 | Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
Publication Date: April 1, 2006“Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history—and the startling simplicity of desire—with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: “Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance.”—Charles Isherwood, VarietyFabulation: “Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor.”—Ben Bra...
 |  | The Joy Luck Club
Publication Date: January 1, 2002There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart. --This text refers to an out of print or...
|  | The Missing (Seasons of Grace, Book 2)
Release Date: September 8, 2009Readers anxiously await the second book in this moving series filled with mystery and family secrets, love and loss, heartbreak and healing.Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave them three weeks before.Grace suspects the reason has to do with her father and his reserved, uncommunicative ways.This conviction led Grace to break off her betrothal to her quiet, staid beau, and she is now resigned to remain single.But when the young Amishman she thought was courting her best friend takes a ...
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|  | Death Note, Vol. 3
Release Date: January 3, 2006Light is chafing under L's extreme surveillance, but even 64 microphones and cameras hidden in his room aren't enough to stop Light. He steps up the game, but before the battle of wits can really begin, a family emergency distracts him. But even though Light isn't using the Death Note right now, someone else is! Who's the new 'Kira' in town? ...
|  | British Life in India: An Anthology of Humorous and Other Writings Perpetrated by the British in India, with Some Latitude for Works Completed after Independence
Publication Date: March 23, 1995This delightful collection of humorous writings are thematically grouped and range from Kipling to Indian Civil Service officers.The book will prove a mine of information on the Anglo-Indian literary relationship. ...
|  | Tales of William Shakespeare: The Comedies (Cover-To-Cover Books)
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|  | The Hound Dog's Haiku: and Other Poems for Dog Lovers
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up A deft (and dog-loving) poet teams up with a Caldecott-winning artist in a fun, fetching haiku collection for anyone who's ever loved a dog.A corgi dozes with paws in the air. A bloodhound burrows into a scent. A border collie tracks a herd of cows. A wagging spaniel leaps for joy. In simple, charming haiku, poet Michael J. Rosen portrays twenty beloved dog breeds, from the pug to the Dalmatian to the golden retriever. Complete with interesting facts about each breed and illustrated with Mary Azarian's striking woo...
|  | This Way I Salute You
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0795702515 | ISBN-13: 978-0795702518| Edition: Second edition Compiled from previous works, these poems provide a rich sample of this prominent South African poet's work. Spending many of his formative years in the United States in exile from apartheid-era South Africa, Kgositsile developed a deep love for American culture especially blues and jazz. Many of his 'praise poems' reveal the poet's admiration for prominent American musicians like John Coltrane, B. B. King, and Cassandra Wilson and writers such as Chinua Achebe, Gwendolyn Brooks, and ...
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|  | Ultimate Peter Rabbit
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Grade Level: P and up Prepare to celebrate a century in print with one of the most visual guides to one of the world's best-loved children's characters. Packed with detailed sketches of Beatrix Potter's best-loved characters, descriptions of each of the 23 "Little Books" she created, and a selection of gorgeous original illustrations, Ultimate Peter Rabbit is the perfect guide for new readers and dedicated fans alike. Generous access to the Potter estate's archives has produced a volume which includes 300 artworks from the books and over 50 specially commissi...
|  | Selected Political Writings
Publication Date: October 1994| ISBN-10: 0872202488 | ISBN-13: 978-0872202481Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice." (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problema...
|  | Un Homme Grand
Publication Date: July 15, 1990The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics, poets and scholars write about their views of a man who epitomizes both the American Dream and the French-Canadian experience on this continent. Eight essays in English, eleven in French. ...
|  | Insensatez / Folly (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Finding the Dream: The Dream Trilogy #3
Release Date: August 1, 1997| Series: Dream Trilogy Laura Templeton found out the hard way that nothing in life is guaranteed. The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, she had always known comfort, privilege, and security. But by the age of thirty, her storybook marriage had been destroyed by her husband's infidelity. Laura's divorce left her both emotionally and financially devastated--but determined to rebuild her life without the Templeton fortune.Laura had always defined herself as a wife, a daughter, or a mother. Now, she must finally discover Laura the woman......
|  | All I Ever Wanted (Hqn)
Release Date: July 27, 2010| Series: Hqn One Happily-Ever-After Rocking Chair…and no sign of any forthcoming babies to rock in ol' Georgebury, Vermont. For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss (and five-week fling) is way overdue in his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to the company's new Miss Perfect. If that isn't bad enough, her mom decides to throw her a three-oh birthday bash in the family funeral home.Bad goes to worse when she stirs up a crazy relationship with the town's not so war...
|  | Vlad Dracula: The Devil's Puppet
Publication Date: July 5, 2010*Warning Sexually Explicit Version*Centuries after the Ark of the Covenant was delivered to a secret church in Ethiopia, a young prince stood before a great Turkish army. It was on that battlefield he would loose his life, then his soul.Is Dracula really the monster? Or is he the puppet? One thing's clear, he's not in control! ...
|  | Storytime
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 2 and up Following the success of The Story Tree and in response to our customers demand for a comprehensive preschool collection, this anthology brings together a cast of characters that kids and adults will love from the Gingerbread Man to The Ugly Duckling and The Three Little Pigs. While it is tailored for two- and three-year-olds, this collection will entertain everyone with its dynamic storytelling and vivid illustrations. ...
|  | It's Spring, Dear Dragon (Beginning-To-Read Books)
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|  | Tales for the Seventh Day: A Collection of Sabbath Stories
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