 | Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo
Publication Date: March 1, 1990In this third collection of verse, Esteves takes all of the rhythmic, bluesy potential and the women's poetic militancy of previous works and brings them to full, resplendent, funky bloom, blending the oral and literary traditions in a fusion of spiritual, blues and women's poetics. "Esteves speaks with punch and politically-astute vigor about the realities of the urban poor. More importantly, however, the poetry draws a big distinction between one being economically poor and spiritually and culturally repressed" (Poetry Flash). ...
 |  | Leaving The Reason Torn: Re-thinking Cross and Resurrection through R. S. Thomas
Publication Date: June 15, 2012For many people today, the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday raise more questions than solutions. Likewise, people are often unmoved or confused by 'atonement theories' seeking to explain the purpose of Christ's death. In this thoughtful and heartfelt book, Alison Goodlad turns from abstract argument to poetic imagination for illumination, finding fresh inspiration in the poems of R. S. Thomas. With a Foreword by Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, Leaving the Reason Torn offers a compelling exploration of the foundational mysteries ...
|  | An H.P. Lovecraft Anthology: More Than 50 Weird Tales (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: May 7, 2008Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, an...
|  | Chesapeake: A Novel
Release Date: September 9, 2003"Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.From the Paperback edition. ...
|  | Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London (2 Works)
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| Series: 2 Works Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell’s experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. ...
|  | The Lone Ranger Volume 4: Resolve SC
Release Date: June 11, 2010| Series: Lone Ranger The Ranger and Tonto head for their final confrontation with the villainy that is Butch Cavendish. Along the way, love is found, life is lost, and the Ranger learns the true meaning of "Resolve".Collects issues #17-24, along with a complete cover gallery by artist John Cassaday. ...
|  | War Party
Release Date: August 1, 1982Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure on the frontier. B...
|  | The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: January 17, 1969| Series: New Directions Paperbook One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism.'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor—seemingly there for the men's solace—their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the mo...
|  | Five Christmas Programs for Children
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|  | National Theatre Connections 2011: Plays for Young People
Release Date: May 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 140813179X | ISBN-13: 978-1408131794This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary scho...
|  | Barron's AP English Literature and Composition, 4th Edition
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0764146963 | ISBN-13: 978-0764146961| Edition: 4 In-depth preparation for the AP exam includes: ...
|  | The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Publication Date: August 14, 2000| ISBN-10: 0520216458 | ISBN-13: 978-0520216457| Edition: New Ed This collection of essays--the first of its kind in English--brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present.Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarl...
|  | Bits & Pieces Of Me
Publication Date: March 14, 2008Ten Short Stories, One Stage Play: Some are fiction, some are true. ...
|  | The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legend)
Release Date: January 13, 2005| Series: Vampire Huntress Legend The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten back and now it Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera (now a Council level vampire) will finally have the chance to settle in and explore their deeper, sexier love.But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world.One of the four topside Master vampires has stolen one of the Keys-the living blood of Christ---that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations.He who possesses the Key and the Seal can decide to...
|  | Vlad Dracula: The Devil's Puppet
Publication Date: July 5, 2010*Warning Sexually Explicit Version*Centuries after the Ark of the Covenant was delivered to a secret church in Ethiopia, a young prince stood before a great Turkish army. It was on that battlefield he would loose his life, then his soul.Is Dracula really the monster? Or is he the puppet? One thing's clear, he's not in control! ...
|  | Greek Myths: Ulysses and the Trojan War (Gift Books)
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | Myths Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for
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|  | The Shadow of a Flying Bird
Release Date: September 15, 1994| Grade Level: P and up This powerful and poetic story, drawn from a Kurdistani tale based on the Old Testament, retells the story of the death of Moses. With graceful and moving prose and richly colored illustrations, Gerstein has created a memorable book. ...
|  | Night of the Veggie Monster
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When just a single pea touches the lips of this determined vegetable hater, an enormous battle of war and peas begins. But our hero doesn’t just cry, whine, or refuse to swallow. He turns into a VEGGIE MONSTER! That is until—gulp!—he accidentally swallows the pea, and realizes that maybe vegetables aren’t so bad after all. At least until broccoli night comes around. With inventive mixed-media illustrations and a short, snappy text that combines a child’s dinner-time drama with a hilari...
|  | Food and Recipes of the Civil War (Cooking Throughout American History)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001 ...
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