 | El hombre que yo quiero (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: April 18, 2006Ubicado en Miami, la historia de seis mujeres muy diferentes-- incluyendo la dueña de un nightclub de glam, su hermana gordita que todavía vive con sus padres, una madre soltera y devota, y una estrella muy sexy y despiadada-- y sus relaciones distintas con un hombre muy carismático. ...
 |  | Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (US)
Publication Date: September 1998In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the lastdecade this American literary master has not been published in his owncountry.No longer!Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue displays the same plainspoken power that hasdazzled Purdy's devoted audience for decades. The story of a woman'sstruggle to come to terms with a life seemingly emptied of meaning by herestranged daughter's death, it explores themes that Purdy has long made hisown: the mysterious connections between creativity and self destruction; thehuman alchemy that binds us even as it forces us...
|  | The Seven Sisters
Publication Date: November 11, 2002Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels b...
|  | Murda Squad
Publication Date: November 5, 2010Khadafi, a young up and coming basketball star, battles with the lure of the streets in what many consider the deadliest street in America, Cleveland, Ohio Raised in a middle class family was rough but not as unbearable as having friends who seemed to have it all.Fed up with the no name clothes, Khadafi ventures into a lifestyle where you survived by living at the expense of a gun. After his first of many robberies, Khadafi took to the streets like a fish to water plunging to the depths of no return. The crew called themselves The Murda Squad and they lived ...
|  | Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008“In Hillman’s world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian“Hillman’s writing is sexy because it’s smart and refuses to simplify things.”—Fabula Magazine"Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases both the personal, embodied realities of intersex, and the social and political milieus that shape them... Intersex, too, is gorgeously written."—Women's Review of Books"It's utterly impossible to not be spellbound by performer-activist The...
|  | The Bar Watcher
Publication Date: July 27, 2011When the manager of an elite local bath is stabbed to death, attorney Glen O’Banyon hires Dick Hardesty to check into it. The motive for the murder isn’t hard to figure—Comstock was a jerk of the first order. In fact, the list of people who might have wanted him dead might be larger than the club’s membership roster.Then, two obnoxious bar hoppers die in an apparent accident that turns out to be another murder, and when a third unpleasant individual meets an untimely demise, Dick begins to see a sinister pattern. All of the victims, ...
|  | The Brink of Tomorrow
Publication Date: February 10, 2010Dale Carey Greene is young, rich, bright, articulate . . . and profoundly disfigured.He has one of the most severe cases of Proteus syndrome -- commonly known as Elephant Man's Disease -- on record.Fearing the cruel stares and harsh judgment of strangers, he remains isolated on his parent's massive estate.He would be completely disconnected from society were it not for his father's radio station, where he hosts a nine-to-midnight talk show in the privacy of his own announce booth.Here he shares brilliant metaphysical wisdom with his listeners until . . . th...
|  | The Souls of Black Folk
Publication Date: July 9, 2012The Souls of Black Folk is a pivotal collection not only within the oeuvre of W. E. B. Du Bois' work, but in the whole of the history of sociology and as a mantlepiece of African-American literary history. Drawn from many previously published essays, Du Bois' work reveals the way in which America was reconstructing and redefining itself as a country and culture in the wake of the Civil War forty years prior. Drawn from sociological data as well as his own personal experiences, poetry, history, and song, Du Bois weaves an intricate portrait of African-American cu...
|  | The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Publication Date: October 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 0252073819 | ISBN-13: 978-0252073816Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulistsTold in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete trans...
|  | A Tender Thing
Publication Date: November 9, 2010| ISBN-10: 184842082X | ISBN-13: 978-1848420823Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. ...
|  | The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
Publication Date: August 20, 2007With Illustrations by Malcolm Fraser ...
|  | Neruda at Isla Negra
Publication Date: June 1, 1998"We were accustomed to seeing him in the morning, contemplating the Pacific Ocean . . . filling enormous notebooks with green ink. His poetry took root here, returning to the continual rebirth of the sea."-Marjorie AgosínFew writers are as bound to place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape and people of Isla Negra, his home from the late thirties until his death in 1973. These poems, gathered from a trilogy of books, celebrate Neruda's house, the people, the coastline, the sea and its creatures in images that are fundamental to an understanding of his matu...
|  | Ottaviano Petrucci, Motetti de Passione, de Cruce, de Sacramento, de Beata Virgine et huiusmodi B: Venice, 1503 (Monuments of Renaissance Music)
Publication Date: September 22, 2002| ISBN-10: 0226162362 | ISBN-13: 978-0226162362| Edition: 1 Venetian publisher Ottaviano Petrucci was the first to print music for many voices with movable type. This Petrucci collection of motets from 1503, known as Motetti B, includes music from an impressive array of composers, many among the best known of their day. Motetti B is also the only source for many of its compositions, including several by Josquin des Prez.As its lengthy title suggests, Motetti B consists of a wide range of devotional motets on the Passion, the Veneration of the Cross, th...
|  | Postmodernism and Its Critics
Publication Date: April 1991John McGowan brings a fresh perspective to ongoing debates about the political implications of postmodernist thought and the relationship of intellectuals to contemporary culture. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the philosophical context of postmodernism, he considers the kinds of freedom and oppositional politics that are possible under postmodern conditions. ...
|  | The Operative (Ryan Kealey)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Ryan Kealey In this riveting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Exile, a bloodbath on home soil launches one man into a world-spanning hunt for answers-revealing implications for the United States that are too terrible to imagine-and too real to ignore … Finally settling into a peaceful life after more than a decade on the deadly front lines of the war on terror, Ryan Kealey believes he’s put danger behind him-and some of his demons to rest.But his calm is shattered when he’s swept into a highly organized and m...
|  | Shake Off
Publication Date: August 14, 2012An internationally acclaimed thriller of love, espionage and subterfuge, in which Middle East meets West with dangerous consequences.Years of training have transformed Michel Khoury into a skilled intelligence operative. A refugee whose family was murdered by extremists, he has one mission: the peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict that upended his life.An alluring enigma, he attracts the attention of Helen, a pretty English girl who lives in the adjacent apartment. As their relationship develops, Michel is unable to tell Helen about his past--or th...
|  | Tyrant of the Mind (Medieval Mysteries (Poisoned Pen Paperback))
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Medieval Mysteries (Poisoned Pen Paperback) A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family's Welsh fortress...In the winter of 1271, Death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, and her sub-infirmarian, Sister Anne, to save the child with prayers and healing talents. Escorting them to the remote fortress is Brother Thomas, an unwilling monk fighting his private demons.Death may be denied...
|  | Bridge to Terabithia
Release Date: June 17, 1987| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A secret world of their ownJess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side of the playground and outruns everyone.That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. It doesn't matter to Jess that leslie dresses funny, or that her family has a lot of ...
|  | The Acorn Tree: And Other Folktales
Publication Date: September 1995| Age Level: 4 and up This collection of 10 stories from different cultures is an ideal introduction to the magical world of folklore. Carefully selected, brilliantly retold and illustrated in full-color, this "first book" of timeless stories--from the U.S., Russia, Africa, Europe, India, and Puerto Rico--is a book for children to read and remember. ...
|  | Soccer in Africa (Smart about Sports)
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