 | Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
Publication Date: September 1, 1993Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava. Foreword by Peter Sellars ...
 |  | The Geometry of Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: March 23, 2010New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters, in an unforgettable story of loss, redemption, and forgiveness The storm off Mackinac Island that engulfed Maura Shaw’s husband and elder daughter,Carrie, also swept away the illusion of her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother. Now, after years away, Maura has returned to Rhode Island to teach English at the fabled Newport Academy and to seek a new beginning. Newport has never failed...
|  | Nin
Publication Date: October 2000Fiction. NIN is a mystical, mythical, magical fable set in the high-tech, modern-day world of air travel, telephones, computers, and the World Wide Web. Nin Creed is a feminist poet embarking upon a quixotic journey to recover the lost writings of her late mother, a scholar and linguist, who died the day she was born. Traveling from Minnesota to Israel in search of her mother's life and work, Nin finds herself accompanied upon her pilgramage by a few of the legions of women writers who lived and wrote centuries ago and whose work, too, was lost to future generat...
|  | Praying Through Grief: Poems and Meditations for Healing
Publication Date: February 1, 2011A poignant compilation of prayers, poems, and reflections on grief and grieving, to aid the grieving person at putting his or her feelings into words With classic texts from the Bible and other prayers and poems from around the world, this book makes the perfect gift for a bereaved person and will be an indispensable resource for those working with the bereaved—from pastors and chaplains to funeral directors, doctors, or loved ones. The content is organized thematically for easy perusing based on life events, with chapters including "Give...
|  | The Hesitant Hero: 1940 (The House of Winslow #38)
Release Date: July 1, 2006Will they ever make it to the coast? It all depends on... the HESITANT HERO When Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the States, he settles further south in France, painting for his own pleasure and pursuing a woman he had dated in college.Jolie Vernay has no interest in Tyler, but their lives are soon entwined with those of several Jewish orphans. As the conflicts of World War II come dangerously close, Tyler starts to understand that the wo...
|  | Freedom's Hope (The Reardon Brothers #2: Heart Quest Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000This second book in the successful historical series by award-winning author Dianna Crawford, Freedom's Hope, is set in rugged Tennessee territory in the late 1700s. Spunky and intelligent Jessica meets Noah, and the adventure begins. Readers will see that God is trustworthy to work out his plans in their lives. ...
|  | The Memoirs of John F. Kennedy: A Novel
Publication Date: November 22, 2010The Memoirs of John F. Kennedy: A Novel brings to life the tantalizing possibilities of "what might have been" had JFK remained president after November 22, 1963. This book imagines an America where progressive leadership takes hold during the 1960s, where President Kennedy, after a grueling fight for his life in a Dallas hospital, survives his chest wounds and returns to the presidency. He is elected for a second term. He does not mount a ground war in Vietnam. Foreign relations with Cuba, the Soviet Union, South America, and our allies and adversaries aro...
|  | Trouble Shooter (Hopalong Cassidy Novel)
Release Date: March 1, 1995| Series: Hopalong Cassidy Novel Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popular heroes in frontier fiction. His legendary exploits in books, movies, and on television have blazed a mythic and unforgettable trail across the American West. Now, in the last of four Hopalong Cassidy novels written by Louis L'Amour, the immortal saddleman rides again—this time into a lonely valley of danger and death.Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to...
|  | A Handbook to Literature (12th Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205024017 | ISBN-13: 978-0205024018| Edition: 12 The definitive reference on literature in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. The Web site (www.prenhall.com/harmon) offers a handy glossary of key terms, a pronunciation key for select terms, pre- and post-tests on the terms, flash cards for key terms, and a literary timeline. ...
|  | A Handbook of the Troubadours (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA)
Publication Date: November 17, 1995| Series: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (Book 26) This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies.Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which i...
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|  | A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational (Crime Files)
Release Date: June 23, 2009| Series: Crime Files Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America ‘Edgar Awards’! A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost sto...
|  | A Fatal Stain (A Daring Finds Mystery)
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: A Daring Finds Mystery Out damned spot! As her wedding to detective Cas Wolfe approaches, Candyce "Dyce" Dare, sole owner (and employee) of the furniture refinishing business Daring Finds desperately needs to find something to do to avoid sitting down and planning the event with her mother and her best friend (particularly since she suspects their plans involve having her cat dress in a tuxedo). Working on a table she recently bought at a yard sale fits the bill. Until her sanding efforts uncover a disturbing...
|  | In For A Pound
Publication Date: November 8, 2007From the Boston Globe-Bestselling author of Boyos, comes another gritty, street-level tale of corruption, betrayal, revenge and redemption in the world of the South Boston Irish mob. Taut plotting, violent action, and a pitch-perfect sense of place propel tough PI Delray McCauley through this tour de force of South Boston noir. ...
|  | Super Hero Squad Flips Out! A Mix and Match Book (Marvel Super Hero Squad (LB Kids Hardcover))
Publication Date: September 5, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: April 15, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. AESOP'S FABLES are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand. ...
|  | Out of the Egg
Publication Date: March 6, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up You think you know the tale of the Little Red Hen. You think you know how it ends. But in this story everything changes when the hard-working Red Hen lays a perfect white egg. And out of this egg comes a chick with a mind of her own . . .Here is a beautiful book with fantastic woodcut prints and lyrical text that turns the tale of the Little Red Hen upside down. In classic fashion, it is the noble Red Hen who does all the work, but Red Hen’s chick, in an arresting and charming manner, chooses not to follow her...
|  | Thumbelina: Hans Christian Andersen Illustrated Fairytales
Publication Date: January 25, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Ziggy's Olympic Book - Power and Precision: Ziggy's Pocket Fun Book
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|  | Elvina's Mirror
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up 2010 Sydney Taylor Book Award, Notable Book for Older ReadersThe tale of Rashi’s granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need. In this sequel to My Guardian Angel, Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Rashi, the famous 11th-century French Bible and Talmud commentator. It is the spring of 1097 in the town of Troyes, in France. The Crusaders have been marauding their way through Europe, attacking Jewish communities. One evening, a mysteriou...
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