 | Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity
Publication Date: August 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0742507009 | ISBN-13: 978-0742507005Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived-experience of her ethnic heritage, Martinez offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation. Combining semiotic and existential phenomenology with Chicana feminism, the author charts new terrain where anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work may be pursued. ...
 |  | The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
Release Date: March 1, 1994Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Fire Next Time
Release Date: December 1, 1992A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Describ...
|  | Sisters of the Night : The Angry Angel
Release Date: April 21, 1998| Series: Sisters of the Night/Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The first of three novels details a world of seduction and slavery as Dracula prepares the young Grecian girl Kalene to be his chosen consort. ...
|  | After Shocks : An Anthology of So-Cal Horror 1st edition by Pelt, James Van; Dumars, Denise; Faust, Christa; Frounfelter published by Night Shade Books Hardcover
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|  | Dog Days
Release Date: January 5, 2006It's August in Washington, D.C., in an election year. The Democratic convention has just concluded; the Republican convention is just a few weeks away. The weather is hot and hazy, people leave work a little earlier, and they drink a little more. A town that often seems ridiculously reminiscent of high school now starts to feel more like summer camp. And the life of twenty-eight-year-old campaign staffer Melanie Thorton is about to veer wildly off course.Melanie has the job of her dreams and the (married) man of her dreams. She's helping to run the communicatio...
|  | The Cruise of 'The Dazzler'
Publication Date: September 1, 2005Only that very morning he had been a school-boy, and now he was a sailor, shipped on the Dazzler and bound he knew not whither. His fifteen years increased to twenty at the thought of it, and he felt every inch a man -- a sailorman at that. He wished Charley and Fred could see him now. Well, they would hear of it soon enough. He could see them talking it over, and the other boys crowding around. "Who?" "Oh, Joe Bronson; he's gone to sea. Used to chum with us." Joe pictured the scene proudly. Then he softened at the thought of his mother worrying, but harden...
|  | The Head of Kay's
Publication Date: October 20, 2009Set at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centers around the house of "Kay's," the riotous boys and unpopular master Mr. Kay, and Fenn, the head boy. The story features practical jokes, fighting between the boys and with the locals in the nearby town, politics amongst the houses of the school, a trip to an army-style camp, and plenty of cricket and rugby. ...
|  | W.W.J.D.? (What Would Jesus Do?)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do?) is a youth drama which addresses the struggles young people face when they attempt to deal with peer pressure while being true to their faith. Young people and adults who see this play will walk away determined to be a little less angry ... more patient ... more kind ... more loving, and certainly more forgiving. Even doubters will realize that by letting Jesus Christ be their role model many of their most difficult relationships will become more harmonious. ""Young people and adults who see this play will walk away determined ...
|  | Muscle Memory
Publication Date: October 12, 2009Between the heart and the head, poetry moves, linked by memory, in the conversational fluency and exquisite metaphor of Linda Rogers's new book, Muscle Memory. In poems of compassion, longing and expansive generosity, Rogers reminds us that the heart is a muscle, exercised through benevolence and social consciousness. In Muscle Memory Linda Rogers dares to illuminate the heart with the light of eccentric wisdom and compassionate grace, writing personal and social concerns in playful and moving images. Combining a baroque sensibility with a flair for surreali...
|  | Russkie poety XX veka v biblioteke N.K. Gudziia: Izdaniia 1890-1965 gg. : katalog (Seriia "Chastnaia kollektsiia") (Russian Edition)
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|  | Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950
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|  | Surrealist Women : An International Anthology (The Surrealist Revolution Series)
Publication Date: 1998| Series: Surrealist Revolution Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project--achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants--perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or simply unknown.This anthology...
|  | The Beat Hotel
Publication Date: September 27, 2001The Beat Hotel was home to a host of key figures of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 60s. It was also an unbridled hive of creativity, literary experimentation and drug-crazed extremity. During this period, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" went on trial for obscenity, William Burroughs was inspired to finish "Naked Lunch", the cut-up novel was born, Ginsberg and Corso collided with Duchamp, Celine and Man Ray, and Burroughs was nearly arrested for dealing heroin. Barry Miles, who knew many of the Beats, draws his material from diaries, letters and original...
|  | Somewhere Out There - Time Travel Romance
Publication Date: January 4, 2006This romance opens in 19th century England where Damien Whitehall, Duke of Norfolk, has been having strange dreams of falling into a deep, dark hole and being rescued by a green-eyed lady in white. Smuggler Lord Richard Downing cheats Damien's brother out of the Whitehall fortune. Damien devises a plan to get back his family's wealth. One dark, stormy night, dressed as a highwayman, he steals Lady Downing's jewels and by some mysterious trick of nature, he is transported through time. Focus shifts to the present. American Mary Ann Downing receives word that s...
|  | The Case of the Missing Servant: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator (A Vish Puri Mystery)
Release Date: April 20, 2010| Series: A Vish Puri Mystery Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources ...
|  | Moscow Noir (Akashic Noir)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Akashic Noir The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir series explores this fabled and troubled city’s darkest recesses.Features brand-new stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Dene...
|  | A French Country Murder
Publication Date: March 12, 2003When political intrigue drove Louis Morgon from a successful career at the State Department, he moved to a cottage in France, far from Washington and what he called “the sordid world.” He took up painting.He grew vegetables and flowers.He ate long, lovely meals on the terrace overlooking fields of sunflowers.He thought that he had found happiness.Then one day Louis’s past lands squarely on his doorstep.It does so in the shape of a dead man.His throat has been slit.He wears a cap with liberte embroidered on it.Except for the local cop, Jean Re...
|  | Marvel Adventures The Avengers Vol. 2: Mischief (V.2)
Publication Date: March 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0785123075 | ISBN-13: 978-0785123071| Edition: Direct Ed Facing the foes no single super hero could withstand! When global threats surface, they must contend with the combined might of: Captain America, Storm, Iron Man, The Hulk, Giant-Girl, Wolverine and Spider-Man! With great power comes... a whole lotta trouble? That's what the Wrecker finds out when he's zapped by a jolt of magical muscle meant for Loki, the god of mischief. Suddenly, the Joe Lunchpail of crime is taking on Earth Mightiest Heroes, and all of them are running afoul of one ver...
| | French Legends, Tales and Fairy Stories (Oxford Myths and Legends)
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