 | McSweeney's Issue 4
Publication Date: November 16, 2010McSweeney’s Issue 4 is a box containing 14 booklets. The booklets feature fiction and nonfiction, from Denis Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Cohen, Lawrence Weschler, Rick Moody, Lydia Davis, and many others. The first of many experiments in book and magazine packaging, McSweeney’s Issue 4 marks a departure from the simpler paperback mold of the first three issues. For this issue, authors chose the art and design of their booklet. So, for example, Denis Johnson chose to use his son Matt's doodle ...
 |  | Happily Ever After (An Avon Romantic Treasure)
Release Date: November 9, 1999| Series: An Avon Romantic Treasure A Girlhood DreamSophia Vanderwahl had always dreamed a knight in shining armor would sweep her off her feet, but she knew this only happened in fairy tales. And when she discovers the truth about her philandering fiance, she decides to track the scoundrel down and confront him in person. So she hires adventurer Jack MacAuley to help her find her neglectful husbandto-be. But with every glimpse into Jack's seductive eyes, every tremor she feels at the sound of his voice, she finds her memory of her fiance fading away ...A Woman'...
|  | Peach
Release Date: April 1, 1987Peach de Courmont -- Wild child, teenage temptress, exquisite woman. The adored granddaughter of Leonie and heiress to the de Courmont dynasty, she grew up in luxury, used to having life -- and love -- on her own terms.Noel Maddox -- Raised in an Iowa orphanage, used to the mean streets of Detroit, he fought his way from the assembly line the pinnacle of power. Peach --and the automobile empire she commanded -- were part of the dream he meant to have... at any price.From wartime Paris to the dazzling Cote d'Azue... from the frenetic boardrooms...
|  | Curriculum, Training Methods, And History Of A Competitive Improvisational Comedy Company (Studies in Theatre Arts)
Publication Date: October 31, 2004| ISBN-10: 0773463178 | ISBN-13: 978-0773463172ComedySportz, the Milwaukee-based competitive improvisational company, was the examination model used in this study which examines the history of the company, analyzes their beginner workshop curriculum and details their training methods. Two research questions were applied: What is the history of ComedySportz? What are the teaching methods used by ComedySportz in their beginner-level workshops? Research was based on personal interviews, company archives, questionnaires, and observations. Dick Chudnow, the c...
|  | roMANIA After 2000: Five New Romanian Plays
Publication Date: September 1, 2007The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, roMANIA after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. Includes Stop the Tempo, Romania. Kiss Me, Vitamins, Romania 21, and Waxing West. ...
|  | La gran sultana do
Publication Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Teatro Cervantes participó en varias expediciones militares en el Mediterráneo;tras una de elllas, de regreso a España, fue apresado por piratas berberiscos. Durante cinco años sufrió un duro cautiverio en Argel. Arriesgó su vida en varios intentos de evasión hasta que fue rescatado por unos frailes trinitarios cuando era conducido a Constantinopla. Tenía treinta y tres años. Al final de su vida publicó Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados (1615). Tres de esas comedias muestran...
|  | El gran teatro del mundo (Extasis / Ecstasy) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011 ...
|  | Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology Of Contemporary Gay Theater
Publication Date: February 9, 1996| ISBN-10: 0813325056 | ISBN-13: 978-0813325057Created for general and scholarly audiences alike, this volume offers ten of the best recent plays by and about gay men, all of which have been successfully produced and critically acclaimed in the United States and England. The playwrights, who reflect multicultural origins ranging from Anglo to African American and Latino, have crafted powerful and insightful depictions of the roles gay men play in gender politics.Each play is explosive, politically and socially relevant, and enlightening, whether it be Ma...
|  | Martin Buber's 10 Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
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|  | Turner: New and Selected Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 2002David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to J. M. W. Turner's celebrated poem "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying." Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in Turner's painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned man's unspoken desires, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of history, including the meaning of Turner's painting. ...
|  | Seneca: Epistles 66-92 (Loeb No. 76)
Publication Date: January 1, 1920| ISBN-10: 0674990854 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990852| Edition: Latin/English Parallel Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in 65. Wealthy, he pr...
