 | Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (PEN American Center Prize Anthologies)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: PEN American Center Prize Anthologies A stunning collection of prison writing with singular voices and surprising tales.“Doing time.” For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one’s humanity.For the last quarter century the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best ...
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 | The Cryptogram.
Publication Date: January 1998"I suspect that in time, The Cryptogram will take its place among Mamet's major works" John Lahr "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout Mamet's work: the notion that we use words as a destructive social camouflage to lie to others and ourselves...And here through all the repetitions, half sentences and echoing encounter of one question with another, you feel the characters devalue experience through their use of language. As Del cries in des...
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 | A Little Rebellion
Publication Date: July 1, 2002In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of Bridget Moran's "little rebellion" against a system she felt did not, and does not, respond to the needs of those it was designed to help. A Little Rebellion is a moving portrait of a fiery and outspoken woman whose ongoing activism is inspired by a deeply-felt desi...
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 | Home in Drayton Valley, A
Publication Date: October 1, 2012A Compelling Pioneer Story From Bestselling Author Kim Vogel SawyerFed up with the poor quality of life in 1880 New York, Tarsie Raines encourages her friends Joss and Mary Brubacher to move with their two children to Drayton Valley, Kansas, a booming town hailed in the guidebook as the land of opportunity. She offers to help with expenses and to care for Mary and the children as they travel west by wagon train. But when tragedy strikes on the trip across the prairie, Tarsie is thrown into an arrangement with Joss that leaves both of them questioning God and ...
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 | Akeelah and the Bee
Release Date: July 1, 2007A novelization of the inspirational movie about an 11-year-old girl in South Los Angeles named Akeelah and her quest to make it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee-with help from some very unexpected places. ...
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 | The Exiled: Anne Trilogy Book Two
Release Date: June 14, 2005In this windswept story set in the lusty fifteenth century, the enchanting Anne faces the challenge of raising her child in exile. Always resourceful, she flourishes as a merchant and is able to support her household. But the local businessmen aren't pleased about competing with a woman and her foes are multiplying around her, desperate to put her back in what they believe is her rightful place.Anne has a secret that her enemies could use to destroy her. Her beloved son is the product of a passionate affair with the king, Edward IV, who knows nothing of his exist...
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 | Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
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 | The Saddlebag: A Fable for Doubters and Seekers (Bluestreak)
Release Date: September 22, 2001A beautifully told, transcendent tale of truth, salvation, and the power of desire. ...
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 | Campos de Castilla
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 | The Last Courtly Lover: Yeats and the Idea of Woman (Studies in Modern Literature)
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| The Critical Perspective: Early Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism)
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 | Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
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 | Ecotopia
Release Date: March 1, 1990A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future.Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the envir...
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 | Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Philip's tales emphasize the simple pleasures and hard work of cowboy life.His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from from branding and roping to navigating across the plains by stars and buttes as the great open range slowly closes up. ...
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 | Medieval Women's Writing (Polity Women and Writing Series)
Publication Date: October 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0745632564 | ISBN-13: 978-0745632568| Edition: 1 Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by...
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 | Trusting Them (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)
Publication Date: January 31, 2011| Series: Siren Publishing Menage Amour [Menage Amour: Erotic Contemporary Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Brock and Brady find the woman of their dreams in a snowstorm. She's hurt and becomes sick. They nurse her back to health, but she has secrets she won't reveal. Can they convince her to trust them? Jeni is on the run from her ex-husband. She fears for the lives of the two men who found her and took her in. Her ex is crazy and has vowed that she belongs to him and only him. Should she run to keep them safe or stay and trust them? ** A Siren Erotic ...
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 | Marker
Release Date: May 19, 2005The master of the medical thriller returns with his most heart-pounding tale yet....
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 | Cult of the Green Mamba
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 | If You're A Monster And You Know It
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A brand-new monster twist on a classic song by Caldecott Medalist Ed Emberley and his daughter, Rebecca Emberley.Children will stomp their paws, twitch their tails, snort and growl, and wiggle and wriggle along with this bright and bold picture book twist on "If You're Happy and You Know It." Rebecca Emberley has written a rollicking text, which she has illustrated in collaboration with her father, Caldecott Medalist Ed Emberley. Includes a fun sing-along song by Adrienne Emberley which can be downloaded at www....
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 | Flip Turn (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: May 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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