 | Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
Publication Date: December 11, 2000| ISBN-10: 0521778174 | ISBN-13: 978-0521778176Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luís Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at plays by and about Chicanas and Chicanos, as they explore through performance, the community and its identity caught between the United States and Mexico. Through informative biographies of each playwright and analyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theater and culture. The book contains photographs from key productions...
 |  | On Black Sisters Street: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series)
Publication Date: January 17, 2012| Series: Modern African Writing Series Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, '...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'. At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat, four very different women have made their way from Africa to claim for themselves the riches of Europe. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic ...
|  | To the Lighthouse
Publication Date: December 27, 1989“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”—Eudora Welty, from the Introduction The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, mo...
|  | Health and Happiness
Release Date: May 1, 1998This "brilliant, engaging, cleverly manipulated piece of fiction" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), written by the author of "Le Divorce", captures the moral dilemmas and life-and-death decisions that are the foundation of hospital life, portraying the continuous clashes of motive and sensibility that create the ongoing comedy of medical manners. ...
|  | WW III: Payback
Release Date: March 29, 2005Old soldiers never die. They just come back for more. Three terrorist missiles have struck three jetliners filled with innocent people. America knows this shock all too well. But unlike 9/11, the nation is already on a war footing. The White House and Pentagon are primed. All they need now is a target and someone bold–and expendable–enough to strike it.That someone is retired Gen. Douglas Freeman, the infamous warrior who has proved his courage, made his enemies, and built his legend from body-strewn battlegrounds to the snake pits of Washington. Using...
|  | Chronicles and stories of old Bingley: A full account of the history, antiquities, natural productions, scenery, customs and folklore of the ancient ... of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Publication Date: January 1, 1898This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries.Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings.This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. ...
|  | Certain Noble Plays Of Japan (1916)
Publication Date: September 10, 2010This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | The Art of Love (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: March 5, 2012| Series: Vintage Classics It may have been written in the days of chariot races, gladiators, and emperors, but this new translation of the best teacher in history on the subject of love contains enduringly useful and entertaining adviceAre you a sought-after dreamboat forever turning down invitations from attractive admirers? Is your life filled with passionate escapades and fashionable parties? Do you look and feel fantastic all the time? If not, then perhaps there is something you can learn from Ovid. Including both the Ars Amatoria (The Art ...
|  | Poems From East Africa (Spear Books Imprint)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 9966460195 | ISBN-13: 978-9966460196The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bi...
|  | Literary Theory Today
Publication Date: September 1, 1990This volume assesses the current state of literary theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays in this volume cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also examine the changing the face of literary studies in the modern world. They include essays on reception theory, sociology and literature, modernism and post-modernism, Marxism and literature, feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic literary theory and the relevance of race and imperialism to the study of literature. ...
|  | Heracles' Bow: Essays On The Rhetoric & Poetics Of The Law (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)
Publication Date: October 15, 1989| ISBN-10: 0299104141 | ISBN-13: 978-0299104146The law has traditionally been regarded as a set ofrules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James BoydWhite urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary,rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating hisconception, he artfully bridges the fields of jurisprudence, literature,philosophy, history, and political science. The result, a new approachthat may change the way we perceive the legal process, will engage notonly lawyers and law students but anyone interested in...
|  | Hard Evidence (I-Team, Book 2)
Release Date: October 3, 2006After the murder of a teenage girl, a mysterious man in a black leather jacket was seen lurking near the crime scene. Investigative reporter Tessa Novak has him in her sights as the culprit… That man was Julian Darcangelo, an undercover FBI agent working with the Denver police. He’s closing in on the trail of a human trafficker and killer. Tessa’s accusations could blow his cover, and he wants her off the investigation. But just as Tessa has made Julian a target of interest, she is now a target of the killer. And as they are forced to trus...
|  | Seducing the Spy (Royal Four, Book 4)
Release Date: August 1, 2006Elite spies, secret defenders of the king, The Royal Four are unsurpassed in courage, honor, and daring. Known to his brothers-in-arms as The Falcon, Lord Wyndham is the most secretive and aloof of the four. But when The Falcon meets the impetuous Lady Alicia, he discovers a soul mate whose hidden fire matches his own…SEDUCING THE SPYLady Alicia Lawrence was cast out of polite society and branded a liar for a youthful mistake. When she overhears details of a conspiracy that could affect her country's fate, she turns to the one person who might believe her--...
|  | Hidden Law
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Henry explores his Mexican-American roots as he defends a young Latino accused of murdering a rising Latino politician. A strong emotional connection with both the victim and his accused killer results in a deepening internal conflict for Henry as he battles L.A.’s corrupt political machine and faces Josh’s impending death from AIDS. ...
|  | The Dark Before Dawn
Publication Date: June 24, 2011High in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, grisly murders are taking place. On each of the victim's bodies a note is left for L.A. Sheriff's detective, Gabriel McRay.The killer's identity is locked in the suppressed memory of a horrifying trauma from Gabriel's own childhood. Teamed with his forensic pathologist girlfriend and his pyschiatrist, Gabriel runs two parallel investigations.The first: a dark journey into the terrifying recollections of his past and the second, the hunt for a serial killer who seems to know more about Gabriel... than he knows...
|  | We're Off to Find the Witch's House
Release Date: August 16, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up It?s Halloween night, and as the moon rises, four children set off to find the witch?s house. on their way they encounter a host of silly, spooky characters, from a skittle-skattling skeleton to a shirking, lurking Dracula. Can they make it all the way to the witch?s house? or will their fears get the best of them? this humorous take on a favorite holiday begs to be read aloud again and again. ...
|  | Mountain Biking (Adrenalin!)
Publication Date: July 30, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | First Tracks
Publication Date: February 3, 2008A book for little skiers Whether they be girl or boy Reading is just like skiing Both bring hours of joy Excerpt from back cover of First Tracks Since its release in December 2004 this self-published book has achieved the remarkable milestone of having been reprinted three times and has sold over 8,000 copies. When one considers that statistics show that only 5 percent of the books listed on Amazon will sell 5,000 copies, you can appreciate the mountain that First Tracks had to ascend (and ski right back down) to surpass that mark. With little or no media hy...
|  | Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Book)
Publication Date: April 2, 1990| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
Release Date: September 19, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upIn Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters—and much, much more. She advises you about what to do when you feel stuck—and how to use helpful criticism. Best of all, she offers writing exercises that will set your imagination on fire. With humor, honesty, and wisdom, Gail Carson Levine shows you that y...
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