 | What Work Is
Release Date: April 21, 1992Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely the...
 |  | The Year Everything Changed: A Novel
Release Date: August 23, 2011 As Jessie Patrick Reed’s attorney, I’m writing to you on behalf of your father, Jessie Patrick Reed. I regret to inform you that Mr. Reed is dying. He has expressed a desire to see you . . . Elizabeth, even though sustained by a loving family, has suffered the most from her father’s seeming abandonment and for years has protected herself with a deep-seated anger that she hides from everyone. Ginger, in love with a married man, will be forced to reevaluate every relationship she’s ever had and will reach stunning conclusions that will chan...
|  | Dark Gold (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 3)
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|  | Chilled to the Bone: A Chill Horror Anthology - Sneak Preview - Uncorrected Proof
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|  | The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 1992The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millio...
|  | Gene Killers (Joe Henderson Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: Joe Henderson Mysteries When a mass murder shatters the calm of bucolic Westfield, New Jersey, veteran detective Joe Henderson is unprepared for the fallout when the shooter turns out to be a well-known local guy, a fellow soccer dad, and a friend. For Henderson, the nightmare is just beginning. He is about to be challenged by the preeminent biotech genius Dr. Mahli Lani and the Brooklyn Mafia family that has provided $500 million in the financing for a "miracle drug" that is marching America to the brink of nuclear war. Gene Killers shines a s...
|  | Heart of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man 25)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Mountain Man 25 Selling his gun to the highest bidder, sharpshooter Monte Carson rode side by side with Big Jim Slaughter, the most feared hombre in Wyoming Territory. But when Monte decided to reform his ways and give back $50,000 in stolen army payroll, he made an enemy in Slaughter and a friend in mountain man Smoke Jensen. Now, an enraged Slaughter wants his money, and if he doesn't get it, he's going to kill Monte's wife, his hostage in an outlaw paradise called Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For Smoke, there's no choice but to come down off the mountain and ...
|  | The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 (Mythologiques, Vol 4)
Publication Date: November 8, 1990| ISBN-10: 0226474968 | ISBN-13: 978-0226474960"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves...
|  | Equus
Release Date: October 4, 2005An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest r...
|  | Return to the Caffe Cino
Release Date: November 6, 2006Winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Foundation Book Award (LAMMY) for drama. A collection of over twenty off-off-Broadway plays originally produced at the legendary Greenwich Village coffeehouse during the 1960s, where off-off Broadway theatre was born. In place of a traditional introduction, readers will find memoir-style essays by such pioneers as Edward Albee, Robert Patrick and Phoebe Wray, plus over fifty archival photographs. ...
|  | My Friend Hitler
Publication Date: November 15, 2002| Series: Maps of the Mind Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be in a place which is more instinctive, closer to child's play." For English readers, these...
| | ADVENTURES IN READING VOLUME 3 POETRY DRAMA AND THE EPIC
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| | Gu jin Zhong wai zhe li shi jian shang ci dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 188184708X | ISBN-13: 978-1881847083Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate-told against a background of extreme violence and aggression, written by a prisoner on death row who has become a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. ...
|  | Creation in Death
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Series: In Death The 25th In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author ...
|  | Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 & 2 (Complete Set)
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|  | The Merchant's House: The First Wesley Peterson Murder Mystery (The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 9, 2010| Series: The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive series of West Country-set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson, one of Devon's first black detectives A black policeman from the Met might expect to meet some resistance, when he's transferred to a West Country seaside town—but, for DS Wesley Peterson, it's like coming home. One of the first people he bumps into is an old friend—Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant's house, and Wesley has to tear himself away to become involved in a major search...
|  | Eneas: The Magic Unicorn
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|  | Home Run Heroes!: Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa
Publication Date: December 1998| Age Level: 7 and up Meet baseball's greatest kings of swing--back to back--in this fabulous, all-in-one flip book filled with facts, superstar stats, and an eight-page souvenir photo insert. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | En la cancha de baloncesto/ On the Basketball Field (La Familia Trota-Deporte/ the Sport-Trotter Family) (Spanish Edition)
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