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Publication Date: August 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1612480772 | ISBN-13: 978-1612480770Poet David Livewell beckons you to follow him down the streets where he spent his childhood in North Philadelphia. This prize-winning collection guides readers through the working-class neighborhood of Kensington, not as tourists or passersby, but as open-eyed observers of the visceral and unique spirit of the locales and its inhabitants. Through his use of metrics and poetic forms, Livewell skillfully weaves together harsh urban narratives with tragic regional history to create a colorful mosaic of colonial ...
 |  | Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
Publication Date: March 22, 2011ComedyCharacters: 9 male, 2 female 2 Interior Sets This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adults) speak in a mock language called "Dogg." This hilarious language babbles along until the schoolboys, who are studying Shakespeare's "foreign" language, present an incredibly funny 15 minute version of Hamlet and then encore with a two-minute version! The second play, dedicated to dissident Czech dramatist Pavel Kohout, is about a performance of Macbeth he and his friends once staged in a living room since the go...
|  | The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2(an adventure for 3-6 players, levels 2-5)
Publication Date: June 11, 2010ARE YOU READY TO PLAY SOME DUNGEONS AND FUCKING DRAGONS?The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is an absurd comedy about a group of adventurers (elf, halfling, bard, dwarf, assassin, thief) going through an existential crisis after having discovered that they are really just pre-rolled characters living inside of a classic AD&D role playing game. While exploring the ruins of Tardis Keep, these 6 characters must deal with their inept Dungeon Master's retarded imagination and resist their horny teenaged players' commands to have sex with everything i...
|  | The Bema: A Story about the Judgment Seat of Christ
Publication Date: January 31, 2001Businessman Daniel Mathewson discovers that the way we conduct ourselves daily determines how we experience eternity. Thinking he is beginning just another ordinary day, he encounters THE DAY: the rapture of the church into the heavenlies. Escorted by his guardian angel into the heavenly realm, Daniel observes the wonders of Heaven, talks with angels, and learns to see life from a totally new, Divine perspective.The first order of business is now the Bema, the Jugdment Seat of Jesus Christ. Millions of saints from every era and nation stand individually befo...
|  | Mystery and Mishap (Louie Series)
Publication Date: October 22, 2007| Series: Louie Series (Book 3) When 13-year-old Louie, a junior lighthouse keeper, comes across a body washed up on the shore one cold winter morning, it sets off a tantalizing mystery. Who is this mysterious person? How did he-or she-die? And how did the body wind up on Two Tree Island?As Louie begins the search for clues, he has no idea where this mystery will lead him or the incredible events that will transpire over the next few months. A whiteout Christmas . . . a strange illness . . . ashipwrecked crew . . . a time of testing . . . it's all here in My...
|  | The New Founders: What Would George Washington Think of The United States of America if He Were Alive Today?
Publication Date: October 2, 2012From Joe Connor and Mike Duncan comes an entertaining, educational, emotional and inspiring original novel about the father of our country's miraculous run for president in 21st century America. In The New Founders, the authors bring George Washington back to life taking on today's issues as he seeks the presidency with the help of his 21st century founding brothers.Six unsuspecting patriots are drawn together in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. Though having just met, the men seem uncannily familiar and immediately act as if they have known ea...
|  | Grown Men Don't Cry
Publication Date: August 10, 2012Grown Men Don't Cry chronicles the lives of two young men from adolescence through adulthood searching for purpose in an unforgiving world. From outlandish childhood pranks to agonizing mental anguish, this story depicts the constant highs and lows inflicted by mental illness.Ben Chase and Jimmy Keller are the new kids in the small town of Bristol, New Hampshire. Sharing a love of sports and a bit of a wild side, Ben and Jimmy quickly gravitate toward each other and become best friends. Their bond is strengthened as they realize they both come from dysfunctio...
