 | The Marriage Artist: A Novel
Release Date: October 25, 2011When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Dedicating himself to uncovering the secrets of their relationship, Daniel discovers a web of mysteries leading back to pre--World War II Vienna. Ambitious, haunting, and stunningly written, The Marriage Artist is an “elaborate psycho-political-sexual puzzle, with...hard truths, startling visions, and eerie insights into the mystical and memorializing powers of art, and that endless hunger...
 |  | The Skit Book: 101 Skits from Kids
Publication Date: July 26, 2006Viewing skits as an aspect of folklore, this is more a general resource than an actual book of scripts.A list of characters, an outline of the action, and suggested dialogue or improvisations for each is given rather than the formal scripts, stage directions, and production notes found in other collections. Props and scenery are kept to a minimum, and in keeping with the oral tradition, flexibility in length and numbers of actors, as well as variations on the action are indicated. The material, submitted by camps, schools, and youth groups, should appeal to the...
|  | Heads You Lose
Release Date: April 5, 2011New York Times-bestselling author Lisa Lutz conspires with-or should we say against?-coauthor David Hayward to write an original and hilarious tag-team crime novel.Meet Paul and Lacey Hansen: orphaned, pot-growing twentysomething siblings eking out a living in rural Northern California. When a headless corpse appears on their property, they can't exactly dial 911, so they move the body and wait for the police to find it. Instead, the corpse reappears, a few days riper . . . and an amateur sleuth is born. Make that two. When collaborators Lutz and Hayward (former ...
|  | All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Release Date: May 27, 2008A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous ac...
|  | The Treasure of the Celtic Triangle
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Join Percy Drummond on a search that takes him from Scotland to Ireland and a treasure that is closer than imagined. Having accepted his uncle’s dying request, Percy begins an unforgettable quest to solve the hidden mystery of the Westbrooke estate. Meanwhile, circumstances in Wales threaten his success—and the future. As the key to the mystery seems to slip further from him, will Percy discover that treasure is closer than he imagined? (20120704) ...
|  | Who's Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel (Winner of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003"Who's Counting?", by Jerrold M. Solomon, is a business novel that, for the first time, explains how accounting and manufacturing personnel must develop a partnership to successfully achieve world class results. This novel takes readers on a successful "Lean Journey", and illustrates how to bring accounting practices into the 21st century in order to compete in today's global market. A must read for all those interested in successfully implementing lean accounting!Jerry Solomon and Rosemary Fullerton's latest book, "Accounting for World Clas...
|  | West from Singapore
Release Date: April 1, 1987He's a two-fisted American adventurer and veteran of a hundred waterfront brawls. He's "Ponga Jim" Mayo, and he minds his own business and leaves international intrigue to others. But, as master of his own tramp freighter, trouble seeks him out as he navigates the treacherous East Indian seas from Borneo to Singapore. Never one to back away from danger, Jim straps on his colt automatic and takes the helm of the Semiramis, ready to battle pirates and spies, dope peddlers and gunrunners and whoever else dares to challenge his command....
|  | Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
Release Date: January 28, 1992A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings. ...
|  | Yanomamo: The Fierce People (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Publication Date: April 1992| ISBN-10: 0030328195 | ISBN-13: 978-0030328190| Edition: 4th The Y?nomamö of Venezuela and Brazil are a truly remarkable people, and one of the few sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This classic ethnography, based on the author's extensive fieldwork, includes a brief discussion of events and changes that have occurred since 1996.The Legacy 6th Edition of The Y?nomamö also includes a Q&A interview with the author, which reveals his own perspective on his life's work, reflects changes within the field of anthropology itself, and presents the a...
|  | Alice on Stage: A History of the Early Theatrical Productions of Alice in Wonderland
Publication Date: December 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0313276811 | ISBN-13: 978-0313276811This unique work covers the many stage productions of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The book opens with details of productions of the play during the author's lifetime. The book goes on to give a brief background of Victorian Theater in general and then a discussion of Carroll's own passion as a theatergoer and friend of theatrical personalities. ...
