 | This is the World
Publication Date: October 31, 2000In this first collection of short fiction, renowned American Indian writer W. S. Penn reveals a writing life that has been both difficult and fortunate. Penn has moved away from conventional narrative methods, through what his own oral tradition encompasses, to arrive at telling stories as they must be told as opposed to the ways they might be told. In This Is The World, Penn moves through spaces, encounters characters, and confronts humanity with a sage's omnipotence, yet at the same time with an unassuming voice, devoid of pretentiousness. His words are un...
 |  | Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0802130348 | ISBN-13: 978-0802130341A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a co...
|  | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Release Date: April 30, 2002When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe be...
|  | New York Debut (Carter House Girls)
Release Date: April 21, 2009| Series: Carter House Girls (Book 6) Mix six teenage girls and one '60s fashion icon (retired, of course) in an old Victorian-era boardinghome. Add boys and dating, a little high-school angst, and throw in a Kate Spade bag or two . . . and you've got The Carter House Girls, Melody Carlson's new chick lit series for young adults!New York DebutThe New Year promises to be lively for the Carter House girls. No sooner does the calendar page turn and the girls are forced to confront a whole load of difficulties. There is constant pressure from Mrs. Carter as the househ...
|  | The Watson Evidence: A Detective Laura McCallister Lesbian Novel
Publication Date: July 14, 2011In recent weeks, two teenage boys have jumped to their deaths from Granger Bridge, and now, another one is missing. Detective Laura McCallister is frustrated and desperate to find a way to stop the deadly succession.Meanwhile, a County deputy summons her to the hospital with the hope that she can ID an unconscious accident victim. After surviving a fiery wreck, the woman’s only possessions: $10,000 cash, and McCallister’s business card in her back pocket. Is there ever a good reason to have a detective’s business card?Not knowing who the wo...
|  | Dead Simple
Publication Date: December 14, 2005Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and now, Ashley, his fiancée. While out celebrating with a group of friends a few nights before the wedding, Michael suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself enclosed in a coffin equipped only with a flashlight, a dirty magazine, a walkie-talkie, and a tiny breathing tube. It's all in good fun — payback for the grief his mates suffered due to his own penchant for tomfoolery — that is until the four are killed in a drunk driving accident just moments ...
| ![The shaggy D.A: [screenplay]](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-sm._AA500_V192198896_.gif&width=150) | The shaggy D.A: [screenplay]
...
| | To be and Not to be: Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet
...
| | Irish Adaptations of Greek Tragedies: Dionysus in Ireland (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: June 2001| ISBN-10: 0773474668 | ISBN-13: 978-0773474666In the 20th century alone, over 20 Irish authors have adapted more that 20 versions of ancient Greek tragedies, or plays based on Greek themes. Through a comparative analysis of Irish dramas (from playwrights Yeats, MacNeice, Kennelly, Heaney, Mahon, and McGuinness) and the original Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, this volume explores the theatrical relationship between the political and the personal, the classical and the contemporary, and the Irish and the Greek. ...
|  | Duino Elegies
Publication Date: June 14, 2007A new English translation of Rilke's poems which rejects transcendence and celebrates the here and now. ...
| | The Bookman's Manual - A Guide to Literature
...
|  | Profil D'Une Oeuvre: Du Symbolisme Au Surrealisme (French Edition)
...
|  | His Mistress by Christmas
Release Date: September 25, 2012For three years, Lady Veronica Smithson has been perfectly happy as a widow — and thoroughly independent. Still, the right gentleman could provide the benefits of marriage without the tedious restrictions. And in Sir Sebastian Hadley-Attwater, renowned explorer and rogue, Veronica is sure she has found him. Sebastian will come into his inheritance in a matter of weeks — if his family deems him responsible enough. There’s no better way to prove his maturity than with a home and a wife. But though the lovely Veronica will share his bed, she ...
| | The Barbara Cartland Collection: "Two Hearts in Hungary", "Theatre of Love" and "Too Precious to Lose" v. 1
Publication Date: March 15, 1992In tales of swash-buckling passion or modern day epics of boy-meets-girl - Barbara Cartland proves that romance is not dead. This volume includes the books "Two Hearts in Hungary", "A Theatre of Love" and "Too Precious to Lose". ...
|  | Heavenly Match (Arabesque)
Publication Date: August 1, 2004| Series: Arabesque SHE HAS NO TIME FOR PLAYBOYS: Tough-talking Anika Foxx is a dedicated social worker with no time for games. So when she meets cocky southern playboy Deshawn Jamison at a friend's wedding, she knows he's not her type. She isn't impressed by his sultry South Carolina charm or his popularity with the ladies - even if he is drop-dead gorgeous. Whatever he may think he's got, she only has two words for him: not interested. HE MAY LOSE AT HIS OWN GAME: A contractor by trade, Deshawn knows how to put things together. He also knows how to get any w...
|  | The Marryin' Kind
Publication Date: February 28, 2005At the ripe old age of twenty-three, Madeline Morgan is resigned to the idea that love and marriage are not for her. Unfortunately, her father disagrees and comes up with an ingenious plan. To curb the love life of his youngest, Robert Morgan proclaims that neither of his younger daughters can marry until Maddie does. This causes a stir and a generous pot is set up for whoever can take Maddie off the market.Aghast at being hounded by sweaty bachelors anxious to win the pot and her hand, Maddie turns to her brother for help. Her brother's solution is to spre...
|  | The Handshaker
Publication Date: May 25, 2012In the darkest corners of hypnotic control who can say what is and is not possible? Eight women went obediently to their deaths with the Handshaker. Were they hypnotised? When another victim commits suicide, hypnotist Alex Croft believes he has the answer. Then The Handshaker takes Croft’s girlfriend and the game changes. A puppet dancing to killer’s tune, Croft is first the hunter, then in a dramatic turn of events, the hunted, running from the law, desperate to find this madman before he can kill again, brought face to face with his own mortality...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Mayfair Murders
Publication Date: January 19, 2012Only a few short years ago the monster known as Jack the Ripper held the East End of London in a grip of terror.Now there are rumours that the Ripper has returned. Three respectable young women have been slaughtered in Mayfair, the city's most respectable and exclusive district - but instead of consulting Sherlock Holmes, the official police prefer to seek advice from Dr. Karl Schermann. And while the flamboyant German enjoys official approval and public acclaim, Holmes sits at home, brooding. Things start to look up with the solution of an ingenious theft a...
|  | Murder Down Under
Publication Date: September 14, 1998Bony is happy to take on a little informal investigation during his vacation in Western Australian, after a farmer suddenly disappears near a huge wheat field. Despite the lack of evidence, Bony suspects murder--which leads him to uncover some strange goings-on. ...
|  | Mommy?
Release Date: September 26, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Maurice Sendak's first pop-up book!They're all here! Everybody's favorite monsters are just going about their business when a plucky little boy wanders into their cuckoo house. And what does he want? He wants Mommy!No matter how scary these monsters are, there's no besting a little boy who's looking for his mommy. In one hilarious pop-up extravaganza after another, this kid shows them a thing or two. ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
