 | Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
Release Date: March 3, 1992A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. ...
 |  | 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...
|  | The Winds of Graystone Manor (St. Clare Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 1995| Series: St. Clare Trilogy In the grand tradition of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca, B.J. Hoff forges a groundbreaking new romantic suspense series in this, the stunning first novel of THE ST. CLARE TRILOGY. Joining the romance and nostalgia of rural Americana with the powerful, page-turning appeal of the Gothic, Hoff has crafted a tale of passion and pathos, introducing these compelling new characters:Roman St. Clare the Civil War photographer haunted by the slaying of his wife and unborn child. His relentless quest to find their murderer leads him ...
|  | The Heart of Narnia: Wisdom, Virtue, and Life Lessons from the Classic Chronicles
Release Date: January 23, 2008Everyday life presents us with a multitude of moral choices. Author C. S. Lewis believed that every ethical decision we make contributes to the shaping of our character.This book explores the great moral themes of Lewis's seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia series, paying particular attention to key vices and virtues, including:• Courage and Cowardice• Honesty and Dishonesty• Mercy and Cruelty• Humility and Pride ...
|  | Sitting By My Laughing Fire
Publication Date: 1977Delightful poems by Mrs. Billy Graham will encourage and inspire you. ...
|  | Pope Joan: A Novel
Release Date: August 19, 1997"Engaging . . . Pope Joan has all the elements: love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFor a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.When her older brother dies in a Viking attack, the brilliant young Joan assumes his identity and enters a Benedictin...
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|  | Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance
Publication Date: March 24, 2003Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: What is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? W.B. Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its performance. Instead, the text becomes significant only as embodied in the changing conventions of its performance. Worthen explores this understanding of dramatic performativity by interrogating several contemporary sites of Shakespeare production. The book includes detailed discussions of recent films and s...
| | The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century (Loeb Classical Monographs)
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|  | If I Knew Then What I Know Now: The Self Help Book For Everyone
Publication Date: May 28, 2008This book was written to help you to make the right decisions the first time or aid you in correcting bad decisions of the past.Subjects cover in this book include, Choosing or Changing Careers, Eliminating Bad Debt, The Smart Way To By A Car, Building Wealth, Facing Foreclosure, How to Handle To Much Success, Road Rage, Why Relationships Don't Last, How To Be A Great Lover, Parenting, Abortion, Loosing Weight And Gaining Strength, Sunlight The Silent Killer, Quit Smoking, Do You Have A Drinking Problem? Identifying And Treating Depression and Life Isn't Fair. ...
|  | Circling the Sunset: 114 Haiku and Senryu published by Iron Press Paperback
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|  | Tygerberg Muses: A Student Anthology of Poetry
Publication Date: July 26, 2012The poems in this anthology constantly extend one’s frame of reference, subvert one’s assumptions, and encourage one to make challenging and illuminating connections. The writings represent the voice of the youth within a range of themes – love, education, gender, feminism, life, etc… A strong feature of this anthology is the powerful feelings and acute observations in the poems. It is heartening to note that students are grappling with cross-cultural worlds with words. (Rajendra Chetty, South Africa) ...
|  | The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe with an Edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, The Most Noble, Auncient, ... in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)
Publication Date: November 15, 2001| Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization In The Philosophers' Game, Ann E. Moyer invites us to engage with the forgotten chess-like game Rithmomachia ("The Battle of Numbers"), which combined the pleasures of gaming with mathematical study and moral education. Intellectuals of the medieval and Renaissance periods who played this game were not only seeking to master the principles of Boethian mathematics but were striving to improve their own understanding of the secrets of the cosmos.The Philosophers' Game, which includes a complete, illu...
|  | The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought (Icon Critical Dictionaries)
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|  | Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
Publication Date: February 11, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521052556 | ISBN-13: 978-0521052559| Edition: 1 Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic effort associated with British socialism and femini...
|  | Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda (Legenda Italian Perspectives)
Release Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1907975268 | ISBN-13: 978-1907975264Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gaddas self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness of these three Italian authors is diminished when their writing is c...
|  | The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940
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|  | Kissing Comfort (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Berkley Sensation Bode DeLong knows that his playboy brother Bram isn't really in lovewith Miss Comfort Kennedy, even though it's clear that she's enamoredwith him. With Bram's motives for the engagement suspect, Bode figuresthe safest place for Comfort to be is in his arms. Now, Bode just needsto convince Comfort that the childhood fancy she has for his brother isno match for the incredible desire that sparks between them every timethey touch. ...
|  | Too Beautiful for Words
Release Date: August 20, 2002This startling, stunning debut novel by a young African-American writer offers a hard-edged portrait of life on the streets of Oakland, California. Seventeen-year-old Angie was a good girl until she met Jesus, an attractive, smooth-talking pimp with a heart of steel, who lures her into working for him. Changing Angie's name to Peaches, Jesus introduces her in heartbreaking tragedy, her son, Jason, must decide whether to continue this legacy or to stop the cycle of hopelessness and violence that threatens to swallow his own life as well. Beautifully told in altern...
|  | Magnetic Tangrams
Publication Date: January 16, 2009Hours of fun are in store for kids who test their shape-recognition, pattern-design, and problem-solving skills with this collection of tangram puzzles. A 48-page color-illustrated book presents approximately 150 tangram puzzles plus a summary of rules for solving them and a brief history of tangrams, starting with their origin in China approximately 200 years ago. Included with the book are five sets of magnetic tangrams of varied sizes, colors, and shapes, plus a board with a metallic interior that kids can use to set up their designs and solve the puzzles...
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