 | Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays
Release Date: October 1, 1996An anthology of twelve outstanding plays by a new generation ofAfrican-American playwrights includes Suzan Lori-Parks's ObieAward-winning Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom,as well as works by Cheryl L. West, Shay Youngblood, RobertAlexander, Kia Corthron, Keith Antar Mason, and others....
 |  | Gone (A Hannah Smith Novel)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: A Hannah Smith Novel Randy Wayne White has long been known for suspenseful plots, complex characters, and an extraordinary sense of place. His new series has them all—and then some. Hannah Smith: a tall, strong, formidable Florida woman, the descendant of generations of strong Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice—someone who can’t be bullied—and they have taken to coming to her with their prob...
|  | Bride Flight
Publication Date: July 15, 2011Based on a true story, this evocative period piece is filled with chance meetings, pioneering women, and sparkling romance It is 1953, and the last great transcontinental air race from London to Christchurch is about to begin; but even before the plane has left the runway, it has already become famous as the "bride flight." Of its 60 emigrating passengers, many are brides-to-be flying out to join their fiancés on the other side of the world. Among them are Ada, Marjorie, and Esther, each of them with their own reasons for wanting to leave b...
|  | The Sixth Gun, Vol. 2
Publication Date: June 28, 2011In the aftermath of the tragic battle of the Maw, Drake and company hide in the sprawling city of New Orleans. But as they plot their next move, they find themselves embroiled in another harrowing adventure. Unexpected threats, new enemies, and a host of strange spirits are already aligning against them. ...
|  | En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: October 25, 2005On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sister...
|  | Darkest Child: A Novel
Release Date: January 1, 2005“Evil’s regenerative powers and one girl’s fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer“Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence.”—The Washington Post Book World“[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel.”—Library Journal (starred) “Phillips writes...
|  | Lunatic Fringe (Tales of the Pack, Book 1)
Publication Date: September 14, 2011Lunatic Fringe indulges the feminine wild by giving the classic werewolf myth a lesbian twist. Lexie Clarion's first night at college, she falls in with a pack of radical feminist werewolf hunters. The next morning, she falls for a mysterious woman who may be among the hunted. As Lexie's new lover and the Pack battle for Lexie's allegiance, the waxing moon illuminates old hatreds, new enemies, and a secret from Lexie's childhood that will change her life forever.Lunatic Fringe is the first book in the Tales of the Pack series. ...
|  | The Kookaburra Gambit: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (Kylie Kendall Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005 ...
|  | Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Vintage International)
Release Date: July 14, 2009| Series: Vintage International In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey ...
|  | Jesters' Dance
Publication Date: June 27, 2011Call it corporate intrigue. Call it black comedy. Think Tom Wolfe meets John Grisham with the same du monde noir as TV's Mad Men. Advertising Manager Allan Corbett wants to fire his agency. On the eve of the most important product introduction in the history of pharmaceutical giant Carlton & Paxton -- the launch of a miraculous new anti-obesity drug -- he's decided for a variety of personal and professional reasons to put the billion-dollar assignment up for grabs. However, once he's asked the clowns to dance, his impulsive decision yields disastrous ...
|  | The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume A: Beginnings to 1800
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0618897992 | ISBN-13: 978-0618897995| Edition: 6 Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology changed the way American literature is taught. The Sixth Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and have built upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. ...
|  | Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 27, 1998| ISBN-10: 0486401464 | ISBN-13: 978-0486401461Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, politics, history, and more. ...
|  | The Great Game: Afghanistan (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: October 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 1840029226 | ISBN-13: 978-1840029222Will be performed between April 17th and June 14th 2010 as part of the Tricycle Theatre’s Afghanistan. ...
|  | Cautious Heart (Indigo)
Release Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Indigo another wonderful book by ms hodges ...
|  | A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest
Publication Date: February 1, 2007If Chrissie Hayward knew that morning she'd be going back in time to rescue her crazy coworker Kat, she'd have worn better shoes. Doubly so if she'd expected to meet her true love. According to the mysterious gypsy, Chrissie was the "gentle soul who would tame an outlaw's thirst for revenge" -- aka the real Robin Hood. So how come the guy was such a dud?LOST...IN SHERWOOD FOREST?No, Robin of Locksley was no Prince Charming. And the part about robbing the rich to feed the poor? He didn't get the memo. In fact, all the guy seemed to do was mope. (And he and hi...
|  | Drei Schwestern: Roman (German Edition)
Release Date: July 16, 2002This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1910 edition by Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig. ...
|  | The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0195069919 | ISBN-13: 978-0195069914| Edition: First Edition From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people.What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond.Fill...
|  | Little Boy
Release Date: April 15, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up The simple playthings, the everyday moments, picking up that hundredth rock -- all of these are brimming with possibility...if you slow down and let the future begin with the small moments of today. Because everything depends on letting a little boy...be a little boy. ...
|  | Dr. Seuss (Multilingual Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 2012FranklinCovey Organize Throughout 2013 With These Eye-Catching Wall Calendars. Featuring Beautiful Modern Photography, Prints From Impressionist Masters, And The Famous Illustrations Of Norman Rockewell, There's A Calendar To Match Your Style Of Daily Scheduling. ...
|  | Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1990-1994: Books of Recognized Merit
Publication Date: November 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0313287635 | ISBN-13: 978-0313287633Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the we...
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