 | Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire: A Play
Publication Date: November 13, 2006As topical as today's newspaper headlines, these rich monologues bring to life nine distinct Iraqi women whose very different stories convey the complex and harrowing reality of being female in modern-day Iraq. Their monologues quickly become a series of overlapping conversations leading to a breakdown in communication as the chaos of Iraq intensifies. Layal is a sexy and impulsive painter favored by Saddam's regime, breezily bohemian one minute and defensive the next; another woman mourns the death of her family in a 1991 bunker, and another--a blond Ameri...
 |  | Living on Holson Creek, A Choctaw Journal
Publication Date: August 10, 1999Living on Holson Creek, A Choctaw Journal, is acollection of short stories about the author's years growing up in theChoctaw Nation of Oklahoma as well as current happenings in the samerural neighborhood, and about events, past and present, which effectNative Americans. ...
|  | The Best of Nathaniel Gubbins
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|  | In Leah's Wake
Publication Date: March 27, 2012At the heart of the seemingly perfect Tyler family stands sixteen-year-old Leah. Her proud parents are happily married, successful professionals. Her adoring younger sister is wise and responsible beyond her years. And Leah herself is a talented athlete with a bright collegiate future. But living out her father's lost dreams, and living up to her sister's worshipful expectations, is no easy task for a teenager. And when temptation enters her life in the form of drugs, desire, and a dangerously exciting boy, Leah's world turns on a dime from idyllic to chaotic ...
|  | The Ladies of the Corridor (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of Literature ’s leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker’s life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d’Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman’s life in a drama teeming with Parker’s signature wit. ...
|  | Miss Match (Allie Fortune Mystery Series, Book 2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009FBI agent Jack O’Connor receives a letter from Maggie, a woman he used to love, saying she’s in trouble in Berlin. The FBI refuses to get involved, so Jack asks Allie Fortune to help him investigate. Allie and Jack pose as a missionary couple who want to bring orphans back to the United States. A child finds important documents that everyone in the city—Soviets and allies alike—want for themselves. Maggie refuses to tell Jack what the documents are, saying if things go wrong, they are better off not knowing.Through the course of the se...
|  | 35 Cents
Publication Date: October 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0977158225 | ISBN-13: 978-097715822535 Cents is the story of a straight, young, white boy growing up and coming of age as he hustles his way both through the gay community and the juvenile-detention system of South Florida in the late 1980s. It s also the amount he made when he turned his first trick at 13. Will he find home? Will he find love? All it costs is 35 cents. ...
|  | La Ciudad de las Bestias (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 16, 2003Alexander Cold, un joven de quince años está a punto de embarcarse con su temeraria abuela, en el viaje de su vida. Una expedición de la International Geographic se dirige hacia la remotas y peligrosas tierras salvajes de Suramérica para documentar al legendario Yeti del Amazonas, más conocido como "La Bestia." Alex y su amiga Nadia descubrirán que el impenetrable mundo de la selva tropical esconde mucho más de lo que jamás hubieran imaginado. Con la fuerza de sus dos animales totémicos -- el jaguar para Alexander, ...
|  | Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice
Release Date: June 16, 2005A clever and cunning modern day retelling of the adored Jane Austen novel"Tall, dark, and arrogantly handsome---not to mention distinguished, powerful, and rolling in money. Mr. Darcy? No, that's just the woman director of Pride and Prejudice," reports Nicholas Llewellyn Bevan, impoverished novelist and occasional (reluctant) journalist, when a TV production company trundles into his sleepy North Yorkshire valley. Amusedly he watches these glamorous invaders combine the filming of Jane Austen's romantic classic with the much less modest pursuit, off-camera, of real...
|  | Iambic Pentameter from Shakespeare to Browning: A Study in Generative Metrics (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0773487409 | ISBN-13: 978-0773487406This study adds to the debate over metrical description. The debate concerns how best to describe and account for the rule-governed metrical practice of poets writing iambic pentameter in English. The major work in this study is to reconcile the opposing points of view of the Halle and Keyser theory and the Kiparsky theory. It accounts for the placement in the poetic line of all the stress and intonation break sequences observed by the earlier theorists, and some additional ones as well. It oultines a basis in ling...
|  | Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Release Date: April 19, 2011For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fa...
|  | Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
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|  | The Prince of Homburg (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 0929587448 | ISBN-13: 978-0929587448Von Kleist’s last work and his masterpiece is an historical tragedy in which a prince’s love for a woman confounds his orders of battle. ...
|  | The Love Books of Ovid Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso
Publication Date: January 11, 20051930. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. Ovid was a Roman writer of love elegies (Amores), then experimented with the imaginary letter, mock didactic verse (Ars Amatoria), and collective narrative relating disconnected stories inside a large historical or chronological frame. Little was heard of Ovid until the Renaissance where he was revered as the great preceptor of courtly love. Through the Renaissance up to modern times, his poetry has been respected as a treasury of mythic themes, the suggestiveness and psychological content of which have inspired the im...
|  | The Emotion Of Life And Love Poetry Book
Publication Date: January 30, 2003The meaning of life and emotion as described in the most poetic words to make a person think twice. ...
|  | The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise: A Victor Legris Mystery (Victor Legris Mysteries)
Release Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Victor Legris Mysteries Fin de siècle Paris: the world of Verlaine and Zola, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec; a time of anarchists, scientists, and occultists, when can-can skirts were raised at the Moulin Rouge and fortunes were lost on the Panama Canal. Armand de Valois was one of these latter unfortunates, stricken by yellow fever at the site of his ruin. When his widow Odette disappears into his tomb in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and never returns, her maid Denise fears the worst. Alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one pe...
|  | From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Publication Date: May 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0226723380 | ISBN-13: 978-0226723389Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520–87) and Catherine (1542–87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother...
|  | Interpreting Modernist Writers: Macro History, Personal History, and Manuscript History
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|  | Strictly Taboo
Release Date: December 6, 2005Three sexy, original stories of men who are totally off-limits. From the author of the sizzling One Dark Night—three highly charged tales of unexpected desire, from the faraway past deep into the distant future... Here are three beautiful, daring women who find themselves succumbing to the forbidden, overpowering passion ignited by their arch enemies. Set in three different worlds-the past, the present, and the future-these stories will take readers way beyond their wildest imagination and into their most sensuous fantasies. ...
|  | Final Witness
Release Date: August 3, 2004One summer night, two men break into an isolated manor house and kill Lady Anne Robinson. Her teenage son, Thomas, convinces the police that Greta Grahame, his father’s beautiful personal assistant, sent the killers, but Thomas is known for his overactive imagination, and he has reasons to lie. Thomas’s father, Sir Peter Robinson, the British minister of defense, refuses to believe his son. Instead, he marries Greta and is prepared to testify for the defense at her trial. He will be the final witness.Who is telling the truth–the new wife or the b...
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