 | The Hungry Woman: The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea and Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story
Publication Date: December 31, 2001| ISBN-10: 097053440X | ISBN-13: 978-0970534408In The Hungry Woman, an apocalyptic play written at the end of the millennium, Moraga uses mythology and an intimate realism to describe the embattled position of Chicanos and Chicanas, not only in the United States but in relation to each other. Drawing from the Greek Medea and the myth of La Llorona, she portrays a woman gone mad between her longing for another woman and for the Indian nation which is denied her. In Heart of the Earth, a feminist revisioning of the Quichí Maya Popul Vuh story, ...
 |  | First Four Books Of Poems
Release Date: August 11, 1999The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for The WildIris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. InFirstborn, The House on Marshland Wand, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which wonthe National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of apoet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. ...
|  | Almost Doesn't Count
Release Date: August 2, 2005The author of Loose Ends returns with a novel of a woman who can almost convince herself that love doesn't matter.Mercedes needs men for one thing only-and it has nothing to do with her heart. Growing up with her mother has made her sure of that. Now Mercedes has to travel home to South Georgia, where her mama, Miss Betty, is recovering from surgery. Back to the rickety old house that holds a lot of memories for her. If she could only learn to deal with the bad ones.Because a man has come into her life, a fine, bald-headed, church-going black man-the kind of man M...
|  | In the Name of the Father
Publication Date: September 21, 1987From the author of THE PERFECT KILL, THE BLUE RING, MESSAGE FROM HELL and SNAPSHOT, a Cold War thriller in which a Polish secret policeman becomes the Roman Catholic Church's secret weapon in an attempt to foil a plot on the Pope's life, aided by a nun masquerading as his wife. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Terminal Condition
Publication Date: November 15, 1998Imagine: you're critically injured in a horrible accident. Rushed to the emergency room, you're fighting for your life. But once you're there, no one tries to help you. Instead, you're locked in a dark room with rows of comatose patients; just lying there-- not dying, but not living either...Imagine: you're a promising young doctor at New York's most prestigious hospital. You're there to save lives, but you soon find out that the hospital is run on greed and malice, rather than compassion. Horrific human experiments are taking place. People are being robbed...
|  | Fury Of The Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man, Book 17)
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|  | Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton
Publication Date: April 1, 2006Dale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G. K Chesterton -The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to "look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton". Since, as he says, "Chesterton wrote about everything", there is an ocean of his material to benefit from GKC's insights on a kaleidoscope of many important topics. Chesterton wrote a hundred books on a variety of themes, thousands of essays for London newspapers, penned epic poetry, delighted in detective fiction, dre...
|  | Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell Anthologies)
Publication Date: January 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 1405119675 | ISBN-13: 978-1405119672| Edition: 2 This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens.Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama.Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques.Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women i...
|  | Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 1854597515 | ISBN-13: 978-1854597519Harriet Walter is well known for her performances at the Royal Court (Cloud Nine, Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce), the RSC (Nicholas Nickelby, Macbeth with Antony Sher) and the National Theatre (Arcadia), as well on television, where she played Amy on Unfinished Business and Harriet Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. In this book, she uses her experience to illustrate the processes involved in performance. ...
|  | Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Release Date: December 2, 2008Although alone, the lover is never lonely,Forever hidden with the Beloved.Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master's many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows and matures for those on the spiritual path. Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani have crafted a translation that remains faithful to the origi...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Goethe (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: May 13, 2002| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature This study provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama--with a separate chapter on Faust, prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading complete the volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike. ...
|  | Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
Publication Date: November 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0226032043 | ISBN-13: 978-0226032047| Edition: First Edition As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they a...
|  | Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire (Broken Heart, Oklahoma, Book 2)
Release Date: July 3, 2007being a mother is never easy-especially when you're undead. Eva LeRoy, Broken Heart, Oklahoma's librarian, got "vampified" when everyone else did: during a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy. But books still make her undead heart beat-and, strangely enough, so does Lorcan the Loner, the vampire who killed her... ...
|  | Lady Audley's Secret
Publication Date: August 18, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Evanly Bodies (Constable Evans Mysteries)
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Series: Constable Evans Mysteries Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village's newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila. Bronwen and Jamila are becoming good friends when Jamila finds out from her parents that they have arranged a marriage for her back in Pakistan. Evans tries to convince her family not to enforce the custom, arguing that Jamila is a normal Welsh teenager, but just as t...
|  | The Book of Fairy Poetry
Release Date: October 12, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Poets from Shakespeare to Walter de la Mare to Jack Prelutsky have written about fairy folk. Sometimes they canbe benefactors and helpers; ofttimes, tricksters; but always, creatures of sublime beauty and wonder. Here, in a sparkling collection, are Michael Hague's favorite fairy poems, illuminated by pictures from this master painter of fantasy. His fanciful artwork has never looked more otherworldly or beautiful. ...
|  | Rupert's Tales: The Wheel of the Year Beltane, Litha, Lammas, and Mabon
Publication Date: February 28, 2011A groundbreaking story that collects, commemorates, and illuminates traditional, sacred Pagan practices and beliefs in a fresh, contemporary, and whimsical style. Join Rupert the rabbit on his adventures as he sets out to discover how and why people leave their homes to celebrate seasonal holidays in the forest where he lives. As Rupert's journey unfolds throughout the seasons, he meets owls, fairies, and old friends who teach him about the Wheel of the Year. Beautifully illustrated, this book is an excellent starting point for young children being raised w...
|  | The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up He really, really, REALLY wants one. He'll take really good care of it! What's the matter--don't you want him to be happy? The latest book in the best-selling Pigeon series is the funniest one yet. ...
|  | The Story of Soccer (Sports History)
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|  | Flower Fables
Publication Date: January 15, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up "Fairyland" was familiar territory to young Louisa May Alcott and her sisters, for they had often romped there and explored its secrets under the guidance of family friend, Henry David Thoreau. Fifteen years her elder, Thoreau led the Alcott girls and their friends on berry-picking expeditions in the wooded land around Walden Pond, which he fancifully called "fairyland."It was on a piece of this land, owned by neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, that the girls' father, Amos Bronson Alcott, helped Thoreau build the now-famous cabin where he li...
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