 | The Geisha's Granddaughter
Publication Date: April 2004Mitzko, the granddaughter of a Geisha, is caught between two opposing worlds of old Japan and new America. Her indomitable desire to heal lifts her above this bitter conflict. Her heroic father, her reed-like mother, and the American boys and men are the powerful characters that populate her world. This coming-of-age novel is a beautifully written saga of personal resilience and the story of a woman's special humanity despite life's terrors.Chayym Zeldis' work has been called "brave and monumental" by the Chicago Tribune Book World, and "beautiful and elegant" by ...
 |  | The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries, No. 6)
Release Date: September 21, 2010 The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie finds our inquisitive heroine and new mother racing two very troublesome people from her past. Isabel’s son, Charlie, is only eighteen months, but his social life is already kicking into high gear, and it's at a birthday party, where Isabel is approached by Minty Auchterlonie, an old adversary and now a high-flying financier. Minty, it seems, is having trouble in her personal life, and seeks Isabel's ...
|  | Gerald Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper
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|  | The Lazarus Project
Release Date: May 5, 2009On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin. A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuch's path. Through a history of pogroms and poverty, and a prism of a present-day landscape of cheap mafiosi and even cheaper prostitutes, the stories of Averbuch and Bri...
|  | The Infinity Doctors (Doctor Who Series)
Publication Date: November 1998| Series: Doctor Who Series For 20,000 centuries the inhabitants of Gallifrey, Doctor Who's home planet, have been the most powerful race in the cosmos: they are the Lords of Time, and have used their powers carefully. But now a new force has been unleashed that is capable of destroying them. And it is one of their own. ...
|  | Frontier Earth: Searcher
Release Date: December 1, 2001| Series: Frontier Earth "Babylon 5"'s Captain Sheridan, Bruce Boxleitner, has crafted hisown science fiction legend in this terrific new series. The enigmatic gunman known as Macklin continues his quest across the 19th-century American West to fulfill his purpose on Earth: preventing the invasion of a sinister predatory race of aliens....
|  | Macbeth (Simply Shakespeare)
Release Date: December 3, 2001This tragedy tells of a power-hungry Scottish nobleman and his lady, and the price they pay for violently seizing the royal throne. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with a modern "translation" on the facing page. Starting in the late 1580s and for several decades that followed, Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment for London's theatergoers. His Globe Theatre was the equivalent of ...
|  | The Best Stage Scenes of 2003
Publication Date: April 2004| ISBN-10: 1575253356 | ISBN-13: 978-1575253350The latest edition of our scene book series, edited by D.L. Lepidus, contains 45 great scenes, all from published or readily available plays, perfect for classroom use of those all-important auditions or scene nights. An absolute must for every actor’s library. ...
|  | Graphic Classics Volume 23: Halloween Classics (Graphic Classics (Eureka))
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|  | Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza
Publication Date: March 29, 2004Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry. Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and a scattering of translations, there has been, until now, no complete English translation of any of his books of poetry. This bilingua...
|  | Natural Gaits (Sun & Moon Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Sun & Moon Classics (Book 95) poetry, tr Cole Swensen...
|  | From Hell and Back
Release Date: June 25, 2007From Hell and Back is a journey of life’s tragedies and triumphs, conveyed through a variety of poetry filled with heart-wrenched cries of life’s pain and blissful moments of peace, to triumphant moments that come from the grace of God. Jane Nazrat exposes her real-life pains, shares her growth in her journey with God, and gives hope and advice through her poetry and prayers, to know that there is always a better tomorrow. ...
|  | Lysistrata (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Publication Date: August 9, 1990| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks The first new edition in almost sixty years, this volume of Aristophanes' Lysistrata brings the play completely up to date with modern scholarship.It provides the first complete account of its history and contains new information about the comic theater and its social and political context. Lysistrata not only brims with topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens; it is also one of our best sources for information on the life of women in antiquity, offering a unique glimpse of their everyday lif...
|  | Journal Du Surrealisme (French Edition)
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|  | Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, V. 5)
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|  | The Rebel (Hqn)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Hqn THE FORCE OF THOSE EYES HIT FRANKIE MOOREHOUSE LIKE A GUST OF WIND But she quickly reminded herself that she had dinner to get ready, the staff of White Caps B&B (such as it was) to motivate. She didn't have the luxury of staring into a stranger's face. Although, jeez, what a face it was. And wasn't it just her luck that the owner of that face, Nate Walker--with his rebel attitude and distaste for authority--was the chef her restaurant desperately needed, and he was staying for the summer.... And...it was a bit too tempting to let this breath of fresh...
|  | Majestic Descending
Release Date: June 3, 2008Soon to be a major motion picture It was supposed to be a vacation… Katherine Adams is taking a cruise on the fabulous Ocean Majestic, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world. This is exactly the break Katherine needs from her demanding Atlanta legal practice…and it’s also a chance to forget the demons that still haunt her, to forget the madman who abducted and tortured her twenty years ago. On board the Majestic, Katherine meets John Delaney, a streetwise ex-NYPD detective who is now a lawyer. Romance is certainly in...
|  | Pestis 18
Publication Date: February 15, 1996The Black Plague--yersinia pestis--now genetically engineered into the new, even more horrifying form known as Pestis 18.Two canisters of the virus are now in the hands of terrorists.One had been planted in a large American city. If the terrorists do not receive a $500 million ransom, it will be opened...The other canister is on an island off the coast of Georgia. Captured at the island's inn are Bruton Farrier, an American Congressman, his girlfriend Sally Strickland, a very important British politician, an aging romance novelist and her secretary, an unha...
|  | The Brading Collection (A Miss Silver Mystery)
Publication Date: September 1992Lewis Brading loves only one thing – his collection of jewels. Not only are the gems extremely valuable but also every piece has a fascinating and bloody history attached to it. However Lewis is a frightened and difficult man who sees thieves around every corner. When he asks Miss Silver for help, she gives him some sound advice and turns him away. A few days later, she receives a letter from him, again asking for help. But it is too late. In the morning paper is the news of his murder. Lewis Brading loves only one thing – his collection of jewel...
|  | Shades Of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
Release Date: January 4, 2005A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories, Shades of Black is a landmark achievement. Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field-from Walter Mosley, "one of America's best mystery writers" (New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose "gift for retaining suspense is golden" (Chicago Sun-Times)-it is the first anthology of African-American mystery writers. Shades of Black is not only a tribute to the art of storytelling-it's a fascinating foray into the rich and widely varied African-American experience.Includes stories by:Frankie Y. Bai...
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