 | The Stendhal Syndrome: Two Plays: Full Frontal Nudity and Prelude and Liebestod
Publication Date: October 13, 2004The Stendhal Syndrome is named for the French novelist, who on a visit to Florence had such a visceral and physical reaction to its beauty that he wrote, "I felt a pulsating in my heart. Life was draining out of me, while I walked fearing a fall." Now Terrence McNally, one of our most beloved playwrights, has crafted two stunning and witty plays about art and how it transforms us.Full Frontal Nudity explores the reaction of three American tourists to the perfection and beauty of Michelangelo's David. In Prelude and Liebstod, a renowned conductor watches his ...
 |  | Luke's Story (The Jesus Chronicles)
Publication Date: February 19, 2009| Series: The Jesus Chronicles Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins forever changed the world of publishing with their phenomenal Left Behind series, which has sold more than 65 million copies. Now they are teaming up again to bring to life the glorious, dramatic story of Jesus Christ, told through the eyes of the Gospel writers— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. What Left Behind did for the Book of Revelation, The Jesus Chronicles will do for the Gospels. Luke never met Jesus. Unlike the other Gospel writers, he never witnessed Jesus perform miracles or heard Hi...
|  | REDEMPTION MOON: Book Three of the Laodicea Proxy
Publication Date: April 15, 2011| Series: Laodicea Proxy Someone has kidnapped John Harrod's daughter and has stolen the last page of the Book of Ancients. After mob boss Joe Delmonico orders John to meet him in Chicago in 1934, a game of cat and mouse with good and evil angels begins. With his wife Caroline and retired Chicago Police Detective Thomas Kendall, John plays every angle to find his daughter before the recreation of mankind begins at the eclipse of the Redemption Moon. ...
|  | Rhythms of Irregular Hearts: A Story of a London Sabbatical Gone Wrong
Publication Date: May 27, 2010Dr, David Harper, an American professor of cardiology, is on sabbatical living in London and commuting to the Clinical Research Centre near Harrow, where he hopes to test a new cardiac pacemaker. He is separated from his wife, Elizabeth, who, back home, is having an affair with her English exchange professor. David's research is going badly. An English nurse develops an unexpected interest in him, and he collides with his neighbor, a kindergarten teacher who lives in the apartment across the hall. When David is implicated in a dognapping from the CRC animal quar...
|  | Falling Snow
Publication Date: May 10, 2012Dr. Cason Macauley, a high-speed trauma surgeon from Denver, quietly spends two months a year in the snow covered mountains of Aspen working in the ER on a rotation between multiple hospitals in the state. She is beginning her third year on the rotation and looking forward to two peaceful, easy months when she is practically plowed down by a beautiful woman on the sidewalk outside of a ski shop. Adler Troy is a professional snowboarder that has time for nothing but the snow. When the stress builds from too many sponsor obligations and a failing marriage, she fin...
|  | For Now, For Always
Publication Date: October 30, 2007“Marianne Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people in love.”—Ann Bannon, author of the Beebo Brinker novelsRenee Parker is no stranger to love. At only seventeen, she fought social services for the right to raise her four younger siblings. Fought and won. It’s a challenge to parent kids scarred by a stepdad’s suicide and a mother’s imprisonment, but Renee doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice her own future to give her b...
|  | The World and Other Places: Stories
Release Date: June 20, 2000With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises. ...
|  | Knots
Release Date: April 12, 1972A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships. ...
|  | I Witness News: Live from Jericho: A Children's Musical with Good News About God's Provision and Faithfulness
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|  | Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (Dover Large Print Classics)
Publication Date: May 5, 2004| Series: Dover Large Print Classics Eleven stories include F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," Chekhov's "The Lady with the Toy Dog," and O. Henry's "The Furnished Room," in addition to works by Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather. ...
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|  | The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems
Release Date: February 22, 2011Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy--always fresh, new and even startling. A major English-language event, The Zoo in Winter collects poems from seven earlier books as well as from her more recent work. It is a remarkable menagerie of poems, of a strange and intoxicating beauty. ...
|  | Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Release Date: December 5, 2003| ISBN-10: 0807855316 | ISBN-13: 978-0807855317Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding.English's interdisciplinary approach brings together the work of those canonical write...
|  | The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0226142779 | ISBN-13: 978-0226142777| Edition: 2 The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Kierkegaard. One of Derr...
|  | Killer Secrets (Tempting SEALs)
Release Date: March 4, 2008The new, sexy Navy SEAL novel from New York Times bestselling author Lora LeighTHE FIGHT OF HIS LIFEAs the illegitimate son of Diego Fuentes, Ian Richards faces danger at every turn. Neither his father nor his fellow Navy SEALs knows which side he’s fighting for—or against. Which is exactly how the game must be played…until Agent Porter enters the picture.STIRS HER DESIRE FOR LIVINGKira Porter, undercover agent for the Department of Homeland Security, shadows Ian on his journey. She thinks she can see the real man beneath Ian’s bad-boy e...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: August 23, 2010| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true...
|  | Bloodline
Publication Date: June 12, 2012The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London's past. When Murder Squad veteran Detective Tom Thorne, who solves the London Police Department's most difficult cases, is called into what seems like, for once, an ordinary domestic murder, he thinks he's caught a break. A woman has been murdered by someone she knows. A positive pregnancy test found on the floor beside her. Thorne plans to question the husband, arrest him and return home to deal with hi...
|  | The Witches
Release Date: August 16, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Meet a hero, a wise old grandmother, and the most gruesome, grotesque gang of witches imaginable! ...
|  | Lebron James (The World's Greatest Athletes)
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|  | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi & Other S 2D (Naxos Junior Classics)
Publication Date: July 1, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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