The powerful Newbury Award-winning classic.
A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal , and the basis of an acclaimed film Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's life is changed forever when his father is caught stealing a ham to feed his starving family. His dog, Sounder, is wounded in the incident and waits faithfully for his master to come home. Read by Avery Brooks, this timeless and compelling parable will move listeners of all ages.
" Blues riffs and Brooks's soulful singing set the tone and enhance the tale. This bittersweet saga, richly told by Brooks, will remain in listeners' hearts and minds long after the final line is heard . " --- AudioFile
William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986.
Avery Brooks is an accomplished actor, director, musician, and teacher. His credits include the television role of Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . He served as the National Black Arts Festival's Artistic Director throughout the 1990s and is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Rutgers University.
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This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years.
One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict.
Roger Warren's commentary emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, evocative language.
His bestselling audio and video programs have been translated into 14 languages and are used in 31 countries. More than one million people have attended his programs on success, sales effectiveness and personal fulfillment.
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Harry Beckwith is the author of Selling the Invisible and The Invisible Touch, both marketing classics. Now he applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor, and expertise to a new age of mass communication and mass confusion. What Clients Love will help you stand out from the crowd - and sell anything to anyone.
From making a pitch to building a brand, from designing a logo to closing a sale, this is a field guide to take with you to the front lines of today's business battles. Filled with real tales of success and failure, it shows you how to:
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What Client's Love will help you get focused, stay focused, and follow the essential rules to success - by doing the little things right and the big things even better.
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On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman’s worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy “company town” where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who with his two friends changed her life forever.
Someday, somehow, she’d return…exacting a just revenge, freeing herself from her enemies’ grasp, and, perhaps, fulfilling a lost promise of love.
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"Sly... Sharp... Sex and the City succeeds." — People
Welcome to the age of un-innocence...
Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs.
Meet "Carrie," the quintessential young writer looking for Candace Bushnell love in all the wrong places... "Mr Big," the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another... "Samantha Jones," the fortyish, successful, "testosterone woman" who uses sex like a man... not to mention "Psycho Moms, " "Bicycle Boys," "International Crazy Girls," and the rest of the New Yorkers who inspired one of the most watched TV series of our time.
You've seen them on HBO, now listen to the book that started it all...
Cynthia Nixon has been acting professionally since the age of 12, in television, theater and film. She is probably best known by her Emmy Winning performance as Miranda Hobbes of the much celebrated HBO series Sex and the City , for which she also received two other Emmy nominations and four consecutive Golden Globe nominations. Her numerous Broadway stage credits include The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Indiscretions, Angels In America, Hurlyburly, The Real Thing and The Philadelphia Story . Ms. Nixon's film career began with Ronald E Maxwell's Little Darlings and, she went on to appear in Amadeus, The Pelican Brief, Baby's Day Out , and Let it Ride .
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