 | Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream: Poems (Camino Del Sol)
Publication Date: March 1999| Series: Camino Del Sol From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away.With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera sends readers rocketing through verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words that will make you want to shout, dance, and read out loud.Lika a wild ride in a fast car, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream moves at breakneck speed, a post-Lorca journey across the new millennium terrain.Words careen through space and time, through blighted urban landscapes, pas...
 |  | How I Came to Sparkle Again
Release Date: October 2, 2012Set in a Colorado ski town, Kaya McLaren's How I Came To Sparkle Again is a remarkable breakout novel that chronicles three people and their journey from loss to love; heartbreak to hopeJill Anthony spent her young adulthood in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade has passed since she left when, only weeks after a very late miscarriage, she finds her husband in bed with another woman, she flees Austin, Texas for the town she knows: Sparkle. Lisa Carlucci wakes up one morning after another night of meaningless sex, looks...
|  | The Widow's Children: A Novel
Publication Date: October 17, 1999"Chekhovian. . . . Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three friends: Clara Hansen, Laura's timid, brow-beaten daughter from a previous marriage; Carlos, Laura's flamboyant and charming brother; and Peter Rice, a melancholy editor whom Laura hasn't seen for over a year. But what begins as ...
|  | Haunted Savannah
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Haunted More than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings in Savannah, GA, the city of legendary ghosts. Includes information so readers can check out the spirits themselves -- if they dare. ...
|  | Night Voices: Strange Stories
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|  | Awake In The Mad World
Publication Date: June 19, 2012Pete Rattigan is a frustrated young newspaper journalist caught up in uncertainty of the post-graduate “real world”. One night, one seemingly minor encounter sparks a philosophical journey which leads him to discover that in the most beautiful or even cruel moments of life, the power of friendship explains the power of the universe. And that perhaps there is no such thing as chance. With force, humor and sensitivity Damon Ferrell Marbut presents his debut, Awake in the Mad World, which frees its audience to believe again in the wildness of the you...
|  | The Fall: A Novel
Publication Date: December 31, 2010The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever. There is Ian, the film buff trying to figure out his life—and how to catch the eye of the football player he can’t stop fantasizing about; Casey, the local football star whose future off the field is frustratingly uncertain; and Haile, the classical-music prodigy seeki...
|  | Along the Watchtower
Release Date: July 5, 2011A powerful, coming-of-age debut novel from a bright new literary voice.Set against the closing years of the Cold War, Constance Squires's debut novel introduces the family of Army Major Collins, as told through the eyes of Lucinda Collins-the vibrant, headstrong eldest daughter. In spare, heart-wrenchingly beautiful prose, Squires offers us a rare glimpse into the experiences and sacrifices of an American military family-a powerful story that reveals what it really means to fight for the things we believe in and to defend the ones we love. ...
|  | Enemies & Allies
Release Date: September 28, 2010It was a time of international tensions, a time of hope and fear—when Elvis, Howdy Doody, UFOs, and the Communist menace preoccupied America. It was the first time in history when human beings had the power to destroy their world. A time when heroes were needed more than ever.Evil is loose in the world. As the United States and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary men are called upon to form an uneasy alliance. Studies in opposites—shadow and light—a Dark Knight and a Man of Steel must overcome the...
|  | Standards Left Ragged (A Fairaday and Marlborough Novel)
Publication Date: February 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0972630384 | ISBN-13: 978-0972630382Yankee privateer Captain Phillip Fairaday and Royal Navy Lieutenant Eliot Marlborough return in this sea adventure of 1776. As the conflict in the Chesapeake Bay grows more savage, so, too, does the conflict between these former friends. While Fairaday raids Tory commerce Marlborough joins the ship's company of HMS Roebuck 44 in order to intercept and destroy the inshore Rebel threat. When they meet in ship to ship action off the North Carolina coast only one will retain his command; for the other, an uncer...
