 | U. S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography
Publication Date: May 1992on US Chicano/Puerto Rican/Cuban & other's works...
 |  | Angel: A Novel
Publication Date: October 15, 1998A dramatic coming-of-age tale that parallels the life of a young woman with the political fortunes of her Caribbean island nation, "Angel" "vividly portrays the harshness of life in the Third World. . . . An enthralling look at women's lives in a developing country" ("Library Journal"). ...
|  | Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters
Publication Date: November 1991| ISBN-10: 0807009105 | ISBN-13: 978-0807009109| Edition: First Edition Maya Angelou provides the foreword for this collection of poetry, fiction, and memoir about mothers and daughters, written by such well-known black writers as Alice Walker, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and others. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Deceit (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Mystery)
Release Date: November 5, 2010| Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Mystery Sometimes the truth hides where no one expects to find it.Joanne Weeks knows Baxter Jackson killed Linda---his second wife and Joanne'sbest friend---six years ago. But Baxter, a church elder and beloved member ofthe town, walks the streets a free man. The police tell Joanne to leave wellenough alone, but she is determined to bring him down. Using her skills as aprofessional skip tracer, she sets out to locate the only person who may be able to put Baxter behind bars. Melissa Harkoff was a traumatized sixtee...
|  | Trojan Odyssey (Dirk Pitt Adventure)
Release Date: November 30, 2004| Series: Dirk Pitt Adventure Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet. In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biol...
|  | For Whom The Bell Tolls (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 1995FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An American learns the true value of life while fighting with a guerilla band during the Spanish Civil War. ...
|  | O.G.P.U. Prison
Publication Date: June 3, 2008Once again, Sven Hassel vividly portrays the horrors of war.It stood at the top of the hill, dominating the Russian landscape, menacing and impenetrable: the O.G.P.U Prison. Although they had no tanks to protect them, Porta and his fellow fighters were told to take it in any way they could—with machine guns, flamethrowers, entrenching tools, their bare hands if need be. But although they were used to war with its death and vile savagery, O.G.P.U. Prison was something different. This place was a hell they hadn’t encountered before, a bastion, an infer...
|  | Ride the High Range
Release Date: December 7, 2010Young Jim Moran never had a real family-but his sense of honor and razor-sharp instincts earned him a loyal partner who gave him a second chance, a home with a Montana Indian tribe, and a new name: Rider Twelve Horses. And when his friend is brutalized by a trio of killers, nothing can stop Rider's merciless search for justice. ...
|  | Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)
Release Date: August 12, 2004| Series: John MacRae Books In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp.Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself she found instead one novel, and then another. ...
|  | Post Me To The Prime Minister
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|  | The Poet Shen Yueh
Publication Date: October 1988This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. His active career spanned three successive dynasties (Liu-Sung, Nan-Ch'i, and Liang), whose capitals were located in the lower Yangtze city of Chien-k'ang (modern Nanking). The title "Reticient Marquis" (Yin-hou) was awarded him posthumously by the Liang Emperor Wu, who, though owing his own rise to power partly to Shen's bold counsel, had found him less than forthcoming from that point onward. Shen was indeed very reserved, and cont...
|  | American Modernist Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
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|  | Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture
Publication Date: November 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0268038376 | ISBN-13: 978-0268038373| Edition: 1st Edition This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, "The one persistent recognition that emerged from writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that whatever the text . . . and whoever the people . . ., the values at issue remain central to contemporary life."Two dialectics are at work in this book: that between the past and the present and that between the individual and the ...
|  | A Rip in the Veil
Publication Date: August 1, 2012On a muggy August day in 2002 Alex Lind disappears without a trace.On an equally stifling August day in 1658, Matthew Graham finds her on an empty Scottish moor. Life will never be the same for Alex - or for Matthew.When Alexandra Lind is unexpectedly thrown several centuries backwards in time, she lands at the feet of Matthew Graham - an escaped convict making his way home to Scotland. Matthew doesn't quite know what to make of this concussed and injured woman who has seemingly fallen from the skies - what is she, a witch?Alex gawks at this tall, gaunt man wi...
|  | E is for Evidence (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)
Release Date: November 29, 2005Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone—until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isn’t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinsey’s bank account. Problem is she’s not the one who deposited the money. But...
|  | Stickman Odyssey, Book 2: The Wrath of Zozimos
Release Date: May 10, 2012| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | The Mighty Asparagus (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Lightning Inside You
Release Date: May 19, 1992Threads of seven colors are stretched on the great prairie.What is it? It runs through the valleys clapping its hands."Rainbow" and "butterfly" are the answers to these two Native American riddles, typically drawn from the world of nature.Long hidden from view, the American Indian riddling tradition is revealed in all its variety in this carefully researched collection -- the first of its kind -- presenting 140 riddles translated from twenty different languages, including Aztec, Comanche, Maya, Onondaga, Pawnee, and Quechua.Here are examples of courtship riddling, h...
|  | Top 10 Professional Football Coaches (Sports Top 10)
Publication Date: January 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Paul Revere's Ride
Release Date: March 1, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Longfellow's tribute to the famous revolutionary hero begins with the stirring cadence that American schoolchildren have committed to memory for over a century.Now illustrator Ted Rand brings these vivid and beautiful lines to life as dramatically as the poet's immortal message inspires."The clatter of hooves seems to echo in Rand's evocative paintings of that famed midnight ride...." --Kirkus reviews ...
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