 | Three Days of Rain and Other Plays: Three Days of Rain; The American Plan; The Author's Voice; Hurrah at Last
Publication Date: September 13, 1999Richard Greenberg is the winner of the Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright, the Molly Kazan Playwriting Award, the Pen/Laura Pels Award, and his play Three Days of Rain was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. He has been called "a major new playwright" who has "mastered the art of telling a simple story with such grace and skill that it becomes startlingly new" (Fintan O'Toole, New York Daily News). Greenberg's plays have developed a reputation for being "intelligent, whimsical, always powerful pieces of theatre that are prof...
 |  | Orders is Orders (Stories from the Golden Age) (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: March 16, 2009| Series: Stories from the Golden Age The Japanese have led a heavily armored assault against the Chinese city of Shunkien, pounding wreckage into ashes and wiping out a city dating back to Genghis Kahn. One of the few buildings still standing is the small American consulate, now packed with one hundred and sixteen frightened American refugees. Food is low and deadly Asiatic cholera is starting to run rampant, with carnage and corpses piling up in the streets. Two hundred miles away, the USS Miami drops anchor, well equipped with the needed gold to buy food an...
|  | A Tamil Prose Reader
Publication Date: November 11, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521611857 | ISBN-13: 978-0521611855| Edition: Bilingual Among the languages now spoken in India, Tamil has the longest continuous literary history, some of the oldest records going back two thousand years or more. This fact, among others, makes it an important member of the Dravidian family, in which it holds second place to Telugu from the point of view of numbers of speakers. Tamil is now spoken by not less than 35 million people, mostly in Southern India and in Ceylon, though there are significant minorities in Malaysia, the West Indies a...
|  | The Art of Undressing
Release Date: March 1, 2005Ginger's mother, Coco, used to be an exotic dancer, though now she makes her living selling sex toys and teaching classes like "The Fine Art of Striptease." A straitlaced, self-respecting twenty-five-year-old, aspiring pastry chef Ginger has no desire to follow in her mother's high-heeled footsteps. She's too busy trying to convince her sadistic French cooking school instructor of her talents in the kitchen. When Ginger gets sweet on a fellow student, she finds herself ill-equipped in the art of seduction. And when she discovers she has a reputation for being "just...
|  | The Queen Is in the Garbage (Classic Feminist Writers)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Series: Classic Feminist Writers “Deft, defiant . . . accurate.”—The New York Times Book Review“Karp . . . get[s] it all on paper for a whole generation.”—Kate MillettA landmark stream-of-consciousness novel for the women’s movement in 1969. Shuttling between past and present during fourteen hours of labor, the thirty-two-year-old unmarried protagonist revisits family and mother-daughter conflicts, problematic relationships with men, and identity questions. Lila Karp hijacks the experience of giving birth to present sea...
|  | Swimming Sweet Arrow : A Novel
Publication Date: August 8, 2001Evangeline Starr Raybuck -- plain-spoken, lusty, and hardworking -- and June Keel are high school seniors, best friends going out with best friends, working together at Noecker's chicken farm after school. Vangie and June make out with their boyfriends together in the same car; they pass dirty notes to each other during the day at school. They tell each other everything: "That was the kind of friends we were".After they graduate, things begin to shift. Vangie gets a job waitressing and moves in with Del; June, unable to get a job anywhere but the local factory...
|  | Second Chance Tuesday
Publication Date: March 1, 2004Tuesday Donnelly's return to Glasgow isn't quite the homecoming she'd imagined. Ten years after she married an American oilman and moved to the States—falling out with her father, Tommy, in the process—she's ready to admit she made a mistake. Determined to start afresh and put the past behind her, she longs to pursue her singing career. But her elder sister, Patsy, a self-made businesswoman who dreams of being a star, resents Tuesday moving into the spotlight. And Tuesday's voice brings back distressing memories for Tommy too, threatening to wake ...
|  | The Girl on Legare Street (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print))
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 160285632X | ISBN-13: 978-1602856325| Edition: Lrg Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago. She's returned wanting to protect the daughter she's never really known after receiving an ominous premonition. Melanie never wanted to see her mother again, but with some proddi...
|  | Egyptian Animal Farm
Release Date: June 30, 2006A revolution erupts on an Egyptian farm. Animals expel their oppressive lord and establish a utopian society based on Commandments of metaphysical doctrine. What will happen to the post-revolutionary society? ...
