category: city and town life

... ordinary days . Their white fans fluttered . Their dancing slippers tapped . The doorbell kept ringing . What looked ... sheet music . He gently dusted the piano keys . From time to time and without visible purpose he would depress the ...

Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.

Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.

For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture--from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world.

A new play by the author of the smash hit Thom Pain.

A critical study of Wilder's work, examining the play in its literary and historical context.

... literary societies and fraternities . The first were sanctioned by the university ; the second were not . Most ... fraternity member referred to them as nomadic.32 In spite of the faculty's approbation of the literary societies , both ...

This book analyzes how Auster causes the detective novel's standard formula to collapse and discusses the strategies employed to do so.

' For mature audiences only, this is a powerful play examining difficult and painful issues with honesty, integrity, humor and humanity. The language, while poetic and powerful, is rough. Sex is dealt with frankly and graphically.

... foreplay . There are no rules in foreplay . There is no prescribed traditional or contemporary method for foreplay which may prove effective for all given situations . One has to individualize one's foreplay and realize that foreplay ...

An Annotated Reader Matthew Stadler. Raymond Williams excerpt from The Country and the City The New Metropolis In current descriptions of the world, the major industrial societ‐ies are ... Country and the City by Raymond Williams (197 ...

Louis Josman in his store . ( Courtesy Sonny Josman ) • Karkams lies about 20 km south of Kamieskroon . The name Karkams is derived from a Khoikhoi word or expression that related to water . Various translations have been put forward ...

Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye.

... Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Martin A Danahay (Peterborough: Broadview, 1995), 186. 67 ... Script and the Evolution of the Story on Stage (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), 175. 74. Quoted in Danahay and Chisholm, Jekyll ...

... Línea perdida ( 1993 ) , Pelota verde ( 1995 ) , Naranja sin espacio ( 1993 ) , Melón ... tiempo en un fragmento de edificio , su paso expresado en una mancha de ... atomo como origen y principio de la vida , algo que empieza y se expande ...

It's the story of Pamela Gwynedd, a young woman who lost almost everything to the flood: her fiance, her father, her mother and her beloved little brother, Geordie. Her mother didn't die in the flood, but she's lost in catatonia.

" "Washington, D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital," said The New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance." From the Hardcover edition.

Kudzu Chaos Written by Jennifer Holloway Lambe Illustrated by Alison Davis Lyne When the peaceful town of Red Mud Flats finds itself in kudzu chaos , it takes the courage of Bobby Lee , the cre- ativity of Kudzu Katie , and the coopera ...

... you will , is the atmosphere of souls , the life of intellects ! w of * f ... worship them as Gods . These men were thoroughly imbued with the atmosphere ... we shall by our deeds deter mine ; thus we shape our own destinies ; that we are ...

This book launches a new series set in the world of Magic: The Gathering. This is the first title in an exciting trilogy dealing with the new Magic: The Gathering expansion sets.

Stories of incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Made extraordinary by the eye of the author's genius!.

... stories of cuckolding . He smiled with compassion : ' Fantasies ! ' he said . In reality he knew very well that children no longer paid much attention to cuckolds and for the dozen people with whom he spent most of his evenings , his ...

... Shanka Prakshalana – a cleansing of the intestinal tract and stomach by removing all residual impurities. The practitioner drinks in less then an hour around 3 litres of warm salty water in small portions and applies a special set of ...

... Beirut ) and when blood - swilling ( Allah is wonderful ) Middle - East Yahoos had purchased nuclear hardware , he found distich the only form apt . Too Many Of Us and Dwindled Resources and War had undone us . Matter impartially throve ...

"Dubliners" is Joyce at his most accessible and most profound, and this edition is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's original wishes.

Presents a collection of short stories about American urban life includes such writers as Jasmin L. Harry, Shannon Holmes, and Nikia Comfort.

Critics and readers fell madly in love with Keyes' funny and moving tale of three friends who make a pact to improve their lives.

... culture of poverty was manifest in urban slums as a subculture . In the ... apathetic group , culture or class . The political factors that lead to the ... disorganisation or no organisation . Peta Cities , Slums and Urban Development 99.

... 2 Shortyard cheats his son , Sim Quomodo , out of the property ; Sim voices his contempt for his father ; the merchant's daughter , Susan , marries a man he had not favored ; and his wife Thomasine , far from dissolving in grief ...

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... Al Capone and stories of gang warfare in Chicago in the ' twenties . Equipped merely with a low IQ and the background of Vallance Road , he might have become a seedy small - time protection thug ; as it was , he was determined to make ...