 | Minding Frankie
Release Date: March 1, 2011Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone. Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his...
 |  | Three Weddings and a Giggle
Release Date: January 22, 2001Warning: Laughter ahead! Liz Curtis Higgs delivers again with "Fine Print," where a businessman and the speech coach he's hired have no idea there are matchmakers at work on their behalf! Her novella is part of a delightful triple-header in Three Weddings and a Giggle. The "giggle" comes from Carolyn Zane, whose "Sweet Chariot" drops readers in on two little old ladies who purchase a motor home sight-unseen, then drag their adult grandchildren along for cross-country antics. In Karen Ball's "Bride on the Run," an heiress defies her father's demand that she marry...
|  | John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination (Studies in Christianity and Literature)
Publication Date: July 15, 2011| Series: Studies in Christianity and Literature (Book 6) Thomas Gardner artistically describes Jesus -- "the Word made flesh" -- as a poem penned by God for the world, and John -- author of the Fourth Gospel -- as the poem's interpreter. John's structural patterns, repetitions, and narrative interventions invite readers to experience for themselves the beauty of the divine poem. John in the Company of Poets deepens this invitation by re-imagining the biblical text through the eyes of such artists as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, and T. ...
|  | Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul
Publication Date: July 3, 2012Marching With Caesar-Conquest of Gaul is a first-person narrative, written in the form of a memoir as dictated to a scribe of Titus Pullus, Legionary, Optio, First Spear Centurion of Caesar's 6th and 10th Legion. The memoir is written three years after his retirement as Camp Prefect, when Titus is 61 years old.Titus, along with his boyhood friend Vibius Domitius, joins the 10th Legion in the draft of 61 BC, when Gaius Julius Caesar is the governor of Spain. Titus and Vibius are assigned to a tent group, with seven other men who will become their closest friends ...
|  | Valley of the Sun
Release Date: March 1, 1996Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: a land where for every friend there is an enemy, for every handshake a fist, for every disput...
|  | Broken Harbor (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details an...
|  | Before I Sleep: A Doctor on Call
Publication Date: October 6, 2005DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT:This is the story of everything that happens to -- and a lot that runs through the mind of -- John Galen, M. D., as he darts from patient to patient in the office, ER, operating room, home, and kidney dialysis suite during his day and night on duty.Patients come and go, but two special cases dominate the narrative drive.Written in the first person and present tense, it is derived from the 40-year experience of the author, William Waters, M. D., who is also the son of - and father of - doctors. ...
|  | This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories
Publication Date: June 1, 2002Gripping Stories Of City Boys And Men Living - And Dying - For Their Outsider Sexuality; Doing their best to come to grips with being gay in a heavily Irish-Catholic working-class community - known for its fierce loyalty and strong, traditional religious ethic, the boys and men in these stories are caught in the crossfire of traditional values, Irish tragedy, and the inevitable intrusion of diversity. The result of this lethal mix is occasionally comic, often tragic, sometimes redemptive and sometimes disastrous, but always compelling. ...
|  | April Morning
Release Date: October 1, 1983When you read this novel about April 19, 1775,you will see the British redcoats marching in asolid column through your town. Your hands will besweating and you will shake a little as you grip yourmusket because never have you shot with the aim ofkilling a man. But you will shoot, and shoot againand again while your shoulder aches from yourmusket's kick and the tight, disciplined red columnbleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shoutat the top of your lungs because you are there, atthe birth of freedom—you're a veteran of theBattle of Lexington, and y...
|  | Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticate...
|  | Equus
Release Date: October 4, 2005An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest r...
|  | An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
Publication Date: September 18, 1997| ISBN-10: 0195868803 | ISBN-13: 978-0195868807This anthology of fifteen plays introduces Western readers to some of the finest Chinese drama of the last twenty years. Representing writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the plays offer a wide selection of living Chinese theater, from socialist-realist, to comedic, to the experimental and avant-garde. ...
|  | The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 28, 2012 "Scott McClanahan is a powerful, exceptional writer, and the overall effect of reading his deceptively simple stories is like getting hit in the head by a champion cage fighter cranked up on meth that was cooked in a trailer without running water in some Kentucky backwoods where people sing murder ballads to their children to put them to sleep." -DONALD RAY POLLOCK, author of The Devil All the Time "He might be one of the great southern storytellers of our time."-VOL. 1 BROOKLYN "When I discovered the stories of Scott McClanahan last year, I was instantly enthr...
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|  | Shakespeare, From Page to Stage: An Anthology of the Most Popular Plays and Sonnets
Publication Date: January 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0130207543 | ISBN-13: 978-0130207548| Edition: 1This collection of twelve Shakespearean plays seeks to bring Shakespeare alive through a combination of innovative approaches that treat the plays as "scripts intended for performance" rather than as dull, dry, lifeless historical documents. This is the only book on the market that combines literary and theatrical techniques in a way that engages readers’ interest and helps present the characters, situations, and language of the plays in a personal, visceral, and exciting fashion. The...
|  | Marbles
Publication Date: September 1, 2009"Incisive, strange, and often philosophically compelling."—Time Out (Critics' Pick)"Short and sweet. . . . The pleasure of Guida's aphorisms is the way they illuminate the ridiculous, childlike, or reckless nature of our actions while simultaneously convincing us that we wouldn't know nearly as much about ourselves and others without our errors."—The Second Pass"It takes a rare gift to write in the aphoristic form, which must be witty and modest at once, and must state in a fresh, arresting way observations which the reader will recognize at onc...
|  | Black Lace
Release Date: October 25, 2005The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble—and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking it might be smart to play it safe and keep her distance . . . if only his lips weren't so inviting. But trouble comes from a different source when Lacy, as the head of Detroit's Environmental Protection Department, launches an investigation into the activities o...
|  | None But You, (Frederick Wentworth, Captain: Book 1)
Publication Date: January 31, 2007Eight years ago, when he had nothing but his future to offer, Frederick Wentworth fell in love with Anne Elliot, the gentle daughter of a haughty, supercilious baronet. Sir Walter Elliot refused to countenance a marriage, and Anne's godmother, Lady Russell, strongly advised Anne against him. Persuaded by those nearest to her, Anne had given him up and he had taken his broken heart to sea. When Jane Austen's Persuasion opens in the year 1814, Frederick Wentworth, now a famous and wealthy captain in His Majesty's Navy, finds himself back in England and, as fat...
|  | Immortal Ops: Collection I
Publication Date: March 6, 2011Immortal Ops (Immortal Ops I): Captain Lukian Vlakhusha is having issues with his newest target, Peren Matthews. Something about her has left him staring at her picture and wondering what it would be like to touch her soft skin. When the time comes for the team to strike, Lukian senses danger and aborts the mission. He makes an attempt at meeting Peren and is set in his place by an independent young woman who knows what she is, and isn't, looking for in a man. Lukian is having trouble telling Peren that he's what she fears most, a werewolf. Can they make t...
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