 | Hello Life
Release Date: May 1, 2005“Heartfelt…. Explores the rich themes of love, jealousy, friendship and resilience.”—Seattle Times“Two adolescents with a head start on old age. They are smart and smart-mouthed. They are tough and tender. They are survivors and hopers. They are authentic.”—Oklahoma City Oklahoman“Uplifting … finely honed.”—Dallas Morning News“Marvelous.”—Billie Letts “Two enchanting characters … at once utterly unique and resonantly universal. A book rich in story and brim...
 |  | Love and Redemption
Publication Date: November 26, 2010Legally, clones are "human replicates"...duplicates. But is it possible to raise one with love and a divine soul? Today Stanley Littlefield, a genetic scientist, is about to begin the life for which he believes his own life was truly ordained. If his secret project succeeds, the consequences-both to himself and humankind-are enormous. For years, clones have been created by GenComp. But Stanley has something completely different in mind. What if he cloned himself-not as a male, but as a female? What if he was able to sneak her out of the artwomb and secretly...
|  | What Was Lost: A Novel
Release Date: June 24, 2008A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl—winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book AwardIn the 1980s, Kate Meaney—“Top Secret” notebook and toy monkey in tow—is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing “suspects” and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper. But when this curious, indepe...
|  | Gilding the L.I.L.L.(y)
Publication Date: September 5, 2012Nicolas is on top of the world personally and professionally, Camille is a woman trying to get there. The interwoven threads of their personal and professional relationships appear to be seamless, yet are rapidly unraveling. Family and business keep Nicolas on her toes; she also proves a welcome distraction for Camille. A murder brings a cloud of suspicion, the resulting investigation takes no prisoners. Who killed Maddie and why? Will Nicolas and Camille hold it together against the odds or will it all fall apart? ...
|  | Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, Not Talking (Contemporary Dramatists)
Release Date: March 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1408152169 | ISBN-13: 978-1408152164This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters.My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a father will go to to have access to his child. The play creates a violent world where good intentions count for very little, and offers an incisive, honest look at what it means to be a good parent.Contractions is an ink-black comedy about work and play: Emma's been s...
|  | Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Publication Date: December 22, 2003| Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to now-classic essays, the collection includes early program notes and two remarkable interviews -- one from Blau's experience directing Waiting for Godot at San Quentin prison, and one from his last visit with Beckett, just ...
|  | Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion: Adaptations from Euripides
Publication Date: December 29, 2003Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume.H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides's Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble the Oedipus plays of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis.In the first play, the young man Hippolytus is obsessed with the virgin goddess Artemis and discover...
|  | Greek Theatre Practice (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
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|  | The Broadview Anthology of Drama, concise edition: Plays from the Western Theatre
Publication Date: March 23, 2005| ISBN-10: 1551117169 | ISBN-13: 978-1551117164| Edition: Concise Ed The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre, concise edition is an overview of Western drama that offers chronological range and artistic variety in a compact, single-volume format. Context for each play is provided with a thorough account of its literary and dramatic background, along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided an introduction that discusses the unique challenges and rewards of reading drama and a glossary of terms...
|  | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays
Release Date: September 27, 1989| ISBN-10: 006096393X | ISBN-13: 978-0060963934A unique one-volume anthology which includes all of Wilde's stories, plays, and poems. It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. ...
|  | Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Release Date: August 1, 2000Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut."Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure of the page, and it's obvious that he had a grand time working on this collection of his vintage stories. Bagombo Snuff Box resurrects Vonnegut's earliest efforts, stories written during the fifties and sixties for such popular venues as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. In his engagingly autobiographical introduction, Vonnegut describes his stints as a Chicago jour...
|  | NINO's Way (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 24, 2012Life. Politics. Love. Church. "NINO's Way" is a Southern compilation of Slam, Inspirational & Spoken Word Poetry written and told through the eyes & raw talent of Stepfan D. Hollinshed. ...
|  | Hjemme var best (Norwegian Edition)
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|  | Realizador de Sue
Publication Date: March 18, 2011La rica experiencia de una larga y variada vida se derrama en esta colección de versos, acumulados y atesorados a través de los años para mostrarse ahora en toda su sabiduría. La mujer involucrada, la amante, la esposa, la madre se expresan y se muestran candorosamente al público por primera vez para que todos lo disfrutemos. ...
|  | The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1979The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can ...
|  | The Book Club Cookbook
Release Date: May 6, 2004This first cookbook created specifically for book clubs shows readers how to add a delightfully delicious angle to their book club gatherings. Featuring recipes and food-related discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, The Book Club Cookbook guides readers in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that tie in just right with the literary masterpieces their club is reading. From "Honey Cakes" to go along with The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd to "Eggplant Caponata" to go with Bel Canto by Ann Patchett; from "Lemony Goat Cheese Tart"...
|  | The Utopia Reader
Release Date: November 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0814715710 | ISBN-13: 978-0814715710Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's twentieth century dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, through to the present day.The editors of this definitive collection demonstrate the various ways in which utopias have been used th...
|  | The Perfect Liar (Last Stand)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Last Stand Obsession leads to lies…When air force captain Luke Trussell opens his door one Sunday morning, he's shocked to find the police—and even more shocked when they charge him with rape. He knows he made a mistake in judgment the night before, but he certainly didn't force his attentions on the woman who's been stalking him for months.Problem is…Karina Harter has the bruises—and the DNA evidence—to make her claim convincing.And lies can lead to murder.Determined to isolate Luke, Karina goes to victims' righ...
|  | Green Willows: A Novel of Horror
Publication Date: September 2, 2012"I see two women struggling together by the lake. I see them fall into the water... The wind rustles the branches of the willows and it is the sound of gentle sobbing in the night... Someone screams..." Something dark and mysterious haunts the halls of stately Green Willows. Village gossip says it's the ghost of Jonathon Tremayne's wife, the beautiful and saintly Angela, who was treacherously murdered here. Pretty Mary Kirkpatrick, hired as governess to Jonathon's only child, Elizabeth, quickly finds herself falling in love with the handsome master of Green...
|  | The Comic Book Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #93)
Release Date: January 1, 2003| Grade Level: 2 and up...
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