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Dream of a Common Language
by Heather McdonaldDrama / 2m, 3f, 1m child / This intriguing work produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and in New York was inspired by an actual incident: women were banned from the artists' dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, the dinner is at the home of Victor, a successful artist, and Clovis, an artist who no longer paints. After helping with the preparations and being excluded from the dining room, Clovis devises a "women only" dinner to be held outdoors. Winner of three 1995 Helen Hayes Awards including Best New Play.
Dream of a Falling Eagle (The Mongo Mysteries #14)
by George C. ChesbroCircus-performer-turned-PI Mongo takes on &“the CIA, neo-Nazis, and Haitian voodoo terrorists&” in a grand finale that is &“even more fun than usual&” (Booklist). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as &“Mongo the Magnificent&”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. Investigating illegal CIA activities in Haiti leads Mongo and his brother, former NYPD cop Garth Frederickson, to a grisly discovery: five victims of voodoo ritual sacrifice. But that&’s just the first surprise. Soon they uncover a wildly ambitious assassination plot that not only puts them in the cross hairs but also has the potential to change the fate of the United States forever . . . Employing his &“unlimited imagination&” and talent for creating &“terrific suspense&” in the Mongo mystery series, author George C. Chesbro delivers a climax that pulls out all the stops (Publishers Weekly). Dream of a Falling Eagle is the 14th book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Dream of the Bird Tattoo: Poems and Sueñitos (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Juan J. MoralesIn this brilliantly rendered collection—the author’s fourth—Juan J. Morales explores love and grief after the death of his father. Morales weaves his father’s personality, his childhood in Puerto Rico, and his service in the US military with his own interest in life after death. In these poems he guides the reader through ghost hunts, conversations with mediums, a series of dreams in which he and his father work through his father’s crossing over together, and his ultimate acceptance of this monumental loss. Dream of the Bird Tattoo beautifully showcases how our loved ones continue to live on in our memories and actions.
Dream of the Blue Room: A Novel
by Michelle RichmondJenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth's ashes and finally fulfill her friend's dream of visiting her Chinese father's homeland. It's also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny's past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog ("Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard" --Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know ("Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned"--Family Circle), Michelle Richmond's stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us--wherever home may be.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dream of the Blue Turtle: Trouble At Trident Academy; Battle Of The Best Friends; A Whale Of A Tale; Danger In The Deep Blue Sea; The Lost Princess; The Secret Sea Horse; Dream Of The Blue Turtle; Treasure In Trident City; A Royal Tea; A Tale Of Two Sisters (Mermaid Tales #7)
by Debbie Dadey Tatevik AvakyanKiki Coral has an amazing gift: she can see the future. She doesn't have visions very often, but they are always surprising! When Kiki sees a vision of her classmate Rocky Ridge coming face-to-frightening-face with a gigantic leatherback turtle, she is frightened to the tip of her shiny purple tail. Can Kiki save Rocky from his dangerous fate? What if no one in Trident Academy believes her scary prediction?
Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
by YanyiFrom an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. &“A book like no other: tender, and eloquent, a singing across borders, across silences.&”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, National Book Award finalistThe poems in Yanyi&’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. How can we carry our homes with us? Informed by Yanyi&’s experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another. In tender, serene, and ethereal poems, Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundary-shifting ways. These are homes in memory—homes of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder.
Dream of the Falling Axe (The Grave of Empires)
by Sam SykesA standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed The Grave of Empires trilogy. Sal the Cacophony solves problems no one else can. Because she's caused more than a few herself. And the pursuit of such a problem from her past has brought her to a frontier town held together in the face of disaster through strength alone. But both the town and Sal will learn that strength alone can't save everyone. They called her for help. Unfortunately for them, she answered.For more from Sam Sykes, check out:The Grave of Empires:Seven Blades in Black Ten Arrows of Iron Three Axes to FallThe Gallows Black The Iron Dirge Dream of the Falling AxeBring Down Heaven:The City Stained Red The Mortal Tally God's Last BreathThe Affinity for Steel Trilogy:Tome of the Undergates Black Halo The Skybound Sea
Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary and Translation Perspectives (Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature)
by Kanglong Liu Riccardo Moratto Di-Kai ChaoThis edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture, the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations, either full-length or abridged, have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically, the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations, from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies.
