 | Writ of Mandamus
Publication Date: May 2, 2012WINNER London Book Festival--Best Fiction and Grand Prize Winner Winner Best Fiction London Book Festival Winner Best Mystery/Thriller Indie Book Awards Finalist Best General Fiction (over 80,000) Indie Book Awards With over three decades in law and politics, Rick Robinson's award winning political thrillers are as current as today's headlines. Rick's latest in the captivating and fast-paced Richard Thompson series, Writ of Mandamus, is already being hailed as his best yet. Writ of Mandamus will keep you up at night as you weave your way from Washington, DC to ...
 |  | Shelter: A Novel
Release Date: December 3, 2002In a West Virginia forest in 1963, a group of children at summer camp enter a foreboding Eden and experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a mysterious drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy called Buddy. Together they come to understand bravery and the importance of compassion.Phillips unearths a dangerous beauty in this primeval terrain and in the hearts of her characters. Lies, secrets, erotic initiations, and the bonds of love between frien...
|  | Oxford Bookworms Library: Sense and Sensibility: Level 5: 1,800 Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Library Classics: Stage 5)
Publication Date: March 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0194792331 | ISBN-13: 978-0194792332This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected titles provide great mod...
|  | The Village Curtain: A Jamaica Collection
Publication Date: October 13, 2009A collection of fictional stories, sketches and imaginary characters set in the coastal communities of Jamaica. Meet a village elder who questions his system of providing guidance, disillusioned providers of charity, sometime drug smugglers and a man who thinks the best way to harvest the ocean is to throw explosives into it. ...
|  | Bonhoeffer
Publication Date: December 4, 2002"Bonhoeffer" is a dramatization of the struggles of the theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer to witness his Christian faith in and against the Third Reich. The play requires a cast of 7 males and 3 females. ...
|  | Losing My Marbles (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1840022426 | ISBN-13: 978-1840022421"Losing My Marbles is a series of true stories. These are events in my life wherein the heartache, terror and folly of my youth are transformed into comedy and tragedy, if you can call the heartbreak of youthful idealism tragedy! The result has become an evening in the theatre where people can forget their troubles and laugh at mine."—Trader Faulkner ...
|  | Persistence of Tragedy: Episodes in the History of Drama
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|  | The Ultimate Scene Study Series Volume IV: 104 Scenes for 4 Actors
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 157525221X | ISBN-13: 978-1575252216An invaluable resource for actors, directors and teachers. These collections of scenes are selected from the full canon of dramatic literature, from the Greeks to the Moderns and from around the world. Wilma Marcus Chandler is a director, actor and choreographer in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay area. For many years she has directed the Theater Arts program at Cabrillo College and been an innovator in both teaching and producing Performing Arts courses and workshops. She was the co-coordinator of the Nationa...
|  | Black Marigolds & Coloured Stars (Poetica)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Poetica For many, the versions from Asian and Oriental poetry made by E. Powys Mathers during and shortly after the First World War rank with those of Arthur Waley or Ezra Pound. This volume, pairing his first two books, Coloured Stars' and Black Marigolds', assembles the best of his remarkable poetry, which even now reads with undated freshness.Tony Harrison, a long-time Mathers admirer, describes the puzzles of Mathers' life and the fascination and originality of his poetry in his entertaining preface.E. Powys Mathers (1892-1939) is most often remem...
|  | Antologia de la poesia espanola del siglo XX, 1890-1939 (COLECCION LITERATURA ESPANOLA) (Literatura Espanola/ Spanish Literature) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Don't Go There
Publication Date: August 30, 2012Colm Keegan's poetry is a soulful yet visceral evocation of what it is to live in a Dublin rarely seen in its un-exaggerated form in the literary world. A life and a mode of living and seeing that refuses to be marginalized are set against a backdrop of palpable geography. Rarely has a poet's voice, unfamiliar but true in its every utterance, been captured so well as it is in Keegan's first collection. Family, friends, children, and the urban sprawl he renders sparely yet lyrically, all are grist to the mill of his poetics. ...
|  | When This Cruel War Is Over
Publication Date: September 15, 2009Chronicle of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events through a collection of letters ...
|  | Acts of Mercy: A Mercy Street Novel (Mercy Street Novels)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Mercy Street Novels Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative–and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer’s work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to Sam’s case: The bodies in all three cases have been carefully posed. And when a fourth victim is disc...
|  | Let Me Love You
Release Date: May 27, 2008Love is the last thing a lone woman in the West should believe in, but the heart doesn't always listen to good sense. With a spirit as wild as the West, Brianna Spencer faces a hard life in the small town of Silver Peak. Her father has not returned from spring hunting, but no way is she listening to anyone who says her father is dead. He's delayed.that's all. When Sloan McAlister finds Brianna walking the docks to pay down a bank note, she grabs his attention. The docks aren't meant for her caliber of woman. Yet the West is ruled by one thing, the need to survive. S...
|  | Fly, Eagle, Fly: An African Tale
Release Date: April 23, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. When a friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not staying on the ground. "But this eagle walks like a chicken, eats like a chicken, even thinks like a chicken," the farmer replies.Twice, the farmer's friend tries to get the eagle to fly, but it sees the chickens on the ground and drops down each time. At last the frie...
|  | Troy Aikman: Quick-Draw Quarterback (Lerner Sports Achievers)
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|  | Brett Favre: The All-Time Leader (All Aboard Reading. Station Stop 3)
Release Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | I Can: Inspiring Child
Publication Date: April 18, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up While they re busy learning, exploring, and asking questions, kids are also busy growing. And while they re growing, it s so much fun for them to keep track of their progress! This board book unfolds to a delightfully illustrated, garden-themed growth chart that comes ready to hang and makes a bright and beautiful addition to any child s room. Keep track of the changes through the years, and when your little one is all grown up, it becomes a keepsake you ll cherish for years to come. This book is printed with your child s future in mind, ...
|  | ChristmasScapes (Dover Holiday Coloring Book)
Publication Date: July 22, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Kid's Cookbook
Publication Date: June 1976Easy-to-follow recipes for meat and vegetable dishes, desserts, sandwiches, salads, and sweets. ...
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