 | Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
Release Date: October 1, 1982A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable hi...
 |  | William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America)
Release Date: April 6, 2006The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read.In these four novels we can track Faulkner's extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and masters the mode and matter of his greatest works. Soldiers' Pay (1926) expresses the disillusionment provoked by World War I through...
|  | INTRACATIONS
Publication Date: November 1, 2007INTRACATIONSbyJohn DimesWhat is an Intracation?It begins so very intricately. A story within a story. . . Is God turning in his sleep, having a bad dream? Is it a divine joke or just Hiram "Effort" Barnes getting lucky with a hot stripper he picked up ata cheap strip joint?Is it the secret hidden within the darkness and shadows, lying long dormant, waiting for just the right moment to crush the very life from the light? Or is it Seymour Rennick developing the hots for a lady psychic?Or is it the failsafe against rapid spontaneous entropy on a universal scale...
|  | Seeds Of Fear (Hot Blood)
Release Date: April 5, 2005| Series: Hot Blood This is the original erotic horror anthology including works by Rex Miller, Bentley Little, J.N. Williamson, Billie Sue Mosiman, Edward Lee, Ronald Kelly, Kathryn Ptacek, P.D. Cacek and Stephen R. George, just to name a few. These top-name horror writers bring you the freshest works guaranteed to raise goosebumps and scald the blood. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Bangkok Haunts
Release Date: June 5, 2007Sonchai Jitpleecheep—the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo—returns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok’s District 8, but nothing like the video he’s just been sent anonymously: “Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.”He’s watching a snuff film. And the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damrong—a woman he once loved obsessively and, n...
|  | Season of Water and Ice
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Winner of the Midwest Book Award for fiction Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2010 by the Library of MichiganSEASON OF WATER AND ICE is the unforgettable story of two young people confronting life during a tumultuous few months of 1957. In quiet but searing prose, it explores the timeless issues of love and family, the destructive forces to which these ideals are exposed, and the healing powers which can restore them.Danny DeWitt, fourteen, lives with his father in a rural area of northern Michigan following the family's abrupt move from the city and the une...
|  | A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 4, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume offers the best of these comedies: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A Trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available th...
|  | Aristophanes Four Major Plays: Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Archarnians
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|  | Tilly: A Stage Adaptation of the Novel
Release Date: December 1, 2005(Lillenas Publications). A testimony to the healing and grace that God offers to us, even grace to cover our darkest and worst choices, is what the story ofTillyis all about. In this touching play, we meet a cast of characters grappling with the devastation of abortion and the reconciliation that comes through God's mercy and forgiveness. Adapted from Frank Peretti's novel of the same title, this production addresses this tough subject in powerful and restoring ways. ...
|  | Once upon a Time in Ghana: Traditional Ewe Stories Retold in English
Publication Date: September 26, 2007This collection of original and traditional stories really is by the people, for the people. Imagine trekking across field after field under an intense African sun following a group of total strangers and hoping against hope that your old fashioned recording machine will work. Imagine then the joy when it all happens even though you do not understand a word of what is being said.This book gives an insight into each unique storyteller. Two and a half awe-inspiring hours spent with 84 year old Mr Nutsugah where one story flowed seamlessly into another. A day...
|  | One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi
Release Date: August 30, 2005The extensive body of work by 13th-century mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi continues to fascinate readers with a taste for the spiritual, and his writings, which speak passionately of truth, enlightenment, and love for God, appeal to those of all religions. Translations of Rumi’s writings by the contemporary poet Coleman Barks have sold more than 500,000 copies since 1981. Now acclaimed illustrator Michael Green -- who collaborated with Barks on The Illuminated Rumi-- has produced a new and fabulous mystic fusion of sacred poetry and art. This all-new volume ...
|  | A Companion to Catullus (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
Publication Date: December 21, 2010| ISBN-10: 1444339257 | ISBN-13: 978-1444339253| Edition: 1 In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of b...
|  | With a Smile and a Song
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Adventures in light rhyming verse and matters grammatical.This book contains mostly light rhyming verse, but there is also some equally lighthearted prose. The prose consists mostly of comments on what the author feels is a misuse of the English language; for example, our present-day reluctance to use commas before conjunctions such as ‘and’ and ‘but’, even when a pause is obviously needed.With the verse, like Ogden Nash, whom he greatly admires, he is not afraid to modify, even mangle, words to fit in with his rhyming scheme. Many of...
|  | Second Chance
Release Date: March 23, 2010SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Working for Last Chance Rescue, Cole Mathison has been to hell and back. But being responsible for the death of an innocent man is a hell like no other. Longing for redemption, Cole finds himself embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of Keeley Fairchild’s young children. Rescuing the children is his mission—but falling in love with the widow of the man he inadvertently killed was never in the plans. When Keeley’s life is threatened, Cole’s demons must take a backseat to the most important mission of his...
|  | Player Haters
Release Date: February 1, 2004An Essence Bestseller A Black Expressions Book Club Selection National bestselling author Carl Weber returns with another page-turner full of family drama. The Duncans are no strangers to sibling rivalry, heartbreak, or the high price of getting played - even when it's by one of their own. But when the outside world becomes just as tumultuous as the home front, the Duncans are going to have to step up and grow up. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists
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|  | Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
Release Date: August 25, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up s on Turtle's shell stand for the 13 cycles of the moon, each with its own name and a story that relates to the changing seasons. Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London collaborate to reveal the beauty of the natural world around us, while Thomas Locker's illustrations honor both Native American legends and the varied American landscape. Full color. ...
|  | Stories from West Africa (Multicultural Stories)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Willie Mays (Sports Heroes and Legends)
Publication Date: August 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Home-Field Football (Jake Maddox)
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