 | Deepstep Come Shining
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "In my book," she writes, "poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts a...
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|  | Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Port William)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Port William Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry’s Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now for 50 years. Set during the Christmas of 1943, nine-year-old Andy Catlett sets off to visit his grandparents in Port William by bus, by himself for the first time. For Andy this is a rite of passage, his first step into manhood. His experiences on this solitary voyage become pivotal points in the entire Port William epic. The old ways are in retreat, modern life is crowding everything in i...
|  | Hidden (Sisters of the Heart, Book 1)
Release Date: May 27, 2008 When Anna decides it's time to leave her abusive boyfriend, she doesn't know where to turn. Rob has completely won over her parents, and the entire community, with his good looks and smooth charm. Only Anna has seen his dark side. Desperate, she runs to the only place she's ever felt completely safe—the Amish Brenneman Bed and Breakfast, where Anna met life-long friend Katie Brenneman. The family welcomes her in, and with few questions asked allows her to stay, dressed in Plain clothing, and help around the inn. Katie's older brother Henry is the only one...
|  | A Stir of Echoes
Publication Date: July 1, 2004Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!This eerie ghost story, by award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. ...
|  | Our Lady of West Hollywood
Publication Date: February 16, 2012Two homeless teen-aged girls are "rescued" from the mean streets of Los Angeles and eagerly exploit new opportunities that turn the tables on the women who try to help them. At the end of the 20th century, some of the characters in "Our Lady of West Hollywood" are striving to gain a foothold in the film industry and some simply like to watch. All of them are prey to sexual and spiritual dilemmas which threaten to upset their precarious lifestyles. The reader is admitted inside the doors of Hollywood parties and premieres as well as kitchens and bedrooms. In...
|  | The White Hotel
Release Date: September 1, 1993By turns a dream of electrifying eroticism recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud, and a horrifying yet calmly unsensational narrative of the Holocaust, this PEN Silver Pen winner is now recognized as a modern classic that reconciles the nightmarish with the transcendent. ...
|  | Rich Shall Inherit, The
Release Date: March 1, 1995Millions of dollars will belong to the person who can prove he or she is a descendant of the mystery woman called Poppy Mallory. Millions of lies have been told along California's Gold Coast, in Paris's demimonde, and Italy's dangerous underworld, to hide the identity of her daughter . . . or son. Millions of hopes grip the hearts of five desperate people, each of whom claim to be Poppy's heir and are willing to commit shocking acts of passion--or even murder--to prove it. Millions of dreams buried in the past with Poppy's secrets a...
|  | The Motif of Adultery in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline Tragedy (Salzburg University Studies)
Publication Date: June 1995| ISBN-10: 0773412840 | ISBN-13: 978-0773412842This study is an examination of audience reaction to adultery depicted on the stage, up to the closing of the theatres in 1642 following the outbreak of the Civil War. All tragedies containing the adultery motif are examined, including John Webster's "The White Devil" and William Rowley's "The Changeling". This study also scrutinizes the lesser-known Caroline plays. ...
|  | Three Sisters (L.a. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection)
Publication Date: August 15, 2011| Series: L.a. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection A full-cast performance of Chekhov's masterpiece starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their father's passing, and the ordinary grip of day-to-day life slowly suffocating them, the urge to return to the city with its rich and exciting life rises to a fever pitch. First...
|  | Horror Stories
Publication Date: November 6, 2010This collection features a menagerie of horror stories. Some are scary.Some are disturbing. Some are funny. Meet werewolves, vampires, zombies,psychopaths, aliens, cannibals, ghosts, and various things that go bumpin the night.Previously published in dozens of anthologies andmagazines, some of these tales are mild, but some are extreme. Let thereader beware...The stories include:Finicky Eater - It's after a nuclear war, and a mother and her son are in a fallout shelter, the food long long...The Screaming - Van Helsing and vampires, in 1960s England.Mr. Pull ...
|  | The Hunts
Publication Date: July 2003| ISBN-10: 1879378442 | ISBN-13: 978-1879378445| Edition: Bilingual Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. THE HUNTS is an astonishing poetic cycle that ranges across time and space to recreate the eternal hunt. This is the first appearance in English of a little-known Argentine master who died in 2000. "They will extinguish me in the plaza/ with the deaf with the blind with the flames./ For having spied on God." ("Noted Woman") Poems appear in facing Spanish and English. The translator, Renata Treitel, is a teacher, editor, and award-winning poet. ...
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|  | The Literary Bible of Thomas Jefferson: His Commonplace Book of Philosophers and Poets
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|  | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Publication Date: April 23, 1987| ISBN-10: 0195049969 | ISBN-13: 978-0195049961| Edition: 1 Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles.The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by A...
|  | The Turning Point
Publication Date: April 15, 2001Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her small east Texas hometown with little more than the clothes on her back. With broken dreams and countless regrets, she points her twelve-year-old car east, hoping and praying to find a new beginning.Car thieves stole Adam Wakefield's Porche, his eyesight, and his identity. Once a prominent neurosurgeon in San Francisco, Adam now lives at his secluded estate in Louisiana. Fearing that is blindness is permanent and that he will never be in control of his life aga...
|  | Jennifer-Spiral up to Murder
Publication Date: October 8, 2001Jennifer-Spiral up to Murder takes you into the world of Jennifer Peterson, an eighteen year-old girl who is just leaving the confines of the New York State foster care program. Jennifer is pretty, smart and at the beginning of the story has a massive chip on her shoulder. Through a series of events, you are brought to understand and care about Jennifer, so that when tragedy strikes you'll have genuine concern for her. We consider this story both witty and an enjoyable to read. The novel, through thoroughly developed characters and a powerful story line, will...
|  | Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)
Publication Date: July 30, 2005Grave Peril Audio Book 10 CD's - UnabridgedWritten By Jim Butcher Read By James Marsters (Spike from BuffyThe Vampire Slayer & Angel)HARRY DRESDEN WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentHarry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has had a rough couple of weeks. As the only openly practicing professional wizard in the Chicago area, he has squared off against a multitude of supernatural bad guys. Harry has won the day against demons, poltergeists, sorcerers, ...
|  | Pooh and the Storm That Sparkled (Winnie the Pooh First Readers)
Publication Date: July 1999| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | Ice Cream Treats: The Inside Scoop (Carolrhoda Photo Book)
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