| How to Be Black Release Date: January 31, 2012 If You Don't Buy This Book, You're a Racist. Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the ...
| | The Zombie Night Before Christmas Release Date: September 21, 2010Why worry about the Grinch when you’ve got ZOMBIES on the attack! Their prey? America’s best-loved Christmas poem. Get ready to have a holly jolly zombie holiday with this monstrously funny mash-up that subverts all that tiresomely good Christmas cheer. Clement C. Moore’s verses are tweaked and twisted, turning a once-cozy fireside read-aloud on its (now brainless) head. To complete the sacrilege: hilarious renderings of zombie stockings (undead legs!) hung by the chimney with care, and St. Nick attempting to repel a full-out, flesh-devour...
| | The Girl on Legare Street (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print)) Publication Date: December 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 160285632X | ISBN-13: 978-1602856325| Edition: Lrg Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago. She's returned wanting to protect the daughter she's never really known after receiving an ominous premonition. Melanie never wanted to see her mother again, but with some proddi...
| | Star Trek: Vanguard #3: Reap the Whirlwind Release Date: November 15, 2010| Series: Star Trek: VanguardThe mystery of the Taurus Reach is about to be revealed.Ancient secrets lie on the fourth planet of the Jinoteur system, and three great rivals are fighting to control it. The Federation and the Klingon Empire want to wield its power; the Tholian Assembly wants to bury it. But the threat stirring on that distant world is more dangerous than they realize. The Shedai, who ruled the Taurus Reach aeons ago, have risen from their ages of deathlike slumber -- to gather, marshal their strength, and take their revenge. To keep Jinoteur ...
| | Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation Publication Date: December 30, 2008"At Stonewall," Jack Fritscher wrote, "gay character changed." In June 1969, the legendary Stonewall Rebellion in New York's Greenwich Village began the national gay civil rights movement. Fritscher, one-time lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and early intimate of elegant Picasso biographer and "Vanity Fair" author John Richardson, is the highly acclaimed novelist, award-winning historian, and polished prose stylist. His best-selling "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982" pairs perfectly with his nonfiction tour de force "Gay San Fra...
| | The Late Great Creature: A Novel Release Date: October 5, 2011Brock Brower's National Book Award-nominated novel traces the making of a horror movie in Hollywood. Simon Moro, a 68-year-old star, is making his last picture, a low-budget remake of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Moro, infuriated by the bland horror movies of his day, sees his own career--even as it ends-- as an ongoing effort to wallop the public with an overwhelming moral shock. And he succeeds when an elaborate publicity stunt turns into a gruesome and grand personal statement. As Moro's life reels toward its macabre end, it also reels backward through lies an...
| | Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure Publication Date: 1995An inspirational and spiritual adventure uses a central metaphor of snowboarding to explore a holistic approach to living and making the most of the mind/body connection. Reprint. ...
| | Myth and Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology Publication Date: February 18, 2003| ISBN-10: 076741957X | ISBN-13: 978-0767419574| Edition: 1 Myth and Knowing is a rich resource of myths and mythology through theages, in which scholarly and literary materials combine to provide a seamlessportrait of this multicultural topic. Balanced and nuanced discussionsexplore the ways in which myths have portrayed both men and women. Inaddition, art and maps contextualize selected myths, providing insights intothe cultures and religious traditions from which they originated. ...
| | An Introduction to the Art of Theatre: A Comprehensive Text- Past, Present, And Future Publication Date: March 31, 2007This is a readable, workable text that deals with everything about theatre and the artists who make theatre possible. Styles of drama, staging, production, directing and acting, along with all backstage functions are defined in detail. Theatre history and the business of theatre are covered fully for the use of both students and instructors. ...
| | Year's Best SF 14 Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Year's Best Sf (Book 14)Unique visions and astonishmentsnew stories by: Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder Cory Doctorow Neil Gaiman Kathleen Ann Goonan Alastair ReynoldsMichael Swanwick Last year's best short-form SFselected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Crameroffers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction....
| | A Quiet Room: Poetry of Zen Master Jakushitsu Publication Date: April 2000The poetry of Rinzai Zen master Jakushitsu remains as fresh and resonant today as when it was written centuries ago. Now his brilliant, poignant poetry, carefully translated by Zen practitioner Arthur Braverman, is available in English for poetry and Zen enthusiasts to read and savor. This, the most complete selection of Jakushitsu's work, is also put into context by Braverman with thoughtful excerpts from Buddhist scripture and other relevant sources. Here we see the full scope of Jakushitsu's timeless thinking, and along the way gain a greater understanding of Z...
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| | South America Mi Hija (Pitt Poetry Series) Publication Date: April 16, 1992| Series: Pitt Poetry Series When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, “Are there any good men?” South American Mi Hija is Sharon Doubiago’s reply.Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes. ...
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| | The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society Publication Date: March 21, 2005| ISBN-10: 013921156X | ISBN-13: 978-0139211560 Organized chronologically, this book presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. Names and dates are provided, and cultural achievements and social transformations that accompanied the cascade of historical events are carefully examined.This comprehensive, balanced treatment of ancient Greece covers its history from the prehistoric through the Mycenaean Period, the Dark Ages, the Classical Period, the ...
| | The Tangled Web Publication Date: July 1, 2000 Medical thriller writer Ken McClure evokes a sinister world where no life is sacred -- least of all a baby's.Used to the sleepy tranquillity of village life in rural Wales, the residents of Felinbach are shocked by the brutal killing of a local baby, Anne-Marie Palmer. None more so than GP Tom Gordon, the only friend left to John Palmer who, faced with irrevocable evidence, stands accused of his daughter's murder.Just days later Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from Caernarfon General's Patho...
| | Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries) Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Tess Monaghan MysteriesIn a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitzs death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyers notorietyand his taste for illicit midday trystsmake the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this townfrom historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hillnow unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the guy the c...
| | THE BLACK CAMEL: A CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY Publication Date: May 28, 2009| Series: Charlie Chan Mystery Shelah Fane is a young, beautiful, successful, Hollywood actress. She is thinking of marrying a playboy - but decides to consult a celebrity psychic first. He hints at some dark deed in her past - and the next morning she is found dead. Can Charlie Chan and his loyal sidekick Kashimo untangle the lies and deceit that brought the black camel of death to her door? --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
| | La bella durmiente: Fairy Tale Favourites Pop-Ups: Sleeping Beauty, Spanish Edition (Mis cuentos favoritos) ...
| | Martial Arts in Action (Sports in Action) Publication Date: October 31, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up...
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