 | Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
Publication Date: October 1983What kind of mother would... ...hang up on E.T.? ...tip the tooth fairy? ...wash a measuring cup with soap after it held only water? ...reply when asked what it was like to give birth to Erma Bombeck, "It was a rooten job, but someone had to do it." ...
 |  | A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida
Publication Date: October 1, 1996A Century of Cuban Writers Explores the intricateconnection that has existed between Florida and Cuba for centuries bycollecting the works of thirty-three Cuban writers who lived or livetoday in Florida. ...
|  | Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors
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|  | The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
Publication Date: April 8, 1997Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included all of the futurist and feminist satires, poems from Loy's Paris and New York periods, and the complete cycle of "Love Songs," as well as previously unknown texts and detailed notes. ...
|  | THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
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|  | Goodbye Tsugumi
Publication Date: June 2003Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a "normal" family. When Tsu...
|  | My Foolish Heart (Deep Haven)
Publication Date: April 18, 2011| Series: Deep Haven 2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary romance category.Unknown to her tiny town of Deep Haven, Isadora Presley spends her nights as Miss Foolish Heart, the star host of a syndicated talk radio show. Millions tune in to hear her advice on dating and falling in love, unaware that she’s never really done either. Issy’s ratings soar when it seems she’s falling in love on-air with a caller. A caller she doesn’t realize lives right next door. Caleb Knight served a tour of duty in Iraq and paid a steep price. The l...
| | Whispers, An Illustrated Anthology of Fantasy and Horror
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|  | Billionaire Doctor, Ordinary Nurse (Harlequin Medical Romance)
Publication Date: August 12, 2008| Series: Harlequin Medical Romance Dr. Iosef Kolovsky is part of Melbourne's wealthiest and most notorious family. By day he works as one of Australia's top doctors, by night he attends glamorous parties with the world's elite. Nurse Annie Jameson is a plump plain Jane who's having a bad week. Not only must she drop two dress sizes before the weekend, the presence of Dr. Kolovsky has got her flustered and reaching for the cookie jar! She knows she doesn't fit into his glitzy, privileged world, but his searing seduction is impossible to resist....--This tex...
|  | Passion Simple, French Edition
Publication Date: May 1, 1998| Series: Folio (Book 2545) ...
|  | Tribes
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1848421214 | ISBN-13: 978-1848421219In Tribes, Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens in his idiosyncratic, fiercely argumentative bohemian family. But when he meets Sylvia, who is going deaf, he decides he finally wants to be heard. With excoriating dialogue and sharp, compassionate insights, Nina Raine crafts a penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.Nominated for both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play, Tribes premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2011. U...
|  | The Cherry Orchard (Plays by Anton Chekhov)
Publication Date: June 9, 2012| Series: Plays by Anton Chekhov Inspired by experiences in Chekhov's own life, Cherry Orchard follows life of an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return to the family's estate. Written as a comedy and containing elements of farce, Stanislavski directed the play as a tragedy in Moscow. Since this initial production, many prominent directors of the world continue to stage this play, each interpreting the work differently. ...
|  | Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts: Delightful Treats and Games from Classic Children's Books
Release Date: September 7, 2010| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up"We must do something," said Alice.... "Yes, but what shall we do?" said Dicky.... "Let's read all the books again. We shall get lots of ideas out of them."-The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit With the delightful activities and delicious recipes in Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts you'll learn how to follow in the footsteps of your favorite childhood heroes, from the Borrowers and Alice in Wonderland to the Ingalls family and Winnie-the-Pooh. Whether you're young or not-so-young, learn how to: * Make Tu...
|  | The Pleasure of the Text
Publication Date: January 1, 1975What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard...
|  | Essays
Publication Date: September 1, 2009“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O MagazineIn these beautiful essays, Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory journey in which the personal and political become one.Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the wor...
|  | Copycat Killing: A Magical Cats Mystery
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Magical Cats (Book 3) Everyone thinks their cats are special—but Owen and Hercules have powers that go far beyond an adorable look or an irresistible purr. Along with their owner, librarian Kathleen Paulson, they have an uncanny instinct for solving crimes...It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio.The artwork survives, but when controversia...
|  | Murder on the Ballarat Train: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Release Date: September 15, 2007Phryne is giving her red Hispano-Suiza a break: this week she is travelling by train to Ballarat. But what should have been the trip of her dreams, soon turns into the stuff of nightmares. Phryne has to use her Beretta .32 to save her life and that of her traveling companion Dot. And someone has poisoned the other passengers with chloroform. ...
|  | The Beggar's Magic: A Chinese Tale
Publication Date: September 1, 1997A cautionary tale from ancient China--full of contemporary appeal. A greedy, selfish farmer gets up comeuppance at the August Moon Festival, when the kindly beggar priest whom he has slighted performs a magic trick that makes the farmer a laughingstock of the village. Full color. ...
|  | Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales
Release Date: February 16, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Lisbeth Zwerger is one of the world’s preeminent children’s book artists, and one of the most original interpreters of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytales. This handsome collection, originally published in 1991 now returns in celebration of Hans Christian Andersen’s 200th birthday. It includes eleven favorite stories, such as "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor’s New Clothes," as well as lesser-known but equally wonderful stories, all featuring Ms. Zwerger’s disti...
|  | Gridiron Bully (Impact Books: A Jake Maddox Sports Story)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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