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The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an alcoholic, paranoid, and frightened Jack Kerouac, who had been drinking off a nervous breakdown up in Big Sur. Now Jack must get back on the road to find Neal Cassady, the holy fool whose rambling letter...

This work is a set of free variations drawn from a 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Chimg. The complex cello and percussion writing focuses on the timbres, textures and fiddling techniques of Chinese ritual music and Ghost opera.

Even more great solos for high school and college singers at the same level as The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos - Part II, with a variety of over 30 classical songs per volume, and a completely different song list for each voice type.

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In this charming, beautifully illustrated book -- out of print for more than sixty years -- Samuel McChord Crothers warmly introduces children to the unique world of Dickens children: David Copperfield, the Micawber children, Joe the Fat Boy, Oliver Twist, the Jellyby family -- to name a few. In 13 self-contained chapters, in simple, straightforward prose, Mr Crothers introduces the necessary background, and then gives us the scene itself as D...

Richard Lieberman documents the intense courtroon drama between an assistant coach loved and respected by his players and an institution worshipped by a nation. When Bob Davie is hired as head coach to replace the beloved Lou Holtz, he fires 64 year-old offensive line coach Joe Moore because -- as Davie puts it -- he needs someone younger. Moore files an age discrimination lawsuit and boldly challenges the powerful university.

A biography of the Byzantine courtesan who rose from the gutter to the throne of an Empire.

The standard work on the Nasca lines -- huge lines and figures etched on desolate Peruvian plain near the Andes.

To be close to her idol, track star Mizuki disguises herself as a boy and transfers to an all-guy's high school. Now she must hide her secret in the classroom, locker room, and her own bedroom.

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. But the winds of change are blowing through the village of Hanbury. The vicar, Mr. Gray, wishes to start a Sunday school for religious reasons, Mr. Horner wants to educate the citizens ...

Experienced Bible students and newcomers to the minor prophets will find insight and inspiration in this look at Joel, Amos, Obadiah, and Jonah.

Centering on a moral question--is it better to live a just or an unjust life?--"The Republic balances considerations of individual ethics with discussions of how to govern the ideal city. Inspired by the tumultuous government in Athens at the same time of its writing, Plato's work vigorously questions an abundance of political notions that are taken for granted today.

Chronicling the remarkable victory of Greece n its war (499-479 B.C.) against the invading Persians, Herodotus was the first historian to research the sites he described, traveling the world to gather a wealth of data for his enthralling epic." The Histories also inaugurated the practice of ethnography, making this brilliant work a monument in the development of academic thought.

Pranks begin when Albert J. Tretheway's beloved bowler hat disappears. Three weeks later Tretheway and Jake investigate a neighbor's report about an anonymous phone tip that her long-dead husband is in her garage. They find instead a live horse wearing Tretheway's missing bowler. The pranks escalate, and only Tretheway connects them and surmises they are movie-inspired. Which movie is next?

At forty, Hank has decided he's through with baseball -- a routine pop-up fell on his head and he got the message. Trouble is, baseball is the one thing that's given any meaning to his life. This is the painfully funny story of a man who decides to get a life, but isn't sure how. It's about fathers and sons, heroes and whiners, the wheel of fortune (and Vanna White), baseball and the decline of Western civilization -- and why Nellie Fox always...

In The Marquise, George Sand reacts against the tradition of the libertine novels of the 19th century by making the Marquise the narrator of the story, thus giving her control of the action. Sand deconstructs the myth of the seducer by making Lelio, the hero, the subject of the Marquise's desire. Pauline's two female protagonists represent diametrically opposed 19th-century female roles. Pauline is trapped by the bourgeois strictures of the ti...

From the disease-infected rookeries and teeming vice-ridden streets to the sweatshops, coffee houses and spacious parks, George's recreation of a capital city in a dirty, brutal -- but also elegant -- age has never been surpassed. Both a social history and an impeccably documented reference work, her book chronicles the change in social attitudes between 1700 and 1800, which left London cleaner, healthier and more ordered.

Geoffrey Ashe skillfully weaves all the different accounts -- legends, literature, historical documents -- into one continuous narrative that recreates in intriguing detail all the rulers and events, real or mythical, that are part of the rich tapestry of early history in Britain.

When Elinor Wylie died in 1928 at the age of 43, she had built a considerable reputation as both a poet and novelist. Her poetry, deceptively simple, is couched in traditional rhyme schemes. Edmund Wilson described her as "the master of a divine language." This book contains many poems not published during her lifetime.

Love of Worker Bees, which first appeared in 1923, consists of a remarkable novel and two striking short stories, written by the most famous and gifted Russian woman of the twentieth century. The novel is both a moving love story and a rare graphic portrait of Russian life after the October revolution in 1917. The heroine, Vasilia, struggles to come to terms with her passionate love for her husband and the new world that is coming into being a...