 | Thirteen Tangos for Stravinsky
Publication Date: May 1999Los Angeles of the 1940s is the setting for this vivid coming of age memoir. Cardona-Hine arrives with his family from Costa Rica just prior to World War II, more as a fascinated explorer of new landscapes and a language he will soon master than as an immigrant.Thirteen Tangos for Stravinsky is a vivid and intoxicating account of a childhood between cultures, a formative glimpse of an important Hispanic composer, painter, and writer, and best of all, it is an invitation to dance. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (Ncte Bibliography)
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|  | People Like Us: A Novel
Release Date: September 8, 2009Before they had Too Much Money, the inhabitants of Dominick Dunne’s glitzy, gossipy New York Times bestselling novels were People Like Us.The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in–even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous. As long as the market is strong, there’s absolutely...
|  | The Robert Bloch Companion: Collected Interviews, 1969-1986 (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism)
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|  | The Crown: A Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012JOANNA STAFFORD, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s side. Arrested for interfering with the king’s justice, Joanna, along with her father, is sent to the Tower of London. While Joanna is in the Tower, the ruthless Bishop of Winchester forces her to spy for him: to save her father’s life she must find an ancient relic—a crown so powerful, it may possess the ability to end the Reformatio...
|  | Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father (Works of Joseph Roth)
Release Date: June 24, 2003| Series: Works of Joseph Roth Two novellas of rare energy and insight, The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father are filled with Joseph Roth's surprising political foresight and compassionate sensitivity to the tremors of a world on the brink of collapse.The Spider's Web paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism to take root among the disenchanted middle classes. Through the eyes of Theodor Lohse, a frustrated and disappointed veteran...
|  | Sections of an Orange
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1845230744 | ISBN-13: 978-1845230746| Edition: 1st Ed. With stories that create vividly sensual pictures of place and powerfully dramatic tension, this collection features characters that are driven by desire—for dignity and justice for a dead son, for privacy from a neighbor who collects lives, for sexual fulfillment, and for blocking the memories of a destructive past. Characters migrate between stories, just as they migrate between Trinidad and New York, sometimes at the fringe and sometimes at the center, but always ac...
|  | The Silver Spoon
Publication Date: September 2004Zara Mitchell's nightmares began when the Observers landed. These strangely vivid visions continue to haunt her nightly, leaving her terrified of the silver-eyed visitors and their true intentions. When one of the eerily beautiful beings shows up at her diner with the local sheriff, her world changes forever. The Observer insists that she come with him. He claims her life is in danger. But can he be trusted? After two years, Caelan's search is finally over. He's found her, the human female from the prophecy. She is the one thing he recognizes from his life bef...
|  | Kennedy Center Presents: Award-Winning Plays from the American College Theater Festival
Release Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 082308390X | ISBN-13: 978-0823083909| Edition: 1st • Foreword by Neil La Bute plus the Kennedy Center imprimatur• KCACTF involves more than 18,000 college students annually—and they all need a copy of this book• KCACTF plays are staged at state, regional, and national competitions, all heavily attended • Exciting new material for theater producers, playwrights, aspiring playwrights, and drama students at every levelSince 1969, the American College Theater Festival has recognized the finest work produced in college...
|  | Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction
Publication Date: May 2003In the first half of the twentieth century, urban Chinese regularly lost themselves in tales of scandalous affairs, tender romances, and splendid acts of martial gallantry--standard reading fare on Saturdays among city dwellers craving entertainment and escape. Openly disdained by many intellectuals for their frothy content and maudlin appeal, these tales have been largely ignored in histories and anthologies of modern Chinese fiction both in China and the West. Recently, however, increasing attention has been paid to this fiction and its place in the vibrant tradit...
|  | Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories)
Release Date: August 28, 2001| ISBN-10: 0385498780 | ISBN-13: 978-0385498784| Edition: First Edition Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year, stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines, and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award top prizes. The result is a superb collection of seventeen inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction. And in celebration of th...
|  | In the Twinkling of a Star - Eastern Star Poetry
Publication Date: March 15, 2007This is a wonderful collection of OES poems collected by a Member and Officer of the Eastern Star. This book offers selected new poetry from OES leaders as well as classics from the likes of Robert Morris and others. This work is sure to inspire and entertain all. This is a perfect gift for any new Star. ...
|  | Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
Publication Date: May 17, 2006Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century.Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists.Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introducti...
|  | Victorian Secrecy
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754668886 | ISBN-13: 978-0754668886Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. "Victorian Secrecy" explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to ...
|  | Point Blank (FBI Thriller)
Release Date: January 2, 2007FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a very long memory. ...
|  | The Look of Love: A Piper Donovan Mystery
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Piper Donovan MysteryNestled in the Hollywood Hills, the ultra-luxurious Elysium spa and plastic surgery center caters to the rich and famous who are in need of "refreshing"—a nip here, a tuck there, a little Botox, a little detox. When Jillian Abernathy, Elysium's owner, offers actress and professional cake artist Piper Donovan an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to create a dazzling and unique wedding cake, Piper eagerly accepts. The job, after all, will give her the time and distance she needs to sort out her feelings for handsome FBI age...
|  | The Big Score: Cliff Hardy Cases (Cliff Hardy series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Cliff Hardy series In this new collection of short stories, Cliff Hardy has his hands full of murder, embezzlement, corruption, and more. His punches and sparse-but-rough language help him untangle a divorce, investigate the killing of a drinking buddy, and take care of a nasty case of blackmail. Set in various seamy Sydney locations with no shortage of thugs, mid-morning beers, and crooked cops, these stories exemplify the life of this Australian hero—even as he struggles with moral dilemmas, sex, money, and a life dealing with scu...
|  | Little Red Riding Hood
Publication Date: March 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An illustrated retelling of the classic children's fairytale. Wolf masquerades as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and lures the little girl into his trap. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Indy Cars (Now That's Fast!)
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|  | The Pirate Queen: A Timewalker Journey
Release Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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