 | The Skit Book: 101 Skits from Kids
Publication Date: July 26, 2006Viewing skits as an aspect of folklore, this is more a general resource than an actual book of scripts.A list of characters, an outline of the action, and suggested dialogue or improvisations for each is given rather than the formal scripts, stage directions, and production notes found in other collections. Props and scenery are kept to a minimum, and in keeping with the oral tradition, flexibility in length and numbers of actors, as well as variations on the action are indicated. The material, submitted by camps, schools, and youth groups, should appeal to the...
 |  | A Raisin in the Sun (L. a. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection)
Publication Date: February 15, 2011| Series: L. a. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection A Raisin in the Sun is a seminal American drama and a heroic testament of hope. This new recording of Lorraine Hansberry s classic play, starring Rutina Wesley from the HBO hit series True Blood, chronicles a working class African American family struggling to maintain dignity in a harsh world. With her late husband s insurance money finally in hand, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a better home. However, her children have other plans: Walter Lee wants to buy a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to go to me...
|  | This Heavy Silence
Publication Date: October 2005Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family’s three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care.Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancée to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the power of the vows we maketo others, and, more binding, those we make to ourselves.Evoking thehardship, spring...
|  | Good Poems for Hard Times
Release Date: September 8, 2005 When Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readersacross America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, theirsimplicity, theirpassion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has todeal with"inspired thousands to buy what was for many their first book of poetry.Now, in Good Poems for Hard Times, Keillor has pondered over the archivesofhis beloved Writer’s Almanac radio show to select a batch of consoling,rousing,and truthful poems guaranteed to raise flagging spirits or to inspire those inneed ...
|  | Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai'i
Publication Date: January 1, 1998Poetry. Fiction. Pacific Island Studies. The anthology is the product of the combined vision of three organizations dedicated to the enhancement of education in Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press, Curriculum Research and Development Group, and Hawaii Education Association. ...
|  | Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems
Publication Date: May 1, 1998These essential meditations on commitment will bring pleasure and reassurance while confirming one's belief in the power of love. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)
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|  | White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
Publication Date: April 29, 2004This is a novel about London - its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness. 'In this extraordinary work, Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history' - "Guardian". ...
|  | Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
Publication Date: November 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0226032043 | ISBN-13: 978-0226032047| Edition: First Edition As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they a...
|  | Nieta de la Maharani, La (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 6, 2009LA NIETA DE LA MAHARANI recorre tres generaciones y la historia de cuatro mujeres: Anita Delgado, (protagonista de Pasion India) una humilde bailaora de Malaga que con 17 anos se caso con Jagatjit Singh, el Maharaja de Kapurthala; Laila, una fascinante mujer libanesa cuya hija, Zahra, se enamoro de Ajit Singh, el hijo del Maharaja de Kapurthala y Anita Delgado; y la propia autora, Maha Akhtar, que descubrio casi por azar quien fue su verdadero padre y un complicado pasado de su familia a los 41 anos. Una historia que recorre practicamente un siglo de amores secre...
|  | Mackenzie's Legacy: Mackenzie's Mountain\Mackenzie's Mission
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Series: Mackenzie Mackenzie's MountainMary Elizabeth Potter is a self-appointed spinster with no illusions about love. When she meets Wolf Mackenzie, a man with a chip on his shoulder the size of Wyoming, she sets out to convince the whole town he's a man worth loving. But Wolf's not sure he's for the taming of Wolf Mackenzie.Mackenzie's MissionNight Wing—the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system—is Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number one priority—and weapons expert Caroline Evans his number one distraction. When s...
|  | Charming the Highlander (Highlander Trilogy)
Publication Date: July 31, 2007| Series: Highlander Trilogy A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch...When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKeage, a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love. Forced together to survive the harsh, wintry landscape, neither expects the fierce passion that flares between them. But Grace is not used to letting her heart take control, and Greylen wil...
|  | Icebound
Release Date: September 5, 2000The arctic night is endless.The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white.Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave. ...
|  | Sword Point
Publication Date: 1990THE SOVIETS UNLEASH A MASSIVE ATTACK ON IRAN. AMERICA STRIKES BACK... By sea, air and land, soldiers are plunged into a war of computerized guns and million-dollar killing machines on the bloody sands of Iran. But when the Soviet onslaught is stopped by a powerful American counter-attack, the superpowers are facing a greater danger. Iranian fanatics have a nuclear bomb - ready to explode. In the Kremlin and the White House, in the raging battles on the sand, SWORD POINT gives us the fighters, the weapons and the terror that could be tomorrow's war! ...
|  | How to Survive a Natural Disaster
Publication Date: September 1, 2010"I didn't speak until I was seven. I didn't feel the need," May tells us on one page of How to Survive a Natural Disaster, a story of family rivalry, betrayal, violence and forgiveness told in six voices. May, the strange, silent orphan brought to a leafy suburb north of Chicago at six months old to mend the lives of a troubled family, might not talk, but as her Grandma Jack observes, "That baby studies people."Next we hear from May's parents, her sister, her dog and Phoebe, their agoraphobic neighbor who is the one who finally must rise to the occasion whe...
|  | Play to the End
Release Date: April 25, 2006Once Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he’s serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play—a play that might have saved Toby’s career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show’s swan song is coming in Brighton, where Toby’s wife happens to be living happily with another man in anticipation of a divorce decree. Then, almost as if he were scripted, a stranger enters the scene....A stalker is frightening Toby’s wife, Jenny, who believes the man is p...
|  | The Edinburgh Dead
Publication Date: August 17, 2011Edinburgh: 1828In the starkly-lit operating theaters of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewhere, there are those experimenting with more sinister forces.Amongst the crowded, sprawling tenements of the labyrinthine Old Town, a body is found, its neck torn to pieces. Charged with investigating the murder is Adam Quire, Officer of the newly- formed Edinburgh Police. The trail will lead him into the deepest reaches of the city's criminal underclass, and to the highest echelons of the filthy rich....
|  | Draw 50 Athletes (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 1989| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a variety of athletes from a number of action perspectives. ...
|  | Who Wants A Cheap Rhinoceros? (Chinese Edition)
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|  | Language, Gender and Children's Fiction
Publication Date: September 24, 2012| ISBN-10: 1441138188 | ISBN-13: 978-1441138187Looks at gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. ...
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