 | The Unexpected Gift
Publication Date: June 1, 2009Drew Robbins Warren is a mother of two, whose husband has just left her for a younger woman. Leah Cline is a pregnant eighteen-year-old with no family, no friends, and no money. The only thing these women have in common is loneliness. Through their unlikely friendship, Drew and Leah learn to embrace life and everything that has been offered to them. But will either woman open her heart to love another man again?-Author Tour: Northern Georgia ...
 |  | How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
Publication Date: February 5, 2003| Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe A study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner ...
|  | Angel: After the Fall Volume 3 (Angel (IDW Unnumbered))
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Angel (IDW Unnumbered) Now that we''ve seen not only what happened after that epic, show-ending alley battle, but also experienced the First Night that Los Angeles went to Hell, it''s time to find out what comes next. But it''s not going to be easy. Long-time friends-turned-enemies Angel and Gunn are on a collision course with destruction, and when Gunn''s master plans get exposed, well, let''s just say things get chippy. Experience all the action, drama, deception, and demonic humor you''ve come to expect from Brian Lynch (Spike: Shadow Puppets), ...
|  | For the May Queen
Publication Date: September 20, 2008It s 1981 and 17-year-old Norma Rogers' parents drop her off at the college dorms. Soon, Norma finds herself drunk and nearly naked with three strangers. The strip poker event is the first of many experiences that prompt Norma to question who she is and who she wants to be. Norma's relationships with an array of characters induce her to grapple with society's messages about women, sex, and freedom. These characters include Jack, her aloof on-again, off-again boyfriend; Goat, her antsy dorm neighbor; Liz Chan, a pot-smoking sorority girl; Benny Moss, a nerd...
|  | The Poetry Lesson
Publication Date: August 16, 2010"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry LessonThe Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imaginat...
|  | La Maja Desnuda (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | One More Sunrise (Frontier Doctor Trilogy #1)
Release Date: January 8, 2004Countless perils menaced the early settlers of the Wild West - and not the least of them was the lack of medical care. Dr. Dane Logan, a former street waif who has been adopted by a doctor's family in Cheyenne, puts his lifelong dream to work filling this need. His renown as a surgeon spreads throughout the frontier, even while his love grows for the beautiful Tharyn, an orphan he lost contact with when he left New York City as a child. Will happiness in love ever come to Dane - or will the roving Tag Moran gang bring his hopes to a dark end?Showdown in Cheyenne ...
|  | The Recruiting Officer (New Mermaids)
Release Date: March 15, 2011| Series: New Mermaids This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern's comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author's career and gives a history of the play including its staging, critical interpretation, date and sources, putting it its context of the late Restoration and illuminating its theatrical vivacity.Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer is set in Shrewsbury in 1704 and describes what happens in a country town when the army come to stay. With c...
|  | Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Southern France (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)
Publication Date: February 28, 2011| Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom In this fascinating exploration of citizenship and the politics of culture in contemporary France, Ingram examines two theatre troupes in Provence: one based in a small town in the rural part of the Vaucluse region, and the other an urban project in Marseille, France's most culturally diverse city. Both troupes are committed to explicitly civic goals in the tradition of citizens' theatre. Focusing on the personal stories of the theatre artists in these two troupes, and the continuities between ...
|  | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.)
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Series: P.S.Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stori...
|  | Favorite Haiku Volume 5
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| | Greatest Hits (New Island/new drama)
Publication Date: 1997| Series: New Island/new drama Four new Irish one-act plays. Includes: Greatest Hits by Thomas McLoughlin; Blood Guilty by Antoine O'Flathatra; Marlboro Man by Clare Dowling; and Faint Voices by John McKenna. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans
Publication Date: March 28, 2011Why do Americans read contemporary fiction? This question seems simple, but is it? Do Americans read for the purpose of aesthetic appreciation? To satisfy their own insatiable intellectual curiosities? While other forms of media have come to monopolize consumers’ leisure time, in the past two decades book clubs have proliferated, Amazon has sponsored thriving online discussions, Oprah Winfrey has inspired millions of viewers to read both contemporary works and classics, and novels have retained their devoted following within middlebrow communities. ...
|  | Surrealism and Cinema
Publication Date: June 4, 2006| ISBN-10: 1845202260 | ISBN-13: 978-1845202262Tracing the work of Luis Buñuel, Jacques Prévert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan vankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this book charts the history of surrealist filmmaking in both Europe and Hollywood from the 1920s to the present day. At once a critical introduction and a provocative re-evaluation, Surrealism and Cinema is essential reading for anyone interested in surrealist ideas and art and the history of film....
|  | Lost and Found
Publication Date: September 15, 2012AN AUNT searches for her lost nephew—and dooms her sister. A MOM gambles a miracle will cure—and not kill—her child. A DOG finds his true purpose—when he disobeys. Animal behaviorist September Day has lost everything—husband murdered, career in ruins, confidence shot—and returns home with her trained Maine Coon cat Macy to Texas to recover. She’s forced out of hibernation when her nephew Steven and his autism service dog Shadow disappear in a freak blizzard. When her sister trusts a maverick researcherȁ...
| ![The Last Assassin [Unabridged] (John Rain Thrillers)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31SJZFSDMZL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | The Last Assassin [Unabridged] (John Rain Thrillers)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: John Rain Thrillers When John Rain, the Japanese/American "contract killer with a conscience" (Entertainment Weekly), learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain’s enemies, and his sudden appearance puts mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, t...
|  | Cincinnati Reds 101 (101 My First Team-Board-Books)
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|  | Bodie & The Burnt Orange Sunset
Release Date: December 7, 2010| Grade Level: K and up Bodie may be small, but he believes that one day he will grow into a great longhorn. This rhyming children's book follows Bodie on his adventure across Texas as he attempts to become the strong, brave Bevo that University of Texas at Austin fans look for at football games. Fun facts about the university and longhorns are also included. ...
|  | Dale Earhardt, Jr. (Discover the Life of a Sports Star)
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|  | Train Song
Release Date: September 30, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Here is the song of the train. Listen as it rushes past big cities and small towns. Listen as it sweeps through forests and fields and into tunnels. Hear the whistle wailing, brakes squealing, wheels rolling, r-o-l-l-i-n-g, stop. Now the train is homeward bound. All aboard! Notable Children's Books of 1991 (ALA)Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)100 Favorite Paperbacks 1994 (IRA/CBC)Notable 1990 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)Children's Books of 1990 (Library of Congress)Favorite Paperbacks for 1994 (IRA/C...
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