 | Mudbound
Publication Date: March 17, 2009In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has c...
 |  | Mother of Prevention (Life, Faith & Getting It Right #4) (Steeple Hill Cafe)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005Kate Madison always thought that bad things happen to other people. But then her life is struck by personal tragedy. Left widowed at 32, when her husband is killed in an on-the-job accident, Kate suddenly finds herself worrying about everything. Once the initial shock has worn off and Kate tries to get on with life, her fears stop her at every turn. A cosmetologist who flies twice a week to teach classes, Kate fears what will happen to her children should her plane go down. Kate's job requires her to relocate to San Francisco, and when she travels there to sear...
|  | Seven Trumpets
Publication Date: October 26, 2006Seven Trumpets is a fictional account of the Apocalypse, based on Scriptural truth, scientific evidence, and present-day events. Thoroughly researched and brutally honest, it forces a confrontation with life's most important question: "Where will I be when it happens?"Defense Department analyst Dennis Bartlett fails to prevent world-wide nuclear holocaust, which ushers in Revelation's dreaded Apocalypse. He is soon embroiled in humanity's worst nightmare: The Demon Prince has come to claim his earthly throne! Is there really no escape? ...
|  | Trade & Generations (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1854599127 | ISBN-13: 978-1854599124In Trade, Debbie Tucker Green puts an intriguing spin on the unease we feel as tourists in a country poorer than our own. She focuses on three black women on a Caribbean island: a hip young Londoner with a loud mouth and plenty of attitude, an older professional seemingly sensitive to her surroundings, and a resident native. ...
|  | Verses of different years (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: August 15, 2007The collection "Verses of the different years" is in Russian language and combines verses by Igor Adamatzky. The book is an assembly of contemporary Russian poetry useful to anyone with a serious interest in literary movements spanning era of USSR and post-perestroika events. Igor Adamatzky was one of the founders of "Klub-81", a professional society of non-conformist Russian writers, established in 1981. ...
|  | True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: January 21, 1998| ISBN-10: 0313305099 | ISBN-13: 978-0313305092The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmode...
|  | Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto (Issues & Debates)
Publication Date: October 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 1606061178 | ISBN-13: 978-1606061176| Edition: 1 This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices. Surrealism in Latin America provides new Latin American–centric scholarship, not only about surrealism’s impact on the region but also about the r...
|  | Forbidden Temptation (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: October 16, 2007| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 65) Sex changed everything?After marrying off her sisters, Ruby Lockhart could finally concentrate on her career. After all, love wasn't in the cards for the pragmatic Ruby. Only she could wake up the morning after her sister's wedding with a gorgeous, sexy man in her bed and have him be her best friend!Mr. Sexy—aka Luther Biggens, ex-navy SEAL—had always been Ruby's rock. Now he was her problem. She couldn't look at him without remembering the ways he'd pleasured her. More troubling than how she'd ended up in bed wit...
|  | A Warrior's Taking
Release Date: June 26, 2007 A love that can transcend time . . . 981 A.D.: Brogan Mac Lochlainn has heard of a magical stone that bestows great powers. Now the slaying of his father, the chieftain, has placed the clan's protection in Brogan's hands—and he will brave any danger to possess the stone. But only the strongest sorcery will carry the fearless Scottish warrior to the talisman—for it is hidden in Ravenfield, an English estate . . . 900 years in the future! 1813: Sarah Granger is wary . . . yet shamelessly intrigued by the near-naked stranger she discovers washed upo...
|  | The Saboteurs
Release Date: June 6, 2006Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his rousing stories of the OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E. Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a brand-new adventure.The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting down and sinking U.S. supply ships, and ships are being burned at their moorings in U.S. ports-is it accident or is it sabotage? Meanwhile, Allied forces are secretly preparing to invade first Sicily and then Italy. As the war heats up, Wild Bill Donovan's agen...
|  | Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels
Release Date: May 4, 2010On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South": Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the ...
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|  | Caribou Girl
Publication Date: May 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In this authentic tale of the nomadic Inuit people, Caribou Girl relies on traditional values and her own instincts to find the Caribou herds her people depend on.Ages 4-10 ...
|  | Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You
Publication Date: December 1, 2010| Age Level: 0 and up...
|  | Disney: The Lion King (Disney Diecut Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012 ...
|  | Juanita
Publication Date: September 9, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Originally published in 1948 and the recipient of a Caldecott Honor, Juanita captures the atmosphere of Olvera Street, the historic Latino community in downtown Los Angeles.Juanita's parents own a small shop, or puesto, which they have named after her, and one very much like those that line Olvera Street to this day. They sell brightly colored baskets, dresses, and fine lacework-all handmade.For her fourth birthday, Juanita is dressed in a beautiful rose-colored gown and is given a white dove. On the day before ...
|  | The Genizah At The House Of Shepher
Publication Date: March 30, 2005Beginning with a search for the ten lost tribes and ending in an attic, where lies an important bible which has been missing for seventy-nine years, The Genizah at the House of Shepher is Tamar Yellin's critically acclaimed debut novel. Returning to her grandparents' home in Jerusalem after an absence of many years, Shulamit, an English biblical scholar, stumbles into the mystery of the so-called Shepher Codex, an ancient and valuable manuscript of the Bible which has been discovered in the "genizah" or attic. In uncovering the truth about the Codex she reveal...
|  | Kitten Red, Yellow, Blue
Release Date: February 1, 2005| Age Level: 2 and up Sixteen calico kittens -- the number of colors in a crayon box.Their mother, Sophie, knows one from another...but how do you think Mrs. Tuttle tells those kittens apart?Peter Catalanotto's sequel to his Matthew A.B.C. and Daisy 1, 2, 3 invites long looking, counting, and laughing! ...
|  | El le
Publication Date: November 5, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Curious Baby My Curious Dreamer Gift Set (Curious George Book & Blankie) (Curious Baby Curious George)
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| Age Level: 0 and up...
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