 | A Moon for the Misbegotten
Publication Date: August 28, 2006Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, as Jim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight. This paperback edition features an insightful introduction by Stephen A. Black, helpful to anyone who desires a deeper understanding of O’Neill’s work. ...
 |  | Korean Americans (American Immigrants)
Publication Date: November 8, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Folklore and Folk Literature of Wu-Chin, Chiang-Su (Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs : No 6)
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|  | A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: November 5, 1997When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute...
|  | The Marshal's Promise (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Mail-order bride Rebecca Ramsey arrives in the New Mexico territory full of dreams—but they're shattered when she discovers her intended husband has been killed. If it weren't for U.S. marshal Seth Billings's housekeeping job offer, she'd have nowhere to go. Rebecca loves tending to Seth's home, but the strong and silent lawman is harder to figure out. What secret is he hiding?Caring for Jesse Cole's would-be bride is the least Seth can do. If it weren't for him, the young man would still be alive. Seth had promised to look...
|  | Obsession (Toni Matthews Mysteries, No. 1)
Publication Date: January 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0805421491 | ISBN-13: 978-0805421491Toni Matthews is a twenty-six-year-old with a firm grasp on her life and destiny—that is until she receives a phone call. While on a fishing trip vacation, her father, Paul Matthews, was killed in a horrible accident. Then, while settling the affairs of her father's detective agency, she receives a mysterious phone call from April Lippincott, a client of her father's who was looking for her fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Julie Greene. Toni soon discovers that her father's fatal fishing trip and the Jul...
|  | Yesterday's Stardust (Lost Sanctuary)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: Lost Sanctuary (Book 2)Journalist Dani Gallagher finds a tattered diary written in the Roaring Twenties—and clues to a lost treasure. Chef Nicky Fiorini helps unravel the clues, and attraction ignites, but Dani is hiding her own secret. In hopes of a great story, she’s using questionable means to gather information on a local teen gang. Just as she and Nicky are on the verge of solving the mystery, internal fighting breaks out in the gang. Dani is caught the middle, and Nicky is furious. Then the diary leads to a hidden room and a shockin...
|  | The Great Train Robbery
Release Date: October 28, 2008 Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London—and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademarks, Mic...
|  | Ramage & the Saracens (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 17) Barbary Coast pirates—the Saraceni—are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another town. ...
|  | Naughty, Naughty (Nexus)
Release Date: April 22, 2010| Series: Nexus Gabrielle Salinger has been sent to track down Sabrina, a voluptuous and dominant young woman who has fallen under the influence of elderly sybarite David Anthony. Gabrielle soon discovers that the couple are already in France, getting up to all sorts of lewd mischief. Accompanied—but not really helped—by her girlfriend Poppy, Monty Hartle, and the boys from the Razorback Paintball, Gabrielle is soon beginning to wonder if she's bitten off more that she can chew. By the time she's being hunted through the woods in bunny costume, she's sur...
|  | Herland and Selected Stories (Signet classics)
Release Date: July 7, 1992| Series: Signet classics At the turn of the century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrity—acclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for her divorce, her relinquishment of custody of her daughter, and her unconventional second marriage. She was also widely read, with stories in popular magazines and with dozens of books in print. But her most famous short story, the intensely personal "The Yellow Wallpaper," read as a horror story when first published in 1891 and lapsed into obscurity before being rediscovered and reinterpreted by femin...
| | Virgil's Aeneid (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Publication Date: March 1987| Series: Modern Critical Interpretations A collection of six critical essays on Virgil's epic poem, arranged in chronological order of original publication. ...
| | Varen kjem ridand: Islandsk etterkrigslyrikk (Norwegian Edition)
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|  | The Second Person: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selections)
Release Date: March 9, 2007| Series: Stahlecker Series Selections Drawing on traditional forms including the villanelle and pantoum, and writing with an ear for a beautiful, resounding rhythm, C. Dale Young investigates the lessons of the trainee doctor and documents the experiences of the practicing physician, remarking on the ways medicine alone is not enough: "Do not let a man // abandon hope," says Saint Luke. And, as with the remarkable long sequence, "Triptych at the Edge of Sight," these are also poems of intimacy, depicting with rich color and poignant contemplation the way art strug...
|  | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Publication Date: March 5, 2012When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he...
|  | Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies)
Publication Date: October 31, 2011| Series: Cistercian Studies (Book 238) During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, savored in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader s own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from this culture includes theoretical writings from the Conferences of John Cassian (fifth century) through the twelfth-century treatises of Hugh of St. Victor and the Carthusian Guigo II; it also includes compilations, literar...
|  | Water Like a Stone: A Novel (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels)
Release Date: February 6, 2007| Series: Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels When Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn; a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former ...
|  | Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road)
Publication Date: September 6, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Rocket-Powered Cars (Super-Charged)
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|  | Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities
Publication Date: November 15, 2006| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Here’s a great book for every young adult age 11 up, Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities. Signing is visual, easy to learn, and fun to use. Author Penny Warner offers 441 useful signs on a variety of favorite topics: activities, animals, fashion, food, holidays, home, outdoors, parties, people, places, play, emotions, school, shopping, travel, plus extra fun signs for especially popular words. Each chapter includes practice sentences using everyday phrases to he...
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