 | Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: May 17, 1993| ISBN-10: 0393961478 | ISBN-13: 978-0393961478This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and prose in recent years. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly annotated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sens...
 |  | Ruined - Acting Edition
Publication Date: August 24, 2010<DIV>Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won’t expect.”—David C...
|  | Almost Perfect Moment, An: A Novel
Release Date: February 3, 2004On the cusp of the great age of disco, and in a part of Brooklyn a million miles away from Manhattan, livesfifteen-year-old Valentine Kessler and her long-suffering mother, Miriam.Valentine -- Jewish, pretty, and a touch flaky -- is an unremarkable teenager except for two things: she is a dead ringer for the Virgin Mary as she appeared to Bernadette at Lourdes, and her very being, through some inexplicable conspiracy of fate, seems to shatter the dreams and hopes of people around her.John Wosileski, Valentine's lonely math teacher who adores her from afar, embra...
|  | More Than Words (Daughters of Amana, Book 2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010Gretchen Kohler is an Amana storekeeper's daughter with a secret passion for writing. But artistic pursuits are frowned upon in her conservative Amana village, so she confines her poems and stories to her journals, letting only close friends read them. When a young reporter comes into her store, she believes she's found a kindred spirit. She shares a few of her stories with him--only to have her trust betrayed in the worst of ways, resulting in trouble for her entire community. The scandal is made even worse by the fact that gypsies have camped nearby and s...
|  | TERROR TALES OF EAST ANGLIA
Publication Date: September 15, 2012East Anglia - a drear, flat land of fens and broads, lone gibbets and isolated cottages, where demon dogs howl in the night, witches and warlocks lurk at every crossroads, and corpse-candles burn in the marshland . . . This frightening new anthology, the third in a series seeking to spread horror all over the British Isles, contains chilling tales by Alison Littlewood, Reggie Oliver, Simon Bestwick, Roger Johnson, Steve Duffy and many more. ...
|  | Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
Release Date: September 12, 2006In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Three of the eight chapters are told from the point of view of Christine’s two older sisters, Patti, a born-again Christian who finds herself starving at her boarding school, and Rosa, a free spirit who tries to “magically” seduce ...
|  | Blood Bond
Release Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Blood Bond (Book 1) Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no could ever break. Beneath the Montana big sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the half breed and the white man who rode together and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them. ...
|  | Whither: & Other Stories
Publication Date: April 2004MORDECAI ZE'EV FEIERBERG (1874-1899) rebelled against his traditional religious Jewish education, and developed a strong resentment towards his father, the town's Shokhet (ritual slaughterer). His father wanted to teach him his trade, which shocked him, as he later wrote in one of his stories, The Calf.When he was eighteen, Feierberg fell ill, resulting in the cancellation of his engagement. He began to study by himself, first reading Haskalah literature and then reading the Jewish poets of the Middle Ages. Impressed by Yehuda Halevi's writings, he employed Halevi...
|  | The Girl on the Dock: A Dark Fairy Tale
Release Date: November 18, 2008Returning to the home of her grandfather after her final school year, Petra Morganstern is a changed young witch. Confident in her recent choices, yet plagued by dreams of what they cost her, Petra is unsure what to do with the rest of her life.Petra’s one ray of hope is her young step-sister, Izabella, whose simple-minded charm is only offset by the awful Phyllis, her hateful mother. Desperate to protect Izabella from the increasing rages of Phyllis, Petra struggles to find balance between the forces that seek to rule her heart. Will she cling to the ch...
|  | Comparative Religion For Dummies
Publication Date: April 28, 2008Understand the beliefs, customs, and rituals of each faithThe fun and easy way to know the common elements of these widespread religionsWant to know more about the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? This plain-English guide traces their evolution from their commonorigin - Abraham - and explains their different, yet linked, beliefs.You'll see how each religion developed, endured setbacks, and became a fixture in modern society - and you'll learn how members havedeveloped similar approaches to worship.Discover:How the belief in one God originatedThe roo...
|  | Songs of the Marketplace (Opon Ifa Series)
Publication Date: December 29, 1983| ISBN-10: 9782266108 | ISBN-13: 978-9782266101| Edition: 2 Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1986, Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent younger writers. This first collection of his poetry is the expression of a critical awareness in its exploration of the social situation in contemporary Nigeria. In an introduction, Biodun Jeyifo remarks that his distinctive voice is attributable to the fact that his verses confront both poetry of revolution and a revolution of poetry, in terms of forms and techniques. Thirty-five poems are inclu...
|  | The Learned Banqueters, Volume VI: Books 12-13.594b (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2010| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 327)In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas O...
|  | Cicero: Brutus, Orator;Volume V (Loeb Classical Library No. 342)
Publication Date: January 1, 1939| ISBN-10: 0674993772 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993778 Brutus gives an account of the Roman tradition of public and lawcourt speeches from its beginning to what Cicero described as the polished and entertaining speeches of his own day. Along the way Cicero has interesting things to say about the influence of the speaker's audience on his style and technique. Also notable here is an autobiographical sketch.Cicero's own very wide practical experience informs Orator, which depicts the ideal speaker. Here he details the principles of eloquent oratory and quotes in...
|  | The Deception of the Emerald Ring (Pink Carnation)
Release Date: September 4, 2007| Series: Pink Carnation Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with Colin Selwick and sought out a romantic adventure all her own. Little does she know that she's about to uncover another fierce heroine running headlong into history. ...
|  | Keeper of the Swans (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: July 1, 1998| Series: Signet Regency Romance Unwilling to marry a titled lord she barely knows, a beautiful young country girl flees from the lord's mansion to a rowboat on the river, where she overhears the truth about her approaching nuptials--he only wants her for her dowry. Before she can react, her boat's tether breaks, sending her down the raging river to her doom--until a stranger saves her, winning her heart with his courage and passion. ...
|  | Until Proven Guilty
Publication Date: January 1, 1995In coastal Santa Rita, California, the horrifyingly similar murders of three women has the District Attorney's office reeling, and the rising political heat only adds to the juggling act of Assistant D.A. Kathryn Mackay -- a divorced mother determined to make her mark in a testosterone-driven field. But when she's tapped to lead the investigation, Mackay discovers that everyone has an agenda: the ratings-hungry TV newsman who knows more about the D.A.'s moves than any outsider should; the brilliant mind-hunter from the state capital, who's eager to apply his ...
|  | Two Little Girls in Blue : A Novel
Release Date: April 4, 2006In a riveting new thriller, worldwide bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead. Margaret and Steve Frawley celebrate the third birthday of their twin girls, Kelly and Kathy, with an afternoon party in their new home, a modest fixer-upper in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The evening of the twins' birthday party, Steve and Margaret attend a black-tie dinner in New York. When they return home, the police are in the house, and they are told that the babysitter had been...
|  | The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935
Release Date: January 31, 2003"'The new Sayers' is not merely admirable; it is adorable. There were, in Miss Sayers's more recent books, signs that a strange element was struggling to be free. In one this element seemed like philosophy; in one like fantasy. It has now become perfectly freed itself, and become perfectly united with her other capacities. The Nine Tailors is consequently not a tale of murder, but an experience of life."--Charles Williams, review of The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers, January 17, 1934. English editor, literary critic, poet, novelist, theologian, and Inkling, Cha...
|  | Pirateology: The Pirate Hunter's Companion (Ologies)
Release Date: July 11, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Little Magic Shop of Horrors: Deadtime Stories
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
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