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 |  | Three Plays: Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion
Publication Date: June 30, 2012| ISBN-10: 0810128144 | ISBN-13: 978-0810128149Craig Wright is one of the most widely produced, consistently entertaining playwrights of his generation. The three plays gathered in this volume—Melissa Arctic (winner of the 2005 Helen Hayes Award), Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion—are all set in the fictional town of Pine City, Minnesota. The plays share a focus on love and relationships and feature a consistent undercurrent of observation and speculation about the nature of time. Melissa Arctic brings Shakespeare’s The Winter’s ...
|  | Everything We Ever Wanted: A Novel
Release Date: October 11, 2011 Recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son, Scott, teaches. Allegations of Scott’s involvement in a hazing scandal cause a ripple effect, throwing the entire family into chaos and exposing a tangled web of secrets that ties the family together. The quest to unravel the truth takes the family on individual journeys across state lines, into hospitals, through the Pennsylvania woods, and face-to-...
|  | Outbound Flight (Star Wars)
Release Date: January 30, 2007| Series: Star Wars It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery–only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable–and doomed–Outbound Flight Project.The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark–abo...
|  | Going to See the Elephant
Release Date: December 30, 2008On a windy September day, twenty-five-year-old Slater Brown stands in the back of a bicycle taxi hurtling the wrong way down the busiest street in San Francisco. Slater has come to “see the elephant,” to stake his claim to fame and become the greatest writer ever. But this city of gleaming water and infinite magic has other plans in this astounding first novel—at once a love story, a feast of literary imagination, and a dazzlingly original tale of passion, ambition, and genius in all their guises...Slater Brown lays siege to San Francisco like...
|  | The Vampires of Vigil's Sorrow
Publication Date: March 1, 2012In the town of Vigil’s Rest, vampires haunt the forest, luring young girls to their doom with promises of forbidden love. After Deborah Poole, a local beauty queen goes missing, the town’s long history of cover-ups begins to unravel. She returns from the dead, more angel than demon, and acting as a spirit of mercy in the haunted forest that has known only vengeance. Oppression and tightly held secrets keep Deborah from love for decades, finally shattering when the unlikely fulfillment of an ancient prophecy gives her a new chance at love and human...
|  | Rescue (The Last Gunfighter, Book 7)
Release Date: March 1, 2003In California, Frank Morgan nearly fond a home. But now he's pulled up stakes and hit the road again, aiming to reach the high desert of Arizona. For Frank, the plan changes when he steps into a saloon in a dusty boom town called Los Angeles. That's where he learns that his nemesis, Val Dooley, has found anew business: the selling of young women into prostitution, with the victims as young as 12 years old, and the survivors ending up drugged and beaten. Frank wastes no time in tracking his enemy, travelling from California to New Mexico and West Texas. What he does...
|  | The Unknown Shore
Publication Date: October 17, 1996An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian'sacclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying allthe splendid prose and attention to detail thatO'Brian's readers expect.Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure.The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone...
|  | The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America
Publication Date: November 1, 2005THE PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE is proof positive that an inordinate number of very strange things happen from sea to shining sea in the place known as the United States of America. It contains scrupulously documented accounts of ghosts, monsters, murderers, and hoaxes so improbable they will fascinate believers, skeptics, and anyone interested in the more obscure corners of American history and culture."Robert Schneck is one of the best of a new breed of investigators into the relatively unknown byways of our cultural history. Because he is thoroughly familiar with...
|  | Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
Publication Date: March 23, 2000Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Sw...
|  | You Could Die Laughing!
Publication Date: November 19, 2010Full Length, Comedy Characters: 7 male, 8 female Unit set. Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention! Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husban...
|  | The Lower Depths
Publication Date: January 23, 2008A facsimile from the original edition ...
|  | Versos sencillos (Poesia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 8498160014 | ISBN-13: 978-8498160017Los poemas que conforman este libro se inspiran en el pueblo, los paisajes y la música de Cuba. Martí juega con los colores y los sonidos en una poesía que exalta la amistad, la fraternidad y la libertad. «Amo la sencillez y creo en la necesidad de poner el sentimiento en formas llanas y sinceras.» Versos sencillos es el más célebre libro de poemas de José Martí. ...
|  | Conversations with My Old Dog
Publication Date: October 31, 1999| ISBN-10: 0967537509 | ISBN-13: 978-0967537504Do you ever talk to your dogs?I confess.I do.Lucy, our Yellow Lab and my first dog, turned 13 last year.While she has always maintained her sweet disposition, we could definitely see her growing old.She could no longer hear very well, had lost one eye to glaucoma, and could no longer bear weight on her rear leg.Despite her ailments, our whole family loved her more than ever.As an only child, I always longed for a dog, but until Lucy, I never had one.My mother was afraid of dogs, at least until we got Lucy.Sh...
|  | Out of Australia
Publication Date: August 11, 2011David J. Delaney's latest compilation of poetry, aptly titled, "Out of Australia" is a journey into the mind of a gifted storyteller's progression in the art. As readers, Delaney takes us on a wondrous journey of discovery. We experience the magic of his distinctive style covering a vast array of Australia, and the spirit of its people. A true poet sharing his skill with the rest of the world, and, giving his readers a never-ending source of enjoyment. ...
|  | Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: February 27, 2007| Series: Dover Thrift Editions "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. ...
|  | Sean (Cowboys)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Cowboys In the West there's only two kinds of women--the wives, mothers, daughters and the good-time girls. It is said that Pearl Belladonna could show a man the best time ever, but Sean O'Ryan hasn't come to the gold fields looking for a floozy. He wants gold to buy a ranch, and a virtuous woman to make a wife. The sensual barroom singer might tempt his body and tease his mind, but she isn't for him. From her red curls to her assumed name, nothing about her seems real until a glimpse into her heart convinces Sean that the lady is indeed a pearl beyon...
|  | Wild Town
Release Date: January 4, 1993The place is a frontier boom town where the graft gets collected more regularly than the trash. The hero is Bugs McKenna, slow-witted, hot-tempered man with manslaughter in his past and much worse in his immediate future. The much worse begins the moment McKenna gets promoted from ex-con to hotel detective without bothering to ask why. Because in Wild Town nobody does you any favors--and the price of advancement is always a little higher than what you can afford. ...
|  | Almostly Murder ... With Pets
Publication Date: November 30, 2002An Anthology of Mystery Short Stories ...
|  | Arthur and the Pen-Pal Playoff: Arthur Good Sports Chapter Book 6 (Arthur Good Sports Chapter Books)
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Grade Level: 1 and up...
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