 | Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged Classics
Publication Date: February 6, 2003These ten classic stories from four of America's greatest authors of the 19th and early 20th century were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities. The stories include Mark Twain’s "The One-Million Pound Bank Note," "A Visit to Niagara," and "A Mysterious Visit;" Stephen Crane’s "The Blue Hotel;" Ambrose Bierce’s "The Eyes of the Panther;" and Jack London’s "The Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire." ...
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|  | "...And Ladies of the Club"
Publication Date: August 1982"A great novel that is American to its core...so gently memorable, so bursting with life, that those who abandon themselves to its pages will find it claiming a permanent place close to their hearts." --New York Daily News "A warm, evocative, often hilarious picture of society, culture, politics and family life." --Atlanta Constitution "A warmly human story...never flags from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their ...
|  | God Don't Play
Release Date: August 1, 2007 From Mary Monroe, beloved author of God Don't Like Ugly and God Still Don't Like Ugly, comes the entwined stories of two lifelong friends, their secrets andlies, and a new challenge that could destroy their relationship once and for all...With a handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, and a lovely house to come home to every night, forty-five-year-old Annette Goode finally has it all. Heaven knows she paid her dues--from a childhood filled with abuse to a rocky start as an adult. Annette's friend Rhoda knows too, for Rhoda has been both her savior and her great...
|  | Checkout Time is Noon: Death Awareness Haiku
Publication Date: July 23, 2012The great poet Rilke declared: "There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die." Yet, how many of us actually live our dying? To be born is to die. Few appear willing to die psychologically moment after moment, and yet it is this very dying that is essential if one is to encounter the Eternal Now, where all true life takes place. Described as "wordless" because intuition relies on a pre-reflective form of knowing, haiku appears perfectly suited to shed light on cracks in the night that reveal the unborn and deathless right in the midst of our li...
|  | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
Publication Date: February 1, 1994Sixteen neo-gothic tales of horror, the grotesque, and the dark side of the human imagination focus on the themes of violence in American society and the exploitation of women and children. ...
|  | The Meat and Spirit Plan
Publication Date: September 1, 2007“Like an experimentally inclined Annie Proulx, Saterstrom tersely renders the effects of social violence on individual lives . . . the effect is shattering and transcendent.”—Modern Times Bookstore newsletterIn lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, hell-bent on self-destruction, and more intelligent than anyone around her realizes. She is forced into rehab and pri...
|  | Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Publication Date: December 27, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312457537 | ISBN-13: 978-0312457532| Edition: Third Edition This volume presents the text of the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's classic short novel along with documents that place the work in historical context and critical essays that read Heart of Darkness from several contemporary critical perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In this third edition, the section of cultural documents and illustrations is enti...
|  | The Darcy Connection: A Novel
Publication Date: March 4, 2008In The Darcy Connection, Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice is now the Bishop of Ripon, living with his wife, Charlotte, and their two daughters, who have reached marriageable age. The elder, another Charlotte, is extraordinarily beautiful, and her parents hope her looks and connections will ensure a brilliant marriage. Her sister, Eliza, while not as handsome, possesses a lively intelligence that, in Mr. Collins's opinion, is too like her godmother, Mrs. Darcy. In London, Charlotte's beauty wins her many admirers, despite her small fortune. But Eliza's wit and...
|  | Knights of the Black and White (The Templar Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Series: The Templar Trilogy, Book 1 (Book 1) The first book in a trilogy about the most important events in the history of the Order of the Knights Templar.The Templars represent a widely popular period of history at the moment, but the roots of their fellowship have been shrouded in contemporary conspiracy theory and media glamour!.this trilogy tells the true tales of the Knights Templar; beginning with why they formed after the First Crusade and why they continued to grow in power and influence.Immediately after the deliverance of Jerusalem, the Crusaders, con...
|  | First N-O-E-L: A (You-Pick-the-Music) Musical for Christmas (Lillenas Drama)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Lillenas Drama A wonderful full-length production for your church, school, or community theatre and also a tool for community outreach. You've done it before - mixed a grab bag of music and script from your library to make up a Christmas musical just to your liking. With this "You-Pick-the-Music" musical, we've done most of the work for you! A script with multiple song suggestions makes it easy for you to shape the musical as you wish. Best of all, the warm and funny story has great appeal to non-believers for a wonderful outreach production with Chris...
|  | Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in the Restoration Theatre
Publication Date: September 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 1604975490 | ISBN-13: 978-1604975499Usually recognised as the first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has become a popular subject for academic study. Most scholars have concentrated on her poetry, her short stories, and her one full-length novel, finding fuel for arguments that suggest she was an early feminist or a proponent of anti-racism. Although there have been examinations of individual plays, the prefaces and epistles, as well as studies, none examine her plays against aspects of the cultural context of the time and t...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Release Date: April 20, 1960Here, collected in one volume, are all four full-length novels and 56 short stories chronicling the colorful adventures of Sherlock Holmes--every word Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about Baker Street's most famous resident. ...
|  | The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
Publication Date: October 1, 1990This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccacci...
|  | German Poetry: An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger (German Edition)
Publication Date: February 27, 1987This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, Mörike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Brecht, Celan, and Enzensberger. The aim of the volume is to dispel whatever fears students may have about reading German poetry by suggesting that lyric poetry offers the most economical and enjoyable way of comprehending the range and v...
|  | Gabriel Garc
Publication Date: September 30, 2001| ISBN-10: 0313312605 | ISBN-13: 978-0313312601Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez had already earned tremendous respect and popularity in the years leading up to that honor, and remains, to date, an active and prolific writer. Readers are introduced to Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez with a vivid account of his fascinating life; from his friendships with poets and presidents, to his distinguished career as a journalist, novelist, and chronicler of the quintessential Lati...
|  | Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling
Publication Date: October 11, 2007When DNA profiling was first introduced into the Americanlegal system in 1987, it was heralded as a technology that wouldrevolutionize law enforcement. As an investigative tool, it has lived up tomuch of this hype--it is regularly used to track down unknown criminals,put murderers and rapists behind bars, and exonerate the innocent. Yet, this promise took ten turbulent years to be fulfilled.InGenetic Witness, Jay D. Aronson uncovers the dramatic early history of DNAprofiling that has been obscured by the technique's recent success.Hedemonstrates that robust ...
|  | Compulsion (Tr)
Publication Date: April 1996The basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case--in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the intellectual challenge. "A graphic and absorbing reconstruction of an infamous crime".--Saturday Review. ...
|  | Zombie in Love
Release Date: August 23, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up Mortimer is looking for love. And he’s looking everywhere! He’s worked out at the gym (if only his arm wouldn’t keep falling off). He’s tried ballroom dancing lessons (but the ladies found him to be a bit stiff). He’s even been on stalemate.com. How’s a guy supposed to find a ghoul? When it seems all hope has died, could the girl of Mortimer’s dreams be just one horrifying shriek away? ...
|  | Spider-Man: The Lizard's Legacy
Release Date: April 21, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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