 | The Postmistress
Release Date: February 1, 2011In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it.Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them. But both Iris and Frankie know better...The Postmistress is a ta...
 |  | La Casa en Mango Street
Release Date: October 18, 1994| Series: Vintage Espanol La novela mejor vendida, trata de una niña que crece en una de las comunidades latinas de Chicago-algunas veces le romperá el corazón y otras veces le dará gran alegría-describe un nuevo paisaje americano a través de sus múltiples personajes. -"Una novela profundamente conmovedora . . . Como lo mejor de la poesía, abre las ventanas del corazón sin desperdiciar las palabras." -Miami Herald. ...
|  | The Gift of Family: Merry Christmas, Cowboy\Smoky Mountain Christmas (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Merry Christmas, Cowboy by Linda FordA wild snowstorm strands Colt Johnson in Eden Valley, where the storekeeper's daughter exudes welcome warmth. She's even offered to give the two orphans in his charge a Christmas to remember. An outcast, Colt doesn't dare hope for more—even though Becca's love would be a Christmas wish come true.Smoky Mountain Christmas by Karen KirstCole Prescott's Gatlinburg visit will be just long enough to free his wife from their mistake of a marriage. Then he meets the daugh...
|  | Tell Me the Promises: A Family Covenant for Eternity
Publication Date: July 1996| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A collection of seven stories written to illustrate commitments between parent and child such as always protecting the child and always telling the truth ...
|  | RETRO-KM: Lord of the Landlords
Publication Date: January 29, 2009Set in what used to be the Americas; now a dystopic and balkanized litter of Nation-States. A surreal glimpse into the spiritual growth of a warrior-soldier from an emerging Black nation. It is a startling vision of ethnic conflict, voudon technologies, and soul bending revelations. Retro-KM isnovel that embodies a brand new genre of speculative fiction; cifer-RA (High-Science-Entertainment), brought to you by Daathrekh Publishing. ...
|  | Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
Publication Date: August 21, 1975| ISBN-10: 0837174201 | ISBN-13: 978-0837174204| Edition: First U.K. Edition An overview of the pre-Christian religions of Scandinavia. ...
|  | The Plays of Anton Chekhov: Nine Plays including The Sea-Gull, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and Others
Publication Date: August 19, 2004The Russian writer Chekhov was noted for his masterful short stories and lyrical dramas. His stories, though often based on themes profoundly tragic, are penetrated by the light and subtle satire that has won him his reputation as a great humorist. Contents: The Sea-Gull; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya; The Anniversary; On the High Road; The Wedding; On the Harmfulness of Tobacco; and The Bear. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...
|  | Lysistrata
Publication Date: August 1, 2008Lysistrata, one of the most famous and most popular plays of the great comic writer Aristophanes (456-386 BC), tells the story of how the women from the Greek city states decide to take over the public treasury in Athens and to stop having sex with their husbands until the men agree to stop fighting a destructive civil war. Written in 411 BC, when the Athenians and the Spartans had been at war for about twenty years, the play is celebrated not only as an extremely funny and frank comedy but also as a major landmark of feminist and pacifist literature. The sexu...
|  | Piensa lo bueno y se te dara (Spanish Edition) (Metafisica Conny Mendez)
Publication Date: August 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 9803690825 | ISBN-13: 978-9803690823| Edition: 2nd En opinion de la autora, las verdades mas profundas pueden ser perfectamente comprendidas por toda persona mayor de diez anos y de mediana inteligencia, siempre que le sean presentadas en lenguaje sencillo y en una forma que pueda aplicar a su vida diaria. Eso fue lo que ella hizo con este libro y su contenido filosofico y metafisico, a modo de tesoro de ensenanzas para el logro de una vida prospera, feliz y asegurada contra todos los males corrientes que aquejan al ser humano. En este li...
|  | Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Hispanic Foundation Ser)
Publication Date: June 1, 1971| Series: Hispanic Foundation Ser The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo Neruda has overshadowed hers, and she has been officially sentimentalized into a "poetess" of children and motherhood. Translations, and even selections of her work in Spanish, have tende...
