Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A GATHERING OF OLD MEN is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Early in...
A TALE AS LONG AND TWISTED AS THE BRAIDED HAIR AT THE CENTRE OF IT'S LEGENDS. A girl with magical hair taken from her parents and confined to an isolated tower. Her captor, an old witch who acts as a...
'I was 7, I had never seen a ship before...it looked very big...everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite f...
A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of the world's greatest speeches – the old, new and unspoken – from the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note. Discover speec...
Expansions of the "Old Testament" and legends, wisdom and philosophical literature, prayers, psalms and odes, and fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic works.
New and emerging readers will love to join in the fun and discover what "pops up" when the Old Lady swallows a fly! The wonderful illustrations, simple rhyming text, and pop-up surprises make this a b...
In the early fifties, he is honored both nationally and internationally with a large retrospective exhibition of his work that travels throughout Europe, displaying his unquestioned brilliance in one ...
This is a one-of-a-kind reference work to the history of vaudeville, performance art, burlesque, revue, and comic opera. Author Frank Cullen has done deep research, including archival work and persona...
The writers of the Bible depended on other sources for much of their work. Some of these sources may be lost forever, but many have recently come to light. Known as the pseudepigrapha, they are made a...
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture is a unique twenty-eight-volume series encompassing all of Scripture and offering contemporary readers the opportunity to study for themselves the key wri...