 | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Release Date: May 1, 1995MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINTThe narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. “You are the teacher?” he asks incredulously. “I am the teacher,” the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends...
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|  | Big Aaiiieeeee: An Anthology of Asian-American Literature
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|  | The Stranger I Married
Release Date: August 28, 2012Lady Pelham could not have designed a husband more suited to her needs. The Marquess of Grayson is a dear and enchanting friend and an unrepentant ladies' man. Their union is solid; their hearts safe from one another. But every marriage has its surprises... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | First and Only: A psychological thriller
Publication Date: April 13, 2012WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT FIRST AND ONLY I wasn't sure what to expect from the cover or the blurb but I couldn't put it down until I finished it --- LB A truly fantastic book, you simply won’t want, nor be able to put it down until you have the answers --- Linda I found myself leaning further towards my laptop screen the further into the book I got --- Janieritson I didn't want to put it down, but at the same time, I really didn't want it to end --- Manchester Anne DESCRIPTION Do you believe in psychics? What if there really was someone who could see...
|  | The Fruit 'N Food
Publication Date: January 1, 2010When Thomas Pak is hired as a clerk at a Korean grocery, he isn't prepared for the searing racial tensions that threaten to destroy the neighborhood in which he lives and works. His tenuous relationship with the store owners and their young daughter is jeopardized by his own conflicting affiliations of race and class, and these turbulent forces soon converge violently around in the form of a race riot. Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) wrote of this book: "Leonard Chang's vigorous tale is a drama of society's perpetual struggle for renewal and reconciliation...
|  | Getting It Right: A Novel
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Series: William F. Buckley Giving birth is arguably the most difficult physical event of a woman's life, yet most women - even those in great shape - enter the delivery room wholly unprepared for the rigours of labour and demands of early motherhood. But you can train for childbirth as you would for any other athletic event to minimise your discomfort, prevent injury, and ease your delivery. Bridson, an exercise coach and four-time marathoner, decided to prepare her body for the impending trials of childbirth and recovery by training her muscles, much as sh...
| | Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction
Publication Date: December 17, 2007Since first reports of a "gay cancer" in 1981, it has been hard to ignore the politics, polemic, and prejudice that gathered around AIDS. Yet a literary genre also emerged, and Vital Signs contains the very best of the extraordinary work created in America in response to our greatest contemporary health crisis. This collection documents the critical years of struggle, bravery, loss, and redemption in eighteen unique examples. Inventive, moving, humane, and uplifting, these stories show us how to live in times of uncertainty and adversity. They offer, indeed...
|  | The Coin Of The Realm
Publication Date: December 17, 2008Rick Weisman, a young American merchant seafarer, inherits from his dying uncle a priceless relic of the Romanov dynasty, and the legend which has followed it through the ages:that he who bears the Zevi Coin will be led to whatever his soul is seeking, be it love, gold, glory, or God.So begins Rick's journey across the Atlantic and into the labyrinth of North Africa.What he finds there will change his life forever. "The Coin of the Realm is hard to categorize yet easy to love. On one level it's a gripping thriller with exotic locales, memorable characters, ...
|  | Voices from the Past:The Peterson Saga (Volume 1)
Publication Date: March 7, 2012This little memoir follows the journey of Hans Peterson from his home in Langeland, Denmark to Waupaca, Wisconsin. It is a book of fiction based on fact.Most of the characters are real and the dates of events are factual.The ships that the Petersons and Nelsons sailed to America on are the actual ships with information gleaned from records of ships' rosters.Any errors or omissions are solely those of the author and are unintentional. ...
|  | The Badger's Revenge (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger Tracking an Indian raiding party, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe and his compatriots run afoul of a notorious gang leader known as the Badger. As they are led to where the Badger is waiting, Josiah knows that time is running out. But luckily, Texas Rangers are hard men to kill. ...
|  | Banana Republican: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2011A rollicking, outrageous, and altogether brilliant perversion of known facts—and a much beloved fiction—Banana Republican sends the crass and hilarious Tom Buchanan through America’s infamously mismanaged intervention in Nicaragua in the early twentieth century. Author and historian Eric Rauchway makes the 1920s feel frighteningly familiar: an age of unbounded capitalism, imperialism, nascent globalization, socially acceptable racism, and careless economic policy. This smart, satirical send-up of greed, Gatsby, and gusto parades the American dream...
|  | The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esoteric Wisdom Revealed
Publication Date: September 8, 2000For hundreds of years, people have been amazed at the mysterious buildings and symbols that came out of ancient Egypt. The Romany people, who came from India, were called "Gypsies" because they were thought to come from Egypt.But where can you find accurate information that fully presents the mystical tradition of ancient Egypt? You'll not only discover all of the traditional wisdom, but also how you can apply it to your life today in The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt by Egyptologist Rosemary Clark.This is a massive book of over 475 information-filled p...
| | Italian Comedy in the Renaissance (Essay Index Reprint Series)
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|  | Strindberg and Modernist Theatre: Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage
Publication Date: August 20, 2007This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, which he called his "Inferno." Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, the study explores the crucial impact of this dramatist's method of playwriting. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage. ...
| | Moliere (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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|  | Children's Program Builder No. 11: Creative Resources for Program Directors
Publication Date: November 1, 2007(Lillenas Publications). Here's a fun tool that makes it easy to get kids involved in worship. Material includes recitations for worship, Sunday school, teacher's appreciation, pastor's appreciation and a generous amount of Thanksgiving pieces. Use the short scripts to celebrate children with "Children's Day Choral Reading," or do a special service at the end of summer using "Back to School." Choose one or more pieces, add kids, and stir. You'll love the results! ...
|  | Ficticia
Publication Date: September 1, 2010Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated by from the Spanish by Joshua Edwards. FICTICIA was first published in Mexico in 2006. The book is a trilogy of long poems: an initial sequence bearing the overall title, a series of "Letters to Robinson," and a "Sky Cycle." While these series are distinct poems, they are all interconnected and intended to amplify each other and make a greater whole. The first sequence has a narrative voice and addresses an unidentified "you"; the second, the Letters, is addressed to Robinson, a witness to the events that unfold; th...
|  | The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Gender and Culture Series)
Publication Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Gender and Culture Series Can we remember other people's memories?The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories—multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visu...
|  | Rossum's Universal Robots (Modern Voices)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Series: Modern Voices Seen as a precursor to works such as Huxley's Brave New World, this true classic of the dystopian genre remains all too resonant in today's political climate Determined to liberate the mass-produced but highly intelligent robots forged in the machinery of Rossum's island factory, Helena Glory arrives in a blaze of righteousness only to find herself perplexed and set aback by the robots' seeming humanity but absolute lack of sentience. To further complicate matters, she soon deserts her strident campaigning and f...
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