 | Necessary Evil
Release Date: April 1, 2001In this stunning psychological thriller, David Dun demonstrates that he is that rare breed of author who brings to his very first book, not just enormous talent, but the skill and polish that will remind readers of some of today's most seasoned writers. Like the earlier books of New York Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver, "Necessary Evil" hurtles along at breakneck speed, packing an intense, action-filled story into a period of time so short it leaves us breathless.During a savage snowstorm, a private jet slams into the rugged California high country. In its wake lie...
 |  | After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the90's (Plume)
Release Date: September 1, 1990| Series: Plume A compelling and compassionate work that never fails to stimulate. After the Ball is required reading for straights interested in understanding a minority that comprises 10% of the population and for gays who ar learning that the revolution is far from over. ...
|  | Apostles of Power: Theft of an Empire
Publication Date: April 25, 2012Dr. David E. Martin, U.S. Congressional and E.U. Parliamentary policy adviser in global finance and ethics, came to international notoriety for his data analysis in his disclosure prior to the global financial crisis in 2008. His real-life insight and witness to corruption in the highest places has given way to a novel about the truth that befalls us. In a world where people have control in only the most mundane daily decisions, there are those manipulating nations at the highest levels. They are thieves of empires and emperors of the world. Race across the gl...
|  | Falling for a Dolphin
Release Date: April 13, 1989This dramatic poem, by the writer of "Whale Nation", describes the encounter between man and dolphin. His research led him to a remote cove in the south-west of Ireland where a hermit dolphin was rumoured to live. Submerged, alone in the alien sea, he was aware that the dolphin could torpedo its half-ton weight into him at 30 knots, snapping his spine as if it were a sardine's. Yet inches away, eye to eye, it appeared to enternatin no such wish and only invited play with its three-foot-smile. Drawn into the dolphin's force field, Williams had the sense of some old...
|  | How Plays Work (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1854593714 | ISBN-13: 978-1854593719How Plays Work has grown out of David Edgar’s teaching in the University of Birmingham’s MA course in playwriting studies, which he founded twenty years ago. Through historical and modern examples, the book analyzes the basic elements of dramatic structure, action, plot, character, dialogue, and genre. ...
|  | The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280
Publication Date: March 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 0801894484 | ISBN-13: 978-0801894480| Edition: 1 Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts.The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The selection of translations is based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek,...
|  | Prefaces to Shakespeare (Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare)
Publication Date: April 17, 1995| ISBN-10: 0435086499 | ISBN-13: 978-0435086497Julius Caesar is for the student of Shakespeare, whether in the theatre class or the literature class. It is for actors of Shakespeare, and for the directors. It is a practical guide and an insightful critique. It is also immensely readable. ...
|  | Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Publication Date: June 17, 1992A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil. ...
|  | The New Poetry of Japan (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0942668367 | ISBN-13: 978-0942668360| Edition: 1st. ed Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Christopher Drake, Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, Eric Selland, William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. This anthology contains the books of five poets--Fujii Sadakazu, Hirata Toshiko, Matsuura Hisaki, Yoshida Fuminori, Inagawa Masato--who emerged in the 1970's and 1980's as the voice of a new tradition--asserting an individual voice against the tide of "masu komi" media expression that has created a psychological and spiritual void in to...
|  | Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker
Publication Date: March 7, 1985| ISBN-10: 0193153149 | ISBN-13: 978-0193153141Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia.A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster, and Moscow of the 1860's leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877.A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of the Imperial Theaters prepares the reader for a study of the still-fam...
|  | Dark Garden
Publication Date: June 16, 2009Two sworn enemies who can't resist each other. Something has to give.The Blakes and the Cavenders have been going at it since 1870 and Vienna Blake keeps up the family tradition, gunning for the Cavenders at every opportunity. All the same, she's shocked when Mason Cavender confronts her in her office and accuses her of murder. Vienna has the stunningly sexual Mason thrown out by security, but she can't rid herself so easily of her powerful, instant attraction to the woman she's been groomed since childhood to destroy.Last in a long line of "Cursed Cavenders," ...
|  | Harvest Moon
Publication Date: September 20, 2011Three unforgettable new storiesA Tangled Web by New York Times bestselling author Mercedes LackeyKidnapping Persephone should have been an easy task. But in the Five Hundred Kingdoms, nothing's ever simple—and the wrong blonde goddess is stolen by mistake, leaving Prince Leopold without his new bride. At least until he braves the realm of the dead to get her back…Cast in Moonlight by New York Times bestselling author Michelle SagaraBarely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sha...
|  | Secrets Buried in the Soul: Why Settle For Less?
Publication Date: April 29, 2011Laurymimi Neeyah Kléber is a recent college graduate, living in Dallas, TX. She is young, beautiful, and very single. She is excitingly moving out of her parents' house and moving to Atlanta with her best friend, Renee. Upon her move to her new city, things get a little bit complicated. Like every other girl, she wants to feel loved! She hopes to find the "Man of God" that her heart longs for and is longing for the man who will complete her. As she struggles to maintain a Christian lifestyle and to focus on grad school all at once, trouble comes...
|  | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Virtual Trilogy)
Publication Date: November 15, 2008| Series: Virtual Trilogy 'Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' is the climax of John Joyce's 'Virtual Trilogy' of cyberthrillers following the quest by billionaire genius Theo Gilkrensky to save his beloved wife Maria from murder by warping the fabric of time.Convinced that the research he carried out in 'Virtually Maria' and 'A Matter of Time' will enable him to jump back in time and save Maria from death, Theo travels to Japan and enters into a pact with his greatest enemies to obtain the computer power he needs to complete his calculations. But dark forces ar...
|  | Quarry's List
Publication Date: November 5, 2010Killer-for-hire Quarry is trying to lie low when he gets a midnight visit from two other gunmen sent by an old associate. Someone wants Quarry off the scene--for keeps. Back in print, this early crime novel by the author of The Road to Perdition shows once again that nobody is harder-boiled than Quarry. With a new Afterword by the author. ...
|  | Mameshiba: We Could Be Heroes
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
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|  | Gods and Goddesses in Greek Mythology (Mythology (Enslow))
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|  | That's Papa's Way
Release Date: April 27, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A father and his little girl set out early one morning to go fishing. The girl watches her father closely, noticing how he plucks the worms from the soil with his bare hands, not with a trowel as she does. How he casts his fishing line far out into the lake, while she drops hers over the side of the boat. How patient he is waiting for the fish to bite, while she is restless. His way does not match hers, but that’s just fine. In the end she gives Papa an affectionate pat on the back when he catches a fish, just as...
|  | The Boy Who Stuck Out His Tongue: A Yiddish Folk Tale
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When the widow asks her son to light the fire, he just sticks his tongue out at her. ... But when he gets himself into a sticky situation, the kind folk of the little Hungarian village are quick to rally around. The butcher, the baker, the cobbler, the carpenter,and the cook gather up the tools of their trades and offer their well-meaning support to the boy, cheered on by a sympathetic crowd. ...
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