 | Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Release Date: August 7, 2012It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that’s exactly what Julia Child did. The warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. Now, in Bo...
 |  | The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage
Publication Date: November 28, 2011Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deplo...
|  | The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Publication Date: October 22, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521835380| Edition: 2 This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the USA, plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major US cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and p...
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|  | EYEBALL: SEX AND HORROR IN WORLD CINEMA #5
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|  | Rebel
Publication Date: October 11, 2011Rebel is the story of Jess Evans, a rebellious eleven year-old boy, who is tortured by a dark secret of his past.Orphaned at an early age, Jess is destined for rejection and neglect, but when a young couple agrees to foster him temporarily, Jess is invigorated with hope.B.J. and Cathy Cole welcome Jess into their home and attempt to provide him with love and security, but Jess remains timid and closed off.As the story unfolds, Jess slowly begins to trust and love B.J. and Cathy, causing Jess to question if he can ever come to terms with the secret haunting h...
|  | nevermore
Publication Date: October 19, 2010A coup. A plague. A falling soul.In this sequel to everafter, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland are separated when Alexa is caught in the middle of a Wereshifter civil war halfway around the world. Meanwhile, a mysterious disease begins to ravage the shifter population of New York City. Unable to reach Alexa to warn her, Val must penetrate the darkest secrets of the Consortium in a race against time to save her lover and friends.Will Alexa be able to avoid the clutches of a powerful Were who wants to use her as bait? And in Alexa’s absence, will Vale...
|  | Wild Things
Publication Date: October 1, 2004Sydney Van Allen is a rising star on the political horizon. Faith Fitzgerald is a dedicated scholar and award-winning author. Thrown together by fate, these strong, independent women find themselves impassioned by a dangerous longing that compels them to surrender- body and soul! ...
|  | Lebensborn
Publication Date: May 27, 2010In the summer of l941, an elite SS force under the command of the charming but cruel Major Reinhardt Hurst takes over a small French village. Antoinette Gauthier, her family, friends, members of the Resistance, and even their pets, find life difficult under the exacting SS rules.For Antoinette, it means being a servant for Major Hurst and his officers as they take up residence in her home.She succumbs to his advances to learn their secrets for the Resistance, only to have Hurst later discard her. Then, finding herself pregnant, she is sent by Hurst to a Lebensbo...
|  | The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0553210416 | ISBN-13: 978-0553210415| Edition: Bantam Classic Ed, Oct. 1981 Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. ...
|  | The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz
Publication Date: April 1, 2010A unique collaboration between a Cistercian monk and a scholar of Islamic translation, this volume offers fresh and distinctive interpretations of works by the spiritual Sufi poet, Hafiz of Shiraz. Combining scholarly precision with keen sensitivity to the mystic contours of the Persian originals, these esoteric verses are rendered into English without forfeiting the artistry or accuracy of the original intent. Knitting together aesthetics and erudition, each poem seeks to be intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating. Generated through conversatio...
|  | The Poetic Edda
Publication Date: November 1991| ISBN-10: 0889467838 | ISBN-13: 978-0889467835This edition is a reprint of the 1923 Bellows translation of Scandinavian mythology. ...
|  | Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393932532 | ISBN-13: 978-0393932539| Edition: Reprint The first gothic novel in America, Wieland (1798) is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.Wieland, the story of religious delusions and horrific violence on the eve of the American Revolution, is the first gothic novel in America and a cornerstone of the Early American literary canon. A family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited first by a set of mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air, followed soon after by an itinerant rustic named Carwin. Violence eru...
|  | Nora Roberts CD Collection 1: The Villa, Midnight Bayou, Three Fates
Publication Date: October 25, 2005The Villa:Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality - from Napa Valley to Italy, and throughout the world. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family's winery - and Sophia will be assuming a new role, working with Tyler MacMillan. Midnight Bayou:Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts o...
|  | The Fourth Man
Release Date: March 3, 2009Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frølich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, F...
| | Barry Sanders (Millbrook Sports World)
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World
Publication Date: September 23, 1997| ISBN-10: 1573560251 | ISBN-13: 978-1573560252This is the first definitive reference work to address the substantive elements of oral storytelling, a form of communication that dates back to the dawn of humanity. It is an A to Z collection of over 700 entries covering such major storytelling elements as motifs, character types, tale types, place names, and creation mythologies and storytelling techniques of cultures around the world. Examples of subjects covered are the contributions of pioneering folklorists and mythologists such as: Franz Boas, Stit...
|  | Shiva: An Adventure of the Ice Age
Publication Date: September 1990| Age Level: 9 and up A Cro-Magnon tribe is forced to confront its collective fear of the Neanderthal people they call ogres, when a young girl of the tribe, Shiva, befriends an ogre boy, and when Hiram, a young hunter from the tribe, is captured by ogres. ...
|  | Faeries
Publication Date: 1978'This enchanting book explores the realm of elves, pixies, leprechauns, dryads and other mythical creatures. Nearly 200 extraordinary drawings and full-colour paintings combine to produce a book which has stood the test of time since it was first published.' Kindred Sprit on Faeries. It has been 25 years since Brian Froud and Alan Lee created the delightful, imaginative and surprising Faeries -- a book that quickly became a massive international bestseller and went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide. In celebration of Faeries 25th Anniversary, Pavilion is d...
|  | Cats of the Wild (Baby Animals)
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