 | The Saint Plays (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: July 11, 2000| Series: PAJ Books This collection of fifteen plays by Erik Ehn is part of an ongoing cycle of plays loosely based on the lives of saints and biblical characters ranging from John the Baptist to Joan of Arc. Placing the protagonists and their suffering in a modern context, Ehn produces what he calls "contemporary fairy tales for the stage." The subject matter, he explains in the Preface, is "exploded biography," or "the means by which the self is overmastered by acts of the imagination, by acts of faith." An important contribution to current explorations of th...
 |  | A Promising Man (and About Time, Too)
Release Date: November 12, 2002 From the fire-hot author of Asking for Trouble comes a second irresistibly funny and romantic novel, in which we meet the delightfully wicked Harriet and John, who are matched as perfectly as scones and clotted cream -- if only Harriet would let herself indulge. Up to her eyeballs in her friends' dramas, Harriet Grey has no time for her own, let alone getting entangled with John Mackenzie. And though it's been ages since she's met one of the most gorgeous men London has to offer, it seems John's entangled with someone else. Or is he? Though they say all's ...
|  | An Irish Country Wedding (Irish Country Books)
Release Date: October 16, 2012| Series: Irish Country Books An Irish Country Wedding is another heart-warming tale from New York Times bestselling author Patrick Taylor.Love is in the air in the colourful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly has finally proposed to the darling of his youth, Kitty O’Hallorhan. There’s a wedding to be planned, but before O’Reilly can make it to the altar, he and his young colleague, Barry Laverty, M.B., must deal with the usual round of eccentric patients—and crises both large and small.Being a...
|  | Belong to Me
Release Date: June 28, 2011 Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly tested by her impeccably dressed, overly judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt—the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she'd find in suburbia. With Lake, another recent arrival, Cornelia shares a love of literature and old movies—as she forms an instant bond with this warm yet elusive woman and her perceptiv...
|  | La hora del angel (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Despues de una infancia dificil, en la que Toby O´Dare sufre la perdida de su madre y sus dos hermanos pequenos, su vida queda vacia de ilusiones; ya casi no puede recordar sus aspiraciones religiosas, su amor por su instrumento favorito, ni las ganas que algun dia tuvo de salvar a su familia. Su unico empeno es su ocupacion actual: trabaja como asesino a sueldo para un hombre al que llama ""The Rigth Man"" y en su fuero interno suena con que los homicidios que comete pudieran tener un motivo digno. Solamente hay un refugio que le produce cierta sensacion ...
|  | Mountain R (French Literature Series)
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|  | Wandering Star (Lannan Translation Selection Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Lannan Translation Selection Series “This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it.”—The TelegraphFrom the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wandering Star is the story of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel. Bearing witness to the boundless strength of the spirit, and based on his own experience as a child in World War II, J.M.G. Le C...
|  | Tales of The City Audio Collection
Release Date: May 30, 2000All six Tales of the City novels available in one audio edition with a special introduction by the author Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature; not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton; the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance; Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, fo...
|  | The Billy Goat Curse
Publication Date: February 21, 2005Major league baseball has a long and colorful history. Some teams seem almost blessed by the baseball gods. They win year after year, making the play-offs and competing regularly in the World Series. We all know these teams. They're the ones we love to hate. Other teams lose regularly and seldom make the play-offs. When they do have a winning season, something always seems to go wrong. Easy ground balls hit to Gold Glove fielders that would end an inning or kill a rally somehow manage to skip between the fielder's legs or bounce off their gloves. It almost ...
|  | Polyeuctus, The Liar, The Nicomedes (Penguin Classics)
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|  | Seven Famous Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Alcestis, Medea, The Frogs
Publication Date: August 1950This seems to be the only remaining little anthology of Greek drama. It contains two plays apiece by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and one very, very funny Aristophanes, "The Frogs," which is an especially welcome choice (over the more usual "Lysistrata") since "The Frogs" is the play which satirizes both Aeschylus and Euripides by showing them having a drama contest in Hades to see which one is best. So it's ideal for the casual reader who wants a good selection of Greek drama, and it's even more ideal for the teacher, like me, who can use it to give stud...
|  | Kanyadaan
Publication Date: August 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0195638646 | ISBN-13: 978-0195638646Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of Indian theatre for almost 40 years. This play, translated from the original Marathi, is one of his most gripping, socially relevant ones. ...
|  | The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud
Release Date: September 14, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Quiet Water: The Inspirational Poems of James Kavanaugh
Publication Date: May 1, 1993James Kavanaugh’s favorite inspirational reflections,offering courage when life’s most difficult passages seem impossibleto endure.As said by the author: "For centuries mankind waslocked in religious systems, falsely based on a Bible consistentlyinterpreted in myriad ways. Many, perhaps most remain fundamentalistchildren. Bold reformers in every century spoke another language,until today angry religious myths are losing their power. In the newmillennium honest and unpretentious humanness will flourish." AsKavanaugh writes, "There is quiet water in the c...
|  | Evoking Tang: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: July 2, 2007In Evoking Tang, writer and poet Qiu Xiaolong breathes new life into the works of the Tang dynasty masters, introducing their universal themes--of love and lament, friendship and longing, the serenity to be found in natural beauty--to a whole new audience of Western readers.The Tang period is the golden age of Chinese poetry. In Evoking Tang, a bilingual collection, Qiu Xiaolong offers English translations of more than 70 classic Chinese poems. The original texts represent the work of almost 40 poets from the Tang period, whose poems are comparable in importan...
|  | Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
Release Date: May 19, 2009Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when he’s talking about booze, sex, or organ meats? Writer and professor Jack Murnighan says it’s time to give literature another look, but this time you’ll enjoy yourself. With a little help, you’ll see just how great the great books are...
|  | The Big Question (Poets on Poetry)
Publication Date: December 1, 1995| Series: Poets on Poetry David Lehman's second book in the Poets on Poetry series confirms his stature as one of our leading literary figures. He is also a literary critic with a rare ability to elucidate thorny ideas and controversial issues in a way that is both entertaining and instructive.The Big Question leads off with a major essay explaining and exploring the concept of postmodernism. The next sections include pieces about poetry and fiction, lives and letters, and criticism and controversy.Other "big questions" addressed include political correctnes...
|  | Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 5, 2006The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailedannotations that reveal the author’s use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.Thenovel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationshipbetween this edition’s text and that of thePennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generoussampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friendArthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sister Carrie. "Backgrounds andSources" reprints generous excerpts fromDreiser&#x...
|  | Kiss Me, I'm Irish
Publication Date: April 19, 2011Emily Musgrave is heading a direction she never wanted to go in Regency England--namely a convent to turn her from her waywardness. But it's more loneliness than rebellion that motivates her to escape her certain fate.Liam Jackson is going nowhere fast in modern-day Tennessee. Playing his Dobro in seedy bars and backward dives along with his fiddling sister, Tinker, is doing nothing for his music career--and even less for the dark places in his soul.Pixie mischief can not only change time-lines, it can change hearts. Because sometimes a girl just needs a littl...
|  | Blood Line: An Anna Travis Novel (Anna Travis Mysteries)
Release Date: October 23, 2012| Series: Anna Travis MysteriesStill reeling from the death of her fiancÉ, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the superintendent—James Langton, Anna's former lover turned sometimes friend—urges her to take on the suspicious assignment. But is this new investigation purely a missing persons case—or a full-blown murder inquiry? An ominous pool of blood with no locatable victim...
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