 | Los Muertitos de San Cristobal: Artist Book, Day of the Dead Comes Alive!
Publication Date: August 20, 2012Written and illustrated by artist, Kleya Forte-Escamilla, this book is an authentic viewpoint of a popular holiday, Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead. With laugh aloud humor and poetic prose, the artist describes the lives of her calacas in sensitive vignettes, in longer stories, and in a First Day of the Dead sequential character story with beautiful color graphics. The book includes a glossary of English/Spanish words. ...
 |  | My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: August 15, 2010| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer's voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During his sho...
|  | Stupid Kids - Acting Edition
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|  | Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
Publication Date: October 22, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415968976 | ISBN-13: 978-0415968973For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present, Away contains work by the wri...
|  | Heat Wave, Premium Edition (Nikki Heat, Book 1)
Release Date: August 30, 2011MORE CASTLE! This new mass market premium edition will include a chapter from Richard Castle's new hardcover, HEAT RISES, to be published in September 2011. It also includes two chapters from NAKED HEAT, the second in the series, as well as a conversation with the author. A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes anoth...
|  | The King's Retribution
Publication Date: March 20, 2007In the world of Ayana was a kingdom called Aria. King Owen ruled Aria, alone, for seventeen years since his queen passed away. He cared for Princess Aarilinus who was most precious and beautiful woman in the land. King Owen was a man with a terrible past of anger, regret as well as greed.The king of Aria has a problem. Aarilina is in love with Animus who is not only a peasant, but is son of the man who is responsible for the death of the queen, Aarilina's mother. There is great tension and frustration between King Owen and his daughter.Animus is challenged to ...
|  | Gotta Call BS on That One - How the world pretend
Publication Date: August 5, 2012Was Star Wars designed to save the empire or to build an empire? Which party actually saves money? Did the framers of the Constitution actually think out the whole concept of a Supreme Court? Is being a member of Congress a service or a career?BS is ubiquitous to life as we know it. We have been so swamped with it for so long that we sometimes forget it is BS. Opposite positions justified by two sides from the same Bible. Balancing the budget by 1) reducing spending, or 2) increasing spending. Justifying big kids playing in space by science and/or politics. Bu...
|  | Bent: The Play
Release Date: April 1, 2000(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, an...
|  | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Acting Edition
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|  | 50 Damatic Dialogues to Bring the Old Testament Alive
Publication Date: April 1999A fun, imaginative and flexible worship resource that will be popular with religious groups of all ages and denominations. The book consists of 50 dramatic dialogues inspired by the Old Testament, each involving a character from the Bible and God himself, who speaks offstage. The book offers an enjoyable and accessible way of bringing Old Testaments readings to life. ...
|  | Maps in a Mirror
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Maps in a Mirrorbrings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling o...
|  | Poetry 21 CD-ROM (Stand Alone Version) for Parini's The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry and The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Brief Edition
Publication Date: March 14, 2005| ISBN-10: 1413014178 | ISBN-13: 978-1413014174| Edition: 1 Whether you are teaching a traditional or an online course, or just exploring a new interest, Poetry21 provides everything you'll need-from over 400 poems with background information on the poets, to videos of live poetry slams. Everything you would do with a traditional book and notebook-close reading and note taking, scansion and analysis-Poetry21 now brings together into one interactive CD-ROM. In addition, Poetry21 gathers in one place audio/video resources that bring the sights and sounds of ...
|  | Der schone Soldatengesang vom dapfern Kolombus (German Edition)
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|  | Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Publication Date: September 1, 1994A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down. ...
|  | Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
Publication Date: July 12, 2011James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not know—Robert Phelps. The correspondence that resulted went on to span two decades. The letters themselves are exceptionally alive, uninhibited, gossipy, touching, and brilliant. The success of Salter and the struggles of Phelps are fully explored by the writers themselv...
|  | Billionaire's Retreat: -Titillating -Romance -Murder Mystery -Suspense Thriller
Publication Date: March 20, 2012Billionaire's Retreat is a mind titillating romance, murder mystery, and suspense thriller. The main character Sarah Giltry's husband Jared Jones goes missing after retiring from a local fire department. She offers a quarter of a million dollars to anyone that can find him. Jared's mother Rachelle is convinced that she is linked to his disappearance. Fraud charges fly rampant as one of Sarah's government contracts comes into question. Also, she is accused of having an affair with the City Councilman that is alleged to have taken the bribe. The desire to have m...
|  | Passionate Thirst (Candace Steele, Vampire Killer, Book 1)
Release Date: October 31, 2006JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN SIN CITYCandace Steele is as tough as she is alluring. For her, killing vampires isn’t just a job–it’s personal: She’s still haunted by erotic memories of an all-consuming affair with Ash, a seductive vampire who thrilled her–and then nearly destroyed her. Now, working undercover in a Las Vegas casino, she seduces the most powerful undead–right before she drives a stake through their unbeating hearts. When hot-ticket singer Temptation McCoy sweeps into town for a major concert, Candace is tapped for...
|  | Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Pocketful of Nursery Rhymes and Tales
Release Date: July 15, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Beguiling illustrations by Jane Chapman bring twenty-five of the best-loved nursery rhymes and tales to life.Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep — the nursery-rhyme characters in this bright book are as familiar as a favorite pair of cozy slippers. From the shortest nonsense ditty to full stories like "Goldilocks" and "The Three Little Pigs," all twenty-five of these classic rhymes and tales features fresh illustrations by Jane Chapman in bold colors and flat, simple shapes that will appeal to the younge...
|  | Silver Thread
Release Date: December 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The Two Brothers
Publication Date: April 1995| Age Level: 4 and up Brought up in a Buddhist monastery, two brothers go out into the world to very different fates, armed with the advice of a wise abbot. ...
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