 | The Healing Quilt
Release Date: July 16, 2002After her Aunt Teza’s test results turn out to be inconclusive, Dot Cooper resolvesto raise money for a new mammogram machine, through the creation and auction of amagnificent, king-sized quilt to be sewn by the women of Jefferson City.Dot’s effortsquickly draw the support of disparate members of the community, including newcomerBeth Donnelly, married to a local pastor; Elaine Giovanni, the stylish wife of alocal surgeon; and an ailing Aunt Teza. But as the four different generations workthe squares of the quilt, they are also confronted with ragged p...
 |  | Myths of the Ancient Greeks
Release Date: April 1, 2003From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales…Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural heritage. Such age-old stories as the tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice or Demeter’s loss of her daughter, Persephone, resonate strongly with readers even today. In this book the rousing adventures of the heroes Herakles, Theseus, and Perseus are intertwined with the tragedies of immortal Prometheus and mortal Oedipus, the amorous escapades of Zeus, the trickery of Hermes, and the ecstasy of Dionysus. In...
|  | Twelve Stories of Russia: A Novel, I Guess (New Russian Writing)
Publication Date: January 18, 2001| Series: New Russian Writing Hilariously funny adventures of a young American in new Russia, about his misconceptions, blunders, and revelations, his futile attempt to love vodka, his long-distance relationship with his American aunt. In his quest he witnesses the failed coup, rampant inflation, mafia fighting, and much else....
|  | Abdication: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012England, 1936. The year began with the death of a beloved king and the ascension of a charismatic young monarch, sympathetic to the needs of the working class, glamorous and single. By year’s end, the world would be stunned as it witnessed that new leader give up his throne in the name of love, just as the unrest and violence that would result in a Second World War were becoming impossible to ignore. During the tumultuous intervening months, amidst the whirl of social and political upheaval, wise-beyond-her-nineteen-years May Thomas will take the first, falter...
|  | Sharpe's Siege: Richard Sharpe & the Winter Campaign, 1814 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #18)
Publication Date: April 29, 1987A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814.The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career.Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander and the machinations of his old enemy, French spymaster Pierre Ducos, Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory, facing overwhelmin...
|  | Moli
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0857284444 | ISBN-13: 978-0857284440‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and in ours. Written by a professional stage director with over fifty years’ experience directing and translating Molière, this text explores how the playwright strove to create a communal experience of shared laughter, and investigates four key topics relating to this achievement: Molière’s early experience...
|  | The Dog in the Manger (Absolute Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Absolute Classics While the countess’ secretary is posing as a son of a statesman, the countess is free to marry him. But when he admits his deception, the countess is faced with a social dilemma. A painful and hilarious comedy for anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone they shouldn’t have fallen in love with, The Dog in the Manger was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed Spanish Golden Age Season in 2004. ...
|  | Eleutheria
Publication Date: June 12, 1998The abandoned manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first play, Eleutheria has finally found its way into print after a highly dramatic legal and literary battle. It is clear ... that Eleutheria merits both publication and production, but it must be placed into perspective.Waiting for Godot is revolutionary; Eleutheria is evolutionary. The play, a valuable addition to Beckett's body of work, will be of interest to anyone concerned with the author's art and with exploratory theater. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Over centuries, Andalusian Gypsies developed cante jondo, or deep song, which grew from the experience of exile and marginalization. Although flamenco music enjoys wide popularity today, the words of the songs are often lost in the passion of the performance, or because they are sung in dialect. This is a bilingual sampling of the lyrics and brief commentaries by aficionados. ...
|  | Studies on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age: Tras el espejo la musa escribe (Monograf
Publication Date: July 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 1855661829 | ISBN-13: 978-1855661820This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic production. The studies of secular verse demonstrate how female poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry explore the multiple manifestations of female piety and mysticism. The women's words are brought to life and mo...
|  | The Whole of Poetry is Preposition
Publication Date: September 20, 2011Royet-Journoud’s evocation of the preposition is in homage to Louis Zukofsky; they share a deep affinity for the particular, and for the actual particulars that compose our days—the delicate tissue that binds them. Here the poetics of one of the most important poets of the late 20th/early 21st century is articulated—lucidly and luminously. He sheds light on the subject. ...
|  | Colporteur ministry
Publication Date: 1985These counsels will inspire colporteur evangelists to a richer and more effective ministry. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Treatise of the Three Impostors
Publication Date: February 1997| ISBN-10: 0847684318 | ISBN-13: 978-0847684311Including the first English edition of the Treatise of the Three Impostors since 1904, this book examines the treatise in its literary, political, and philosophical context. ...
|  | Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris (SB-The French List)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: SB-The French List In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology. Within a few months they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of 'Un cadavre,' the famous tract against Breton, the...
|  | Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair
Publication Date: November 1, 2002Life Magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair stood out among the others:"Dal's Dream of Venus, the creation of famed Surrealist painter Salvador Dal, is the most recent addition to the still-growing list of amusement-area girl shows and easily the most amazing. Weird building contains a dry tank and a wet tank. In the wet tank girls swim under water, milk a bandaged-up cow, tap typewriter keys which float like seaweed. Keyboard of piano is painted on the recumbent female figure made of rubber. In dry tank...a sleeping Venus reclines in 36-f...
|  | The Alibi
Publication Date: August 1, 2000Assistant DA Hammond Cross has his sights set on the DA's office. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case practically ensures him the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a mysterious woman is the start of a living nightmare. ...
| | The Blue Carbuncle - and - The Yoxley Case (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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|  | Vindico: I Am Liberation
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|  | Bob and Larry in the Case of the Missing Patience (I Can Read! / Big Idea Books / VeggieTales)
Release Date: August 8, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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