 978-0618397402 Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of “separate but equal” schooling...

"Superbly sensual...elegantly written...splendidly entertaining."-Booklist on New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens "Kasey Michaels aims for the heart and never misses." -New York Times bestselling author Nora Robertson USA TODAY bestselling author Kasey Michaels "A quintessential romance." -Booklist on Award-Winning Author Delilah Marvelle\'s Prelude to a Scandal ISBN: 9780373776658...

Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly’s school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who’s been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Rose is about to follow after her daughter, a massive explosion goes off in the kitchen, sending the room into chaos. Rose finds herself faced with the horrifying decision of whether or not to run to the bathroom to rescue her daughter...

Product Details Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: IMA Language: English ISBN: 9780571227105 Book Description Publication Date: January 18, 2007 This new "Selected Poems" offers for the first time a portable and lucidly ordered retrospect of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence...

“Shoot-beer-out-your-nose funny.” (Maxim ) Sh*t My Dad Says is f______ great!...Very funny, very irreverent, very real. It’s refreshing at a time when we’re all choking to death on political correctness and can go for days without meeting a single person with common sense.” (Janet Evanovich, Time Magazine ) “This book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society.” (Chelsea Handler ) “If...

Despite the reshifting of values that has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, William Shakespeare still stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. If you have never read “the Bard”–or if you’ve tried and given up in frustration–you need Shakespeare For Beginners. Author Brandon Toropov opens with the observation that Shakespeare’s genius is not in his...

 by Richard Coward (Editor) Paperback: 240 pages ISBN-13: 978-0140265439 Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in "The Hunter's Cafe," to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic "You Never Die," these stories...

by Various (Authors) Paperback: 233 pages Language: Spanish, English ISBN-13: 978-0140265415 A dual-language edition of contemporary stories from throughout the Hispanic world, perfect for learners of either language   This volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students of Spanish at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature, without having constantly to refer back...

Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant. For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. In the aftermath...

A breathtaking new vision of a legendary tale. Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her. ISBN: 9780316213271

by D.H. Lawrence  (Author) Paperback: 752 pages ISBN-13: 978-0375753732 Of all Lawrence's work, Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas," observed Diana Trilling. "The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power--and he is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have their root in this primary contest--is the constantly elaborated statement of the fierce battle which...

by James Joyce (Author) Paperback: 254 pages ISBN-13: 978-0811200745 Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man. It was originally rejected on grounds of indecency―so the story goes― by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions. Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion...

Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out.   New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not...

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by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (Author) Hardcover: 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0684830506 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic...

Book 2 of the series 'Darkest Powers'. Grade 9 Up—When Chloe Saunders escapes from a group home for troubled teens, she has no idea that she'll be dealing with a treacherous aunt; a nascent werewolf; a prissy witch; guns, guards, and ghosts; and the harsh everyday realities of being a teen on the run. She'd come to terms with the fact that the home was obviously not your run-of-the-mill state facility, or she wouldn't have discovered her powers as a necromancer or found the...

by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (Author) Hardcover: 368 pages ISBN-13: 978-0684852768 The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and novelist, The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age. Anthony Comstock Patch is a Harvard-educated gallant who leisurely aspires to author a book as he awaits an enormous inheritance upon his grandfather's death. Not quite gorgeous, but considered...

by Wallace Thurman  (Author) Paperback: 160 pages ISBN-13: 978-0486461342 "The tragedy of her life was that she was too black," declares the narrator at the start of this powerful novel of intraracial prejudice. Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame, not because her skin is black, but because it's too black. No one among her family, teachers, and friends has a word of consolation or hope for the despised and...