 | Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
Release Date: January 19, 1995"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."--Library Journal ...
 |  | Dollhouse: A Play
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|  | Miracle : A Novel
Publication Date: May 2, 2005| Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Leo Dubray’s Miracle offers an unvarnished account of the day and nightlife of a beat cop, but Miracle is much more than a cop story. It is a huge and troubling vision of contemporary America as seen through the focused, rapid-fire view of a trained observer.This is an innovative, emotionally powerful evocation of the other America—a devastated suburban landscape of decayed shopping malls and boarded-up schools. It is a world of vivid and unforgettable people, both cops and civilians, wh...
|  | Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin, Book 7)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: Elemental Assassin I used to murder people for money, but lately it’s become more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town anyway. Salina might seem like a sweet Southern belle, but she’s really a dangerous enemy whose water elemental magic can go head-to-head with my own Ice and Stone power. Salina also has an intimate history with my lover, Owen Grayson, and now that ...
|  | Rebecca
Release Date: November 1, 1997 With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presen...
|  | Acting Like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece
Publication Date: March 1, 1999"Greek drama demands a story of origins," writes Karen Bassi in Acting Like Men. Abandoning the search for ritual and native origins of Greek drama, Bassi argues for a more secular and less formalist approach to the emergence of theater in ancient Greece. Bassi takes a broad view of Greek drama as a cultural phenomenon, and she discusses a wide variety of texts and artifacts that include epic poetry, historical narrative, philosophical treatises, visual media, and the dramatic texts themselves.In her discussion of theaterlike practices and experiences, Bassi pr...
|  | The Art of Movie Making: Script to Screen
Publication Date: November 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 0130879428 | ISBN-13: 978-0130879424This comprehensive book explores the ways in which the frequently conflicting but constant elements of art, technology, and business come together to shape “the movies.” A presentation of how the moviemaking process works gives readers an appreciation of the informed and skillful choices that artists and technicians make in creating their art.Chapter topics look at the screenwriter, the director, the art of technique, the cinematographer, casting the performers, sound design, and marketing and dist...
|  | Redeemed
Release Date: April 24, 2012Sexy Cover ...
|  | The Devil She Knows
Release Date: May 25, 2010Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can't refuse to help her, no matte...
|  | Murder on the Thirteenth (Albert J Tretheway Series)
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|  | 100 American Crime Writers (Crime Files)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Crime Files From Edgar Allan Poe to James Ellroy, crime writers have provided some of the most popular, controversial, acclaimed and disturbing works in American literature. 100 American Crime Writers provides critical biographies of some of the greatest and most important crime writers in American history. Both an important scholarly work and an enjoyable read accessible to a wider audience, this addition in Palgrave's Crime Files series includes discussion of the lives of key crime writers, as well as analysis of the full breadth and scope of the ge...
|  | The Norumbegan Quartet #2: The Suburb Beyond the Stars
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Juniper Tree: And Other Tales from Grimm
Publication Date: January 1, 1983| Age Level: 4 and up "A milestone, a tour de force, a joy to see...27 stories from the Grimm brothers' collection [including] some familiar tales and others that are less well known. The translations...are direct and fresh, unexpurgated and unsweetened. The illustrations are superb; beautiful, imaginative, appropriate, tender and terrible-as though the tales had been waiting for Maurice Sendak to interpret them. For children and adults."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksTranslated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Illustr...
|  | Coyote Makes Man
Publication Date: April 1, 1995| Age Level: 3 and up A retelling of a Native American creation myth, illustrated with imaginative full-color collage artwork, recounts how Coyote goes to the other animals for advice on how to make the first human, eventually coming up with a brilliant compromise. ...
|  | Catching Waves (Matt Christopher Sports Fiction)
Publication Date: June 7, 2006| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Formula 1 Racing (Fast Tracks)
Publication Date: January 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young People
Publication Date: October 10, 1991| Age Level: 9 and up Nearly 100 specially chosen poems, songs, and text excerpts vividly evoke the African-American experience for young readers. The illustrations include historical photographs as well as reproductions of paintings and sculptures by Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Ben Shahn, Henry O. Tanner, and Romare Bearden. ...
|  | Starring Lucille
Release Date: October 9, 2001 ...
|  | SHARKS Sticker Safari Book (Sticker Safari Books)
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|  | Spinning Spiders (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Release Date: May 6, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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