 | Island of First Light
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 |  | Eugene O'Neill and Oriental Thought: A Divided Vision
Publication Date: May 1, 1982“Off and on, of late years, I have studied the history and development of all religions with immense interest as being for me, at least, the most illuminating ‘case histories’ of the inner life of man.”—Eugene O’Neill writing to M. C. Sparrow, 1929 While it is commonly accepted that Eugene O’Neill studied Oriental mystical religions and that this study may be detected in some of his less successful experimental plays (Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, Marco Millions) there has not been an effort to consider...
|  | Loom: A Novel (Arab American Writing)
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| Series: Arab American Writing As a blizzard blankets the northeast United States, burying residents and shutting down airports, the Farrah family eagerly awaits the arrival of Eva, a cousin visiting from Lebanon after a long separation from the family. Over the course of several days, while Eva is stranded in New York City, Chehade s nuanced story unfolds in the reminiscences and anxieties of each family member. Emilie, the matriarch of this Lebanese American family, lives in a world of voluntary silence. Barely able to read and write in English and refus...
|  | The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampirestories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled.Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the humanlexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and theyare always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Bookof Pulps—...
|  | All Gone
Publication Date: December 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1934889377 | ISBN-13: 978-1934889374Lesbian Fiction: Mystery Romance - New to the North Park Animal Clinic, Dr. Kody Garrett is determined to prove herself to her boss. She gets her chance when he attends a medical conference and leaves her alone, in charge of the clinic. The young vet's confidence is shaken when dogs begin to mysteriously die. BJ Braden, a seasoned Animal Control Officer, teams up with Kody to solve the mystery of what they soon learn are a rash of animal poisonings. Amidst their growing attraction to each other they struggle...
|  | Tyler's Hill
Publication Date: August 7, 2009Sandy Lowenthal is a twelve-year-old girl in love with her life, one rich with friends, activities, beloved surroundings, and on the edge of change as uncontrollable circumstances nudge her into new insights that stretch her toward young womanhood. Tyler's Hill delves, with clarity and depth, into the joys, fears and desires of a group of girls coming of age through the pain of loss, the understanding of friendship and the cultivation of determined action, which they learn can change the course of their collective lives. The story has been inspired by true eve...
|  | Sweetness in the Belly
Release Date: March 27, 2007Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur’an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can’t escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the rid...
|  | The Villain As Hero in Elizabethan Tragedy (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 25, 2012This essay, which was presented as a dissertation for the doctorate at Princeton University, is the result of an endeavour to discover whether or not the heroic criminals of Elizabethan tragedy adhered to any particular type. Investigation showed that the greatest villains were Machiave Uians. But it did more ;it indicated that there were still other types of villains, and that many of them were not only heroic criminals, but were actually the protagonists of the plays in which their crimes were represented. This discovery changed the scope of my work, for it c...
|  | A Cry of Players: A Play
Publication Date: January 1998| ISBN-10: 0822202565 | ISBN-13: 978-0822202561This drama for 15 men, 3 women, and 1 girl, set in England during the 1580, tells the story of a young laborer named Will who becomes enchanted with the stage after seeing the performance of a troupe of traveling actors. ...
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|  | Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, wi...
|  | Clawhammer
Publication Date: January 1, 1994During a Christmas visit to his sister in Africa, professional poet, birdwatcher, and amateur sleuth George Devis is shocked when his beloved sibling and her husband are murdered by a military death squad. ...
|  | Third Girl: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Release Date: June 14, 2011| Series: Hercule Poirot MysteriesThree young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.…...
|  | The Lost Lagoon
Publication Date: September 3, 2010It is spring and Running River is in full flood. Tiptoes Lightly and Jeremy Mouse visit Greenleaf the Sailor and they venture forth in Greenleaf's newly made boat. Soon they are joined by Pine Cone and Pepper Pot the Gnomes and together they search for the Lost Lagoon the frogs have been so beautifully singing about. Meanwhile, back home, Farmer John reads The Adam Tales to Tom Nutcracker and June Berry. Later, Tom rides off in the night until he too comes to the Lost Lagoon. What happens on this night, with its majestic, rising moon, is filled with a wonde...
|  | In Full Bloom: A Close-Up Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: February 15, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Kids in the Kitchen Year 'Round Fun Cookbook (Everyday Cookbook Collection)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008 ...
|  | Songs in the Shade of the Flamboyant Tree: French Creole Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Through colorful tunes and splashy illustrations reminiscent of the vibrant flamboyant tree, this collection celebrates life’s passages and various island rituals in the tropical isles of Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, and Reunion. Lyrics are reproduced in the original French Creole dialects and translated into English, followed by notes on the origin and cultural context of each song. The accompanying CD features 30 traditional songs recorded with indigenous acoustic instruments and exquisitely performed ...
|  | When I Was Your Age: Volumes I and II: Original Stories About Growing Up
Release Date: February 14, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "Memoirs of adolescence by renowned YA authors. . . . Readers can journey to places where the seeds of imagination and keen powers of observation are planted." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Twenty award-winning authors respond in these two extraordinary volumes, now combined in one book. The writers of these stories make it clear that despite the difference between one childhood and another, all children share a complex humanity...
|  | The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
Release Date: February 27, 2007 Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegad...
|  | Fables (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
Publication Date: October 26, 1994| Series: MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (Book 32) Marie de France, one of the best-known medieval women, is justly famous for her Lais, but her longer work, the Fables, has been newly discovered by modern audiences. This collection of 103 tales is the earliest extant vernacular collection of fables from western Europe.Marie de France's sources are not clear; she appears to claim a unique source, but that is obviously not true; the first forty tales are part of the Latin tradition, specifically the Romulus Nilantii, but the other sixty-thre...
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