 | The Matter Is Life
Release Date: September 13, 1992A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author. ...
 |  | Candy
Publication Date: February 9, 1996Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy –– a satire of Voltaire’s Candide –– chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world. ...
|  | The Winds of War
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|  | The Poet's Gift: Toward the Renewal of Pastoral Care
Release Date: April 1, 1993Donald Capps draws upon the poetry of William Stafford and Denise Levertov to show how poetry can benefit the field of pastoral care. He argues that poetry focuses on the immediate experience and attends to life itself, whereas theology and ethics focus more on abstract discourse, seeking to achieve a more panoramic view of life. ...
|  | October Country
Release Date: April 12, 1981THE OCTOBER COUNTRY is Ray Bradbury's own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. This classic collection of short stories includes:THE EMISSARY: The faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside--and beyond. . . THE SMALL ASSASSIN: A fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true--or her worst nightmare. . . THE SCYTHE: Just when his luck had run out, Drew Erickson inherited a farm from a stranger! And with the bequest came deadly responsibilities. . . THE JAR: A chilling story...
|  | Mysterious Cat Stories
Publication Date: September 1994A collection of twenty-five supernatural tales that feature unpredictable and eccentric cats includes the works of Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Lilian Jackson Braun, Washington Irving, and others. ...
|  | The Glassblower of Murano
Release Date: May 24, 2011In this internationally bestselling debut, a heartbroken woman embarks on a grand exploration of life and love as a glassblower in the city of her ancestors, Venice, and learns that the past may not be as clear as blown glass. ...
|  | Piperton
Publication Date: July 31, 2009All of her life Janie Clarke has been told what to do. First by her father, then by the boyfriend her father picked out. Already disillusioned with life in the small town of Piperton, Janie feels trapped until a stranger arrives and gives her a reason to rebel.Sam Hendrickson's travels have taken her all over the Southwest. She's never stayed in one place long enough to call it home. Doing odd jobs to pay for her food and gas, she thinks her life is just fine. Until Fate intervenes. On her way to Dallas, her car breaks down in the run-down town of Piperton. Sam...
|  | The Sea Gull (Chaika : a Comedy in Four Acts)
Publication Date: October 1994| Series: Chaika : a Comedy in Four Acts Chekhov called The Sea Gull a comedy, and perhaps it is, if you're watching at some great Olympian distance from the cares, sorrows, hopes, and joys of human life. For mortals, however, this play stands as the incarnation of all the dreams and despair, the almost unbearable exhilaration and the truly unbearable anguish, that is the essence of youth.The Sea Gull is the sharpest, the most achingly bittersweet, of Chekhov's great plays. ...
|  | Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays (Dover Classic Stories Coloring Book)
Publication Date: June 13, 2000 ...
|  | Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Penn Greek Drama Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0812216660 | ISBN-13: 978-0812216660| Edition: Performance Script The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist ...
|  | Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland into English - Volume 2
Publication Date: August 18, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Consistency of Phenotype (American University Studies)
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|  | Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle (Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy Seri)
Publication Date: October 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 0300116683 | ISBN-13: 978-0300116687Born in 1126 to a family of Maliki legal scholars, Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, enjoyed a long career in religious jurisprudence at Seville and Cordoba while at the same time advancing his philosophical studies of the works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers the complete text of this influential work of medieval philosophy. Richard C. Taylor provides rich notes on the Long Commentary and a generous introduction...
| | Polish historical antecedents of surrealism in drama
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|  | Colter's Wife
Release Date: August 26, 2003New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, who "writes brisk romance chock-full of compelling conflicts and strong local color" (Publishers Weekly), evokes the grandeur, excitement, and danger of the American frontier in this sweeping historical novel. When Kinyan Holloway's husband is killed in a range accident, she has no idea how she and her children will manage. Torn between the Sioux world in which she was raised and maintaining her husband's ranch - the largest in the Wyoming Territory - she knows only that somehow she will not just survive but preser...
|  | One Real Man (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Zebra Historical Romance Gil Yancy is a man with a mission: claim his share of Rocky Point Ranch and build a herd of his own. What Gil doesn't count on is the greeting he gets - in the form of a stove lid upside the head - from the mistress of the place. She's the prettiest thing Gil's ever laid eyes - and more - on. When last they met, the shady lady seduced him and stole his last red cent, so now it might just be time for a little sweet revenge...Josie can't believe Rocky Point's new cowboy is that cowboy - the one with the strongest-yet-gentlest hands ...
|  | Little, Big
Publication Date: June 1981[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award[*The text of Little, Big used for this recording is the Author's Preferred Text, as revised, restored, and corrected for a new, museum-quality edition of Little, Big edited by Ron Drummond.] Edgewood--which is not found on any map--is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travel...
|  | Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular (Wiley and Grampa's Creature Features, No. 1)
Publication Date: July 12, 2006| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Dragon Pawns: Jules and the Runt Dragon
Publication Date: March 2005Jules has been stuck in the Commons all of her deprived life. Now comes her fourteenth birthday and a chance to test for Solomon's University of Wizardry. She can finally quit pretending to have only five senses. Through her seventh, she can channel the Seven Sources and cast magic. She has kept this secret hidden better than her fear of heights or blistering temper. The seventh son of a mighty Sylverr dragon, Lancelor was expected to be a powerful windsinger. Instead, at the size of an eagle, Lance is a lazy and accident-prone runt. When his magic is discovered t...
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