 | American Captivity Narratives (New Riverside Editions)
Publication Date: December 27, 2000| ISBN-10: 0395980739 | ISBN-13: 978-0395980736| Edition: 1st This volume collects a wide variety of works from a uniquely American literary tradition, the captivity narrative. Beginning with an excerpt from Hans Staden's The True History of His Captivity, which influenced the American captivity narrative, this volume presents accounts by early settlers held captive by Native Americans (Mary Rowlandson, John Smith), narratives by African American slaves (Olaudah Equiano, John Marrant), and others. Collected with the real-life accounts are two captivity ...
 |  | Mother Hicks
Publication Date: June 1, 1986| ISBN-10: 0876022638 | ISBN-13: 978-0876022634Play script. An evocative story of three outsiders, richly realized through all of the resources of theatre, including poetry, character, and story. Various locations in and around Ware, Illinois, in the late spring of 1935. (THE TASTE OF SUNRISE by Suzan L. Zeder is the prequel to this play.) CAST: 4 men, 4 women (minimum) who create 10 roles.Set in southern Illinois, during the great Depression, this play is about three outsiders - - a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of ...
|  | A Young Lady of Property: Six Short Plays by Horton Foote
Publication Date: January 1998| ISBN-10: 0822212919 | ISBN-13: 978-0822212911A YOUNG LADY OF PROPERTY. Wilma, a lonely girl of fifteen, lives with her aunt. Her mother is dead, and her father, who is weak and not too reliable, goes out with a Mrs. Leighton, a woman of whom the town disapproves. In a wistful moment Wilma confesses to her best friend that what she really wants more than anything else is to live again with her father in the house her mother left her, and since she knows that will never happen, she would like to marry in a few years and live in her house with her husband and...
|  | POETIC GEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Publication Date: March 30, 2004The part of poems mirrors the emotions of the poet about life different from others and shows how vivid the human imagination can be. The story part has one truly happened in life and a very interesting one about a special lovely dog. ...
|  | Naomi's Gift: An Amish Christmas Story
Publication Date: September 12, 2011Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you'll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman's story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams ... and secrets. You'll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the 'English' way of life---and the decisions and consequences that follow. Most importantly, you will be encouraged by the hope and faith of these women, and the importance they place on their families.Naomi's Gift re-introduces twenty-four-year-old Naomi King, wh...
|  | The Importance of Being Earnest
Publication Date: July 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 0486264785 | ISBN-13: 978-0486264783| Edition: 1 Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | The Restorer (The Sword of Lyric Series #1)
Release Date: April 25, 2007Wife and soccer mom Susan Mitchell enters a portal into a mysterious world grappling for its soul and waiting for a promised Restorer. While she struggles to adapt to a foreign culture full of unfamiliar technologies and taboos, she faces unexpected battles, mind-poisoning enemies, and a profound spiritual journey.Her adventure will forever change her family, her faith, and how she experiences love—from the One. ...
|  | A King's Trade: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures (Book 13) The Powder-Packed Thirteenth Installment in a Classic Naval Adventure SeriesAfter Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie’s HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed. Slave-stealing is a hanging offense, and suddenly his neck is at risk of a fatal stretching.Once Lewrie has escaped, the master Foreign Office spy, Zachariah Twigg, arranges for a long voyage even...
|  | Happy Moscow
Release Date: November 13, 2012In the mid-1930s Stalin announced that “life has become better, life has become merrier”; these words were endlessly repeated on the radio, in newspapers, on posters and placards. In Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov exposes the gulf between Stalin’s rhetoric and the reality of the time. The heroine, Moscow Chestnova, is an orphaned girl who has been named after the fairy-tale Soviet capital. A bold, gifted, and glamorous parachutist, she joins the Soviet elite, but a parachuting accident is only the beginning of her fall...and it is not only she w...
|  | The Boy from Beirut and Other Stories
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|  | Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics
Publication Date: December 14, 2000| ISBN-10: 0195116585 | ISBN-13: 978-0195116588| Edition: 1St Edition Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited the community of the polis to confront itself. In the theatre, as in the courts and assemblies, a significant subset of the Athenian public was spectator and judge of contests where important social and ideological issues were played to it by its own members. The "syntax" of drama is show...
|  | Teacher's Guide for Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0865164819 | ISBN-13: 978-0865164819| Edition: Tch Teacher's Edition- Designed for advanced placement and college classes, this text is a complete revision of passages from Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI plus selections from Books 10 and 12. For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with tit...
|  | Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception: Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
Publication Date: May 18, 2006| ISBN-10: 0415977193 | ISBN-13: 978-0415977197| Edition: 1 Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence. The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of her fiction. Ohler argues that Wharton depicts the complex interrelations of New York's gentry and socioeconomic e...
|  | CliffsNotes Roman Classics
Publication Date: May 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 0822011522 | ISBN-13: 978-0822011521| Edition: 1 Cliffs Notes on Roman Classics is the reference book you need to understand the values and ideas inherent in Latin literature and Roman civilization. It is a must for students of: the Humanities English Literature World Literature Law Classical Literature and Languages Political Science History Theatre and Drama Religion Speech Communications Use this invaluable reference book to:* Give you concise overviews of Roman poets, playwrights, orators, satirists, philosophers, historians, and their works.*...
|  | From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages (Theory and History of Literature)
Publication Date: June 26, 1987| Series: Theory and History of Literature From Topic to Tale was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance has been discussed since the 1940s as a shift from a Latinate culture to one based on a vernacular language, and, since the 1960s, as a shift from orality to literacy. From Topic to Tale focuses on this multifaceted transition, but...
|  | The Troupe
Publication Date: February 21, 2012Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he suspects to be his father, the great Heironomo Silenus. Yet as he chases down his father's troupe, he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville: for wherever they happen to tour, the very nature of the world seems to change. Because there is a secret within Silenus's show so ancient ...
|  | Vow of Vengeance
Publication Date: February 14, 2003BLACKBEARD IS BACK WITH HIS VOW OF VENGEANCE!As the wedge of death races down toward his neck, Blackbeard utters avow of vengeance which would not be addressed until 287 years later.Debut novelist and veteran criminal lawyer Danny T. Ferguson hasbrought Blackbeard back to life in the year 2002 when a dna-certifieddescendant of Blackbeard, a modern day sea rogue from North Carolina'sOuter Banks, seeks to fulfill his reverred patriarch's ancient Vow ofVengeance.In his high speed Fountain yacht, the blackbearded, drug-dealingmurderer speeds north through the c...
|  | The Resisters #1: The Resisters
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Tennis (True Books: Sports)
Publication Date: September 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Where the Sidewalk Ends
Publication Date: January 1, 1974| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer … Come in … for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and croc...
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