 | Nuts: A Play in Three Acts
Publication Date: 1981| ISBN-10: 0573613257 | ISBN-13: 978-0573613258Tom ToporFull Length, DramaCharacters: 6 male, 3 female Interior Set A Broadway hit, Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecutionand The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a high-priced call girl incarceratedon a charge for killing a violent "john". The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physician...
 |  | Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Release Date: July 10, 2012 What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America, where summer perfumes the air and life is almost perfect . . . almost. Ray Bradbury—peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most belo...
|  | The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars)
Release Date: April 1, 1995| Series: Star Wars (Random House Paperback) Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desper...
|  | SYMZONIA: Voyage of Discovery
Publication Date: March 26, 2009Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery is a breath taking adventure story that follows Captain Seaborn's expedition to the North Pole and his discovery of the entrance to the hollow earth. But first Seaborn must survive many exciting seafaring adventures including a mutinous crew. ...
|  | The Myth of Pope Joan
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0226067459 | ISBN-13: 978-0226067452| Edition: 1 In the ninth century, a brilliant young woman named Joan disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her lover into the then-exclusively male world of scholarship. She proved so successful that she ascended the Catholic hierarchy in Rome and was eventually elected pope. Her pontificate lasted two years, until she became pregnant and died after giving birth during a public procession from the Vatican.Or so the legend goes—a legend that was fabricated sometime in the thirteenth century, a...
|  | Beyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy
Publication Date: May 30, 2012| ISBN-10: 0786466030 | ISBN-13: 978-0786466030This work analyzes dramatic structures, from Sophocles to Orson Welles and the 21st century cinema, all from the viewpoint of Hegelian dialectic. Utilizing this dialectical process the author demonstrates its particular application to the writing of a screenplay, which should not be considered a simple schematic or formulaic blueprint but legitimate dramatic literature. ...
|  | Salt Crystals on an Axe: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry in Congruent Translation: A Bilingual Mini-Anthology
Publication Date: September 7, 2009| ISBN-10: 0956307515 | ISBN-13: 978-0956307514This bilingual collection of works by 56 Russian poets spans the whole of the 20th century, from Innokenty Annensky (1855-1909) to Boris Ryzhy (1974-2001), and reflects some of the characteristic styles and themes of the period. By giving preference to shorter pieces, it also provides a glimpse into the fascinating portable world of small-form poetry that is carried along by every cultured speaker of Russian. The all-new "congruent" translations, based on the system described and justified in Editor's Intro...
|  | The Clay Sanskrit Library: Story Collections, Tales, Fables: 9-volume Set
Release Date: November 9, 2009| ISBN-10: 0814717497 | ISBN-13: 978-0814717493Adventure, conquest, romance, comedy, suspense, and tragedy are just a few of the themes woven together by the range of styles represented in this set of classical Sanskrit literature. The set brings together classics like the Aesop's fables which originated in Vishnu·sharman's "Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom" with the less traditional, such as the adventures of Dandin's "What Ten Young Men Did," written uncharacteristically in prose rather than verse. Included in this set: The Emperor of the Sorcerers V...
|  | A Mi Hija Con Amor / To My Daughter With Love: Sobre Las Cosas Importantes De LA Vida / On the Important Things in Life
Publication Date: July 1992When I gave birth to my daughter, Jordanna, I never knew what a special relationship a mother and daughter could have. As my daughter got older and started to understand more about being a female, I felt as if I were once again going through many of the stages of growing up. I felt a very strong urge to protect Jordanna from anything that could possibly hurt her, but I knew that if I did this, it would hurt her later on because she would not be prepared to face the real world. So instead, I tried to show her and explain to her what I consider to be the important th...
|  | Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (Nineteenth Century Series)
Publication Date: December 30, 2004| Series: Nineteenth Century Series Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siecle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'. The essays, which draw on both canonical and liminal texts, examine the Victorian fascination with criminal psychology and pathology, engaging with real life cases alongside fictional accounts by writers as diverse as Ainsworth, Stevenso...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2
Publication Date: October 12, 2010| Series: Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance (Book 2) This exciting follow-up to the successful Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance contains more than twenty stories to take you to another time and place. Including the best names in the field, this collection is filled with mythical beasts, magical creatures of all shapes and sizes, handsome ghosts, angels, and mortals with extra-sensory perception that play out their extraordinary desires. ...
|  | The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture
Publication Date: May 29, 2006| ISBN-10: 0691049475 | ISBN-13: 978-0691049472Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these...
|  | El acontecimiento (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 5, 2011¿Quieres ver el impresionante TRAILER de la novela? Nunca habrás visto un book trailer como este! youtube.com/watch?v=wD9QjZj7--gSINOPSIS: En unas instalaciones científicas de Jerusalén, un equipo internacional de investigación realiza en secreto un ambicioso experimento. Pero en el transcurso del mismo se produce un extraño incidente. Un acontecimiento insólito que conduce al mayor, y más peligroso descubrimiento científico de la historia.La Casa Blanca, al comprobar que el hallazgo tiene el potencial de des...
|  | Devil's Bride (Cynster Novels)
Release Date: March 1, 1998| Series: Cynster Novels When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England′s most eligible bachelor, Devil′s infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date. But Honoria wasn′t about to bend society′s demands and marry a man "just" becaus...
|  | Blood Secrets (Alexandra Sabian, Book 2)
Release Date: July 5, 2011WHEN ALEXANDRA SABIAN SINKS HER TEETH INTO AN INVESTIGATION, SHE DOESN’T LET GO. Alex allowed a case involving murdered vamps to get personal and is suspended from the Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigation. Now she’s facing an official inquiry but has a chance to redeem herself. The catch: She must once again work with Varik Baudelaire, her former mentor and ex-fiancé, as he spearheads a search for a missing college student. But Varik has been keeping secrets from Alex, and his mysterious past is on a collision course with his present...
|  | The Dock Brief & Other Plays
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|  | Crises (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (Domaine Etranger)) (French Edition)
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|  | Shylock Holmes and the Royal Crown Caper
Publication Date: December 3, 2011England’s most distinguished eminent criminologist is confronted and challenged, by a diabolically clever ¬end who informs Shylock Holmes in advance of his plans to steal the Royal Crown Jewels, yes, steal them from the Tower of London, no less. Both Her Majesties Royal Beefeaters and Scotland Yard have been cleverly lulled into inaction and only Shylock Holmes and his trusted assistant Dr. Sam Watson must face the forces of unmitigated evil alone to frustrate this dastardly ingenious scheme and uphold the Sacred Honor of the Kingdom. You must be...
|  | Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Cyberbully
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up In the tradition of the mega successful DIARY OF A WIMPY KID and DORK DIARIES, JOURNAL OF A SCHOOLYARD BULLY: CYBERBULLY by Farley Katz chronicles the life of Niko Kayler, habitual trouble-maker. For the second time in the series, Niko Kayler makes a triumphant return from bully rehab and must once again put the nerds in their places--but what happens when the tables are turned? After his mom transfers jobs and towns, Niko Kayler, notorious calculating bully, gets a second chance to be good, or be evil. Though he tri...
|  | The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins might just be the most extraordinary contribution to the study of the earth's past since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. In the incredible pages of these thought-to-be-lost diaries, Dr. Wiggins—whom we now must consider the greatest paleozoologist of all time—has divulged the secrets of the truly ancient animal world: a world before human beings; a world before dinosaurs; a world that, until now, existed well beyond the outer reaches of human imagination. F...
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