 | Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Release Date: June 24, 2003Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare booksEssay by Michael NeillThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washingto...
 |  | Street Soldier
Release Date: May 31, 2011Seventeen-year-old Jamal "Prince" Perkins, a self-proclaimed street soldier, is determined to prove that he is not the father of four babies on the way while planning to get deadly revenge against his algebra teacher Ms. Macklin who spurned his advances. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Loose Knit
Publication Date: January 4, 2011Comedy Theresa Rebeck Characters: 2 male, 5 femaleCombination set: interior and exterior. Once a week in the heart of New York City five women gather to knit. As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart. Liz is having an affair with her sister's husband, Gina's lost her job, Paula is having an identity crisis, and Margie just wants a date. Into their lives steps Miles, a cool businessman who made his first million before he was thirty and is now looking for a wife. On a series of hilarious blind dates in a sushi restaurant, Miles and the women go head t...
|  | Blame It On The Mistletoe - A Novel of Bright's Pond
Publication Date: September 2011| Series: Bright's Pond Is There Really a Fountain of Youth in Paradise? Welcome back to Bright 's Pond, where strange happenings are afoot at the Greenbrier Nursing Home. Strange even for Bright 's Pond. The residents suddenly act like kids again riding trikes, climbing trees, and of all things falling in love. Some of the townsfolk blame it on the crooked new gazebo, or its builder, a quirky little man who quotes Don Quixote, collects water from the fountain at the Paradise trailer park, and disappears on a regular basis. While Chief of Police Mildred Blessi...
|  | Talk of the Town
Publication Date: February 1, 2008A charming tale of small-town Texas with a twist of romance as the producer of a reality show attempts to keep secrets from the locals. ...
|  | The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori (Tales of the Otori, Book 4)
Release Date: June 5, 2007| Series: Tales of the Otori, Book 4 The epic conclusion to the bestselling Tales of the Otori-"one of the most thrilling new series of our time."* The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the rich and stirring finale to a series whose imaginative vision has enthralled millions of readers worldwide, and an extraordinary novel that stands as a thrilling achievement in its own right. A dazzling epic of warfare and sacrifice, passionate revenge, treacherous betrayal, and unconquerable love, The Harsh Cry of the Heron takes the storytelling achievement of Hearn's fantastic medieva...
|  | Around the Way Girls 3
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Around the Way Girls (Book 3) There's a saying in Brooklyn that if you come from my part of town that you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls 3/ Double Trouble like it's predecessor is a fast paced look at the life of some street smart woman who think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Shot Glass Diva
Publication Date: September 15, 2008What happens when you combine one part fast-talker, one part hustler and one part taste for danger? You get Honey Davis; a twenty one year old Harlemite who knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it. When her parents cut her off from her trust fund after a bout of irresponsibility, the spoiled Honey knows she's going to have to work to get back on her feet. But growing up an overpriveleged child hasn't left her with the skills needed to survive in the corporate world. So Honey takes matters into her own hands. Using her taste for alcohol and her...
|  | Mount Aesculapius
Publication Date: November 15, 2005Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities.Nick Ware=s implacable animosity towards him seems fueled by jealousy over the close relationship Coffin enjoys with the Chair of Internal Medicine.Over the course of their struggle, Ware, emboldened by the discovery of Coffin’s secret, conspires to schedule an unauthorized meeting of his fellow chairpersons for a no-confidence vote on the Dean.The multiple subplots tell how the personal and professional...
|  | The Loving Spirit
Publication Date: May 1, 2010A lush generational novel from the bestselling author of Rebecca "[du Maurier] tells a story because it's a good story, because it has something of beauty in it, and therefore of truth. She pictures life itself rather than all the dark and torturous currents that twist below its surface... Miss du Maurier's book is a grand one." --Chicago Tribune In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying love that knows no bounds. Janet, a fearless young woman of soaring strength, longs for the wildness an...
|  | The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology
Release Date: June 30, 1997The pioneering creator of transformative workshops and books, Dr. Jean Houston here explores the nature of spiritual yearning and demonstrates to readers how to facilitate a personal quest for fulfillment by focusing on the aspects of Sacred Psychology. Houston provides a passport to the wondrous and tragic dimensions of the human psyche. ...
|  | On Stage for Teen-Agers
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|  | Homer and the Oral Tradition
Publication Date: January 28, 1977The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, 1962) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition. There are problems here of interest not only to classicists and Homeric specialists but also to students of English and comparative literature, and to anthropologists...
|  | Flute and the Lotus
Publication Date: July 8, 2006This is a book about romantic moments, heart throbbing moments, soul-stirring moments and enchanted moments that have inspired poets, enlivened courts and enriched havelis and been celebrated by our artists, been patronised by the raja and indulged in by the praja. Sensual moments alive with passion and radiant with emotion are equally of amorous pleasure and heart-rending pathos. Such romantic moments are a very special part of the love between a man and a woman. The author traces the development of romantic poetry in the Indian tradition starting with ancient ...
|  | Georgia Epitaphes (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | How Do I Love Thee?
Release Date: March 7, 2000This interactive book helps couples build good memories by spending positive time together. It provides affirming, open-ended questins and romantic conversation starters that can be used on anniversaries or other special nights out. ...
|  | Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics: Pater, Pound, Joyce and Stein
Publication Date: August 26, 2010This book examines the theory and the practice of music, in relation to the writing of four major modernist figures: Walter Pater, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Brad Bucknell examines modernist writers' relationship and engagement with music, from theories about music and musical-literary relations to the composition of music and libretti. Bucknell's study investigates how music, as a discrete artistic mode of expression, and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers, reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project. ...
|  | Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories
Publication Date: July 29, 2009Susie Bright brings together love's darkest arrows in this shiver-inducing collection of 15 gothic erotic short stories,with original stories from legends such as author Francesca Lia Block and Supernatural screenwriter Sera Gamble. Delicate illustrations weave throughout the lush package, and printed edges make the baroque book an object to behold. Open alone or share with a lover and devour the mystical characters, forbidden sexual relationships, and private pleasures. ...
|  | The Alchemist
Publication Date: July 15, 1997They are called designer drugs, and they're worse than lethal--they're legal. A beautiful undercover agent and her partner are brutally murdered in Southern California. A special task force of highly trained police officers go underground to find out why. What they discover is a billion-dollar criminal conspiracy--and an elusive mastermind known as the Alchemist.The Alchemist is a respected chemist who has conjured up a substance worth its weight in gold: a synthetic "designer" drug as potent as cocaine or heroin and twice as dangerous--because its unique chemi...
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