 | The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publication Date: January 10, 1997| Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribb...
 |  | Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell
Publication Date: April 1, 2008Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of music and activism. ...
|  | The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables
Publication Date: July 1, 1995| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Guatemala, tr Wallace Kaufman...
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|  | Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: May 18, 1998At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame tha...
|  | Stormy Weather
Publication Date: March 1, 2001A hilarious new novel of greed and corruption from the bestselling author of "Strip Tease". The story focuses on southern Florida at the height of the tourist season, when a ferocious hurricane hits--luring con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be saviors like hyenas to the lion's kill. "Hiaasen himself is a one-man force of nature". ...
|  | Dead Reckoning
Publication Date: March 1, 2010Underwater archeologist Shiloh Blake is consumed with passion for the water and inflamed at the injustices of life. When her first large-scale dig traps her in the middle of an international nuclear arms clash, she flees for her life. When she spots a man trailing her, the questions are, Who is he? and How is he always one step ahead? Reece Jaxon is a former Navy SEAL and now serves his country as a spy. His life is entangled by the beguiling Shiloh Blake as he hunts down the sources to a nuclear dead drop in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India. The only way to ...
|  | Comando Tribulaci
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Series: Left Behind (Book 2) A New York Times Bestseller in EnglishIn a cataclysmic instant, millions of people disappear from the planet. Only four people survive and they unite to form "Tribulation Force." Their goal is nothing less than to oppose the enemies of God, and to fight against them during the most chaotic seven years the planet will ever see. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Magruder Transplant
Publication Date: May 19, 2011A dying cardiologist is in desperate need of a donor heart that no one believes will become available in time to save him. An innocent young woman is brutally raped and murdered in a crime whose trail has long-since grown cold, and the state’s most powerful political figure, its senior United States senator, hides his son from the authorities investigating the crime.It is the relentless convergence of these disparate threads that drives the narrative of this emotionally-intense romantic thriller, unraveling a web of deception, blackmail, and murder and ul...
|  | Game Boys (Boys in Love, No. 1)
Publication Date: November 16, 2010Game Boys is the first book in the Boys in Love series, it's a storyabout two Japanese high school boys named Kane and Dai, two gamers who fall inlust with each other that quickly turns into something more. However, life isnever that easy and the two find themselves dealing with more than just asimple popular game but everything from criminals, suicide, murder, and a highschool bully. Do they have what it takes to rise above it all and staytogether? ...
|  | Black Swan
Publication Date: January 11, 2008When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer. Just as their friendship is beginning to blossom, a dark figure from de Bernis' past emerges to propel them into a thrilling and perilous adventure, taking them right to the heart of pirate life. ...
|  | Shakin' E
Publication Date: July 24, 2002A wealthy ad executive gets the shock of his life when his world collides with the most famous and beloved "King" in history.This hilarious adventure takes gut wrenching turns and exploits the full emotional spectrum of any reader daring enough to take the journey with them.Marvelously witty and philosophically insightful, it's charm and impact will "go marching on" long after this truth story has been told.------------------Roger Cardinal wakes up one morning with a winter storm raging outside his Chicago brownstone, and an emotional storm raging within. He is...
|  | Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope
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|  | Northern Haida Songs (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame)
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame This book describes the musical culture of the Northern Haida Indians, who speak two closely related dialects. One dialect group lives on Graham Island, British Columbia, the other on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The recordings on which the book is based were compiled over a period of more than a decade from a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources. Representing the entire range of the Haida musical tradition—a tradition that nearly died out and is currently being revived—this volume...
|  | The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Broadview Editions)
Publication Date: September 18, 2007| ISBN-10: 1551116871 | ISBN-13: 978-1551116877| Edition: illustrated edition The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was the theatrical sensation of the London stage in 1893. It established Pinero as the leading English dramatist of serious social issues, and created a star out of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the title role. The play recounts the marriage of a "woman with a past" and how it fails because of the double standard of morality applied unequally and hypocritically by Victorian society to men and women. This Broadview edition includes a thoroughly rev...
|  | Phaedra (Crofts Classics)
Publication Date: March 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 088295069X | ISBN-13: 978-0882950693| Edition: Translated By D. N. Grebanier Edited and translated by Oreste F. Pucciani, this edition of Phaedra for performance and study is well annotated and features an introduction that includes a plot summary and extensive discussion of how the historical, social, religious, and theatrical conventions of seventeenth-century France contribute to the play. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Jean Racine, and a selected bibliography. ...
|  | Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text
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|  | Thrill Me to Death (The Bullet Catchers, Book 2)
Release Date: July 25, 2006 A hot-blooded bodyguard. An heiress worth a cool billion. And one dangerous attraction.... Roxanne St. Claire delivers a heart-pounding thrill ride in the second Bullet Catchers novel! HE KNOWS ALL HER SECRETS...Max Roper never lets emotion get in the way of his job -- not since the tragic shooting that killed his fiancée's father. Now the former DEA agent is a Bullet Catcher, and he's managed to block out Cori's bitter goodbye -- and their sizzling passion. Those dangerous desires come back with a vengeance when Max is assigned to protect a recently widowe...
|  | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Release Date: August 7, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up Are all the lights on? Is there a parent in the house? Are the windows shut and locked? Double-check! They HAVE to be if you are going to read this book, which is undoubtedly the scariest rendition of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. While you may have heard of Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel, and the Headless Horseman, you've never SEEN them quite like this -- through the macabre imagination of the inimitable Gris Grimly. So, take a deep breath and take a long look. And you may want to bring a...
|  | The Ultimate Martial Arts Encyclopedia for Kids
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