 | Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics and Culture from Cortés to the 1980s
Publication Date: April 2, 2009In this book Adam Versényi explores the history of Latin American Theatre from pre-Columbian days to contemporary drama. Theatre in Latin America has historically been a powerful force for social change and has frequently combined religious and political concerns with performance practice to create a style of drama unique to the region. In this fascinating account, Versényi investigates this special interconnection of religion, politics and theatre, and finds this relationship present from the earliest contacts between Cortés and the Aztecs throu...
 |  | And Then the Rain Stopped (Large Print Romance)
Publication Date: June 1998| Series: Large Print Romance Hilary, an ambitious seamstress, rose to bec ome a celebrity in the fashion world. But through her absorp tion in her career, has a failed marriage, and her daughters grew up emotionally cool towards her. When Luke, re-enters her life - she finds romance. ' ...
|  | Blue Shift: A Discovery Beyond Imagination, a Future Beyond Horror
Publication Date: June 2002Using the new Gemini telescope on the island of Hawaii, astronomer Angus Thomas discovers a wayward star that threatens to destroy all life when it races past the earth in about thirty years. Discovery of this inescapable menace unleashes snowballing events that batter the former all-pro running back, his beautiful assistant, Lani Namahoe, their families, and friends. This determined group of people battle ignorance, internal enemies, and government agents as they deal with the discovery of this irresistible, unavoidable menace that man can do nothing to change or ...
|  | Most Unsuitable Match, A
Publication Date: August 1, 2011An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to Montana...She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher living under a sense of duty and obligation to love the unlovable people in the world. She isn't letting anything deter her from solving a family mystery that surfaced after her mother's death. He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote wilderness regions of Montana. Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Sam...
|  | Sola
Release Date: November 28, 2006A teenage girl should not know the power of her body. But Sola Nichols discovers her power and uses it as the foundation that transforms her into a notorious assassin. Known on the street as the Brown Recluse, her exploits garner the attentionof Pierre-Henri Monchats, a dangerous and cunning drub kingpin. Monchatstakes Sola under his wing, and she develops a reputation for killing with trademark efficiency. But Sola is tested when she is forced to kill an unidentified woman after assassinating one of her boss's rivals. The next morning, Sola, the lethal huntres...
|  | Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae (Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 1, 1999| Series: Classical Texts (Book 10) Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophonic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. ...
|  | A Call Home
Publication Date: July 24, 2012Dramatic life changes of a close-knit Christian family. ...
|  | Four Black Revolutionary Plays: Experimental Death Unit 1, A Black Mass, Madheart, and Great Goodness of Life
Publication Date: July 1, 2000These four one-act plays deal with the African-American experience of today. Their central elements are love and hatred echoed in violently explosive words, actions, thoughts and metaphor. The sum total of three hundred years of contained fury, they are powerful statements about the real meaning of white oppression of black people. In their militancy and anger, they perfectly express the mood and frustrations of black America and are as relevant today as when they were first publicly performed. This edition contains a foreword by playright, novelist, journalist ...
|  | In the Hub of the Fiery Force: Collected Poems of Harold Norse 1934-2003
Publication Date: December 9, 2003An acolyte of Whitman and Hart Crane, and companion and correspondent of W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, and James Baldwin, Norse has never received his due as one of America’s most innovative yet accessible poets. William Carlos Williams called Norse “the best poet of your generation” and pushed Norse toward his groundbreaking work in “the American idiom.” Norse was also of the generation that challenged taboo subject matter in American poetry; his poems of gay love have bee...
|  | One Kind of Faith
Publication Date: July 1, 2003Bargain Books are non-returnable. In this new collection of poems, Gary Soto once again displays his impressive poetic range- funny, sad, urbane, na...
|  | The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Publication Date: October 4, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312179979 | ISBN-13: 978-0312179977In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period’s most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. She covers the movement’s lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents...
|  | Divided in Death
Release Date: August 31, 2004| Series: In Death The first hardcover in the series-now in paperback. The novel that brings it all together......
|  | Overload / If A Man Answers
Publication Date: June 1, 2002A classic story from New York Times bestselling author LINDA HOWARD ...
|  | The Castle of Otranto (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
Publication Date: June 2006| Series: Classic Literature with Classical Music "The Castle of Otranto" is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet. The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thunderclaps, moonlight, and dark castle walls - mirroring the inner turmoils of the characters themselves. ...
|  | X-Men Forever, Vol. 1
Publication Date: October 21, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up Comics icon and New York Times bestselling writer Chris Claremont returns to his legendary run with X-Men: Forever!The shockwaves after the death of Magneto are still reverberating all over the world. Attempting to heal the rift between man and mutant kind, Professor Xavier volunteers his X-Men to go on a mission to capture Magneto's sole remaining Acolyte, Fabien Cortez! But with Nick Fury - and the entire world - watching over their shoulders, the stakes have never been higher for Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Gambit,...
|  | The Enormous Turnip
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Reading Rainbow Books)
Release Date: March 31, 1987| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Soccer Pb (True Stories)
Publication Date: September 26, 1996 ...
|  | The Berenstain Bears' Seashore Treasure (I Can Read Book 1)
Release Date: April 12, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Talking Books: Children's Authors Talk About the Craft, Creativity and Process of Writing
Publication Date: July 10, 1999| ISBN-10: 0415194172 | ISBN-13: 978-0415194174| Edition: First Edition TalkingBooks sets out to show how some of the leading children's authors of the day respond to these and other similar questions. The authors featured areNeil Ardley, Ian Beck, Helen Cresswell, Gillian Cross, Terry Deary, Berlie Doherty, Alan Durant, Brian Moses, Philip Pullman, Celia Rees, Norman Silver, Jacqueline Wilson, and Benjamin Zephaniah.They discuss with great enthusiasm:*their childhood reading habits*how they came to be published*how they write on a daily basis*how a parti...
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