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
by Jorie GrahamThe 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books.
Dream of the Walled City
by Lisa Huang FleischmanMarking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Lisa Huang Fleischman's extraordinary saga -- inspired by her grandmother's life as an early feminist, political activist, and friend of Mao Zedong -- is a masterpiece about one clever and resourceful woman, growing up amidst the turmoil of twentieth-century China. Dream of the Walled City Born in 1890, the privileged and sheltered daughter of a high-ranking imperial official, Jade Virtue spends her childhood enclosed by the towering walls of her family's sprawling mansion, never glimpsing the desperate struggle of China's ancient society, as the old ways are challenged and the twentieth century?fast, fearsome, and tumultuous?rushes in. But when her father mysteriously dies, young Jade Virtue is suddenly thrust into poverty, and experiences firsthand a traditional culture falling apart under the onslaught of growing rebellion against the Emperor, rapid social changes, and the mounting aggression of Japan and the West. Fleischman has rendered a richly textured, panoramic vision of Chinese life in the perilous years between the end of the empire and the Communist triumph of 1949, charting Jade Virtue's arranged first marriage to the corrupt opium addict Wang Mang, who harbors a terrible secret in his family's past; her awakening independence and ambivalent politics; her struggles with motherhood; and her fascinating acquaintance with a gifted, idealistic, fiercely ambitious young man named Mao Zedong. But the most important choices of her life are shaped by her conflicting loyalties to her intense lifelong friendship with Jinyu, a fiery woman revolutionary, and to Guai, a government official and sworn enemy of the Communists, with whom she finally discovers true and redemptive love. Exquisitely nuanced and lyrical yet marked with a driving power, Dream Of The Walled City is an enthralling novel of hard-won personal independence set against the vivid backdrop of a rapidly changing world. From the final days of the last dynasty through the savage Japanese invasion during World War II to the formidable red dawn of the Communist triumph; from the backward rural province of Hunan to exile on the tropical shores of Taiwan; and from the binding chains of predetermined fate to the exhilarating liberation of a human spirit, this is a remarkable odyssey you will never forget.
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
by Derek WalcottOn a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece."Three of Derek's Walcott's most popular short plays are also included in this volume: Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain; and The Sea at Dauphin. In an expansive introductory essay, "What the Twilight Says," the playwright explains his founding of the seminal dramatic company where these works were first performed, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop.First published in 1970, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays is an essential part of Walcott's vast and important body of work.
Dream on, Amber
by Helen Crawford-White Emma Shevah<P>My name is Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. <P>I have no idea why my parents gave me all those hideous names but they must have wanted to ruin my life, and you know what? <P>They did an amazing job. <P>As a half-Japanese, half-Italian girl with a ridiculous name, Amber's not feeling molto bene (very good) about making friends at her new school. <P>But the hardest thing about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little and he isn't coming back. Not for her first day of middle school and not for her little sister's birthday. <P>So Amber will have to dream up a way for the Miyamoto sisters to make it on their own...
Dream the Green: Ruby and the Five Sheep
by Zeina JoudiehEvery night five brightly colored sheep called Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Pink help Ruby fall asleep.But tonight, it seems Green is in trouble, and it is Ruby&’s turn to help them this time. Green is fading away, and only Ruby has the key to saving Green!The sheep and with the help of hidden forces reveal to Ruby the secret and everything she needs to save Green.
