 | Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood
Publication Date: January 1, 1997The moving collection evokes the agony and frustration borne of growing up in terminal exile and cultural limbo. But, from anguish and turmoil, the artist has wrought inspiration and crafted one of the most eloquent and commanding voices of contemporary Latin American literature. "This slim volume is studded with poetry that adds depth to the characters and action ... With short chapters that flow fluidly between the first and thurd person, Suárez reflects on 36 years as an outsider and on the memories--and the record of them--that kept him sane" (from P...
 |  | Love is a Dog From Hell
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|  | Rallying Cries
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|  | Mess Detectives: The Slobfather
Release Date: October 12, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Fear Nothing
Release Date: December 1, 1998| Series: Moonlight Bay Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)—a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own—roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring ...
|  | Pearl in the Mist (Landry Saga)
Release Date: October 1, 1994| Series: Landry Saga (Book 2) Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness...Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as d swamp mist. Ruby must carefully avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother, Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her backwater upbringing. And Ruby's every effort to befriend her twin sister, Gisselle -- espec...
|  | Destiny's Bridge
Publication Date: July 1, 2003Rancher Lexington Walters is the owner and operator of the Rocking W ranch, not too far from the small Texas town of Somerville. While repairing a fence during a thunderstorm, she sees a car torn from her wooden bridge and swept into the raging creek. She pulls young realtor Amanda Cauble from the water and the two quickly become good friends. Cut off from the rest of the world and stranded at the ranch, their friendship deepens. Fending off the bad weather, cattle thieves, and other obstacles, the tender friendship grows into an everlasting love. ...
|  | A Fighter Never Gives Up
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|  | In the Heat of the Day (Caribbean Writers Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 1996| Series: Caribbean Writers Series Tension and action intensify this novel, which is based on the historical facts surrounding Trinidad's Water Riots on March 23, 1903, a seminal event in the island's struggle for independence from Britain. ...
|  | The windways of the Navaho
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|  | The Christmas Nightingale
Publication Date: December 1, 1935Play script dramatized by Phyllis Groff. A charming and picturesque Christmas tale, adapted from the well-loved story by Eric P. Kelly. Three sets. Polish costumes. Cast of 3 women, 6 men, 4 children, extras.A Polish peasant family, living in the middle of the forest, is hungry for a sight of the city. To their door one Christmas Eve night comes a richly-dressed little boy who cannot speak, but who can sing like a nightingale. The family takes care of the boy for a year, without knowing anything about him. Then an opportunity suddenly comes to them to make t...
|  | The Tower of Beowulf
Publication Date: September 1995A reconstruction of the tale of Beowulf finds a disgruntled young warrior engaging in suicidal battle in order to convince himself that he is not a coward, until his confrontations with Grendel and his mother make him a renowned hero. 10,000 first printing. ...
|  | Still Life With Buddy: A Novel Told in Fifty Poems
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|  | Passionate FridayVOL I: Sensually Spoken
Publication Date: December 21, 2009Passionate Friday is about the wonderful and not so wonderful elements of black love and all that it encompasses from that "first look" to the day you walk down the isle, an all that is between those two exquisite moments.I wrote this collection because I was tired of there not being "enough" positive examples of a black man showing his love for his woman. This collection is my effort, for the good of the bad I tried. We have far too many images of not so kind relationships depicting black love more as a war than something to come home to. We have so much m...
|  | Charles Williams (Arthurian Poets)
Publication Date: August 1991| Series: Arthurian Poets Charles Williams' two cycles of poems, "Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars", have been described as the major imaginative work about the Grail of the 20th century, praised for their spiritual reality and complex patterns of sound and haunting rhythms. In this new edition David Llewellyn Dodds collects together Williams' earlier poems on Arthurian themes, which both grew into and gave way to the final versions. This collection, which Charles Williams called "The Advent of Galahad", was never published as such, t...
|  | Respublica (Oxford Classical Texts) (Greek Edition)
Publication Date: May 8, 2003| ISBN-10: 0199248494 | ISBN-13: 978-0199248490This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on examination of all the evidence. Many new readings have been introduced in the Greek text. A critical apparatus gives details for all relevant textual evidence. All scholars and students of Plato and ancient philosophy in general will welcome this valuable new resource. ...
|  | La casa de Riverton (The House at Riverton: A Novel) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 15, 2011In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at Riverton House, a young poet shot himself. In 1999, Grace Bradley, a ninety-eight year-old woman, once servant of Riverton, is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to the house and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties, and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever. Span...
|  | Night Season (The World of the Lupi, Book 4)
Release Date: January 2, 2008Lupine sorcerer Cullen Seabourne and FBI Agent Cynna Weaver are just coming to terms with having a baby, when they are lured to another realm where magic is commonplace and night never ends. Their only way home lies in tracking down a missing medallion-one also sought by powerful beings who will do anything to claim it....
|  | Ninjago: The Challenge of the Samukai/Mask of the Sensei Bind-Up
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|  | Summersaults
Release Date: March 26, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up What do you like about summer?Mountain hikes? Picking cherries? Curve balls?Ice cream cones?What do you not like about summer?Blackouts? Bee swarms?Thunderstorms?Ninety degrees?However you answered, Douglas Florian will convince you that summer is great. His poems and pictures add up to the best vacation imaginable -- and it is one you can have at any time of the year. A companion volume to the highly praised Winter Eyes,Summersaults proves that Douglas Florian is a poet for all seasons. ...
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