 | Two Trains Running
Release Date: January 1, 1993August Wilson surged to the forefront of American playwrights with the success of such critically acclaimed plays as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, as well as his Pulitzer Prize winners Fences and The Piano Lesson. Now, with Two Trains Running, which Time magazine hailed as "his most mature work to date, " he offers another mesmerizing chapter in his remarkable cycle of plays about the black experience in twentieth-century America. It is Pittsburgh, 1969. The regulars of Memphis Lee's restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence...
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 | Persuasion: A Latter-day Tale
Publication Date: February 14, 2012When Anne broke off her engagement eight years ago, she thought she'd never see Neil Wentworth again. But when Neil's brother buys the house she grew up in, it seems fate has other plans in store, and Anne is woefully unprepared for the roller coaster of emotions that accompanies Neil's return. Fans of Persuasion will love this fast-paced, modern retelling of Jane Austen's most romantic novel. ...
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 | Peculiar People: An LDS superhero comedy
Publication Date: August 21, 2012Some superheroes have immense physical strength, skin like steel or amazing technology to help them out. Some superheroes are at peak condition, inspiring onlookers as they defy the laws of gravity and health. Some save the world in bone-crushingly stupendous style. These guys are none of that.In "Peculiar People", Daniel Smithson (don't call him Danny) and his LDS friends are unwittingly selected for an experiment that stretches a person's abilities beyond normal boundaries - but only based on their own characteristics. So the world's first superheroes inclu...
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 | Solemne Ante La Muerte (In Death) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Series: In Death La investigación secreta que la teniente Eve Dallas debe realizar para aclarar la muerte de su compañero Frank Wojinski, de quien se sospecha tenía algún negocio oscuro relacionado con las drogas, la obliga a pisar un terreno peligroso: el mundo de la magia negra y los ritos satánicos. A pesar del vínculo afectivo que la unía a Wojinski, fue su instructor durante los primeros años, sabe que debe anteponer la ética profesional a su lealtad personal. Pero cuando alguien coloca un cuerpo ante la pue...
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 | Drug Related
Release Date: March 1, 2008Gabriel Childers finds out her brother is missing the first person she suspects is her husband Chilly, a major player in the drug game. Chilly of course denies any involvement in her brother’s disappearance. Does Chilly have anything to do with her brother disappearance? Gabriel has to know. So she hires Nick Simmons, a smooth private investigator who gets so caught up in the case that it leads to his arrest and a dark past that he left behind ten years ago. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | The Fighting Agents (Men at War)
Release Date: May 1, 2001| Series: Men at War (Book 4) The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival....
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 | The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period
Publication Date: May 5, 2006| Series: The Broadview Anthology of British Literature In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It...
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 | In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones: The Original Screenplay
Publication Date: January 2003The screenplay of this moving, funny and unusual film is published here for the first time, together with over thirty stills and a witty, nostalgic preface in which Arundhati Roy writes about the making of the film, its relevance today and its significance in the development of her art and her politics. ...
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 | Gilgamesh
Release Date: October 3, 2000An epic adventure from the earliest days of civilization, this is a tale of greatness and glory that has been passed down through untold generations. Stephan Grundy -- whose stunning retellings of timeless legends have earned him resounding international acclaim-now reawakens a peerless hero as old as human memory and celebrates once more his mighty deeds and magical destiny.GILGAMESH"I am Ensi of Erech, son ofLugalbanda and Rimsat-Ninsun,two-thirds god and one-third man."A warrior, impetuous and proud, an insatiable lover, and a man of restless, violent spirit, ...
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 | In the Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott's Omeros (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
Publication Date: October 16, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415968046 | ISBN-13: 978-0415968041In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides anexamination of Derek Walcott's Omeros (1990) - the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his NobelLaureate - that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products andpractices of the contemporary Caribbean. It presents the first detailed reading of Walcott's highly controversial attempt to craft a Caribbean master narrative. In a detailed analysis of the poem's metrical and structural featur...
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 | Black Marigolds & Coloured Stars (Poetica)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Poetica For many, the versions from Asian and Oriental poetry made by E. Powys Mathers during and shortly after the First World War rank with those of Arthur Waley or Ezra Pound. This volume, pairing his first two books, Coloured Stars' and Black Marigolds', assembles the best of his remarkable poetry, which even now reads with undated freshness.Tony Harrison, a long-time Mathers admirer, describes the puzzles of Mathers' life and the fascination and originality of his poetry in his entertaining preface.E. Powys Mathers (1892-1939) is most often remem...
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 | Antologia poetica / Poetic Anthology (El Libro De Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2005| Series: El Libro De Bolsillo Cima de la corriente conceptista y eminencia del barroco, Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) hall...
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 | A Terrible Beauty: The Easter Rebellion and Yeats's "Great Tapestry"
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 | They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All
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 | Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (Wheaton Literary)
Publication Date: October 1992| Series: Wheaton Literary Recounts the life of the English author who created the urbane, aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. ...
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 | Dragon Flight (Dragon Adventures)
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Stories from West Africa (Multicultural Stories)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Planet Ocky: Hop on Top (Cambridge Reading)
Publication Date: April 22, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #26: Pandas and Other Endangered Species: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Reynard the Fox
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