| Square Trap (Chicano Heritage Series) Publication Date: November 1976| ISBN-10: 0405095252 | ISBN-13: 978-0405095252The Square Trap. This is the story of an underage son of a Mexican immigrant worker who sought to settle his score in the boxing ring. Tomas Cantanios or just Tomas to his friends came from a loving family and enjoyed being as much of a kid as any poverty stricken child can in L.A. He was going to win the respect of his family and friends, his peers and his community as "Tommy Kansas", prize fighter, but these dreams were knocked into the world of reality as the starting bell rung and as fists began to fly at h...
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| Out on a Limb Publication Date: November 15, 2007Chic-lit fiction ...
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| My Favorite Horror Story Release Date: October 1, 2000A veritable Who's Who of Horror, this wonderful new anthology features the biggest names in modern suspense-and the most terrifying tales ever told. Major authors like Stephen King, Peter Straub, and F. Paul Wilson were asked to choose and introduce the 15 classic stories that frightened and inspired them. The results, of course, are chilling.Stories chosen and introduced by:Stephen King Peter StraubF. Paul WilsonJoyce Carol OatesDennis Etchison Rick HautalaRichard Christian MathesonHarlan EllisonStories written by:Robert BlochRichard MathesonM.R. JamesNathaniel ...
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| First blood: Tales of horror from the Border country ...
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| On the Origin of Species Publication Date: December 17, 2011In 1831, naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin joined the Beagle expedition to Tierra del Fuego. What he observed when he got to the new world would eventually lead him to formulate his theory of natural selection. Published in 1859, On the Origin of the Species is the controversial classic that revolutionized natural science and altered our understanding of the world. ...
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| Calculating God Release Date: March 3, 2009An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, “Take me to a paleontologist.” In the distant past, Earth, the alien’s home planet, and the home planet of another alien species, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at the same time (one example: the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e., he’s obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From th...
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| Hope Against Hope: A Memoir Release Date: March 30, 1999| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
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| Shaman's Secret: The Lost Resurrection Teachings of the Ancient Maya Release Date: November 3, 1998Now available in paperback, The Shaman's Secret is the most comprehensive documentation yet of the extraordinary spiritual forces that governed life for the ancient Maya. Shattering the misconceptions of the Maya as violent, barbaric people, Gillette puts the distasteful acts of bloodletting and human sacrifice into proper context and demonstrates the more important aspects of Maya culture. As Gillette deciphers sacred artwork, hieroglyphics, myths, and artifacts, he shows how entire cities mysteriously disappeared into enveloping jungles, taking with them a vas...
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| Aristophanes Plays: 2: Wasps , Clouds , Birds , Festival Time and Frogs (Methuen Drama World Classics) (Vol 2) Publication Date: March 11, 1993| ISBN-10: 0413669106 | ISBN-13: 978-0413669100Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists seriesAristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfec...
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| As You Desire Me (Oberon Classics) Publication Date: September 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1840025840 | ISBN-13: 978-1840025842Pirandello's play was made into a film in 1932 starring Greta Garbo. ...
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| Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems Publication Date: May 1, 1998These essential meditations on commitment will bring pleasure and reassurance while confirming one's belief in the power of love. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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| At First Sight Publication Date: May 21, 2000At First Sight, a selection on recent love poems, explores the seemingly transparent line between poetry and prose. Available here is an intimate window into the lives of paintings and people seen through forms ranging from Haiku to traditional French prose-poetry. ...
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| Pe Ruinele Romei (Colectia Haiku, Traducere din limba japoneza) Publication Date: 1994little book of Uchida's Haiku translated into Romanian [with footnotes at end of book]. 77 pages ...
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| Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore ...
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| Uroki vremeni: Kriticheskie tetradi (Russian Edition) ...
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| <i>To and From</i> (The New Series) Release Date: February 15, 2008| Series: The New Series (Book 22) G.E. Patterson's work carries echoes of the New York School's intimacy and immediacy as it careens through recognizable scenes and diverse emotional situations, references pared from their specifics and time blurred by the ambiguous tenses of verbs. ...
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| The Complete Butcher's Tales Publication Date: October 1999Nearly sixty unforgettable stories in the fantastic tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft. Includes two previously uncollected stories. ...
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| Till Death Do Us Bark (43 Old Cemetery Road) Release Date: August 21, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Green Children Hb Publication Date: February 24, 1994This book is intended for age 6 + ...
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| Fox in Socks (Beginner Books) Release Date: January 12, 1965| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A collection of tongue twisters that is "an amusing exercise for beginning readers."--Kirkus....
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