 | The Derrick Bell Reader (Critical America (New York University Paperback))
Release Date: August 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0814719708 | ISBN-13: 978-0814719701Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell has provoked his critics and challenged his readers with uncompromising candor and progressive views on race and class in America. A founder of Critical Race Theory and pioneer of the use of allegorical stories as tools of analysis, Bell's groundbreaking work shatters conventional legal orthodoxies and turns comfortable majoritarian myths inside out. Edited and with an extensive introduction by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Je...
 |  | Jewish-American Fiction, 1917-1987 (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
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|  | La Luna Nueva, El Jardinero, Ofrenda lirica / The New Moon, The Gardener, Liric Offering (Literatura / Literature) (Spanish Edition)
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| | 18 Best Stories By Edgar Allan Poe
Publication Date: September 1983| ISBN-10: 0606006001 | ISBN-13: 978-0606006002A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including: The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tal...
|  | The Quick and the Dead
Release Date: October 17, 2000From one of our most heralded writers--Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood"--her first novel in more than a decade: the life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert.Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents--from the preservation of the living dea...
|  | Mrs. Fytton's Country Life
Publication Date: November 12, 2001Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband.Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model.Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight.She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and waits.One day, she knows, her husband will return.Meanwhile, she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and country people are next to angels -- and finds tha...
|  | Abeng
Publication Date: September 1, 1995Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force.Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life.Nowhere is her power felt more than in Clare Savage, her Jamaican heroine, who appeared, already grown, in No Telephone to Heaven.Abeng is a kind of prequel to that highly-acclaimed novel and is a small masterpiece in its own right.Here Clare is twelve years old, the light-skinned daughter of a middle-class family, growing up among the comp...
|  | Not By Chance (Seaport Suspense #4)
Release Date: August 15, 2006In Search of SignificanceThirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents’ doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fiancée-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a temporary job at a summer camp for disadvantaged kids, Brandon begins a turbulent relationship with a biracial adolescent named Caedmon. Somewhere in the midst of the chaos—caused by Caedmon’s disappearance just before a hurricane is predicted to hit Seaport, and by a group of racists who will ...
|  | Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution
Release Date: June 29, 2004Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command—“Fire!”—as England’s peacekeeping mission ignites into the Boston Massacre. The senseless killing of civilians leads to a tumultuous trial in...
|  | Mystical Paths
Release Date: April 24, 1993When Nicholas Darrow follows his father into the Anglican priesthood in 1968 at the age of twenty-five, he is fleeing a troubled past. But when his fascination with his own psychic powers results in a near-tragedy, Nicholas must face the truth about his relationship with his father before he can find his way out of the seemingly impenetrable darkness that engulfs him. ...
|  | The Mutiny of the Elsinore, with eBook
Publication Date: June 1, 2009Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a mutinous crew. His epic struggles aboard the sailing ship Elsinore have given him a new love for life, but will he survive to profit from it?Everyone who remembers The Sea Wolf with pleasure will enjoy this vigorous narrative....
|  | The Topaz Brooch
Publication Date: July 1, 2012 The only escape from persecution and imprisonment for Quakers in Wales in the 1680s was to immigrate to the New World. The Topaz Brooch is the story of Lydia's harrowing flight with her family from their ancient and beloved homeland to build a new home in a new land. Through compelling narrative it captures the challenges, triumphs and tragedies of a young wife and mother in the early days of colonial Pennsylvania. ...
|  | Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry
Publication Date: October 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415311756 | ISBN-13: 978-0415311755Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this starting point they suggest an entirely fresh, jargon-free approach to reading poetry. Illustrating their 'beat/offbeat' method with a series of exercises, they help readers to appreciate the use of rhythm in poems of ...
|  | The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 3
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|  | Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics Seneca's letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca's personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived.One of the great Stoic philosophers, Seneca here guides Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. He advises his friend on how to do without what is superfluous, whether in terms of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions.The letters include literary discussions, moral exhortation, exemplary heroes and e...
|  | Songs of Shabkar: The Path of a Tibetan Yogi Inspired by Nature (Tibetan Translation)
Publication Date: April 16, 2012| Series: Tibetan Translation These deeply personal songs of realization by Nyingmapa yogi Shabkar Tshogdruk Rangdrol (1781–1851), composed in a simple yet richly poetic style, charm by their beauty and directness, often expressing the delights of nature. Drawn from the vast and mostly untranslated collection, The Festival of Melodious Songs, they have been organized thematically to reflect Shabkar's quest for spiritual awareness through renouncing the world and meditating in mountain hermitages. ...
| | Baroja, surrealismo, terror y transgresion (Taller uno ; 11 : Serie Ensayo critica literaria) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Diary of a Serial Killer
Release Date: March 27, 2007For defense attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach, time is precious. Not just because they’re paid by the hour. Or because their careers have taken off after a succession of high-profile cases. Or because a baffling, shocking serial murder case is threatening to tear Zack’s family apart. For these two lawyers, time is precious because they have just walked into the wrong courtroom at the wrong time, where a man is shooting a gun into a crowd that includes Zack’s innocent young son.But until the last second, there’s hope. While a woman...
|  | The Secret Zoo: Riddles and Danger
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Children's Treasure Chest
Release Date: October 5, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up This lavishly illustrated anthology of hundreds of rhymes, poems, fables, and bedtime stories will bring many hours of pleasure to both children and adults.The perfect book to start any child's library!•Selections include The Frog Prince, Grimm's Fairytales, Jack and Jill, and Aesop's Fables ...
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