 | The Gift of Age: Wit and Wisdom, Information and Inspiration for the Chronologically Endowed, and Those Who Will Be
Publication Date: April 1, 2011A blend of touching stories, fascinating facts, and rollicking humor is presented in this entertaining look at the jaunt towards senior citizenship. Guaranteed to stir souls, stimulate minds, and tickle funny bones, the chapters include Why It’s Great to Be Chronologically Endowed, Grandkids Say the Darnedest Things, The Lighter Side of Aging, and Jest for the Health of It. Advice on enjoying one’s golden years is featured, from how to accumulate happiness and social wisdom to the delights of retirement. With puns, jokes, riddles, and puzzles illumi...
 |  | Too Many Curses
Release Date: September 2, 2008The wizard Margle the Horrendous takes special pride in never killing his enemies. Instead, he transforms them into various accursed forms and locks them away in his castle. His halls are filled with his collection of fallen heroes and defeated villains, along with a few ordinary folk who were just unfortunate enough to draw Margle’s attention.It’s Nessy’s duty to tend this castle. It’s a lot of work, but she manages, taking pride in housekeeping talents that keep the castle from collapsing into chaos. But when Margle suddenly dies, ...
|  | New Vampire Miyu Vol 4 The Return of Miyu
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|  | Saving Agnes: A Novel
Publication Date: January 6, 2001Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First NovelAgnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes—she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes. Now she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. Not only does she not know how to get back into the game, she isn't even sure what the game is. But she gives a good performance—until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are k...
|  | Ariosto's the Supposes, Machiavelli's the Mandrake, Intronati's the Deceived: Three Italian Renaissance Comedies (Studies in the Italian Theatre)
Publication Date: October 1996| ISBN-10: 0773488219 | ISBN-13: 978-0773488212This volume offers translated texts of three classics of Italian Renaissance comedy, with introductions and bibliographies for each: Ariosto's seminal second play, "The Supposes"; Machiavelli's "Mandrake"; and the composition of the Sienese Intronati, "The Deceived". The works are linked by documentable bond of influence, and also represent a chapter in the history of theatrical staging, since there are traces of evidence of idealised cityscape perspective sets for early performances of both "The Supposes" and "...
|  | The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1428288155 | ISBN-13: 978-1428288157| Edition: 6 THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, BRIEF EDITION offers you a bold and most distinguished introduction to drama packed with exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. ...
|  | The Essential Rumi
Release Date: June 9, 1995From the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by the extraordinary thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. ...
|  | Quiet Moments With God
Publication Date: March 30, 2012A book of poems, to uplift the human spirit. ...
|  | Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)
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| | Peterburg v russkoi poezii: XVIII-nachalo XX veka : poeticheskaia antologiia (Russian Edition)
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|  | Approaches To Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
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|  | Birth of Romance (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Publication Date: November 15, 1992| Series: Everyman Paperback Classics SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literature.From the north-west midlands,it dates from the second half of the 14th century.Gawain,a knight in Arthur's court,takes up the challenge of the Green Knight,and cuts off his head.The Knight informs Gawain he will have his revenge.Journeying to the Knight's abode to receive his lot Gawain takes thehospitality of a Lord,and endures the advances of his wife.The Lord is the GreenKnight and,when the time comes,merely nicks G...
|  | Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht
Release Date: January 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 1403941017 | ISBN-13: 978-1403941015| Edition: First Edition The idea of performance as distinct artistic practice emerges in the context of modernity. This guide to modernism and performance introduces key developments and debates of the period (the rise of the director, new theories of acting, new modes of production, complex relationships to classical and oriental drama); debates that helped to create new languages of performance. It suggests that our understanding of the workings of performance in the period might help to reconfigure our gener...
|  | The Graywolf Annual Eight: The New Family (No.8)
Publication Date: October 1, 1991| Series: Graywolf Annual (Book 8) Despite overwhelming evidence that it no longer exists, we continue to believe in the myth of the Ozzie and Harriet family: working father, at-home mother, two bright kids. We see this pervasive image on TV, in movies, in advertising. Statistics and good sense, however, tell us that family is now defined in many ways.More than half of American households will be, at one time or another, single-parent families. Learning how to accommodate half brothers and sisters, second and third stepmothers, and noncustodial parents and fo...
|  | El Rescoldo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 2004Should we rekindle the flames of our secret lives from which only ashes remain? Francisca was a pioneer woman that decided to live her passions without restrictions. Married to her cousin Antonio, a man with doubts about his sexual orientation, she knew how to balance that love with her love for Germinal, an anarchist. But in 1936 the war ended abruptly along with her dream for freedom. This is a story buried by the civil war in which love and politics are fused. ...
|  | The Assassin
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|  | The Book of Fairy Princes
Publication Date: 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up With the wise counsel of the Golden Fish, the Fisher Boy sets out to win the heart of a beautiful princess. But first he must travel far and wide to find a golden eagle, a leaf-green bull, and a lion with a snow-white heart. Only then can he fight with a shining sword to conquer the dragon, fearsome beyond imagining. This is a magical collection of beautifully-told stories which transport us to ivory towers, great forests, golden lands and kingdoms of beautiful colours. ...
|  | Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up Now in paperback, an illustrated chapter book from industry legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith!I’m gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna, get a bronto-bronto-bronto-bronto-saurus for a pet!Lulu is so accustomed to getting what she wants that when her parents deny her birthday request for a brontosaurus, she throws a four-day temper tantrum and then storms off into the forest in search of the dinosaur she clearly deserves. Lulu isn’t particularly impressed with the snake, tiger, and bear she encounters, but then she finds him—a...
|  | Baseball Step-By-Step (Skills in Motion)
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| | Fast Company (Winning Season)
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