 | My Mother Was Nuts
Release Date: September 18, 2012Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood’s star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along the way. My Mother Was Nuts is an intimate backstage pass to Penny’s personal life, her breakout role on The Odd Couple, her exploits with Cindy Williams and John Belushi, and her travels across Europe with Art Garfunkel ...
 |  | Durang/Durang - Acting Edition
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|  | Dream Catcher: Literary Arts Journal: Issue 14
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|  | Swan Song
Release Date: November 10, 2009“We’re about to cross the point of no return. God help us; we’re flying in the dark and we don’t know where the hell we’re going.” Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen—from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City—will fight for survival. Swan Song is Robert McCammon’s prescient and “shocking” (John Saul) vision of a post- Apocalyptic nation, ...
|  | Mother of My Mother: The Intricate Bond Between Generations
Release Date: April 13, 1999In her bestselling Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman articulated the effects of early mother loss with stunning courage and honesty. In doing so, she helped hundreds of thousands of women heal. Now, in her new book--part memoir, part reportage--she brilliantly explores the three-generational triangle from which women develop their female identities: the grandmother-mother-granddaughter relationship. Edelman writes that her grandmother and her mother together "defined the terms 'mother,' daughter,' and 'woman' for me. The three of us, in my memory, are separa...
|  | A Texan's Choice: The Heart of A Hero, Book 3
Publication Date: October 2012| Series: The Heart of a Hero (Book 3) Texas, 1874. Long ago, Scout Proffitt gave up on ever being a man of honor like his Civil War hero brother Clayton. But when Scout steps foot on the rundown remnants of the Circle C ranch, he wonders if maybe—just maybe—the Lord has something different intended for him. Rosemarie has lived most of her life doubting her worth and shouldering the blame for her brother’s death. But when a stranger rides onto her ranch, claiming he owns it, she suddenly is given a choice: either keep looking at the dark s...
|  | The Perfect Match (Deep Haven Series #3)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009Ellie Karlson is new to Deep Haven. As the town's interim fire chief, she is determined to lead the local macho fire crew in spite of their misconceptions about her. But when someone begins setting deadly fires, Ellie faces the biggest challenge of her life. Especially when sparks fly with one of the volunteers on her crew: Pastor Dan Matthews. As Ellie battles to do her job and win the respect of her crew, she finds that there is one fire she can't fight—the one Dan has set in her heart. ...
|  | The Void (The Truth Chasers Series #3)
Release Date: August 21, 2007The Truth Chasers Book ThreeSomeone’s trying to play God…and he’s turning Palm Bay into hell.Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Robbie Sanchez devotes her life to crime prevention, and it shows: She has no personal life and doesn’t know the meaning of a day off. After all, someone has to be around to clean up the mess crime leaves behind.So when Officer Brad Worthington is brutally murdered, Agent Sanchez is called to the scene along with Brad’s best friend, Detective Eric Casey.The two turn to Lifetex, the genetics lab...
|  | The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening Series #1)
Publication Date: September 4, 2007A sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with how much he's lost. Will the music of his heart be stilled forever—or will he choose to dance with life once more, in spite of sorrow and heartbreak? The Dead Don't Dance is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story—a tale of one man's spiritual journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. ...
|  | The Jervaise Comedy
Publication Date: July 1, 2009John Beresford was an early 20th century English writer known for his science fiction.He also wrote horror and ghost short stories.After training to become an architect, he decided to become a writer. He was first as a dramatist, and journalist.This is one of the author's lighter books.The entire story takes place in less than 24 hours.The main character meets with a series of circumstances that will change his entire life. ...
|  | Priest: Genesis, Vols. 1-3
Publication Date: April 5, 2011Trains, demons, cowboys, and magic! Priest follows a dishonored priest who has allied himself with demons. He uses a tainted combination of holy (and unholy) powers to slay demons and bring peace to a very wild, fantasy realm modeled on the US western frontiers. This 540-page collection houses the first three volumes of Min-Woo Hyung's landmark series, Priest! ...
|  | The Mistress Of The Inn: By Carlo Goldoni, Translated For The Stage By Robert Bethune
Publication Date: January 27, 2009The Mistress of the Inn is fine watch. You wind it up; it runs. Waves of comic tension build to a near-riot, then subside to a gentle, calm, reflective ending. All but one man share a new understanding of love. Much has been made, can be made, and will be made of Goldoni and the commedia dell'arte. Too much can be made of this. You don't need to know anything about commedia to understand, enjoy and appreciate it. To be sure, the characters are all related to commedia character types, but so are most of the world's characters. These people are not masks, they...
|  | Africa (Globe Regional Studies)
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|  | Northanger Abbey (Stage Playscript)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Stage Playscript “Full credit to adaptor and director Tim Luscombe for avoiding the more obvious titles and staging an earlier work that transfers more felicitously to the stage.”—GuardianAs she moves through the social whirl in the city of Bath and in the pleasant county seat of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland’s head is filled with the gothic fantasies of Mrs. Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho. ...
|  | They Worshiped Him
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0788018469 | ISBN-13: 978-0788018466In today's ""hurry-up"" world, it seems we rarely take the time to think of other people and ""walk a mile in the other man's shoes."" If we did, what would we see? They Worshiped Him revisits the nativity story from the perspective of the people who were actually there. In this dramatic retelling, we glimpse the innermost thoughts and feelings of some of the very common people whose lives were forever changed by a most extraordinary event. What did the shepherds feel? What did others think of them? Were they...
|  | Hugh Macdiarmid: Complete Poems Volume 2 (Macdiarmid 2000 S.)
Publication Date: August 1, 1994| Series: Macdiarmid 2000 S. This volume includes the full texts of "In Memoriam James Joyce," "Three Hymns to Lenin," and "The Kind of Poetry I Want." Included are long poems and intense lyrics. ...
|  | Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
Release Date: August 3, 2006| ISBN-10: 1403970432 | ISBN-13: 978-1403970435| Edition: First Edition This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity. Resisting the impulse to see the fabliaux as either libe...
| | Love Poems of the Irish
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|  | 98 Love Letters That Will Bring You to Your Knees: Poems and Love Letters of Great Men and Women
Publication Date: February 5, 2012Searching for the book of love letters from the Sex in the City movie? This book contains those letters as well as some of the most passionate and romantic poems and love letters ever written. Explore the private longings and passions of the greatest men and women in history. Find yourself in the middle of torrid love affairs, undying devotion, and scandalous betrayal as you uncover long-lost correspondences between lovers. From great Kings and Countesses to War Heroes and Philosophers, spanning a period of five centuries, this collection illustrates that th...
|  | According to Hoyle
Publication Date: January 21, 2011By the close of 1882, the inhabitants of the American West had earned their reputation as untamed and dangerous. The line between heroes and villains is narrow and indistinct. The concept that a man may only kill if backed into a corner is antiquated. Lives are worth less than horses. Treasures are worth killing for. And the law is written in the blood of those who came before. The only men staving off total chaos are the few who take the letter of the law at its word and risk their lives to uphold it. But in the West, the rules aren't always played accordin...
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