 | Where Yesterday Lives: Sometimes Today's Answers Are Hidden . . . (Walker Large Print Books)
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 |  | The Secret of the Swamp King (Wilderking Trilogy)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | All Mirrors and All Suns: Book Eight of the Latter Annals of Lystra
Publication Date: October 5, 2010When a poisoner attempts to murder Surchatain Ares-again-Ares decides the time has come to step down from the throne and go underground to find out who is trying to take over the province. In his clandestine searches, he discovers a hidden room containing a vast cache of gold. While Ares is preoccupied with establishing a link between the gold and his would-be assassin, Henry is experiencing his own torments in getting his betrothed, Ares' daughter Sophie, to agree to a wedding date. However, prompting her to act turns out to be a trivial matter compared to h...
|  | Tomo, Vol. 4: The Argon Deception
Release Date: May 8, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The action moves from San Francisco to Argon Falls, where Hana learns that the enemy wants to steal the Spirit Sword from her to completely enslave the citizens. In preparing for battle, she will learn that, even after one's training is complete, there are still lessons to be learned. ...
|  | To Skin a Cat (Joe Box Mystery Series, Book 3)
Publication Date: July 12, 2006In To Skin a Cat, Joe Box battles pornography mogul Cyrus Alan "Cat" Tate. Joe sides with the family-values groups that have been trying to shut down Tate's cankerous world of video and printed porn, but Tate has other ideas. Tate offers Joe a lucrative position as head of corporate security.The stakes grow even higher with the introduction of "virtual porn," a type of pornography with more allure than anything Joe ever imagined—and the onslaught of a personal attack he thought he'd never have to face....
|  | Rebel Yell: A Novel
Release Date: October 26, 2010In this gutsy novel from the bestselling author of The Wind Done Gone, a woman delves into her own past and her deceased ex-husband's private secrets to make sense of his unlikely transformation into a powerful black neo-con, and his even more unlikely end—at the Rebel Yell, a dinner theater of Confederate nostalgia. Rebel Yell is a novel of resilient love, political intrigue, and family secrets, steeped in our country's racial history and framing our unique political moment....
|  | Heaven Lies Between the Foul Lines
Publication Date: December 21, 2011Ray Paul hits a home run with his newest novel.The story chronicles Todd Mueller's journey through the complexities of love, the world of business and his ambition to parlay his hopping fastball into a major league career.Unfortunately, life conspires against the young man and Todd is beset with many problems, some of his own making.Despite his weaknesses, Todd is a man we can cheer for. The author's writing style is down to earth.He imparts life lessons without a hint of preaching and displays a firm grasp of human nature.Todd's triumphs and failures are c...
|  | Nain Rouge
Release Date: July 30, 2009In this award-winning book, evil is afoot in the Motor City. The times are hard and getting harder by the minute. An urban legend tells of the Nain Rouge, who appears as a harbinger of doom. The sightings are growing more frequent every day. What will two unsuspecting teenagers do when they come face to face with source of all this trouble? What will Elly and Tom do when they meet the mysterious and dangerous Nain Rouge? Is it too late to save the city and themselves? ...
|  | The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
Publication Date: October 17, 1994America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic.Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making today's cocktail-party circuit and shows why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true.The eponymous episode—"The Baby Train"—sheds light on certain predawn activities that have linked unusually high birth rates to the whim ...
|  | Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1854599674 | ISBN-13: 978-1854599674Different Every Night is the culmination of a lifetime of work in the theater, the most complete rehearsal methodology in print since Stanislavsky. It offers a vital master class for actors and directors, full of sound practical advice and guidance, and is packed with techniques for bringing the text to life and keeping it alive, both in rehearsal and performance. ...
|  | The Russian Theatre after Stalin (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
Publication Date: July 28, 1999| ISBN-10: 0521587948 | ISBN-13: 978-0521587945This is the first book to explore theater in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyze contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theater, highlighting the social and political events that shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners and conta...
|  | Old Actors Never Die...: They Simply Lose the Plot
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|  | Archestratus: Fragments from the Life of Luxury
Release Date: June 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 1903018625 | ISBN-13: 978-1903018620| Edition: Revised The big fact about Archestratus is that the fragments that survive constitute the earliest written culinary text to come down to us from the classical world (pedants might argue that the Babylonian and Egyptian materials are earlier but they in no way resemble a book.) This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has long since vanished but these fragments or quotations enshrined in a much ...
|  | Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II (Bk. 1) (Bk. 1 & 2)
Publication Date: June 1, 1982| ISBN-10: 0865160155 | ISBN-13: 978-0865160156This book contains 770 lines from Ars Amatoria, Books I and II, a full introduction on Ovid's life, 148 pages of vocabulary, and commentary that offers insights on Ovid's stylistic choices. The notes provide a wealth of information on Roman customs, mythology, history, and literary tradition.Also available:Ovid: Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris - ISBN 0865163952Ovid: Metamorphoses, Book I - ISBN 0865160406For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient...
|  | India's Love Lyrics Including Garden of Kama
Publication Date: July 1, 20031919. This work is a collection of India's love lyrics, arranged in verse by Laurence Hope. Found within are more than 85 selections of Indian lyrics, all written in a pleasing and beautiful manner. ...
|  | Caribbean Passion
Publication Date: April 1, 2004This feisty, sensuous, and thought-provoking collection of poetry from Opal Palmer Adisa includes powerful poems about the solidarity of women, the female elders of her own family, and the desire for male difference-including the benefits of having a younger lover. In her poems there is no gap between the historical, the political, and the personal, all are defined by the presence or absence of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of life. Whether she is writing about history, family, black lives, love, or sexual passion, Adisa has an acute eye for the contraries of...
|  | A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love (Radical Traditions)
Publication Date: November 28, 2001| ISBN-10: 081336566X | ISBN-13: 978-0813365664If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the “law of love”—the twofold love of God and one’s neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Jacobs pursues this challenging task by alternating largely theoretical, theological chapters—drawing above all on Augustine and Mikhail Bakhtin—with interludes that investigate particular readers (some real, some fictional) in the act of reading. Among the authors co...
|  | Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection
Publication Date: March 1990This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled a collection of 20,000 rare children's books, comics and other printed material. The Opie's also have a substantial collection of toys and games, most of them in mint condition and often still in their original packaging. Text on the early children's books, the classic Victorian illustrated books and the magazines and comics is provided by Brian Alderson, while Peter Opie's widow, Iona, and their son, Robe...
|  | Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard and Postmodernism Series)
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|  | Catalogue Of The Victorian Exhibition, 1861: With Prefatory Essays, Indicating The Progress, Resources, And Physical Characteristics Of The Colony (1861)
Publication Date: September 10, 2010This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
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