 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Release Date: August 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0451218590 | ISBN-13: 978-0451218599| Edition: Reprint “Twelve times a week,” answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the pla...
 |  | From Here to Maternity : A Novel of Total Exhaustion
Publication Date: May 1, 2004Saturday morning coffee sessions are never going to be the same. . . .Sydney marketing exec Sophie presumed "making sacrifices for your children" meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . . . But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco?Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee get-together at the...
|  | Lord Of The World (Catholic Writers Series)
Publication Date: October 15, 1999| Series: Catholic Writers Series In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives us an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. All stories, Aristotle said, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but most ends are relative, the terminus of this chain of acts or that. But what of the end that terminates all human action as we know it, the end of time itself, the Second Coming? Since this novel appeared in 1906, many others have been devoted to nuclear disaster, destructive comets, and other hair-raising possibilities. What s...
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|  | Master of Ravenloft
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|  | Loving Joe Gallucci: Love and Life with Hepatitis C
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Love between a man and a woman is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and spiritual exchanges between two human beings. It is also one of the most tragic, particularly when alcohol, drugs, dysfunctional families, and a life-threatening liver disease are thrown into the mix. Loving Joe Gallucci is one such love affair. It is the extraordinary romantic tale of Meg Flaherty, daughter of an eminent Massachusetts senator, and Jimmy Romano, a blue-collar boy always trying to prove himself to the imperious Flaherty clan. Taking place over a period of thirty years, t...
|  | Complementary Colors
Publication Date: October 23, 2009What happens when a 31-year-old straight woman falls in love with a lesbian? It's 1993, and Gwen Sullivan is agitated. She's been married and divorced and is now living with her scientist boyfriend who loses himself in dark moods. Her job at a tutoring center and her work on the Bill Clinton-for-President campaign leave her vaguely dissatisfied. She hopes taking a night class in poetry might help. In the poetry class, the allure of two lesbians takes her by surprise. She can't get them out of her mind. This prompts her to question who she is and who she want...
|  | Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
Publication Date: December 27, 2011Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered—in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period’s poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in both institutional and popular forms. The ten essays in Meter Matters showcase the range of metrical practice of poets from Wordsworth and Byron to Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson; at the same time, the contributors bring into focus some of the metrical...
|  | Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica
Publication Date: April 12, 2011The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica.For such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities.The rich and slightly decadent visuals ofthe steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced.Steampunk, even without sex, is erotic; with sex, it’s over-the-top hot.A wido...
|  | Life, Poetry, and Prison--Cuoc Song, Thi Van, va Tu Day; Nguyen Chi Thien's poetry in bilingual text (English and Vietnamese Edition)
Publication Date: March 17, 2007Bilingual English and Vietnamese text of poems from the period of 1958 - 1979 when the author, was imprisoned in Communist Vietnam for the offense of writing poetry against the regime. The manuscript was brought to the British Embassy on July 16, 1979, during a brief period of release. Nguyen Chi Thien--denied asylum--was arrested outside the gate and spent the next twelve years in prison, eight of them in solitary darkness.First published anonymously in the Vietnamese language press in the United States, translations began as early as 1982. These English tran...
| | Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk
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|  | Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: From Yeats to Joyce
Publication Date: December 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0333760263 | ISBN-13: 978-0333760260Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal argues that a focus on the construction of mother-figures in Irish culture illuminates the extraordinary achievement of the Irish modernists. Essentially, the seminal Irish modernists—Moore, Joyce, Synge, Yeats, and O'Casey—resisted those mother-figures sanctioned by cultural discourses, re-writing her in order to elude her. In this, they not only re-constituted language and representation, they accessed and re-figured and their own creative sleves. ...
|  | Little Big Heart
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Today, widowed neurologist Dr. Daniel Lucas has a comatose Jane Doe patient. The only thing he knows about her is that she was badly beaten by someone and left for dead. And that he is strangely, inexplicably drawn to her. So drawn, he allows his young son to sit by the woman's bedside and relate stories of the old west once told to him by his deceased mother. Yesterday, the abandoned wife of an abusive husband, Cassie struggles to maintain the small Montana ranch she and her young son call home. When drifter Daniel Lucas comes by she hires him on, grateful ...
|  | The Moving Target
Release Date: March 3, 1998Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel. ...
|  | The Sunken Sailor (A Serial Novel)
Release Date: April 6, 2004During a weekend house party in a proper English village, a body is discovered at the bottom of a pond tied to a submerged statue of Neptune.And the weekend has only just begun. So has this ingenious mystery-a literary game of round robin in which fourteen master crime writers have each contributed a chapter of their own. What they deliver is a wildly entertaining whodunit with as many dizzying twists, turnabouts, double-crosses, and divergent styles as there are solutions and suspects.Featuring the bestselling and multiple award-winning talents of:Simon Bret...
|  | A World Without Heroes (Beyonders)
Release Date: February 14, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
Release Date: January 6, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Look Out for Mater! (Disney/Pixar Cars) (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Basketball in the Big Ten Conference (Inside Men's College Basketball)
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|  | Chip and the Karate Kick (Good Sports)
Release Date: April 27, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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