 | Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Publication Date: April 1, 2012In a collection guaranteed to provoke both laughter and thought, 14 timeless fairy tales are revisited and reworked to become relevant fables for more modern times. These hilarious adaptations satirize and sanitize the sexist, racist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist, and phallocentrist biases of classic bedtime stories. Familiar exploits of beloved characters are related from a respectful, prejudice-free perspective: the Emperor is no longer naked in his new clothes but “is endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle,” Snow White escapes...
 |  | Carrie's War (Oberon Plays for Younger People)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Oberon Plays for Younger People Adapted from a novel by much-loved childrens' writer ...
|  | The Curious Conspiracy
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|  | Ask the Dust
Release Date: February 7, 2006Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain. ...
|  | The Bishop (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 4)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers's cutting-edge 21st-century geospatial investigative techniques and impeccable logic have helped him track some of the country's most grisly killers. But those skills are pushed to the limit in this new installment of the highly-acclaimed, award-winning The Bowers Files series.This time it's a congressman's daughter who is found dead even as her killers launch a spree of perfect murders in the Northeast. With nothing to link the crimes to each other, Agent Bowers faces his most difficult case yet--even as his personal life begins...
|  | Fallen Angels and the Psychology of Control
Publication Date: March 26, 2012If you are looking to truly understand the cause of war, conflict and man's inhumanity to man - and if you are willing to think outside the box - this book will give you a new perspective on history. It explains why every society has had a small elite that managed to gain control over the population. This book goes far beyond conspiracy theories by identifying the real cause of evil as a state of consciousness. This "fallen" consciousness has affected every aspect of society, and it colors our thinking in many subtle ways. Yet once you understand the psycholog...
|  | The Goodnight Kiss (Fear Street Super Chillers, No. 3)
Publication Date: June 1992Two of R.L. Stine's most popular stories--plus a new, never-before-released vampire tale! In "Goodnight Kiss #1", Matt must save his girlfriend April from a vampire hypnotizing her with intoxicating kisses. In "Goodnight Kiss #2", Billy has vowed to destroy the vampires who last summer preyed on his girlfriend. And in "The Vampire Club", Pete discovers his new club's terrible secret when they try to make him a permanent member. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition....
|  | Finding Bluefield
Publication Date: September 18, 2012When Barbara Phillips arrives in Bluefield, Virginia, to begin her medical residency, she thinks she is headed for an uneventful few years filled with work in an obscure little town where no one knows her—which is exactly what she wants.Everything changes when she enters Nicky’s diner and begins a journey that will last a lifetime as she falls in love against her better judgment and best-laid plans. The free-spirited Nicky later attends the 1963 March on Washington and impulsively and anonymously sleeps with a man in hopes of getting pregnant an...
|  | Portable Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction
Publication Date: March 11, 2008| ISBN-10: 1428206426 | ISBN-13: 978-1428206427| Edition: 1 Embark on the literary journey of a lifetime--with PORTABLE LEGACIES: FICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, NONFICTION! This four-genre literature anthology challenges you to think, read, and write critically. From Lao-tzu and Sophocles to Sandra Cisneros, Charles Simic, and Suzan Lori-Parks, you'll discover the best of the traditional, multicultural, and world literature canons, as well as exciting new contemporary works that encourage you to question, observe, probe, and critique what you are reading. In addi...
|  | Great Scenes for Young Actors (Young Actors Series)
Publication Date: May 30, 1991| Series: Young Actors Series 45 exciting selections for student actors ages 14-22. ...
|  | The Life and the Dark
Publication Date: June 1, 2004This second poetry collection from an acclaimed New Zealand poet showcases his fiercely independent and powerful voice-often dark, macabre, sardonic, and angry. Philosophical inquiry and the natural surroundings of New Zealand's South Island are themes that emerge in his poetry and are treated with a distinctive use of language and an array of traditional verse forms. The unique voice in these poems reveals the mature talent of an emerging poet. ...
|  | The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture
Release Date: February 12, 2007The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, environmental accountability, spiritual expressiveness, and the justification of war. With roots in the Beat literary movement of the late 1950s, the hippie perspective also advocated a bohemian lifestyle which expressed distaste for hypocrisy and materialism yet did so without the dark, somewhat forced undertones of their predecessors. This cultural revaluation which developed as a direct response to the dark days of World War II created a countercult...
|  | The Female American or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: October 2000| ISBN-10: 1551112485 | ISBN-13: 978-1551112480| Edition: 1 When it first appeared in 1767, The Female American was called a "sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders." Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield's novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era's popular novels typically featured women in the confi...
|  | Gentle Conquest
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|  | Fear in the Forest (Crowner John Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Crowner John Mysteries Much of the county lies under the iron rule of the Royal Forest laws, with all hunting reserved to the King. The penalty for killing a deer is mutilation or death, and these harsh laws are rigorously upheld by the King’s foresters, notorious for their greed and corruption. In June 1195, a horse gallops into the sleepy village of Sigford, the broken shaft of an arrow protruding from its rider’s back. The embroidered badge sewn on the dead man’s tunic identifies him as a senior officer of the Royal Fo...
|  | Opening Shots - Vol II: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories
Publication Date: October 1, 2001This second volume of Opening Shots is a collection of twenty-three first stories published by prominent mystery and crime writers.Some of these offerings are remarkably mature, professional work.Others are more obviously early works, before the writers' skills reached full maturity.But every one of them is a pleasure to read, and in each can be seen the seed of the writer's craft. "Each writer has included an introduction worth the price of admission all by themselves," observes Block."Writers, it seems to me, are never more eloquent or more interesting that...
|  | Scooby-Doo And The Eerie Ice Monster
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Time Surfers #2: Orbit Wipeout
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | NASCAR Chase for the Cup (Blazers)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Chronicles of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery Books)
Release Date: August 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 0553213784 | ISBN-13: 978-0553213782| Edition: Reprint On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories. There was the case of Ludovic Speed, who wouldn't propose to the woman he had courted for fifteen years until Anne devised a plan to "speed" him up . . . if it didn't backfire and break his heart. But no one could blame mischievous Anne for the hilarious battle of the sexes that erupted when a man-hating woman and her cat got quaranti...
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