Carrie Preston

Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh drama was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Carrie J. Preston locates noh's influence on Pound's imagism, Yeats's Irish National Theater,...

It's the mid-'50s, and Guy Stone is a very successful movie star. Tall, good-looking, and boyishly charming, Stone has a reputation as a ladies' man, but in reality he prefers the company of men. When his handlers decide he must marry a naive young secretary, he makes the most out of his sham marriage. That is, until he meets Rick Foster and falls in real love.

In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 a popular priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled 12-year-old black student is questioned by the school's principal who is desperate to have him removed from the school.

Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the mysterious and ancient Warlow.

In a small US southern town, the annual 'Hands On' endurance contest offers the chance of a lifetime to win a brand-new pickup truck.

At 44, Thom Payne finds his world in disarray. At home he suspects his erectile dysfunction pills are interfering with his antidepressants. And at work he now answers to a twenty-five-year-old with a Digital Age vocabulary. Is he in need of "rebranding," or does he just have a "low joy ceiling?"

Precocious eleven-year-old Daisy has a deeply loving but unconventional relationship with her mother. When that bond is harshly broken Daisy begins a journey learning how to embrace life in courageous, resourceful ways. Life moves in mysterious ways.

In the cruel world of junior high, two friends suffer in a state of anxiety and alienation. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.

We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....