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Publication Date: November 24, 2010Musical based upon the screenplay by Jerry BelsonCharacters: 6 male, 7 female, plus ensembleVarious SettingsThis touching and satiric musical by the creators of Little Shop of Horrors, A Chorus Line and They're Playing Our Song,follows the intrigue and exploits onstage and behind-the-scenes as Santa Rosa, California plays host to the Young American Miss Pageant. "A swift paced and thoroughly professional entertainment."-Time "Wonderful Marvin Hamlisch melodies. Smart, clever move the story lyrics from Howard Ashman...This is the best Broadway score in yea...
|  | The Noodle Maker: A Novel
Release Date: April 4, 2006From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, w...
|  | Grave Consequences: A Novel (Grand Tour Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2013| Series: Grand Tour Series The Powerful, Epic Romance ContinuesFor Cora Kensington, the journey of a lifetime takes unexpected twists. And her future—her very life—depends on the decisions she’ll make at each crossroad. As her European tour with her newfound family takes her through Austria, France, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind. Meanwhile, a forbidden love continues to claim her heart, putting everyone’s plans in danger. And as Cora stays one step ahead of it all, what might need the most protection is her own hea...
|  | Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors
Release Date: June 8, 19881988 1st ed. Bonanza ...
|  | Women's Barracks (Femmes Fatales)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| Series: Femmes Fatales Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide.The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulle’s army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. But Women’s Barracks is no ...
|  | La ley de Herodes (Biblioteca Jorge Ibarguengoitia / Jorge Ibarguengoitia's Library) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Biblioteca Jorge Ibarguengoitia / Jorge Ibarguengoitia's Library Este es el unico libro de cuentos que escribio como tal Jorge Ibargüengoitia aunque mas bien se trata de una serie de ficciones sobre un fondo autobiografico. Como en el resto de su obra narrativa, en La ley de Herodes el autor exige al lector su total complicidad, y como justo premio le otorga el inigualable regocijo de experimentar con el protagonista un merecido desquite o una maliciosa venganza, sin piedad, sin misericordia y eso si, con excesivo sarcasmo. ...
|  | Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis
Publication Date: January 15, 1998Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The Ancient Models; The Folk Tradition; Mythic Echoes; and Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models. Within these divisions, each of the essays focuses on a specific genre, ranging from Torah and Aggadah to Kabbalah, fairy tales, and the modern Yiddish stories of S.Y. Agnon and Isaac Bashev...
|  | Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publication Date: October 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0674012194 | ISBN-13: 978-0674012196The Chinese garden has been explored from a variety of angles. Much has been written about its structural features as well as its cosmological, religious, philosophical, moral, aesthetic, and economic underpinnings. This book deals with the poetic configurations of the private garden in cities from the ninth to the eleventh century in relation to the development of the private sphere in Chinese literati culture. It focuses on the ways in which the new values and rhetoric associated with gardens and the objec...
|  | Selected Poems of Buddhadeva Bose (Oxford India Collection)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Oxford India Collection In Bengali literature Buddhadeva Bose was truly a phenomenon. A versatile writer, comfortable in genres as diverse as poetry, novel, short story, drama, essay, travelogue, and memoir---he was also an influential editor and critic, a translator of poetry who had a profound impact on younger poets, a writer for children, and a pioneer in comparative literary studies. This volume presents a substantial selection of Bose's poems in English translation along with a detailed Introduction by the translator Ketaki Kushari Dyson, hers...
|  | Haiku on 42nd St.: A Celebration of Urban Poetry and Art
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Once associated with Broadway premieres and New Year’s Eve, Times Square has more recently been known more for its porn shops, prostitutes, and other purveyors of questionable moral fiber. Starting a decade ago, everything began to change. The city shuttered the flesh shops, buildings closed for renovation, and a wonderfully whimsical collection of wordplay appeared on the abandoned movie marquees that stretched down 42nd Street. These enchanting, inspiring, even uplifting snippets are collected here in postcard form, for enjoying and sharing. ...
|  | Lu Benzhong yan jiu (Wen shi zhe xue ji cheng) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Books for Sale (Publishing Pathways)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Publishing Pathways Advertising and promotion has always underpinned the business of bookselling. The process of marketing is pervasive and inescapable, yet it is often difficult for the historian to reconstruct. The essays in this book explore a wide variety of practices ranging from the earliest book advertisements in the fifteenth century to selling books online in the twenty-first. ...
|  | Demon's Kiss (Wheeler Hardcover)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Wheeler Hardcover Even by vampire standards, Reaper is a loner, and his current mission to destroy a gang of rogue bloodsuckers is definitely a one-vamp job. Then fate takes a hand, and before he knows it, he's surrounded by a ragtag crew of misfit helpers: the newbie, the princess, the shape-shifter and the human healer. Seth is new to immortality, but he's sharp and strong—and he'll risk anything for the rogues' strange female captive, a secretive creature he doesn't understand but feels compelled to save.Vixen is confused by the emotions tha...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine (Severn House Large Print)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Severn House Large Print When a series of accidents befall small shopkeepers who have recently taken precautions to protect their premises, Sherlock Holmes is the first to discern a pattern, to the befuddlement of his most loyal friend. It seems someone is running a protection racket, and murder is involved, so Holmes is determined to get to the bottom of the Rule of Nine. ...
|  | The Incredible Hercules (World War Hulk)
Publication Date: June 4, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up When the Hulk returns to Earth for the senses-shattering events of World War Hulk, we can all guess which puny humans will fight against him. But which of Earth's heroes will fight for the Hulk? Don't miss the shocking revelations as Amadeus Cho, the boy genius who took on Reed Richards on behalf of the Hulk in Incredible Hulk #100, confronts She-Hulk and Doc Samson - and precipitates a gamma-powered smash-fest in the wilds of Jersey! Featuring the return of Hulk artist extraordinaire Gary Frank! Collects Incredible Hulk #106-111. ...
|  | The Gigantic Turnip (Barefoot Beginners)
Publication Date: February 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Soccer: The Ultimate Guide
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|  | Dragons Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: March 22, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | How to Survive in the Arctic and Antarctica (Tough Guides)
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