DescriptionSet sail for adventure with this thrilling tale of passion, rage, and glory on the high seas. It is the year 1667, and Sir Francis Courteney and his son, Hal, are on patrol on their fighting ship off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They lie in wait for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company, returning from a trip to the Orient. The father and son soon find themselves swept far north to the Great Horn of Ethiopia, at a time when acts of piracy, rape, and murder are permitted under maritime law. Will they survive to win the struggle for riches and supremacy on the waves?
DescriptionRascals gives you the past, present, and future of standup comedy. Only Rascals can bring you comedy superstars before they were stars and the breaking stars of tomorrow, TODAY! Take a trip down comedy's memory lane and catch the routines that made comedy history. This is the "Behind the Music" of comedy and the comedy behind the comics. Join us live, from one of our A+ comedy clubs all over the country to see the best comedy routines from the comics you know and the ones you will know soon. For a great time the whole family can enjoy; take five for FUNNY! This selection of performances features Bobby Collins, Rick Corso, and Bill Masters.
DescriptionIn this, the most memorable of her works, Gertrude Stein paints striking portraits of three women. "The Good Anna" is the story of a sober housekeeper of German stock. "The Gentle Lena" is concerned with a passive German girl who endures her woeful life until she dies in childbirth. "Melanetha" tells of a young, intelligent, half-white girl's sexual searching and tragic love affair. These stories reveal a young Gertrude Stein, who has begun to experiment with language but is still rooted to some extent in traditional narrative.
DescriptionCaptain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel, but the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
DescriptionThe first four-fifths of this volume cover what the author calls the "Destructive-Labor Camps" and the fate of prisoners in them, felling timber, building canals and railroads, mining gold, without equipment or adequate food or clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners...and of the luckless children they bear. Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter - a parody of an anthropological treatise - he achieves new heights of sardonic wit. And in the final section, the music changes and Solzhenitsyn provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering.
DescriptionThis lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man's quest for truth - and for himself - has touched and changed an entire generation, and is ready to reach out to a new one. At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a mot…