|  | Tilting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 2)
Release Date: December 30, 1995| Series: The Worldwar Series NO ONE COULD STOP THEM--NOT STALIN, NOT TOGO, NOT CHURCHILL, NOT ROOSEVELT . . . The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb.But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them.Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy...
|  | The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Stories
Publication Date: January 23, 2006Naguib Mahfouz, famed for his uncanny power to depict the real world, is equally ingenious at capturing the surreal, the otherworldly, and the supernatural. The ghostly side of Mahfouz’s fiction, though less well known than his other works, nonetheless remains a haunting presence. This collection of stories sifted from his later writings brings these restless spirits out of the Mahfouzian shadows together for the first time in English: A murdered man finds himself in the first level of what he mistakes for Paradise - where he faces, along with historica...
|  | Selected Plays, Volume I
Publication Date: August 2, 2012August Strindberg is often considered the father of modern Swedish literature. His vast output of plays was innovative in style and form. Volume 1 of Selected Plays presents selections from the beginning of his career, before Strindberg’s period of psychotic attacks in the 1890s. Master Olof (1872) is a historical drama set in early Reformation Sweden, influenced by Ibsen and Shakespeare. Two of his most produced plays today, The Father (1887) and Miss Julie (1888), are examples of his naturalistic plays. Strindberg described Creditors (1888), a tragicom...
|  | Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-1978) (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publication Date: May 23, 2011| Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs (Book 178) Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s. In his long career, Kitasono was instrumental in creating Japanese-language work influenced by futurism, dadaism, and surrealism before World War II and in contributing a Japanese voice to the international avant-garde movement after the war. This critical biography of Kitasono examines the life, poetry, and poetics of this controversial and flamboyant figure, including his wartime...
|  | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)
Release Date: July 5, 2005| Series: P.S. The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on ho...
|  | Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion (Vintage)
Release Date: November 13, 2007| Series: Vintage Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God.Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: “Do you believe in God?”) that lead to the most wide-ranging conversations. An ardent believer himself, Monda talks both with atheists (asked what she feels when she meets a believer, Grace Paley r...
|  | Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues (African Amer Music in Global Perspective)
Publication Date: January 10, 2008| Series: African Amer Music in Global Perspective This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nickn...
|  | Crave The Moon (A Nightcreature Novel)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: A Nightcreature Novel Gina O’Neill will do anything to hold on to her beloved ranch that has been in her family for generations. Enter Mateo Mecate, an archeologist whose greatest wish is to dig there. Prepared to despise Matt—and to thwart his agenda—Gina cannot deny the shocking desire she feels for him.Matt believes that the Nahua Springs Ranch holds an important key to Aztec history—one that will restore his standing in the archeological community. But he never expects to go head-to-head with the maddeningly sensuous owner...
|  | Plague Tales
Publication Date: May 1998Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a dramatic counterpoint is the story of American medical archaeologist Janie Crowe, in England at the turn of the 21st century to recover from the tragic loss of her family. She digs up a medieval artifact as part of her research a...
|  | Carrier: Arsenal
Release Date: March 1, 1998| Series: Carrier (Book 10) A special edition of the acclaimed Naval adventure series!America is held hostage...in this timely and powerful new novel written by an experienced Naval officer.A group of armed insurgents have taken control of Cuba.They've shot down an American civilian aircraft, and are holding a U.S. Marine pilot hostage.Now, Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder is forced to lead his Carrier Battle Group into a reckless counterattack planned by overzealous politicians.This time, he's trapped--between the violent excesses of Cuban revolutionaries...and a U.S....
|  | Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes
Publication Date: August 15, 2002| Series: Murder Most The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. Perhaps that should not be surprising, for since the time of G. K. Chesterton those who have explored stories with a religious belief or background have tended to place them in the Middle Ages. And during that time most Christians were in one way or another connected to the Catholic church. From Chesterton’s classic priest-turned-detective Father Brown to Peter Tremayne’s historic...
|  | From Cow to Ice Cream (Changes)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Peekaboo Kitty (Hand Puppet Cloth Book)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up...
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