Madeline takes a transatlantic trip with Miss Clavel, her schoolmates and her pal, Pepito. After being discovered in the park by a Hollywood producer, Madeline heads to Tinseltown with her friends to star in a movie with the young starlet Sugar Dimples. When the jealous and bratty star has Madeline fired from the picture, Madelines' friends come to the rescue. Spring is in the air and Miss Clavel decides a trip to New York is in order. While all the...

This new Selected Poems replaces an earlier selection of work by James Merrill entitled From the First Nine (1982), now out of print; it includes 121 poems taken from that work and from Late Settings (1985), but it excludes the long narrative poem The Changing Light at Sandover, which is republished simultaneously in a separate volume. Together the two give solid definition to a body of poetic work that must be accounted among the finest in English...

Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead.

Elegant and profound, A PAINTED FIELD is the first volume of poetry by one of Scotland's most gifted young writers. In these 42 poems, Robin Robertson demonstrates an astonishing range of styles and concerns, in a voice that is utterly original, whether he is rendering a dramatic new version of OVID, extolling the simple pleasure of eating an oyster, or scorning a British soldier's presence on Irish soil.

"This book profiles characters who were featured in some of the most popular television shows of the 1990s. Each entry includes personal details that were revealed during each show's run: names, addresses, maiden names, nicknames, date of births, phone numbers, relatives, and other fascinating details"--

BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor Teddy Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service...

Collected Poems Of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952 (New Directions Book)This attractive gift edition of COLLECTED POEMS 1934-53 includes work from DylanThomas's five published volumes of poetry:18 POEMS,TWENTY FIVE POEMS,THE MAP OF LOVE,DEATH AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas's poems gambol and frisk across the tongue and imagination like those of few poets I have ever read. His choicely crafted (and often synaesthetic) phrases, his musicality,...

"After being fired from their jobs as security guards, Josh and Ivan form Video Aces, a music video production company. Using Josh's talent and Ivan's business savvy, they attempt to hit it big in the business. They cross paths with theirs are Norman Mart, an extremely right-wing presidential candidate, Samantha Gregory, a scheming music reporter, and their childhood idols, The Swanky Modes." --

Needy is a reserved bookworm. Her best friend is Jennifer, a conceited cheerleader. The two share little in common. They share even less in common when Jennifer mysteriously gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local bar. Soon, Needy's male classmates are steadily killed off in gruesome attacks and she must uncover the truth behind her friend's transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches...