 | The Corn is Green.
Publication Date: January 1998This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. In this play, a school is started for the neglected pit workers of a Welsh village, and one of them wins an Oxford scholarship. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | The Provincial Lady in Russia (Provincial Lady Series)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Provincial Lady Series Trade paperback with dust jacket. ...
|  | Choosing Mr. Right
Publication Date: August 2004Kate has always believed there was just one right man for her. This hope has taken her through her youth, college days, mission, grad school, and still sustains her as she dedicates all her time to her job as executive assistant to the governor. She's now 28, and she feels like she has dated every available man. The "Why aren't you married yet?" question is getting pretty old.After one unbelievably bad charity date finally pushes her over the edge, Kate is ready to clean her slate of all the men she’s ever met. That very night, she receives an invitation to ...
|  | Lovers & Players
Release Date: February 1, 2011Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn.Jackie Collins is back—in her most deliciously scandalous novel yet. And she’s giving her readers a revealing look into the private realms of her fabulously rich and sexy cast of characters.In Lovers and Players, the Diamond family’s power extends from coast to coast. Max—a real estate tycoon; Chris—a Hollywood lawyer; and Jett—a youn...
|  | Healing Hearts: A Collection of Amish Romances
Publication Date: August 9, 2011Three hope-filled stories about second chances, trusting your heart, and the power of forgiveness. Healing Hearts-Empty-nesters Levina Lapp and her husband Naaman have no children under their roof for the first time in 30 years. When Naaman leaves to visit cousins in Ohio, Levina never expected him to be gone a year. Now that he's back, will they be able to move beyond this estrangement and rekindle the fire of the love they once shared? A Change of Heart-Leah is a writer in a community that does not encourage such fruitless endeavors. She lacks the skills nec...
|  | Sins of the Fathers: Based on the Oblivion (The World of Darkness Wraith)
Publication Date: October 1995| Series: The World of Darkness Wraith In his afterlife, Kirk's many sins come back to haunt him in the form of ""Mr. Demon,"" until Kirk meets a spirit who gives him the courage to help the baby son he left in life....
|  | Golf Is From Satan
Publication Date: January 22, 2001Born of a seething, near-psychotic indifference to golf that, during thewriting of the book, was transformed into a stalker's empty yet passionate obsession,Golf is From Satan is the first book about golf that seeks and tells the truth about this complex and diabolical game that ever seeks to ascend the heavens on the singed wings of demons. This book sings, instructs, will send the reader into convulsive fits of nervous laughter, save him/her from hell,and finally reveal the hidden secrets of the universe. And it's just a golf book. ...
|  | Blood Bond #3: Gunsight Crossing
Release Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Blood Bond (Book 3) Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together - and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them...Wise in the ways of a lawless land, the blood brothers deal out their own brand of frontier justice. And when they ride a hot and dusty trail into Texas looking for some excitement, they find it in spades. Big John Lee owns the biggest spread west...
|  | The Secret Garden
Publication Date: April 8, 2012The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett ...
|  | Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology and the Making of Modern Greece
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|  | Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 20) In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative chor...
|  | The Mirror for Princes: Kalila wa Dimna (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Oberon Modern Plays New writing based on the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of the Council for Kings—literally, a “mirror” for princes—these subtle and philosophical animal fables to this day carry immense significance to all sections of Arab and Persian society. ...
|  | Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism
Publication Date: May 31, 2011Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in modernizing the epic genre. The book examines several long poems to provide perspective on women poets working with and against men in related efforts, contributing together to a Romantic movement of large-scale genre revision. Women poets challenged longstanding categorical approaches to gender and nation in the epic tradition, and they raised politically charged questions about women's importance in moments of historic...
|  | Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images Persian Painting of the 1330's and 1340's
Publication Date: 1993| Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art Series A study of two fourteenth-century illustrated Persian manuscripts, the "Mu'nis al-ahrā r, and the Persian national epic, or "Shā hnā ma. ...
|  | Narcissus Leaves the Pool
Publication Date: July 3, 2007Joseph Epstein demonstrates time and again his talent for taking nearly any subject and polishing it into a gem of sparkling wit and fascination. In Narcissus Leaves the Pool, he displays his signature verve and charm in sixteen agile, entertaining pieces. Among his targets in this collection are name-dropping, talent versus genius, the cult of youthfulness, and the information revolution. ...
|  | Harvest Moon (Virgin River)
Release Date: February 22, 2011| Series: Virgin River Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated…until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriter—a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But le...
|  | Lie Down With Lions
Release Date: December 2, 2003The #1 international bestseller set in Afghanistan...NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK.“Vintage Follett…This is his most ambitious novel and itsucceeds admirably.” —USA Today“May be Ken Follett’s finest yet…The suspense mounts as swiftly as Afghan villagers running to escape Russian guns—and the pages will turn just as fast.” —Cosmopolitan...
|  | Offer of Proof
Release Date: October 26, 2004A beautiful businesswoman is robbedand murdered. With her last breath, she identifies her assailant. Or does she?Damon Tucker, a young kid from Harlem, is quickly charged with the murder. He maintains his innocence from the beginning despite some incredibly damning evidence. Soon the only person standing between Damon and a possible death sentence is his public defender, Arch Gold, a tough courtroom veteran who knows every move in the game of criminal justice in New York City. But in this case Gold quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems and the rules of...
|  | Three Complete Novels (Silent Prey, Winter Prey & Night Prey)
Release Date: November 12, 1996Contains Silent Prey, Winter Prey, and Night Prey, three fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers in the popular Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport and an array of potential victims, unexpected twists, and twisted minds. ...
|  | The Invitation
Publication Date: November 22, 2000Gerilyn misses her husband Joey, a victim to the cruelty of cancer. She seeks friendship and solace in a chat room and meets 'Shooting Star' one evening, the 'perfect man'. . . or so she believes at first. He invites her to be his friend, and she accepts his cordial invitation. That is her first mistake, an innocent but unfortunate one. All hell soon breaks loose in her life, and on the quaint, quiet town in which she resides. A faithful mother, a faithless priest, and an eccentric, bizarre stranger who arrives in town under the cloak of night's shadows, co...
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