 | An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Publication Date: September 2, 2008A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. In the league of such contemporary classics as A Co...
 |  | Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1611453496 | ISBN-13: 978-1611453492| Edition: 1 The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his life.Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy, discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man’s relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fi...
|  | Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays
Release Date: November 11, 2003A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives’ Arabian Nights to the searing tension of Diana Son’s 9/11 drama The Moon, Please, to Susan Miller’s luminous fable The Grand Design. This remarkably diverse anthology includes thirty-five short plays by su...
|  | Other Heartbreaks: Stories
Publication Date: October 11, 2011In this collection of elegant, moving stories, Patricia Henley explores the many bonds and betrayals among women: mothers, daughters, lovers, friends. Her characters, at once familiar and surprising, make their way through grief and discovery, revealing the power of their own hearts and of the landscapes where they reside. In "Rocky Gap," June Peck and her family gather to honor their lost sister; in "Red Lily" the secrets and lies Jenny Rogers keeps and tells will change her life; in the haunting and hopeful "Ephemera," Sophie March-Gonzales faces the worst...
|  | A Sudden Change of Heart
Release Date: February 16, 1999Barbara Taylor Bradford has become one of the world's most cherished storytellers, having written fourteen bestselling novels that went on to become enduring favorites. In A Sudden Change of Heart, readers are once again invited to fall under the spell of a magical weaver of tales at her most seductive.Laura Valiant and Claire Benson are best friends from childhood and have remained exceptionally close through the turmoil of adult life. They have much to celebrate: Laura is a partner in a challenging and successful art dealership in New York, and her marriage t...
|  | Literary Companion to the Lectionary
Publication Date: December 1, 2001This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of the Scripture readings for the Eucharist in the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic lectionary, and the Book of Common Prayer. Drawn from many centuries and many countries-including Britain, Ireland, North America, Africa, and Australia, these readings bridging literature and liturgy can prompt private prayer or public worship through imaginative engagement. A short note before each passage con...
|  | Victory Square
Release Date: August 21, 2007The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today's most acclaimed. Finally having reached the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the earliest cases of the People's Militia reemerges to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now the chief, who was the original detective on the case. His arrest of one of the country's revolutionary leaders in...
|  | The Vespera
Publication Date: September 13, 2012The Vespera is a mythical adventure of a girl, Shameece, who embarks on a dangerous journey to find the Iglot, a mysterious stranger who has cast a spell of fear and silence over her village. She is helped by her mother, the Ata of Truth, and by her friend, Lucia, and by her own extraordinary powers to see into the truth and beauty of a thing and change into what she sees.These powers make Shameece a Vespera.Faced by harrowing obstacles thrown her way by the Iglot, Shameece learns how to use her determination and wit to push through. She changes shapes sev...
|  | Back by Popular Demand: For A Limited Engagement
Publication Date: February 28, 2012Who would think that the road to political power runs through Hollywood?These rich guys do.They plot to make a movie about the life of Jesus that will ignite the latent evangelical fervor of the masses and turn it into a potent electoral tool.The only hitch?Their chosen leading man may prove to be more than they bargained for.Stay tuned. ...
|  | Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization
Publication Date: March 1987Argues that man creates a cultural order inside which he lives. Outside of that form of life is the 'wilderness': the outer wilderness of untamed nature and the inner psychological wilderness of areas of personality hidden in everyday life. Only by stepping outside his culture can man understand his cultural self. Only by experiencing the wilderness outside our normal system of living can we understand what we are as civilised beings within our form of life. He suggests that primitive peoples have a better understanding than modern scientific man of this need to s...
|  | The Red Silk Robe: A Love Story
Publication Date: September 1, 2011The Red Silk Robe is a true story of a young English girl from Bristol, left without a family, who was determined to live life to the full and experience the world. You will follow her dream of being in show business, her travels, and her chance meeting with a handsome Lebanese 22 year-old in Beirut, Lebanon, which turned into a ‘LOVE-AT-FIRST-SIGHT’ encounter and marriage.... …leading to her first dramatic escape from Beirut after betrayal by her Moslem inlaws... her subsequent bare survival in Bristol with her two babies - broke, alon...
|  | The Complete Poems: A Modern English Version
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|  | Jin dai shi xue (Zhongguo shi xue cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Count on Me: Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships
Release Date: September 4, 2012Friendships can bring us peace, fill the emotional shortcomings in our romantic relationships, and help us remember what lies deep inside every one of us. For more than twenty-five years, the international organization Las Comadres Para Las Americas has been bringing together thousands of Latinas to count on, lean on, help, and advise one another. Comadre is a powerful term. It encompasses the most important relationships that exist between women: best friends, confidantes, coworkers, advisers, neighbors, godmothers to one’s children, and even midwives. &...
|  | Moonlight Cove (Chesapeake Shores)
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: Chesapeake Shores Jess O'Brien has overcome a lot—the challenges of attention deficit disorder, the near bankruptcy of her beloved Inn at Eagle Point and her self-perception as a screwup in a family of overachievers. Now she's ready to share the future with a man. Her friends persuade her to join a dating service—but she gets no takers! Which is fine with her childhood friend, psychologist Will Lincoln, who's already chosen the perfect man for Jess: himself.Will has loved Jess practically forever. He knows her faults and her strengths. But for ...
|  | The King of Torts
Release Date: December 27, 2005The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators.Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm.When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe.He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharm...
|  | The Betrayal
Release Date: February 1, 2000Betrayed by her boss, her husband, and her government, aU.S. trade official must save herself and her kidnapped daughter fromthe machinations of the most powerful men in the world... "Athriller that really thrills...like John Grisham at his best."--USA Today"A hard-charging, trust-no-one gut-grabber ofa thriller."-- Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers andApache"Riveting...establishes Willett as an author towatch." -- Chattanooga Free Press"A well-madeplot...emotional surprises."-- Wall Street JournalSabinWillett is "a worthy rival of Scott Turow and John Gris...
|  | British Women Mystery Writers: Six Authors of Detective Fiction with Female Sleuths
Publication Date: March 27, 2002Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to American television are far from typical of the latest women detectives. This work is a study of British detective fiction with female protagonists written by women. Authors included are P.D. James, Jennie Melville, Liza Cody, Val McDermid, Joan Smith, and Susan Moody. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the British female sleuth from the 1960s to the year 2000, particular...
|  | The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Laserlight CD Rom Library)
Publication Date: 1995The complete stories of Sherlock Holmes on CD-ROM! Easy search function, complete printout, illustrations -- ideal for book reports. Includes comlete text of all 60 titles -- including such classics as Case of Identity, Final Problem, Hound of the Baskervilles, Study in Scarlet, Sussex Vampire, Abbey Grange, Beryl Coronet, Black Peter, Blanched Soldier, Blue Corbuncle, Boscombe Valley Mystery, Bruce-Portington Plans, Cardboard Box, Charles Augustus Milverton, Copper Beaches, Creeping Man, Crooked Man, Dancing Men, Devil's Foot, Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Dyin...
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