 | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Release Date: September 11, 2012I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students. Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the ho...
 |  | Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty
Publication Date: July 28, 2006Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, this expansive anthology gathers 600 poems by more than 250 poets. In addition to hundreds of masterworks in English, there are verses translated from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek, including selections from the great epics and meditations, such as the Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and Tao Te Ching. The writers represented here range from ancient and medieval greats (Homer, Lu Yun, Dante, Rumi, Judah Halevi) to the metaphysical poets, including Donne; from the mystics and ...
|  | Beyond the Sacred Page
Publication Date: December 16, 2009By Jack Cavanaugh, the Christy-Award winning author of more than 25 novels. An intricate plot offering surprising twists and turns....a pleasure to read. -Publisher's Weekly. He has always loved her...and only her. She's in love with a book and a cause he has vowed to destroy. 1535. A passionate heretic hunter, Pernell Foxe has dedicated his life to protecting the sacred Scriptures from those infidels who translate it into the vulgar tongue and distribute it among the masses. Meg Foxe, his wife, is haunted by her violent past and tortured by nightmares. She...
|  | A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup)
Release Date: October 5, 2004| Series: The Last Roundup Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure. At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that...
|  | A Man in Uniform: A Novel
Release Date: January 24, 2012At the height of the Belle Epoque, François Dubon leads a well-ordered life in the bourgeois quarters of Paris’ eighth arrondissement. When not busy with his prosperous legal practice, he enjoys both a contented marriage to his aristocratic wife, Geneviève, and satisfying afternoon encounters with his mistress, Madeleine. He is never late for those five o’clock appointments nor for family dinner at seven—until a mysterious widow comes to his office with an unusual request.The lady insists that only Dubon can save her innocent frie...
|  | Sticky Wicket Vol. 3: Watkins' Finest Inning
Publication Date: April 2, 2009It's showdown time in Fernwood, New Jersey, USA. Rebuffed in his efforts to find a playing field for his cricket club, and to take the game of his youth mainstream, the intrepid Freddie Watkins marshals his forces, including an unlikely group of middle-school recruits, for a final confrontation with the anti-cricket establishment.The eleventh-hour offensive could backfire, with dire consequences for his club and his marriage, or it could turn out to be Watkins' finest inning with a happy ending on both fronts. ...
|  | Demon Alcohol and the Monstermen
Release Date: August 11, 2008Demon Alcohol and the Monstermen is the story of one little girl’s struggles to overcome generations of alcoholism. Leysa Henko immigrates to America from Russia with her family in 1917, with all the optimism of a four-year-old. Leysa’s world begins to crumble when her abusive father, Devak, opens a pub in Tallenook, Pennsylvania, during Prohibition. When her adoring mother Ionna dies of tuberculosis, Leysa and her older sister Maryska are left at the mercy of Devak and his abusive bar cronies—the Monstermen. Devak presses them into service to save...
|  | Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions (Broadview literary texts)
Publication Date: February 18, 2002| ISBN-10: 1551112876 | ISBN-13: 978-1551112879| Edition: 1 Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women's agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in Campo, a group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm's way, form an army of their own. The Sociable Companions details the struggles of four women fr...
|  | The Miser (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Drama Classics Drama Classics edition ...
|  | The Little Book of Big Poetry (The Sacred and the Sinful)
Publication Date: July 16, 2011This book is my introductory work. It is a collection of original poems, quotes, and some of my basic philosophical ideas about life. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have writing it. ...
|  | Almuth Und Helene (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Historias del Kronen (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Finalista del Premio Nadal 1994, se convirtio en el icono de toda una generacion. Relanzamiento con nueva imagen. Historias del Kronen cuenta la historia de Carlos, un estudiante que vive con su familia, una familia acomodada. el es joven veintiun anos, sale de noche como todo los jovenes, pero para el su vida se basa practicamente en el sexo, alcohol y drogas, que comparte con sus amigos de la misma manera que el, esto le llevara a realizar acciones impensables, se siente realmente fascinado por la violencia, hecho que se representa en la novela a traves de ...
|  | Whispers in the Dark (A KGI Novel)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: A KGI Novel (Book 4) She came to him when he needed her the most. She came to him at his lowest point. The voice of an angel, a whisper in the dark. She's the only thing that gets Nathan Kelly through his captivity, the endless days of torture and the fear that he'll never return to his family. With her help, he's able to escape. But he isn't truly free, because now she's disappeared and he's left with an all-consuming emptiness as he struggles to pick up the pieces of his life. Did he imagine his angel? Or is she out there, needing his help...
|  | Best Gay Erotica 2003
Publication Date: November 11, 2002| Series: Best Gay Erotica Series Each year, guest judges selected from the queer literary world review the year’s best erotica and choose the final collection that makes up Cleis’s successful series representing a wide range of styles and voices. Best Gay Erotica 2003 features a list of writers on a par with J.T. LeRoy, Felice Picano, Alexander Chee, and M. Christian, among others, whose work appeared in earlier editions. ...
|  | Golden Vampire (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: March 22, 2011| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 110) It's called the Dark Surrender... the ultimate embrace of everlasting love, where entwining souls and purpose come together . . .For former cop Jesse Stewart, giving herself--mind and body--to sexy vampire Lance Van Baaren meant losing her soul. Hired by the government to find a senator's missing daughter, she instead found a haunting link to her past. And now something is drawing her to the one man she should despise....Once a knight, Lance had sworn to protect the innocent. And one of those young innocents had been Jes...
|  | The Golden Spiral (Hourglass Door Trilogy, vol. 2)
Publication Date: June 9, 2011| Series: Hourglass Door Trilogy (Book 2) When high school senior, Abby Edmunds meets Dante Alexander, a handsome and mysterious foreign exchange student, she has no idea how turbulent her life is about to become. Abby quickly discovers that Dante has many secrets, one of which could destroy the river of time altogether, erasing Abby from the very fabric of the universe. In this exciting trilogy, Abby and Dante must unlock the mystery of the Hourglass Door and stop those who would destroy the river of time. Filled with nail-biting suspense and heartstopping roma...
| | The D.A. Takes a Chance; She Walks Alone; Voice Out of Darkness (Detective Book Club)
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|  | Complete Works and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1995| Series: Texas Pan American SeriesAugusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion. This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narra...
| | Baker Street (A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes) Fritz Weaver, Peter Sallis, Martin Gabel, Inga Swenson, Virginia Vestoff
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|  | Pacific Northwest Recipes (Kids Can Cook)
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