|  | Shuntaro Tanikawa: Selected Poems
Publication Date: May 15, 2001A major selection of the work of Japan's preeminent poet. Winner of every significant award for literature in Japan, Shuntaro Tanikawa is that country's foremost living poet. Selected Poems draws from eleven books written over forty years and is masterfully translated in close collaboration with the poet. It is the only major collection of Tanikawa's work available in English. Tanikawa writes a free verse filled with passion and curiosity. American readers will be struck by his fascination with their world and culture--Charlie Brown, John Coltrane, and Oscar Ham...
|  | Los poemas solares (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005Para Aridjis, el poema es un edificio de visiones y la luz diurna, a la que elogia y canta en este libro, la matriz en que se figura el mundo. Aquí está todo lo que merece ser visto: las cosas, aquellos a los que queremos y a los que quisimos, los sueños. El poeta se detiene frente a nuestra cotidianidad para percibir lo extraordinario y, en la naturaleza que nos rodea, la presencia de lo sobrenatural y de lo cósmico; cargado de experiencias y en control de sus pasiones voltea hacia el mundo y lo encuentra luminoso. ...
|  | Sing Love 101
Publication Date: February 25, 2011Sing Love 101 a collection of 101 love poems in which this wordsmith worth his words brings together the good, the bad and the ugly of human love experiences. The poems are glossed with the simplicity of a sweet gentle breeze that caresses the reader's heart like that blowing across his childhood rice fields in the summer. The poet highlights 'Love' as 'the Dream' none should let die. ...
|  | Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History)
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0859894258 | ISBN-13: 978-0859894258| Edition: 1 The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian. This remarkable text is the earliest surviving work of pure sensationalism in Western literature.The Book is arranged thematically: Ghosts; Sex-Changers and Hermaphrodites; Finds of Giant Bones; Monstrous Births; Births from Males; Amazing Multiple Births; Abnormally Rapid Development of...
|  | MALORY & CAXTON'S PROSE (Harvard Dissertations in America and English Literature)
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|  | Promises - Promises Keep
Publication Date: July 25, 2008Being kidnapped into a bordello has a way of changing a woman's focus. On the day Mara Kincaid escapes the Pleasure Emporium, she vows to start living for herself. Rebuilding her life isn't easy as the town isn't fond of reformed fallen doves, but she's a Kincaid and Kincaids are known for their stubbornness. She's successful right up until the notorious ex-marshal Cougar McKinnely comes into town.As big as a mountain, dark as sin, and wearing a reputation as deadly as the knife strapped to his thigh, McKinnely is a man who knows what he wants. By rights, Mara ...
|  | Ice: A Novel
Release Date: November 23, 2010On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that Gabriel would rather not make, given the bitter winter weather—and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. Arriving at Lolly’s home, Gabriel spots strangers through the windows—one of them packing a weapon—and kicks into combat mode. But once Lolly is rescued, the heat—and the...
|  | The Art of Romance Writing: Practical Advice from an International Bestselling Romance Writer
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 1741143748 | ISBN-13: 978-1741143744| Edition: 2nd Aspiring romance writers will appreciate the industry-insider tips and practical advice offered in this fully revised and updated guide written by a top romance novelist. Step-by-step explanations to creating believable characters, handling dialogue, choosing settings, developing workable conflicts, and crafting effective plots are provided. Writers will stay on track and motivated with checklists that are included throughout. In addition to creative advice, a marketing section educates would-be...
| | Wildcard: A Novel
Publication Date: December 31, 2002Steven Dunbar's latest and most deadly case...When a killer virus appears, there are no obvious connections between the victims. The solution is unbelievable, yet all-too-possible When a traveller dies on a flight back to London from Africa, bleeding profusely, the Ebola virus is blamed. Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate investigates and discovers that this outbreak cannot be blamed on Ebola, and that others, completely unrelated to the first victim, are falling ill and dying. Somewhere there is a link. Somehow the wild cards are related. As more and...
| | COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES All Four Novels, all Fifty-Six Adventures Volume Two
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