 | Five Smooth Stones: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in th...
 |  | Pitbulls In A Skirt 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Publication Date: March 11, 2009The four gangstresses you love return to Emerald City more glamorous than ever! A passionate encounter causes Mercedes more than she realizes. With her guards down, her life is eventually put on the line.Always the tough one, Yvette softens her heart for the new love of her life. The problem is, she only expresses it behind closed doors.After a breech in security, Carissa realizes being a gangster is harder than she thought. Not in her right mind and during the worse time in Emerald City's history, she makes a critical decision. The results will shock you! I...
|  | About the Dead (Swenson Poetry Award)
Publication Date: September 29, 2011| Series: Swenson Poetry Award (Book 15) Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: ask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth. But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic por...
|  | The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009
Release Date: August 2, 2010| Series: Best American Short Plays Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, and David Mamet. The complex and diverse plays that make up this collection reflect both personal concerns and social issues. The 2008-2009 edition includes A Second of Pleasu...
|  | Habitat
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0887546153 | ISBN-13: 978-0887546150| Edition: First Edition Mapleview Lanes—address of "The Canadian Dream." The newest resident_a group home for troubled teens. There goes the neighborhood. Disturbing and touching, funny and heartbreaking, this is classic Judith Thompson. ...
|  | The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
Release Date: February 27, 2007| Series: The Dublin Saga The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga. The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish ...
|  | My Mother's Child (Urban Christian)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Urban Christian Lyric Stokes lives, by most standards, a charmed life. Married to Michael Stokes, a prominent heart surgeon, she has financial security and lives in the lap of luxury. All is not perfect, though. Lyric feels inadequate because she gave birth to a daughter, rather than the son that her husband so desperately wanted. After an unexpected turn of events, Lyric discovers that she's pregnant again, but now she has to decide whether she even wants to keep the child she has longed for.Nigel Fredericks has a history of stalking women. He's be...
|  | Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill
Release Date: September 1, 2007This extraordinary work of historical fiction by bestselling author Michael Dobbs finds Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb-pitted in a personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler and the ghosts from his past.The battle begins on Friday, May 10, 1940, when Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, Holland and Belgium and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. Never Surrender is about Churchill's courage and defiance, his ability to lead a nation during three of the most crucial weeks in its history. Without the physical forces nece...
|  | Ghost of Hoppers (A Love & Rockets Book)
Publication Date: March 13, 2006| Series: Love and Rockets (Book 22) Maggie returns in Hernandez's first book since the smash hit Locas.Ghost of Hoppers collects for the first time the new adventures of Maggie Chascarrillo, as serialized in the Love & Rockets comic book, and represents Jaime Hernandez's much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2004 magnum opus Locas, which Entertainment Weekly gave an 'A' for its "innovative technique and complex, character-driven stories about Mexican-American life."Ghost of Hoppers begins with the newly divorced Maggie now working as th...
|  | Rapunzel
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1840026987 | ISBN-13: 978-1840026986Classic fairy tale collaboration between Battersea Arts Center and acclaimed theatre company Kneehigh. ...
|  | Among the Believers
Publication Date: April 2000Ron Rash's second book of poetry is based on the historical realities of the mountains of western North Carolina, where Mr. Rash's ancestry goes back for at least five generations. These skillfully crafted and highly compact poems capture the spirit and feeling, the beauty and cruelty, of a place and time which has now largely faded from the American Landscape. ...
|  | The Saga of Old Muskego
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| | The Ask Your Neighbor Poetry Book, Vol1, A COLLECTION OF HAIKU-LIKE POEMS SUBMITTED BY LISTENERS OF BILL RANDALL'S "ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR" RADIO PROGRAM W E R E CLEVELAND (A COLLECTION OF HAIKU-LIKE POEMS)
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|  | The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publication Date: September 1, 1999This is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of nineteenth-century preaching. The debate over whether sermons should be read from the manuscript or delivered extempore is analyzed, and the Victorian practices of attending preaching services on Sunday and reading and writing about sermons throughout the week is discussed. The second part of the book analyses the rhetoric of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Henry Newman, and George MacDonald, and ends with a comparison of these three preachers' sermons on the death an...
|  | Journey to a Woman (Lesbian Pulp Fiction)
Publication Date: April 2003| Series: Lesbian Pulp Fiction Dubbed the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for her series of landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon’s work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press’s new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love amidst the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. This fifth in Cleis Press’s series of rereleased lesbian pulp fiction classics features a new introduction by the author. ...
|  | Born in Fire (Born in Trilogy, Book 1)
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|  | The MacGregors: Robert & Cybil: The Winning Hand\The Perfect Neighbor
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| Series: Macgregors The Winning Hand When Darcy Wallace spends her last three dollars at the hotel casino and wins a jackpot worth almost two million dollars, all casino manager Robert MacGregor Blade wants to do is look out for her. But something about the lovely young woman is getting under Mac's skin and playing havoc with his big brotherly intentions. And to win her over, he'll have to take the biggest gamble of his life. The Perfect Neighbor Brooding loner Preston McQuinn's new apartment, like his life, was just the way he wanted it -- dark and empty. But ...
|  | The Duke
Release Date: November 28, 2000Driven to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of his ladylove, the Duke of Hawkscliffe will go to any lengths to unmask a murderer. Even if it means jeopardizing his reputation by engaging in a scandalous affair with London's most provocative courtesan--the desirable but aloof Belinda Hamilton.Bel has used her intelligence and wit to charm the city's titled gentlemen, while struggling to put the pieces of her life back together. She needs a protector, so she accepts Hawk's invitation to become his mistress in name only. He asks nothing of her body, but...
|  | Avengers/Defenders War
Publication Date: January 4, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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