 | Platicas De Mi Barrio (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998Una coleccion de diecisiete cuentos que Ponce-Melendez se basa en una serie de entrevistas realizadas con varios mexicano-americanos de edad avanzada que viven en San Antonio. La coleccion refleja las pasiones, los problemas, las actitudes y la diversidad de la comunidad chicana. Carlos Ponce-Melendez nacio en Mexico. A los treinta y cuatro anos de edad vino a lost Estados Unidos, donde posteriormente recibio una maestria de la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio. Platicas de mi barrio es su primer libro. ...
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 | Stepping Heavenward
Publication Date: April 27, 2011This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
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 | Batman: Vampire
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 | The Village in the Jungle
Publication Date: June 7, 2006| ISBN-10: 0907871291 | ISBN-13: 978-0907871293The classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), first published in 1913, and written by Virginia Woolf's husband. ...
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest
Release Date: May 9, 2002| ISBN-10: 1565116771 | ISBN-13: 978-1565116771| Edition: Unabridged Known as one of the greatest comedies written in English, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest attacks Victorian manners and morals in what can only be described as the most maliciously delicious way. A witty satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, Wilde pulls the strings on his cast of late-Victorian characters making them appear, first and foremost, exactly as they are—superficial, upper class Englishmen bound and cinched by an artificial code of manners.Jack Worthington has inve...
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 | The Unbelonging
Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...
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 | City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 2012 Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city’s history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America’s literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today’s slam poets. The one hundred contributors to this vibrant collection take their materials and their inspirations from the city itself in a way that continues this e...
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 | From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry
Publication Date: April 15, 1986--John Ashbery ...
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 | The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
Release Date: July 20, 2010| ISBN-10: 1555975623 | ISBN-13: 978-1555975623In Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? “Poetry is not a discipline,” Young writes. “It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, a mash note, a fright, a tantrum, a grief, a hoax, a debacle, an application, an affect . . .” ...
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 | Selected Letters of Aldous
Publication Date: November 30, 2007Of the ten thousand letters that Aldous Huxley wrote, only a fraction have been published. Those that were once considered too sensitive for publication can now be included in a wholly new collection. James Sexton's thoughtful selection opens new perspectives on one of the giants of prose. Huxley's letters movingly depict his courageous battle with almost total blindness. Later letters to his patroness demonstrate the brilliance that would soon gain Huxley an international reputation as one of his generation's major satirists. Gradually the letters reveal a...
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 | On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
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 | Reversible Errors
Publication Date: April 5, 2011Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven is the court-appointed attorney for a Death Row inmate. Convinced his client is innocent thanks to new evidence, Raven is a fervent crusader--and also a rookie in the vicious world of criminal law. ...
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 | Tempest in the Tea Room: An Ezra Melamed Mystery (Volume 3)
Publication Date: August 18, 2012Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes when a crime wave sweeps through 19th-century London's Jewish community and the adventures of wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Ezra Melamed are recorded for posterity by Miss Rebecca Lyon, a young lady not quite at the marriageable age.In this third volume of the series, tragedy strikes when the Jewish orphanage's children are stricken with a mysterious and nearly fatal stomach ailment. When the ailment travels to the Mayfair home of Lady Marblehead, a young Jewish physician is accused of poisoning his patients - a suspicion tha...
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 | Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folktale
Publication Date: March 15, 1990"Meddaugh's color-pencil and watercolor paintings suit the text well; they leand extra dimension to the animals' characterizations as the story unfolds. Readers and listeners of all ages will find this an irresistibly satisfying tale."--Publishers Weekly. ...
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 | Barbie & the Scavenger Hunt (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: October 27, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | Food Patterns (Finding Patterns series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | Barrel Racing (The World of Rodeo)
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | How to Survive on a Desert Island (Tough Guides)
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 | Shannon: Lost and Found San Francisco, 1880 (Girlhood Journeys, Book Two)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997When Shannon and her friends conduct a book drive in their San Francisco neighborhood in 1880 to benefit the new library, they must solve a mystery quickly. ...
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 | A Belt Around My Bum (Willy Waggledagger)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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