 | The Girls from the Revolutionary Cantina: A Novel
Release Date: June 22, 2010Inspired by their good-natured rivalry, career-oriented best friends Julia Juarez and Ime Benevides have never let anything come between them. Then enters Julia's new coworker, Ilario, who pulls both women's heartstrings, disrupts their friendship, and brings Julia's career to the brink of disaster. Looking for support, Julia turns to her other friends: Concepción, a party-obsessed dance instructor; Nina, a timid but shrewd seamstress who's not too taken with her fiancé; and Marta, owner of the Revolutionary Cantina, who is preoccupied with the details of...
 |  | Waking Lazarus
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Jude Allman is hiding from the world and from God, but when tragedy strikes, will he truly risk living for the first time in years? ...
|  | The Two Minute Rule
Release Date: November 29, 2011Max Holman knew the two minute rule: Get in, get the cash, and get out. But in one moment of weakness he botched a bank job and went away for a decade. Now released from federal prison, Max wants to reconcile with his estranged son, an L.A. cop. Instead he receives the devastating news that his son’s been gunned down in cold blood. To uncover the truth about the killing, Max aligns with Katherine Pollard, the ex–FBI agent who put him away, in a father’s search for justice and revenge. ...
|  | Downton Abbey: The Unofficial Guide to Seasons One and Two
Publication Date: April 3, 2012Downton Abbey has quickly become an international sensation. Viewers across the world have fallen in love with the characters. The Guiness Book of World Record has called it the most critically acclaimed show on TV. This guide will help you refresh your memory about all the plots, sub-plots, and characters. The guide provides a recap of every episode (be warned of spoilers), descriptions of every major character, and a history of the shows production and origins. TVcaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. Each unofficial TV guide, recaps TV shows to...
|  | Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Publication Date: February 17, 2011| ISBN-10: 1452650292 | ISBN-13: 978-1452650296| Edition: Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In Sulaco, a harbor town in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserve...
|  | The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
Release Date: June 1, 1996In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance. It is Vance, sage and charismatic, who will ultimately guide the match, for he holds the secret of the Authentic Swing. And he alone can show his protege the way back to glory. Written in the spirit of Gold in the Kingdom and...
|  | Wings, The Journey Home
Publication Date: December 8, 2010“Wings” is an exciting cross between The Lion King and Alice in Wonderland—a mighty eagle, Benjamin, falls from grace and must reclaim his true identity.Ben falls down the proverbial rabbit hole with a wounded wing and amnesia to find himself in a strange land of chickens and other interesting creatures. ...
|  | The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland
Publication Date: March 6, 2012'The New North' is a landmark anthology of contemporary poetry from Northern Ireland with a wide-ranging introduction that gives the reader valuable historical perspective into political and cultural contexts. A brief selection of classic poems by more established authors introduces the featured poets (born between 1956 and 1975); together they represent the past and the future of poetry in this small but fertile culture. Through descent and pastiche, influence and departure, the younger poets respond to the North's rich poetic tradition, as well as to previous...
|  | We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! And Other Works: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume One
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Collected Plays of Dario Fo (Book 1) Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor. This courageous and controversial choice indirectly expands the modern definition of literature to include the power of the spoken word."Volume One includes:We Won't Pay! We W...
|  | Three Plays (Racine): Berenice, Phedre, Britannicus (Oberon Classics S.)
Publication Date: February 22, 2011| ISBN-10: 1840027614 | ISBN-13: 978-1840027617Highly accessible and vibrant new translations by two of Britain's most important dramatic talents. ...
|  | A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature)
Publication Date: January 24, 2005| Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature (Book 3) This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC.A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights – Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: th...
|  | Pap's Place: A Two-Act Play about Family and Change
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|  | Tiny Elephants with Precious Toes
Publication Date: July 21, 2012"..whimsical, surreal, dark and seductive..." Tiny Elephants with Precious Toes, is a collection of magical realism poems. Each poem short or long is a story of it`s own. Didi`s poetry has been influenced by her ancestor`s main style which is Magical Realism. Overall her poetry is filled with imagery, juxtaposition, and surreal descriptions. ...
|  | Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man
Release Date: July 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0801444756 | ISBN-13: 978-0801444753| Edition: 1 Shakespeare's poems and plays are rich in reference to "measure, number, and weight," which were the key terms of an early modern empirical and quantitative imagination. Shakespeare's investigation of Renaissance measures of reality centers on the consequences of applying principles of measurement to the appraisal of human value. This is especially true of efforts to judge people as better or worse than, or equal to, one another. With special attention to the Sonnets, Measure for Measure, Merchant of V...
|  | Historias del Kronen (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Finalista del Premio Nadal 1994, se convirtio en el icono de toda una generacion. Relanzamiento con nueva imagen. Historias del Kronen cuenta la historia de Carlos, un estudiante que vive con su familia, una familia acomodada. el es joven veintiun anos, sale de noche como todo los jovenes, pero para el su vida se basa practicamente en el sexo, alcohol y drogas, que comparte con sus amigos de la misma manera que el, esto le llevara a realizar acciones impensables, se siente realmente fascinado por la violencia, hecho que se representa en la novela a traves de ...
|  | Dangerous Deception (Protectors)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Protectors Sometimes love is the most dangerous truth of all . . . For Lausanne Raney, romance meant nothing but trouble. Once it cost her her freedom and her baby girl. Now she's got a respectable life . . . but desperately needs money to find her child. When she accepts an unusual offer from her wealthy employer's daughter, she finds herself under deadly suspicion -- and the unwanted protection of security agent Domingo Shea. Bad enough the courageously honest ex-Navy SEAL doesn't completely trust Lausanne any more than she does him. But worse st...
|  | The Burying Place
Release Date: April 13, 2010One cold night. Two shocking mysteries. In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted – or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his team need to move fast to save a child and stop a vicious killing spree. As fear grips the frozen winter fa...
|  | Captain Cal and the Garbage Planet
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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Publication Date: December 23, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Oxford Treasury of World Stories
Publication Date: January 7, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up An anthology of 23 stories collected from around the world, including modern stories and tales as well as traditional myths and legends. They range from humorous animal stories to tales of love and adventure. Among the countries and regions represented are Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Egypt, Mongolia, Ireland, Canada, the United States, Colombia, Nepal, India, Turkey, China, Vietnam, West Africa, the Andes, Russia, the Caribbean, and Italy. The illustrations, in color and black and white, are by a variety of artists. ...
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