 | Three One-Act Plays: Riverside DriveOld SaybrookCentral Park West
Release Date: December 30, 2003Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagineWoody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (thoug...
 |  | The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America (Meridian)
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|  | Like Dandelion Dust
Publication Date: August 12, 2010Kingsbury delivers a powerful new novel about two parents' love for their child and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that their adopted son must be returned to his biological father. ...
|  | Memories from Cherry Harvest
Publication Date: June 19, 2012“When I remember Russia, I ache with longing for the village of my birth, where the beloved grandparents magically produced candy in a handshake and told stories of long ago when God spoke to humans and enchantments filled the world.” So begins Amy Wachspress’s historical novel, spanning 70 years and five continents, Memories from Cherry Harvest. Two Jewish sisters, born in Russia shortly before the Communist Revolution, are forced to flee the pogroms and persecution and travel with their parents to British-occupied Palestine. The girls’ ...
|  | Graces: Prayers for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions
Release Date: September 17, 1994 Saying grace at mealtime is a time-honored tradition for many families and a newfound source of spiritual connection for others. Whether you're a master at giving the blessing or fairly new to this sacred art, Graces will bring inspiration to your meals and special gatherings. Seeing the need for such inspiration at her family's table, June Cotner compiled a notebook of poems, prayers, and songs that she solicited from friends, strangers, family members, and ministers. She has turned her family's well-worn notebook into this elegantly packaged edition, which ...
|  | The Gilda Stories
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|  | The Between
Release Date: March 27, 1996When Hilton was just a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake.When Hilton's wife, the only elected African-American judge in Dade County, FL, begins to receive racist hate mail, he becomes obsessed with protecting his family. Soon, however, he begins to have horrible nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are the strange dreams trying to tell him somethi...
|  | Jack Tier
Publication Date: September 27, 2006This work has already appeared in Graham's Magazine, under the title of “Rose Budd.” The change of name is solely the act of the author, and arises from a conviction that the appellation given in this publication is more appropriate than the one laid aside. The necessity of writing to a name, instead of getting it from the incidents of the book itself, has been the cause of this departure from the ordinary rules. ...
|  | The Trinity Six
Release Date: March 13, 2012A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed – the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it… London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that – and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from what they seem. Fifteen years later, academic Sam Gaddis needs money. When a ...
|  | The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Publication Date: March 13, 1997Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski. ...
|  | English Yes! Level 4: Intermediate A
Publication Date: September 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0078311136 | ISBN-13: 978-0078311130| Edition: 1 Make learning English easier withmulticultural literature that motivates studentsMulticultural literature engages students in English language learningComprehension, vocabulary, and grammar are developedin narrative contextsFlexible teaching options meet the needs of all yourEnglish language learnersUnlike other English language programs, English, Yes! uses a magnificentarray of multicultural literature as the foundation for improvingcomprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing. Adapted sele...
|  | Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 067499633X | ISBN-13: 978-0674996335In Longus’s ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century CE), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their sexuality in an idealized pastoral environment. In Xenophon’s Anthia and Habrocomes (first century CE), perhaps the earliest extant novel and a new addition to the Loeb Classical Library, a newlywed couple, separated by mischance, survive hair-raising adventures and desperate escapes as they traverse the Mediterranean and the Near ...
|  | Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: August 25, 1995| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement. This new translation reveals his complex, beautiful, and wholly contemporary poetry. P...
|  | Aqui se puede fumar / Here you can smoke (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Chinese Literature: Fiction Poetry Art, Summer 1988
Publication Date: 1988"A quarterly presenting contemporary and classical writing, poetry, literary criticism and the arts." ...
|  | Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library)
Publication Date: November 24, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521497639 | ISBN-13: 978-0521497633This volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature, accompanied by a commentary. Confessions is concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and in search of God.In books I-IV, Augustine reflects on his infancy and childhood, adolescent rebellion and student days, and his early teaching career. The commentary, which can be used by those new to Augustine and his world, concentrates on his brilliant Latin and on his theology and philosophy. ...
|  | La Caida De Los Gigantes
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|  | The Cleveland Browns (Inside the NFL)
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Kids in the Kitchen (The Country Friends Collection)
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| | Fighter with Other (Tales of the RAF)
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