 | Gem of the Ocean
Publication Date: July 17, 2006“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker“A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson’s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times“Wilson’s juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom.”—Michael Philli...
 |  | Code Triage (Mercy Hospital)
Publication Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Mercy Hospital (Book 3) Dr. Leigh Stathos likes her ER shifts fast, furious, and adrenaline-infused—“Treat ’em and street ’em”—with no emotional complications. Life’s taught her a soul-rending lesson: nothing lasts forever, including marriage. And the clock is ticking toward the end of hers. Then an unwelcome confrontation with “the other woman” begins a whole new set of lessons. San Francisco police officer Nick Stathos never gives up, whether protecting his patrol neighborhood, hold...
|  | Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life
Publication Date: December 23, 2010What are the “poetics of everyday life”? What can they teach us about God? Art, music, dance, and writing can certainly be “poetic,” but so can such diverse pastimes as fishing, skiing, or attending sports events. Any and all activities that satisfy our fundamental need for play, for celebration, and for ritual, says William Dyrness, are inherently poetic — and in Poetic Theology he demonstrates that all such activities are places where God is active in the world.All of humanity’s creative efforts, Dyrness points out, testify t...
|  | Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 1
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Japan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has been introduced into English only haphazardly until now. The first volume of a 3-volume anthology covering over two centuries of kaiki literature, including both short stories and manga, from Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari of 1776 to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's modern interpretations of popular tales. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field, the series systemizes and introduces the scope of the field and helps establish it as a genre of ...
|  | The Last Full Measure
Release Date: May 2, 2000In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and...
|  | The Queen's Secret: A Novel (A Queens of England Novel)
Release Date: April 24, 2007| Series: A Queens of England Novel Katherine of Valois was born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine was old enough to know him, her father had come to be called “Charles the Mad,” given to unpredictable fits of insanity. The young princess lived a secluded life, awaiting her father’s sane moments and suffering through the mad ones, as her mother took up with her uncle and their futures became more and more uncertain. Katherine’s fortunes appeared to be changing when, at nineteen, she was married...
|  | Rescue At Inspiration Point
Publication Date: October 5, 2011Rescue at Inspiration Point is the second book in the Rip Van Dyke time-travel series. Van is taken hostage at a local prison, and Patsy is stuck in the role of hostage negotiator. Jill sends Bennie back to 1974 to learn more about the hostage taker and his crime. "Do nothing," Jill warns. "Just observe and report back." But the instant Bennie lands, she breaks Jills # 1 rule. As Bennie pursues her own agenda in 1974, the hostage crisis in 1988 escalates. Can Bennie rescue Van from fourteen years away? Or will her actions only make things worse? ...
|  | The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010(THE BRUCE TRILOGY: BOOK I)In 1290, Scotland is without a king.Two families-the Bruces and the Balliols-vie for the throne. Robert the Bruce is in love with Elizabeth de Burgh, the daughter of an adherent of the ruthless Longshanks, King of England.In order to marry her and not give up his chances of someday becoming King of Scots, Robert must abandon his rebel ways and bide his time as Longshanks' vassal.But Edward, Longshanks' heir, doesn't trust the opportunistic Scotsman and vows to one day destroy him. While quietly plotting his rebellion, Robert is betraye...
|  | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Release Date: September 1, 1998Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of alli...
|  | How to Be a Better Person
Release Date: February 23, 2010The hilarious-and occasionally heartwarming-adventures of a volunteering cynic When Seb Hunter accidentally picks up a phone call for a charity fundraiser one day, he faces a moment of reckoning. It isn't so much that he lacks a social conscience, but that he can no longer assuage it by simply eating the odd bar of Fairtrade chocolate. So he decides to sign up with the charity, transform good intention into commitment, and get involved in as many different types of volunteering as possible. From falling out with fellow do-gooders at Oxfam to becoming embroiled ...
|  | The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
Publication Date: May 5, 2009Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many other countries. It is a groundbreaking global anthology of 70 poets writing in a common language, responding to shared traditions, different cultures and contrasting lives in the changing modern world."...
|  | Belief or Non-Belief?: A Confrontation
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0826480993 | ISBN-13: 978-0826480996| Edition: 1 In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day. One is a respected scholar and one of the pre-eminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe; the other the world famous author of The Name of the Rose, a scholar, philosopher and self-decalred secularist, a man who writes with equal ease about Thomas Aquinas and James Joyce, computers and the medieval Templars. Often adversarial but always ...
|  | Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Socio-Poetics of Modernism (Cambridge Studies in French)
Publication Date: September 24, 1993| ISBN-10: 0521419808 | ISBN-13: 978-0521419802This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies.By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides a new and illuminating approach to Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism.Professor Holland demonstrates the impact of military authoritarianism and the capitalist market (as well as Baudelaire's much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer, who abandoned his romantic ide...
|  | 1 Underworld 2
Publication Date: May 1994| ISBN-10: 1884970001 | ISBN-13: 978-1884970009Poetry. Born in New York, William James Austin has spent most of his life touring the city's ruins. As a musician and song writer, he's composed for Lou Rawls, the fusion group, Hammer, and other rock and jazz notables. His poems have appeared in many art an dliterary periodicals, uncluding A Shout in the Street, BLuR--The Boston Literary Review, Appearances, Louisiana Literature, The New Laurel Review, Timbuktu, and The Contemporary Review. In 1991, he was nominated by BLuR--The Boston Literary Review and the noted...
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|  | Never Too Late For Love (Arabesque)
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|  | The Familiars
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females
Publication Date: June 8, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up We are all very familiar with the classic male trickster characters such as Brer Rabbit, Anansi, and even Bugs Bunny. In this collection, Robert San Souci, the author of many award-winning retellings of legends and folktales for children, teams up with his brother, Daniel, to show us that the fairer sex can be just as clever and resourceful as their male counterparts. ...
|  | The Fast and the Furriest
Release Date: July 12, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Meet Kevin Pugh, 12-year-old couch potato. Now meet Cromwell, his part beagle, part potato chip dog. Kevin’s looking forward to spending his summer doing as little as possible. Unfortunately, Kevin’s father, former Chicago Bears star player/super-sports fanatic, Howie Pugh, feels differently. So does Cromwell, who has suddenly and mysteriously developed a fascination with agility competitions: running up seesaws, leaping over hurdles, soaring through hoops (sometimes). If he has to do anything, Kevin would r...
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