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A young woman is found exploring her sexuality by her brother, the Bishop. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

The shifting passions and ambitions of six women drawn from Shakespeare's theatre. Cast of 6 women.

Ever since her family moved to Aunt Sally's farm, Tooter's known that farm life is definitely not for her. There's no pizzeria for miles, her nearest neighbor is a dumb boy, and even her own pet chicken hates her! So Tooter decides to show everyone what she's made of by winning the blue ribbon at the County Fair's goat show. Now all she has to do is keep her little brother--and his paint brush--away from her prize goat!

In this analysis, we closely detail the Predator Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) and also document the important demonstration and transition issues from the project that can be applied to other ACTDs.

In-depth analysis of the 130-year history of the Aboriginal title issue in British Columbia, including the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en case.

Romano is arrested without charge after Canada officially declares war with Italy. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

In 1975 young Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of rich black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto, cradling sparkling apartment towers where the elite of black professionals live behind a ten-foot-high, ivy-covered fence. But 11-year-old Temmy is drawn to the world outside the fence, to 35th Street, a place of colorful, often dangerous characters. 320 pp. National author tour. Lo...

The emotional struggle of an adopted Native woman to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

In The Old Neighborhood David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage. In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present...

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor, " and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering, " "total quality management, " and other management philosophies and employing its own brand of business success, Kelleher's ...

Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, "The Mistress of Spices" tells the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time in a faraway place who is trained in the ancient art of spices. When Tilo--disguised in the gnarled body of an old woman--travels to present-day Oakland, California, an unexpected romance with a handsome stranger forces her to choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes of modern life. 352 pp. Nat...

A comic, biting investigation of self and identity in the North American middle-class. Cast of 9 women and 11 men.

From a fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter comes a viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot. Cast of 2 men.

In this superb work of investigative reporting, Zia Jaffrey pursues the riddle of India's most elusive subculture, the cross-dressing and often-castrated figures known as "hijras" whose very name means neither male nor female. Are the hijras lucky or dangerous? Are they a nurturing community of outcasts or a criminal network that kidnaps and mutilates recruits? Do they number in the thousands or in the millions? As she talks with policemen, a ...

Waggy dog, shaggy dog, doggies in a bunch. Floppy dog, sloppy dog, doggies eating lunch. Kids will love this bouncy, colorful book, bursting with every kind of dog imaginable!

Five geologists are interrogated following a death in the Mekong Delta. Cast of 1 woman and 6 men.

Tremblay portrays five different stages of his life together with his mother. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

This comprehensive collection contains essays from the nation's most respected thinkers, including Mary Ann Glendon, Senator Bill Bradley, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and many others.

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Tremblay recounts, with grace and tenderness, his mother's death as a coda to his "Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal" series.