 | Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0140436715 | ISBN-13: 978-0140436716Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces s...
 |  | Blindness (Harvest Book)
Publication Date: October 4, 1999| Series: Harvest Book A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evoc...
|  | Sofia's Secret (River Of Hope, Book 3)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: River of Hope (Book 3) Scandal surrounds Sofia Rogers, a woman in her early twenties, when it becomes obvious she is pregnant and unmarried. Yet nobody knows the real story. And Sofia isn’t about to share it; she would rather bear the shame than face the threat of consequences. When Eli Trent, the new doctor in town, gets involved, the trouble escalates in the form of thievery, arson, and death threats. Nevertheless, Eli is determined to break down the wall of silence behind which Sofia hides her deep, dark secret. He is out to convince her s...
|  | Further Up & Further in: Understanding C. S. Lewis's the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Publication Date: October 1, 2005This new popular-level book from renowned C. S. Lewis scholar Bruce Edwards will enable C. S. Lewis buffs, new and old, to gain immense access and understanding into the mind of the author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the creator of the world of Narnia. Further Up and Further In examines the message and theme of the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia. This book is a perfect companion for those who intend to see the forthcoming movie based on this story and wish to know about what Lewis was trying to communicate to his readers. ...
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|  | Be Careful Who You Ask For
Release Date: July 6, 2006A psychologist is thrown off track by four of his zanier patients. Are the patients progressing, or is the therapist himself deteriorating and crossing the dotted line into insanity? ...
|  | Selected Fables (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics A collection of the world's most beloved fablesJean de la Fontaine popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "The Hen Who Laid Golden Eggs," transforming the world's great fables into charming works of astonishing originality, wit, and verve. James Michie's earthy translations capture the friendly brio, nimble comedy, and jaunty wisdom of the original. * Black-and-white line drawings by J. J. Grandville introduce each fable ...
|  | Readers Theatre/A Resource Handbook
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|  | Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light (SB-The German List)
Publication Date: December 15, 2010| Series: SB-The German List Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, is a monologue delivered by the “she” in Beckett’s play. This unnamed female similarly recalls other significant women protagonists in Handke’s own work such as The Left-handed Woman. Handke prefaces the monologue in Till Day You Do Part Or a Question of Light with a description of two stone figures. ...
|  | 8 Tens @ 8 Festival: 30 10-Minute Plays from the Santa Cruz Festivals I-VI
Publication Date: June 30, 2001| ISBN-10: 1575252422 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252421| Edition: 1st Thirty award-winning short plays from the first five years of the famed Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz 8 TENS @ 8 Festival. This innovative and wildly popular annual theater event features the work of West Coast playwrights in a format which is excellent for scene study and directing projects. Comedies, dramas, traditional, and avant-garde, these plays explore character, setting, theme, and action in a wide variety of styles. An anthology well-suited to the introduction of contemporary drama and a ...
|  | Plague Lands: And Other Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1847770630 | ISBN-13: 978-1847770639Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. The first of his poetry to appear in English, this collection includes an elegy for the life of a lost city—a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient civilization. Memories of Baghdad’s alleys, smoke-filled cafés, and mulberry-shaded squares are recalled with painful intensity. Karim’s defiant humanity, rejecting dogma, and argumentative nature underscore hi...
|  | Cartas de Amor para Lee Thomas Volumen I:Esperar: Poemas Sensuales para Adultos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 2, 2011An eroticChristian poem book for Spanish readers based in the romantic novel, "Exposed" written by the same author. ...
|  | Styles of Ruin: Joseph Brodsky and the Postmodernist Elegy (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: March 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 031330419X | ISBN-13: 978-0313304194Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky is one of the most celebrated poets of our time, preoccupied with the the nature and destiny of poetry in our era. This volume analyzes Brodsky's career in terms of key elegies and investigates the critical role of elegiac thinking in postmodernist poetics. In his elegies for poetic ancestors, family, friends, and the self, Brodsky demonstrates a concern for a paradox that is at the heart of modern elegiac poetry: attempting to find a basis for consolation in the face of de...
|  | Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0915924048 | ISBN-13: 978-0915924042Genre fiction is finally given its due, with 3 to 5 essays for each genre style, filled with exercises and student samples. This fun loving T&W classic was designed to help teachers expand their writing curricula with popular fiction genres. A fascinating guide, Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction provides ways to help students write, using the literature they already know and love. ...
| | Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism (Ams Studies in Modern Literature)
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|  | Beatific Souls: Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Publication Date: October 28, 2007Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was a touchstone for a generation and the centrepiece of the Beat movement in literature and art. This new book examines Kerouac's life and career, and accompanies a major exhibition at The New York Public Library to celebrate the 50th anniversary of On the Road's publication in 1957. Kerouac's achievement as both a literary and cultural figure is traced, including his innovations in narrative techniques and in character development. His counterculture vision is explored, showing his image as a seer and sage who wanted to sav...
|  | The Darkest Night (Hqn)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Hqn All her life, Ashlyn Darrow has been tormented by voices from the past. To end the nightmare, she has come to Budapest seeking help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities, not knowing she'll be swept into the arms of Maddox, their most dangerous member--a man trapped in a hell of his own.Neither can resist the instant hunger that calms their torments...and ignites an irresistible passion. But every heated touch and burning kiss will edge them closer to destruction--and a soul-shattering test of love.... --This text refers to the Kindle ...
|  | The Very Virile Viking
Release Date: October 25, 2011 Viking in Wonderland Magnus Ericsson is a simple man. He loves the smell of fresh-turned dirt after springtime plowing. He loves the feel of a soft woman under him in the bed furs. He loves the heft of a good sword in his fighting arm. But, Holy Thor, what he does not relish is the bothersome brood of children he’s been saddled with. Or the mysterious happenstance that strands him in a strange new land— the kingdom of Holly Wood. Here is a place where the folks think he is an act-whore (whatever that is), and the woman of his dreams—a winemak...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes treasury
Publication Date: 1976The Complete Sherlock Holmes treasury ...
|  | Bicycle Safety (Heinemann First Library)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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