 | Gathering of Waters
Publication Date: January 31, 2012"McFadden works a kind of miracle -- not only do [her characters] retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of history to offer continuous surprises . . . Beautiful and evocative, Gathering of Waters brings three generations to life . . . The real power of the narrative lies in the richness and complexity of the characters. While they inhabit these pages they live, and they do so gloriously and messily and magically, so that we are at last sorry to see them go, and we sit with those small moments we had with them and worry over them, en...
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|  | The Awakening: Rebirth of Atlantis
Publication Date: December 30, 2002It is human legacy to evolve spiritually. It is the role of the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea to assist in the transition. One such turning of the ages occurred in Atlantis."The Awakening" is a story of spiritual evolution, an elevation in consciousness during the final days of Atlantis. The Atlantean culture suffers with a corrupt governing body and a degenerate priesthood, a situation similar to modern day society. The ancient Goddess of the Stars and the Sea awakens from her dreamtime with the knowing that a change for humankind approaches. The Goddes...
|  | Brad Radby's Brad Radby: The Complete Filmography (1999-2023)
Publication Date: March 21, 2009In the spring of 1998, Brad Radby quietly directed his first movie. When it was finally released in May of 2013 as BRAD RADBY'S THE EXPLODERS, the film industry was changed forever. In the years between, Mr. Radby directed thirty-six other movies, before his alleged death aboard the famed Super Airplane in December of 2012. Inside these pages, in his own words, Mr. Radby walks you through each of these films, giving valuable insights into the stories, and the stories behind the stories. Brad loves Mustangs. Brad Radby's work has touched us all in some way, and...
|  | Scenes From The Life
Publication Date: January 1, 2005Scenes From the Life by Joseph McBee is a Christian drama book. Here are some of the topics covered in this book:-Free Christian drama-Christian drama-Sermon starters-Drama-Bible dramaJoseph McBee's well-crafted scripts reflect three loves: a love for the gift of communication, a love for the art of drama, and a love for the things of God. This union of communicator, artist, and believer makes McBee a formidable writer and his scripts a valuable resource and tool. Dennis LewallenArtistic Director, Samford StudioAvondale Estates, GeorgiaTruth and reality com...
|  | Oedipus at Colonus (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: February 11, 2002| Series: Plays for Performance Series This play forms a bridge between the events in Oedipus the King and Antigone. It begins with the arrival of Oedipus in Colonus after years of wandering; it ends with Antigone setting off toward her own fate in Thebes. ...
|  | In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs: Stories
Release Date: October 1, 1996Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "rig...
|  | Brushstrokes of Blue: The Young Poets of Iceland
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|  | Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology
Publication Date: January 8, 1998This anthology covers nine Indian women poets writing in English. Edited by the poet and academic Eunice de Souza, it brings together poems which are witty, ironic, poignant and technically assured. The book includes a general introduction and critical appraisals of each poet. ...
|  | Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Release Date: December 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0801487080 | ISBN-13: 978-0801487088Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers intere...
|  | Reading the Decades: Fifty Years of British History Through the Nation's Bestsellers
Publication Date: April 1, 2002From literary classic to cookery books, blockbuster airport novels to self-help manuals, this work is a portrait of Britain through the books that have inspired, excited, and forced us to part with our cash, from the 1950s to the present day. ...
|  | Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
Publication Date: June 1998William S. Burroughs, founding father of America's counterculture, was born in 1914 into a wealthy St. Louis family. He originally planned to be a doctor but soon found another calling: literary outlaw and professional iconoclast. During his youth, he led a life almost as strange as his writing, drifting from job to job--as bartender, private detective, and insect exterminator--before writing his first book, Junkie, a harrowing account of his fifteen-year heroin addiction. But it was Naked Lunch, a surreal Dante's Inferno of narcotics, urban nightmares, and explici...
|  | When a Man Loves a Weapon (Bobbie Faye, Book 3)
Release Date: August 4, 2009Living single in her trailer was great for a time. But now Bobbie Faye’s officially engaged to, and has purchased a home with, the hottest FBI agent on the beat: Trevor Cormier. Even though she still has no idea what he really does on the job, Bobbie Faye has never been happier…until Trevor gets called away on an urgent assignment and leaves her in the care of body-guard slash babysitter Riley. As it turns out, Bobbie Faye could use a little extra security. The man she helped put in behind bars, the murderous Sean MacGreggor, has escaped from pri...
|  | La Vida Vampire (Oldest City Vampire, Book 1)
Release Date: April 1, 2008First in a delightfully irreverent new series-and second to none when it comes to beautiful 227-year-old career women.Being dead isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take it from Francesca Marinelli, trapped underground for over 200 years and rediscovered during the renovation of a Victorian mansion in historic St. Augustine. A tourist attraction herself, she's well suited for a job as an Old Ghost Town Tour guide. Francesca's due for a new lease on afterlife-and with enough sunblock, she can finally live it.Unfortunately, everything she learned about men is a litt...
|  | They Disappeared
Publication Date: September 18, 2012A loving family,fracturing under pressure…Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce.In the wake of their heartbreak, a mother and son disappear…While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera—but upon returning to the street he finds that Sarah and Cole have vanished.A frantic father searches for clues as time ticks d...
|  | Goggles (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: November 1, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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|  | 1-2-3 Peas
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up The peas are back in this counting-themed follow-up to the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas.Meet the peas—the 1-2-3 Peas! Come along as they count from one to one hundred in this pea-filled picture book that’s packed with bright, bold numbers and playful number-themed scenes. These tiny green mathematicians will have young readers everywhere calling for more peas, please! ...
|  | The Welsh Harp
Publication Date: September 7, 2012Young Gwen Thomas has her heart set on learning to play her grandfather’s big harp in her living room. When she and her family leave the Rhondda Valley in Wales and sail for America in 1903, she convinces her mother to bring the harp along, but when they arrive in the coal mining area of Eastern Kentucky, she must learn many other things first—like how to deal with a hostile school environment, how to help her mother birth a baby, and how to survive a flood.Can she keep her dream of being a harpist alive?Or should she set more practical goals?...
|  | Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Grade Level: 3 and up It's 1921, and when Celeste Lassiter Massey goes to stay with her Aunt Valentina in Harlem, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and comfortable North Carolina surroundings for scary big city life with a famous actress. While Celeste absorbs the excitement of the Harlem Renaissance in full swing, she sees as much grit as glamour. A passionate writer, talented violinist, and aspiring doctor, Celeste eventually faces a choice between ambition and loyalty, roots and horizons. The decision will change her forever. ...
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