 | Culture of One (Poets, Penguin)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Poets, Penguin A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so...
 |  | My Intended
Release Date: February 16, 2000Because love means having to say "I do". . .When Hannah's fiancé, Drew, dies suddenly of a heart attack days before their wedding, Hannah is left feeling devastated and guilty. Out of fear and misunderstanding, Hannah had foolishly neglected their impending ceremony. Now, a week before their intended wedding day, Hannah vows to set things straight with Drew by carrying out the event anyway. In struggling to pull together this unconventional wedding, Hannah contends with all the traditions and rituals of being a bride: buying the perfect dress, ordering the...
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|  | The Chase (Jill Lewis Mystery Trilogy #1)
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|  | Resistance
Release Date: June 14, 2005From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction–a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their stories.A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India change...
|  | Roger's Profanisaurus
Publication Date: September 1, 2002The ultimate in schoolboy humor, this is the book for anyone who truly loves Viz humor! Roger Mellie presents a new edition of his classic dictionary of swearing that gives a hilarious new angle to many previously innocently used words. Fully updated for the new millennium with definitions culled from the intellects of Viz's finest readers, this is positively the last word in contemporary profanity. ...
|  | Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Performance Studies)
Publication Date: October 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 085989696X | ISBN-13: 978-0859896962The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror,' a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night. Indeed, the phrase 'grand guignol' has entered the language to describe any display of sensational horror. Since the theatre closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This...
|  | In Praise of Love (Nick Hern Books Drama Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Nick Hern Books Drama Classics An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, In Praise of Love is a fictional play based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison’s wife Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer. The ending is "among the most perfectly crafted and economically effective passages anywhere in British drama."—Michael Darlow ...
|  | Two Steps From the Stars
Publication Date: April 1, 2007And here she is in person: Maggie. She appears on the sidewalk just as Junior makes a big decision: this very night, he’s going to make a run for it to achieve his great dream of becoming an astronaut… ...
|  | Seasons of Sacred Celebration: Flowers and Poetry from an Imperial Convent
Publication Date: July 18, 2006| ISBN-10: 1891640356 | ISBN-13: 978-1891640353| Edition: Bilingual Eighteen unusual paintings preserved at Daishoji Imperial Convent in Kyoto-founded in the 14th century and one of the main Rinzai Zen convents in Japan-are here presented for the first time. They include beautiful calligraphic renderings of classical poems from well-known anthologies,with delicate floral illustrations linking each poem to its appropriate season. The anonymous paintings, probably dating from the late 17th century, are unique in format, and offer eloquent testimony to the sur...
|  | Difference In View: Women And Modernism (Gender & Society : Feminist Perspectives)
Publication Date: March 3, 1994| ISBN-10: 0748401350 | ISBN-13: 978-0748401352| Edition: 1 This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates h...
|  | The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Publication Date: August 9, 2010“I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”—Richard HugoRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all “directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.” From pieces that inclu...
|  | The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
Release Date: October 1, 2002William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the ...
|  | The Hydrogen Sonata
Publication Date: October 9, 2012The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existe...
|  | Primal Desires (Primes Series, Book 6)
Release Date: August 28, 2007 Enter a world of dark, irresistible passions, where a powerful vampire finds the one woman who can satisfy his every hunger....In Las Vegas, Jason Cage is known as "The Beast Master." But his onstage feats of magic are nothing compared to the abilities he keeps hidden from human eyes. Jason is Prime of his vampire family, and once used his telepathic skills to tame wild werewolves. It's a talent that leads him to beautiful, sensual Sofia Hunyara, who instantly triggers all of Jason's primal urges. Sofia is destined to be his bondmate, but keeping her alive lon...
|  | Star Wars: Battles for the Galaxy
Publication Date: April 18, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Breaking Trail
Publication Date: December 28, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Becky has always lived with her family in a log cabin in the Yukon, but when the fur market dwindled away, her father, a dog musher and trapper, had to quit trapping and she and her family moved into town. Now her father is depressed: he doesn’t laugh or talk to anyone. He tires easily and can’t stand any noise or stress. Worse, he has lost interest in sled racing — a love that he and Becky once shared. When spring comes, the family decides to go back to their cabin for the summer. Becky’s...
|  | Easy-to-Make Castle (Dover Children's Activity Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 1987| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Legends: Tricks and Transformations
Release Date: July 17, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Princess Rebecca and the Lion Cub (The Tiara Club)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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