 | Three Plays by Kaufman and Hart: Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It with You and The Man Who Came to Dinner
Publication Date: April 19, 1994Three American theater classics by two of our most revered playwrights."Once in a Lifetime" is a highly charged satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood. There, their wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their great success.The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner "You Can’t Take It With You" is the tale of a zany but lovable family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax ...
 |  | 37 Downing Street - A Farnham Family Saga
Publication Date: March 31, 201237 Downing Street is the compelling story of life "above the shop" in a small English town. During a time of uncertainty and changing attitudes 37 Downing Street chronicles a family's history from the last years of Queen Victoria's reign to 1930s Britain. Edwin and Mary meet by chance and fall in love in the summer of 1889 but neither could have foreseen the challenges ahead. Edwin is a bricklayer's labourer but he is ambitious and unwilling to follow the humble footsteps of this father. In search of well-paid work to support his bride-to-be he travels to the ...
|  | Shupton's Fancy
Publication Date: August 1, 1996(Synopsis) An author and connoisseur of fine food has traveled to England to begin work on his latest culinary collection. But the research is a mere justification for indulging his other passion, fly-fishing. Heavy rain postpones his time on the stream, so he decides instead of heading for the Itchen to dig into medieval manuscripts at the British Museum. Among auld recipes, a cryptic reference to a legendary local fisherman named Shupton leads him on a hunt for the pattern of the legend's perfect fly. This clever mystery pokes fun, satirizes, and even lambas...
|  | The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Release Date: August 3, 2006The Happy Prince is the tale of a young nobleman, who in life sought only pleasure but in death, as a gold-encrusted statue, provides aid to the needy. Also included are The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press. ...
|  | Your Blue-Eyed Boy: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1998From the acclaimed author of "Talking to the Dead" comes a haunting novel about a judge whose husband is on the verge of personal bankruptcy and breakdown. As she struggles to shield her two sons from rising tensions at home, a letter arrives that threatens to destroy her public life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Russian Magic Books in the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars and Travellers (British Library - Panizzi Lectures)
Publication Date: January 28, 1900| ISBN-10: 0712349839 | ISBN-13: 978-0712349833The work of W.R.S. Ralston, a Keeper of the British Museum Library in the mid- 19th century and authority on Russian magic and folklore is discussed in this latest addition to the Panizzi Lectures which also looks at travel literature and memoirs and examines both the merits and the problems of using this kind of material as a historical source for the study of popular belief. ...
|  | Worship Drama Library Volume 10
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|  | Skin Folk
Publication Date: December 1, 2001A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) & lagahoo (werewolf)," "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book World as written in "prose [that] is vivid & immediate," this collection reveals Hopkinson's breadth & accomplishments as a storyteller. ...
|  | Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 30, 1973Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poe...
|  | Binchois Studies
Publication Date: February 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0198166680 | ISBN-13: 978-0198166689| Edition: 1st A man of huge reputation in his lifetime, the fifteenth century composer Binchois remains for us, at the turn of the twenty-first century, one of the key musical figures of his age.In addressing various facets of his life, music, influences, and the world he inhabited, this volume casts new light not only on this enigmatic composer himself but also on the fascinating culture in which his musical personality was shaped. ...
|  | The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
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|  | Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts (Legenda Main Series)
Release Date: March 4, 2011| ISBN-10: 1906540799 | ISBN-13: 978-1906540791For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism - seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries - we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time of profound cultural change. Indeed, the sociocultural transformations that marked the early 20th century in Portugal are still current. This volume provides a critical guide for students and teachers, contributed ...
|  | The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan, 1970-2010
Publication Date: July 1, 2011The second edition of the Chicano Studies Reader brings this best-selling anthology up to date with a new section, "Continuing to Push Boundaries." Five additional essays address current issues, including cross-disciplinary studies, investigations of mass media and public culture, and explorations of the intersection of race, sexuality, and citizenship. These essays correspond to the themes that organize the original set of essays: "Decolonizing the Territory," "Performing Politics," "Configuring Identities, and Remapping the World." The revised edition document...
|  | Rule's Bride (Bride Trilogy)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Bride Trilogy Unrepentant rake Rule Dewar is living the good life when a most surprising event occurs—he falls in love with his wife. After their strategic "marriage of commerce" three years ago, Rule quite forgot about Violet Griffin, the teenage heiress to a Boston manufacturing fortune. He simply spoke his vows, took over her father's business and returned to England to resume his usual pursuits: high-priced wine, high-stakes gambling and highborn women.Yet when Violet, now a sophisticated woman, unexpectedly appears at Rule's London tow...
| | Never Tell: A Novel of Suspense (Ellie Hatcher Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2013| Series: Ellie Hatcher Series (Book 4) Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious Manhattan town house, a coveted spot at the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life. But Julia’s enviable world was more complicated than it seemed. The pressure to excel at Casden was enormous. Abuse of prescription antidepressants and ADHD medication ran rampant among students; an unlabeled...
|  | Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel
Publication Date: August 2004The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer—it’s an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective’s moral code, and casts light upon the society’s attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre’s birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by Prohi...
|  | Teamwork Hb (Football)
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|  | The Olympics Records
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|  | Milton Hershey: Hershey's Chocolate Creator (Food Dudes)
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|  | The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)
Release Date: June 13, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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