 | Cane
Publication Date: August 17, 1993"[Cane] has been reverberating in me to anastonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it." —Alice WalkerA literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometime...
 |  | A Deeper Blue (Paladin of Shadows, Book 5)
Release Date: May 20, 2008Sequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain and Unto the Breach. Heart-sick over the deaths of so many of his Keldara followers, and one in particular, former SEAL Mike Harmon, hero of Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain, decides to sit this one out. WMDs headed for the US no longer matter to the Kildar. But when his best friend and intel specialist both are seriously wounded in an ambush aimed at him, the Kildar gets his gameface back on. Mike has always said that he's not a nice guy, and he's about to prove it to a boatload of terrorists and Colombian drug ...
|  | Twilight Time
Publication Date: October 1, 2004The Devonshire village of Ford is full of excitement and curiosity at the arrival of their new doctor, the dashing young Scotsman Jamie Murray. Among the fluttering female hearts are sisters Maggs and Crista Fletcher. And though Maggs frequents the local pub in the hope of a chance meeting with the young doctor, it is Crista to whom Jamie has taken a shine. Not that Maggs is exactly drinking on her own. Her admirers include Dickie Trippett, her childhood sweetheart, now scarred for life in the First World War, and handsome, confident, and rich Rupert Swain, s...
|  | The War of the Worlds
Publication Date: November 22, 2011H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of science fiction literature’s most enduring classics.As one of the earliest examples of an alien invasion narrative, this 19th century tale of London’s violent takeover by an alien race has significantly influenced science fiction literature as well as television and cinema for generations.Wells is extremely adept at exposing the virtues and vices of humanity against a backdrop of crisis, and this talent lends substance to this dramatic adventure story. ...
|  | Old Man Goriot (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 0140449728 | ISBN-13: 978-0140449723A witty and reflective look at a society driven by social ambition and lust for riches-in a brilliant new translation.Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring Eugene the status and acceptance he...
|  | The Importance Of Being Earnest
Release Date: November 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 1613821204 | ISBN-13: 978-1613821206The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main charachter, John Worthing's, ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work. This is an important play for those are fans of comedy plays and of course the works of Oscar Wilde. ...
|  | Celebrate Christmas: Easy Dramas, Speeches, and Recitations for Children
Publication Date: August 2002This collection will enable any church -- no matter how many children it has -- to create church programs that help children experience the true story of Christmas. Celebrate Christmas includes recitations, speeches, and dramas for Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas.Celebrate Christmas begins with three poems for Thanksgiving that can be said by one or more young children followed by six poems for Christmas. Prayers for Advent and an explanation of some of the names for Jesus round out the end of the book. What Would You Give Baby Jesus? is a drama specific...
|  | Celebrate Easter
Publication Date: January 2003In addition to three dramas detailed below, Celebrate Easter offers speeches and recitations for children from preschool through elementary grades for the seasons of Lent and Easter, for spring time, and for Mother's Day and Father's Day. Hosanna! Alleluia! is a reader's theater piece that can be done using children in grades three and up. It is perfect for involving the whole Sunday school or in a worship setting. Running time: eight minutes. Sonrise! is a full-length play written with middle school students in mind, but it can also include younger children in ...
|  | Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present
Publication Date: October 21, 1998| ISBN-10: 0132267217 | ISBN-13: 978-0132267212| Edition: 1stThis comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama. ...
|  | Via Crucis de un Ni
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Acompaña a Jesús en su camino al Calvario rezando el Vía Crucis como un niño pródigo que ha vuelto a la casa de su Padre. ...
|  | Rumer Godden Revisited (English Authors Series)
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|  | The Legacy Letters
Release Date: August 2, 2011Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the familymembers of one hundred of the individuals lost on that terrible daylook back-and forward-in this inspiring collection of letters.Filled with love, resilience, humor, wonder, and encouragement, theletters offer a unique perspective on the events of the unforgettableday that forever changed our world.The authors of these letters are adolescents, teens, young adults,spouses, parents, siblings, nieces, and grandparents. They are first- generation Americans, citizens of other nations, and lifelong NewYo...
|  | The Sins of Lord Easterbrook
Release Date: January 27, 2009Journey back to a time of scandal, intrigue, and reckless desire in Madeline Hunter’s sensuous new novel, the tale of a man who will give up everything for the woman he’s determined to possess—even reveal his most sinful secret.Only a desperate mission could bring Leona Montgomery face-to-face with the scoundrel whose dangerous sensuality once sent her fleeing from his arms. But she has under-estimated Christian, Marquess of Easterbrook. As irresistible as ever, his past swathed in mystery, Christian has his own plans for the woman he has wa...
|  | Succubi Like It Hot (The Succubus Diaries)
Release Date: January 19, 2010| Series: The Succubus Diaries Jackie Brighton’s life as a succubus is going great: she’s gone from mousy to bombshell, and although she has to have sex every forty-eight hours or die, she has two hot guys—the vampire Zane and the angel Noah—to scratch her Itch. But then her Itch accelerates to every twenty-four hours, and she’s suddenly waking people’s unconscious just by touching them. Something’s out of control so she and Remy, her mentor, go on an adventure-filled road trip to New Orleans to consult with the oldest s...
|  | Death of a Celebrity (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 18)
Publication Date: January 9, 2002Blonde, glamorous BBC reporter Crystal French has blown into Lochdubh with Highland Life, a hard-hitting TV show that has more than just the heather shaking. Roaring into town in her bright yellow Porsche, her arrival is heralded by a speeding ticket from Constable Hamish Macbeth, in spite of her attempts at bribery and seduction. Out of revenge, her show first bumps off Felicity Pearson's Countryside program, then insults the shopkeepers to the outrage of the entire village, and finally targets Hamish Macbeth for public humiliation. But when Crystal turns up...
|  | THE COMPLETE (Compleat) SHERLOCK HOLMES - Two Volumes: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; Hound of the Baskervilles; Valley of Fear; His Last Bow; Case Book
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|  | Horsin' Around (Sluggers)
Release Date: February 24, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Jamie Lee Curtis's Books to Grow By Treasury
Release Date: October 6, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell's bestselling books have been helping children grow for the past fifteen years! Now four of these favorite titles are gathered in this delightful collection with activities, songs, and stories perfect for families to share. Come read, learn, and play with Jamie Lee Curtis's Books to Grow By Treasury. ...
|  | The View from Saturday
Release Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The White Elephant
Release Date: October 17, 2006 How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse? Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any wor...
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