 | Vagina: A New Biography
Release Date: September 11, 2012 An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and consequently, how we understand women—from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth. When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not mere...
 |  | 99 Histories - Acting Edition
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|  | The Iron Sceptre (Archives of Anthropos)
Publication Date: May 17, 1981| Series: Archives of Anthropos (Book 4) Anthropos is in danger.So Wesley, Kurt and Lisa are once again magically transported from their home in Winnipeg to help save this threatened land.The Iron Sceptre, the source of King Kardia's power to rule, is in peril.The children, joined by their cousin Mary, are called on to stop Mirmah and her chief sorcerer, Archimago.But to do so, they must travel beneath the Northern Mountains, around Goldcoffin's Palace and into the very heart of Mirmah's kingdom.What awaits is much more than a mere adventure. ...
|  | The Campaigners (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 14) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1815, and Napoleon’s escape from Elba has convulsed Europe. The Allied Army is gathered in Flanders, and where the Army is, the fashionable world must follow. So Lucy and Heloise both take their daughters to Brussels for the most exhilarating season ever, and romance flourishes in the warlike atmosphere. Rosamund must finally come to terms with her feelings for h...
|  | Miss Fannie Mae's Girls
Publication Date: January 9, 2012Fannie Mae Turner died on New Years Eve, December 31, 2008. She was the daughter of sharecroppers. She was born in a shack on a dusty, dirt road in the backwoods of Macon County, Georgia in 1922. Fannie Mae had skin the color of red Georgia clay. On the day she was born her mother screamed, not because of the difficult childbirth, but for the mere fact that her baby girl was the color of dirt with eyes as black as coal dust. And so begins and eventually ends the life of Fannie Mae Turner from Macon County, Georgia. A true native of the Deep South, Fannie Mae ...
|  | Brothers: Life, Death, Truth (Collins Flamingo)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0007112319 | ISBN-13: 978-0007112319Brothers is a book which is both compelling and intensely moving as it looks at life, death and love in the context of growing up and trying to make sense of it all. It is tender, sensitive and poignant as it deals with the sexual emergence of a teenage boy, trying to come to terms with the death of his brother and, while reading his brother's diary, discovers not only that his brother was gay, but that he himself is also. As a story of two brothers, it is both thought provoking and intriguing. The reader is ...
|  | Light a Penny Candle
Publication Date: April 11, 1983As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carried Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents' chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a...
|  | Far From The Land: Contemporary Irish Plays (Play Anthologies)
Publication Date: February 5, 1998| Series: Play Anthologies A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatreAt The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals of death with the all-too-modern assassins going about their awful task; in Hard To Believe by Conall Morrison an army intelligence agent for the British invokes his Protestant preacher grandfather and his turncoat father who married a Cat...
|  | Aventura poetica/ Poetic Adventure: Antologia (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Haiku Garden Pocket Pads
Release Date: September 4, 2007Elegantly designed and embellished with lovely details, these portable pads feature inspired combinations of classic haiku poems and antique prints. ...
|  | A Breath of Haiku
Publication Date: 2003Haiku written by artist and author Helen Sherry. ...
| | Regionalnyi knizhnyi rynok: Metodika analiza (Russian Edition)
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|  | The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226763773 | ISBN-13: 978-0226763774| Edition: 1 We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden "O" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to people in that largely oral culture?In this ear-opening journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Bruce R. Smith explores both the physical aspects of human speech (ears, lungs, tongue) and the surrounding environment (buildings...
|  | The Bear: History of a Fallen King
Publication Date: October 17, 2011The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. Historian Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as a popular toy.The early Church was threat...
|  | Letters from Burma
Release Date: April 14, 2010| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up In these unforgettable letters, Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world's most inspiring figures, reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. She celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, and everyday people who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great risk to their own lives. She reveals how state oppression has adversely affected everything from the national diet to traditions of hospitality. She also evokes the beauty of the country's se...
|  | A Crazy Little Thing Called Death (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, No. 6)
Release Date: March 4, 2008Nora Blackbird has made the society pages yet again. The impoverished Philadelphia heiress has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey's most notorious mobster-if he can survive the Blackbird Curse. Anytime a Blackbird sister remarries, the groom is bound to die... ...
|  | The Innocent Spy: Ted Stratton #1 (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
Publication Date: February 16, 2012| Series: Felony & Mayhem Mysteries Diana Calthorp is a society beauty, escaping a loveless marriage by doing just a little spying for MI5. Ted Stratton is a working-class copper, poking with little passion into the death of a sad, middle-aged woman. In an ordinary world, their paths would never cross, but the war has turned the world on its head. When the two start chatting, they discover they have more in common than one might imagine. Both of them are running up against very peculiar and very solid roadblocks. Could collaboration help find ways around th...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | Choices (Spider-Girl (Spotlight))
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|  | Malu Kangaroo
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This poignant story tells of how people first learned to surf through Malu Kangaroo, a kangaroo spirit, who carves a piece of wood and takes it to some children playing on a beach. He floats it on the water and shows them how to use it. The children learn to balance and guide the board through the waves "riding the high crests" and "flying before the crashing breakers." ...
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