| The Reverend's Wife (A Reverend Curtis Black Novel) Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: A Reverend Curtis Black Novel From New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby comes the ninth installment in her award-winning Reverend Curtis Black series. It's been months since Reverend Curtis learned that his wife Charlotte had affairs with two different men, and for now, he continues to be cordial and respectful to her. But he's also made it clear that once their son Matthew graduates high school, he will be filing for divorce. Charlotte, on the other hand, continues to do everything possible to make amends in hopes of saving their marriage...
| | Plays Pleasant (Penguin Classics) Release Date: August 26, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Plays Pleasant (1898) comprises four comedies intended to amuse audiences but also to provoke them. Arms and the Man, set in the Balkan mountains, satirizes the romantic view ofwar and military heroism. Candida presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer. You Never Can Tell is a light, witty look at an aging suffragette and her family. The Man of Destiny features Napoleon Bonaparte at odds with English mores. ...
| | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel Release Date: May 3, 2011 When mother and daughter Vivi and Siddalee Walker get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a tap-dancing child abuser, the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. A successful theater director, Siddalee panics and postpones her upcoming weddingso Vivis intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they...
| | The Toss of a Lemon Publication Date: September 1, 2009Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a closeted gay man who is bound by a different caste's rules, becomes her public face. Their singular r...
| | Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh Publication Date: December 28, 2005In September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post. Among the patients assigned to Marsh at this time was a young woman named Kari Hansen, a college student who had suffered a nervous collapse during a school-sponsored anthropology dig a year previously. Subsequently, Ms. Hansen began experiencing what hospital records referred to as a series of vivid hallucinations;...
| | The Book of the City of Ladies (Revised Edition) Publication Date: June 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0892552301 | ISBN-13: 978-0892552306| Edition: Revised Edition "Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to...
| | Five Plays: Kamala; Silence! The Court is in Session; Sakharam Binder; The Vultures; Encounter in Umbugland (Oxford India Paperbacks) Publication Date: February 1, 1997| Series: Oxford India Paperbacks This is the first Oxford India Paperback printing of this collection. Vijay Tendulka has been in the vanguard of the Indian theatre for almost forty years. These five plays, translated from the original Marathi, are some of his best known, most socially relevant and also most controversial. ...
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| | Temple-administration and chieftainship in pre-Christian Norway and Iceland (Saga-book. [Offprint]) ...
| | The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry Publication Date: June 30, 2005There are almost as many definitions and different sorts of love as there are poets. Edited on the assumption that any poem which speaks of one human's desire for another is a qualifying factor, "The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" is a rich and diverse anthology which ranges through time and fashion. Passion, urgency, simplicity, heartbreak and renunciation are all here in a volume that superbly represents 'man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart'. ...
| | The Renaissance: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks) Release Date: May 26, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230001769 | ISBN-13: 978-0230001763This fascinating collection of rare and classic documents provides students at all levels with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. Informed by the latest scholarship and meticulous original research, these documents are crucial to understanding the explosive creativity of Renaissance literature. A wide range of pedagogically designed tools help students find their way into this time of momentous social, economic, and religious transformation era, these include:• ...
| | Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity Publication Date: February 16, 2012Torture - that most notorious aspect of medieval culture and society - has evolved into a dominant mythology, suggesting that the Middle Ages was a period during which sadistic torment was inflicted on citizens with impunity and without provocation: popular museums displaying such gruesome implements as the rack, the strappado, the gridiron, the wheel, and the Iron Maiden can be found in many modern European cities. These lurid images of medieval torture have re-emerged within recent discussions on American foreign policy and the introduction of torture leg...
| | Klee (Pegasus) Publication Date: April 2002| Series: Pegasus A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structure. Like a composer, he developed and harmonized pictorial themes, weaving a complex series of signs and symbols into his painting. In this book, the art historian Hajo Duechting focuses his study primarily on Klee's decade-long tenure at the Bauhaus, where the artist's theories and practice first merged, and where he was to develop his Colour Spectrum, Square and Polyphone painting series. Illustrated throughout with ...
| | Noche de fuego (Zeta Romantica (Unnumbered)) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Zeta Romantica (Unnumbered) Solo su pasion amorosa, la podria salvar... Atrapada en un matrimonio sin amor, Arielle solo habia conocido una vida de vergüenza y humillacion. Aun despues de la muerte de su monstruoso marido, ella se sentia incapaz de liberarse de las cadenas de la infamia. Solo el amor de Burke la podria salvar, si ella lo permite./Trapped into a loveless marriage, Arielle Leslie knew a life of shame and degradation. Even after the death of her brutal husband, she was unable to free herself from the shackles of humiliation...
| | The Templar Legacy: A Novel Release Date: November 27, 2007The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world.Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-t...
| | The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Detective Release Date: November 17, 2009| Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A young Sherlock Holmes arrives in London to begin his career as a private detective,catching the eye of the master criminal, Professor James Moriarty. Enter Dr. Watson,newly returned from Afghanistan, soon to make history as Holmes’ companion...Byturns both shocking and exciting, David Stuart Davies’ controversial take on theHolmes mythology is a modern classic in crime fiction that will defy all expectations.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely...
| | Magical Animal Fairies #1: Ashley the Dragon Fairy: A Rainbow Magic Book Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
| | Punia and the King of Sharks: A Hawaiian Folktale Release Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up All Punia wants is a succulent lobster dinner for himself and his mother, and the use of the lobster cave for his fellow villagers. Three times Punia tricks the King of Sharks, the guardian of the lobster cave; three times he brings home fresh lobster. But each time Punia succeeds, the King of Sharks gets angrier. Will the shark take revenge on Punia, or will Punia's clever tricks make him the hero of his whole village. Full color. ...
| | Pro Baseball (100 Unforgettable Moments in Sports) Publication Date: May 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Civil War Drummer Boy Release Date: May 10, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Powerful history through the eyes of a young boyWhen Johnny joins the Confederate Army as a drummer boy, he enters a world full of patriotism and adventure, breathtaking hot-air balloons, cannons and campfires. His job is to drum rhythms that tell soldiers what to do. But the dangers of war are all around him and when he returns to the magnolia trees and cotton blossoms of his home, Johnny and the country are forever changed.Boys as young as nine years old joined both sides during the Civil War and many became drummer bo...
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