| Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique (Critical American Studies) Publication Date: December 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 0816641293 | ISBN-13: 978-0816641291| Edition: 1 The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture-sexual difference-can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology-Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Willi...
| | The Jungle (Bedford Series in History and Culture) Publication Date: February 3, 2005| ISBN-10: 0312400373 | ISBN-13: 978-0312400378| Edition: 1st Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Si...
| | Promises to a Stallion (Kimani Romance) Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 200) Just jilted by her overseas fiancé, Tierra Brady isn't looking to be hurt again. But she has to admit: the rugged, caring soldier who delivers the Dear Tierra letter is taking the sting out of her recent heartbreak. Before she knows it, the dashing Sergeant Travis Stallion has completely swept her off her feet in a whirlwind romance.On leave for thirty days, the last thing Travis wants is to be the bearer of bad news. But the more he tries to comfort Tierra, the deeper he falls for the proud, love-wary beauty. So the sm...
| | Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor (Life Favors(TM)) Release Date: March 11, 1997| Series: Life Favors(TM) The simple but sage words of Dr. Seuss have helped many a child (and grownup) along the complicated road of life. For those who need reminders, here is a collection of some of the good doctor's wisest and wittiest sayings, on subjects as varied as "Equality and Justice" and "Facing Up to Adversity" to "The Art of Eating" and "The First Nerd"! A perfect gift for all occasions, ideal for sharing among generations--now with a "gift tag" on the jacket flap for consumers to personalize! ...
| | Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism ...
| | Drifting Release Date: August 25, 2003Readers and reviewers alike fell in love with Jimmy's Girl and The Puzzle Bark Tree. In her new novel, Drifting, Stephanie Gertler once again reveals her gift for exploring the ways in which families experience love and loss.In the coastal town of Drifting, Connecticut, in a Victorian inn perched at the ocean's edge, Claire lives with her husband, Eli. Although her own children are grown, Claire is still haunted by the absence of her mother, who abandoned her when she was a baby. When Nicholas Pierce and his blind seven-year-old daughter, Kayla, come to stay at...
| | Ninth Witness (A. D. Chronicles) Publication Date: May 20, 2009| Series: A. D. Chronicles (Book 9) Riots and revolts spread across Judea. Twelve-year-old Yeshua is in Jerusalem—“about his Father's business” in the Temple—as his panic-stricken parents search for him amidst the chaos. Readers will enjoy reading this interesting story from Christ's youth. This is the ninth book in the A.D. Chronicles series. Includes historical maps and a discussion guide for individual or group study. ...
| | Lilies in Moonlight: A Novel Release Date: April 5, 2011He’d lost his zest for life. She was just lost. Will they find the healing and love they long for? After a roaring night on the town, fun-loving flapper Lilly Margolis, dazed and disoriented, twists her ankle and falls into the backyard of a wealthy family where the effects of the Great War—over for more than half a decade—are still endured. Inside the walls of the Burnside mansion, Cullen Burnside, a disillusioned and disfigured veteran, and his widowed mother, Betty Ruth, who daily slips a little further into dementia, lead a lonely existence...
| | Misery Publication Date: November 1, 1988After a car crash, writer Paul Sheldon is saved by his number one fan. She brought him home, splinted his mangled legs, and all he had to do in return was write a very special book, one all about her favourite character. Because if he didn't, if he was bad, she would be cross - very cross. ...
| | The Dreamer's Nights Publication Date: March 23, 2012Michael lives in self-inflicted isolation, scraping by in a very lonely world.His quest to find eternity leads him to a cult of strange people who show him a secret connection in his mind.With promises of power and immortality he follows their teachings, but the power is not free.The connection is quickly eating away his sanity.Step by step he finds himself drawn deeper into the darkest recesses of his being.Surrounded by ghosts from the past, disturbing visions, and a cult with a secret agenda.Michael must fight for his rationality or face the consequences of...
| | The Saga of the Pony Express Publication Date: May 10, 2002"Wanted--Young skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily... Orphans preferred."--Pony Express poster, 1860America in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better communication with its far-flung citizens in the West. Three visionaries dreamt up a seemingly impossible solution: the Pony Express. An elite cadre of young riders would carry the U.S. mail across 2,000 miles ...
| | Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher Mystery) Publication Date: August 6, 2012| Series: Phryne Fisher Mystery Phryne Fisher, scented and surprisingly ruthless, is not one to let sleuthing an horrific crime get in the way of an elegant dalliance. The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful country surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation around the house and the parlourmaid is found strangled to death. What with the reappearance of the mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lov...
| | Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts Series) Publication Date: December 1999| ISBN-10: 1551111896 | ISBN-13: 978-1551111896| Edition: 1 The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the poem's final creation will help readers see Beowulf as an exploration of the politics of kingship and the psychology of heroism, and as an early English meditation on the bridges and chasms between the pagan past and the Christian present. A generous...
| | Ravenscroft : A Play Publication Date: September 10, 2010Mystery / 1m, 5f / Simple unit setThis psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening. On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. He becomes involved in the lives of five alluring and dangerous women: Marcy, the beautiful Viennese governess with a past; Mrs. Ravenscroft, the flirtatious lady of the manor; Gillian, her charming but possibly demented daughter; Mrs. French, the formidable and passiona...
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| | The Art of Haiku 2000: A Guide to Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Haibun, Renga, Sedoka, Sijo and Related Genres ...
| | The Art of Music: A Collection of Writings, Volume 2 Publication Date: November 2003This collection includes seventy-eight music-related poems by fifty North American poets, authors, and songwriters. ...
| | Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle Publication Date: October 11, 2004Travel and exploration fascinated the Surrealists, who crossed continents marveling at their diversity. This riveting book retraces one of their most important and exciting voyages, made on the eve of the birth of Surrealism in 1924. It describes the secret journey made by an extraordinary ménage à trois: the painter Max Ernst, Paul Eluard (cofounder of Surrealism with André Breton), and Eluard’s wife Gala.Robert McNab unravels the story of Ernst’s love affair with Gala, Eluard’s disappearance, Ernst and Gala’s purs...
| | The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography Publication Date: February 28, 2003Many of the seminal figures of contemporary culture knew and worked with Allen Ginsberg and have a place in this book. Among them are Cecil Taylor, David Amram, Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz, Norman Mailer, Robert Frank, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, and Robert Creeley. In this book we truly see Allen Ginsberg as a poet, a spiritualist, a friend, a lover, a performer, a teacher, and a lover of good times. A complex and many-faceted life is given ...
| | Hot Blooded Release Date: August 1, 2001New Orleans is beginning to be afraid . . .A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening phone call. All in a day's work for a celebrity.Who would think to link the two?A second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious female claiming to be a woman from her past - awoman who's been dead for years. With Detective Rick Bentz convinced that the ser...
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