 | Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women
Publication Date: January 1992| ISBN-10: 1558850414 | ISBN-13: 978-1558850415The plays, written between 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. They shatter myths and create a broader, freer space for women's cultural development. ...
 |  | Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe
Publication Date: November 14, 2012| Series: Deadpool What if everything you thought was funny about Deadpool was actually just disturbing? What if he decided to kill everyone and everything that makes up the Marvel Universe? What if he actually pulled it off? Would that be FUN for you? The Merc with a Mouth takes a turn for the twisted in a horror comic like no other! Collecting DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #1-4. ...
|  | The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I—although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, c...
|  | The Crossing: A Novel
Release Date: September 6, 2011Imprisoned by memories, Claudia Campbell lives each day in the shadow of a ten-year-old murder. Who can set her free?On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fire on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the...
|  | The Favorites: A Novel
Release Date: June 2, 2009From an award-winning author whose debut story collection received unprecedented praise, comes an elegant novel about mothers and daughters, secrets and silences, and familial bonds in a culture where custom dictates behavior. In her exquisite first novel, Mary Yukari Waters explores the complex relationships among three generations of women bound by a painful family history.Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half- American, feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. She quickly learns that in traditional Kyoto, personal boundar...
|  | The Wedding Caper (Bridal Mayhem Mysteries, No. 1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Bridal Mayhem Mysteries (Book 1) When a $25,000 night deposit mysteriously disappears from the Clark County Savings and Loan, Annie Peterson has reason to be concerned and to assume the role of amateur sleuth. Her husband's job at the bank makes him a potential suspect, but knowing him to be a godly man, she can't imagine it. Then again, there is that matter of the weddings to factor in. Twin daughters Brandi and Candy have just received proposals and two weddings are pending. Sure, Warren occasionally jokes about robbing the bank to pay for the cer...
|  | Mandie Books, Boxed Set, Vols. 21 -25
Release Date: October 1, 1995| Age Level: 8 and up Includes Mandie and the Fiery Rescue, Angels Secret, Dangerous Imposters, Invisible Troublemaker, and Missing Kin. ...
|  | Thugs are for Fun 3
Publication Date: July 15, 2008Gritty Urban Tales That Inspire and Excite You...In the final chapter of the Thugs Are for Fun trilogy, Jacy, newly married, is becoming a jealous woman. She's insecure about the way women -- both professionals and hoodrats alike -- are vying for her man. They are shameless in their attempts to win Rich's heart, but as far as Rich is concerned Jacy has his heart on lock. He just laughs at other women, especially his baby's mother LaTisha and the persistent new arrival to the story, Yvonne.When Jacy tells a little white lie that causes Rich to take a few days to...
|  | The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
Release Date: November 5, 2011The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes.The Plays, edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's l...
|  | Fairy Tradition in Britain
Publication Date: July 1995Contents:The Fairies of England, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, and Ireland; Nomenclature and Description; Appearance and Costume; The Fairy Life; The Relation of Fairies with Mankind; The Belief in Fairy Changelings; The Abduction of Adults by Fairies; Fairyland; The Fairylands of the Celts; The Fairy Cult and Ritual.Illustrated. ...
|  | An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe)
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|  | Pure Lizard
Publication Date: March 1, 2008In this new collection of poetry that juxtaposes images such as organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl, transformation and the natural world are central themes. Poems that respond to the work of composers Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass are included, as is a poetic correspondence with the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke on the writer's sense of home and place. ...
|  | Erec and Enide
Publication Date: February 3, 2000| ISBN-10: 0820321419 | ISBN-13: 978-0820321417Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. When the lovers become estranged because Erec neglects his knightly obligations, they subsequently ride off together on a series of adventures that culminate in their reconciliation and the liberation of a captive knight in an enc...
|  | 0omp Conc Wolfram V Eschenbach (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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|  | The Histories, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2010| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 128)The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life he became a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans; helped in ...
|  | Sleepwalker
Release Date: July 24, 2012Cops and robbers don’t mix It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her was enough drama for one night. Now she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing flannel pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the unmistakable source of the sound: Uncle Nicco’s private office. Jason Davis steals things for a living, so unexpected...
|  | The Wishing Chalice (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: February 3, 2004| Series: Berkley Sensation Isabel journeyed to England to escape her failed marriage. But what she found instead was a portal to the past--and possibly the key to her future.Transported back in time, and into the body of a beautiful woman, she cannot deny her growing attraction to her 'husband' Hunter.Nor can they ignore the danger surrounding them, which they must confront--before tragedy strikes. ...
| | Sap
Publication Date: September 1, 2000Blame it on the neighbours: they are the ones that introduced ex-cop John Swan to Meg, a classic femme fatale. Before long Meg's made sure Swan has forgotten all about his recently deceased wife...But what does Meg want with a guy like Swan? Is it anything to do with the possibility she's murdered her last husband? Join Swan and his pals as they carouse, drink lots of scotch and find themselves square in the middle of a murder investigation. Literally. ...
|  | The Crucifer of Blood: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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| | THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES AND MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK ONE.
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