 | Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
Release Date: December 13, 1994Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson. ...
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 | Out of the Coalhouse
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 | The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume IV
Publication Date: December 8, 2008| ISBN-10: 0559834861 | ISBN-13: 978-0559834868This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
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 | The Velvet Promise
Release Date: January 1, 1991All of England rejoiced on her wedding day. But Judith vowed that her husband would get only what he took from her!At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. Gavin Montgomery looked deep into her golden eyes and burned with desire for her...but his heart had been pledged to another.Humiliated and alone in a strange castle, Judith resolved to hate this husband who took her body, but rejected her love...never admitting her fear of losing him.But destiny held another fate for Judith...a fate that would keep a...
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 | A Patchwork Planet (Fawcett Book)
Release Date: February 22, 1999| Series: Fawcett Book In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos.But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renti...
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 | The Mystery-Religions
Publication Date: November 2, 2011This classic study offers an understanding of the ancient religious cults, exploring their appeal and eventual failure in the face of Christianity. Topics include the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others. ...
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 | Ashford
Publication Date: April 11, 2012Seventeen year old Anna is a naive American orphan, delighted to find herself on a tour of Europe in the spring of 1939. A feeling of camaraderie with all mankind thrills her as she mingles with throngs of foreigners, but her joy is short-lived.WWII shatters the world. As fathers and sons, husbands and brothers dive grimly into the trenches, Anna is left stranded in England, disillusioned and afraid. However, this worldwide catastrophe may be the perfect catalyst to mature Anna into the brave young woman she longs to be. Even as the wor...
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 | Hope Wave: Birth of a sports dynasty.
Publication Date: December 2, 2011A story of courage & redemption. A 7 year old Black boy's story of athletic HOPE - amid a middle class African American family's illusion of peace. A 7 year old child's account of coping with the terminal illness of his mother. New Rochelle, New York: cradle of High School State Championships. Home of Champions. Watch the birth of a sports dynasty, as 7 year old Emanuel Powers races the game clock on his mother's life. ...
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 | Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers. Bob Servant with Neil Forsyth
Publication Date: January 24, 2011This is an hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, now republished with previously unreleased material. Spam is the plague of the electronic age, comprising 90% of all emails sent and conning over GBP150m a year from British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant - a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate with a love of wine, women and song as well as a keen sense of fair play. This wickedly funny and original book features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the hap...
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 | Scarface: The Beginning (v. 1)
Publication Date: May 30, 2006In the politically charged years of the early 1980s many immigrants escaped a nightmarish existence under Castro's rule and fled Cuba for America. One immigrant would cut a bloody path of destruction across the Florida landscape in a rampage fueled by drugs, rage and paranoia. In a dark vision of the American Dream gone wrong, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma created a classic character in Tony Montana in their re-envisioning of the mobster tale Scarface. But Tony Montana's story didn't begin there. In these two new novels from DH Press we will take you inside th...
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 | Tweaking the Dream: A Crystal Meth True Story
Publication Date: May 28, 2009Clea Myers, a young English woman, comes to America to live the dream but experiences the nightmare. She goes from an Ivy League College to Los Angeles Women's Penitentiary in 3 years, emaciated and addicted to crystal meth. How could things go so wrong and in such a short space of time? Myers shares her descent into the hell of crystal methamphetaminedependence. Her story is of An English girl from a privileged background whose addiction journey brings her from an Ivy League College to Los Angeles Women’s Penitentiary in only three years, emaciated andad...
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 | The Witness (Badge of Honor)
Release Date: January 1, 1992| Series: Badge of Honor (Book 4) The robbery ended in murder, the killers claimed to be terrorists, and the only cooperative witness feared for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession--but never thought that he himself would be the one who needed protection...In BADGE OF HONOR, W.E.B. Griffin reveals the explosive world of law enforcement with the same power and authenticity that made his BROTHERHOOD OF WAR and THE CORPS series nationwide bestsellers. ...
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 | Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards))
Release Date: April 12, 2005| Series: Alex Awards (Awards) The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s.Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Ch...
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 | Mystery and Lore of Monsters
Publication Date: August 10, 2003With accounts of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies. Contents: monsters in tradition and mythology; monsters of Babylon four thousand years ago; monsters in the early centuries; monsters of the 16th century; monsters described by Ambroise Pare in the 16th century; some monsters and prodigies of the 17th century; some curious monsters and prodigies and their bills; extraordinary monsters and prodigies; some celebrated conjoined twins; two headed Nightingale and other notable twins; of crafty tricks and cozenage; wild men of the woods and some horrible monstrous...
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 | Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82)
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 | More than Just a Man: A Dramatic Easter Musical
Publication Date: September 17, 2005Inspiring Easter musical - the ministry, life, death and resurrection of Jesus as seen through the eyes of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. ...
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 | Traditional Chinese Plays, Volume II
Publication Date: October 15, 1972The world of traditional Chinese drama can be at once fascinating andbewildering to the uninitiated Western observer. Attuned to his owndramatic conventions, he is hard put to apprehend the delicate fusion ofpoetry, music, and subtle gesture which is the essence of Chinesetheatre. Because of these difficulties, the task of translatingtraditional Chinese drama must go far beyond the conventional literarytreatment and evoke the entire world of stagecraft and directing.Longing for Worldly Pleasures (Ssu Fan) is a lyric monologue inwhich a young Buddhist laments...
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 | The Esoterism ofDante (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
Release Date: July 27, 2004| ISBN-10: 0900588640 | ISBN-13: 978-0900588648| Edition: Rev Without pretending to be thorough on so inexhaustible a subject, in The Esoterism of Dante Guénon nonetheless casts an unexpected light onto a specifically esoteric and initiatic aspect of Dante's work, and above all of his Divine Comedy. Dante was without doubt far more than a literary genius, and one is justified in thinking that many treasures remain to be discovered in what Guénon calls 'the spiritual testament of the Middle Ages'. The author undertakes to establish that the three divis...
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 | Poems for Life: Famous People Select Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
Publication Date: April 6, 2005Gift book, book of inspiration, celebrity book, Poems for Life is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous people and handed down from one generation to the next. What do Allen Ginsberg and Angela Lansbury have in common? Isabella Rossellini and E. L. Doctorow? Wendy Wasserstein and Yo-Yo Ma? They each have a favorite poem ...
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 | This Goes With That: Poems 1974-2001
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1903563127 | ISBN-13: 978-1903563120A poet at once serious and humorous, elegant and down to earth, Peter Goldsworthy offers rich rewards on every page of this selection, drawn from all of his books to date and including songs from his two acclaimed opera libretti, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Batavia. ...
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