 | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Release Date: September 11, 2012I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students. Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the ho...
 |  | Two for the Seesaw (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: January 1988| Series: Acting Edition William Gibson Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set This is the long-run Broadway hit that gained stardom for Anne Bancroft in the role of girl from the Bronx whose love for a lonesome lawyer brings a few months of happiness into their lives. The lawyer is married to a beautiful, well-to-do girl in the midwest whose family sets the pace in local society and intends to run his marriage and his career as well. He has rebelled, come to New York, and taken up residence with this intriguing young woman. He is lonely and in need of...
|  | Peaches for Father Francis: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012The bestselling author of Chocolat and The Girl with No Shadow returns to Lansquenet in this enchanting new novel, Peaches for Father Francis (in the UK called Peaches for Monsieur le Curé)When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the beautiful French village in which eight years ago she opened a chocolate shop and first learned the meaning of home. But returning to one’s past can be a dangerous pursuit. Vianne, with her daughters, Anouk and Rosette, ...
|  | Black Beetles in Amber
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk, Wrapped in appropriate gloom; His posture was pensive and picturesque, Like a raven charming a tomb. -- "The Obituarian" Best known for his tales of bleak reality and dark imagination, Ambrose Bierce also gave expression to his sardonic, epigrammatic wit in verse form. Black Beetles in Amber collects his finest forays into versification. Some are barbed and venomous, while others are simply entertaining sallies upon the entertaining foibles of his day -- as in "The Oleomargarine Man," 'On the Wedding of an Aeronaut," or "Judg...
|  | The Hill
Publication Date: December 7, 2010On The Hill, it can be hard to separate politics from big business and organized crime. Everyone is in someone's pocket. Some are in more pockets than lint. Your best friend on one issue can be your worst enemy on the next.Based on reality and personal experience, The Hill is a novel ripped from the headlines. It is a compelling tale of corruption that explains more vividly than any work of nonfiction why our government is so dysfunctional and health care reform is doomed to failure. ...
|  | I Want To Bite (Yaoi Novel)
Publication Date: September 28, 2010A vampire hunter, Izark, one day meets gorgeous and sexy silver-haired Tristan, a vampire.Their sensual, nighttime escapades draw them closer together... but is it a blessing, or a curse? ...
|  | The Santa Fe Trail (The Trail Drive Series Book 10)
Release Date: December 28, 2010An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier.They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies-and one man's dangerous past.He was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives.The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north...
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|  | Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
Publication Date: February 7, 1990| ISBN-10: 0520069544 | ISBN-13: 978-0520069541| Edition: First Edition The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned. ...
|  | Guernica and Other Plays: The Labyrinth; The Tricycle; Picnic on the Battlefield; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria; Garden of Delights
Publication Date: February 24, 1994The celebrated Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, who lived in Madrid under the oppression of the Franco regime, writes passionately of human atrocity and of hope. This collection of plays embodies Arrabal’s “theatre of panic,” named after the god Pan. The homme panique is a man who refuses to take risks, who avoids danger and therefore heroism, who avoids the irreparable act, but who, ironically, is caught up in a world of chance that forces him to make choices. ...
|  | There Is Greatness Within You, My Son: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection of Thoughts Every Parent Wants to Share with a Son
Publication Date: September 1994| Series: Blue Mountain Arts Collection With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, THERE IS GREATNESS WITHIN YOU, MY SON has in its own meaningful way helped to express the many thoughts, emotions, memories and hopes shared by a parent and a son. This book gives voices to some of the most deeply felt aspects of life and family that most of the time remain unspoken.As a man goes through life, each stage of his journey brings different challenges and opportunities. Within these pages are words of inspiration to motivate a man on the path to his dreams and encour...
|  | A Hospital Odyssey
Publication Date: August 13, 2010A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Immensely readable, A Hospital Odyssey is a modern epic: Dr Who meets Paradise Lost. The poem asks: what is health? And what does it mean to care for someone who's ill?""A voice vibrant, lively and clear as a bell - not looking inward so much as in wo...
|  | On the Nature of Things
Publication Date: September 26, 2011| ISBN-10: 0393341364 | ISBN-13: 978-0393341362| Edition: 1 Reissued to accompany Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: the epic poem that changed the course of human thought forever.This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world. ...
|  | The Afflicted Girls
Publication Date: April 1, 2004The Afflicted Girls is a poetic work, including historical research, of the 1692 Salem witch-hunts by New Orleans native Nicole Cooley, winner of several awards including the Walt Whitman. ...
|  | One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology
Publication Date: July 26, 2012| ISBN-10: 0899241263 | ISBN-13: 978-0899241265The one-sentence poem has proven to be a compelling and persistent poetic device through the ages. This anthology offers strategies and prompts for using the single sentence as a principle of poetic structure, a rhetorical tool, and a stimulus. The book includes an extraordinary array of one-sentence poems from a wide range of historical periods, poetic perspectives, and lengths--from epigrams and aphorisms to sonnets, lyrics, and narratives that range over several pages. More than 80 poets are represented, fro...
|  | Deep Blue
Publication Date: July 7, 2010DescriptionHere are some poems from the heart, some are about prison and some are about pain, but hey you can't cry forever....so some are about life, love and laughter. Remember truth is love.About the AuthorSince writing this book I have become a counselor I did my diplomas at Lambeth College I have gained a level 1 and 2 CPCAB status of qualification and am now in my 3rd year, I believe that poetry is a form of counseling, It can heal the mind and bring peace to our lives, I also work with the homeless, ex offenders, mentally ill, the elderly and with people ...
|  | Madman of Ch'U: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent
Publication Date: July 1980270 pages with black & white illustrations. ...
| | Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (Middle Ages Series)
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|  | Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation
Publication Date: June 11, 2002| ISBN-10: 0813530652 | ISBN-13: 978-0813530659"Girls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history."-Jennie Skerl, author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles "Ronna Johnson and Nancy Grace have done an invaluable service for students of American literature: their collection ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: Study in Scarlet: An Unabridged Reading by Sir Derek Jacobi (BBC Audio)
Publication Date: October 9, 2012| Series: BBC Audio The story in which Conan Doyle first unleashed the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection. An unmarked corpse, a wedding ring, and a mysterious message scrawled in blood are Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson's only clues as they follow the trail of a man driven to fulfill a terrible oath he swore more than twenty years before. ...
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