 | Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives (Postwestern Horizons)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Series: Postwestern Horizons Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832–95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. He...
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|  | Heartburn
Release Date: May 28, 1996Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage?If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes.For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman.The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thum...
|  | Girls in White Dresses (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother, and Lauren is waitressing at a midtown bar and wondering why she's attracted to the sleaz...
|  | Green Darkness (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Rediscovered Classics This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past...
|  | The Wit of Oscar Wilde (Wit of Ireland)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Wit of Ireland Oscar Wilde boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim home out by the range and scope of the quotations in The Wit of Oscar Wilde. This is an entertaining and revealing book on one of the most quoted men in history. ...
|  | The Small Things and Other Plays
Publication Date: December 20, 2011One of Ireland's most innovative writers, Enda Walsh "possesses a truly original theatrical voice" (Guardian). This collection includes the critically acclaimed Disco Pigs, misterman, bedbound, and The Small Things, as well as four previously unpublished plays (The Ginger Ale Boy, Chatroom, Lynndie's Gotta Gun, and How These Desperate Men Talk).Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award–winning plays, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, and Penelope. His award-winning play Disco Pigs was also a highly ac...
|  | The Japanese Haiku
Publication Date: April 2002This is the most authoritative and concise book on Japanese haiku available: what it is, how it developed, and how it is practiced in both Japanese and English. While many haiku collections are available to Western readers, few books combine both translated haiku with haiku written originally in English, along with an analysis of individual poems and of the haiku form itself. Written by a leading scholar in the field-Kenneth Yasuda was the first American to receive a doctorate in Japanese literature from Tokyo University-Japanese Haiku has been widely acclaimed. T...
|  | Tonight They All Dance: 92 Latin & English Haiku (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 086516441X | ISBN-13: 978-0865164413| Edition: Bilingual Tonight They All Dance can serve as a primer to the composition of Latin verse and, as such, can lend students and scholars alike insight into the intricacies and joys of writing poetry in a non-native language. Haiku, with its short form and engaging content, is the ideal instrument for a first exploration of Latin poetic composition. By modeling the composition of Latin haiku and translating both the substance and the form into English haiku, students will begin to understand the challeng...
|  | The Journey of Life: Collection of Poems
Publication Date: September 25, 2012The purpose of this book is to share my experiences and what I have seen around me in the last 20 years through the expression of poems. While some might be able to relate to it, for some it might be a new perspective to life. "Journey of Life" is a book about all the different experiences that you would have as an individual from being a young kid in school to a matured person in college and then moving on in life and working and how life is portrayed from the time you are born till death through poems. Even though it is very personal, it can still be rel...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: February 27, 2009Metafórica y hermosamente visual desde sus orígenes, la poesía de Homero Aridjis ha recorrido numerosos y muy variados caminos hasta conformar luego de cuatro décadas, una de las obras más entrañables de la literatura en lengua hispana. Esta Antología poética reunida en 385 páginas, es un libro gratificante y que rinde justicia a una voz única, generosa, nostálgica, cristalina, visionaria, eterna, de espacios infinitos. ...
|  | Gestes Et Opinions (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Surrender In Silk
Publication Date: May 9, 2006Dangerous GamesJamie Sanders was finally turning her back on her secret life as a government agent to search for who she really was -- as a person, and as a woman. But first she had to take on one final mission. She was determined to help the man who had made her into a lethal killing machine -- the man who had also awakened the woman within her . . .But as she rescued Zach Jones from his foreign captors and tried everything in her power to heal the wounds that scarred him, inside and out, she had to accept what she'd been hiding from for years -- that he was wha...
|  | A Cowboy for Christmas
Publication Date: October 15, 2011Dan Roland has always gone it alone. And no prissy miss from back East is going to convince him to do otherwise. Even if she does have the most alluring brown eyes he’s ever seen. But when suddenly his boss orders that he help the brunette beauty find a buried treasure, the rugged ranch foreman doesn’t have any choice but to offer his protection. It’s not just the weather leaving Penny Anderson feeling a bit chilly upon her return to Texas. First she gets the news that her ailing father has hidden the family fortune. Then she learns Dan Rol...
|  | The Red Horseman
Publication Date: June 1, 1994Rear Admiral Jake Grafton's mission to Moscow, to ensure thedestruction of twenty thousand nuclear weapons, is undermined by memberof the U.S. government. By the author of Flight of the Intruder.Reprint. NYT. PW....
|  | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated Classic Editions)
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| | Gimnasia/Gymnastics (Biblioteca Grafica) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Mad Libs in Love
Release Date: January 2, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | My Little Pony: Pony Pop Stars
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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