|  | Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal
Publication Date: May 10, 2009There are countless descriptions of wartime Britain from historians and journalists; Dear Helen depicts World War II from the perspective of an average London citizen, with details of daily life that few other documents provide. These letters do more than document headlines and daily life: they candidly convey British attitudes toward American isolationism prior to Pearl Harbor and reveal how the English felt about taking on the Nazis alone. They also tell of the social changes that transformed English society and how the cold war had a different impact on Briti...
|  | Eternidad (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 7, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol Entra en el oscuro y seductivo mundo de los inmortales. Ever guarda un secreto: puede oír los pensamientos de todos los que están a su alrededor, ver su aura y conocer su pasado con solo tocarles la piel. Abrumada por la fuerza de este extraño don, vive encerrada en sí misma y solo tiene dos amigos, los excéntricos Haven y Miles. Todo cambia, sin embargo, cuando Damen se incorpora a su clase; atractivo y enigmático, despierta rápidamente el interés de todas las chicas del instituto. Ever, como si...
|  | El Cazador De Monos / Monkey Hunter (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003"In 1857, when Chen Pan signs a contract that will take him from China "beyond the edge of the world to Cuba," he has no idea that he will be enslaved on a sugarcane plantation...or that he will eventually, miraculously, escape his bonds and embark on a prosperous life in Havana's Chinatown...or that he will buy a mulatto woman out of slavery and take her into his home and heart...or that he will end his long days in Havana, surrounded by children and grandchildren, as Cuban as he is Chinese." In a vivid tapestry of incident and feeling, Chen Pan's life story i...
|  | Private Arrangements
Release Date: March 25, 2008Love has designs of its own.…To all of London society, Lord and Lady Tremaine had the ideal arrangement: a marriage based on civility, courteousness, and freedom—by all accounts, a perfect marriage. The reason? For the last ten years, husband and wife have resided on separate continents. But once upon a time, things were quite different for the Tremaines….When Gigi Rowland first laid eyes on Camden Saybrook, the attraction was immediate and overwhelming. But what began in a spark of passion ended in betrayal the morning after their wedding...
|  | The Dog Park: A Collection of Stories with a Common Cast of Characters
Publication Date: July 18, 2010The Dog Park is a book of eleven short stories that share a magical dog park as a setting. There people and their canine companions deal with betrayal and redemption, mathematical odds, illicit love, and more. Example: In "Embodiment," interspecies boundaries blur between Argus, a stray German shepherd, and Cara Rosetti, who is in despair over a break-up and her dog's death. ...
|  | Tracker's Sin (Hell's Eight)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Hell's Eight Before his trade became his name, "Tracker" Ochoa was a scrawny mestizo runaway. Now as fearsome as he once was frightened, he's joined the notorious Hell's Eight…and they have a job for him.He must rescue kidnapped heiress Ari Blake and deliver her safely to the Hell's Eight compound—by any means necessary. Turns out that includes marrying her, if he means to escort her and her infant daughter across the Texas territory. Tracker hadn't bargained on a wife—especially such a fair, blue-eyed beauty. But...
|  | Lord Savage
Publication Date: November 2000When Lady Elizabeth Barrington goes to Colorado in search of the Marquess of Angelstone, she finds rugged, bounty-hunting rogue Ash MacGregor, and discovering a resemblance to the noble family, Elizabeth vows to prove to Ash that aristocratic blood pounds through his veins. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | In the Electric Eden: Stories
Release Date: January 28, 2003Writer and former engineer Nick Arvin layers his knowledge of technology, mechanical design, and human character into a collection of emotionally riveting stories. With a subtle hand he transports readers through history and across America to ten poignant and utterly unforgettable places: a traffic accident in the middle of the heartland; the electrocution of Topsy the elephant at Coney Island at the turn of the century; the backyard of an old recluse; a Marine Corps practice invasion of the Florida beaches; a romantic tryst in a dismal corporate office; the lau...
|  | The Gingerbread Man
Release Date: January 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up...
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