 | Awesome
Publication Date: July 11, 2008A new American tall tale from the author of Your Body Is Changing and The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. Whales, caves, and robots abound. A giant strides this land. A giant who builds robots, invents religions, and kisses like a dream. From the rocky coast of New England to the golden hayfields of Stockton, California, he searches for America s greatest treasures. You might recognize him by the twinkle in his eye or the lustrous derby hat perched on top of his boulder-sized head. But for a dude who has it all, he sure seems sad a lot of the time w...
 |  | Blue/Orange - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2003In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000 and transferred to the West End in 2001. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Breath, Boom
Publication Date: January 1, 2002The central character in Marina Carr's critically acclaimed play is a woman who lives life in a monstrous limbo, unable to feel any love for her wealthy husband and children. Set against a brooding backdrop of small-town Ireland and moving back and forth through time, this play is at once sinister and profoundly moving. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Heart of Evil (Krewe of Hunters, Book 2)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Krewe of Hunters (Book 2) Emerging from the bayou like an apparition, Donegal Plantation is known for its unsurpassed dining, captivating atmosphere, haunting legends…and now a corpse swinging from the marble angel that marks its cemetery's most majestic vault. A corpse discovered in nearly the same situation as that of Marshall Donegal, the patriarch killed in a skirmish just before the Civil War.Desperate for help traditional criminologists could never provide, plantation heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators...
|  | The Anatomy of Ghosts
Release Date: January 17, 2012"Mr. Taylor is a sophisticated writer . . . with a high degree of literary expertise."--New York Times Book Review1786, Jerusalem College, CambridgeDesperate to salvage the reputation of her son, Frank, who has been locked away after seeing the ghost of a deceased woman at Jerusalem College, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth to investigate. When Holdsworth, the author of a stinging argument on why ghosts are mere delusions, finds himself haunted, he becomes more determined than ever to find the deceased woman's murderer. No one will leave Jer...
|  | The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: April 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poetsrepresented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CDwith W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the 20th century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: Down by the Salley Gardens, The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Secret Rose and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. They are read by a strong cast led by Olivier award winner Jim Norton. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | Foolish Wiseman: One-Act Play for Christmas, A
Publication Date: June 13, 2002For permission to perform Foolish Wiseman you are required to purchase the Production Pack.In addition to including 4 scripts at a reduced rate for the director and major characters, you receive permission to make photocopies of the script for minor characters and your technical crew and a Performance Licensing Agreement.The Performance Licensing Agreement is used to pay the Royalty fee(s) and is due two weeks prior to performance(s).The Production Pack price does not include the Royalty payment. Ogion has little chance of following the Bethlehem star until her...
|  | Maps in a Mirror
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Maps in a Mirrorbrings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling o...
|  | The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems
Publication Date: September 1997Generally regarded as the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) has long been one of America's most popular foreign-language authors. Rilke's poems, which were greatly influenced by his foreign travels, are sensitive and introspective -- and often feature striking visual imagery and symbolism.The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems is a selection of sixty poems taken from one of Rilke's best-known works, the two-volume New Poems, best-known works, the two-volume New Poems, written from 1903 to 1908. Each poem is printed i...
|  | Dogku
Release Date: June 26, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up A tale in haiku of one adorable dog. Let's find him a home....
| | Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Asian Poetry in Translation Japan (Book 17) Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has forgotten that human beings are more important than ideas, that human beings take priorityover everything. This poet knows, in the deepest sense, that human relationships rest on the relation of human beings to nature and to the universe. It is not difficult to see traces of the surrealist influence that colores Ooka's youth. But in contrast to many other Japan...
|  | That Stranger, The Blues
Publication Date: October 1, 1996The first collection of poetry from James Keery. The poems in this book explore language and refuse to subscribe to the view of unbreachable divisions—of geography, gender or poetics—in our culture. Kerry's work also appears in "New Poetries"....
|  | Uptown: A Novel
Publication Date: March 2, 2010ENTER THE WORLD OF UPTOWNUptown . . . where money rulesUptown . . . where ambition trumps traditionUptown . . . where politics come before everythingUptown . . . where a family’s secrets will bring them together—or downAfter twenty years away, Avery Lyons returns to New York when her mother and uncle suffer a serious car accident. The tragedy brings the family together, but Avery is not happy about the impromptu reunion. She no longer recognizes the Harlem of her childhood, but the same old family dynamics and secrets are all too familiar . . . He...
|  | The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book III: The Unseen Guest
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Kasey Kahne (Blazers: Stars of NASCAR)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Max's Birthday (Max & Ruby)
Release Date: September 15, 2004| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | John Cena (Torque Books: Pro Wrestling Champions)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011 ...
|  | La Noche de Los Ninjas (Casa del Arbol) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Under One Flag
Publication Date: January 10, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The landscape of the Arkansas Delta changed dramatically early in the course of World War II, when more than 8,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were forcibly detained in two hastily constructed prison camps. The chain of events surrounding this episode in U.S. history is revealed through the friendship between, Jeff, a local boy whose father is a camp administrator, and George, a Japanese American boy imprisoned in the camp. ...
|  | Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Publication Date: January 17, 2006In two parts. Part I contains observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, including an introduction concerning the compilers of the Books of the Old Testament, prophetic language, various prophecies, and a myriad of discussion relative to the prophecies of Daniel. Part II contains the observations upon the Apocalypse of St. John, including an introduction concerning the time when the Apocalypse was written, the relation of this Apocalypse to the Book of the Law of Moses, and the relation the prophecy of John has to those of Daniel. Due to the age and scarcit...
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