 | Marion Bridge
Publication Date: October 1, 2006This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor’s most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing introduction, MacIvor talks about the genesis of both the play and the movie; the lessons he learned about the differences between the two media; and their radically different stylistic, technical and practical demands on both their authors and their audience...
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|  | Maxine Hong Kingston, Interview
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|  | Ash Wednesday
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Gerald Schwartz is a pastor in crisis. His wife abandoned him for a lesbian relationship, his parishioners are defecting to a megachurch where the sacrament of Holy Communion has been replaced by an All-U-Can-Eat Communion Brunch Buffet, and his job is about to be handed over to a graduate of Armageddon Bible College. As the members of Abiding Truth battle over everything from the time for Sunday services to the color of the sign out front, Gerald struggles to hold on to his sanity and his faith. Filled with flawed yet endearing characters, Ash Wednesday pr...
|  | Accident
Release Date: February 2, 1995Accident is a powerful andultimately triumphant novel of lives shattered andchangedby one devastating moment. Although frequent business meetings keep her husband, Brad, away from home, Page Clarke feels blessedwith her happy family and comfortablemarriage.They have a house near San Francisco and she keepsbusy looking aftertheir seven-year-old son, Andy,and their teenage daughter, Allyson.Allyson,at fifteen, is trying her wings and oneweekend, instead of an evening with herfriend Chloe,the girls lie and go out with two older highschool boys. But a Saturdayni...
|  | Leftovers: A Novel
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Vivian Lawson's fantasy of being the perfect 1950s suburban housewife is shattered when an uncontrollable event changes her life forever. Destitute and left to fend for herself in a man's world, she searches her New England town unable to find a job. With nowhere to turn, Vivian takes the advice of her wisecracking best friend, Babs, and reluctantly becomes a Tupperware lady. Vivian struggles with low self-esteem as well as stage fright but with the support of Babs' lovesick brother, Stew, and the creator of Tupperware's Home Party Plan system, Brownie Wise...
|  | The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Talesinto modern verse--the first to appear in over thirtyyears--makes one of the greatest works of Englishliterature accessible to all readers while preservingthe wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable featu...
|  | The Ghosts of Africa
Release Date: October 12, 1981Take an East African guerrilla revolt against English colonial rule led by a dynamic Germanic lieutenant-colonel, invent an American feminist who loves him, focus on the English intelligence officer who is fascinated by and wants to defeat him, throw in a bushel of Zionists trying to establish themselves in Uganda, spotlight a gorgeous African princess who serves as a Mata Hari for the rebels and you have a gripping historical novel. ...
|  | Song of the Hummingbird
Publication Date: April 30, 1996From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird--or Huitzitzilín in her native Nahuatl--recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Expressing a confidence and freedom that women have strived for centuries to attain, Huitzitzilín passionately relates her tale to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her an absolution she neither needs nor wants. Instead, she forces him to see the conquest, for the first time, through the eyes of the conquered. ...
|  | Island of Demons
Publication Date: February 16, 2010Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter Spies did more than dream. He actually did it.In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise and it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life and work forged a link between serious academics and the vis...
|  | I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz
Publication Date: January 1996| ISBN-10: 0915828189 | ISBN-13: 978-0915828180| Edition: First Edition "I Heard God Laughing" is by Hafiz, one of Persia's most beloved poets. Hafiz describes the richness and beauty of the world when seen through the eyes of love and portrays all the stages and processes of spiritual unfolding that transform human love into divine love. ...
|  | The Iliad (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: June 19, 2000| ISBN-10: 076458586X | ISBN-13: 978-0764585869| Edition: 1 The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.Homer's classic Greek epic, The Iliad, plunges you into the midst of the battle of Troy as swords flash and ancient angers flare — and CliffsNotes is at your side through the fray to shield you from being unprepared f...
|  | Montaigne: Essays
Release Date: July 1, 1993Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience." ...
|  | The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (The A to Z Guide Series)
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0810868555 | ISBN-13: 978-0810868557Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that ...
|  | Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Covert-One Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship’s true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message: The President’s biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the mysterious ship draws closer to its end port, Smith is losing time in uncovering the truth about the vessel and its cargo—a truth that ...
|  | Deadly Satellites
Publication Date: May 30, 2006Deadly Satellites is a gripping, high-action packed military thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Professor Luke Curtis is on the verge of becoming a national hero. The three laser-equipped satellites he developed to guard and defend against enemy missile attacks are about to be put to the ultimate test. The entire project is jeopardized, however when Professor Curtis mysteriously disappears. In charge of project security is tougher-than-leather General Leland Burke who will stop at nothing to find out who is behind the conspiracy. To make m...
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|  | The Blackbird: An Alan Grofield Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Alan Grofield Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating and more hot-blooded than Parker; think fewer guns, more dames.Not that there is...
|  | David Wright (Blue Banner Biographies)
Publication Date: July 8, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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