 | Havana is Waiting and Other Plays
Publication Date: June 14, 2011“The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant [in] Mr. Machado’s writing,” –The New York TimesEduardo Machado explores his lifelong themes with humor and passion in Havana Is Waiting (a writer returns to Cuba after thirty years), Kissing Fidel (a comedy set in Miami funeral parlor), The Cook (chronicling Cuban history), and Crocodile Eyes (inspired by Federico García Lorca).Eduardo Machado is the author of more than forty plays. Born in Cuba, his ...
 | ![The origin of species by means of natural selection, (Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science. [no. 811])](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 origin of species by means of natural selection, (Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science. [no. 811])") | The origin of species by means of natural selection, (Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science. [no. 811])
Publication Date: 1928| Series: Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science. [no. 811] This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1875 edition by John Murray, London. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Marina (Heirs of Anton Series #3)
Release Date: March 20, 2005Where is the God who promised to protect the heirs of Anton? Marina Shubina believes God has abandoned her. She's widowed and pregnant-and Hitler's Third Reich has just invaded Russia. As a partisan, she's ready to give her life for the Motherland, but what will become of her unborn child? OSS agent Edward Neumann has one chance to redeem his mistakes in Berlin. . .destroy the German supply lines into Moscow. Unfortunately his mission depends on a Russian partisan, a sharp-shooter named Marina. But does God have a bigger plan for him? And will this plan cost him t...
|  | Spawn Origins Volume 4 HC
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Spawn Origins (Book 4) Revisit epic battles and relive the introduction of many new characters into the Spawn universe such as the Tiffany, Cy-gor, the Curse, and Tremor. Includes the classic "Christmas" issue as well as the double-sized issue 50! Extra features include color and b/w cover galleries and behind-the-scenes art. All this and more in an oversized, hardcover format complete with a wraparound painted cover by master Spawn artist Greg Capullo. ...
|  | Night Navigation: A Novel
Publication Date: April 14, 2010Night Navigation opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del’s thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son needs a ride, but she’s afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed. Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict—from break-your-arm dealers, to boot-camp rehabs, to Rumi-quoting NA sponsors. Al-Anon tells Del to “let go”; NAMI tells her to “hang on.” Mark cannot find...
|  | On The Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer: And the Many Crimes of Tobias James
Release Date: July 8, 2010Rohan Kriwaczek again takes us into a strange reality that is not quite real. Amanda Palmer rose to indie rock fame as the front woman for The Dresden Dolls, and continues to thrive as a solo act. In On the Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer Kriwaczek builds on Amanda's playfully gothic image by centering the book around her imagined death. Upon hearing news of Amanda Palmer's death, her fans began posting their own writing, artwork, and thoughts onto the Internet, eventually creating their own genre called the Palmeresque. By collecting a selection of these submissions i...
|  | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 4, 1989| Series: Penguin Classics As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims and rages. Wyatt had himself survived two imprisonments in the Tower as well as a love affair with Anne Boleyn, and his poetry - that of an extraordinarily sophisticated, passionate and vulnerable man - reflects these experiences, making disguised reference to current political events. Above all, though, Wyatt is known for his love poetry, which often dramatizes...
|  | Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in the Mabinogion
Release Date: August 1, 2002The authoritative reader's companion to the ancient Celtic myths in the literary masterpiece, the Mabinogion. • Thoroughly updated edition of Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain (UK). • Illuminates the rich archetypal patterns and meanings in the Four Branches of the Welsh Mabinogion. According to prophecy, a liberator will come to bring light, truth, and freedom to every generation. His mythic title is Mabon, but his identities are many-including Arthur the King, whose coming we await. So says the mythic Welsh text the Mabinogion, which includes some o...
|  | Plautus: The Comedies
Publication Date: May 1, 1995| Series: Plautus (Book 1) "The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation.Plays and translators: Volume 1:Amphitryon, Constance Carrier.Miles Gloriosus, Erich Segal.Captivi, Richard Moore.Casina, Richard Beacham.Curculio, Henry Taylor Volume 2:Rudens, Constance Carrier.Aulularia, Palmer Bovie.Bacchides, James Tatum.Mercator, George Garrett.Truculentus, James Ta...
|  | Odyssey
Publication Date: August 1999| ISBN-10: 0613371925 | ISBN-13: 978-0613371926One of the great epic masterpieces of Western literature, the Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife. --This text refers to the MP3 CD edition....
| | Don Juan and Regency England
Publication Date: July 1990Hardcover edition ...
|  | The Aeneid
Release Date: November 1, 1995Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, is the hero in this archtypal story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, in which Virgil portrays human life in all its nobility and suffering. ...
|  | La amada inm
Publication Date: December 31, 1997| Series: Literatura De Amado Nervo, Octavio Paz ha escrito que manipuló "con novedad y autenticidad el repertorio del modernismo". Enrique Díez-Canedo habla de su "toque preciosista, vestidura de una delicadeza fundamental de su alma". Todo esto se confirma en La amada inmóvil, libro que creó en el transcurso de la madrugada del 7 al 8 de enero de 1912, en Madrid, al tiempo que velaba los restos de Ana Cecilia Dailliez, su secreta compañera. ...
| | Edgar Poe et les poetes francais (Conferences, essais et lecons du College de France) (French Edition)
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|  | Brocade by Night: Kokin Wakashu and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry
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|  | The Road from Hiroshima
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|  | Gospel
Publication Date: March 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 097862517X | ISBN-13: 978-0978625177| Edition: First Gospel is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this passionate follow-up to 2005's Lambda Literary Award finalist, Where the Apple Falls, Bashir s poems challenge truth to stare down the power of fear and paralysis. "We intended gospel to strike a happy medium for the down-trodden," said gospel music pioneer Thomas Dorsey. "This music lifted people out of the muck and mire of poverty and loneliness, of being broke, and gave them some kind of hope anyway. Make it anything but good ne...
|  | 2012 Harlequin Romance Wall Calendar
Release Date: August 1, 2011Paperback power publisher Harlequin prints 120 new titles every month! The company has translated its offerings into 29 languages in over 100 international markets. Harlequin cover art has become iconic--an ideal crossover into a calendar format. ...
| | Surrealistische Elemente in Romanen von Boris Vian (Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte) (German Edition)
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|  | False Allegations: A Burke Novel
Release Date: October 28, 1997Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes his living preying on New York's most vicious predators and avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel--and as dirty. Burke's new employer is Kite, a fanatical crusader who specializes in debunking "false allegations of child sexual abuse. Kite has a case that may be the real thing, but needs Burke to tell him if it is...
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