 | Topdog/Underdog - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0822219832 | ISBN-13: 978-0822219835A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the reality of their future. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | The Battle for Vast Dominion (Trophy Chase Trilogy)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Trophy Chase Trilogy When The Legend of the Firefish, the first book in the Trophy Chase Trilogy was released in March of 2007, it immediately garnered great reviews and strong sales. Readers were then anxious for the second book in the trilogy, The Hand that Bears the Sword, released in July.Now, in the eagerly awaited conclusion to the trilogy, author Bryan Polivka spins another compelling tale of pirates, monsters of the deep, and the battle between good and evil.Packer Throme, determined to demonstrate that power comes only from above, leads his...
|  | Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting. Here this baroque master’s two most enduring and admired works, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall, appear in a new edition that has been annotated and introduced by the...
|  | Harvest Home
Release Date: May 12, 1973One of the touchstone horror novels of the 1970s, Harvest Home was Thomas Tryon's second novel and was published to wide critical and commercial acclaim. This new edition features the original color dust jacket art by Paul Bacon, new interior works by Alex McVey, a new introduction by Tim Curran, and an afterword by a number of Tryon associates. ...
|  | The Tyrant's Novel (Keneally, Thomas)
Release Date: June 1, 2004| Series: Keneally, Thomas Thomas Keneally’s literary achievements have been inspired by some of history’s most intriguing events and characters, but in a rare reversal of time his brilliantly imagined new novel takes us into a near future that uncannily is all too familiar. In a detention camp where he is neither granted asylum nor readied to be sent back to his native land, a detainee bides his time.He insists on being called Alan Sheriff, a westernization of his given name; he was born in a country that had once been a friend to the United States but ...
|  | Lili
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Lili Carracino's curves get her in trouble. Boys bully her. Girls insult her. Cyber strangers stalk her with rumors and lies. Even with the help of her best friend, Sophie, they can't seem to stop the harassment at school. And with absentee parents, a pesky little brother, and a fashionable grandmother she barely knows stepping in to take over her life, fourteen-year old Lili feels lost and alone. The harassment escalates along with her doubts, and Lili is forced to take a hard look at herself -and make the toughest choice of all. ...
|  | Star Trek: The Original Series: The Rings of Time
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Star Trek 2020 The U.S.S. Lewis & Clark, under the command of Colonel Shaun Christopher, sets off on humanity’s first manned mission to Saturn. But the unexpected presence of a stowaway complicates the mission—as does a startling encounter with an alien probe. But when Colonel Christopher attempts to capture the probe, he suddenly finds himself transported across time and space to a future era of space exploration. . . . Stardate 7103.4 The U.S.S. Enterprise responds to an urgent distress call from a mining colony orbiting Klondike VI, ...
|  | Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: Doctor Who (Book 163) For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that''s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops, it''s becoming impossible. This year''s Winter Season Feast won''t be the usual celebration. It''s not a time for optimism or hope - and it''s not a time to welcome unexpe...
|  | Mulligan
Publication Date: September 1, 2006The days are long and lonely for Louise Stevens, whose retirement dreams were shattered by the sudden loss of her partner.Enter Marty Beck, a flirtatious, fun-loving, and infuriating golf pro who pushes Louise’s buttons—including one button she thought didn’t work anymore!Marty is intrigued by the pretty Louise, a newcomer to the Pine Island Golf Club with a beautiful swing, but a disposition that needs work.Certain they can eventually be friends, she’s stymied when her good-humored overtures are rejected.Love can come along at any time,...
|  | City of Seven Rivers: A Novel
Publication Date: July 31, 2012Myron Hunter is the object of scrutiny and intrigue to those who know of him. But no one-not even his twelve-year-old neighbor Ethan Hurley-truly knows him. While Myron's demeanor provokes hushed speculation among those he avidly avoids, most simply dismiss his eccentricity as a result of living alone for decades. When a prank gone awry results in Ethan being forced to paint the senior citizen's house as penance, the boy begins to suspect there is more to the story. Perhaps Myron's reclusiveness stems from a desire on his part to conceal his true identity. Etha...
|  | Charlie Mike
Release Date: May 12, 1988If war may be said to bring out the worst in governments, it frequently brings out the best in people. This is a novel about some of the very best. Some led. Some followed. Some died. Meet Sergeant David Grady, Sarah Boyce, Major John Colven, Lieutenant Le Be Son...in the great Vietnam war novel, CHARLIE MIKE. ...
|  | Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero (Angry Robot)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Angry Robot IT IS THE YEAR 2010. NO, REALLY.Her Divine Majesty Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne. Great Britain's vast Empire is run by Alchemy and Superstition. Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped clockwork-powered version of our present day ! a new Elizabethan age, not of Elizabeth II but in the style of the original Virgin Queen. Throughout its ro...
|  | Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book
Publication Date: March 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0872207293 | ISBN-13: 978-0872207295This edition of the 'A' text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe's 'atheism', and passages from the 'B' text, offers a startling new context in which to understand this play, its comedy, and its tawdry representation of demonic magic. In this light, argues Wootton, Marlowe's Faustus both reflects the centrality of comedy to the Faust legend and plays an ambiguous role in a crucial intellectual debate of the playwright's time. ...
|  | Wealtheow: Her Telling of Beowulf
Publication Date: April 5, 2008In Ashley Crownover's debut, the classic tale of Beowulf is retold from the perspective of Wealtheow, Queen of the Danes. After a century of silence, Wealtheow provides a woman's perspective on the issues facing her people, raising intriguing literary questions in a readable, modern writing style. ...
|  | Der "Erec" Hartmanns von Aue (de Gruyter Studienbuch) (German Edition)
Release Date: July 18, 2006| ISBN-10: 3110189798 | ISBN-13: 978-3110189797In his verse romance "Erec", Hartmann von Aue was the first German poet to recount the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The introduction first provides a detailed analysis of the contents, and goes into peculiarities of the portrayal of the characters, the narrative stance and the relationship to the French source. Further chapters deal with the history of the text, the structure and poetics of the romance, the narrative style, the material and sources, and the history of its reception and ...
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|  | Life in the Renaissance.
Publication Date: June 1968This book describes the social structure, customs, education, industry, amusements, and famous people of Renaissance Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. ...
|  | Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories
Publication Date: June 1986Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Hearn was born in Lefkada, one of the Greek Ionian Islands. He was the son of Surgeon-major Charles Hearn (of King's County, Ireland) and Rosa Antonia Kassimati, who had been born on Kythera, another of the Ionian Islands. In 1890, Hearn went to Japan with a commission as a...
|  | 5 Steps to a 5 AP English Literature, 2012-2013 Edition (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations Series)
Publication Date: May 16, 2011| ISBN-10: 0071751742 | ISBN-13: 978-0071751742| Edition: 4 A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies to give you the edge on test day, and plenty of practice with AP-style test questions. You'll sharpen your subject knowledge, strengthen your thinking skills, and build your test-taking confidence with Fu...
|  | 2011 Christmas Collection: Sensual/Spicy
Publication Date: October 23, 2011Meant to Be by Cheryl PiersonRobin Mallory becomes stranded in a deserted area with a snowstorm on the way. She has no choice but to walk to seek help. Jake Devlin jumps a "spy" who turns out to be an oddly dressed girl, and a Yank. Where did she come from and what should he do with her?The Homecoming by Kit PrateA crushing divorce spurs Rory to move to a new home and take a chance on starting over. Finished with men, she is caught off guard when the embodiment of her ideal of a Western hero strolls into her life. But even heroes have secrets...Gifts from th...
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