 | Passing (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: September 4, 2007| ISBN-10: 0393979164 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979169Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.Larsen's status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer wasrivaled by only Zora Neale Hurston’s. ThisNorton Critical Edition of her electrifying 1929 novel includes Carla Kaplan’s detailed andthought-provoking introduction, thoroughexplanatory annotations, and a Note on theText.An unusually rich “Background andContexts” section connects the novel to thehistorical events of the day, most no...
 |  | Human Season (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
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|  | The Ragbone Man (Llewellyn's Psi-Fi)
Publication Date: January 8, 1990| Series: Llewellyn's Psi-Fi (Book 2) A chilling tale of the subtle ways psychic phenomena can invade anyone's life! A young woman with unknown psychic powers begins a terrifying journey into the arcane to discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who invades her dreams. A melange of magickal ingredients -- amulets, tarot, past lives, elemental beings, near-death experiences, shape-shifting, and modern magickal ritual -- creates a a simmering blend of occult mystery and suspense. ...
|  | Nightmare Academy (The Veritas Project)
Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Open Channel
Publication Date: March 29, 2005THEY'VE GOT UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD.... Attorney Katerina Piretti and her husband, Stephen Carmichael, own South Baltimore's trendy Angel Café. Having battled with the dark side in the past, they want nothing more now than to lead ordinary lives by simply raising their two daughters and pursuing their lucrative careers. Unfortunately, ordinary doesn't seem to be an option.When their thirteen-year-old daughter, Julia, begins to experience frightfully realistic dreams and visions, Kat and Stephen quickly realize that protecting their famil...
|  | Of Wolves and Men
Publication Date: April 5, 2011'Cowboy' Charlie Mosby worked on a horse ranch in Heber, Utah. He loved his work, the owners of the ranch, and his co-workers; wranglers who helped tourists with guided horse tours and trail riding all year round.But after a chance meeting with a handsome gay man who had helped Charlie change a flat tire on Interstate 80 a month ago, Charlie was beginning to wonder about his sexuality. And if that wasn't confusing enough, strange things were happening on the ranch.Satanic worship? A strange cult ritual? Whatever it was, it wasn't good for the owners or the hors...
|  | Night Diving
Publication Date: January 1, 2002Night Diving is both a young woman's coming-out story and a 30-something coming-of-age journey that proves you can go home again. It is the story of Rose Salino, a thirty-year-old woman living the San Francisco chic lesbian lifestyle, who loses her job as a chef and her lover on the same day. The next day her grandmother dies and in the course of returning to her hometown for a funeral, she sees her childhood best friend and first love, Jessie. They begin to rekindle their friendship, which later becomes a romance. Through a series of crises Rose is forced to...
|  | The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
Publication Date: November 4, 2002Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index. ...
|  | The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism
Publication Date: October 1, 1998The Curse of Cain confronts the inherent ambiguities of biblical stories on many levels and, in the end, offers an alternative, inspiring reading of the Bible that is attentive to visions of plenitude rather than scarcity, and to an ethics based on generosity rather than violence."[A] provocative and timely examination of the interrelationship of monotheism and violence. . . . This is a refreshing alternative to criticism-biblical and otherwise-that so often confuses interpretation with closure; it is an invitation to an ethic of possibility, plenitude, and g...
|  | Pericles, Prince of Tyre (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Publication Date: February 13, 1998| Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare's Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. This development is charted in the introduction to this edition, which differs radically from any other currently available. Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond reject the critical orthodoxies of a corrupt text and divided authorship. Instead they show the play to be a unified aesthetic experience. The result is a more enthusiatic view...
|  | Cyrano de Bergerac (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: February 15, 1971| ISBN-10: 0822003465 | ISBN-13: 978-0822003465This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale. ...
|  | A Breath of Haiku
Publication Date: 2003Haiku written by artist and author Helen Sherry. ...
| | King Arthur Through the Ages, Vol. 1 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1269)
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|  | Blood Rose
Release Date: July 31, 2007Serena Lark's erotic dreams of vampires are so vivid, so intense...could she be one? Drake Swift and Lord Sommersby, two daring vampire hunters, might know the truth about her past - and her future. The trio searches the dark streets of London for answers. She cannot say no when Sommersby and Drake introduce her to another existence entirely, one in which only extraordinary sensual pleasure matters - and Serena opens herself up to compelling desire... ...
|  | Room for Another Heart
Publication Date: August 29, 2012An adventurous, heart-warming tale of a woman's courage in overcoming great losses in her personal life. This book includes true domestic and wild animal stories. Set in the Northern Michigan Manistee Forest, young Cathy Maslin must face the loss of her husband, Chase, a soldier killed in Iraq, and, as a result of the country's economic upheavals, her first position as a school teacher. Her only connection to her beloved Chase is Moose, the dog he gave her as a wedding present. Moose becomes her constant, sometimes frustrating, companion. With the help ...
|  | Gold
Publication Date: May 10, 2012A crucial telex disappears from a newsroom in London and an editor turns up dead outside Geneva. Terrorists sabotage gold mines in South Africa, throwing global markets into a tailspin while the price of gold itself soars. American journalist Drew Dumesnil must follow the trail of a possible conspiracy from London to Switzerland to Kuwait and on to the rich mines of the Rand as he tries to prevent a global financial collapse. Aided by economist Carol Connor at the New York Federal Reserve and thwarted by a shadowy metals trader in Zurich, Drew finds his own life...
|  | The Science Chef: 100 Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids
Publication Date: September 1994| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up What melts in your mouth and not in your hands, plumps when you cook it, and comes in more than forty-eight scrumptious flavors? Give up? The correct answer is: Science!With The Science Chef you'll learn loads of basic science by doing fun, easy-to-perform cooking projects. And you get to eat the results when you're finished!Why do onions make you cry? How does yeast make bread rise? What makes popcorn pop, whipped cream frothy, and angel food cake fluffy? You'll discover the scientific answers to these and dozens...
|  | Wicked: A Musical Biography
Publication Date: June 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 0810877511 | ISBN-13: 978-0810877511| Edition: Reprint In 2004, the original Broadway production of Wicked earned 10 Tony nominations, including best musical. Based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire, the show continues to run on Broadway and has touring companies throughout the United States and around the world. In Wicked: A Musical Biography, author Paul Laird explores the creation of this popular Broadway musical through an examination of draft scripts, interviews with major figures, and the study of primary musical sources such as ...
|  | Summer Camp Adventure (Keystone Stables)
Release Date: September 22, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Six by Seuss
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