 | Norton: Our Village
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 |  | Too Long a Stranger (Women of the West #9)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006She made the difficult decision with only her daughter's best interest in mind . . . but did she sacrifice too much?When her husband dies, Sarah Perry is left with no way to support herself and her daughter, Rebecca. Reluctantly, she takes over operation of her husband's freight-hauling business, managing to save enough money to send Rebecca east to a boarding school-- to an easier life and a future Sarah could not provide.With the boarding-school fees consuming Sarah's savings, there is no money left for trips home. Over the years, the chasm between mother a...
|  | A House Divided (The Russians, Book 2)
Publication Date: January 2001The Heroes Have Returned...But the Turmoil Rages On As the war in the Balkans draws to its bitter and devastating close, Prince Sergi returns to St. Petersburg and to his love, the young servant Anna Burenin. But the battles still rages—both within Sergi's heart and in the revolution that threatens to overthrow the tsar's tenuous control over his vast empire. Anna's brother Paul, disillusioned with a peasant's lot in tsarist Russia, joins with his revolutionary friends. Yet even as he seeks to make a difference for the future of his beloved Motherland, his ...
|  | Sword from the Sky: Book I
Publication Date: August 15, 2012NEWLY RELEASED!It is the Dark Ages. A Dying Sun Sets in the West. Man Becomes Shadow.Out of this Sunless Land Will Rise a Legend...Of the Starborn Child,Of the Great Cosmic War,Of the Sword of Power...----------------It has been twelve years since the guardian star came down from the sky, hunting the elusive child destined to save the ailing sun. The end of the land is nigh, while darkness slowly rolls over the looming horizon. The creeping fog harvests an army of beastly children, and the sun will set one last time over the kingdom of Bune.But there is hop...
|  | Fallen
Release Date: August 25, 2005From the internationally acclaimed author of The Preservationist comes a provocative retelling of the story of Eve and Adam, Abel and Cain---a novel of temptation and murder, of exile and loss. Once expelled from the Garden, Eve and Adam have to find their way past recriminations and bitterness to construct a new life together in a harsh land. But the challenges are many for the world's first family. Among their children are Cain and Abel, and soon the adults must discover how to be parents to one son who is everything they could hope for and another who is ...
|  | Critical Condition (Signet)
Release Date: July 1, 1993| Series: Signet Dedicated doctors and passionate lovers Dale Harper and Nina Yablonsky are determined to uncover the explanation behind the deadly disease that is striking staff members and patients....
|  | Life's Little Edge
Release Date: March 30, 2005Callan O'Malley embodies everything that should scare Terri Barclay. O'Malley freelances as a gun runner for a biker gang, the dark secrets of her past influencing her present. Thrown together by circumstance and unexpected complications of living in the biker world, the women's lives are turned into chaos. Loyal friends of past and present, add to the mixture which brings the two women closer than they ever thought possible.Terri, however, is hiding her own secrets. Secrets that could very well get her--or O'Malley--killed. Terri must walk a fine line between wha...
|  | Elizabeth Pengelly
Publication Date: December 2000In 1792, Elizabeth Pengelly runs away to sea disguised as a man. She navigates the homoerotic world of sailors and then, when her ship is washed ashore, of a Moroccan harem. Elizabeth's gender-bending education challenges her to reconceive her dreams. ...
|  | A Rose for the Crown: A Novel
Release Date: March 7, 2006AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE,A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY,A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLDIn A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's alleged villains through the eyes of a captivating new heroine -- the woman who was the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself. As Kate Haute moves from her peasant roots to the luxurious palaces of England, her path is inextricably intertwined with that of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III. Although they could never ma...
|  | Out of My Mind: The Discovery of Saunders-Vixen
Release Date: August 18, 1999One of our best-loved writers, author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Bridge Across Forever, One, Running from Safety, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, returns with a brilliantly conceived narrative about the nature of creativity.Bach's journey begins as he puzzles over design modifications for his airplane, a Piper Cub. Perfect designs--simple and practical--seem to come to him out of the blue. But one day when a design appears, along with a fleeting glimpse of an intriguing woman, Bach sets out to discover the source of the visions. The journey leads to a sta...
|  | Serafina's Stories
Publication Date: November 30, 2004New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government. When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo's mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence.The two strike a bargain. She will entertain the Govern...
|  | KNOCK ou le triomphe de la medecine (Comedie en trois actes)
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|  | Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
Publication Date: September 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521081882 | ISBN-13: 978-0521081887| Edition: 1 In the first exhaustive history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers--people who act as advisers and play-doctors at today's theatres, Mary Luckhurst examines the major theorists and practitioners, arguing that Brecht, Granville Barker and Tynan have central roles in this history. Contentious figures, often accused of sinister intent, the numbers of dramaturgs have multiplied considerably in the last decades. This study inquires as to the political and cultural agendas behind thi...
|  | The Arthurian Trilogy Part One: Arthur and Merlin: The Making of a King
Publication Date: July 2, 2012This is the first in a series of plays that focus on the legacy of King Arthur.Filled with a healthy dose of magic, mystery, romance and good old fashioned swordplay, each segment of "The Arthurian Trilogy" can either be performed on consecutive nights or stand alone.In part one King Arthur has been taken to Avalon after the battle of Camlann.As the play opens, Morgen, the enchantress, struggles to heal his wounds.Unable to stop his rapid deterioration, she conjures a spell that casts Arthur into the world of dreams.There, he will reside, until Morgen finds the ...
|  | Dante's Epic Journeys
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|  | Georgics
Publication Date: March 2002| ISBN-10: 0872206092 | ISBN-13: 978-0872206090Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises -- and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry -- this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it -- and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poe...
| | Poets on Street Corners: Portraits of Fifteen Russian Poets
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|  | Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls)
Publication Date: October 26, 2010| Series: New Directions Pearls Urn Burial, one of the most influential essays in Western literature, is now available as a New Directions Pearl. Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne’s associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, wi...
|  | The Te of Piglet (Pooh)
Release Date: September 1, 1992| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up...
|  | Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative
Publication Date: September 25, 2012Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler’s articles have intrigued readers throughout his long career. He examines everything, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, and his insights are illuminating.Uncanny Valley continues the page-turning conversation as Weschler collects the best of his narrative nonfiction from the past fifteen years. The title piece surveys the hapless efforts of digital animators to fashion a credible human face, the endlessly elusive gold standard of the profession. Other highlights incl...
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