 | New Chicana/Chicano Writing 1
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 | Daughter of the Fox
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 | Robert B. Parker's Lullaby (Spenser)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Spenser When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives- they’re the very characteristics he abides by. Mattie believes the ma...
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Tea with Mr. Tumnus (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | The Boleyn Inheritance
Release Date: December 30, 2008 THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVESShe runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses.KATHERINE HOWARDShe catche...
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 | The California Initiative
Publication Date: September 2, 2004It is 2020, and America is in the thirteenth year of the worst depression in its history. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a plan to ease suffering of the millions of people hit hardest by the economic conditions. Most people have little faith in the government, and fewer than thirty percent of the eligible voters bother to go to the polls. Ewald Zimmerman is a successful California furniture maker who has lost patience with the government's failure to act. He wants to force its hand by putting a voter initiative on the ballot. He proposes tha...
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 | The Divine Comedy
Publication Date: November 17, 1977| ISBN-10: 0393044726 | ISBN-13: 978-0393044720| Edition: First Edition This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is on...
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 | Beef Wellington Blue
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 | Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Publication Date: October 1, 1996Is the “Oedipus complex”universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made. ...
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 | The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation with a Critical Essay (Bison Book)
Publication Date: March 1, 1968| Series: Bison Book This new translation of The Bacchae—that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse—is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna" at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions of the composition and stylistics are discussed in the notes and the accompanying essay. ...
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 | Disney's Princess Storybook Collection: Love and Friendship Stories
Release Date: September 16, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up...
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 | The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature
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 | The Heimskringla or the Sagas of the Norse Kings from the Icelandic of Snorre Sturlason (Four Volumes (Complete))
Publication Date: 1889Limited Edition 520 copies printed. Four volumes COMPLETE. Second Edition, revised with notes by Rasmus B Anderson. ...
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 | October Sun: A Year of Haiku
Publication Date: April 1988A Zen-like book that celebrates moments in nature, beginning in winter and ending in fall. ...
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 | Classicism and Romanticism (Art & Architecture)
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 | The Colossus of New York
Release Date: October 12, 2004In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York.Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city’s inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories.Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and ...
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 | Last Portrait (Yaoi)
Publication Date: 2006Yamato works for his father's company under Sakaguchi-san's supervision. Sakaguchi-san will soon become Yamato's brother-in-law. However, Yamato harbors a secret affection for him, and on the day before his sister's wedding, Yamato privately confesses his feelings to Sakaguchi-san. ...
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 | Into the Darkness (Dark Realm, Book 1)
Release Date: June 26, 2007 A woman's hunt for pleasure knows no rules . . . and no boundaries. Escaping from a tragic past, Natalie Lambert arrives in New Orleans and falls victim to a series of strange, unearthly attacks. Now, for the first time in her life, Natalie aches with sexual desire. Confused, frightened, out of control, she struggles desperately to understand a world that is transforming around her. But soon she will be powerful and magnificent in ways she could never have imagined . . . A ruggedly handsome Cajun policeman, Detective Rene Broussard has come to rescue Natalie i...
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 | The Impossible Dead
Publication Date: November 21, 2011The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made deals with the devil. And sometimes The Complaints must travel.A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, ...
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 | Shadow of the Hawk (Wereworld)
Release Date: October 16, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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