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 |  | Wingshooters
Publication Date: February 8, 2011"Revoyr does a remarkable job of conveying [protagonist] Michelle’s lost innocence and fear through this accomplished story of family and the dangers of complacency in the face of questionable justice."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Revoyr's fourth novel is a coming-of-age saga in which racism cuts across loyalties between family and friends . . . Gripping and insightful."--Kirkus ReviewsMichelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin--a small town that had been entir...
|  | The Spy Next Door (Five Star Expressions)
Publication Date: May 13, 2005| ISBN-10: 1594143277 | ISBN-13: 978-1594143274| Edition: 1 Hope Hathaway doesn't distrust all men . . . just the ones who make promises to her like her no-good, cheating ex-husband did. Still, she's happy with life as a single mom in a small town-donning overalls every day, driving her son's school bus, and escaping into the world of Sela Theodore, the heroine of her romantic spy novels. Until, that is, Chandler Adams comes to stay next door. Chandler is gorgeous. The best-looking thing to drop into Bearsville since the hunky Fed Ex guy's truck broke down t...
|  | The Constant Princess (Boleyn)
Release Date: August 28, 2006| Series: Boleyn "I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchanting princess that all England loved. First married to Henry VIII's older brother, Arthur, Katherine's passion turns their arranged marriage into a love match; but when Art...
|  | Confederacy of the Dead
Release Date: June 1, 1993An all-original anthology of short fiction exploring what may be the most fascinating and certainly bloodiest of all American wars--the Civil War--by the bestselling authors of dark fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Contributors include Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, William S. Burroughs, and Kristine Kathryl Rusch. 25 stories. ...
|  | Like People in History: A Gay American Epic
Publication Date: July 1, 1995Traces forty years in the life of two gay men who share a madcap but enduring relationship and a passion for a handsome Vietnam veteran, against the backdrop of gay urban culture from the fifties up to the present. ...
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|  | Mystery of the Compass Rose
Publication Date: March 21, 2000Climb aboard the sloop Mako with skipper Jack Carroll as heembarks on the Caribbean sailing adventure of a lifetime! Sail throughexotic tropical islands with Jack as he tries to unravel a mysteriouspuzzle leading to a small fortune.You'll be there as Mako transits through the tranquil tropicalanchorages of the Bahamas into ship killer storms of the AtlanticOcean. Suspense abounds as Jack tries to evade relentless killers andthe natural dangers of the sea. Try to be the first to solve the"Mystery of the Compass Rose"! ...
|  | Rough Music
Release Date: May 8, 2001Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, Rough Music is a novel of one family at two defining points in time. Seamlessly alternating between the present day and a summer thirty years past, its twin stories unfold at a cottage along the eastern coast of England.Will Pagett receives an unexpected gift on his fortieth birthday, two weeks at a perfect beach house in Cornwall. Seeking some distance from the married man with whom he's having an affair, he invites his aging mother and father to share his holiday, knowing the sun and sea will be a welcome change for. Bu...
|  | Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
Publication Date: October 1996New appendix: Traditional Polish Games and Pastimes for Children. ...
|  | The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Tragedies
Publication Date: December 2000| ISBN-10: 0393976726 | ISBN-13: 978-0393976724| Edition: 1St Edition A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespeare—the working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glos...
|  | Seneca the Elder: Suasoriae (Bcp Classic Latin and Greek Texts in Paperback)
Publication Date: February 10, 2011| Series: Bcp Classic Latin and Greek Texts in Paperback This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. ...
|  | Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry (Middle East Literature in Translation)
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|  | Three Poetic Tales: As Told by Mister Persey the Scribbling Pooch
Publication Date: October 29, 2002The book comprises three tales written in 'classical' verse (i.e., strict rhythms and rhyme.) Although in the form of fairy tales and fables, they deal with important social and historic issues. 'A Tale of Dancing Chair' decries racial discrimination and expounds the idea that, regardless of outside help, success comes to those who don't shy away from hard work, are willing and able to use creative potential to the fullest, and stand up to bigotry, injustice, and unfair judgement. 'A Tale of Captive Puffins . . .' reflects upon events in the history of Russi...
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|  | Among My Books (Large Print Edition)
Publication Date: August 21, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Indigo After Dark, Volume 1
Release Date: February 1, 2001| Series: Indigo After Dark (Book 1) In between the Night by Angelique tell of the erotic adventures of Margaret and her sexual awakening from the plain Jane by day to the sensual cat of the prowl, Jade, by night. Midnight Erotic Fantasies, by Ms Dixon takes eroticism to a different level. Her poignant emphasis on female pleasure is told with such awesome detail, you'll feel your temperature rising form the first story to the last. ...
|  | Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain
Publication Date: January 15, 2000Trollope and the Magazines examines a serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses circulating in a range of Victorian magazines--including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls, and the Fortnightly Review. It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and argues that readers today need to engage with the lively cultural debates in the magazines, in order to appreciate more fully the complexity of Trollope's popular fiction. ...
|  | Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0674853814 | ISBN-13: 978-0674853812Gabriele Schwab responds to the question of how aesthetic forms contribute to different kinds of cultural knowledge with an analysis of the nature of subjectivity in modernist fiction. Drawing on French and Anglo-American psychoanalysis as well as reader response theory, she explores the relationship between language and subjectivity and in so doing illuminates the cultural politics and psychological functions implicit in the aesthetic practices and literary forms of modernism and postmodernism. The result of...
|  | Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Oxford Textual Perspectives)
Publication Date: September 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199585261 | ISBN-13: 978-0199585267Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring ...
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