 | Tidewater Maryland
Publication Date: January 1969A teenage boy finds his loyalties divided between the values of his father, a Mexican immigrant, and those of the Brown Berets, a rebel group of Mexican Americans. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Shorter Second Edition)(Vol. 1 & 2)
Publication Date: April 9, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393933547 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933543| Edition: Shorter Second Edition A compact and portable version of thebest-selling and most-trusted world literatureanthology, The Norton Anthology of WorldLiterature, Shorter Second Edition, is arich and teachable selection of the world’sliterature, in generous portions and the besttranslations available.A new format, newdesign, new selections, new translations, andnew color plates make this Second Edition apleasure to read and a book that students willkeep long after the survey course is over. color p...
|  | The Sacrifice
Publication Date: October 6, 2004The most powerful weapon against evil is sacrifice. Attorney Scott Ellis is defending Lester Garrison, a 16-year-old accused of opening gunfire on a Sunday afternoon church gathering. At the same time, Scott's volunteer work at the local high school brings him into contact with Kay Wilson, an English teacher and former girlfriend.Unknown to either of them, Catawba High School is not just a place of learning--it's a battleground for an age-old struggle between good and evil.On one side are praying students and a simple janitor with an extraordinary faith.On th...
|  | Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse (New Middle Ages)
Publication Date: March 2, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312213662 | ISBN-13: 978-0312213664| Edition: 1st Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedg...
|  | The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Publication Date: September 13, 2002If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Over twenty years in print, here is the original uncut version of this classic text. Illustrated with photographs of phenomena in progress, every sentence in the book is true. Used as a text in seminaries and classrooms, this is one book you can't put down. ...
|  | In the Land of Sorrows
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|  | Zoli: A Novel
Release Date: March 11, 2008A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world of books, which is often frowned upon in the Romani tradition, Zoli becomes the poster girl for a brave new world. As she shap...
|  | Chocolate Sangria
Release Date: March 27, 2007Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his ...
|  | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / The Member of the Wedding
Release Date: November 1, 2011“Like all writers of original genius, Miss McCullers convinces us that we have missed something which was plainly to be seen in the real world . . . She is a master of peculiar perception and an incomparable storyteller.” —V. S. PritchettUpon publication of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, her story gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated. In The Member of the Wedding, McCullers tells th...
|  | Cooperstown: A Novel
Release Date: June 28, 2005An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new voice in contemporary fiction.Cooperstown, New York, in 1979 (the year Willie Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), is a close-knit community where gossip is sovereign and baseball is the great American religion. Seen through the eyes of Dr. Kerwin Chylak, a psychiatrist who has recently moved to town with his family, the citizens of Cooperstown are a wildly eclectic team of players that includes an alc...
|  | Free Throw
Publication Date: June 1, 2001Mike Weaver was a teenage boy with a bad case of unrequited love for cheerleader Alicia Harris and dreams of playing for his school's varsity basketball team. Suddenly, though, Mike's world is shaken up by the arrival of Alicia's cousin, Pepper, with whom he learns what love is really all about. ...
|  | Apples (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow (v. 1-3)
Release Date: February 11, 2000The impoverished, desolate mountain regions of the Abruzzo during Mussolini's reignprovide the backdrop for the three greatest novels by Ignazio Silone, one of thetwentieth century's most important writers. In Fontamara, Bread and Wine, and TheSeed Beneath the Snow - presented together for the first time in English to markthe centenary of the author's birth - Silone narrates the struggles of the cafoni,the farmers and peasants of his native Abruzzo, against poverty, natural disasters,and totalitarianism. The first novel in the series, Fontamara, is a polit...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: February 15, 2011Esta Antología de António Ramos Rosa, publicada por la Fundación Común Presencia en 2004, y ahora distribuida por CreateSpace para todo el planeta, compila altos instantes de la extensa y solar obra de uno de los poetas portugueses más totalizantes de las últimas décadas. La fuerza de lo elemental, adicionada a un pensamiento nunca escindido de lo cósmico, nos recuerda que el hombre de Lascaux estuvo más próximo a la revelación que el altivo y oscuro homo atomicus, como lo vislumbró René Char....
|  | Argumentum E Silentio
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|  | Codicia (Covet) (Angeles Caidos / Fallen Angels) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2012| Series: Angeles Caidos / Fallen Angels (Book 1) Jim Heron is the quintessential anti-hero: his past has been tortuous and his decision-making leaves much to be desired. But everything changes when an accident leaves him at the doors to the afterlife and he is forced to walk between two worlds. For better or worse, his actions will define the destiny of the human race. As a fallen angel he is charged with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. His former boss Vin DiPietro is the first soul; and 'to covet,' the first sin. Lover Mine earned ...
|  | Spellbound
Publication Date: October 17, 2008A family curse. A mismatched couple. Magic in the air at Martha's Vineyard. Ariel Windsor is home for her cousin's wedding. When she crosses paths with filmmaker Jarad Naughton, nothing is easy. They are as different as night and day. But sparks fly, and these two thrust and parry their way through their own unique battle of the sexes. ...
|  | Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue (Wycliffe Series)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Wycliffe Series Gifford Tate, well-known Falmouth painter, and Edwin Garland, a local businessman, had been inseparable companions until Tate’s death several years ago. Now his paintings are much in demand, and each year, a work not previously shown is sold at a London gallery. When Garland dies of a heart attack, no one is suspicious—until the evening of the funeral, when his son is shot dead and Wycliffe is faced with a seemingly motiveless killing. Then another relative disappears, and the most promising clue is an artists’ pi...
|  | Batman Begins: The Visual Guide
Release Date: June 15, 2005| Age Level: 1 and up Uncovering the real story of Batman, from the events that have shaped the Dark Knight to the friends and foes who know only half the truth, Batman Begins: The Visual Guide is the ultimate book for any fans of this extraordinary hero. ...
|  | Monsters and Mythical Creatures - Ancient Greece
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