 | The Alchemy of Theatre - The Divine Science: Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration (Applause Books)
Release Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Applause Books (Applause Books). Featuring 28 of the top talents on Broadway!The Alchemy of Theatrelets the top talents in every theatrical field, from producing and writing to publicity and makeup, share their hard-earned wisdom. They speak on how to achieve success in an environment where giant egos are locked up together under mounting financial and emotional pressure, and are expected to deliver greatness. In short, this book is a how-to manual of collaboration by the professionals who do it best. Among those who have packed their lively essays with...
 |  | An Introduction To the Canterbury Tales: Reading, Fiction, Context
Publication Date: February 12, 2000This critical study of The Canterbury Tales contains full separate readings of each tale, together with clear exposition of historical and literary background. The book approaches Chaucer through modern theoretical perspectives, focusing particularly on gender, political and narratological approaches, and it also presents critical views of Chaucer from the past. Chaucer's reputation as a bawdy humorist and proto-novelist, specializing in character, realism and irony, is re-examined in more modern and subtle terms than the traditional picture usually associa...
|  | Addicted to Life
Publication Date: February 2003Did you ever wonder why you were born? What happens after death? What reincarnation is all about? "Addicted to Life" is a tale that weaves reincarnation, adventure and past life regressions to show that everyone can have access to the wisdom of the inner self and diagnose and heal problems which have ties to the past.Past sins catching up: Addicted to Life is an excellent introduction to reincarnation and karma because the theory is woven into the plot. But the book is also a story about love, friends, family and relationships (Jean Christou, Sunday Mail, 2001)...
|  | The Mach Band Region
Publication Date: October 28, 2009When Matt McKarey left McKarey's Bluff, Texas, after the woman he loved, Ariel Morgan, refused to marry him, he never planned to return. Yet ten years later, Ariel is dead supposedly by her own hand, and her younger sister, and Matt's close friend, Rachel, is spiraling toward the same fate. He returns back to a small town haunted by more than Ariel's death, and Matt is immediately sucked into the mystery as he begins to hallucinate. Or does he? He has returned to save Rachel, but as the days press on, he's not even sure he can save himself. ...
|  | Slave to Fashion: A Novel
Release Date: March 1, 2005Fashion college has taught Katie Castle everything she ever needed to know: how to smoke cigarettes and drink; how to flirt with gay men and straight women; how to get into clubs without paying. Possessed of a sharp eye and a stiletto tongue, Katie talks her way into the job of her dreams. Working for chic designer Penny Moss, Katie snags not only a town house in London’s Primrose Hill but also a cute fiancé, Ludo, who happens to be Penny’s son. But one act of libidinal folly with the company delivery driver costs Katie everything: job, boyfriend, ...
|  | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Release Date: November 13, 1982"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."--The Washington Post Book WorldFacing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-preside...
|  | Year's Best SF 16
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Year's Best Sf (Book 16)Step Into The Future The finest selections from a banner year for short-form science fiction, Year's Best SF 16 is the boldest, most eye-opening compilation to date from acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—brilliant visions, both dark and hopeful, of what might await humankind over tomorrow's horizon. Contributors include: Gregory BenfordTerry Bisson Brenda CooperJoe HaldemanKay KenyonAlastair ReynoldsMichael Swanwick Vernor Vingeand others...
|  | Concentric Penumbras of the Heart: in the fierce funhouse of poetry with ayaz daryl nielsen
Publication Date: June 30, 2012Some of the images within Concentric Penumbras of the Heart are recognizable by most of us - an older sister leaving home, a marriage proposal refused, a great-grandmother’s long lost eyelash.Others, however, are much less recognizable (for some of us) - a peregrine’s yearning, an alley rat mourning, a bear in heavy fur keeping a promise - and, throughout this collection is the interwoven presence of long sad sighs from our harbingers.Come, join me within this sigh upon an out breath - it includes ill-lit rooms, hidden melodies, daydreams of wild ...
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|  | Africa your Son is in Trouble
Publication Date: October 12, 2010Look at yourself in the mirror; what do you see, a reflection or what? Each time I look at the mirror, I never see myself but nations, futures and tomorrow, and each time I tell myself 'if I die today without fulfilling the grace and destiny upon my life' all those nations and futures are gone. I remembered one day as I was traveling back to school, we saw the scene of an accident and everybody was crying, I saw how they loaded the dead bodies into a wagon but guess what, that didn't moved me, but after everything had died down a thought struck me, something...
|  | New and Selected Poems of Patrick Galvin (Literature)
Publication Date: October 1996| Series: Literature "Galvin's poetry is steeped in the vitality and humour of a by now almost defunct working-class culture. Galvin is a poet unafraid of passion, with a hatred of totalitarianism and righteousness, a mistrust of public certainties, and an ability to speak in a flotilla of voices. This volume is a joyous rediscovery of his poetry".Dermot Bolger, The Sunday Tribune ...
|  | Roald Dahl (Twayne's English Authors Series)
Publication Date: August 1992 ...
| | Hardy's Metres and Victorian Prosody: With a Metrical Appendix of Hardy's Stanza Forms
Publication Date: January 12, 1989| ISBN-10: 019812967X | ISBN-13: 978-0198129677Thomas Hardy's experiments in poetic metre were rooted in dramatic developments in Victorian metrical theory, which, nurtured by the ideas of Hegel and theories of Gothic architecture, represented the first mature understanding of the abstract nature of the metrical form.This is the first book to explore the enormous range of Thomas Hardy's metrical poetry, providing also a history of metrical theory and its climax in the Victorian period. Taylor includes a metrical glossary of Hardy's stanzas, the most exha...
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|  | Las brujas/ The Witches (Alfaguara Infantil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 1993 ...
|  | Girl Trap
Publication Date: July 9, 2012A story known to some of you. The tale of a depraved man's efforts to deceive and capture a bevy of naive young women... with the assistance of his wife! ...
|  | The Wedding Raffle
Publication Date: August 1, 1998GERALYN DAWSONbrings to glorious life the proud, passionate days of the Republic of Texas in a breathtakingly romantic tale of an independent widow and one hard, handsome Texan who tangle, tussle, and tumble into love.With her family in danger, Honor Duvall needs the bravest man in Texas to help her save them. True, the thrice-widowed beauty's elaborate plan to lure him to her remote ranch is a little unethical, but she'll make it up to him. Or so she thinks.Captain Luke Prescott, a renowned ex-Texas Ranger and bona fide hero, can't help but find his sus...
|  | Newfangled Fairy Tales Book #2
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|  | Harry Potter Et la Chambre Des Secrets (Folio Junior) (French Edition)
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|  | Kung Fu Panda: Po's Crash Course (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: April 22, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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