 | Olive and the Bitter Herbs
Publication Date: December 15, 2011Characters: 3 male, 2 female Unit SetOlive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980's. She's a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors. Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror. A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her tha...
 |  | The Guardian (The Return of the Highlanders)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: The Return of the Highlanders (Book 1) THE RETURN OF THE HIGHLANDERS: BOOK IFour fearless warriors return to the Highlands to claim their lands and legacies. But all their trials on the battlefield can't prepare them for their greatest challenge yet: winning the hearts of four willful Scottish beauties. PASSION IGNITEDAfter years of fighting abroad, Ian MacDonald comes home to find his clan in peril. To save his kin, he must right the wrongs from his past . . . and claim the bride he's long resisted.As a young lass, Sìleas depended on Ian to play h...
|  | Men With Their Hands
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Growing up different is never easy, but Michael, a deaf young man from a small town, knows that he must find his true family beyond his biological one. He struggles and fails to find others of his kind until he attends college in New York City.There, we meet a variety of people from a deaf gay family of sorts: Eddie, an older accountant aching for love; Lee, an effeminate dishwasher with a pronounced weakness for red-haired men; Vince, a charismatic dancer who lives intensely no matter the state of his health; Neil, a brooding woodcarver who becomes a deaf w...
|  | The Mascots of 1911: The year God met the Devil in the World Series
Publication Date: November 1, 2007In 1911, Connie Mack and John McGraw—arguably baseball’s all-time greatest managers—shaped the game as each pitch was thrown and every base was stolen. And they did it with the help of their quirky mascots and superstitious players.Set in the stadiums, trains, hotels and clubhouses of baseball’s formative years, The Mascots of 1911 is peopled with brilliantly colorful characters. This fictional yet historically accurate story is told through the teams’ managers and mascots: Connie Mack and Louis van Zelst of the Philadelphia Athletic...
|  | Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0192839195 | ISBN-13: 978-0192839190| Edition: New edition As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage.For this edition, the texts of these plays have been newly edited and are supplemented with an in-depth introduction and detailed annotation...
|  | Bonnes (Folio) (French Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 1978| Series: Folio (Book 1060) Quatri...
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|  | A Year with George Herbert: A Guide to Fifty-Two of His Best Loved Poems
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|  | The Anger of Achilles: M
Release Date: December 2, 2004| Series: Myth and Poetics "Menis opens for consideration an immense range of significant poetic possibilities, not the least of which is that of an ethical sense for the term."-Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Henceforth no one will be able to claim that menis merely connotes strong emotion. Muellner has demonstrated that menis is a critical component of the workings of both the human and divine cosmos. And that is no small accomplishment."-American Journal of Philology"It is high praise, and deserved, to say that this study will take its place . . . as one of the wo...
|  | A Californian Hymn to Homer (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: October 4, 2010| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 41) Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of looking at texts, both within the Homeric tradition and outside it. This set of seven original essays, accompanied by a new translation of the Homeric “Hymn to Apollo,” considers topics that transcend traditional generic distinctions between epic and lyric, choral and individual, performed and literary. Treating...
|  | The Bad Miss Bennet: A Novel
Publication Date: October 19, 2012Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, née Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husbandLydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and was the first to getmarried. She never could understand what all the fuss was about aftershe left Brighton with her gallant. It is a shame, though, that Mr.Wi...
|  | American Tabloid: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2001We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their g...
| | The Pelican Brief (Reader's Digest Condensed Books Large Type Reader) [LARGE PRINT]
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|  | Mercy
Release Date: January 1, 1991Houston is shattered by a shock wave of unbelievably vicious sex killings. And this time the pattern is unique--way out of line with traditional violent-crime psychology. In Detective Carmen Palma's experience, a psychopath always chooses anonymous targets. But the Houston victims know and trust their killer: They meet willingly in hotel rooms, even in their homes. They don't fight when the leather cuffs are fastened to their wrists and ankles. They don't even struggle when the first blo...
|  | Sent (The Missing, Book 2)
Release Date: August 3, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and another boy, Alex, have no preparation before they are sent back to 1483 at the Tower of London, with the promise that they can return to the present if they can repair history. They quickly discover that Chip and Alex’s true identities are the 13-year-old King Edward V and his 10-year-old brother, Richard, Duke of York. But before Chip can enjoy being the king of England, they discover that they are virtually prisoners—and that their uncle wants them dead. How can the kids repair time and return home w...
|  | American Capitalism (Cornerstones of Freedom. Third Series)
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|  | Delirious:A Collection of Poems for Kids 8-88
Publication Date: December 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Delirious is a collections of poems for kids 8-88, and itis unlike any other you've seen.If you are a kid, have kids, or haveever been a kid, you'll identify with the poems in this book.Withtitles like Wedgie, Grandma's Beard, Y2K, Shaving, My Zipper Is Stuckand Delirious, it is easy to see this is no ordinary collection ofpoems.This book will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and itwill definitely make you wonder why! ...
|  | The Jungle Book (Books of Wonder)
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|  | The Three-Legged Duck
Publication Date: November 30, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Franklin is different from all the other ducks. Born with three legs instead of two, he knows that he will never fit in with the other ducks on the pond. But when one of the ducklings gets into trouble, it is Franklin's unlikely gift that saves the day, and all the ducks learn that we are created in God's likeness and he has love and a purpose for each and every one of us. Join author Debbie Brewer for a lesson about diversity, friendship, and the inspiring power of The Three-Legged Duck. ...
|  | A Kite Day (Bear and Mole) (Bear and Mole Story)
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