 | Heroes and Saints and Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints
Publication Date: December 31, 1994| ISBN-10: 0931122740 | ISBN-13: 978-0931122743Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrí¬e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: Shadow of a Man, winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; Heroes and Saints, winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and Giving Up the Ghost, first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version. ...
 |  | The Ghost of Hannah Mendes
Publication Date: November 16, 2001When Catherine da Costa, a wealthy Manhattan matron, learns she has only a short time to live, she realizes that her family tree will die unless she passes on its legacy and traditions to her granddaughters.But Suzanne and Francesca, beautiful young women caught up in trendy causes and ambitious careers, have no interest in the past.Catherine almost despairs until one night she is visited by the ghost of her family's anscestor, an indomitable Renaissance businesswoman named Hannah Mandes.The ghost of Hannah Mendes encourages Catherine to use every trick in ...
|  | Dying to Live: Life Sentence
Publication Date: March 7, 2012At the end of the world a handful of survivors banded together in a museum-turned-compound surrounded by the living dead. The community established rituals and rites of passage, customs to keep themselves sane, to help them integrate into their new existence. In a battle against a kingdom of savage prisoners, the survivors lost loved ones, they lost innocence, but still they coped and grew. They even found a strange peace with the undead. Twelve years later the community has reclaimed more of the city and has settled into a fairly secure life in their compound....
|  | Experimental Heart: A Novel.
Publication Date: November 1, 2008"Engrossing","authentic", "compelling"...just some reactions to the debut novel by UCL cell biologist and well-known blogger Jennifer Rohn. A thriller centered on commercial drug development, the book will be enjoyed by anyone who knows the intense, intimate world of biomedical research. At last, a novel about scientists with characters that are recognizably real! Andy O'Hara, a post-doctoral researcher in a London cancer research institute, agrees to help an attractive colleague, Gina, who is collaborating with a pharmaceutical comp...
|  | A Nice Place To Visit
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|  | Journey To Fate
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|  | The bees: An Aristophanic comedy of Oxford
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|  | When Then is Now: Three Greek Tragedies
Publication Date: April 5, 2007Modern versions of three Greek tragedies; Euripides' The Trojan Women, Euripides' Medea, and Sophocles' Antigone. ""There is an Irish lability to Kennelly's words, a kind of garrulous quality that makes these versions uniquely Irish when compared with the stark, 'classical' quality of some other versions. Full of war, death, divorce, and imprisonment, these plays seem as ripped from the headlines as nightly television dramas, as ubiquitous as nightmares."" --Booklist ...
|  | Cien Poesias Selectas = 100 Select Poems (Spanish Edition)
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| ![Cash receipts from major farm commodities by states : as percentage of state totals, 1924-55 / [by Harry C. Norcross]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P5mY-hCnL._SL500_SS500_.jpg) | Cash receipts from major farm commodities by states : as percentage of state totals, 1924-55 / [by Harry C. Norcross]
Publication Date: January 1, 1956This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries.Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings.This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. ...
|  | Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
Publication Date: July 17, 2001Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual co...
|  | New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire
Publication Date: April 14, 2006Cultural concerns about gender and empire converge in striking and unexpected ways in two popular novel forms of late-Victorian Great Britain. In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and colonial adventure stories competed for the sympathies of their readers. While one form questions a system that proclaims male superiority and the right to dominate others, the second celebrates British male victories over “savage” landscapes, animals, and people. Despite their differences, the auth...
|  | Running with the Devil
Publication Date: June 1, 2007Taking a ride on the wild side is a dangerous proposition. ...
|  | Wild Highland Rose
Publication Date: December 2003A ROSEMarjory Macpherson felt rebirth at hand. She'd known fifteen years of winter since her parents' brutal murder at the hands of the rival Cameron clan. But now Ewen-the enemy son she'd been forced to marry-was dead, perished in a rockslide. Marjory rejoiced. She could shed her thorns...at least, until her husband's father returned.IS A ROSEYet, was her husband dead? When Marjory went to retrieve Ewen's body, she found instead a living breathing man, covered in blood, talking strangely but very much alive.BY ANY OTHER NAMEThough he wore her husband's face an...
|  | The Simeon Chamber
Release Date: May 1, 1994Lawyer Sam Bogardus's client believed her natural father died years ago in a bizarre accident. But now, she's received word that he's still alive and tied to a hidden fortune. Sam's investigation uncovers a web of conspiracy so shocking that it's enough to make the lawyer take the law into his own hands. ...
|  | That Dog Won't Hunt (Rapid Reads)
Release Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Rapid Reads "Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful. In his free hours he hunts birds, reluctantly taking Bucky, Gladys' ancient golden retriever a...
|  | The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
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|  | DK Readers: Wolverine: The Story of Wolverine
Publication Date: March 16, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Emerald Tree: A Story from Africa, First-Start Legends
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|  | Spa Princess Cookbook
Publication Date: December 23, 2008Pamper yourself like a princess! Spa Princess Cookbook has all the recipes you need for both sensational spa treatments and delicious edible treats. Soak in a Milk Chocolate Milk Bath, scrub your feet with Pink Peppermint Foot Glow, or sip a Peachy Keen Princess Smoothie. Create the fun and magic of spa at home! Barbara Beery's books have sold more than 250,000 copies. Barbara Beery has been featured on the Today Show, the Food Network, and various ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates. The Miami Herald refers to today's youth as "Generation Green."More than half ...
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