 | Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1995| Series: Texas Pan American Series Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies.This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda ...
 |  | Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: May 24, 2000| ISBN-10: 0486411192 | ISBN-13: 978-0486411194| Edition: SERIE REVIVER A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty, eloquent drama widely considered the most popular modern French play, it is presented here in a rich blank verse translation by poet Louis Untermeyer. ...
|  | Kiss of the Fur Queen (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies)
Publication Date: May 2000| Series: American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Book 34) In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen. Nine months afterward, Abraham's wife Mariesis gives birth to their son, Champion, in a tent on a trapline in snowy northern Manitoba. Later, three-year-old Champion watches his brother Ooneemeetoo come into the world in the same tent.The boys grow up in a magical Cree Garden of Eden: stars, fish and caribou are their p...
|  | Banishing Verona: A Novel
Release Date: August 11, 2005Zeke is twenty-nine and working as a carpenter and painter in London. Verona is thirty-seven, headstrong, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only tobe separated less than 24 hours later when Verona mysteriously disappears. After much searching, Zeke discovers that Verona has travelled to Boston to help Henry, her brother, disentangle himself from some shady financial matters. As impulsively as he fell for Verona, Zeke decides to follow her to Boston. It is here that both lovers take on further and m...
|  | Treading Water on Ripple Creek Farm: Lily
Publication Date: December 1, 2011The Ripple Creek Farm series follows the progress of a young farming family growing up in rural, southern America. The first book, Treading Water on Ripple Creek Farm: Lily, is set in The Great Depression and World War II eras. Lily, who is the eldest Howell child, tells the story.Living on a struggling farm, Lily is faced with responsibilities and decisions that are far beyond her tender age. With a growing family, daily dilemmas with farm life, and two of her uncles away in the war, Lily will need great heart and strength as the family treads water.Treadin...
|  | PsyEarth Quest: A Prophetic Novel
Release Date: August 1, 1998This far reaching novel is set sometime in the near future when governments have failed to address our rapidly deteriorating environment. A young reporter investigates groups of inspired individuals tackling the problem. In his effort to help resolve an "eco-uprising" from third-world activists, he must learn to think, act and live in harmony with the planet. ...
|  | The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee
Publication Date: May 7, 2009After vacation plans go awry, Karen finds herself alone in a large house, in the middle of nowhere. That night, in an encounter both sexual and surreal, Karen falls victim to a vampire attack. The act leaves her struggling to cling to her humanity while sexually imprinted to a monster.Karen escapes, only to delve head first into a dark odyssey that will shatter her previous thoughts on reality and redefine what it means to love. ...
|  | Studio Sex: An Annika Bengtzon Thriller
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|  | The Solitude of Thomas Cave: A Novel
Release Date: February 20, 2007In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head back toward home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. For Cave has bet the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island. Alone. His shipmates sail away, the days shorten, and the cold weather moves in. Thomas Cave faces months of darkness, ice, and blizzards. He has nothing to his name except his rations, shelter, and a journal—a record in case he doesn’t survive to tell his ...
|  | True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series)
Publication Date: April 26, 2011| Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne o...
|  | The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua: The Ancestral Spirit Tradition of Hawaii
Release Date: March 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 0892811447 | ISBN-13: 978-0892811441An extensive examination of Hawaiian spiritual tradition and its emphasis on ancestral spirits by a descendant of an ancient lineage of Hawaiian priests• Describes the time-honored intergenerational bond between a people and a land that embodies the heart of indigenous spirituality• A powerful and authentic portrait of a culture on the cusp of extinctionIn Hawaiian spiritual tradition, the sacred bond formed between the land and its people is perpetuated in every new generation by the voices of the ance...
|  | Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (Dodo Press)
Publication Date: April 20, 2007"These essays are intended as a general description of some of the principal forms of narrative literature in the Middle Ages, and as a review of some of the more interesting works in each period." ...
|  | Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France
Release Date: January 4, 2001Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French....
|  | The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England
Release Date: May 25, 2010| ISBN-10: 0230616267 | ISBN-13: 978-0230616264| Edition: 1 Usury is entrenched in the twenty-first century world. Recently, however, public opinion has been shifting back to the strongly hostile view of usury held by humanity for millennia before the rise of capitalism. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed at the very beginning of its rise to power. David Hawkes examines early modern English depictions of usury in a wide variety of literary media: plays, pamphlets, poems, political economy, and parliamentary d...
|  | The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Public Square)
Publication Date: February 2, 2009"This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life."--The Posthuman Dada GuideThe Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Café de la Terrasse--a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution--lasted for a century and may still be going on, although c...
|  | Original Sin
Release Date: July 14, 2009Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishingin this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalglieshand his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity.A murder hastaken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing houselocated in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne,the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm'sfortunes.Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a...
|  | Swimming (High Interest Books: Sports Clinic)
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Buffalo Sabres (Inside the NHL)
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| | 100 Greatest Sports Champions Hb (The 100 Greatest)
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|  | Bow Wow! Meow! A First Book of Sounds (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: January 14, 2002| Age Level: 2 and up...
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