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Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era. In medieval mystery plays, God appeared as one of the characters, along with angels, saints, the devil, and others. Until very recently however, the revival of interest in medieval culture has not included drama, beacuse of a...

When the half-vampire protector of the village of Shoel races to rescue a child stolen away by ghouls, she discovers their more dastardly intent. Can she overcome the odds stacked against her or will she succumb to her darker side? What is her vampiric father's stake in the outcome?

Horatio Alger Jr. was a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized...

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it...

The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh,...

Two of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most radical works examining economic inequality, police brutality, and black power, which speak to our most pressing social issues of today. Though we’re familiar with the celebrated King who shared his dream of racial equality on the steps of the Lincoln...

This play takes as through the lives of two men who both end up becoming magistrates alternately at different times. The saying that what goes around comes around is basically described through the process of the play. The play can be acted as a skit for middle level primary schools or high schools. It has a moral teaching.

A collection of short pieces about everything from genius and God to socks and lentils, from one of America’s most beloved humor writers *One Fell Soup *brings together the reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, and poetry of Roy Blount Jr., a writer as insightful as he is funny....

Beginning with the arrests of two Washington, DC photographers for explicit photos of underage women my e-book looks at a variety of controversial photographs. Among these was a Victorian era image of a matronly woman of 50+ years. She permitted photographers to take a nude photo of her in her boudoir....

A wicked funny collection of short stories eminent of the best work of humorists like Jean Shepard and James Thurber.The stories are written  purely to amuse and entertain and it is fact that most people who read them laugh.They are by turns eccentric, erratic and ridiculous. There is parody and...

WARNING: Strong, crude language, ViolenceWhen a bear at the Middleton Zoo is seen snacking on the remains of a person in it's exhibit, Barrios and McCloud are given the task of discovering how a man ended up on the menu. It's possible that the man fell into the exhibit but chances...

We are all filled with fear, but we're still alive. There is a fear surrounding us and growing all around us. The tv, the radio, news, blogs. The fear of who we are and what we aren't. It can be overwhelming. And while we may never get rid of that fear that wants to stop us from being the next...

Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English...

A collection of short stories by B.S. Medina Jr., winner from the Philippines of the 1994 South East Asia Write Award. Stories in this collection appeared in national weeklies: “Long Night” and “Wedding Fire” in Sunday Times Magazine; “Deep Earth” in Philippines Free Press; “Rebirth,”...