 | From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Lazlo Toth, the pen name for Don Novello,invented the genre: the crank letters we would all write to celebrities, presidents, CEOs if only you weren't so lazy, timid or sane.Lazlo Toth has been quiet for years, but he has not been dormant.He gets the political season started with this hilarious new collection of correspondence. In FROM BUSH TO BUSH, Lazlo Toth:- writes to Bill Clinton offering his services as Poet Laureate but also inquires about what he should wear to the inauguration.- offers to help Lloyd Bentsen with the National Debt but also to seek som...
 |  | Barrio on the Edge: Caras Viejas Y Vino Nuevo (Clasicos Chicanos, 10.) (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| Series: Clasicos Chicanos Novel. Author of novels that include DEATH OF AN ANGLO, RETO EN EL PARAISO, THE BRICK PEOPLE and THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES, Morales currently teaches at U.C. Irvine. BARRIO ON THE EDGE presents contemporary barrio life through the eyes of two teenaged boys; avant-garde and politically engaged, the novel blends characters and voices, plays with time, and twists the narrative to create an image of an inner city in crisis. The Spanish is paired with a new English translation by Francisco A. Lomeli, and this edition also includes an introd...
|  | Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir
Release Date: January 25, 2005Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition--until now. In her memoir, Dr. Height, now ninety-one, reflects on a life of service and leadership. We witness her childhood encounters with racism and the thrill of New York college life during the Harlem Renaissance. We see her ...
|  | The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme
Release Date: September 19, 2000Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry PrizeAbout Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest about that difficult relationship."These striking, original, beautifully sensuous poems do just that. Ordinary moments--a ...
|  | The Poetic Enigma of Alfred de Vigny - The Rosetta Stone of Esoteric Literature
Release Date: July 6, 2006The Poetic Enigma of ALfred de Vigny is the companion book to What Voltaire Tries to Tell Us - The Esoteric Substance of Voltairian Thought This book is devoted to the veiled message transmitted in the works of famous authors over a period of centuries. Esoteric literature is the massive body of Western and other writings containing a philosophical "contraband"-ever the same under a deceptive variety of surfaces or veils. In the words of Marcel Proust, "The great writers have never done but one work." ...
|  | Beneath the Mockingbird's Wings (The Spirit of Appalachia Series #4)(No 4)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999Nathaniel Carter is torn between his white and Cherokee ancestries and must learn that his cause of war is wrong. The Spirit of Appalachia Book 4. ...
|  | Her Lone Star Cowboy (Love Inspired)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Love Inspired With his harrowing childhood behind him, cowboy Jess Holden made some promises to himself. He'll remain a bachelor. Won't ever get involved with a certain kind of woman. But then he rescues a lovely newcomer—and two scared calves—from a flash flood in the middle of Texas Hill Country. Not only is veterinarian's assistant Gabi Newberry a reminder of his past, she's the granddaughter of a Mule Hollow matchmaker! But as sweet, spunky Gabi tends the ailing cattle on his ranch, Jess begins to discover that some prom...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Publication Date: August 1, 1992The author of Trick or Treat and The Mall offers a thrilling novelization of 20th Century Fox's summer sizzler movie starring Kristy Swanson and Beverly Hills, 90120's Luke Perry. Buffy learns that she bears the mark of the coven and that she alone can stop the vampires before they engulf L.A. from 20th Century Fox. ...
|  | White Cargo
Release Date: December 30, 2008 They should have killed millionaire Wendell "Cat" Catledge, but they let him live while they sent his family and his yacht to a watery grave. They let him live knowing he could never find them in the deadly drug towns of Colombia, where they ruled as untouchable kings. Then, late one night Catledge receives a phone call—and one word launches one man's total war against a ruthless and terrifying evil....
|  | Amerika
Publication Date: February 1, 1987Very slight spine crease and edge wear. Front cover has a sticker sign and a small smug. Back cover has a little crease and rub. Intials on inside front page, no other marks, clean and tight! Ships very quickly and packaged carefully! ...
|  | Miss Clare Remembers
...
|  | The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956
Publication Date: September 12, 2011| ISBN-10: 0521867940 | ISBN-13: 978-0521867948| Edition: 1 This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a ...
|  | The Saint of Florenville: A Love Story
Publication Date: September 16, 2011A Roman Catholic nun, Mother Marie-Thérèse, is the surviving victim of one of Belgium’s most notorious crimes, involving kidnap, torture, and murder. It all took place in enchanting, picturesque Bruges, Belgium, the Venice of the North. Her co-victim, an American priest, Father Thomas Jensen, did not survive. Although his body was never found, Piet Van Kampen confessed to killing the priest, for which he received a life sentence without parole.Twenty years later, on the day after the convicted killer's death, journalist Célèste D...
|  | Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Biblioteca Italiana)
Publication Date: March 1, 1996| Series: Biblioteca Italiana This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpiece Orlando Furioso (1516), the unfinished Cinque Canti are a powerful poem in their own right. Tragic in tone,they depict the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights and give poetic expression to a sense of cultural, political, and religious crisis felt in Ariosto's Italy and in early sixteenth-century Europe more g...
|  | The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians
Publication Date: April 15, 2004| ISBN-10: 0199269203 | ISBN-13: 978-0199269204The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions. events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.The Victorian era pr...
|  | The Year of the Ox: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | A Negro League Scrapbook
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true. This is what life was like for African American baseball players before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. Meet Josh Gibson, called "the black Babe Ruth," who hit seventy-five home runs in 1931; James "Cool Papa" Bell, the fastest man in base...
|  | My Book of Cursive Writing : Letters (Kumon Workbooks)
...
|  | Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
Publication Date: February 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up After the American Revolution, our country was anything but unified. Using the conceit of a school play, Unite or Die traces the challenges, conflicts, and compromises that shaped the United States Constitution and brought unity to the states. This access ...
|  | How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?
Publication Date: September 1, 2012 ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
