 | Migrations and Other Stories
Publication Date: March 31, 2007In the story entitled "The Neighbor," seventy-nine-year-old Sarita has just called 911 to report a disturbance next door. Sarita doesn't much like her neighbor Matilde and thinks she's a fool to put up with the philandering boyfriend who beats her. But Sarita feels obligated to help because Matilde's mother was her best friend. "That's for not singing at your funeral, even though I promised," she whispers to her dead comadre. And this time, Sarita's deliberate provocation of the volatile situation next door will end the beatings once and for all. Past and pres...
 |  | The Meaning of Consuelo: A Novel (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner (Awards))
Publication Date: November 7, 2003| Series: Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner (Awards) La nina seria, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister Mili, is seen as vivacious--a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But something is not right in this Puerto Rican family.Set in the 1950s, a time when American influence is diluting Puerto Rico's rich island culture, Consuelo watches her own fam...
|  | The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Publication Date: November 11, 2008"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind."So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce.Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education ...
|  | Country Boy 3: Same Ole Country Azz Ni**a (Volume 3)
Publication Date: July 18, 2012This is it! the finale to the number one southern series. Q and all the PG boys are back, along with the women of their lives. Q is on a mission to avenge the brutal attack on his wife and soul-mate Van, as she fights for her life. June, Dame and the rest of the boys are along for the ride. Come take the final ride with the number one southern hustler in the game and see how things go down with these ole' country azz niggas! ...
|  | A Lie of the Mind
Publication Date: January 1998Currently a critical and box office sensation, Sam Shepard's newest play is amasterpiece of poetic and theatrical brilliance that looks unerringly at loveand family in the American West. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Auntie Mame
Publication Date: June 1, 1995"Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver PostWith a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955 -- and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. Follow the rollicking adventures of this unflappable flapper as seen through the wide eyes of her young, impressionable nephew and discover anew or for the first time why Mame has made the world a more wonderful place . . . ...
|  | Vampire Dawn
Publication Date: April 2004Children of the night...beware!In the darkness of an abandoned building in Portrush, well beyond the reach of the sun, two vampires have made their home. Claire and Xavier have risen from their underground slumber to feast upon all the new millennium has to offer.But the twenty-first century is not all they had hoped for and there seems to be a shortage of vampires. But they can rectify that.Christian Warke has been searching for almost twenty years for the creature that killed his wife and destroyed his life. Driven by vengeance and fuelled by whiskey, he will no...
|  | Grand Cayman Slam
Release Date: April 7, 2009Dusky MacMorgan’s old buddy Captain Wes O’Davis has been set up for a murder rap by a gang of kidnappers whose latest victim is the son of Sir Conan James and Lady James, British aristocracy with powerful connections. The ransom note gives them three days to pay up, or the boy dies. But now that Dusky MacMorgan is involved, that gives the kidnappers only three days to live… --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay
Release Date: January 2, 1998As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't drive. Van Sant says we can see how badly Damon drives by watching the film's last scene, in which he is actually driving the car with the camera mounted on it. But Damon and company write better than he drives; this script contains some of the boldest, best monologues si...
|  | The Road to Glory
Publication Date: January 1, 2002When Leigh Matthews finds herself lost due to an unexpected detour in her normal trucking route, she ends up in the middle of nowhere. As soon as she lays eyes on RJ Fitzgerald, however, a beautiful and intriguing handyman for a lonely country diner, she realizes that nowhere can be a very interesting place.'The Road to Glory' is a story of two women, their bumpy road from lust to love, and the multitude of surprising turns along the way. ...
|  | Espejo de paciencia (Poesia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Poesia Espejo de paciencia es un poema épico compuesto en octavas reales que describe el secuestro del obispo fray Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano por el pirata francés Gilberto Girón, y el rescate protagonizado por un esclavo, Salvador Golomón, durante una escaramuza en las costas de Cuba, en 1604. ...
| | ANTHOLOGY CONTEMP JAPAN POETRY (World Literature in Translation)
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|  | John Locke and Children's Books in 18th Century England
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|  | All Afternoon with a Scandalous Marquess (Lords of Vice)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Lords of Vice (Book 5) Alexandra HawkinsAll Afternoon with a Scandalous MarquessSimon Jefferes, the Marquess of Sainthill, has done the unthinkable—he’s fallen in love. The so-called “Saint” has spent his life gambling, dallying with women, and satisfying his every whim. And he fully intended to continue his wicked ways, until he met the mysterious, exotic, and irresistible Madame Venna—the one woman he can’t have…and the only one he’s ever wanted for more than an evening.The proprietress of the Golden Pearl...
|  | The Mistress' House
Release Date: February 1, 2011What readers say about Leigh Michaels:"Beautiful and romantic... I couldn't put it down.""Witty, snappy dialogue and great characters!"Three beautifully intertwined love stories...The rules are made to be broken...When the handsome, rakish Earl of Hawthorne buys the charming house across the back garden from his town home, he never expects the lovely lady he installs there to ensnare him completely...Again...After Lady Keighley marries the earl, it seems a shame to leave the house empty, so she offers it to her childhood friend Felicity Merce...
|  | King of Darkness
Release Date: February 7, 2012ETERNAL COMMITMENT IS NOT ON HER AGENDA... Scorned by the vampire community for her lack of power, Isabel Anthony lives a carefree existence masquerading as human--although, drifting among the debauched human nightlife, she prefers the patrons' blood to other indulgences. But when she meets the king of vampires this party girl's life turns dark and dangerous. BUT TIME'S RUNNING OUT FOR THE KING OF VAMPIRES... Dead-set on finding the prophesied mate who will unlock his fiery powers, Thad Morgan must find his queen before their race is destroyed. Their enemies are...
|  | Ashes of Angels: Ashes of Angels\The Ninja Vampire's Girl (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 117) As a muse, Cassandra Stevens had been warned of the Fallen angel who'd one day come to impregnate her with a nephilim, an evil offspring. But no one could have foreseen that Samandriel—the raven-haired, silver-winged Fallen one—would sweep her off her feet. Against all good sense, Sam stirred her suppressed desires, yet for her own sake she dared not arouse his carnal ones. For Sam had been summoned to earth by a dark vampire lord. And more Fallen were on their way. Despite the dangers, Cassandra needed Sam ...
|  | Serati's Flame (Vampire Council of Ethics)
Release Date: June 24, 2008For two Seekers of justice, hunting rogues is dangerous business. But not as dangerous as their yearning for each other. Theres a rogue on the loose, and the Vampire Council of Ethics has just the man for the job. Alaan Serati, along with his team of elite fighters, is a Seeker for the V.C.O.E. The lethal vampire law enforcement assassin is also the most eligible bachelor of Clan Serati. His job: Take out the rogue vampire who killed his mate years ago. But working with a fellow Seeker quickly becomes a pain in his backside. How is he supposed to accomplish the mis...
|  | Hemlock at Vespers: Fifteen Sister Fidelma Mysteries
Publication Date: March 9, 2000Sister Fidelma-an Eognacht princess and sister to the king of Cashel, a religieuse of the Celtic Church and an advocate of the Brehornn court-is one of the most interesting and compelling figures in contemporary mystery fiction. In this collection of short mysteries, Tremayne fills in many of the background details of Fidelma and seventh-century Ireland not found in the novels, and weaves his always-beguiling mix of history and mystery. ...
|  | JLA: Trial by Fire
Release Date: October 1, 2004 ...
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