 | Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New York
Publication Date: June 1991A collection of contemporary drama written by Puerto Ricans, the plays included in the collection are: Bodega, by Federico Fraguada; Family Scenes, by Ivette M. Ramirez; Midnight Blues, by Juan Shamsul Alam; Ariano, by Richard V. Irizarry; and First Class, by Candido Tirado. All of the plays are in Engilsh, and they have all been sucessfully produced on stage. ...
 |  | Elvis Romero and Fiesta De Santa Fe: Featuring Zozabra's Great Escape
Publication Date: July 31, 2011For three centuries, the Fiesta de Santa Fe has commemorated historical events including the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692 and the confraternity of the Rosary named in honour of La Conquistadors. Over the generations the oldest community celebration in the country has evolved to include elaborate parades and processions, including the royal court of DeVargas and La Reins, and memorably; the burning in effigy of Zozobra, or Old Man Gloom, drawing locals and visitors each autumn. Accompanied by rare historical photographs, this b...
|  | UC THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE LIMITED EDITION
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|  | While My Sister Sleeps
Release Date: February 17, 2009Following the success of The Secret Between Us, a book the Boston Globe hailed as “one of her best,” Barbara Delinsky returns with another moving and deeply satisfying novel, this one about the unique and emotionally complex world of siblings.Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing—Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner—and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the news that Robin ...
|  | Crisp: Universal Traveler
Publication Date: July 25, 2003This unique book will open your eyes to effective and stimulating formulas for solving problems. Discover how techniques developed in specialized disciplines can be applied to almost any business, social, or personal situation. ...
|  | The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel
Release Date: August 2, 2011The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand, brandishing a sword in the other. His rebellion shined a national spotlight on slavery and the state of Virginia and divided a nation’s trust. Turner himself became a lightning rod for abolitionists like Harriet Beecher Stowe and...
|  | Buckley's Chance: Give us your heart
Publication Date: April 19, 2010How much does chance play in our lives? Why do we find ourselves in situations that we should have avoided?What gives some people a better chance than others?When circumstances collide, what happens to chance? When Alex Langley vanishes, what chance do the Police and his family have to find him?When a man is brought in to emergency with life threatening injuries, what chance do the surgeons have to keep him alive? When he's had massive head injuries, when he's been in a coma for weeks, when the doctors think he might be brain dead... but he can still hear them...
|  | Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
Publication Date: January 1985Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and ...
|  | Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Kareninasets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna,her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against themarriage of Levin and Kitty, thus illuminating the mostimportant questions that face humanity. The secondedition uses the acclaimed Louise and Alymer Maudetranslation, and offers a new introduction and noteswhich provide completely up-to-date perspectives onTolstoy's classic work.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broades...
|  | Quite Honestly
Release Date: February 27, 2007From the creator of the Rumpole stories—a novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer’s unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn’t be better for Lucinda Purefoy—college educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn’t it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Socia...
|  | The Door in the Hedge
Release Date: October 13, 2003Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays-and Linadel's seventeenth birthday is tomorrow. And Korah, whose brother is bewitched by the magical Golden Hind; now it is up to her to break the spell.Rana must turn to a talking frog to help save her kingdom from the evil Aliyander. And then there are the twelve princesses, enspelled to da...
| | An Introduction to Homer
Publication Date: April 10, 1980| ISBN-10: 0198720998 | ISBN-13: 978-0198720997This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original.It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons for its effectiveness. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Epigrams (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: August 13, 2002| ISBN-10: 0375760423 | ISBN-13: 978-0375760426| Edition: 2002- Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic elite. With wit and wisdom, Martial evokes not “the grandeur that was Rome,” but rather the timeless themes of urban life and society. ...
|  | Despues del silencio/ After the Silence (Best-Seller) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0674024494 | ISBN-13: 978-0674024496Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives, this industry supplied much of south China with cheap educational texts, household guides, medical handbooks, and fortune-telling manuals.It is precisely the ordinariness of Sibao imprints that make them valuable for the study of comme...
|  | Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0712348050 | ISBN-13: 978-0712348058The period from 1400 to 1550 was a glorious era for European manuscript painting. Even after Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing in around 1450, the demand for luxurious illuminated manuscripts continued well into the 16th century, with the leading studios in Italy, France and Flanders producing some of the finest works of art of the period. The British Library's collection of 15th- and 16th-century manuscripts contains some of the outstanding surviving works from Flanders. Examples form the last ...
|  | The Trouble with Cowboys: Catcher Creek
Release Date: October 2, 2012It was their parents' ranch, through the good days and the bad. But if they want to hang on to their land, their pride, and their family, the three Sorentino sisters will have to reinvent it from the ground up-and one of them just may reinvent herself in the process...Cowboys have never been good for Amy Sorentino. First her hard-riding father bankrupted the family farm. Then her all-hat-no-cattle boyfriend sold her out on national television, ending her promising career as a chef. Now she and her squabbling sisters have partnered up in a final attempt to save th...
|  | The Rainmaker 1st (first) edition Text Only
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|  | Death in Cold Type
Publication Date: June 1, 2005Newspaper reporter Leo Fabian doesn’t think of himself as an opportunist. But when the object of his desire, Stevie Lord, loses the object of her desire to murder, he finds a whole new way to penetrate a woman’s heart. Who would want to kill Michael Rossiter anyway? Scion of an old Winnipeg newspaper family, he may have been rich, but he didn’t really seem to have enemies. But as Leo delves deeper into the circumstances surrounding Michael’s death, he learns some surprising things about his friend that quite possibly led to his demise. Michae...
|  | Apples From Heaven: Multicultural Folk Tales About Stories and Storytellers
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up Award-winning collection of international folktales about storytelling and the role of stories in transmitting information, history, and values. ...
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