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 |  | Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary Fiction)
Publication Date: April 1998| Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary Fiction In Dreams of Fiery Stars, Catherine Rainwater examines the novels of writers such as Momaday, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich and contends that the very act of writing narrative imposes constraints upon these authors that are foreign to Native American tradition. Their works amount to a break with -- and a transformation of -- American Indian storytelling.The book focuses on the agenda of social and cultural regeneration encoded in contemporary Native American narrative, and addres...
|  | A Sister's Hope (Sisters of Holmes County, Book 3)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Lose yourself in Holmes County, where romance, suspense, mystery, and faith-filled Amish ways rule the day! Martha Hostettler is concerned about the continuous attacks being made on her Amish family. With a definite motive and a myriad of methods, Luke Friesen looks like the culprit. Determined to clear his name, Martha decides to play detective. What will the search for truth cost her? ...
|  | Matilda's Last Waltz
Publication Date: May 4, 2000Churinga sheep-station in the Australian Outback is a parting gift from Jenny's husband - a legacy she only learns about after his tragic death. With nowhere else to turn for comfort she makes her way there to find a harsh, unforgiving place but with its own quiet beauty. It also has its secrets. Jenny's new neighbours seem reluctant to talk about Matilda Thomas, Churinga's former owner. But the longer Jenny spends on the farm, the more she is aware of her predecessor's lingering presence. Then she discovers Matilda's diaries and finds herself drawn into a tale m...
|  | The Science of Doctor Who
Publication Date: May 5, 2010Almost fifty years after he first crossed the small screen, Doctor Who remains a science fiction touchstone. His exploits are thrilling, his world is mind-boggling, and that time travel machine—known as the Tardis—is almost certainly an old-fashioned blue police box, once commonly found in London. Paul Parsons's plain-English account of the real science behind the fantastic universe portrayed in theDoctor Who television series provides answers to such burning questions as whether a sonic screwdriver is any use for putting up a shelf, how Cybermen ma...
|  | Heart's Passage
Publication Date: June 1, 2003Jo Madison is a yacht skipper in the Whitsunday Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. She has a dark and violent past she is trying to leave far behind her, and the last thing on her mind is love. But when Cadie Jones, long-time partner of a US senator, sails in to her life, her priorities change. There's no rest for the formerly wicked, however, and Jo's past comes back to haunt her, throwing her and Cadie into mortal danger. Jo is forced to rely on skills and weapons she had thought long-buried and purposely forgotten, while Cadie struggles to balance her...
|  | New Tales for Old: Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults
Publication Date: October 15, 1999The timeless themes and versatility of folk tales have helped them survive and flourish over centuries, taking on myriad forms-short story, picture book, film, poem, and novel. This book gathers together a number of popular folktale reworkings (not just simple retellings) in a variety of genres that appeal to young adults. After discussing the nature of folktales, their cultural context, and the characteristics that make them attractive to young adults, de Vos and Altmann interpret specific tales (e.g., The Frog Prince, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin), describi...
|  | Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History It was a strange notion in 1900, that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of "turns" or short acts, everything from, and in between, song-and-dance, trained animals, blackface, aerialists, criminals regaling crowds with their exploits, eating fire. Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety shows renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times. Celebrity will be seen changing, always, even to twisting its foremost exemplars in the wind....
|  | Plays for the Theatre
Publication Date: 2000| ISBN-10: 0155072307 | ISBN-13: 978-0155072305| Edition: 7th Plays for the Theatre, Seventh Edition, continues its rich tradition of providing insightful and absorbing plays for the contemporary stage. The goal of this edition has been to select plays that typify a wide range of cultural diversity and dramatic power, including recent plays written by an African American, an Asian American, a Latino, and an American female of Jewish heritage. Plays for the Theatre, edited by Oscar G. Brockett with Robert Ball, is a companion to The Essential Theatre, Seventh Edition...
|  | The Body Speaks: Performance and Expression
Publication Date: December 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1403960283 | ISBN-13: 978-1403960283| Edition: 1 Lorna Marshall's revolutionary new book, The Body Speaks, is a fundamental rethinking of our relationship to the body and its role in performance. Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed through body language. Lorna Marshall shows us how to recognize and lose unwanted physical inhibitions that we've learned throughout life. Good performers--no matter whether they're trapeze artists or Shakespearean actors--are able to fully reach their audience and engage with them because they have...
