 | From a Cottager's Sketchbook II: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature) (Volume 2) (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: April 4, 2006| ISBN-10: 9629962195 | ISBN-13: 978-9629962197| Edition: Bilingual Liang Shih-chiu (1903--1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese. Literary historians remember him chiefly for his conservative leanings and his infamous "war of words" with Lu Xun, the acknowledged leader of leftist writers in the 1930s. The essays in this collection consider a variety of topics, tempering social satire of postwar China with light humor, while highlighting Liang's versatile litera...
 |  | Manual for Normal
Release Date: February 28, 2005Because life is more brilliant and more brutal than any of us imagined.Even before her mother's death, Lubba James was different. Now she's worse. She drowns herself in fairytales. Lets her imagination run away with her. Doesn't know how to mourn "appropriately."Driven made or driven to escape, Lubba isn't sure. But she knows she has to get away from her insufferable sister and overwhelmed father. Lubba begins her own quest to discover what "normal" looks like. And in reality, it's not very pretty.A burned-out copy and his hair-trigger sniffer dog. A homicide v...
|  | Second Touch (A. D. Chronicles, Book 2)
Publication Date: November 29, 20042005 Gold Medallion Award finalist! Be transported once again to the dark and tumultuous times of first-century Jerusalem. Return to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of home and family. Meet new characters like Lily, Cantor, and Rabbi Ahava, who hold on to hope in spite of their devastating affliction of leprosy. This book's rich, vibrant imagery will draw readers to discover that we all need Yeshua's touch, not only on our bodies but on our souls. ...
|  | The Lost Book of Mala R.: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2011Three very different women, each trying to reconcile her dreams with reality, are drawn together by a hypnotic voice from the past. In a once-grand Southern California neighborhood, Linda, a New York City transplant, is panicking over the disappearance of her precocious ten-year-old stepdaughter. Christine, who has struggled to get pregnant for years, finds herself expecting a baby—just as her husband is accused of murder. And Audrey, who’s always played it safe because of her family’s history of bad luck, takes a romantic risk and s...
|  | The Folding Star: A Novel
Release Date: October 4, 1994Obsessed with one of his pupils, teacher Edward Manners becomesembroiled in affairs with two other men, but only after discovering thelife and work of Symbolist painter Edgard Orst does he come tounderstand the implications of obsession. 25,000 first printing. ...
|  | New Englands Legends & Folklore
Publication Date: April 1, 1998Tales of witches, seafarers, mysterious village greens, and strange nocturnal occurrences fill this collection of New England lore that includes fact, fiction, and black-and-white illustrations. ...
|  | Masks of Mexico: Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life
Publication Date: January 1, 1999This is a state-by-state guide for collectors and general folk art enthusiasts to learn about the types of masked dances still carried out in Mexico's Indian and mestizo communities today. Close to one-hundred colour photographs of authenticated masks from the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art are presented, including finely carved pieces from the 19th century to simple face coverings made in the past ten years. The masked ceremonies are brought to life with documentary photographs showing masqueraders acting out their roles. ...
|  | The Twelve Plays of Christmas: Original Christian Dramas
Publication Date: May 1, 1999Sheryl J. Anderson has created 12 humorous and insightful Christmas dramas appropriate for performance in a multitude of church settings. Of varying lengths and addressing a variety of messages, all of the plays emphasize the power of simplicity in the Christmas season.These dramas may be simple or elaborate productions, as stage area, budget, and time permit. All roles may be portrayed by actors of either sex and of any age. The book also includes a “bonus” drama for Epiphany. ...
|  | In Youth Is Pleasure
Publication Date: January 15, 2008First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school--but as in all of Welch's work, what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William S. Burroughs wrote, "makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under hi...
|  | Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
Release Date: April 8, 1999| ISBN-10: 0684824388 | ISBN-13: 978-0684824383In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. Treating poetry not as a special use of language but, in fact, as a separate language -- unlike the one used in prose and conversati...
|  | To a Blossoming Pear Tree
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|  | Discourse as Structure and Process (Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introductio)
Publication Date: February 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 0803978456 | ISBN-13: 978-0803978454| Edition: 1 What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels.The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, includin...
|  | Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0472109146 | ISBN-13: 978-0472109142One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in danger of extinction today than perhaps ever in its history. Mark Pizzato interrogates this curiosity, revealing it as an obsession with the destruction of social institutions and the "universal truths" of modernism. Edges of Loss explores the theatrics of loss in the minds of authors, performers, spectators, and the conflicting social orders of perversion, taboo, and the sacred....
|  | Funny Letters from Famous People
Release Date: October 12, 2004In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney.Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen.Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib-tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, ...
|  | Hidden Obsession (Harlequin Blaze)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: Harlequin Blaze (Book 256) A modern man. A medieval babe... Some long-distance relationships are unbelievable.LAPD weapons expert Graham Lawson is in the midst of investigating a case when he's abruptly swept into some kind of elaborate hoax. Because there's no way he's in the Middle Ages...even though the setting is pretty authentic. Fortunately, he's landed in the closet of a delectable gentlewoman named Linnet Welbourne. An excellent vantage point indeed...Fearing a potentially brutal future, Linnet is desperate to escape. Sure, Graham's sudden appe...
|  | Erra: Gods and Thurs (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 25, 2012Sarah bumps into Dustin, and is instantly smitten. Erik wants her, and won't back down, finally revealing his true identity. Caught in a love triangle with cosmic repercussions, Sarah represents all women when she decides to let her heart make her choice. Love is the sweetest suffering. This is book 1 in the Gods and Thurs Romance series. ...
|  | The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun: Part 3
Release Date: June 25, 2001Edited by Eugen Kölbing. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London. ...
|  | The China Gambit: A Craig Page Thriller
Publication Date: January 1, 2012In Canada, Francesca, a young American reporter, is brutally murdered to stop her from publishing an explosive story. She has learned that Chinese General Zhou has orchestrated a conspiracy with Iran to stop the flow of imported oil to the United States. General Zhou’s goal: To leapfrog China over the United States for world economic and military supremacy. And the ruthless General will do anything to accomplish that goal. Craig Page—a daring and resourceful former CIA agent, now fighting terrorism in Europe—is deter...
|  | Highway 61: A McKenzie Novel (Mac Mckenzie)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: Mac Mckenzie Rushmore McKenzie returns with a too-personal case that leads him up the legendary Highway 61 in the latest in this awardwinning series Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.I. who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when his girlfriend’s daughter asks him to help her father Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of McKenzie’s girlfriend, and a man in serious trouble. En route from St. Paul to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke h...
|  | The Lion Storyteller Book of Animal Tales: Stories Old and New Especially for Reading Aloud (Lion Storyteller S.)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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