| Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie Publication Date: April 21, 2009An erudite and witty look at theabsurdity of the world around us from abrilliant poet and a greatcartoonist.Philip Appleman—award-winning poet, novelist,scholar, editor, social critic, and Darwinexpert—turns his hand to humorous and sometimesirreverent verse in this, his eighth book ofpoetry. Appleman’s poetry, exquisitely formed,is a delightful and accomplished romp throughsuch lofty themes as sex, religion, and agingthat gleefully skewers established thinking.X. J. Kennedy writes in the foreword: “Appleman is a master of the sonne...
| | Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust (PAJ Books) Publication Date: April 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1555540759 | ISBN-13: 978-1555540753This volume collects for the first time critical essays, memoirs, and primary source materials relating to the surprising history of Jewish drama, cabaret, music, and opera under the Third Reich. These documents offer the remarkable account of a phenomenon that existed across Nazi Europe, in German cities, in Eastern European ghettos, and in concentration camps. ...
| | The Moccasin Maker Publication Date: September 15, 1998Long before American Indian women’s literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field. A mixed-blood of Mohawk-English descent, Johnson gained renown for literary recitals and theatrical performances in Canada, England, and the United States, being billed at the turn of the century as the "Mohawk Princess." Many of Johnson’s stories in The Moccasin Maker depict nineteenth-century Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation. ...
| | Forgotten Laughter Publication Date: July 7, 2003When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible, elderly mother, Frummie. Amid the peace of Dartmoor, Louise tries to forget the haunting memories from her past but an unexpected visitor forces her to remember. ...
| | The Lipstick Chronicles: Book One Release Date: November 4, 2003Get in on this hilariously sexy new chronicle of five women at work, at play, and in love...MEET... Elyssa, a successful CEO who doesn't skid to a stop over just any guy Alix, the gullible one still reeling after the perfect love of her lifeturned perfectly gay Dana, queen of the one-night stands, struggling with her new role as a "born-again virgin" Carole, worldly, wise, and a little weary after a 12-year run with her ex ruined her faith in the Y chromosome Robyn, flighty, fun, and way too optimistic for her own goodTogeth...
| | Alex Cross: Also published as CROSS Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Alex Cross ALSO PUBLISHED AS CROSSNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TYLER PERRYAlex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge-raising his children without their mother.Years later Alex is making a bold move in his life. He has left the FBI and set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex finally feels like it's in order. He e...
| | The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 Publication Date: December 14, 1999| ISBN-10: 0801861195 | ISBN-13: 978-0801861192A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition ofThe Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts and fragments. Edited upon historical principles by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, the multi volume edition will offer more poems and fragments than any previou...
| | random Publication Date: January 24, 2012| ISBN-10: 1848421052 | ISBN-13: 978-1848421059| Edition: Second Edition A powerful new play about a random shooting of a black kid outside his school. A young black woman starts talking about her day in a continuous present tense. She and her family are starting what they think is an ordinary day until the police show up with devastating news. Their world suddenly implodes. ...
| | Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (Classical Texts) Release Date: December 1, 2000| Series: Classical Texts Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult. Troy has now been sacked, and Agamemnon murdered by his wife and avenged by his son Orestes. With his mother's blood on his hands, Orestes is guided by Apollo to seek purification through bringing the image of the Tauric A...
| | A Book of Love Poems Publication Date: September 20, 1965170 poems on the subject of Love. There are old favorites such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Blake, Shakespeare, Sara Teasdale, and the Browings, But the new poets are included too -- Ezra Pound, Theordore Toethke, and Leonard Cohen. The season was the late sixtys and Love was all Around and many were singing "love makes the world go round.'........ ...
| | Cicatriz souvenir (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: October 14, 2009La Fundación Común Presencia publicó en Colombia la presente obra del poeta bogotano distribuida ahora por CreateSpace y Amazon en todo el planeta.Juan Sebastián Gaviria (Bogotá, Colombia, 1980). Viajero y poeta. Autor de los poemarios Inti Manic (Común Presencia Editores, 2004), y Música Mecánica (Ex-Tinta, 2006). Común Presencia Editores reúne aquí la mayoría de sus poemas, escritos en un viaje de diez años a lo largo del continente Americano. ...
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| | El Lugar Sin Limites (Paperback) Release Date: June 30, 2005| Series: Vintage EspanolNew EditionIn this book, José Donoso unveils the false appearances, sordidness, violence and misery that give life to a sub world.The story takes place in a brothel owned by la Japonesita (the little Japanese girl) and revolves around the character of Manuela, an ambiguous yet brilliant character, a melting pot of passions who serves to reveal a dual morality and to question masculinity and its values.Description in Spanish: Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la...
| | The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts) Publication Date: January 1, 1997| Series: Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts In the last few decades it has become abundantly clear how important is the "archaeology of the manuscript-book" in literary and textual scholarship. This method offers essential contexts for an editor's understanding of a manuscript, and helps to set the manuscript in the historical matrix in which the work was first brought out and understood.This group of papers, edited by two well-known scholars of the medieval world, offers both general and particular approaches to the issues surrounding manuscripts p...
| | Una arruga en el tiempo Publication Date: June 1, 1996| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Powerboats (Torque: World's Fastest) (Torque Books) Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Sabotaged (The Missing, Book 3) Release Date: August 24, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotage...
| | Armagedon / Armageddon: La Batalla Cosmica De Todos LosTiempos (Left Behind) (Spanish Edition) ...
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