 | Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama (Mentor Series)
Release Date: February 3, 1992| Series: Mentor Series An anthology of African American plays features Ed Bullins'sThe Taking of Miss Jane, George C. Wolfe's The ColoredMuseum, and August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, MaRainey's Black Bottom. ...
 |  | Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit
Publication Date: May 2007'At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks', writes Jean Malaurie. More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection for Malaurie and in the collective memory of the Inuit. "Hummocks", the first English translation of the renowned explorer's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, is an impressionistic evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit.Jean Malaurie's exploration of the Nor...
|  | Duet for Three
Publication Date: December 1986FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRITICAL INJURIES, NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2001 TRILLIUM AWARD Elderly, fat, rebellious and rambunctious Aggie lives side by side with her aging daughter, June, in an uneasy, sometimes hostile relationship. As June contemplates moving Aggie into a nursing home and Aggie struggles to retain her wit and her wits, they await the decisive arrival of Aggie?s much-loved granddaughter, June?s daughter, Frances. Duet for Three displays Joan Barfoot?s usual technical mastery and compassionate insight into her characters? lives,...
|  | This Side of Married
Release Date: May 24, 2004 Rachel Pastan’s first novel is pure pleasure-a crisp and witty page-turner for smart women everywhere. The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is single-mindedly determined to see them all happily married. The book opens at a Sunday brunch where Dr. Rubin, mother and obstetrician, is scheming to introduce her eldest daughter, Alice, to a doctor who is almost too good to be true. But why hasn’t Alice been able to find a husband on her own? Is her sister Isabel, t...
|  | Sugar Creek Gang Books 1-6 Set (The Swamp Robber/The Killer Bear/The Winter Rescue/The Lost Campers/The Chicago Adventure/The Secret Hideout)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997This set includes books 1-6 in the Sugar Creek Gang Series: TheSwamp Robber, The Killer Bear, The Winter Rescue, The Lost Campers, The Chicago Adventure,and The Secret Hideout.The tales and travels of the SugarCreek Gang have passed the test of time, delighting young readers for more thanfifty years. Great mysteries for kids with a message, The Sugar Creek Gangseries chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving, courageousChristian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, and inspired to grow as theyfollow the legendary...
|  | My Life as a Toasted Time Traveler (The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle #10)
Publication Date: May 21, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up What could be more hilarious than one Wally McDoogleHow about two? Or Six?Or a dozen?!Wally travels back from the future to warn himself of an upcoming accident. But it takes more than one visit to get the message across.Before he knew it, there are more Wally's running around than even Wally can handle.Catastrophes reach an all-time high as Wally tries to out think God and rewrite history. ...
|  | North of Tomorrow (Winter Passing Trilogy #3)
Publication Date: March 22, 2002An epic story of the shocking truth of a family's past and one woman's determination to uncover the secret that will bring healing. As Amanda traces her family's history back to WW2, she discovers that everything she's believed about her family has been a lie. Now she must face the truth and find the one WW2 survivor who can free her from her past. ...
|  | America the Beautiful (America Series #1)
Publication Date: April 16, 2008Emily Benton has spent her entire life immersed in politics. Having been raised in the industry, she has the kinds of contacts that it takes most politicians decades to build. She knows that she can win the race for president of the United States, but only if she destroys her rival first, before he can find and use hidden ammunition on her. If Emily destroys him, the election will be hers. A groundbreaking novel about the intersection of politics, power, personality, and the future of our country. ...
|  | Guides-Episode One: No Laughing Matter
Publication Date: August 2, 2010Unknown to most-we do not travel this earth-life alone! All of us have spirit guides to help us through our difficult times. I know this-because they have told me so. I'm Susan Sanderford. I'm a spiritual medium-and I communicate with spirit guides-every day. This is just one of their stories. No Laughing Matter is the story of how spirit guides help Charlie Gault, a struggling comedian who is dealing with depression and decides to take his own life. Is it possible that during life's most desperate hour, help, hope, healing and resolution can be found? Pe...
|  | The Piano Tuner
Release Date: September 17, 2002An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods—poetry, medicine, and now music—have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from h...
| | Racine: A Study
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|  | Kelroy: A Novel (Early American Women Writers)
Publication Date: January 14, 1993| ISBN-10: 0195077032 | ISBN-13: 978-0195077032The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places it in an historical and literary perspective.Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these novels provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life.Set in Philadelphia, elroy focuses on the limited option...
|  | Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation
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|  | Just Revenge
Publication Date: September 1, 2000For 50 years, Max has kept the secret of his past. The sole survivor when his family was gunned down by Nazi Marcelus Prandus, he has made a new life in America. When chance brings the two face to face revenge becomes an obsession. ...
|  | Personal Effects: Dark Art
Release Date: June 9, 2009Want to try it yourself? Call the phone number shown on book's cover: 212-629-1951 and listen to the voicemail message for main character Zach Taylor. Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths. Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds—and often very far from the reality that we know. The it...
|  | The Third Consequence
Publication Date: March 15, 2000From the author of The Kill Box and Shattered Bone, comes Chris Stewart's next timely technothriller: The Third Consequence. ...
|  | May Day (Murder-by-Month Mysteries, No. 1)
Publication Date: March 8, 2006Minneapolitan Mira James has been taking it easy since college graduation--too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin Cities have lost their charm, and Mira decides to begin a new life in rural Battle Lake. Right away she is offered jobs as an assistant librarian and part-time reporter, and falls into an unexpected romance with a guy who seems to be the perfect man until he turns up dead between the reference stacks her tenth day on the job. Anxious to learn more about the man who had briefly stolen her heart, Mira delves into the hidden...
|  | Tiny Titans vol 3: Sidekickin' It!
Release Date: February 9, 2010See what life is like at Sidekick Elementary! What could possibly go wrong when the kids of Sidekick Elementary spend an afternoon in the Batcave?These all ages tales from the DC Universe, beautifully written and illustrated by Art Baltazar and Franco, will entertain new readers and seasoned fans of comics. ...
|  | The New Jersey Nets (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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|  | Hiawatha (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: October 1, 1996| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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