|  | Conversations for Paco
Publication Date: August 2, 2011A mysterious illness is about to splinter an unsuspecting family ... an exposé jam-packed with love, lust, debauchery and greed unfolds when disease collides with healthcare profiteers and physician indifference in Conversations for Paco. Inspired by a true account, Conversations forPaco juxtaposes the venerable institutions of medicine against the personal anguish of enigmatic disease as PACO and SARITA SÁNCHEZ battle Paco's mysterious illness and JUSTIN SUTHERLAND surmounts the unanticipated challenges of medical education. Two parts social critici...
|  | Apollonius Rhodius Argonautika: Book 3 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries) (Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries) (Greek Edition)
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|  | Der Erbforster (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
Publication Date: January 15, 1984| ISBN-10: 0674954076 | ISBN-13: 978-0674954076Here is a bold new vision of Victorianculture: a study of myths of womanhoodthat shatters the usual generalizationsabout the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman.Through copious examples drawn fromliterature, art, and biography, Auerbachreconstructs three central paradigms:the angel/demon, the old maid, and thefallen woman. She shows how these animate a pervasive Victorian vision of amobile female outcast with divine anddemonic powers. Fear of such disruptive, self-creating figures, Auerbach argue...
|  | Edward Shelley's Journal, 1856-61: A Victorian Remittance Man
Publication Date: March 28, 2005Fresh from a stint recruiting Albanians to fight the Cossacks in the Crimean War, Edward Shelley embarked for South America, to avoid tiresome (and embarrassing) Parliamentary hearings back home.Thus began a trip around the world over the next 52 months, as he searched for adventure and new scenes to explore, stopping at intervals to collect traveling money from home.Shelley found adventure in full measure, crossing the Andes, passing through revolution-ravaged Mexico, sleeping alongside an erupting Hawaiian volcano and following invading British and French ar...
|  | The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
Release Date: February 6, 2007Growing up on the mean streets of New York City, Johnny and Mikey always had each other’s backs. Mikey was a loyal friend but even he knew that Johnny was headed for bigger things. That’s why he dubbed him the Mayor of Lexington Avenue. The two friends were inseparable—until one fateful night set them on their different paths: Johnny to life as a high-powered lawyer in Miami, and Mikey to a shattered existence behind bars. Now, haunted by guilt over Mikey’s conviction, and numbed by the excesses of a successful life, Johnn...
|  | Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, No. 14)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Dirk Pitt (Book 14) AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITT® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang's campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As...
|  | Nimitz Class (Arnold Morgan, Book 1)
Publication Date: June 1997The unthinkable has happened.The nuclear-powered Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier Thomas Jefferson, the most powerful warship in the world, home to a crew of 6,000 sailors and navy fliers, has been vaporized at sea in what appears to be a nuclear accident. The loss of life is devastating. It is the greatest peacetime disaster in U.S. history, and the shockwaves reverberate around the world. Yet even as America grieves, Lt. Commander Bill Baldridge of Naval Intelligence, brother of one of the victims, begins to piece together reports that suggest something sinister lur...
|  | The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: A Complete & Unabridged Reading by Derek Jacobi
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Sherlock Holmes Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all twelve stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.The Illustrious Client features an Austrian adventurer who corrupts young women, while in The Blanched Soldier, Holmes works without Watson to help an ex-serviceman. One of the world’s largest diamonds is stolen in The Mazarin Stone and The Three Gables sees Holmes face a formidable female criminal.In The Sussex Vampire, Holmes investigates the case of a baby with two small wounds on his neck, and three men w...
|  | The Sailor Snatchers (Greek Beasts and Heroes)
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Wizard, Wizard's Notebook Series
Publication Date: July 20, 2012Write down your dream, and then make it happen. It all starts here, your notes from an important meeting, a class, or an idea sprung from your imagination. Dream, succeed, be grateful. Composition books are for the mundane, day planners are gone with the 90's, your Wizards Notebook says that you have style and vision. Let your inner Wizard come out, in the notes formulated within your Wizard's Notebook. Myles Pinkney's "The Wizard" is displayed on the cover of this Wizard's Notebook (journal / diary). The lined pages are perfect for scribbling out the wizardry ...
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