| A View from the Bridge (Penguin Classics) Release Date: December 16, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics Set on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York. As one of them embarks on a romance with Catherine, Eddie's envy and delusion plays out with devastating consequences. ...
| | White Horses Publication Date: March 31, 1982On nights when the air is still and the moon has risen, men called Arias appear out of nowhere and ride through the red deserts. They are mysterious strangers on white horses who can transport waiting women into new and exciting worlds. This is a story that Teresa has been brought up on. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | TORMENTA Publication Date: December 14, 2010"In this spine-tingling adventure Able Dawes will find that you don't have to be a hurricane to turn things around!"Able Dawes is the last member of his family's bloodline. He holds the key to breaking a centuries-old curse that binds his ancestors, Galveston Texas, and the ghosts of 8000 lost souls. However, Able is just a kid, addicted to heroin and flying solo on the most important night of his life. He isn't even aware of his dark legacy. He's never heard of Donovan Dawes, the man who invited evil to Galveston Island, and nurtured its presence. Able has...
| | Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook Publication Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Doctor Who (Book 18) A Doctor Who sourcebook. ...
| | The Banyan: A Novel About Samoa ...
| | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics) Publication Date: December 13, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature--including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop--and boasts one of the most innovative and whimsical narrative styles in all literature. This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes (with Sterne's later changes), adds two illustrations by William Hogarth, and expands and up...
| | Achilles: A Novel Publication Date: February 1, 2003Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks’ greatestwarrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. Achilles is an affirmation of the story’s enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination. ...
| | The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation Release Date: July 26, 2011 The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vivid and dynamic new translations by award-winning poets Robert Bagg and James Scully The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity and humankind. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone trace three generations of a family manipulated by the inscrutably vindictive god Apollo to commit patricide, incest, and kin murder. Elektra and Women of Trakhis begin as studies of women obse...
| | Six Advent Plays For Children Publication Date: January 1, 2006So you've just been asked to put together your church's Christmas pageant -- are you feeling overwhelmed yet? Don't worry... Six Advent Plays For Children provides you with all the tools you need to make this ministry an enjoyable and fulfilling experience for everyone. In addition to six delightful programs designed for children of preschool age through sixth grade (including a synopsis and stage directions), this book provides comprehensive, easy-to-follow guidelines that walk you through the entire process of planning, rehearsing, and presenting your holid...
| | Old Actors Never Die...: They Simply Lose the Plot ...
| | Nourishment for Your Mind and Soul Release Date: October 26, 2009Are you ready to experience mental and spiritual growth? Nourishment for Your Mind and Soul is an inspirational book of poems, making you think about different aspects of life. You can experience heart-felt, mind-juggling life experiences and inspirations to help you by reading these selections of poems, nourishing and encouraging you to improve yourself. Open your mind and prepare to climb higher and closer to God. ...
| | Classic love poetry ...
| | Modes of Production of Victorian Novels Publication Date: May 15, 1989| ISBN-10: 0226241181 | ISBN-13: 978-0226241180In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of capitalist novel production into the twentieth century.Feltes focuses on five English novels: Dickens's Pickwick Papers, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Eliot's Middlemarch, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Forster's Howards End. Published at approximat...
| | Key Trilogy Box Set Release Date: September 28, 2004| Series: Key Trilogy Her unforgettable #1 New York Times bestselling Key trilogy—together in a deluxe box set....
| | Blame It on Texas (Hotter in Texas) Publication Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Hotter in Texas (Book 2) Zoe Adams has always been content with her quiet nights at home, watching TV alone-until her life turns into a real-life episode of Unsolved Mystery Hunters. The story of a kidnapped girl triggers unexplained memories, and Zoe is dead-set on figuring out why. Her search leads her to one of the Lone Star State's richest families-and to sexy PI Tyler Lopez.Tyler has sworn off women, especially redheads with killer curves who poke their noses into his clients' private lives. Still, he can't deny the attraction any more than he ...
| | When Love Comes Publication Date: April 1, 2010This is a classic Beauty and the Beast tale, the story of a disfigured war hero whose hurts are healed by the beautiful young woman who can look past his wounds to see the true worth of the man within. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
| | Bannerman's Law (Bannerman Novels) Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Series: Bannerman Novels There is an affluent town in Connecticut where America's most dangerous men and women have "retired"--former wetwork operatives now scorned, distrusted,and targeted by the same government that created them. All Paul Bannerman and his people want is to live in peace. But there is no peace in a violent world. A Los Angeles film student stumbled onto something terrible happening behind the walls of Sur La Mer, an insane asylum for movie folk. Now Lisa Benedict has been silenced permanently. But Lisa had people who cared for her, people...
| | The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes ...
| | Asterix and the Secret Weapon Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | DK Readers: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi in Training Publication Date: July 20, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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