 | Official Guide to the TOEFL Test With CD-ROM, 4th Edition (Official Guide to the Toefl Ibt)
Publication Date: August 8, 2012| ISBN-10: 0071766588 | ISBN-13: 978-0071766586| Edition: 4 The one and only bestselling official guide to the TOEFL, from the makers of the test! Now expanded with a third actual TOEFL examThis Official Guide to the TOEFL Test is the best, most reliable guide to the test that is used around the world to assess foreign applicants to U.S. and Canadian universities for English proficiency. It includes real TOEFL questions for practice, as well as explanations of every section of the test and information on what is expected for every speaking and writing task...
 |  | Holy Ghost Corner
Publication Date: June 12, 2008Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique is puzzled. She can't, for the life of her, figure out why even Baby Doll Henderson, despite her false teeth and her navy-blue-socks-with-yellow-jelly-sandals-wearing self, can find a man and she, Theresa, can't.Theresa's been looking all of her life, and it seems like the only thing she finds are things that need to say lost. Like, for example, her on and off "friend" and sometime escort, the sneaky businessman, Reverend Parvell Sikes.So, when church mother Queen...
|  | Reclaiming the Vision: Native Voices for the Eighth Generation
Publication Date: January 1, 1996anthology, from the Returning the Gift conference...
|  | <p>Student Almanac of Asian American History</p>: Student Almanac of Asian American History: Volume 1, From Gold Mountain to Picture Brides, 1848-1924
Publication Date: January 30, 2004During the 1800s, hard times in China and other Asian countries prompted the first wave of immigration to the United States. This volume covers the immigration of Chinese workers to California during the gold rush and railroad construction boom, as well as the immigration of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean people to work at plantations in Hawaii. Despite their hard work, they were denied many basic rights and struggled to survive. Students will learn how Asian immigrants were excluded and discriminated against, and how they began their long battle ag...
|  | Christmas on Mimosa Lane (Seasons of the Heart Novel)
Release Date: October 23, 2012| Series: Seasons of the Heart Novel (Book 1) Anna DeStefano presents a touching Christmas story about love, loss, and healing—and the joys of coming home. A childhood spent on the streets leaves Mallory Phillips longing for a normal life and a perfect Christmas. Now an elementary school nurse in Chandlerville, Georgia, Mallory’s dream to blend into the picturesque community isn’t working out. She’s once more living a loner’s existence. Then an emotionally fragile seven-year-old appears in her living room in the middle of the n...
|  | The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Series: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories (Book 1) From hitRECord, the immensely popular open collaborative productioncompany, and its founder, Golden Globe-nominated actor JosephGordon-Levitt, comes The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1.The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories.To create The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1, JosephGordon-Levitt, known within the hitRECord community asRegularJOE—directed thousands of collaborators to tell tiny storiesthrough words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective,Gord...
|  | Out of Time (J. D. Stanton Mystery Series #3)
Release Date: September 25, 2003The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. 'This can't be.' Stanton stared at the gray-white battleship. 'It's a Dreadnought.'But that kind of ship ceased sailing three-quarters of a century ago.It starts as a trip to help five troubled teens, courtesy of a new Navy youth program. With retired submarine commander J.D. Stanton serving as captain and two young naval officers heading the expedition, the state-of-the-art catamaran leaves port. It's a routine voyage . . . until a mysterious...
|  | Anil's Ghost: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2001With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war.Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns t...
|  | The Beowulf Reader: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England)
Publication Date: April 27, 2000| ISBN-10: 0815336667 | ISBN-13: 978-0815336662| Edition: 2 This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work. The essays have been selected to represent the various approaches that have dominated recent Beowulf studies and to illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism. The volume will be useful both to students encountering the poem for the first time and to scholars who wish to have on their shelves a gathering ofsignificant essays. ...
|  | Black Mary & Gunjies: Two Plays
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0855752920 | ISBN-13: 978-0855752927Black Mary tells the story of Aboriginal bushranger Mary Ann and her partner, Captain Thunderbolt, roaming northwestern New South Wales in the mid-19th century. Gunjies combines family life, young love, a football match, and a debutante ball, with political activism, racial discrimination, and uneasy relations with police (the gunjies). ...
|  | The Moons of Jupiter
Release Date: May 7, 1991In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force. ...
|  | Antipoems: New and Selected
Publication Date: October 17, 1985'Antipoems: New and Selected', a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years.Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland have channeled his inventiveness into new modes of expression, which remind us of the sometimes sly hermeticism of Italian writers, Eugenio Montale and Elio Vittorini among them, during the Fascist regime.As Frank MacShane makes clear in his introduction, Parra has not tried to escape repression, but by "usi...
| | Guillen on Guillen: The Poetry and the Poet
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|  | Inverted Fire
Publication Date: January 1, 1997Poetry. "Almost no one is good at both short and long poems, but Alice Friman is. Her poems 'Turnip' and 'Cherries' have sharp language, imagination and alert observation. INVERTED FIRE is good, a must" --Leo Connellan. ...
| | Tang dai deng lin shi yan jiu (Ying yan cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Meaning in Life: The Pursuit of Love (The Irving Singer Library) (Volume 2)
Publication Date: December 30, 2009| Series: The Irving Singer Library (Book 2) With a new preface by the authorIn his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach. Without denying his previous emphasis on the role of imagination and creativity, in this book Singer investigates the ability of them both to make one's life meaningful....
|  | History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages
Release Date: August 17, 2010Examining recent rewritings of the Victorian period by authors such as A. S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Gail Jones and Graham Swift, Victorian Afterimages explores the way in which neo-Victorian fictions enact and celebrate the power of cultural memory in an age historically obsessed and yet charged with the inability to think historically. ...
|  | Dali: Genius, Obsession and Lust
Publication Date: September 1999| Series: Pegasus Library Salvador Dali's obsession with sex, money, fame and death are apparent in his work. Here, a series of his paintings from 1921-1983 are analyzed through Dali's own writings. ...
|  | Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats
Publication Date: September 1999This text offers an incredible journey in words and pictures looking back at the significance, history and legacy of the Beat Generation.' ...
|  | Eternally Yours (Arabesque)
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Series: Arabesque Friends…Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends…the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm's length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long.or Lovers?Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton's invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked by how much passion she feels. To Clayton, Syneda has beco...
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