 | El Condado De Belken: Klail City (Clasicos Chicanos, 8.) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992| Series: Clasicos Chicanos, 8. (Book 8) novel, Spanish text, English intro Gonzales-Berry ...
 |  | Caucasia: A Novel
Release Date: February 1, 1999Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970's Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at the Afrocentric school they attend. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness. Then their parents' marriage falls apart. Their father's new black girlfriend won't even look at Birdie, while ...
|  | St. Peter's Bones
Publication Date: January 17, 20112011 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award WinnerANOVEL OF THE PERSECUTED CHURCH IN IRAQ...The time is 846 AD. Rome isunder siege. Before the Saracen armies sack the Vatican, Pope Leo IV calls ona sect of trusted warrior monks to evacuate from his palace the most sacred ofholy relics, the bones of St. Peter, the "rock" on whom Christ said his churchwould be built. Now the secret has fallen into the hands of a radical Musliminsurgent group in modern-day Iraq, who plot to wipe out the monastery wherefor centuries the sacred relics have been stored, ...
|  | The Alchemist's Code
Publication Date: March 4, 2008The legendary Maestro Nostradamus may be able to glimpse the ever- changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him and his daring apprentice Alfeo when Nostradamus is hired to find a foreign spy by Venice's ruling Council of Ten. The only clues they can offer him are the spy's intercepted messages, encoded in a seemingly unbreakable cipher.But Nostradamus soon detects evil influences working against him, and realizes the spy can only be caught by occult means. He turns to his able apprentice, the young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, who...
|  | Flanagan's Run
Publication Date: May 1982It is depression-era America and notorious huckster, Flanagan, plans the ultimate race, reeling in contestants with the promise of a glittering jackpot prize. Two thousand audacious hopefuls line up at the starting line from every walk of life and all ends of the globe, each with something to prove. As they run themselves ragged across America, they come up against numerous hazards, including the precipitous Rockies, shady mobsters and crooked officials. Their different stories, ambitions and dreams converge through a shared determination which will inspire you to p...
|  | Coming-To-Know (Studies in Shakespeare, V. 10)
Publication Date: February 4, 2000| ISBN-10: 0820444111 | ISBN-13: 978-0820444116Adams (English, Cornell U.) applies the Aristotelian idea of anagnorisis ("recognition" or "discovery") to Shakespeare's comedies. A survey of anagnorisis as it functions in each of the 18 plays examined is followed by a detailed discussion of anagnorisis in Shakespeare's five early comedies, five middle comedies, three problem comedies, and five late romances. The final chapter sketches a possible application of the same mode of analysis to Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. ...
|  | El mercader de Venecia (Clasicos de la literatura series)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 8497644611 | ISBN-13: 978-8497644617For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde el teatro, la narrativa, la poesía y e...
|  | True Love Is Friendship Set on Fire: And Other Proverbs of Love
Publication Date: February 14, 1998Representing everything from the charming to the enlightening to the bittersweet, and drawn from a variety of cultures around the world, these reflections highlight the universality of love and the very human need to express it to others. ...
|  | Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War (Translation/Transnation)
Publication Date: July 29, 2012| Series: Translation/Transnation Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficien...
|  | Selected Writings
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|  | El trono de fuego (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: July 17, 2012 ...
|  | High Adventure #125
Publication Date: July 5, 2012"Dump the Jackpot" by Robert Leslie Bellem "The movie star's story about a diamond theft sounded like a publicity gag to Dan Turner—until her fiance produced a murder to go along with the robbery yarn." "Ollie Loses His Deer Meet" by Harold de Polo A Maine sheriff interest in hunting—both game and criminals—may not work by exactly the same methods used by the F.B.I.But anyone who saw Ollie go into the woods with his rifle knew he would bring back big game—and maybe the truth with it..." ...
|  | Murder on the Moor (A Rex Graves Mystery)
Publication Date: March 8, 2011| Series: A Rex Graves Mystery (Book 4) Book 4 in the acclaimed Rex Graves Mystery Series A Killer Housewarming in the Scottish HighlandsWhen barrister Rex Graves invites a group of friends to Gleneagle Lodge, he doesn'...
|  | Death Dines at 8:30
Release Date: May 1, 2001Fine crime and cuisine from New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson, Tamar Myers, and others...Recipes included.There's no denying that the combination of mystery and food is especially delicious. In this mouthwatering anthology, sixteen acclaimed authors serve up suspenseful stories of unlucky diners who receive that most unwelcome of guests-death. With stories and all-new recipes by:¥ Claudia Bishop ¥ Edward Hoch ¥ Camilla T. Crespi ¥ Bill and Judy Crider¥ Nick Danger ¥ Patricia Guiver ¥ Jean Hager ¥ David A. Ka...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | Captain America: Forever Allies
Publication Date: November 16, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Camping For Boys
Publication Date: March 13, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The author has conducted boys’ camps for twenty-three years so that he is not without experience in the subject. ...
|  | Illuminations (Aladdin Books)
Publication Date: March 31, 1993 ...
|  | Brothers Lionheart
Publication Date: July 2, 2009There's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother, Jonathan, who is brave, strong, and handsome - everything Karl believes he is not. Karl never wants to be parted from him. But Karl is sick, and knows he's going to die. To comfort him, Jonathan tells him stories of Nangiyala, the wonderful place he'll be going to when he dies, and where he will wait until Jonathan is ready to join him there. Then the unthinkable happens ...Jonathan is killed in an accident. Heartbroken, Karl longs for the day he'll be reunited with his brother. When the time comes, he ...
|  | Bat's Surprise: Bring-It-All-Together Book (Get Ready-Get Set-Read!)
Publication Date: July 31, 1993| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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