 | Contemporary American Short Stories
Release Date: September 29, 1996This volume contains twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century. As Sylvia and Douglas Angus write in their introduction: "These stories present a fascinating psychological record of what may best be termed "The Age of Crisis', the age in which modern man finds himself teetering on a fine edge of destiny, when his own fateful decisions will take him either to hell or to paradise." ...
 |  | Rumors
Publication Date: February 16, 2010Farce / 5m, 5f / Int. At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. "Light, frothy and fu...
|  | Pot of Gold
Publication Date: October 1, 1993When modest single mother Claire Goddard wins $60 million in the lottery, her life changes in ways she cannot even begin to imagine. 300,000 first printing. Major ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Tour. ...
|  | Trumpet
Publication Date: May 28, 2012Brilliant and sassy Elizabeth Trumpet fantasizes starring on the London stage, but to become an actress in 1803 is tantamount to losing her virginity in the most debasing way.
After watching her mother die and her father lose his mind, the courageous sixteen-year-old must find a way to save her family. She scores her first acting job as a fencer-the deadly skill she learned from her brother training for the military. Blessed with talent and a rare singing voice, Lizzie pursues her career, learning from theatrical characters high and low.
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|  | Intimacies: Poems of Love
Release Date: October 28, 2008From Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda comes Intimacies—a beautiful companion to On the Blue Shore of Silence—showcasing some of Neruda's most extraordinary love poems, and once again married with Mary Heebner's earthy, evocative paintings.Neruda is celebrated the world over as a chronicler of love, and this vibrant addition to the revered master's canon offers readers a new interpretation on his writings about love and intimacy. The poems in this collection remind us that love is woven through all life, and that amorous love is only but the tip ...
|  | Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales
Release Date: May 31, 1987Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folktales and customs, this book chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country. ...
|  | The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
Publication Date: September 17, 2007The mass of existing material on this subject is so great that the author has not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European 'Witchcraft', but has confined herself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain. In order, however, to obtain a clearer understanding of the ritual and beliefs she had recourse to French and Flemish sources, as the cult appears to have been the same throughout Western Europe. The sources from which the information is taken are the judicial records and contemporary chroniclers. In the case of the chroniclers, the au...
|  | Con los ojos hacia el sol (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: November 30, 2011Este libro, no entusiama una obra maestra, ni es la hermosa poesia de Amado Nervo, ni la famosa obra de cien años de soledad, de Garcia Márquez, pero si son muchos años de soledad, en los cuales me he refugiado, en la página de un cuaderno o en un papel cualquíera cuando a mi mente a llegado un sueño un pensamiento, la rima ó un poema ...
|  | Modern Chinese Poetry an Introduction
Publication Date: June 1973Modern Chinese Poetry: An Introduction, by Lin, Julia C.. 8vo. ...
|  | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Publication Date: May 28, 2012When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. Written before the emergence of the Internet but newly updated for the 21st Century reader, A Gentle Madness captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes bri...
|  | Doctor Illuminatus
Publication Date: February 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0691000913 | ISBN-13: 978-0691000916For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an affordable format, these works serve as an introduction to the life and writings of the Catalan (properly, Majorcan) philosopher, mystic, and theologian who lived from 1232 to 1316. Founder of a school of Arabic and other languages, Llull was also a poet and novelist and one of the creators of literary Catalan.This volum...
|  | King Arthur - Myth Making and History
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0415213053 | ISBN-13: 978-0415213059| Edition: First Edition This seminal new study explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure.N. J Higham offers an in-depth examintaion of the first two Arthurian texts: the History of the Britons and the Welsh Annals. He argues that historians have often been more influenced by what the idea of Arthur means in their present context than by such primary sourcesKing Arthur: Myth-making and History illumi...
|  | Florilegium Latinum V2: Translations Into Latin Verse, Victorian Poets (1902)
Publication Date: December 7, 2009This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation
Publication Date: October 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 0312293453 | ISBN-13: 978-0312293451| Edition: 1 This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Ania Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural “ethnic identity” often highlighted in the studies of these wr...
|  | William Empson, Volume II: Among the Christians
Publication Date: February 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199539928Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century. Against the Christians begins during the Second World War and follows Empson's turbulent years of writing wartime propaganda for the BBC. As Chinese Editor, he organized broadcasts to China and propaganda programs for the Home Service, during which time his friends and colleagues included the prickly George Orwell. The...
|  | In The Company Of My Sistahs
Publication Date: February 1, 2006From acclaimed author Angie Daniels comes an exciting new novel that asks: Exactly how much trouble can four sexy, sassy, and stubborn women get into when they spend a week in Jamaica together? The answer: Plenty...For years, Lisa Miller has been living the good life--and watching her sister, Renee, and their childhood friends search for happiness of their own, usually in the form of a man. Tired of standing by while they waste their time looking for love in all the wrong places, Lisa has planned a vacation in Jamaica with them. She has some bad news to brea...
|  | A Taste of Fire
Release Date: May 1, 2001Antonie Ramirez could ride and shoot as well as any man - and better than most. Now, the headstrong beauty had come to Texas to honour her father's last words: find the cattle rancher named Royal Bancroft and repay him for saving their lives long ago. Royal Bancroft didn't know who was behind the outlaws trying to drive him off his land, but he would fight to the death rather than lose it. Yet with his sister and brother kidnapped, he felt defeat run through him like a chill wind...until a girl with cornsilk hair and a steady gun hand rode into his life. Antonie was ...
|  | Damage Control: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2012CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR DENISE HAMILTON WEAVES AN ENGROSSING STORY OF TEENAGE FRIENDSHIP AND ADULT BETRAYAL, FEATURING A HIGH-POWERED CRISIS CONSULTANT WHO GETS SWEPT UP IN MURDER AND SCANDAL INVOLVING A WEALTHY POLITICAL FAMILY. Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She is doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite PR firm in Southern California whose clients are movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, a distinguished statesman who also h...
|  | The Two Faces of January (Highsmith, Patricia)
Publication Date: January 21, 1994| Series: Highsmith, Patricia Three of them are waiting. Rydal Keener is waiting for something exciting to happen in his grubby little Athens hotel. At forty-odd, Chester MacFarland has been waiting much longer, expecting his life of stock manipulation and fraud to catch up with him. And Colette, Chester’s wife, is waiting for something altogether different.After a nasty little incident in the hotel, they all wait together. As the stakes—and the tension—in theirthree-cornered waiting game mount, they learn that while passports and silen...
|  | The Magic Hockey Stick (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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