 | Growing Up Chicana/o
Release Date: January 1, 1995What Does It Mean To Grow Up Chicana/o? When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a "Z" in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a public gift to that child who was always searching for herself whithin the pages of a book.from the Introduction by Tiffany Ana LopezLouie The Foot Gonzalez tells of an eighty-nine-year-old woman with only one tooth who did strange and magical healings...Her name was Dona Tona and she was never taken seriously until someone got sick and sent for her. She'd always show up, even if she had to d...
 |  | The Book of Life
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Forced together on a trip from Manhattan to Rhode Island, a father and son attempt to renew their bond over lobster, cigarettes, and a buried secret.A pure-hearted artist finds his devotion cruelly tested, while his true love tries to repent for the biggest mistake of her life.Unwittingly thrust into an open marriage, a man struggles to reconnect with his newly devout son.And in the book's daring first story, an arrogant businessman begins a forbidden affair during the High Holidays. Written in clear, crystalline prose, The Book of Life comprises seven stun...
|  | Babylon Rising: The Edge of Darkness
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Babylon Rising (Book 4) Tim LaHaye’s most exciting series ever, Babylon Rising, continues with this explosive new installment, including more revelations than ever before. In The Edge of Darkness, LaHaye reveals the meaning behind some of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies to expose a conspiracy with terrifying consequences for our modern world. This time Michael Murphy sets off in search of the Lost Temple of Dagon and the dark secrets of the strange god once worshipped by the ancient Philistines. His quest will lead to a final confro...
|  | Circle of Tears
Release Date: March 20, 2007Like the dolphins that kept young Elian safe while adrift on the ocean, Jeanne Marie Antoinette's debut memoir explores the spiritual undercurrents to the national and international headlines. A close friend to the boy's lawyer, Antoinette offers tremendous insights to the psychic battle being waged between America and Cuba, Elian's father and his American-based relatives, and the personal journey she encountered in discovering her own deep attachment to a seemingly distant news event. Clearly written and simply told, CIRCLE OF TEARS cuts through the posturing and...
|  | Divine Comedies: Contains Here Comes the Sun and Odds and Gods
Publication Date: June 1, 2004Now published for the first time in an omnibus edition, this book contains two of Tom Holt’s most hilarious comic fantasies. In Here Comes the Sun, the sun rises late, dirty, and so badly in need of service, it’s a wonder it gets up at all. The moon’s going to be scrapped presently, and a new one commissioned—but they’ve been saying that for years. All is not well with the universe, and it’s because the mortals are running the show. It’s time for a Higher Power to take charge. In Odds and Gods, we find that itȁ...
|  | Novecento (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1849430381 | ISBN-13: 978-1849430388The story was made into The Legend of 1900, a 1998 film starring Tim Roth.Told through the eyes of Novecento’s (the greatest pianist who ever played on the ocean) best friend, trumpeter Tim Tooney, Baricco’s virile text echoes heroic fables and great myths, whilst winking at the beautiful and terrible minutiae that makes up life. ...
|  | Vincent Price Presents - Volume Five: Three Radio Dramatizations
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Vincent Price Presents (Book 5) The Gothic horror tradition of film icon Vincent Price is revived in these twisted radio plays that transplant the best of the horror genre into innovative and bizarre landscapes for these unforgettable stories, which include horrific transformations, twisting plots, perversions of science, labyrinthine castles, Gothic dread, surreal revelations, and a little unexpected genre-bending. Now, The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air in Association with Bluewater Productions brings you Vincent Price Presents - featuring stor...
|  | Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)
Publication Date: December 2002| Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Tolkien's famous essay was originally a Gollancz Lecture at the British Academy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Los heraldos negros (Poesia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 8498974887 | ISBN-13: 978-8498974881César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Santiago de Chuco, 1892-1938, París). Perú. Sus padres eran Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benítez y María de los Santos Mendoza Gurrionero. Fue el menor de once hermanos. Su tez mestiza se debe que sus abuelas fueron indias y sus abuelos sacerdotes gallegos. Sus padres querían dedicarlo al sacerdocio, lo que él en su primera infancia aceptó. Vallejo estudió en el Centro Escolar No. 271 de Santiago de Chuco, y desde abril de 1905 hasta 19...
|  | Disciples a Sais Hymne (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | A Drop of Love: A Journey of Love From Imagination into Full-Blossom Reality
Publication Date: November 25, 2001"A Drop of Love . . . " is a poetical journey of love. This beautiful collection of 100 fresh and contemporary poems are organized by 5 different stages of love: awareness, excitement, lovers, closeness, and forever. You will identify with these personal insights from the initial moment of falling in love to the representation of the closeness found in mature love. Each chapter theme is illustrated and the border designs carry the theme throughout the chapter. ...
|  | Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction
Publication Date: July 1, 1991"Plot, character, setting and theme", according to John Hawkes, perhaps the first post-World War II antirealist, constitute "the true enemies of the novel". Working from that position, John Kuehl looks at 11 literary traits the post modern antirealist finds user friendly, in a pattern search through the works of some of today's most imaginative writers - Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Gass, Pynchon and Vonnegut, to name only a few - from some who have made it to the top of the bestseller lists to other barely known outside academic circles. Framing the study are an i...
|  | Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
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|  | A Bride for Tom and A Husband for Margaret: 2 Novellas in 1 Book
Publication Date: May 25, 2010A Bride for Tom: Tom Larson is having trouble finding a wife, and Jessica Reynolds decides to help him overcome his awkward and clumsy manners so he can attract women. A Husband for Margaret: When Margaret Williams posted an ad for a husband, she expected Paul Connealy to arrive, but instead, his older brother came...and he brought four children with him. ...
|  | The Tower Room
Publication Date: February 4, 2001When she is called to the bedside of an aging actress who has retreated to a mysterious chateau overlooking the sea, Darney discovers that murder stalks all those who have gathered at Madame's bedside. ...
|  | Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery)
Release Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide.Outsider in Amsterdam is the first in the Amsterdam Cops series of internationally renowned mysteries. ...
|  | The Girl, the Fish, and the Crown
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Age Level: 7 and up While on a dangerous quest which requires her to take the form of different wild animals, a selfish young girl learns about compassion and generosity. ...
| | Sled Dog Wisdom
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|  | Martial Arts for Fun! (For Fun!: Sports series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Usborne Soccer School: Passing and Shooting Dead Ball Skills Ball Control Defending
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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