 | The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction
Publication Date: April 2000| ISBN-10: 0892552417 | ISBN-13: 978-0892552412| Edition: 1st A concise anthology of superb classic and creative nonfiction from the twentieth century.This anthology of seventeen modern essays shows the form at its most varied and dramatic. Purposefully concise, it gathers together exemplars of the personal narrative, the argument, the anecdotal essay, digressive discourse, the "open letter," and others. Some of the most engaging authors of our time write on subjects as diverse as becoming a doctor, cattle grazing rights, the death of Socrates, Anne Frank, com...
 |  | Dracula (Dietz)
Publication Date: January 1998Mysterious, gloomy castles and open graves at midnight are just two of the Gothic devices used to chilling effect in this 19th-century horror classic that turned an obscure figure from Eastern European folklore into a towering icon of film and literature. ...
|  | Now and Forever
Release Date: May 1, 1985Although Jessica and Ian Clarke have been married seven years, they insist the thrill and excitement haven't dimmed. At Jessica's urging, Ian has quit his advertising job to become a struggling writer, and she supports him with her successful San Francisco boutique. Ian's financial dependence on Jessica upsets him more than he admits, and in a moment of bored malaise, Ian's first casual indiscretion will create a nightmare that threatens everything Jessica and Ian have ...
|  | The Goat Foot God
Publication Date: June 1971An original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan. This work is of special interest to students of magic and the Western Mystery Tradition. ...
|  | She Wulf
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Annie Pearce runs through the streets of the city, chasing a demon, the likes she has never seen before.After finally capturing the creature, she works to find out where it comes from and how to destroy the monster.Cham Chamsky follows a lead and discovers a mystery man in the forest near where the demon was found.This is no ordinary man.He is a Viking-a man from the past-thirteen centuries in the past. When Annie travels through an ancient time portal she learns it is she who must rid ancient England of the regenerating demons.The monsters have terrorized the...
|  | The Long Last Call
Publication Date: September 1, 2007It was closing time at the strip club. The bartender was cleaning up, and the girls were looking forward to calling it a night. Then he came in, a well-dressed stranger with a lot of cash to spend. A briefcase full, in fact. But this is no normal customer, and his money is a bit unusual too. Every dollar he spends stirs up a bit more hatred, a little more repressed rage in whoever he gives it to. As the night passes, the pressure builds…and builds, and the stranger just smiles. He knows what will come. He knows he only has to wait to see all of his b...
|  | Full Moon on White
Publication Date: August 15, 2006The Bettacor Life Preservation Association of Sonora, New Mexico, the suppository of many famous frozen bodies, has gone defunct. Among the numerous bodies turned over to the UCLA Medical Center for study is one unknown that had not died before being frozen. This body was accompanied by a false medical record, a simple gold ring, and instructions on how to revive him. The world wants to know who he is and how it was done. Once revived, the Ice Man just wants to find out what happened to his family; a family that turns out to be quite extraordinary, making him...
|  | Josie and Rebecca: The Western Chronicles
Release Date: July 1, 2005At the center of this story are two women; one a deadly gunslinger bitter from the injustices of her past, the other a gentle dreamer trying to escape the horrors of the present. Their destinies come together one fateful afternoon when the feared outlaw makes the choice to rescue a young woman in trouble. For her part, Josie Hunter considers the brief encounter at an end once the girl is safe, but Rebecca Cameron has other ideas.... ...
|  | El Cuento del Gato y Otras Poesias Favoritas: Shared Reading Charts, Blue Set (Developing Literacy Through Poetry and Folklore)
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|  | Ubu and the Truth Commission
Publication Date: January 1, 1998"Ubu and the Truth Commission" is the full play text of a multi-dimensional theatre piece which tries to make sense of the madness which overtook South Africa during apartheid. ...
|  | The Eleven Comedies
Publication Date: October 27, 2003This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy...
|  | Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 35th Series
Publication Date: January 19, 2011Various AuthorsOne of Manhattan's most establishedplay festivals, the Samuel French OffOff Broadway Short Play Festival fostersthe work of emerging writers, givingthem the exposure of publication andrepresentation. The festival resultingin this collection was held July 13th-18th, 2010 at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York City.From the initial pool of over 850 submissions, the FinalForty plays were chosen to be performed over a periodof one week. A panel of judges comprised of celebrityplaywrights, theatrical agents and artistic directorsnominated one or...
|  | Tao Te Ching
Release Date: May 2, 2000David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer thedefinitive English version of the Tao Te Ching, rendering it with both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance.. Spirituality in ancient China was primarily a matter of dwelling at the deepest levels of a person's belonging to earth and its natural processes. This spiritual ecology traces its source back to the evocative silences of Lao Tzu's mysterious poetry. The single most important text ever composed in China, the Tao Te Ching has provided inspiration for every religious and philosophical system that followed in its...
|  | Auf Wiedersehen Mamaq (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art
Publication Date: April 30, 1999Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer, stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. A poet of the caliber of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva (and acknowledged as such by them and other contemporaries), Kuzmin was also a prose writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia, from Symbolism to the Leningrad avant-gardes of the 19...
|  | Haiku for Awuku
Publication Date: May 1, 2010Haiku for Awuku is an anthology of haiku poems about Africa. It gives its reader various scenes of beautiful African landscapes. There is a string of nostalgia for nature throughout the anthology. This gives this literary work the chance to stay within requirements of the haiku and still deliver powerful statements about nature in Africa. Haiku for Awuku is a kaleidoscopic view on beauty, beasts and beings. ...
|  | Love in the Time of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons
Release Date: May 4, 2010| Series: Light DragonsView our feature on Katie MacAlister’s Love in the Time of Dragons.When it comes to love, one woman is scaling back her expectations... Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom-except she's just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they're dragons-and that she's one too. ...
|  | It's Not Over Yet
Release Date: June 26, 2007A mysterious healer with ancient secrets.A deadly game of deception and betrayal.A frantic hunt for truth and love.From outer appearances, Lindy Lee has it all: a successful career as a pediatrician, a gorgeous husband that adores her, and the son that she always wanted. Just when she thinks all is safe and secure in her world, Nick Lewis, the man who betrayed her love reappears after ten years and her life spins out of control. Lindy’s career, her son’s health and marriage spiral downhill as she is pursued relentlessly by Nick and attacked by the sam...
|  | The Spy in the Bleachers (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #122)
Release Date: March 1, 2010| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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