|  | Valuable Nail: Selected Poems
Publication Date: June 1, 1981This first book-length collection of Eich's poems in English makes available a poet who was a soldier and prisoner of war and then began to resurrect his native tongue as a language for poetry.These poems were translated over a period of fifteen years, often in consultation with the author until his death in 1972. ...
|  | Oyoyo
Publication Date: June 17, 2012A work of poetry and a kind of essay and composed of three poems, the piece expounds the various scenes sequel to gruesome instances of wars. But a ceasefire has been agreed upon, and consequently a peace accord. Amidst serenity a brand new tussle erupts between a soldier and a rat. The temptation on part of the soldier to engage in another warfare is only very glaring. How would soldiers trample upon rats? Why would the strong war against the poor and weak? Can both groups cohabit? Oyoyo depicts a hilarious scene where there arises singing, dancing and ecstati...
|  | Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: July 31, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415955602 | ISBN-13: 978-0415955607| Edition: 1 Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces classic Victorian works like Bleak House, Great Expectations, Villette, and The Moonstone, as well as later Victorian and Edwardian novels by James, Conrad, and Chesterton, and early spy thrillers such as Th...
|  | The Three King's Sons: Part 1
Release Date: October 25, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London. ...
|  | Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques: Tome 6 (French Edition)
Release Date: April 9, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1787 edition published in Amsterdam, Paris. ...
|  | And They Rose Up
Publication Date: February 4, 2001The Age of Man has ended. The machines he has created and his animals have risen upagainst him.A surviving band of high school students and two teachers return from a field trip to findtheir devastated town overrun withnew owners who are out to see the last humans erased from the face of the Earth. Thestruggle for survival ensues. News, weapons, allies: all needed in hopes of seeing anothertomorrow. Opposing them is a gathering army of animals and machines with only onethough in mind: Conquest. ...
|  | Sisters On the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Sisters in Crime The latest: an anniversary anthology of 25 short stories by today's best women mystery writers:Sara Paretsky Sue Henry Sue Dunlap P.M. Carlson Rochelle Krich Linda Grant Carolyn Hart Libby Fischer Hellman Nancy Pickard Kate Grilley Medora Sale Barbara D'Amato Claire Carmichael McNab Charlotte MacLeod Annette Meyers Kate Flora Eve K. Sandstrom Patricia Sprinkle Margaret Maron Dorothy Salisbury Davis And more! --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | It's Not about the Apple!: Easy-to-Read Wonder Tales
Release Date: October 12, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Ball Hogs (Kickers, No.1)
Release Date: June 8, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Introducing a soccer series for new readersKickers #1Nine-year-old Ben is brand-new to soccer, but he's a good athlete and knows he'll do well on the Bobcats, his team in the local Kickers soccer league. If he can only work around his obnoxious teammate Mark, the ball hog, Ben is sure he'll score his first goal. But Coach Patty, and Ben's own teammates, show him a little something about teamwork. And suddenly it dawns on him: he's a ball hog, too. Can he change his ways before the Bobcats lose their shot at the Kickers p...
|  | Dr. Seuss Set of 15 Books: Bright and Early Beginning and I Can Read It All By Myself (Green Eggs Ham ~ Are You My Mother ~ Cat in Hat ~ Summer ~ Fish Out Water ~ Not Going to Get Up Today ~ Saw it on Mulberry Street ~ Best Mistake Ever ~ B Book ~ Bike Lesson ~ On the Moon ~ Tooth Book ~ Foot Book ~
Publication Date: 1996A set of fifteen Dr. Seuss Bright and Early and I Can Read It All By Myself books for beginning readers.Titles include Green Eggs and Ham ~ Are You My Mother? ~ Cat in the Hat ~ Summer ~ Fish Out of Water ~ I Am Not Going to Get Up Today ~ And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street ~ Best Mistake Ever ~ Berenstain's B Book ~ The Bike Lesson ~ On the Moon ~ The Tooth Book ~ The Foot Book ~ Glasses for D.W. ~ Arthur's Reading Race. ...
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