 | Fall of Heaven, The
Publication Date: February 7, 2011>Dramatic comedyCahracters: 3 male, 2 femaleA hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley,best-selling author of more than 25 books andmost widely known for his popular Easy Rawlinsmysteries, including "Devil in a Blue Dress".Tempest Landry, a street-wise young man livingin Harlem, unexpectedly finds himself at thePearly Gates. When Saint Peter orders him tohell, the quick-witted Tempest refuses to go.A technical loophole forces heaven to sendTempest back to Earth with an angel in tow tokeep him out of trouble. The resulting battleof wills takes an intriguin...
 |  | Trying to Find Chinatown
Publication Date: December 15, 1999David Henry Hwang has the potential to become the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe the best of them all. -Detroit NewsDavid Henry Hwang has created an extraordinary body of work over the last twenty years: the Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly; the OBIE Award-winning and 1998 Tony nominated Golden Child; the libretti to The Voyage (included here) and 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (both for composer Philip Glass); and the book to Aida, which he coauthored. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and G...
|  | A Summer Affair: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Claire Danner Crispin, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala. Claire is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the former high school sweetheart of rock star Max West.Max agrees to play the gala and it looks like smooth sailing for Claire-until she promises a "museum-quality"piece of glass for the auction, offers her best friend the catering job, goes nose-to-nose with her Manhattan socialite co-chair, and begins a "good-h...
|  | Something Good (Red Dress Ink Novels)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Red Dress Ink Novels Shy and insecure all her life, fifteen-year-old Hannah finally feels as if she belongs. She acts in the theater club production and hangs out with a super-kissable boy, and her new best friend, Zoe, has turned her on to clothes, makeup and nicking lipsticks for fun. It's great. Of course, her unbearable mother, Jane, is unimpressed with all this behavior...especially the night she has to bail Hannah out of serious trouble.But who's behaving badly? On a trip to a remote Scottish isle the tables are turned when Hannah discovers her ...
|  | Grand Avenue
Publication Date: October 2, 2001For four women, the bonds of friendship had sustained them for twenty years -- through marriage, motherhood, and murder....Looking back, it seemed like paradise: lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends -- Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki -- shared everything through good times and bad, and faced the challenges of life and love head-on.Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and circumstance.Now, she must sift through each of their pasts to discover exactly w...
|  | Secrets In the Attic
Publication Date: June 9, 2010In Secrets In the Attic, Jaret Bachmann travels with his family to his beloved grandfather's funeral with a heavy heart and, more troubling, premonitions of something evil lurking at the Bachmann ancestral home. But no one believes that he sees ghosts, and no one else saw his grandfather's ghost warning him to stay home except his dog, Darth. Grappling with his sexuality, a ghost that wants him out of the way, and the loss of his grandfather, Jaret must protect his family and come to terms with powers hidden deep within himself. ...
|  | Four Dark Nights
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|  | The Prayer Wheel Odyssey
Publication Date: September 14, 2012The Fate of the World Is in One Woman's Hands... A man climbs the fence at the White House and is shot to death. A passerby, a young American Everyman, finds a document fallen at the site of the tragedy. Suddenly, his life changes beyond his capacity to imagine - for this document is of crucial importance to the shadowy and subterranean forces that rule the world in the barely known realm at the peripheral vision of the ordinary citizen. But the powerful figure at the center of this web is anything but ordinary. She is a modern Medea: brilliant, ruthless, ...
|  | McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011 ...
|  | Price of Glory (Nathan Peake Trilogy 3)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Nathan Peake Trilogy 3 The third novel in this epic, thrilling series of war and villainy on the high seas, featuring Captain Nathan Peake. Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and their little toy soldier, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn, Nathan is s...
|  | The Last Masquerade: A Novel
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|  | Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660
Publication Date: January 28, 2000This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers reimagined English literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as a royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars. ...
|  | Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Adaptation, 1981 (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Publication Date: November 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0030574382 | ISBN-13: 978-0030574382| Edition: Facsimile This tribe of South Dakota has met the challenge of living in the 20th century by expressing religion and beliefs in a cultural style that mixes tradition and Christian influence with western technology. ...
|  | The Body's Fire
Publication Date: July 2002The Body's Fire is a collection or original poems and"shaped" poems addressing several recursive themes, including theHolocaust, love, friendship, urban life, the human condition, andnature. ...
|  | Une Gourmandise (French Edition)
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|  | Primal Needs
Release Date: December 30, 2008 In New York Times bestselling author Susan Sizemore's sizzling new novel, a warrior werewolf and a beautiful vampire discover a passion that breaks every rule.... Sidonie Wolf never wanted the traditional life of a female vampire -- with her favors fought over by powerful Prime males -- but she must accept her duty to her kind, even if she's already given her heart to a werewolf she can never have. Erasing Joe Bleythin's memories of their blistering affair was necessary to keep him safe, but he sees her betrayal as unforgivable. So Sid's new assignment to wo...
|  | Shadow Prey
Release Date: June 28, 1990| Series: Prey Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a killer with a grisly m.o.--he slashes his victims' throats with an Indian ceremonial knife. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Pokemon Adventures Gold & Silver Box Set (set includes Vol. 8-14) (Pok
Release Date: September 4, 2012 ...
|  | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Mega Man 3: Return of Dr. Wily
Release Date: August 28, 2012 ...
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