|  | Theatre in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology
Publication Date: December 4, 2007| ISBN-10: 1405140445 | ISBN-13: 978-1405140447| Edition: 1 Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes major theoretical and critical manifestos, hypotheses, and theories from the field Wide-ranging and broadly constructed, this text has both interdisciplinary and global appeal Includes a thematic index, section introductions, and supporting com...
|  | Mealtimes and Milestones
Publication Date: February 25, 2010This book presents an astonishingly moving and mature account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness affecting 1.1 million people in the UK. At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven months. During that time, she kept a diary which sheds light on what it means to have anorexia, how it affects your life, and how it is not just a faddy diet or attention seeking disorder. Constance is an example to anyone suffering from this po...
|  | The Renegades: Rafe
Publication Date: June 2001The Renegade Half-Choctaw Rafe Aigner is no man to trifle with: dark and dangerous, he's survived by his wits and the turn of the cards. But now he has a young son who needs him, so the time has come to settle down. Fate has brought him to Texas, and Lady Luck has won him the San Antonio Star. But when Rafe discovers that the woman running his newspaper is the woman who once owned his heart, he's shocked -- and furious.The WomanIf she hadn't believed Rafe was dead, Madeleine Calhoun never would have married the fool who lost her beloved San Antonio Star -- and then...
|  | Combat, Vol. 1
Publication Date: January 7, 2002| Series: Combat (Book 1) An historic landmark work, depicting war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring new short novels by:Larry Bond, who explores the wild frontier of space warfare, where American forces fight a tenacious enemy which threatens every free nation on Earth.Dale Brown, taking us into the seldom-seen world of the military review board, and shows us how the future career of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot can depend on a man he's never met.And David Hagberg, who brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the C.I.A. d...
|  | Pest On The Run: More Humorous Short Stories From The Paddy Pest Chronicles
Publication Date: August 23, 2012Paddy Pest is a hero to himself and others. You'd better believe it. The man has been fighting crime all his life and although he does have his shortcomings, he does try hard. Bless his heart, he really tries. And now, someone has put out a contract on him. Is there no justice? Luckily for Paddy, his wing-person is the exquisite barmaid, Stormy Weathers, his longtime girlfriend and undercover perative. There is no more potent a force in the fight against corruption and wrongdoing, and the supersleuth is the favored go-to man for any number of international ag...
|  | Aliens for Breakfast
Release Date: October 22, 1988| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Great God Pan
Release Date: May 13, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Pan, both goat and god, is a curious being who roams nature searching, wondering, and frolicking with maenads and satyrs. He plays melodies on his reed flute, wooing animals to listen. He is a creature of mystery and delight. One day in his travels, Pan meets Iphigenia, a human raised as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. Pan is captivated by the young princess. Set against a landscape of myth and legend, Napoli’s latest tale is a love story wrought with sincere emotion and all that is great a...
|  | Mindy Gets Her Reward: Other Stories for Children
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|  | Blood Brothers (Studio Scripts)
Publication Date: January 1989| ISBN-10: 0748701826 | ISBN-13: 978-0748701827This is a fast-moving and perceptive, entertaining and thought provoking work, which is funny, yet ultimately tragic. It tells the tale of twin brothers, born into a large working-class family and the consequences of one of them being adopted by a neighbouring middle-class family. "Blood Brothers" looks at the differences and conflicts of their upbringings, their relationships with each other, and with their real and adopted mothers. This original version, initially specifically commissioned for performance by t...
|  | Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed?
Release Date: February 27, 2007| Age Level: 1 and up "A cheery piglet calls out affirmatives to a series of bedtime queries. . . . But the brightly colored pictures tell a different story. - KIRKUS REVIEWSIt’s time for bed, and Cornelius P. Mud knows what that means — putting his toys away, brushing his teeth, putting his pajamas on, all the things we do every night.Right?Wrong!Bedtime at Cornelius’s house is no ordinary event.Whether it’s stuffing toys in the fridge or playing rodeo in the bathroom, this plucky piggy has his own ideas. So no, Cornelius isn’...
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