 | Maps to Anywhere (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)
Publication Date: October 1, 1997| Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction The essays in Maps to Anywhere plot terrain that is at once familiar and subtly strange. Writing on subjects ranging from his family to the origin of the barbershop pole, Bernard Cooper digs into the glimmering surface of the southern California landscape, observing the collision of the American Dream with the realities of everyday life. From the fragments, he discovers landmarks by which he attempts to make sense of contemporary America. ...
 |  | Durango: A Novel
Publication Date: July 10, 2012With a contemporary Western flavor and plenty of intrigue and suspense, Gary Hart's latest novel Durango brings readers into the world of the small southwest Colorado town as the close-knit community is rocked by scandal and controversy. As a drawn-out battle for water rights looms over the town, one of Durango's most eminent citizens, stoic former politician Daniel Sheridan, is implicated in a shocking transgression, forcing him to clear his name and resolve the contention that has weighed upon his hometown for decades. Drawing on the classic themes of loyalty...
|  | Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
Publication Date: October 5, 2012Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos.The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples.First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare.This dim...
|  | The Patron Saint of Dreams
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, a few inexplicable ghosts. Gerard's true stories are shot through with the uncanny and the mysterious. They are not quiet interior contemplations but instead are full of public events, r...
|  | American, African, and Old European Mythologies
Publication Date: May 15, 1993| ISBN-10: 0226064573 | ISBN-13: 978-0226064574| Edition: 1 Mythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions about ourselves and our world.Almost all of Mythologies, originally published as a two-volume cloth set, is now available in four paperback volumes. These volumes reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set, and each includes a new Pre...
|  | Playing the Victim
Publication Date: April 1, 2004Set in a city somewhere in central Russia, scenes between a disaffected 30-something and his bored and boring parents alternate with scenes showing the reenactment by the police of various real-life crimes. New play by the authors of Terrorism. The authors are brothers of Russian and Iranian descent who live in central Russia. ...
|  | Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama
Release Date: April 28, 2009In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. One only has to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realize the challenge presented by the illegitimate child.Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed...
|  | The Merchant of Venice (Oxford School Shakespeare)
Publication Date: October 22, 1992| ISBN-10: 0198319738 | ISBN-13: 978-0198319733The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England . There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source. This book is intended for age 14 - 16. ...
|  | Farming: A Hand Book
Publication Date: September 20, 2011The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From classic pastoral themes both lyrical and reflective, to a verse play, to a dramatic narrative and the manic, entertaining, prescient ravings of Berry’s Mad Farmer, these poems show a unity of language and consciousness, skill and sensitivity, that has placed Wendell Berry...
|  | Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions (Medical Humanites)
Publication Date: August 1, 1979| Series: Medical Humanites In this “cock to Aesculapius,” a distinguished pathologist shows how simple medical analyses can be applied centuries later to reconstruct the scene and assign a more probable cause of disability or death. The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell’s repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato’s account of Socrates’ death in the Phaedo, subjects both ancient and modern. Other essays include studies of the ailments of ...
|  | Book Lover's 2012 Calendar (Page a Day Calendar)
Publication Date: July 15, 2011| Series: Page a Day Calendar Every day, Book Lover's offers a new recommendation for a page-turning book. All the Living, C. E. Morgan’s lyrical debut novel exploring love and bereavement. The best thriller you’ve never heard of: Mark Miller’s The Savage Garden, set in a mysterious Tuscan garden. And Vanished Smile, R. A. Scotti’s rollicking true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa. Plus Mark Booth’s entertaining ride through the lighter side of world history and Patricia T. O’Connor and Stewart Kellerman’s bold...
|  | Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Release Date: May 1, 2002The epitome of high culture or an assault on public morality? The nude figure was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. It was also one of the most conspicuous categories for the visual image at every level, from elite paintings for the Royal Academy to mass-produced photographs and magazine illustrations. Exposed: The Victorian Nude provides a fascinating overview of the nude figure—both male and female—and the intriguing role it played in Victorian art. While it concentrates on painting, sculpture, and drawing, this beautifully illust...
|  | The Convenient Bride (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: September 6, 2005| Series: Signet Regency Romance Lady Briana has adored Lord Clayton since she was sixteen. And although he must marry within three weeks or lose his inheritance, Briana knows he is a rogue who could break her heart. But that does nothing to lessen Briana's wild desire for Clayton. ...
|  | Thief In The Night (Harlequin Historical)
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|  | Black Mask 2: Murder IS Bad Luck: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine (A Black Lizard Collection)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: A Black Lizard Collection From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).Ot...
|  | Starlight (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 4)
Release Date: March 27, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Egg Monsters from Mars (Goosebumps #42)
Publication Date: April 1996| Age Level: 8 and up Disgusted by his bratty kid sister's demand for an egg hunt aspart of a birthday celebration, Dana Johnson is amazed when he finds afootball-sized, purple-veined egg that hatches a terrifying surprise. ...
|  | Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe
Publication Date: February 24, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up The walls of Eastern Europe have recently crumbled, revealing a rich variety of peoples and cultures. Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe features seven little-known folk tales with titles such as "The Shepherd King" and "The Hundred Children" that reflect this variety in enchanting stories of stout-hearted men, wise women, and dull-witted dragons. These stories are culled from Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, and Russia. ...
|  | Sports Great Wayne Gretzky (Sports Great Books)
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Think Analogies, Book A1
Publication Date: January 2, 2001 ...
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