 | Mi Querido Rafa (Klail City Death Trip Series) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| Series: Klail City Death Trip Series In this novel, Hinojosa narrates through the perspective of the epistolary and testimonial novel and demonstrates once again why he is the first Chicano writer to be honored with Latin America's most prestigious literary award: Premio Casa de las Américas. ...
 |  | October (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Quarternote Chapbook Series (Book 3) The third annual edition of Sarabande’s Quarternote Chapbook Series."Identifying with the season of autumn, the dark of it, the barren, irreversible future of it, and the beauty of it, which is not seen as redemptive, the voice of Louise Glück is starker, more direct, more emotionally charged than it has ever been. October is a masterpiece."—Mark StrandLouise Glück is the author of nine books of poetry. Her many honors include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Bobbitt National Poetry P...
|  | The God of Small Things: A Novel
Release Date: December 16, 2008Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “...
|  | Beautiful as Yesterday: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 2009Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid has never settled for anything; she prefers her bohemian friends’ culture to her own, and is haunted by her college boyfriend’s tragic death. When their widowed mother travels to the United States for the first time, they can’t avoid a family get-toge...
|  | Everything Good Will Come
Publication Date: October 31, 2004Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule-- though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, Sheri Bakare? Thi...
|  | The Black Road (Diablo, Book 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Diablo, Book 2 (Book 2) Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation. Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the...
|  | The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema
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|  | Talk of the Town Too
Publication Date: November 1, 2004Welcome back to the world of Gigi, Mallory and the rest of the sun-baked gang from "Talk of the Town." In this sequel to the wildly popular "Talk of the Town" readers are reintroduced to the characters in this ongoing contemporary saga.Has Dr. Kohlrabi helped Gigi learn her lesson?Has Alex really let go of her love for Gigi and is she really ready to move on to a life with Taylor?Has Mallory finally given up her pajamas for good and has she found satisfaction in the loving arms of Del?"Talk of the Town Too" answers these and many more questions."Talk of the ...
|  | The Drinker With The Hurling Problem
Publication Date: August 18, 2011In the salad of Michael Collins’ otherwise perfect life there lurked one undoubted caterpillar, an immature determination to win a county junior hurling title with his beloved De Wets. Collins’ playing history and his personal life contain much to vex the ordinary fan and strain his credulity, which is as it must be. And, like all the great matches "The Drinker with the Hurling Problem" is full of excitement, black humour and gritty reality. Collins’ story will move the compassionate to tears, the just to indignation and the cruel to laug...
|  | 5 Meters of Poems (Lost Literature Series)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Series: Lost Literature Series Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Accordian-style binding in a limited edition of 750. Translated from the Spanish by Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman. Carlos Oquendo de Amat wrote 5 METERS OF POEMS (5 metros de poemas) from 1923 to 1925. It was published in a very small edition in December 1927. Carlos Oquendo de Amat's only book of poems bears the stamp of the influence of European Avant Gardes; at the same time it is clearly a corner-stone for what would later become Concrete Poetry. This special bili...
|  | Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Release Date: November 26, 1996Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science. Illustrations. ...
|  | Major Modern Essayists (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: January 7, 1994| ISBN-10: 0134979834 | ISBN-13: 978-0134979830| Edition: 2Freshman Composition; Intermediate or Advanced Composition. This essay reader provides in-depth introductions to fifteen of this century's most distinctive writers of nonfiction prose in the English language. The collection is arranged chronologically–from Virginia Woolf to Barry Lopez–and includes authors from the United States and Great Britain. A final section of essays offers a single selection by each of ten outstanding writers from around the world. ...
|  | Heartbreaker
Release Date: August 28, 2001Bless me father, for I will sin.... In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's sister, Laurant. In a frantic race to protect her, Tom calls upon his best friend, elite FBI agent Nick Buchanan, to track the predator who is closing in on Laurant. Now, as an electrifying attraction grows between Laurant and Nick, so does the danger -- and one false move will cost both of them everything that matters. L...
|  | Vital Parts (Signet)
Release Date: February 1, 1993| Series: Signet With fame, fortune, and a wealthy lover, model Vivienne Laker has it all, or so she thinks, until her boyfriend offers her the medical promise of eternal health and unaging beauty through a new and frightening procedure....
|  | The Cleaner: A River City Anthology
Publication Date: October 5, 2010A frustrated crime scene cleaner...an off duty cop in a jam...a patrol officer who believes in a strange fate...a holier-than-thou Internal Affairs whose world gets turned upside down...plus those that are crazy, surrounded in sadness or just trying to get by - these are the many and varied characters of River City, brought to life in 17 short stories by the author of the River City crime novels. ...
|  | Complete Sherlock Holmes (Paperback, 2003)
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|  | Shooting & Scoring (Football File)
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|  | Mother Goose Stickers and Seals: 40 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Dover Stickers)
Publication Date: March 18, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | King's Arrow (Crown and Covenant #2)
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Angus M’Kethe, brave Duncan’s younger brother, is no longer a child with a toy bow and arrow. He is now a young man, facing the same persecution and spiritual questions that his entire family has struggled against for years. Loyal to his family, Angus must match wits in a life-and-death struggle against Highlanders. By faith, Angus turns his beloved game of chess into a tool of victory. But desperate fear grips the Clan with an unexpected murder! Will Covenanters be found guilty? Angus’s true test of ...
|  | Menkui!(Yaoi) (v. 1)
Release Date: May 9, 2006| Series: Menkui! (Book 1) High school is difficult enough, especially when you live in the shadow of your stunningly attractive older brother...Kotori is often teased for being superficial, and with a gorgeous brother like Kujaku, you can't really blame him for thinking that looks are everything. However, once Akaiwa steps into the picture, Kotori's life is heading for a lesson in deep trust, self-confidence, and abiding love. Suzuki Tanaka has created a funny, life-affirming story about complexities of young love on a long and winding road that leads to the heart. ...
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