 | The Bro Code
Release Date: October 14, 2008Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail The Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom. ...
 |  | Low Tide, Lunan Bay
Publication Date: June 30, 2009Abbie has come through a difficult divorce from Keith, who recently became a best-selling author of books for children and now lives with Fiona, his illustrator. Abbie is trying to build a new life in Dundee with her 11-year-old twin girls. Her friend Kate persuades her to try internet dating and after a couple of false starts she meets Bill. Their first meeting, which includes a walk across Lunan Bay, goes well and Abbie is optimistic. But when the twins start to have nightmares and behave badly at school, Abbie can't help but wonder if her new relationship wi...
|  | Wooing the Schoolmarm (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical When Willa Wright's fiancé abandoned her, he ended all her hopes for romance. Now she dedicates herself to teaching Pinewood's children, including the new pastor's young wards. If she didn't know better, Reverend Calvert's kindness could almost fool Willa into caring again. Almost…Though Matthew Calvert adores his niece and nephew, he wants a family of his own, too. The more he sees of the pretty schoolteacher, the more he wants that future with her. Yet Willa, so warm to her pupils, is ice-cool to...
| ![American Comics Group Collected Works - Forbidden Worlds [Vol 1]](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uEdTMY08L._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | American Comics Group Collected Works - Forbidden Worlds [Vol 1]
Publication Date: December 1, 2011They may have been Forbidden to some--particularly when the Wertham Seduction of the Innocent book hit the newsstands--but to kids the length and breadth of the United States (and a select few in the UK), Richard Hughes and his tremblin team of terrific tormenters were where it was at. Big time. And now, a half-century since the first issue appeared, ACG s wonderful Forbidden Worlds are accessible once more . . . and this time in state-of-the-art hardcover volumes containing five to seven issues apiece. This is going to be one hell of a journey: come make it...
|  | One Season in the Sun (Open Door)
Publication Date: August 24, 2012| Series: Open Door These are the tales of one-season wonders. The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, these men stood on the field alongside the best players in The Show. Here are gripping stories of their brief moments in the sun. Pr...
|  | The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (American Literature Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: American Literature Series "This is one of the best short books of literary criticism that I know."—Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismWide-ranging enough to encompass Buster Keaton, Charles Babbage, horses, and a man riding a bicycle while wearing a gas mask, The Counterfeiters is one of Hugh Kenner's greatest achievements. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural criticism, Kenner seeks the causes and outcomes of man's ability to simulate himself (a computer that can calculate quicker than we can) and his world (a mechanical du...
|  | Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
Publication Date: February 7, 1990| ISBN-10: 0520069544 | ISBN-13: 978-0520069541| Edition: First Edition The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned. ...
|  | The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies
Publication Date: 1983| ISBN-10: 0802065031 | ISBN-13: 978-0802065032In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, ...
|  | A History of Theatre in Africa
Publication Date: December 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521092086 | ISBN-13: 978-0521092081| Edition: 1 Offering a comprehensive account of a long and varied chronicle, this history of theater in Africa is comprised of essays written by scholars in the field. The coverage is geographically broad and includes an examination of the concepts of "history" and "theater" in Africa; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; as well as the African diaspora. ...
|  | Plautus: Stichus. Trinummus (Three Bob Day). Truculentus. The Tale of a Travelling Bag. Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 328)
Publication Date: January 1, 1938| ISBN-10: 0674993624 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993624Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300–250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225–185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular...
|  | Readings in Folk-Lore: Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great Britain, the Norse Countries, Germany, India, Syria, Egypt, and Persia With ... Standard Literature Relating to the Same,
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|  | CALYX International Anthology
Publication Date: January 1, 1997"A useful point of departure for those interested in locating women writers of other countries..."--New England Review ...
|  | Shakespeare on Love (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Not only did Shakespeare reinvent the English language, he also penned some of the greatest writings on love of all time. From star-crossad lovers and tragic jealousy to unrequited passion and romantic courtship, images of "amour" are evoked in myriad ways in his plays and poems. In this endlessly browsable volume Michael Kerrigan plums the entirety of Shakespeareas work to bring together the greatest examples of his meditations on love. By turns touching, inspiring, evocative, and heartrending, "Shakespeare on Love" is truly a book t...
|  | Developing Critical Thinking: The Speaking/Listening Connection
Publication Date: October 12, 1999| ISBN-10: 0867094915 | ISBN-13: 978-0867094916As the demand grows for students to reach new academic standards, teachers must be prepared to change their model for learning. To that end, Virginia O'Keefe's new book focuses on two modes of language that are currently undertaught, undervalued, but absolutely essential: speaking and listening. O'Keefe's premise is that if the climate for oral communication is favorable, students will take more risks and increase their potential for higher-level thought. In the first chapter of the book, O'Keefe discusses t...
|  | The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: August 7, 2003| ISBN-10: 0859917851 | ISBN-13: 978-0859917858This book sets Malory's Morte Darthur in the context of the political concerns that he shared with the fifteenth-century gentry readers for whom he wrote his book; the author draws widely on their correspondence and reading material, but looks particularly at the political content of contemporary miscellanies owned, commissioned and read by the gentry. She shows how the themes of political governance and royal succession, which are of primary importance in contemporary historical chronicles and genealogies, in...
|  | The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Third Edition)(Vol. F)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393913341 | ISBN-13: 978-0393913347| Edition: Third Edition A classic, reimagined.Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Third Edition—a completely new team of scholar-teachers—have made this respected text brand-new in all the best ways. Dozens of new selections and translations, all-ne...
|  | Letters of Evelyn Waugh
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|  | Midnight in Ruby Bayou
Release Date: May 1, 2001 The dangerous task of acquiring rare and fabulous gems for the uniquely exquisite jewelry she crafts has taught Faith Donovan to be wary of anyone outside her own family. A man like Owen Walker is particularly suspect—a handsome and daring adventurer with an intimate knowledge of the ruby trade. Yet Owen is the one person Faith needs to trust as they venture together into the shadowy world of the wealthy and mysterious Montegeaus—a powerful Georgia clan descended from pirates and said to possess a staggering fortune in gems. A web of corruption and betra...
|  | Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 2)
Release Date: September 25, 2007While in Memphis, psychic Harper Connelly senses-and finds-two bodies in a grave. One of a man centuries-dead. The other, a girl, recently deceased. Harper's investigation yields another surprise: the next morning, a third body is found-in the very same grave. ...
|  | Big Book of the Berenstain Bears
Release Date: August 14, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up THE BERENSTAIN BEARS' First Time Books are all about new experiences children encounter in their early years. With good-natured wisdom, love, and gentle humor, these books ease the way for kids - and their parents - through these first times. Collected in this treasury are: The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The Berestain Bears in the Dark, The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, and The Berenstain Bears' New Baby. ...
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