 | Airs and Graces
Publication Date: April 1, 2009Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage since her husband abandoned her for another woman. Having married once for love, she is now determined that the second time around it will be for money. Close at hand is Duncan, her attractive and enticingly single divorce lawyer. Just when her plan is about to come to fruition, two new people enter her life: Jo-Jo, a homeless girl who is several months pregnant; and Matthew, an artist who paints murals in country houses and who openly criticizes Ellen for being mercenary and devious. As hostilit...
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 | Crisis (Spanish Edition)
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 | Around the Wicket: Edward Pettigrew's Diary of a Year at Little Lampton Cricket Club (Ulverscroft General Fiction)
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 | Carnage of a Curveball
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 | Sword of Shame (Medieval Murderers Group 2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Medieval Murderers Group 2 From its first arrival in Britain with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and revenge are the cursed sword's constant companions. From an election scandal in 13th-century Venice to the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, the sword of shame brings bad luck and disgrace to all who possess it in this compelling collection of five interlocking mysteries. ...
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 | Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (The Poldark novels)
Publication Date: October 1982| Series: The Poldark novels A novel from the Poldark series, originally published in 1983, in which the Poldark and Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era, with the uneasy political situation at home providing complications for Ross and Demelza Poldark and their children. ...
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest: A Play in Three Acts (Actor's Edition)
Publication Date: March 22, 2011| ISBN-10: 0573601909 | ISBN-13: 978-0573601903Oscar WildeFull Length, Farce comedy Charcters: 5 male, 4 female Exterior Set and 2 Interior Sets This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. Itrevolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play....
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 | 101 Monologues for Middle School Actors: Including Duologues and Triologues
Publication Date: September 1, 2008This theatre book is a sequel collection of winning monologues in the style and format of "100 Great Monologs" by the same author. Rebecca Young knows how middle schoolers think and act - and what they like to talk about! These monologues, duologues and triologues may be used for auditions, classroom assignments or discussion starters. With such a wide variety of topics there is a monologue to fit any student's personality or preference. Star quality every one! ...
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 | Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
Release Date: October 2, 2012Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of The Paris Review. Over the course of the last half century, the Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of our time. This anthology---the first of its kind---is more than a treasury: it is an indispensable ...
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 | The Early Poetry of Paul Celan: In the Beginning Was the Word
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| Li dai shan shui shi xuan (Zhongguo yong wu shi cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism
Publication Date: October 28, 1972| ISBN-10: 0822984407 | ISBN-13: 978-0822984405| Edition: 1 These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods following the discovery of America and encounter with real “wild men.” This is the first book to discuss the concept of wildness in the writings of the Enlightenment period in Western Europe and the first to attempt a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of primitivism, not only from a strict “history of ideas” approach, but through discu...
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 | The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0804739145 | ISBN-13: 978-0804739146| Edition: 1 The Romantic Performative develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It reveals that the concept of the performative, debated by twentieth-century theorists from J. L. Austin to Judith Butler, has a much greater relevance for Romantic literature than has been realized, since Romantic philosophy of language was dominated by the idea that something happens when words are spoken.By presenting Romantic philos...
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 | The Demon You Know (The Others, Book 11)
Release Date: May 1, 2007As a research grunt at a local television station, Abby Baker tends to blend into the background, which is where she's most comfortable. But when she ends up being the last resort to cover a hot story, Abby discovers a whole new side to her personality when she is possessed by a fiend--a type of rogue demon. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of her. And now the demon Rule--also a hunter of his own kind who have gone astray--is Abby's only hope… Meanwhile, the Others--vampires, werewolves, and witches, oh my!--have come out of the supernatural closet and the...
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 | Latin Lovers : The Christmas Eve Bride / A Spanish Christmas / A Christmas in Venice
Publication Date: October 1, 2002Three brand-new sizzling and sexy Christmas stories.Several Mediterranean men have seasonal seduction in mind.A Spanish Christmas by Penny JordanWhen Meg Scott spends Christmas with Spanish aristocrat Don Christian Felipe Martinez, she is scornful of his family tradition that their men fall in love at first sight. Meg is thrilled by his passion, but stunned by his announcement that they'll be married by the new year!The Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne GrahamWhen Rocco Volpe encounters Amber again, he follows his instincts and suggests she bocome his mistress. Sh...
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 | Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective
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 | Magic Pickle Graphic Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up...
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 | Little Book of Fables (Groundwood Books)
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 | Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato
Release Date: January 27, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Illustrated in dePaola's signature style, this has an inviting look.Buoyant watercolors are framed by thin orange borders....An engaging read-aloud choice for St. Patrick's Day." -- BooklistA Cheery picture book, with the artist using the lighter, brighter side of his palette....Attractive and amusing." -- Kirkus Reviews ...
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 | Away To Bequia
Publication Date: September 30, 2011. A family adventure story.Roger accepts his grandfather's invitation to sail to the neighbouring island of Bequia.It is Roger's first inter-island crossing.He is both excited and scared.The trip turns into a voyage of discovery and wonder when his grandfather sets a course towards the setting sun.Grandma, Auntie Jan, Uncle Rohan, cousins Abdul and Roxanne and pesky sister, Kathy are all members of the crew. The Caribbean is frequently described as a melting pot and a Caribbean family is often a mixture of the many different races who live there.Although f...
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