 | This Great Unknowing
Publication Date: September 2000When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers. ...
 |  | American Melodrama (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0933826214 | ISBN-13: 978-0933826212These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: The Poor of New York by Dion Boucicault, Uncle Tom's Cabin by George Aiken/Harriet Beecher Stowe, Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly, The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. ...
|  | All Mirrors and All Suns: Book Eight of the Latter Annals of Lystra
Publication Date: October 5, 2010When a poisoner attempts to murder Surchatain Ares-again-Ares decides the time has come to step down from the throne and go underground to find out who is trying to take over the province. In his clandestine searches, he discovers a hidden room containing a vast cache of gold. While Ares is preoccupied with establishing a link between the gold and his would-be assassin, Henry is experiencing his own torments in getting his betrothed, Ares' daughter Sophie, to agree to a wedding date. However, prompting her to act turns out to be a trivial matter compared to h...
|  | Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship
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|  | A Stab in the Light
Publication Date: June 13, 2009A Stab in the Light: Murder, Mayhem and Ascension!A New Age bookstore owner is murdered while his girlfriend pays for her crack habit by hooking on Lake Street, using a rubber fertility goddess costume for bait. The leader of a cult who claims 9-11 was a Feng Shui job to get rid of stagnant energy in the financial district in NYC, grows more and more powerful as she ices her spiritual competition using the latest high tech weaponry gifted to her by local defense companies. Satirically devastating, author Jaye Beldo exposes the utter hypocrisy and savagery at th...
|  | The Ridge
Publication Date: June 8, 2011In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark-until its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history.For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble, the lighthouse-keeper's death is disturbing and personal.Years ago, Kimble was shot while on duty.Somehow the death suggests a connection between the lighthouse and the most terrifying mome...
|  | Girl Unmoored
Publication Date: March 6, 2012.cs2654AE3A{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs2CAA79F6{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .cs566403DE{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s sudd...
|  | Paths of Glory
Release Date: January 3, 2012Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong—their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream, and once he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?Jeffrey Archer’s new novel, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a ...
|  | The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1989| Series: Penguin Classics ‘Be on your guard … and take care not to fall in love!’Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great ‘confessional’ novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe’s own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his frien...
|  | The Tragedies of Sophocles (Bristol Phoenix Press - Greece and Rome Live)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1904675727 | ISBN-13: 978-1904675723This volume provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles’ seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. Including a critical essay which surveys modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a coda spotlighting key moments in the reception of each work, The Tragedies of Sophocles focuses on the dramatic power of the tragedy and the challenges with which it confronts an audience. James Morwood refuses to confine the plays to a supposedly Sophoc...
|  | Arden & D'arcy Plays 1 (World Classics) (v. 1)
Publication Date: June 10, 1991| ISBN-10: 0413649407 | ISBN-13: 978-0413649409This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the SixtiesThe Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars Longa Vita Brevis is composed out of children's games and The Royal Pardon tells the story of the adventures of a group of strolling players who fall in with a deserter from the war in Flanders. Other plays in this collecti...
|  | The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets
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|  | Cualquier abismo se parece al utero/ Any Abyss Looks Like the Womb (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Release Date: August 1, 1964 The definitive anthology-unrivalled in scope and contentA millennium and a half old, Japan's poetry is widely known and loved around the world. Covering the earliest primitive period through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muramachi, and Edo periods, right up to the modern day, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse contains more than 700 poems, including short forms such as tanka and haiku, as well as folk-poetry, and more complex verse with which Western readers may be less familiar. Whether read for pleasure or scholarship, this accessible translation displays the fu...
|  | A Million Premonitions (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: In the Grip of Strange Thoughts Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit, Sosnora has written with a voice unique and wideranging. Historical allusion, conscious anachronism, humor, and intensity of word play dominate by turns his range of verse.Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in the Crimea. He is known as one of the most consistently experimental of Russian poets, and one of the foremost translators, into Russian, of Catullus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen Ginsberg.Mark Halperin teac...
|  | Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the Korean War
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|  | Collateral Damage (The Sisterhood: Rules of the Game, Book 4)
Release Date: October 1, 2008Through all their adventures, the bond of the Sisterhood has remained steadfast and unshakeable. But for the first time, the Sisterhood verges on falling apart when the ladies have to choose between two difficult assignments. The first job guarantees a huge paycheck; the second offers a presidential pardon - and a chance to finally emerge from hiding.For the sake of their union, the gals put aside their differences and focus on a new mission. A mysterious Washington, D.C. political operative needs them to track down a computer hacker who has stolen a highly class...
|  | Captured by the Highlander
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Highlander Lady Amelia Sutherland would rather die than surrender to a man like Duncan MacLean. He is the fiercest warrior of his clan—her people’s sworn enemy—and tonight he is standing over her bed. Eyes blazing, muscles taut, and battle axe gleaming, MacLean has come to kill Amelia’s fiancé. But once he sees the lovely, innocent Amelia, he decides to take her instead…Stealing the young bride-to-be is the perfect revenge against the man who murdered Duncan’s one true love. But Lady Amelia turns out to be more tha...
|  | The Hiding Place
Release Date: October 2, 2012Sometimes it’s easier to believe a lie.Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years.… Janet Manning has been haunted by the murder since the day she lost sight of her brother in the park. Now, with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Justin’s death looming, a detective and a newspaper reporter have started to ask questions, opening old wounds and raising new su...
|  | Black Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Ella Clah A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation.Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn’t easy—some had been buried for years—and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends. Then one of the bodies turns out to be that of a missing man who was believed to h...
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