 | Take Me Out: A Play
Publication Date: August 6, 2003“A funny and troubling look at athletes and identity . . . Take Me Out is a dynamic, involving play.” —Donald Lyons, New York PostDarren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he’s gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, while he also emboldens his closeted accountant, Mason Marzac, to come to terms with his ow...
 |  | Second Chance
Release Date: May 27, 2008 Jane Green has become a nationally bestselling author with legions of fans through her novels about the true-lifedilemmas of real women—their relationships, their careers, their loves, their triumphs and disappointments. In herlatest book, Green tells the story of a group of people who haven’t seen each other since they were best friends atschool. When one of them dies in a terrible tragedy, the reunited friends work through their grief together and find thateach of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen. Warm, witty, and as wise...
|  | Short Stories, Letters, and Essays by Robert C. Noble
Publication Date: February 2, 2011A retired academic infectious diseases physician has assembled a collection of short stories, personal letters, and previously published medical essays which deal with the relations between physicians and pharmaceutical companies, the concept of safe sex, and the hazards of eating raw shell-fish. ...
|  | A Year of Full Moons
Publication Date: November 2000Brilliant, tomboyish Josephine Margaret Butler-better known as Jos-is the second oldest child in a large, poor family living in provincial Summit, Kentucky, in 1963. After her mother has a miscarriage and retreats into herself, Jos and her sister Ellie are faced with the responsibility of running the household and taking care of their siblings and their decidedly eccentric, sometimes brilliant, and always difficult father. The nation's mounting tensions over civil rights and the Vietnam War finally begin to infiltrate Summit at the same time that Jos begins to ...
|  | Moby Dick
Publication Date: June 1, 2005Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's crazed obsession to pursue his quarry and long-standing adversary, the fearsome great white whale.Captain Ahab sets out on his quest with a challenging crew on the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. Fuelled with vengeance and blind obsession, he braves the dangerous oceans, displaying an ultimate willingness to sacrifice everything in pursuit of his goal.One of the greatest sea stories ever told, Moby Dick is an epic adventure that explores human challenges and extremes and is a classic read. ...
|  | "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: May 12, 2011| Series: The Middle Ages Series Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sûr. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met the scatological in popular performances presented by roving troupes in public squares that skewered sex, politics, and religion. For centuries, the scripts for these outrageous, anonymously written shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and...
|  | An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950)
Publication Date: July 15, 1976This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of poetic appreciation. The fourteen poets represented here provide a varied and exciting introduction to what is probably the richest century of French poetry, from 1850 to 1950. Hugo, the colossus of the nineteenth century, whose work gives new resonance and vitality to imaginative vision, opens the anthology, and Michaux, the most individual and 'modern' of twentieth-century poets in that he bridges the ...
|  | Burning Cartography
Publication Date: April 30, 2007The award-winning poetry of Noni Benegas brings to life the ineffable world in which we live our day to day lives. Journeying back and forth between one s past and one s present, between the everyday world and dreams, her poetry creates a space where, for an instant, the unknown feels familiar and the uncertain becomes reliable. She is an Argentinian poet who has lived in Spain since 1977 and has published five books of poetry: Argonáutica (Platero Prize), La balsa de la Medusa (Miguel Hernández Prize), CartografÃa ardiente, La...
|  | The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)
Publication Date: February 9, 2004| ISBN-10: 1405100494 | ISBN-13: 978-1405100496| Edition: 1 This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experime...
|  | The Voice and Other Stories (Japanese Mystery Writers)
Publication Date: July 1995Six of the best detective stories from Japan's foremost master of mystery. The puzzle in these intriguing tales lies not so much in "who dunnit" but rather in how it was done. ...
|  | CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES #13 MAY 1988 THE ADVENTURE OF THE NAVAL TREATY: PART ONE
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|  | Sylvia and Bird
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up Sylvia is the only dragon in the world and very lonely.But then she meets Bird.Bird is tiny and chirpy, nothing like the huge dragon. And Sylvia worries that maybe she and her little friend are too different to remain friends.Together the two friends take a journey that will change Sylvia’s life forever.From the award-winning creator of Augustus and His Smile comes a tender story about belonging and the power of true friendship. ...
|  | Abner Doubleday: Boy Baseball Pioneer
Publication Date: June 13, 2012Young readers will share Abner Doubleday's enthusiasm and love of baseball and recognize him as a heroic general who fought bravely in two wars in this installation of the Young Patriots series. An early adapter of modern baseball rules, Abner adored the sport and helped bring it into mainstream American sporting life. As a boy, he loved nothing more than playing ball - whether it be ''one old cat'' or ''three old cat'' - with his brother and friends. When not on the playing field, Abner sought out adventures, which led him to a historic meeting with the French...
|  | NFL Board Book: Colors
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|  | Louie Larkey and the Bad Dream Patrol
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|  | Moving On: The Gay Man's Guide for Coping When a Relationship Ends
Release Date: January 1, 1999Filled with sensible, heartfelt advice from someone who''s been there and bounced back, here is the first and only guide for the gay man who is undergoing, or has un dergone, the break-up of a loving partnership. ' ...
|  | Triumph Of The Mountain Man
Release Date: January 1, 1997| Series: Mountain Man (Book 18) Only his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. And in his vicious seizure of the coveted land around Taos, high among the Rocky Mountains in the New Mexico territory, plenty of innocent blood will be spilled. Robber baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: to wrest the timber-thick hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own subservient labor force. But in his near-perfect campaign of terror; Satterlee has overlooked one might obstacle. Its source is the High Lonesome in faraway ...
|  | The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On the Manhattan bank of the Hudson River, a small lighthouse--made of steel and painted bright red--proudly protects boats with his faithful beam. One day a great expanse of gray steel, which also shines a bright light into the fog and darkness, is built over it. The little red lighthouse feels insignificant and useless in comparison but soon learns that . . . small can be mighty!A portion of the sales from this book will be donated to the Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse education and outreach programs. ...
|  | Prince Caspian the chronicles of narnia (movie images inside)
Release Date: April 1, 2008 The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne. Narnia . . . the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen . . . and where the adventure begins. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia—the land where they had ruled as Kings and Queens and where their help is desperately needed....
|  | Slop Goes the Soup: A Noisy Warthog Word Book
Release Date: September 24, 2001| Grade Level: P and up...
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