 | From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Publication Date: November 2, 1998The Vietnam War, America's longest -- and in some ways most devastating -- conflict, changed the course of a generation and left millions wondering, "Why?" Here, in the first-ever collection of poetry from both sides of the war, Vietnamese and American poets use their art to ponder this haunting question and to evoke, among other things, the extreme violence of the fighting, the unforgettable stench of death, and the irreversible destruction of a way of life. Arranged to mirror the progression of the war, the anthology begins with the American military build...
 |  | The Wounded Heart: An Amish Quilt Novel
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Amish Quilt When a business offer turns into something more personal, Amelia is torn between what logic tells her is right, and the desire of her heart. A widow with two small children, Amelia Beiler is struggling to make ends meet. She is running her late husband's business, but it's not what she was raised to do, which is run a home. When she gets an offer for the business from Eli Fischer, she's only too relieved to consider it-especially when it looks like Eli's interest might include more than just the shop. But when she begins to experience...
|  | Dante Redux
Publication Date: October 26, 2011Heaven and Hell, or some form of them are found in most religions and cultures, past and present. Christianity, based upon the Bible, teaches a literal place for those believers in Jesus Christ. A place called Heaven. Just as literally, Christianity understands Hell to be the eternal abode of the unsaved. The Bible doesn't go into great detail concerning the afterlife, but it does give a fair amount of information on Heaven.Concerning Hell, the Bible says relatively little. For this reason, we can't build a lot of solid theology on the details of what Hell i...
|  | The Englishman's Boy
Publication Date: March 3, 2009Originally published in 1996, The Englishman’s Boy is the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally best-selling novel The Last Crossing, with the third book due to be published next year. By far his most successful book in his native Canada, The Englishman’s Boy expertly depicts an American West where greed and deception act side by side with honor and strength. In 1920s Hollywood, elusive movie studio owner Damon Ira Chance is obsessed with making pictures rooted in American history and experience, with the poetry of fact....
|  | The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage
Publication Date: December 11, 2008This book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude toward the Edwardians and their world, the essays in this collection take as their provenance broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing on the economics of theater management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical come...
|  | Bugs!: Three Plays by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Green Integer)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Green Integer The three plays of this volume—A Tragedy (reproduced in the original typography), The Bathtub, and Bugs!—give strong testament to the great Russian poet and playwright’s joyous satiric writing and Paul Schmidt’s skills as a translator. Along with other Russian futurists, Vladimir Mayakovsky changed Russian literature and influenced world writing. ...
|  | Der Nationalsozialismus Und Die Deutsche Gesellschaft (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Arthurian romance and gender: Selected proceedings of the XVIIth International Arthurian Congress (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
Publication Date: January 1994| Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Book 10)These selected proceedings of the XVIIth International Arthurian Congress (21 to 30 July, 1993 at Bonn) are a major contribution to problems connected with the semiotics of sex, gender and gender roles in Arthurian romance and more generally in medieval narrative. With regard to this particular topic, the proceedings provide a first comprehensive discussion, covering virtually the whole range of medieval Arthurian romance from the Chronicles and the 'classical'...
|  | The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume IV, 1929-1931
Publication Date: May 15, 1981These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs. ...
|  | Lost Lake
Publication Date: March 1, 2005 On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . . In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy. Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed...
|  | Shooting Star/Spiderweb (Hard Case Crime (Mass Market Paperback))
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: Hard Case Crime (Mass Market Paperback) (Book 42) A one-eyed detective and a blackmailer find themselves neck-deep in murder and deception when they explore the seamy underbelly of Hollywood. Two complete novels – both published for the first time in 50+ years! ...
|  | Vampire Mine
Publication Date: August 7, 2012Sophia Wentworth thinks she's losing her mind when a handsome stranger appears out of nowhere. She'd thought she was alone in the high school, but it seems she has company - of the supernatural kind!Lucas Drey, vampire, has had his eye on Sophia for a long time. He's watched her since freshman year, and now that she's a senior he knows it's time to claim her. But after Lucas claims Sophia, things don't go according to plan. When she feeds on her first victim, she finds a guy she could easily fall for. Can a vampire and a human make things work? More importantl...
|  | Fairytails: Sleeping Beauty: Dog-Eared Renditions of the Classics
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|  | The Giant Jam Sandwich (Sandpiper Book)
Publication Date: April 27, 1987| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Blue Skies and Gunfire
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|  | The Beginner's Bible for Toddlers (Beginner's Bible, The)
Release Date: January 30, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Carlos and Little Wolf (The Bodley Head beginner series)
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|  | Only Tadpoles Have Tails (Flying Foxes)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five
Release Date: August 22, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Orangutans (Welcome to the World Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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