 | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel
Publication Date: September 12, 2006Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American.” When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state — taking care to stay away from Indiana, where t...
 |  | The Iron Heel
Publication Date: December 25, 2011| ISBN-10: 1619492288 | ISBN-13: 978-1619492288Set in the future, The Iron Heel describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London s multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial hal...
|  | Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
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|  | Eduardo De Filipo: Four Plays (Great Translations for Actors Series,)
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Great Translations for Actors Series, Eduardo De Filippo, possibly the finest and certainly the funniest and most loved playwright in Italy, was a great Neapolitan actor who wrote dozens of plays for his own theater company.In Italy he is known simply as "Eduardo."His plays are all superb comedies, yet always based on strong human emotions.Since de Filippo usually wrote in Neapolitan dialect, British translations have tended to be farcical and over-the-top.These new translations are truer and closer in spirit to the originals.Translated by the actress ...
|  | Acting Version of Henry W. Savage's Production of Everywoman: Her Pilgrimage in Quest of Love; A Modern Morality Play (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 14, 2012Copyright, Junk, 1908, By Walter Browne. Henry W. Savage is the sole proprietor of the exclusive rights of the representation and performance of Everywoman in all languages.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has be...
|  | Third Great Coarse Acting Show (Acting Edition)
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|  | Time and Time Again (Acting Edition)
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|  | A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Eastern European Literature Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| Series: Eastern European Literature Series "Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature."—Partisan ReviewComposed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis...
|  | Florida Bound
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Whilst other Caribbean poets have explored the resources of nation language, few have pushed the collision between roots language and classical poetic form further than Philp. ...
|  | Talking About Books: Literature Discussion Groups in K
Publication Date: July 9, 1998| ISBN-10: 0325000735 | ISBN-13: 978-0325000732Despite the recent call for systematic, intensive phonics instruction, phonemic awareness, and decodeable texts, many educators continue to bring students and books together in transforming ways. Talking About Books is being reissued because it is clear that a focus on dialogue about books within a literate community remains important to teachers. ...
|  | Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern
Release Date: April 29, 1999For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the defining forms of aesthetic modernism. Ranging from the pamphlet wars of seventeenth-century England to dyke and ACT-UP manifestoes of the 1990s, her extraordinarily accomplished book offers the first extended treatment of this influential form of discourse. Lyon demonstrates that the manifesto, usually perceived as ...
|  | Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions ar...
|  | Locked and Loaded (Men of Delta Force)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Men of Delta Force Acclaimed romantic suspense author Alexis Grant assigns a scorching-hot mission to the Men of Delta Force, where military power meets its match—in the passion of a woman…DEA agent Sage Wagner will do whatever it takes to bring down Miami’s biggest drug lord—even go undercover and become his mistress. But her bold plan hits a snag when Delta Force shows up. Namely, Captain Anthony Davis. This ultra-elite warrior could blow Sage’s cover with a kiss—and beat her at her own game…At first, Anthony ...
|  | Japan Flag
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Book Description Cultural differences, family honor and new beginnings: these are some of the things in store in the latest Natashiah Jansen short story called “Japan Flag”. You’ll be transported to a world where Middle Eastern culture meets West and learn: • What is the Japan Flag • Why Nadia went to Dr. Ennis • Why her mother was furious butstill protects her • Why her father wants to meet with her fiancé • Why Shuaib calls off the engagement • Why Nadia is suspicious • What Shuaib...
|  | Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica
Publication Date: March 26, 2007Sexy gay stories with a country twang.Something about the country brings out the best – and the sexiest – in a man, and country boys are a special breed. These tobacco-chewin’, cattle-ropin’ icons in temptingly baggy overalls or skin-tight wranglers rank with cops and soldiers as one of the most potent symbols of the naturally masculine male. Sweating and sensual not from the gym but from honest, hard work (and play), they come in all shapes, sizes, and erotic potential. City homos hike the wilds to commune with nature and nature boys. Ga...
|  | Gone for Good: A Novel
Release Date: October 25, 2011As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning re...
|  | A Good Hanging
Release Date: December 7, 2010Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of...
|  | Harper's Quine: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery
Release Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery “McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.”—Publishers Weekly“The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.”—Historical Novels ReviewNovice lawyer Gil Cunningham finds his true vocation not as a priest but as an investigator. This meticulously researched historical mystery is the debut of a medieval Scottish investigator. Gil Cunningham is a recently qualified lawyer whose family expects him to enter the priesthood. A...
|  | Malice in the Highlands (Erskine Powell Mysteries)
Release Date: January 28, 1998| Series: Erskine Powell Mysteries (Book 1) INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARDCrime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London.Now, seeking distance from the criminal constituency--and the bureaucratic drudgery of the Yard--Powell embarks on a salmon-fishing competition in the Scottish Highlands. There, in the castle-dotted countryside along the picturesque River Spey, he seeks peace and sec...
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