|  | OTONO (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2010En la linea de la Profecia Celestina y el Guerrero Pacifico, Otono es una parabola semiautografica que revela un mensaje profundo y poderoso.Scott, un joven sin trabajo, se encuentra con un curioso mendigo con una sabiduria nada convencional que lo impulsara a un fantastico viaje de autodescubrimiento en el que se combinan el chamanismo, las tecnicas de curacion y la comunicacion con otros reinos de la Naturaleza. ...
|  | Box of Tricks
Publication Date: September 2, 2009While Eddie's parents are away in Scotland he stays and helps out at his auntie Vi's boarding house in New Brighton. Here he pals up with his cousin Ray, a charming and feckless teddy boy whose romantic antics and recourse to his mother's purse are an education to Eddie-but it's not all fun and games, and soon Ray is in trouble with the police. Eddie's sentimental education develops through his attraction to the troubled beauty Julia, who twists him round her little finger. As both become embroiled with the sinister joke shop, The Box of Tricks-and its unde...
|  | The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
Publication Date: July 10, 1977| ISBN-10: 0030802733 | ISBN-13: 978-0030802737| Edition: First Edition The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer is intended to make Chaucer;s texts accessible with a minimum of scholary interference. The critical, biographical, and linguistic essays are grouped at the end so as not to impede the approach to the text. By doing so, the student is able to enjoy the richness and humor of The Canterbury Tales as well as the beauty of Troylus and Criseyde. This collection will create a deeper appreciation for Chaucer and his genius. --This text refers t...
|  | Grimm's Fairy Tales (Christian Audio)
Release Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Christian Audio First published by brothers Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm in 1812 as a collection of retold Germanic folk stories, this collection of such well-known fairytales as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty transports listeners to a realm where “Once upon a time” often ends up “happily ever after”…and where giants, princesses, kings and fairies pursue power, find true love, have all sorts of magical adventures — and in the process reveal multi-faceted truths about human nature. ...
|  | Russian Folk Lyrics
Release Date: February 22, 1993Propp's essay in Russian Folk Lyrics extends beyond the formalistic analysis of folklore outlined in his classic The Morphology of the Folktale. In this study, newly translated by Roberta Reeder, Propp considers the Russian folk lyric in the social and historical context in which it was produced.Reeder supplements Propp's theoretical presentation with a comprehensive anthology of examples. Some songs were imitated by or appear in the works of Russia's major writers, such as Pushkin and Nekrasov. Here we find the customs of Russian peasant life expressed through...
|  | Words of Paradise Selected Poems of Rumi (Sacred Wisdom)
Publication Date: February 2004| Series: Sacred Wisdom Illustrated with miniatures and borders from ancient Islamic scripts, this volume features 55 poems from the works of Jalaluddin Rumi. Rumi was a 13th-century Persian mystic who believed that all human beings can, if they surrender themselves to the power of love, live in a condition of infinite bliss. Raficq Abdulla uses rhythm and powerful imagery to recreate the ecstatic state which Rumi considered so crucual to reach enlightenment. An introduction to the book sets Rumi's life and philosophy in context and provides some explanatory gu...
| | Critical Essays on the Prose and Poetry of Modern Slavic Women (Studies in Slavic Language & Literature)
Publication Date: June 1998| ISBN-10: 0773483632 | ISBN-13: 978-0773483637Including a variety of topics, prose and poetry, individual works as well as general studies, this volume examines women's literary creativity and their contribution to East European literature of the 20th century. ...
|  | Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (Vintage International)
Release Date: May 4, 2010| Series: Vintage International In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift—Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders—gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life. Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares a beer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are private moments with Swift’s father and with his own younger self, as well as musings—on history, memory, and imagination...
|  | Deconstruction, Feminist Theology, and the Problem of Difference: Subverting the Race/Gender Divide (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: June 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226026906 | ISBN-13: 978-0226026909| Edition: 1 The term "feminism" conjures up the promise of resistance to the various forms of oppression women face. But feminism's ability to fulfill this promise has been undermined by its failure to deal adequately with the difference that race makes for gender. In this book, Ellen T. Armour forges an alliance between deconstruction and feminist theology and theory by demonstrating deconstruction's usefulness in addressing feminism's trouble with race.Armour shows how the writings of Jacques Derrida and Luc...
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