 | Not Exactly Job
Publication Date: March 10, 2008In this book of poetry, photographs, and scripture, poet Nathan Brown expands the tradition of spiritual literary struggles by engaging with the Book of Job both as poetry and as catalyst for personal, contemporary questions of innocence and experience, faith and doubt.Often irreverent but always honest, Not Exactly Job is an emotionally powerful and intellectually challenging work. ...
 |  | Elizabeth I: The Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012The latest New York Times bestseller from Margaret George-acaptivating novel about history's most enthralling queen.One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret Georgedazzles here as she tackles her most complicated subject yet: thelegendary Elizabeth Tudor, England's greatest monarch. Thismagnificent, stay-up-all-night page-turner is George's finest-aspectacular portrait of the alluring yet elusive woman who ruled overthe golden age of British history and culture. But what was she reallylike? In this novel, her flame-haired, look-alike cousin, LetticeKno...
|  | Property
Release Date: April 13, 2004Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the ...
|  | The Terminator
Release Date: October 1, 1985MORE DEADLY THAN ANY MAN ALIVEThe time is now... but he comes from the Year of Darkness, 2029. He was created to reshape the future by destroying the present. He feels no pity, no pain, no fear. He feels nothing. He is an unstoppable killing machine programmed for murder. He is...THE TERMINATOR ...
|  | Everything Matters!: A Novel
Release Date: June 25, 2009In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories-his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North ...
|  | Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded On Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts ... Shows, the Festivals of Fools and Asses, the
Publication Date: February 9, 2010This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works wor...
|  | Theatre of the Ridiculous (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: December 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0801856981 | ISBN-13: 978-0801856983| Edition: Revised & enlarged "What is Ridiculous? Here's one way to describe it: an anarchic undermining of political, sexual, psychological, and cultural categories, frequently in dramatic structures that parody classical literary forms or re-function American popular entertainments, and always allude to themselves as 'performances.'... It is comedy beyond the absurd because it is less intellectual, more earthy, primal, liberated. Not tragi-comedy but metaphysical burlesque, the Ridiculous offers a new ve...
|  | Chinese Drama: An Annotated Bibliography of Commentary, Criticism, and Plays in English Translation
Publication Date: September 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0810823470 | ISBN-13: 978-0810823471Providing access to relevant citations from a variety of disciplines_art, architecture, anthropology, literature, political science, history, and others_this bibliography is intended for theatrical groups or students searching for a translation of a play or an interpretation of one, for scholars seeking an introduction to an aspect of Chinese drama beyond their immediate expertise, for teachers revising or developing courses in Chinese/Asian drama, and for libraries attempting to develop their Chinese/Asian...
|  | Antologia poetica (Literatura Hispanoamericana) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Series: Literatura Hispanoamericana Creador visceral, obsesivo, subterraneo, de voz estrangulada y perturbadora densidad, CESAR VALLEJO (1892-1938) forma, junto con Pablo Neruda y Vicente Huidobro, la triada indiscutible de grandes poetas hispanoamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Acompanada de un iluminador prologo a cargo de Jose Miguel Oviedo, responsable asimismo de su seleccion, esta ANTOLOGIA POETICA -que recoge integro el desgarrado poemario sobre nuestra guerra civil Espana, aparta de mi este caliz- ofrece una muestra inmejorable de la obr...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Childrens Writers 1800-1880
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|  | Dada (Themes and Movements)
Publication Date: October 15, 2006| Series: Themes and Movements Dada developed in distinct periods and locations, providing the structure of the book. From Europe and New York during the First World War it spread to Eastern Europe and Japan in the 1920s. Its re-emergence as Neo-Dada in the 1950s and influence on Fluxus in the 1960s was linked to emigres such as Marcel Duchamp and Hans Richter. Survey: International Dada expert Rudolf Kuenzli surveys Dada in its historical context and examines its significant impact and resonance in art and culture today. Linking visual art, performance and ...
|  | Purple Church
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Purple Church tells the story of Brother Jimmy Russell, avulnerable and lonely Baptist minister who has everything going for himuntil his life falls apart after leukemia claims the life of his devotedbride. Brother Jimmy is then tempted by the young and beautiful AshleyWhite, who was abused by her father as a child and then raped by herfiance's father when she was in college. Ashley's tragic past leaves herempty and starved for attention, a perfect combination that leads herto skid row on a lofted stage in a popular Memphis strip club. The taleis one of re...
|  | More Kinky Friedman
Publication Date: April 5, 1994Kinky Friedman, the poet of country music, the misogynist of mystery, the writer, musician and all-rounder, is the author of this collection of tales of murder, mystery and general screwing around. ...
|  | The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Avengers: I Am An Avenger, Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 19, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up The Boisterious Beast! Tigra the Were-Woman! The Sensational She-Hulk! And, of course, the Amazing Spider-Man! Avengers recruitment drives brought in all of them, and it's a day unlike any other when those tales are teamed together for the first time! Plus: a member who comes back from the dead to rejoin and a literal trial by fire when two of Marvel's most enduring characters - and one of mythdom's most heralded heroes - join the team during the Inferno crisis! Also featuring the team's first gathering and its first lineup revision into ...
|  | Survival Tricks and Tips
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|  | Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
Release Date: September 13, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A boy, a dog, and New Orleans' most famous hurricaneSaint is a boy with confidence as big as his name is long. A budding musician, he earns money playing clarinet for the New Orleans tourists, and his best friend is a stray dog named Shadow. At first Saint is sure that Hurricane Katrina will be just like the last one--no big deal. But then the city is ordered to evacuate and Saint refuses to leave without Shadow. Saint and Shadow flee to his neighbor's attic--and soon enough it's up to Saint to save them all. ...
|  | McDougal Littell Nextext: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer Grades 6-12 (Classic Retelling)
Publication Date: February 18, 2001| ISBN-10: 061812053X | ISBN-13: 978-0618120536Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom SawyerTake a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Find the Piglet (Rhyming Board Books)
Publication Date: March 31, 2001| Age Level: 0 and up...
|  | Blanca and Arusha: Tales of Two Big Cats (Zoo World)
Publication Date: June 1, 1995 ...
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