 | The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 4
Release Date: April 28, 1998| Series: Collected Plays of Neil Simon (Book 4) Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized characters touch their hearts. These five plays, including the Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning Lost in Yonkers, show Simon at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career. Rumors Lost in Yonkers Jake's Women Laughter on the 23rd Floor London SuiteIncluding the ...
 |  | Breakfast with Buddha
Publication Date: August 26, 2008When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger--and amuse himself--he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity...
|  | Women of Magdalene
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Young Dr. Robert Mallory, fresh from three blood-soaked years as a field surgeon on the battlefields of the Civil War, makes his way on foot to the Magdalene Ladies’ Lunatic Asylum to assume his duties as the resident general practitioner. When he recovers the body of a young patient in a nearby river, the callous indifference of the authorities disturbs him. He soon finds that mistreatment of the patients is commonplace and that the doctors who run the asylum have little interest in treating the patients—many of whom have no mental disability...
|  | Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History
Publication Date: September 22, 2001Lambda literary award finalist, Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same-sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt persecution. This collection defies both stereotypes of Indian culture and Foucault's definition of homosexuality as a 19th-century invention, uncovering instead complex discourses of ...
|  | Willoughby's Return: A tale of almost irresistible temptation
Publication Date: November 1, 2009A lost love returns, rekindling forgotten passions… In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past.Three years later, Willoughby's return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite feelings of uncertainty. Willoughby is as charming, as roguish, and as much in love with her as ever. And the timing couldn't be worse—with Colonel Brandon away and Willoughby determined to win her back, will Marianne find the strength...
|  | The Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes, 2010
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1575257742 | ISBN-13: 978-1575257747| Edition: 1St Edition This year Smith and Kraus Publishers has again combined its annual best monologues and best scenes anthologies. Here, you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues and scenes from plays that were produced and/or published in the 2009-2010 theatrical season. Most are for younger performers (teens through thirties), but there are also some excellent pieces for men in their forties and fifties, and even a few for older performers. Some are comic (laughs), some are dramatic (gen...
|  | Las Memorias de sherlock holmes II Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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|  | Jason's Gold
Release Date: October 3, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up "Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!"Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting the difficult journey to the Klondike. The Dead Horse Trail, the infamous Chilkott Pass, and a five-hundred-mile trip by canoe down the Yukon River lie ahead. With help from a young writer named Jack London, Jason and his dog f...
|  | The Tale Of Tricky Fox
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up A hilarious tale about a tricky fox who can outsmart any human except a teacher! "Cleverly paced repetition and an unexpected ending make this droll caper a winning choice." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "McClintock's lively line gets the tale's mischief just right.her wily Fox even winks conspiratorially at the reader." - The Horn Book, starred review ...
|  | Angelina's Ballet Class (Angelina Ballerina)
Release Date: January 19, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up TOO TINY TO BE TERRIFYING. The fascinating world of baby dinosaurs—in amazing pictures!What did a dinosaur look like sitting on its eggs? What kind of parent was a Tyrannosaurus rex? How could an Argentinosaurus, who probably hatched from an egg no bigger than 18 inches long, grow up to weigh more than 17 elephants? It’s a sure bet that kids—always fascinated by dinosaurs—have wondered about these questions.BORN TO BE GIANTS, with its glossary of dinosaurs, easy-to-understand text, and full-color illustrations, shows l...
|  | Hotel For Dogs: The Guest Book
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|  | Food Found All Around (Spyglass Books)
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|  | Your Senses (First Facts: Senses)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | 10 exploradores que cambiaron el mundo / 10 Explorers Who Changed the World (Personajes Que Cambiaron El Mundo / Personages That Changed the World) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | How to Draw Orcs, Elves, and Dwarves (Drawing Fantasy Art)
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|  | The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 1990The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, first serialized in March–July 1844. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all" ("tous pour un, un pour tous"). --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2
Publication Date: September 5, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up When Kitty Pryde appears to have become pregnant overnight, Beast, Iceman and Rachel Grey shrink down and enter Kitty's bloodstream to discover the truth behind her...condition! Meanwhile, Wolverine and Kid Omega travel to an intergalactic casino to win enough money to keep the Jean Grey School going! And when a billion Brood invade the school, Kitty, Broo the Broodling and an army of Bamfs must face a new, unstoppable foe! And if all that weren't enough, Sabretooth takes on Beast in the most vicious fight ever set to paper, and Ange...
|  | Asset Pricing Theory (Princeton Series in Finance)
Publication Date: February 9, 2009| Series: Princeton Series in Finance Asset Pricing Theory is an advanced textbook for doctoral students and researchers that offers a modern introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of competitive asset pricing. Costis Skiadas develops in depth the fundamentals of arbitrage pricing, mean-variance analysis, equilibrium pricing, and optimal consumption/portfolio choice in discrete settings, but with emphasis on geometric and martingale methods that facilitate an effortless transition to the more advanced continuous-time theory. Among the...
|  | Time, Reality and Transcendence in Rational Perspective (None)
Publication Date: December 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 8773076449 | ISBN-13: 978-8773076446Rationality is widely regarded as being at odds with the very concepts of metaphysics and transcendence. Yet it is easy to forget that the thinkers who pioneered rationality and the scientific method did not subscribe to this view. For instance, Aristotle described God as the source of reason in Eudemian Ethics, and Newton and Galileo both believed that our ability to investigate the world scientifically has a divine origin. The eight essays in this volume examine a variety of intellectual approaches to the...
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