 | The Mas Tequila Review #5: "Poetry for the rest of us." (Volume 5)
Publication Date: August 11, 2012The Mas Tequila Review (TMTR) is a small press, bi-annual, independent poetry magazine publishing quality work by well known poets and many who should be. The editor published The Tequila Review in the 1970s. The TMTR is a continuation of the editor's desire to contribute to his art by providing a platform to share "poetry for the rest of us" and highlight what he considers to be some of the most fresh and exciting poetry being written today. Issue #5 contributor's are: Zach Nelson-Lopiccolo, Stewart Warren, Matthew Conley, Cathy Arellano, Virgil Suarez, Lorn...
 |  | Red Mist (A Scarpetta Novel)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: A Scarpetta Novel With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer...
|  | The Story Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: June 1, 2010From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Third AngelAlice Hoffman’s previous novel, The Third Angel, was hailed as "an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love" (USA Today), "stunning" (Jodi Picoult), and "spellbinding" (Miami Herald). Her new novel, The Story Sisters, charts the lives of three sisters–Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who ...
|  | The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pocket Paperback Numbered) (Book 1) NEW SCHOOL. SAME ASSIGNMENT.Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teen...
|  | Dawn Walker, Vampire Killing Beast: Vampire Killing Beast (Ruby Veins Part One, 1)
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|  | Excalibur, A Novel of Arthur (The Arthur Books #3)
Publication Date: July 16, 1999In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the Saxons and his last attempts to triumph over a ruined marriage and ravaged dreams. This is the tale not only of a broken love remade, but also of forces both earthly and unearthly that threaten everything Arthur stands for. Peopled by princesses and bards, by warrio...
|  | Kiosks Keep The Devils Away: A Novel About Mental Health
Publication Date: June 26, 2006The fictional hero’s descent into the hell of mental illness is like millions of Americans today who share his misery. Uncover how he and his family deal with the discriminatory devils created by the current “mythology of madness”. Enjoy how he, his family and friends discover paradise in a Southwest Florida community. Since most of us know someone who has mental health problems, consider suggestions that this story has for our current mental health crisis....
|  | The Oldest Kind of Magic (Magic series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Magic series Daria Morgan is a magic practitioner, one of a group of people who uses magic and spells to do their everyday jobs. Her job: A management consultant. John "Bent" Benthausen is a CEO who, despite every improvement in product and production, can't get his bottom line out of the Red Sea. He needs a management consultant. With her special gifts, Daria gets right to the heart of her employer's problem — crooked employees. Crooked, vicious, employees who are now out to get Daria. Those are just problems one and two. Problem three: There ...
|  | The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir (ASLS Annual Volumes)
Publication Date: November 1, 1991| Series: ASLS Annual Volumes In addition to all of the poetry published by Edwin Muir in his lifetime, this volume includes works published after his death, as well as a number of poems and earlier drafts left out of previous collections. Also featured are notes on when and where the poems were written and Muir's own comments—originally from letters and journals—on his poetry's genesis and meaning. ...
|  | The Way of the Storyteller
Release Date: January 27, 1977| ISBN-10: 0140044361 | ISBN-13: 978-0140044362| Edition: Reprint As interest in the art of storytelling continues to grow, many books have appeared on the subject but none have matched the scope and charm of The Way of the Storyteller. First published in 1942, this classic work is unique in its blend of literary history, criticism, analysis, personal anecdote, and how-to instructions. Sawyer examines storytelling as a folk art and a still-living art, tracing its evolution from the earliest narrative impulses that developed as stories were written down. With...
|  | Folk Tales from Chile (Library of Folklore)
Publication Date: October 31, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Man with the Plastic Sandwich, The
Publication Date: March 21, 2011Roger KarshnerComedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Simple ExteriorFired after twenty years, Walter Price encounters three provocative characters while contemplating his options on a park bench: Ellie, a high spirited ingenue who represents hope; Haley, a distinguished hobo representing wisdom; and Lenore, a hooker who represents reality. "You will laugh until your sides feel as if they will burst, until your eyes begin to water, until you are sure that one more clever line or witty exchange will send you into a laughing fit from which you may never recover." - ...
|  | Chekhov: The Early Plays (Platonov / Ivanov / The Wood Demon)
Publication Date: July 1999Discover the early works of the youthful Dr. Chekhov, whosepassion for his two warring muses, comedy and tragedy, is nowhere moreevident than in his first three full-length plays, Platanov, Ivanov,and The Wood Demon. These works are assembled in this third volume ofthe complete plays of Anton Chekhov, newly translated by CarolRocamora and published in honor of Chekhov's centennial. Platonov,Chekhov's earliest, rarely translated play is adapted by Rocamora fromits original, six-hour long, unfinished state into a playable comedyabout a Russian Don Juan who copes with...
| | The Word in Drama
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|  | The Silvae of Statius
Release Date: February 20, 2004| ISBN-10: 0253216672 | ISBN-13: 978-0253216670Publius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s C.E. Born in Naples, he was the son of a professional poet and teacher. In his teens he moved to Rome, and there, some years later, he embarked on his own career in poetry. Published near the end of his life, the Silvae is a collection of witty and engaging occasional poems, but beyond their verbal artistry lies their importance as social documents, contemporary witnesses to the Roman world during the reign of Domitian. The poems open a literary window ...
|  | Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah
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|  | Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader On Race And Empire (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture)
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|  | Bilingual Couples Talk: The Discursive Construction of Hybridity (Studies in Bilingualism)
Publication Date: November 2002| ISBN-10: 158811287X | ISBN-13: 978-1588112873| Edition: New edition This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented with larger public discourses about international couplehood. The volume thus offers a corpus-driven investigation of the ways in which ideol...
|  | Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 069111336X | ISBN-13: 978-0691113364| Edition: 50 anniversary A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which...
|  | Los ojos de mi princesa / The Eyes of My Princess (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 25, 2005Los ojos de mi princesa es, sin duda, el libro mejor logrado de Carlos C. Sanchez. Con el, obtuvo el Premio Nacional de las Mentes Creativas, el Premio Nacional de la Juventud en Literatura, y la recomendacion de Juan Rulfo al jurado, que decia. "Es un honor avalar la gran calidad de esta obra". Los ojos de mi princesa, es una novela de amor intensa y cautivante que se desarrolla en un marco temporal unico: El inicio del a...
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