 | The J.A.P. Chronicles: A Novel
Release Date: May 9, 2006Sex and the City meets Jane Austen in a wickedly funny, razor-sharp novel about the fortunes and misfortunes, expectations and regrets of seven women who shared long-ago summers at an elite Jewish girls’ camp. Anyone who’s ever wondered what happened to the girls in the exclusive cliques of adolescence will delight in The J.A.P. Chronicles. With the wry wit and keen eye and ear of a latter-day Jane Austen, Isabel Rose (herself a scion of a prominent New York family) provides the ultimate insider’s look at the glamorous upper-crust society that even ...
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|  | Tick Tock (Michael Bennett)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: Michael Bennett (Book 4) NYC's #1 detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem--the Son of Sam, the Werewolf of Wisteria and the Mad Bomber are all back. The city has never been more terrified!Tick--a killer's countdown beginsA rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that they are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. Tick--Michael Bennett is on the chaseThe city calls on Detective Michael Bennet...
|  | The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume 1
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Lovecraft Anthology A graphic anthology of tales featuring collaborations between established writers and artists and debut contributors, The Lovecraft Anthology showcases Lovecraft’s talent for the macabre. From the insidious mutations of “The Shadow over Innsmouth” to the mindbending threat of “The Call of Cthulhu,” this collection explores themes of insanity, inherited guilt, and arcane ritual to startling effect.Praise for The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume I:"It's a rich grab bag that brings the eerie and unspeaka...
|  | Jubilee
Publication Date: January 21, 1999Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry's daughter. The author spent thirty years researching the novel so that the world might know the intelligent, strong, and brave black woman called Vyry. The phenomenal acclaim th...
|  | Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (A Tennyson Hardwick Story)
Publication Date: June 3, 2008| Series: A Tennyson Hardwick Story Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city.In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family -- especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "...
|  | The Last Train Home
Publication Date: October 1, 2008It might have been the Gilded Age for the likes of Rockefeller and Carnegie but newly arrived immigrants and poverty-stricken Americans packed into Manhattan s teeming Lower Eastside were lucky to make ends meet. In this tumultuous time, factory worker Virginia Chisholm hopes for more, but her dreams go up in smoke when a tenement blaze rips her family apart. Aided by Lindsay Killian, the street-wise, rail-riding drifter she meets in a charity hospital, Ginny follows the orphan train that has taken her siblings west. The desperate quest to reunite her family ...
|  | Americanus Rex
Publication Date: September 11, 2009The story begins with the stereotype of a beauty pageant contestant calling for world peace, and then explores what might have to happen in our contemporary world to make such a dream a reality.Includes strong themes of art, women's issues, and American folklore. ...
|  | The Tidings Brought to Mary
Publication Date: March 18, 2009HAB is happy to re-propose after many years Paul Claudel's play The Tidings Brought to Mary, a play in a translation by Louise Morgan Sill. A significant introduction by Luigi Giussani, founder of the Catholic lay ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation, helps the reader to be drawn more deeply into the drama of the play and to find described there the drama which faces each of us.Pope Benedict XVI once made the point that world history is a struggle between two kinds oflove: "self-love to the point of hatred for God, and love of God to the point of sel...
|  | English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Dramatic Speech
Publication Date: February 25, 2011| ISBN-10: 0415618568 | ISBN-13: 978-0415618564| Edition: Reissue First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre. ...
|  | Instructions to the Double Poems
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| | Istoricheskie pesni, ballady (Sokrovishcha russkogo folklora) (Russian Edition)
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|  | The Shadow Keeper (Salmon Poetry)
Publication Date: April 22, 1998| Series: Salmon Poetry While her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, The Shadow Keeper marks the appearance of O'Brien's first full-length collection. She explores the major themes of family and personal relationships, the hallmarks of her work. Her style is honest and direct, calling for a similar response in the reader. Her poetry is at once accessible and relevant. In The Shadow Keeper we look at relationships from the perspectives of different generations: a mother's concerns for her daughter, a daughter's rebellion against her parents, an...
| | Dunhuang fu hui (Dunhuang wen xian fen lei lu jiao cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Em Blanco Y Negro (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Niagara
Publication Date: April 1, 2000In this turn-of-the-century novel, Watson introduces Jean Francois Gravelet and Anna Edson Taylor, two adventurers who challenge Niagara Falls. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition....
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|  | The Magic Hummingbird: A Hopi Folktale
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|  | Game Changers Book 2: Play Makers
Publication Date: February 1, 2013| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Literature for Young Children
Publication Date: December 2004This broad introduction to early childhood literature focuses on literacy analysis and on specific techniques and methods of effective literature-based education. Updates references of children's books that readers can use as examples of quality literature. Strengthens coverage of several areas including nonfiction, multicultural/international literature, and the use of literature in integrated teaching for the primary grades. For educators and school administrators. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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