 | The Piano Lesson
Release Date: December 1, 1990August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berni...
 |  | Betrayal
Release Date: July 1, 2011Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful marriage and a lovely home. Although Kate can't have children, she and Alex look upon Sara and Emily, daughters of their good friends Don and Debbie Winter, as part of their family. With one phone call, everything changes. Sara accuses Alex of a terrible act, opening up a vicious rift between the couples. Kate watches helplessly as her innocent husband is convicted and sent to prison. But when even greater tragedy strikes, Kate's grief turns to anger, and she discovers an inner strength and steel-edged resolve to cle...
|  | The Tanners
Publication Date: August 31, 2009"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village VoiceThe Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin
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|  | The Fatal Fashione (Elizabeth I Mysteries, Book 8)
Release Date: November 28, 2006In 1566, Elizabeth Tudor faces tremendous opposition from Parliament for ruling England without the help of a husband. Instead, she turns to her Privy Plot Council for help, only to discover from her royal herbalist that a woman has drowned in a tub of starch. Soon another garment worker meets the same rigid fate. Elizabeth becomes unbending in her attempts to solve the murders, as well as iron out the problems of her kingdom. But with her list of suspects growing--and firm evidence pointing to those she trusts the most--Elizabeth must hang the murderer out to ...
|  | The Admirable Crichton (A Comedy)
Publication Date: September 29, 2001The story of the play concerns an aristocratic English family who revert to the state of Nature when shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, they are willing slaves to their former butler, but on return to civilization, the positions are shifted. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Mysticism, Love Poems, Reality, and Deliverance
Publication Date: September 20, 2010A wonderful collection of Mystical poems. A total of forty nine poems included. The poet was born in Iran, and raised with the rich culture of great Persian Poets such as Rumi, Hafez, Sa'adi, and others. Upon arriving in the U.S., he was exposed to 'Leaves Of Grass', the great work of American Poet Walt Whitman. This is an absolutely inspirational collection drawing from the great influences of both the east and the west. We sincerely hope that it would be a great inspiration and blessing to you. Please share it with others. Thank you - Please Note: This i...
|  | Antologia poetica / Poetic Anthology (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda) (Legenda Main Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 1900755548 | ISBN-13: 978-1900755542How is gender embodied in poetic forms? What kinds of habitation can dramatic verse create for the performing voice? Where in verse are the inflections of the voice's self found? Can the line of verse be 'landscaped' to communicate the modalities of natural perception? Where is the poetry of the prose poem, and how should it be translated? How much authority should the lay-out of a free-verse text have for its translator? Referring to authors ranging from Labe to Shakespeare to Auden and Jaccottet, Scott seeks...
|  | Milk & Honey (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006| Series: Salt Modern Poets S. Milk and Honey is a dance to the music of that future time. It looks back and remembers. It looks forward and tries to see what will happen next. Its theatre is the world turning round and what can be saved each day from a life of the imagination. It builds tentative structures from smaller parts that come and go like thought itself. It is a lamentation, the universe as circus. It is a pattern of doors opening. It counts and it listens. ...
|  | Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (Poetry Anthologies)
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|  | The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521026660 | ISBN-13: 978-0521026666| Edition: 1 Timothy Morton explores the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of a growing consumer culture and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. The Poetics of Spice includes discussion of a wide range of related topics--exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. The book surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes new readings o...
|  | Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates
Publication Date: August 2009Recent events have focused attention on the perceived tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West, with the sense that Islam appears resistant to internal development and inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanization, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilization, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accomp...
|  | Homer: The Odyssey I-XII (Bks.1-12) (Greek Edition)
Publication Date: 1996| ISBN-10: 1853995029 | ISBN-13: 978-1853995026A substantial introduction covers many of the questions that lie behind the poem, including a thorough summary of Homeric grammar; the text is elucidated with full annotations, indexes and bibliography. ...
|  | Loving the Highlander (Highlander Trilogy)
Publication Date: July 31, 2007| Series: Highlander Trilogy A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills...When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine. For he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval highlander in modern-day Maine, a man with the fury of the untamed wilderness pounding in his veins -- and the power to unlock Sadie...
|  | Unicorns (Usborne Lift-the-Flap)
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|  | The Story of the Toronto Raptors (NBA: A History of Hoops)
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|  | Football Superstars (Boys Rock!)
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|  | It's Harvest Time!: A Book with Foldout Pages
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|  | A Little Princess
Publication Date: November 1, 2011A Little Princess, a 1904 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, follows the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl sent to a boarding school in London where she is to be lavishly cared for as instructed by her doting, wealthy father, Captain Crewe. When her father dies, and she is left an orphan and a pauper, Sara becomes a servant at the school, and befriends a maid with whom she shares an attic room. Her imagination keeps her alive in her destitute life, and the rich stories she invents become as real to the reader as they do for Sara and the maid. This ...
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