 | Nation and Narration
Publication Date: June 14, 1990| ISBN-10: 0415014832 | ISBN-13: 978-0415014830| Edition: 1st Ed. Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'En...
 |  | Jesus Boy
Publication Date: April 1, 2010"Allen has created a consummate tragicomedy of African Americanfamily secrets and sorrows, and of faith under duress and wide open to interpretation. Perfect timing andcrackling dialogue, as well as heartrending pain balanced by uproarious predicaments, make for a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love."--Booklist“Like Dostoyevsky, Allen colorfully evokes the gambling milieu—the chained (mis)fortunes of the players, their vanities and grotesqueries, their quasi-philosophical ruminations on chance. Like...
|  | One Times One
Publication Date: August 17, 2002A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.Cummings's ninth book of poems, One Times One, was first published in 1944. The poems in One Times One have as their theme "oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved—love," in the words of Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York...
|  | Swamplandia!
Release Date: February 1, 2011From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swam...
|  | Small Change
Release Date: October 2, 2001An award-winning collection of linked stories about women and friendship by the acclaimed author of A Student of Weather.. Small Change is a superbly crafted collection of linked stories that navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and endings, its intimaciesand betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favor with a neighborhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship heldtogether by the steely bonds of passivity.W...
|  | Gateways (Repairman Jack Novels)
Release Date: February 7, 2006| Series: Repairman Jack Novels (Book 7) Following last year's successful The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages. His adventures are hugely entertaining."In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this i...
|  | Cool Side of the Pillow
Publication Date: August 16, 2011`Til Death Us Do Part…sometimes.Clara Dearheart works in a funeral parlor and talks to her clients. Her friends and family have watched her suffer after the loss of her partner and urge her to move on, but all Clara wants is to stand still.Bebe Franklin writes terrible soap episodes and needs a career change. Her boss hates her; her friends are sharp as knives; all Bebe wants to do is run. And she does, straight into Clara’s calm, ordered, and extraordinary life. For Clara can see ghosts and waits for her dead lover. How can Bebe compete with a love like...
|  | Voices of Arabia: A Collection of the Poetry of Place (Poetry of Place)
Publication Date: February 2, 2010| Series: Poetry of Place Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo, as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the classical age of Arabic poetry, from the years AD 600-1000. This collection is newly selected and translated by T. J. Gorton. It attempts to convey the spirit and, when possible, something of the rhythms of this highly musical verse ...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century French Poets
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|  | Thirty Australian Poets
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0702239143 | ISBN-13: 978-0702239144In celebrating a burgeoning, vibrant, and talented group of Australian poets born after 1968, this anthology comprehensively details a groundbreaking generation that renewed and reinvigorated poetry in Australia. Exploring a 40-year body of work that has pushed the boundaries, it showcases a wonderful diversity of voices and styles, from reimagined versions of traditional forms to the experimental and avant-garde. ...
|  | Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller;: Consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of ... half century, with appropriate selections;
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|  | The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 5, 1992| Series: Penguin Classics (Book 217) No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus' ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Pr...
|  | Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue (The Poor Relation)
Publication Date: April 1994| Series: The Poor Relation (Book 5) Bringing Regency England vibrantly to life, the fifth volume in The Poor Relation series follows the latest escapades of Colonel Sandhurst as he manages to acquire funds to save the hotel and helps a young woman avoid an unfortunate marriage. ...
|  | Super Friends: Going Bananas (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Superman Adventures Vol. 2: The Never-Ending Battle
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| | Elfwyn's Saga
Release Date: September 19, 1990| Age Level: 4 and up Although born blind because of a curse cast on her family by an evil enemy, Elfwyn finds a way to erase the curse with the help of the Hidden Folk. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Gingerbread Boy
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| | Football '99 (Funpax)
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|  | Tony's Hard Work Day
Publication Date: July 2002| Age Level: 5 and up $15.95 hardcover · 1-58685-181-0 9 x 10 ½ in, 32 pp, Color Illustrations Throughout, Rights: W, Children, Ages 5 to 8The new house in the country needs fixing. Father is hammering, Mother is sewing, Matthew is painting, and Adam is chopping. But four-year-old Tony isn't doing anything because they won't let him help. "You are too small," they all say . . . or so they think. So, with his dog at his side, Tony goes for a walk in the woods and decides that he will work on his own project. And that is exactly what he does-with mud and wa...
|  | Splat the Cat Takes the Cake (I Can Read Book 1)
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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