 | Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater
Publication Date: November 10, 2005| ISBN-10: 0472069071 | ISBN-13: 978-0472069071"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come."---David Román, University of Southern CaliforniaWhat is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a th...
 |  | Wingshooters
Publication Date: February 8, 2011"Revoyr does a remarkable job of conveying [protagonist] Michelle’s lost innocence and fear through this accomplished story of family and the dangers of complacency in the face of questionable justice."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Revoyr's fourth novel is a coming-of-age saga in which racism cuts across loyalties between family and friends . . . Gripping and insightful."--Kirkus ReviewsMichelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin--a small town that had been entir...
|  | Bad Girls Good Women
Publication Date: July 3, 2003In London, on the brink of the Sixties, two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife. Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies and a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But, when it comes, stardom is not enough, and the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her. Julia choose marriage and Ladyhill, a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then, after the tragedy, she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage and her child. Though each has to make her own choices, their friendship - despite the guilt and...
|  | The Madam : A Novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2003 In writing The Madam, award-winning storyteller and bestselling author Julianna Baggott turns her eye to her own family history, creating a masterful novel based on the lives of her grandmother, who was raised in a house of prostitution, and her great-grandmother, who was the madam. The result is a passionate, richly detailed account of the business of lust and the human soul -- gracious, corrosive, resilient.It's 1924 in an industrial town in West Virginia. Alma works in a hosiery mill where the percussive roar of machinery has far too long mufÃ...
|  | The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 2, 2004| Series: Modern Library A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. ...
|  | The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)
Release Date: February 26, 2008 To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her. As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge. But when you dance with d...
|  | Blind Sunflowers
Publication Date: October 1, 2009In this beautifully translated account of loss and reconciliation set in the time of the Spanish Civil War, four subtly connected vignettes come together to form a cohesive narrative that underlines the horrors of the war in Spain. The stories are narrated in the same engaging spirit but are clearly set apart by the individual voices of the narrating characters: a captain in Franco's army who renounces winning the war on the very day of victory; a young poet who flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to grow up quickly, only to die within a few mont...
|  | Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)
Publication Date: September 1987| ISBN-10: 0582786274 | ISBN-13: 978-0582786271Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy. ...
|  | La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Spanish Texts) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 15, 1988| ISBN-10: 0719009502 | ISBN-13: 978-0719009501After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events. ...
|  | New Plays for the Black Theater (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1989An anthology of short plays of some of the well known and highly respected African American playwrights. A glimpse into the early work of some very successful writers. ...
|  | Words of Paradise Selected Poems of Rumi (Sacred Wisdom)
Publication Date: February 2004| Series: Sacred Wisdom Illustrated with miniatures and borders from ancient Islamic scripts, this volume features 55 poems from the works of Jalaluddin Rumi. Rumi was a 13th-century Persian mystic who believed that all human beings can, if they surrender themselves to the power of love, live in a condition of infinite bliss. Raficq Abdulla uses rhythm and powerful imagery to recreate the ecstatic state which Rumi considered so crucual to reach enlightenment. An introduction to the book sets Rumi's life and philosophy in context and provides some explanatory gu...
|  | Where Cats Meditate
Publication Date: March 2003A study in quiet contemplation, nothing can match the measured calm and serene beauty of the meditative cat. From a ginger tom surveying his kingdom to a silver tabby waiting with endless patience by the mouse hole, the cats in this charming book perfectly represent the seductive appeal of our elegant feline friends. Filled with adorable, full-color photos and quotations from poets, mystics, and other imaginative writers, including Emerson, Socrates, and Zen sages, this volume offers a wonderful insight into cats and their world. ...
|  | Water Like the Soul of an Angel: Memoirs of a Fisherman
Publication Date: December 31, 2005Fully Illustrated, poetry book about fishing and life in Montana and the upper midwest. It is a book to be read around the campfire and represents a unique collaboration between two authentic Montana artists: a poet and a painter. It is a book for fly fishers and muskie fishers and weekend campers. The poems are about fly fishing, old fishing guides, campfires, osprey, loons, rivers, mountains, and mutant carp. The book is a treasure of wisdom, whimsy,and humor. It is the perfect gift for the outdoors person who thought they had everything. ...
|  | Lian pu xin pa: Guo qing si shi zhou nian zheng lian xuan cui (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | In Another Country
Publication Date: May 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0231125852 | ISBN-13: 978-0231125857In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production,In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth...
|  | Leonardo Da Vinci (Scientists Who Made History)
Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Quintilian:The Orator's Education, III, Books 6-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 126)
Publication Date: January 10, 2002| ISBN-10: 0674995937 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995932Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world.Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the ...
|  | White Wolf (Harlequin Reader's Choice)
Publication Date: June 12, 2007| Series: Harlequin Reader's Choice Ruthless corporate shark Dain Phillips had kicked off the traces of his impoverished past, burying his scars under wealth and power. But the money couldn't help him fight the illness now attacking him. Only a mysterious Cherokee woman might be able to do that...Earthy, radiant Erin Wolf bred in Dain a desire to live. A hunger to mate. A thirst for the wonders of love. But surrender the reins of his steely control? Trust his heart to another? Never! That would take a miracle... --This text refers to an out of print or unavaila...
|  | Balloon Toons: Hiccup!
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|  | The Complete Book of Brainteasers (The Complete Book Series)
Release Date: June 2, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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