Dream to Me
by Megan PaaschFrom debut author Megan Paasch comes Dream to Me, a YA contemporary fantasy about generational magic, grief, and what it takes to forgive ourselves.Eva Sylvan didn’t ask for any of this. Not the cross-country move with her sister to a town in the middle of nowhere, not the family estate, inherited from a late great-aunt, that’s falling apart at the hinges, and definitely not the sudden death of her beloved father. So when the locals react with hostility to the very mention of her last name, Eva’s pretty sure things can’t get any worse.Until she has a dream about a gas station employee and the next day, he’s in a coma.And then it happens again.Something sinister is lurking in the corners of Eva's dreams, something that’s having devastating effects on the waking world. People are dropping left and right, and Eva finds herself squarely in the town's crosshairs. In order to defeat the shadows of her unconscious, Eva must not only unearth the magic tied to her family history, but she must confront the guilt that has been haunting her since her father’s death. Only she can save the town from the dark power in her dreams - if the threat is truly even her dreams at all.
Dream to Win: Bradley Wiggins
by Roy Apps Chris KingBradley Wiggins is a national hero - the first British person to win the Tour de France - EVER. Read his story from his childhood years right up to when he crossed the finish line in Paris, 2012. It takes blood, sweat and tears to get to the top of any sport, and these short, inspirational biographies show just how tough it can be. Focusing on top athletes and sport personalities, each dramatic story brings to life the skill, determination and luck needed to break through into top level competition.This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. We believe this title will be of interest to readers aged 7+ and to older readers who struggle with reading. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.
Dream to Win: Mo Farah
by Roy Apps Chris KingMo Farah is the UK's most successful distance runner - and double gold-medalist at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Read his story, from his childhood in Somalia up to when he crossed the finish line at London 2012.It takes blood, sweat and tears to get to the top of any sport, and these short, inspirational biographies show just how tough it can be. Focusing on top athletes and sport personalities, each dramatic story brings to life the skill, determination and luck needed to break through into top level competition. Suitable for readers aged 7+, this title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. EDGE - for books children can't put down.
Dream's Boy - Journal d'une sorcière
by Valeria De LucaJournal d'une sorcière Une histoire d'amour tourmentée qui voyage à travers l'espace, les dimensions. Morgane devra affronter un voyage en elle-même et hors de son corps, à travers les lignes temporelles, voyage qui lui fera revivre ses vies précédentes et ressentir toutes les douleurs qu'elle a endurées. Peut-on aimer une entité issue du monde astral ? L'amour n'existe que dans notre monde ? Moi, Morgane, une sorcière blanche, je peux vous garantir que l'amour voyage aussi dans d'autres dimensions. L'amour n'a pas d'obstacle, d'âge, de race ni même de dimension. L'amour est un sentiment tellement puissant qu'il peut envahir n'importe qui avec la force d'un ouragan. Dans mon journal, j'ai décrit un tel amour: celui que j'éprouve pour mon Dream's Boy. Un jeune homme issu des rêves, du monde astral mais que, par magie, mes yeux ont rencontré ici, dans notre monde terrestre. Un lien karmique qui va au-delà du temps, au-delà de l'espace. Vie après vie, nous nous sommes retrouvés, mais rien n'est aussi facile qu'il n'y parait. Mon Dream's Boy m'a blessée dans le passé et dans le présent et il continuera à le faire si je ne lui pardonne pas. Il a réduit mon coeur en une quantité incroyable de petits morceaux de cristal. Il a rendu mon âme fragile, tourmentée, sans fin. Mais je suis une sorcière. Je renaît de mes cendres comme le phoenix. Dream's Boy, je ne te permettrai plus de me faire du mal; de réduire mon âme en morceaux et de transformer mon coeur en une cage bardée d'épines.
Dream's Broken For Life: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by ZhenyinfangThere are so many people in my life. It's really the luck in my life. For Zhuang Xinmeng, meeting Su Su is probably the most celebrated thing. Because of him, we can be so happy together. I learned what a friend is.And what makes him happy is that he met him at that time. It is he who leads himself to a new life and helps himself when he is in danger. When he is confused, he comforts himself. You are my life's sweetheart.For the third prince, Zhuang Xinmeng is a mystery, a woman who can't forget how hard she tries, because you let me know what is frustration, and I love you.
