 | How Will You Measure Your Life?
Release Date: May 15, 2012In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness. The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer th...
 |  | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Publication Date: October 11, 2010Play with music Characters: 8 males (5 black, 3 white) 2 black females Scenery: Unit set It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploitation. "Searing ... funny, salty, carnal and lyrical.... Wilson has lighted a dramatic fuse that snakes and hisses through several anguished eras of American life. When the fuse reaches its explosive final destination, the audience is impaled by the impact." N.Y. Tim...
|  | The Mistakes Madeline Made - Acting Edition
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|  | Cherries in the Snow: A Novel of Lust, Love, Loss, and Lipstick
Release Date: January 25, 2005Every Girl Needs Her Signature Color . . .Jailbait. Mystic Jukebox. Ass-Slapping Pink. Say Hello (and Wave Good-bye). Born to Run. These are some of the lipsticks offered by Grrrl cosmetics, colors that every hip young woman in the city just has to have. Sadie, a twenty-something Brit living in New York City, has the enviable job of creating these catchy names—and she’s good at it. What Sadie really wants, however, is to find the perfect moniker for Grrrl’s signature color, a color that will be loved by generations of women. A color name like R...
|  | Battle for Cannibal Island (AIO Imagination Station Books)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | A King's Ransom: The Ballad of Penumbria Vol. I
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|  | Into the Dreamlands
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Through our dreams, we explore our greatest fears and desires.Some believe that we tap into a vast ocean of human consciousness and experience.Other believe that we live with one foot in the material world and one that is unknowable.Journey with us into the Dreamlands.Featuring stories by:Caitlin R. Kiernan, Christa Faust, Bev Vincent, Jane Gwaltney, James S. Dorr, Amy J. Benesch, Gary McMahon, Gill Ainsworth, Larisa Walk, Louise Bohmer, Lisa Mantchev, and AC Wise ...
|  | My Babysitter Flies at Night
Publication Date: July 1994Intrepid 13-year-old Meg has to battle a new vampire who has infiltrated her eighth grade class. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Desolate Souls Souvenir Anthology of the World Horror Convention 2008
Publication Date: 2008A collection of stories gathered from some of our favorite authors to entertain and haunt you in commemoration of the World Horror Convention 2008 held in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
|  | Halo Boxed Set
Release Date: March 2, 2010Halo Boxed SetContact Harvest, Ghosts of Onyx and The Cole ProtocolContact Harvest:This is how it began...It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection.&#x...
|  | Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969
Release Date: August 16, 1999A vivid, sexy, and titillating journey into the steamy underworld of the dime novel.In the scandalous world of pulp fiction in the 1950s and into the 60s, detectives, gangsters, and mad doctors were joined on the racks by bad girls, dissolute youths, drug-crazed beatniks, and other assorted miscreants and misfits. Where romance met with soft porn there was also a surprisingly large population of butch brunettes pursuing and seducing blond femmes.This was an alternate universe of erotic pulp fiction where gals and dolls were exploring the illicit pleasures of le...
|  | The New Trial
Publication Date: April 3, 2001The New Trial is Peter Weiss’s final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe’s most important twentieth century playwrights—often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett—Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the Broadway play Marat/Sade and the three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, which has elicited comparison with Joyce’s Ulysses and Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Initially influenced by Franz Kafka an...
|  | Collected Works of Aeschylus
Publication Date: March 3, 2008Translated by Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead ...
|  | Postwar Polish Poetry: Third Expanded Edition
Publication Date: July 8, 1983This expanded edition of Postwar Polish Poetry (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland.The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion of new schools and talents.The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have o...
|  | Rubai'yat of Josh Malihabadi: A Drop and the Ocean
Publication Date: December 21, 2006Like a damsel whose heart is difficult to win Ruba'yee is a unique genre of Oriental Poetry. Not many poets have tried their hand on it. Josh Malihabadi is an undisputed king of Rubai'yat in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent. He has tamed the wild genre of Ruba'yee and used it to express his illuminating philosophic thoughts about anguish, pains, deprivations and vulnerability of life, social behaviour, love, beauty, solitude, courage, contentment,power, wisdom, expression, superstitions, irrational beliefs, spiritualism, religious paradoxes and values of lif...
|  | Tres Poemas En Tres Tiempos (Spanish Edition)
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| | Donald Barthelme (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 416)
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|  | Already Gone
Release Date: October 25, 20112012 International Thriller Award Nominee Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet--even ordinary. And he likes it that way. But it wasn’t always quiet. In Jake’s distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him. A raw, gripping thriller about the price paid for past sins, John Rector’s third novel is a liv...
|  | An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories (Stout, Rex)
Publication Date: May 8, 2000| Series: Stout, Rex The sexes battle, the head feuds with emotions it cannot control, and crime extorts and strikes and kills but does not pay in this collection of stories by Rex Stout at the outset of his celebrated career in mystery and suspense. Again and again in these tales taken from the pages of the pulps that first published him, Stout proves himself a master of the sudden reversal and unexpected revelation as he probes the thwarted heart and criminal mind. ...
| | Dragonbreath #3: Curse of the Were-wiener
Release Date: November 8, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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