 | Where the Deer and the Cantaloupe Play: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1981Despite the fact that Latino and Black cowboys do not appear in books, films, or electronic media, a city-born Latino youth searches for a hero in America's historical past. ...
 |  | Helen Steiner Rice: Ambassador of Sunshine
Publication Date: April 1994Photographs, poems, letters, and a biography tell the story of how poet Helen Steiner Rice overcame her husband's suicide, the Depression, and her struggle as a writer. ...
|  | My Hands Came Away Red
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Cori signs up to take a mission trip to Indonesia during the summer after her senior year of high school.Inspired by happy visions of building churches and seeing beautiful beaches, she gladly escapes her complicated love life back home.Five weeks after their arrival, a sectarian and religious conflict that has been simmering for years flames to life with deadly results on the nearby island of Ambon.Within days, the church building the team had constructed is in ashes, its pastor and fifty villagers are dead, and the six terrified teenagers are stranded in ...
| | Uncle Vampire
Release Date: April 11, 1995Sixteen-year-old Carolyn begins to dream that her uncle is avampire, but her dark fantasies hide the even more devastating truthabout sexual abuse. Reprint. K....
|  | Destroying Angel
Publication Date: September 15, 2008Dr. Eliot Sanders believes his life is on track at Healthways Hospital. But dark forces gather. Patients begin to die from unexplained causes. When Eliot's own health fails, he finds that he can no longer trust his traditional medicine to save himself or his dying patient. ...
|  | The Cider House Rules
Release Date: January 9, 1994"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving."--The Boston Sunday Globe"The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving's novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited. Victims of tragedy, violence, and injustice, their lives seem more interesting and full of thought-provoking dilemmas than the lives of many real people."--The Houst...
|  | The Ripper's Daughter
Publication Date: July 1, 2012A sadistic serial killer the press calls the Ripper's Daughter is stalking the streets of Boston. The victims are seemingly random, but each is horribly mutilated and left to die in the open with their mouths glued shut. Colby Willis, a burnt out police detective haunted by her failure to prevent the murder of her mentor, Marty Walsh, drowns her days in Jack. Suffering from unexplained seizures and black outs, Colby is soon forced to confront Jessie Walsh, the daughter of her mentor and the woman she loved and betrayed. Locked away in a mental asylum and forgott...
|  | Love Freaks (Methuen Modern Plays)
Publication Date: May 9, 2002| ISBN-10: 0413772586 | ISBN-13: 978-0413772589A caustic new comedy from the winner of the John Whiting and the Mobile Prize awards, and one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrightsSet in a modern-day Scotland, this is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's comedy The Double InconstancyLove Freaks is published to coincide with its premiere in May 2002 at the Tron Theatre, Edinburgh ...
|  | Medea (Focus Classical Library)
Publication Date: June 1, 1991| Series: Focus Classical Library This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture. ...
|  | Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (Loeb Classical Library No. 232)
Publication Date: January 1, 1929Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of i...
|  | Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht (Oxford Monographs on Music)
Publication Date: January 2, 1997| Series: Oxford Monographs on Music Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses, Rob Wegman enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a wealth of new archival sources and a newly discovered dated portrait that sheds light on his development as a composer. Obrecht's greatest contribution lay in the field of mass composition. In a penetrating stylistic analysis, Wegman treats each of the thirty-odd surviving ma...
|  | An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method
Publication Date: February 5, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415328616 | ISBN-13: 978-0415328616| Edition: 2 Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it.Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the author presents both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis incorporates perspectives from a variety of approaches ...
|  | Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos (Gallica)
Publication Date: April 19, 2007| ISBN-10: 1843841118 | ISBN-13: 978-1843841111Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion examines the evolution of Christine's thought on true and false opinion. She reflected deeply on the subject of opinion while analyzing, evaluating, challenging, and changing her own and others' opinions in her lifelong quest for certain truth. Parsing opinion in Christine's writings gives us insight into her thought on controversial issues while highlighting opinions that were and, indeed, often still are, subjective and controversial.The first two chapters treat her defi...
|  | The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown
Release Date: January 28, 2003Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended -- only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older brother -- in New York Times bestseller Julia Quinn's witty, charming, and heartfelt tale. When the scandalous actions of his beautiful fiancée are recorded in Lady Whistledown's column, a concerned groom-to-be rushes back to London to win his lady's heart once and forever, in Suzanne Enoch's enchanting romantic gem. Karen Hawkins captivates with an enduring story of a handsome rogu...
|  | Ride the Free Wind (Savage Destiny, No 2)
Release Date: June 1, 1996| Series: Savage Destiny (Book 2) Abigail Trent and her husband, Zeke Monroe, a half-Cheyenne scout, head across the wilderness to rejoin his tribe and start a new life together. Reissue. ...
|  | For Special Services
Publication Date: October 12, 2011For the first time in trade paperback—with new introductions—the novels that began John Gardner's career as the author of the thrilling James Bond 007 series.In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to the United States government, his partner none other than the tough and beautiful Cedar, daughter of 007’s old friend Felix Leiter. Their enemy? An old adversary, the legendary SPECTRE has reappeared. Bond and Cedar find themselves in some deadly and terrifying situations—from skyjack to plunging elevator, from armies of killer ants...
|  | Plum Island
Release Date: June 2, 19974 cassettes / 4 hoursRead by David DukesAudioBook includes a personal interview with Nelson DeMilleWounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey is laid up in the Long Island town of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer.Fast-paced and atmospheric, marked by entrancing characters, incandescent storytelling, and brilliant comic touches, Plum Island is DeMille at his thrill-inducing best. ...
|  | Quiller KGB (Quiller Adventure)
Publication Date: April 1994| Series: Quiller Adventure The resourceful British agent joins forces with the Soviets inorder to uncover a deadly plot, nicknamed Operation Trumpeter, whichmay change the ultimate fate of East and West Germany. Reprint. ...
|  | Gallagher Girls 3-book pbk boxed set
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Roy Halladay (Amazing Athletes)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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