Dream's End
by Diana PalmerEleanor Perrie lands her dream job working as Curry Matheson's personal assistant. But Curry treats her like furniture--until her remarkable transformation. Reissue.
Dream, Annie, Dream
by Waka T. BrownIn this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. <p><p> As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she’s channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. <p><p> So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she’s thrilled . . . until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it’s an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they’ll let her have—one that they can tear down or use race to belittle? <p><p> Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she’s made of. <p><p> Waka T. Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girl’s fight to make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate everyone’s differences but doesn’t always follow through.
Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
by Emma ScioliThe elegists, ancient Rome’s most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to allow readers to share in the intensely personal experience of dreaming. By treating dreams as a mode for viewing, an analogy suggested by diverse ancient authors, Emma Scioli extracts new information from the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid about the Roman concept of "seeing” dreams. Through comparison with other visual modes of description, such as ekphrasis and simile, as well as with related types of visual experience, such as fantasy and voyeurism, Scioli demonstrates similarities between artist, dreamer, and poet as creators, identifying the dreamer as a particular type of both viewer and narrator.
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb
by Eric G. WilsonAn in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) found inspiration in London’s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city’s literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy. Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb’s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb’s humor helped him cope with a life‑defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles’s muse, and she collaborated with him on children’s books. In exploring Mary’s presence in Charles’s darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in today’s experimental literature.
Dream-Weaver
by Louise LawrenceAn intricately woven and brilliantly conceived novel dealing with the confrontation between gentle, nature-loving psychics of the planet Arbroth of another solar system and the technically superior invaders from Earth en route to colonize Arbroth.
Dream-songs 1 - Una retrospectiva: Del autor bestseller de Canción de Hielo y Fuego (Dream-songs #Volumen 1)
by George R. MartinDreamsongs es un baúl de tesoros, indispensable no solo para los fanáticos de Martin, sino para cualquier lector de literatura fantástica. George R. R. Martin es uno de los narradores más emocionantes de nuestra era, un escritor eleganteque combina tramas fascinantes con una caracterización magistral. Escribe con igual fervor sobre hombres lobo que sobre naves espaciales, magos y vampiros, y ha ganado prácticamente todos los premios posibles en el campo de literatura de fantasía. Su épica saga, aún inconclusa, Canciónde Hielo y Fuego, ha redefinido la fantasía para una nueva generación y le ha ganado una vasta y devota audiencia. Dreamsongs libro I es la primera parte de una gran colección, que contiene lo mejor de la ficción corta de George R. R. Martin,una espectacular selección de historias ganadoras de premios que recorre los últimos treinta años de su carrera. «De todos quienes trabajan en la tradición de la fantasía épica, Martin es el mejor.» Time«Siempre espero lo mejor de George R. R. Martin y siempre lo cumple.» Robert Jordan
Dream-songs 2 - Una retrospectiva: Incluye el caballero errante, una novela corta de Canción de Hielo y Fuego (Dream-songs #Volumen 2)
by George R. MartinIncluye El caballero errante, una novela corta de Canción de Hielo y Fuego George R.R. Martin es uno de los narradores más emocionantes de nuestra era, un escritor elegante que combina tramas fascinantes con una caracterización magistral. Escribe con igual fervor sobre hombres lobo que sobre naves espaciales, magos y vampiros, y ha ganado prácticamente todos los premios posibles en el campo de literatura de fantasía. Su épica saga, aún inconclusa, Canción de Hielo y Fuego, ha redefinido la fantasía para una nueva generación y le ha ganado una vasta y devota audiencia. La colección Dreamsongs es un baúl de tesoros de su carrera. Dreamsongs libro II incluye la novela corta El caballero errante, una historia de Los Siete Reinos, parte indispensable de la secuencia en Canción de Hielo y Fuego.