 | Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: March 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393930904 | ISBN-13: 978-0393930900| Edition: 3rd This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with P...
 |  | Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (Pitt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: December 28, 2008| Series: Pitt Poetry Series WINNER OF THE 2007 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE Selected by Claudia RankineProse poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity. ...
|  | The Ultimate Monologue Book for Middle School Actors Vol. I: 111 One-Minute Monologues
Publication Date: August 1, 2003Middle school could not be more dramatic! Everything is both highly serious and seriously funny at the same time. This is the perfect time to showcase your acting skills. But where can you find juicy monologues? In this book! This is the guide for middle school actors. Nothing is held back. All the clean-your-room, give-me-your-lunch-money, take-a-shower-already, buy-me-some-lip-gloss, he-does-not-like-me, you-puked-on-my-math-book incidents are in here. Plus a whole lot of other stuff you wish would happen. Get ready for stage and screen! ...
|  | The Cemetery Club
Publication Date: March 15, 2011Ivan MenchellComedyCharacters: 1 male, 5 femaleMultiple SetsThree Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. The Broadway product...
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|  | Silent Witness (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Suspense A double homicide has left the quiet town of Country Corners reeling. Sheriff Elizabeth Bradford is shocked by the crime…and by her urge to protect the only witness—a five-year-old autistic boy. For little Jeremy, Liz will do anything—even team up with psychiatrist Dr. Adam Morgan, the former high-school sweetheart who shattered her trust.Back then, Adam thought leaving town was his only option. He's never stopped regretting it. Jeremy holds the key to a killer's identity. And with Jeremy—and Liz...
|  | Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision, and its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordabl...
|  | The Pushcart War
Publication Date: June 1, 1985Dramatized by Gregory A. Falls based on the book by Jean Merrill. A war begins with a Daffodil Massacre and ends with a Cantaloupe Day! An action-packed allegory, set in the next century, which looks back on the 1990s when the people of New York City made a choice between progress and pushcarts. Cartoon-like masks, mobile trucks and pushcarts, fanciful sound effects. Futuristic costumes. Cast of 6 men, 2 women (doubling to portray over 50 characters).In 2011, a television documentary program recaps the 1991 Pushcart War in New York City, which began when Mack, d...
|  | Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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|  | Lucian: The Passing of Peregrinus. The Runaways. Toxaris or Friendship. The Dance. Lexiphanes. The Eunuch. Astrology. The Mistaken Critic. The ... Disowned. (Loeb Classical Library No. 302)
Publication Date: January 1, 1936| ISBN-10: 0674993330 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993334Lucian (ca. 120–190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in w...
|  | Icelandic Sagas (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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|  | It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup
Release Date: December 27, 2011Award-winning poet Jerry Williams is an expert in breakingup, and he credits his survival to the careful words of poets who haveloved and lost before him. It's Not You, It's Me is a poetryanthology--at once amusing, angry, sweet, and bitter--that gives afresh voice to the all-too-familiar experience of ending arelationship. Williams compiled over 90 poems by contemporary writersincluding Denis Johnson and Kim Addonizio, as well as former poetslaureate Robert Hass, Maxine Kumin, and Mark Strand, whose comfortingand healing words dragged him out of his breakup-in...
|  | St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers Edition 1. (St. James Guide to Writers Series)
Publication Date: December 16, 1997| ISBN-10: 1558622063 | ISBN-13: 978-1558622067| Edition: 1 This exciting new guide to historic and contemporary horror, ghost and gothic writers features the men and women who've kept readers turning pages into the wee hours of the night. Your patrons with a penchant for this genre will find all the details they need to answer their questions on 450 authors.Author entries feature a biography; a complete list of the author's publications; selected critical and biographical works; and comments by the entrant, when available. A critical essay written by a...
|  | San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
Publication Date: May 1, 2001San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America—somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s—was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the I...
|  | Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics
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|  | In for the Kill
Release Date: November 1, 2007Frank Quinn, the relentless detective who made his debut in John Lutz's acclaimed thriller "Darker Than Night", faces his toughest - and most personal - case yet...A madman is stalking women in the city. By the time his victims are found, they've been dismembered with careful precision, their limbs stacked into a gruesome pyramid and completely cleansed of every last drop of blood.Accustomed to working on the most grisly homicides, detective Frank Quinn's nerves don't rattle easily. But when the last names of the killer's victims spell out "Q-u-i-n-n," the veter...
|  | Aesop's The Crow and The Pitcher
Release Date: January 24, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A hot, dry desert. A tired, thirsty crow. A tall pitcher of water. Think you know the story? Think again! In her reinterpretation of Aesop's classic fable of perseverance, STEPHANIE GWYN BROWN guides readers through all six steps of the scientific method—from question to communication—with Crow as the model scientist. But it takes a strong work ethic and a series of comic attempts before he invents a way to bring the water to a life-saving drinking level. Readers are ultimately invited into Crow's labor...
|  | Great Elephant, The: An Illustrated Allegory
Publication Date: August 5, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Follow the adventures of Quinn, the mouse, who sets out to find his own spot in the great forest. A large rainstorm creates a rushing torrent of water that sweeps him away leaving him lost and alone. Remembering advice from his dad, he tries to seek out the Great Elephant for help.Along the way he meets other forest animals who claim to know about the Great Elephant and, out of desperation; he follows some of their advice only to find he’s been led down the wrong path. In his greatest moment of need, will the ...
|  | Poems of William Blake
Publication Date: May 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 1406880620 | ISBN-13: 978-1406880625Songs of Innocence and of Experience; the Book of Thel, by the Romantic poet and painter ...
|  | En un Arbol Estan los Cinco Monitos / Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up While Mama monkey takes a nap, the Five Little Monkeys discover that it is unwise to tease Mr. Crocodile. Now young children can follow the antics of the Five Little Monkeys in Spanish and English! ...
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