 | Cool Characters for Kids! 71 One-Minute Monologues, Ages 4-12
Publication Date: April 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up WARNING: Opening this book may cause you to become a famous movie star, adored by millions of fans and forced to sign autographs for the rest of your life! The curtain goes up, the spotlight is shining, and the stage is yours! The audience is waiting to be dazzled by the stars of tomorrow -- and you could be one of them! Never before have talented, young actors been in such demand. Agents, directors, and managers are looking for something unique, something special. The characters in this book were created to showcase y...
 |  | Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1597140694 | ISBN-13: 978-1597140690| Edition: First Edition Forging identity from loss first-generation Armenian American writing This is an outstanding collection of literature from seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, each introduced here by a member of the second generation. For the many readers who are unfamiliar with all but the most famous of these authors William Saroyan and Michael J. Arlen, for example powerful discoveries await: the writing in this volume is intense, magical, and filled with love of life. It is also ...
|  | Hunger Point: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1997Food has always been a pleasure and a curse for 26-year-old Frannie and the women of her family. Raised by a mother obsessed with the ritual of dieting, a woman seemingly more in love with food than with her daughters, Frannie and her younger sister, Shelly, have undergone a lifetime of fat camps and Weight Watchers programs and have experienced the sugar high of consuming a box of Girl Scout cookies, the illicit thrill of midnight binges, and the triumph of fitting into a pair of size 6 jeans. Frannie's family acts as if this fascination with food is normal, u...
|  | Foundlings
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Foundlings...Awarded Best Book 2010-2011 from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine! Foundlings, the #1 Bestseller in Historical Fiction from Christian Book Distributors Spring 2011! Foundlings, the Top Ten Bestseller in Christian Fantasy from Christian Book Distributors Winter 2012! Praise for Foundlings, Book One of The Peleg Chronicles,"Next to the Narnia series your book has been the only other book that my kids have begged me to read. My boys remind me several times a day that this is one of their favorite books." - the Myers family, fl...
|  | The Cat Who Wasn't There
Publication Date: October 2003| Series: Cat Who... Qwill agrees to join his beloved Polly on a group tour of Scotland to keep her safe from the Pickax Prowler. On their sixth day in Scotland, however, the tour organizer--Polly's best friend Irma--dies of an apparent heart attack, and Qwill suspects foul play. Koko and Yum Yum may have been miles away from the scene of the crime, but they're just a whisker away from cracking the case. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2007No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who...
|  | Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Deception
Release Date: June 9, 2009After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the si...
|  | Wedding Season: A Novel
Release Date: March 16, 2010“Katie Fforde’s unique spin on romantic comedy is a blend of the sweet, the sad, and the sexy.” —Patricia Gaffney Sarah is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth—she doesn’t believe in love. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding season she finds herself agreeing to organize two more events, on the same day, and only two months away. And while her celebrity bride is all sweetness and light, the other bride, Sarah’s own sister, quickly starts driving her c...
|  | The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 30, 1954| ISBN-10: 0140440445 | ISBN-13: 978-0140440447| Edition: Revised The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Orestes", and "Rhesus" completes the new editions of "Euripides in Penguin Classics". ...
|  | Jerusalem Delivered: An English Prose Version
Publication Date: December 1, 1986God sends his angel to Tortosa down, Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Odyssey
Publication Date: June 11, 2009Greek poet Homer established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with the Odyssey. Crowded with characters, both human and nonhuman, and bursting with action, the Odyssey details the adventures of Ulysses, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope. Along the way Ulysses encounters the seductive Circe, who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph Calypso, who keeps him a "prisoner of love" for seven years; the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cy...
|  | Omkrets: Gjendiktninger (Georg Trakl, Peter Huchel, Johannes Bobrowski) og egne dikt (Norwegian Edition)
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|  | Rilke and Andreas-Salom
Publication Date: June 17, 2008"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New YorkSunHe would become one of the most important poetsof the twentieth century; she a muse ofEurope's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for thePEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer andintellectual fourteen years his senior, pen arelationship that spans thirty years andshifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor andprotégé, and as deep personal and literaryallies. ...
|  | I Smell Something Foul: Haiku Expressions of Everyday Angst
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|  | A Clown in a Grave: The Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso
Publication Date: September 10, 1999Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso's complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death. Skau covers the complete works of Corso, one of the four major Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs) who attempted to provide an alternative to what they saw as the academic forms of literature dominating American writing through the 1940s and 1950s. The Beat option focused on ordinary people, spurning the cultural prete...
|  | Best Lesbian Erotica 2002
Publication Date: January 9, 2002| Series: Best Lesbian Erotica Like Best Lesbian Erotica 2000, the Book Sense bestseller, Best Lesbian Erotica 2002 is as sensual as ever, featuring writers on a par with those in previous editions, such as Dorothy Allison, Pat Califia, Heather Lewis, Joan Nestle, and Cecilia Tan. ...
|  | The Wagonmaster
Publication Date: July 21, 2009Medical school taught Dr. Adelaide Jennings that there is no cure for her father's consumption. Determined to reach him in Oregon before the disease claims him, Addie will risk anything. Even her own life.Joshua Reynolds escorts people along the arduous and often dangerous Oregon Trail. He cannot force the members of the train to allow an unwed woman to join them. But the foolish doctor is determined to make the journey, even if she has to go alone. To protect the willful, spoiled young woman, Josh agrees to marry Addie in name only.Together they embark on a jo...
|  | Hammerheads
Release Date: June 3, 2003Bestselling author Dale Brown tackles the controversial subject on America's drug war. The U.S. government has created an all-new drug-defense agency--Hammerheades--that will never make the war against drugs the same. ...
|  | Picnic at Mudsock Meadow
Release Date: May 28, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up It?s time for the annual Halloween picnic. But the kids are worried about the ghost of Titus Dinworthy. Except William, who?s pretty sure old Titus is just swamp gas; it?s Hester Bledden he?s worried about. Every time William is about to win a contest, Hester shows up, sticks out her tongue, and shouts, ?Peeee youuuuu!? But when something eerie rises out of the swamp, William gets a chance to show both Titus and Hester what a boy from Mudsock Meadow is made of. ...
|  | Marvels: Eye of the Camera
Publication Date: January 5, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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