 | This is Our Youth
Release Date: February 2, 2000An unblinking portrait of young urban life in the 1980s, Kenneth Lonergan's look at "the real Real World"(The New York Times) This is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonnergan's lacerating look at affluent young Manhattanites of the 1980s, was first produced by the New Group in New York in 1996 to great critical acclaim and a Drama Desk Award nomination for best new play. Set in 1982, the play depicts two days in the lives of three college-age Upper West Siders who are from wealthy families but are living in doped-up squalor. Dennis--with a famous painter for a father and so...
 |  | China Men
Release Date: April 23, 1989The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land. ...
|  | Girls Most Likely: A Novel
Release Date: July 25, 2006“We didn’t know then that the dramas we imagined weren’t even warm-ups for what real life held for us.”From the fifth grade to their fifth decade, Vaughn, Reenie, Susan, and Audrey share secrets and dreams–their lives connected like silk threads through rich fabric, pulling but never breaking at life’s unexpected twists and turns. Meet the girls most likelyTO WRITE THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Vaughn has a flair for words that makes her the unofficial diplomat of the foursome. She’s great at keeping it together for ever...
|  | Tender Vine, The (Diamond of the Rockies)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Diamond of the Rockies (Book 3) Aching from the recent loss of a constant companion, Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to return to the shelter of her close-knit family. Her husband, Quillan, is bent on proving his devotion, and they begin the arduous journey to the home of her youth nestled in the vineyards of Sonoma, California. But their arrival at the DiGratia estate is not the joyous occasion they expected. Will a confrontation with the past pull them apart--or will the love they once embraced be reignited? ...
|  | Maggie Rose (Daughters of Jacob Kane, Book 2)
Publication Date: June 8, 2009A Pursuit of a Calling The year is 1904, and Maggie Rose, the spunky, friendly, twenty–year–old middle daughter of Michigan resident Jacob Kane, feels compelled to leave her beloved hometown of Sandy Shores to pursue what she feels in her heart are God's plans for her life–in New York City.A Heart for the Homeless Maggie Rose adjusts to her new life at Sheltering Arms Refuge, an orphanage that also transports homeless children to towns across the United States to match them with compatible families. Most of the children have painful pasts ...
|  | Cage of Stars
Publication Date: August 29, 200712-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same.Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths, dropping her identity and severing ties in the process. As she closes in on Early, Veronica will discover the true meaning of sin and compassion, before she makes a decision that will change her and her family's lives forever. ...
|  | Jacob's Dream - Part One: The Vision (Pt. 1)
Publication Date: November 2002Jacob's Dream: The Vision is an apocalyptic epic about a man named Jacob and his vision of the End of the Age and the Second Coming. It is a profound parable about God redeeming one hardened soul for his purposes. ...
|  | Skeletons in the Swimmin' Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World
Publication Date: September 30, 2010In these chilling ghost stories for grown-ups set in Disney Parks, a thief is haunted by her sticky-fingered past. A woman wants an angry spirit to stop torturing her. A teenager demands her parents expel her wicked sibling. And a pilot wishes to unload his eerie cargo. But each will discover exorcism isn't as easy as going to Disney World. Adult fans of Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom and Lord Vishnu's Love Handles should find these literary horror stories an E-ticket ride!"Her chilling grasp of the mechanism of terror and a dead-on killer instin...
|  | The Awakening
Publication Date: July 1, 2002This fast-paced novel is about the spiritual awakening of three ordinary people who experience bizarre events. Leigh Honeywell is a Mental Health Counselor who hypnotizes a client and stumbles onto a grisly murder in a former lifetime. Phillip Shepherd, a widowed businessman, is suddenly blessed with the gift of healing. Eleven-year-old Andy Benedetti has amazing psychic powers. Together, they must find their mission, which is veiled in mystery, before the dark forces can stop them.This book gives hope, inspiration, and comfort about fearful realities such as de...
|  | The Prairie Bridesmaid
Publication Date: August 28, 2008Anna Lasko is a frustrated schoolteacher in her thirties. While her almost-but-not-quite ex-boyfriend Adam is on a work assignment in Europe, Anna finds herself tricked into a ditch-the-loser intervention by her supportive yet meddling girlfriends. More frustrated than ever, Anna starts to smoke, asks Buddy, the backyard squirrel, for advice, and finally seeks out the help of a caring but fashion-challenged therapist. Adding to the emotional overload, Anna’s beautiful but rash sister decides to move to the Middle East. Luckily, Anna has a resource...
|  | Oedipus Rex: A Dramatized Audiobook (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: March 15, 2012| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies. The story of the mythological king, who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother, has resonated in world culture for almost 2,500 years. But Sophocles’ drama as originally performed was much more than a great story—it remains a superb poetic script and exciting theatrical experience, now faithfully brought to life in this English translation and audiobook. David Mulroy’s brilliant verse rendition of Oedipus Rex recaptures the...
|  | Ausonius, Volume II (Loeb Classical Library No. 115)
Publication Date: January 1, 1921| ISBN-10: 0674991273 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991279Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. 310–ca. 395 CE, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric in a school which he began in 334. Among his students was Paulinus, who was afterwards Bishop of Nola; and he seems to have become some sort of Christian himself. Thirty years later Ausonius was called by Emperor Valentinian to be tutor to Gratian, who subsequently as emperor conferr...
|  | Masterpieces of Religious Verse
Publication Date: May 1977This superb collection of over 1500 poems not found in any other single anthology includes works from contemporary writers as well as outstanding poets from as far back as the second century. It is well organized and thoroughly indexed. ...
|  | Coming Home from Sea
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|  | Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Publication Date: September 13, 2011The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. The author examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particula...
|  | Scarlett Slept Here : A Book Lover's Guide to the South
Release Date: January 1, 2001From Vampire Lestat's spicy New Orleans to Scarlett's Atlanta, "Scarlett Slept Here" brings the reality of literature home with a tour of the literary south. Photos & maps. ...
|  | The Uncanny X-Men #267: Nanny
Publication Date: 1990The Uncanny X-Men #267: Nanny ...
|  | Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
Publication Date: August 25, 2001First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag. ...
|  | Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner
Publication Date: March 1, 2000Throughout the Civil War, Captain Jacob Ritner and his wife exchanged an extraordinary series of letters vividly depicting both life on the battlefield and at the home front.Jacob recounts in compelling detail most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, the Occupation of Savannah, and the Carolina's Campaign. Emeline movingly records the lives of those left behind.Theirs is also the story of a family of Iow...
|  | The Boy from the Dragon Palace
Release Date: August 1, 2011| Grade Level: P and up One day, a poor flower sellers drops his leftover flowers into the sea as a gift for the Dragon King. What does he get in return? A little snot-nosed boy--with the power to grant wishes! Soon the flower seller is rich, but when he forgets the meaning of "thank you," he loses everything once again. "You just can't help some humans," say the snot-nosed little boy and the Dragon King. ...
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