 | Or, - Acting Edition
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 | God's Country
Release Date: May 15, 2003The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba. ...
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 | Cheesecake and Teardrops (Urban Renaissance)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Series: Urban Renaissance Office romances were always taboo to Charisma, but lately she's finding herself attracted to her new boss. Is it because the sensual, honey-brown man could easily become a guilty pleasure, or is it just because Charisma is determined not to let her competitive co-worker have him? Tangie has a history of picking men who are hot in bed and cold on commitment until she meets an FBI agent who may just be her Nubian prince. Desperate to get rid of her "body by Haagen Dazs," Heather is willing to do just about anything. When a former classmate...
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 | Grown Men Don't Cry
Publication Date: August 10, 2012Grown Men Don't Cry chronicles the lives of two young men from adolescence through adulthood searching for purpose in an unforgiving world. From outlandish childhood pranks to agonizing mental anguish, this story depicts the constant highs and lows inflicted by mental illness.Ben Chase and Jimmy Keller are the new kids in the small town of Bristol, New Hampshire. Sharing a love of sports and a bit of a wild side, Ben and Jimmy quickly gravitate toward each other and become best friends. Their bond is strengthened as they realize they both come from dysfunctio...
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 | The Terrible Girls
Publication Date: January 1, 2001The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible—relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out. ...
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 | The Flying Squadron (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 11) While desperate to stem the encroaching tide of Napoleon's French Empire in Europe, the British government in 1811 is equally anxious to avert war with the emerging power of the United States. Yet the Americans, who have their own ambitions in Canada and in trade with France, are becoming increasingly outraged at the forcible boarding and searching of their ships by British naval officers. <P>In this tense atmosphere of international acrimony, Capt. Nathaniel Drinkwater is ordered to the Chesapeake ...
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 | Love Freaks (Methuen Modern Plays)
Publication Date: May 9, 2002| ISBN-10: 0413772586 | ISBN-13: 978-0413772589A caustic new comedy from the winner of the John Whiting and the Mobile Prize awards, and one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrightsSet in a modern-day Scotland, this is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's comedy The Double InconstancyLove Freaks is published to coincide with its premiere in May 2002 at the Tron Theatre, Edinburgh ...
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 | Mad Forest: A Play from Romania
Publication Date: April 1, 1996The greatest living English-language playwright and, in my opinion, the most important English-language playwright since Williams.--Tony Kushner ...
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 | So Translating Rivers and Cities (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0939010933 | ISBN-13: 978-0939010936“Zhang Er’s poems lead us to another world, dive into the blank of writing and shriek in despair. The eloquence in her poems is a voice debating our time.”—Bei DaoZephyr’s second collection of Zhang Er’s poetry, this bilingual edition includes a selection of work from three of her most recent Chinese collections ranging from the late 1990s to the present day. Zhang Er was born in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1986. She is the author of multiple books in Ch...
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 | Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
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 | Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants, II, Books 6-9. On Odours. Weather Signs (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1916| ISBN-10: 0674990889 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990883Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BCE, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn student, collaborator, and successor of Aristotle. Like his predecessor he was interested in all aspects of human knowledge and experience, especially natural science. His writings on plants form a counterpart to Aristotle's zoological works.In the Enquiry into Plants Theophrastus classifies and describes varieties—covering trees, plants of ...
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 | P. Ovidius Naso Metamorphosen: Kommentar Buch IV-V (Wissenschaftliche Kommentare Zu Griechischen Und Lateinischen Schriftstellern) (German Edition)
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 | Forever Promised
Publication Date: August 7, 2008Nurse Geri Lanham wished to be anywhere but assisting the doctor in removing her favorite patient from life support. Something goes terribly wrong and she wakes up in the year 1888! Contending with time travel was bad enough, but one onery, albiet handsome sheriff, wants to put a noose around her slender neck, accusing her of murder!Sheriff Andrew Robinson's ordered world was always black and white. Gray areas were not to be tolerated, until he makes a slender green eyed beauty his prisoner.Searching for the way back to her time, Geri and Andrew learn that onc...
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 | Break and Enter: A Novel
Release Date: October 28, 2008Peter Scattergood is a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney, a relentless and clever prosecutor who has just landed the biggest case of his career--a double homicide, involving the mayor's nephew and his mistress. This is not the best time for his wife to walk out on their crumbling marriage and to disappear. As Peter tries to find his wife, and to build his case, he is drawn into an affair with an alluring stranger named Cassandra, a woman whose greatest skill is arousing suspicion. Break and Enter is an intense, intricate thriller about the thresholds we m...
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 | The Catiline Conspiracy (SPQR II)
Publication Date: August 21, 2001It was a summer of glorious triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome there was no peace. The streets were flooded with the blood of murdered citizens, and there were rumors of more atrocities to come. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger was convinced a conspiracy existed to overthrow the government-a sinister cabal that could only be destroyed from within. But admission into the traitorous society of evil carried a grim price: the life of Decius's closest friend...and maybe his...
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 | Grave Deeds
Publication Date: July 25, 1996Growing up, Rosie had never known any of her father's family. why had she been chosen to inherit her grandfather's summer home, and its valuable northern waterfront land?A simple reunion with her great aunt and her cousin leads to an unexpected and chilling legacy. Failed by family and friends alike, rosie and Will are left to solve the pubbles of Grave Deeds. ...
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 | Houghton Mifflin Reading: Princess & Pea Lv 1+Imp PRINCESS & PEA
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 | Kordell Stewart (Sports Stars (Children's Press Paper))
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: And Other Poems
Release Date: September 26, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upWhat do you get when you cross . . .A toaster with a toad? A tuba with a baboon? A clock with an octopus? A hat with a chicken? An umbrella with an elephant? Why . . .A Pop-up Toadster A Tubaboon The Clocktopus A Hatchickenand . . . The Bold Umbrellaphant And what do you get when you cross this book with a kid? Why . . .The Happy Kibook!...
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 | If My Mom Were A Platypus
Publication Date: May 25, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The animal kingdom offers a special fascination for children because so many of the cozy rituals they share at home are echoed in nature. ...
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