 | Trying to Find Chinatown
Publication Date: December 15, 1999David Henry Hwang has the potential to become the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe the best of them all. -Detroit NewsDavid Henry Hwang has created an extraordinary body of work over the last twenty years: the Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly; the OBIE Award-winning and 1998 Tony nominated Golden Child; the libretti to The Voyage (included here) and 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (both for composer Philip Glass); and the book to Aida, which he coauthored. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and G...
 |  | What in God's Name: A Novel
Publication Date: August 7, 2012Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him.When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, ...
|  | Sarah's Song (The Red Gloves Collection #3)
Publication Date: September 20, 2004Sarah knows the heartache that results from making wrong choices--her own life is proof of that. But will she be able to convince a troubled young woman before time runs out? For when the twelve days of Christmas have passed, it is possible the melody of SARAH'S SONG might bring out not one, but two miracles. ...
|  | Stones from the River
Release Date: March 1, 1997Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories. Th...
|  | Before the Throne
Release Date: July 3, 2012Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders—from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century—are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Naguib Mahfouz.Before the Throne calls forth a parade of those who have shaped the modern nation of Egypt—from the ruler who first unified Egypt in 3000 BC to Anwar Sadat, the president assassinated by religious extremists in 1981, and including figures as various as the famous pharaoh Ramesses II and the medieval vizier Qar...
|  | Time's Arrow
Release Date: September 29, 1992In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense."The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."--Newsday ...
|  | The Seagull (Stage Edition Series)
Publication Date: July 12, 2010| Series: Stage Edition Series “Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library JournalAnton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless trial of art and love to life as memorable characters have clashing desires and lose balance in the ...
|  | The Redemption of Tragedy: The Literary Vision of Simone Weil (Suny Series, Simone Weil Studies)
Publication Date: February 1995| Series: Suny Series, Simone Weil Studies Simone Weil's supernaturalist interpretations of tragedy challenge not only the philosophical skepticism but also the religious rationalism characteristic of the modern age.This book boldly points out a supernaturalist alternative to contemporary, post-structuralist literary theory. This study of classical tragic drama offers a sacralizing impetus to secular discussions of literature. The book's Platonic premises and its grounding in the transcendental outlook of the religious traditions furnish a sacred illumination. ...
|  | 5 Hot Plays
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0887547672 | ISBN-13: 978-0887547676These plays are perfect production fare for schools, festivals, actors seeking scenes and monologues, and theaters wanting to produce something edgy and vital. Included are: Talk Thirty To Me, Offensive Shadows, In Full Light, The Russian Play, and Spain. ...
|  | Playing Easy to Get
Release Date: February 7, 2006New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon and rising stars Jaid Black and Kresley Cole unlock the pleasures and perils of embracing the boldest and most powerful of lovers -- 100% alpha males -- in three sensually erotic tales. Discover the physical rapture of his muscular arms.... Become a prisoner of passion, swept away by an encounter with his primal side.... And get lost in the all-consuming thrill of white-hot pursuit by a relentless stranger who may be your most dangerous foe, the best lover you've ever had -- or both. Let your fantasies run wil...
|  | Deshielo En Primavera: Antologia de Haikus (Spanish Edition)
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| | [Kniga tretia (Russian Edition)
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| | Qian jia shi jin yi xin zhu (Jin yi guo xue jing hua) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Stupidity
Publication Date: December 17, 2002In "Stupidity" Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and Wordsworth, "Stupidity" investigates ignorance, dumbfoundedness, and the limits of reason. ...
|  | The Literary Cyclist: Great Bicycling Scenes in Literature
Publication Date: January 1, 1999The bicycle in literature, exalted in poem and prose. ...
|  | A Certain Magic
Publication Date: May 1, 1995Setting off on a daring rescue mission, the beautiful warrior Alena is haunted by strange dreams about a bejeweled island and a dragon and finds her only hope in exiled sorcerer Galen Radbourne....
|  | Glad To Be Here: The Amerca Series
Publication Date: February 10, 2003Returning in triumph to New York City to announce their victory, the revolutionaries, Bil and Alce, the very, very old Ralp Nadir and the very, very sexy Dian Toffler, find that no one has noticed the revolution, and no one cares. Everyone just wants to keep on jogging, safe and secure and uninvolved. Finally, the message of freedom breaks through the nearly fatal apathy of the people, and the painful, stumbling process of reinstituting democracy begins, with Bil as the new President. Then suddenly, it's all a flashback to the twentieth century, as Bil atte...
|  | Monkology: The Ivan Monk Stories
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|  | Wild Robert
Release Date: August 14, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Heather's parents are the caretakers of the stately home Castlemaine, and Heather would love living there -- if it weren't for the tourists. Every summer they invade Castlemaine, and one day they even trample into all of her secret quiet spots. The only one left is a peculiar little mound that the villagers say is the grave of Wild Robert, a legendary magician who lived 350 years ago. When Heather cries out for Wild Robert to use his magical powers on the tourists, she never expects a handsome young man to appear righ...
|  | Homecoming (G. I. Joe SIGMA 6)
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