 | J.B.: A Play in Verse
Publication Date: August 1, 1989Based on the story of Job, this drama in verse tells the story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J.B. won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1959 and the Tony Award for best play. More important, the play sparked a national conversation about the nature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist in society. ...
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 | Engaging Father Christmas (Father Christmas Series #2)
Publication Date: October 30, 2008Miranda Carson can't wait to return to England for Christmas and to be with her boyfriend, Ian. She has spent a lifetime yearning for a place to call home, and she's sure Carlton Heath will be it, especially when a hinted-at engagement ring slips into the conversation.But Miranda's high hopes for a jolly Christmas with the small circle of people she has come to love are toppled when Ian's father is hospitalized and the matriarch of the Whitcombe family withholds her blessing from Miranda. Questions run rampant in Miranda's mind about whether she really bel...
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 | The Canterbury Tales: A Literary Pilgrimage (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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 | Baltimore: The Plague Ships TP (Baltimore (Quality Paperback))
Publication Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Baltimore (Quality Paperback) (Book 1) After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, fights his way through bloody battlefields, ruined plague ships, exploding zeppelins, and submarine graveyards, on the hunt for the creature who''s become his obsession. ...
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 | Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Publication Date: January 3, 1999Tim Burton - creative genius behind "Batman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Mars Attacks!" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" - gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. ...
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 | Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Warehouse 13 Hidden away in the Badlands of South Dakota, Warehouse 13 is a top-secret repository for historical artefacts imbued with dangerous supernatural properties.Warehouse agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering and the rest of the South Dakota team are ever on the look-out for loose artefacts raising havoc.Their mission: "snag 'em, bag 'em, and tag 'em." Reports of a genuine psychic healer, along with a possibly related epidemic of mysterious illnesses, lead Pete and Myka on an investigation that stretches from a carnival sideshow back to the bloody ...
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 | The Beauty of Men: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 1997Lark struggles with his loneliless, his aging, the loss of so many of his friends to AIDS and the obsessive feelings he experiences toward one young man, Becker, who has taken over his dreams. Reprint." ...
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 | God Is Alive and Playing Third Base for the Appleton Papermakers
Publication Date: November 30, 2001God is Alive and Playing Third Base for the Appleton Papermakers does not have all the answers needed to make sense of the 20th century and beyond, but with tongue only partly in cheek the book claims to find some solace in a kid's game played by adults."Grampa, how did you know it was God playing third base for the Appleton Papermakers?""Because He could perform miracles.""What miracles could He perform?""He could hit Lowell Grosskopf's curveball.""That doesn't sound like a miracle to me.""That's because you never tried to hit Lowell Grosskopf's curveball....
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 | The Poet in Exile
Publication Date: October 10, 2001Is the lead singer of America’s most notorious rock and roll band really buried in Paris? Years after the Poet’s apparent death, his longtime musical collaborator and friend Roy receives the first of several mysterious postcards bearing cryptic verse, signed only “J.” Trusting his instinct that this is not a hoax, Roy traces the cards to their apparent source—a remote island in the Indian Ocean. There, to his amazement, he is re-united with the man once known as “the snake man,” and hears the remarkable story ...
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 | Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: November 17, 1999| ISBN-10: 0847697339 | ISBN-13: 978-0847697335This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to th...
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 | The Diver (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1840028688 | ISBN-13: 978-1840028683“This is a highly unusual theatrical gem . . . both beautiful and beguilingly idiosyncratic.”—Time Out Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism, and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play The Diver ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji with a Noh theater play and a contemporary murder. ...
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 | The Neighbor Says: Nima Yushij and the Philosophy of Modern Persian Poetry (Ibex Studies in Persian Literature)
Publication Date: January 5, 2009| Series: Ibex Studies in Persian Literature This is a collection of the letters of Nima Yushij (1897-1960), the prominent 20th-century Iranian poet who is regarded as the founder and father of modern Persian poetry. Nima Yushij devoted his life to his art and advocating his innovative style in poetry, mostly through his correspondences. The letters in "The Neighbor Says" are addressed to an imaginary neighbour or acquaintance. Although in many instances he comments on specific poems or stories that are assumed to have been sent to him by the person he addres...
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 | The First of the Nuyoricans: Sailing to Sanibel
Publication Date: September 2002The First of the Nuyoricans: Sailing to Sanibel ...
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 | Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Approaches to Teaching Masterpieces of World Literature)
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 | A Gothic Etymological Dictionary
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 | Story Of Meriadoc,King Of Camb (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
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 | It's Circus Time, Dear Dragon (Beginning-To-Read - Dear Dragon)
Publication Date: August 24, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | The Cooking of Italy (Foods of the World)
Publication Date: 1978Excellent condition hardcover Time Life book. Meant to accompany Spiral Cookbook in Time Life Series. ...
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 | Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
Release Date: December 26, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up These are just some of the works of art you will find in this stunning collection that pairs twenty poems by distinglushed African-American poets with twenty works of art by acclaimed African-American artists.Alice Walker's poem "Women" -- about women who "battered down/Doors/And ironed/Starched white/Shirts" so their children would get a good education -- is paired with the breathtaking portrait Harriet Tubman, by William H. Johnson. The tender "Little Brown Baby" by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and artist Romare Bea...
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 | Jeanne-Marie at the Fair
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