 | Scarlet Sister Mary (Brown Thrasher Books)
Publication Date: January 9, 2004| Series: Brown Thrasher Books Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the conflicting realities in an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy ...
 |  | Zombies at the Door, Planning for the Inevitable
Publication Date: August 19, 2011We all know it can happen, will happen. Be prepared and have a laugh at the same time. This basic manual will make sure you are ready to face the zombie hordes and walk you through where to meet, find weapons and food, and set up camp. It may even give you hope as you huddle in the bathroom stall at the mall.Seriously though, don't go to the mall!Learn the glow stick technique to distract zombies or how a paper bag might save your life or at least keep you from seeing the bitey end that's coming. Are dentist offices safe? Can the game of baseball stop the zom...
|  | Miracle on the 17th Green
Publication Date: May 10, 2010Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone--playing like a pro. In astonishingly short order, Travis is catapulted into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round. And while his wife, his children, and a live television audience watch, a miracle takes place that changes Travis, and his family, fore...
|  | Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising More than twenty years ago, Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy write Red Storm Rising, the iconic techno thriller of the Cold War era. Now he returns (with Jim DeFelice) to start a classic series for our era, Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising, which imagines the globe torn apart by climate change and its economic and geopolitical fallout. In book one of this four-book series, rapid climate change leads to mass riots in China, and a new communist premier seeks to relieve pressure by marching on traditional Chinese enemies in Sout...
|  | Lord of the White Hell: Book Two (The Cadeleonian Series)
Publication Date: September 15, 2010| Series: The Cadeleonian Series (Book 2) Kiram fought his family and Cadeleonian bigots to remain in the Sagrada Academy to prove himself as a mechanist and to dispel the deadly shadow curse that threatens to destroy his upperclassman, Javier Tornesal. But when his efforts provoke retaliation, Kiram's family and home are endangered. Both Kiram and Javier risk everything in a desperate gambit to combat the curse. But they never imagined their battle with come so soon, or that it would be lead by the one person they trust most of all. ...
|  | Tales of a Louisiana Duck Hunter
Release Date: July 30, 2001This collection of short stories-all personal experiences of the author-details the differences of hunting in Louisiana as opposed to other states. One can gain insight into the state, its wildlife, its different ways of duck hunting, and its landscape. There are humorous accounts of hunting dogs, character studies of hunters and woodsmen, and examples of good duck hunting.Find out the difference between a marsh and a swamp-there is one. Relive the sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker-thought to be extinct. Most sportsmen will find that the various chapters prov...
|  | Albertine in Five Times
Publication Date: May 19, 2009Michel Tremblay’s well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what is to come—“Our fate depends on you,” Albertine at 70 says to Albertine at 30. Together, these five Albertines provide a moving portrait of the extraordinary life of an “ordinary” woman.This new, updated translation by Linda Gaboriau, commissioned for the prestigious Shaw Festival, celebrates the 25 years this classic Canadian drama has intrigued...
|  | Songs of Kabir
Publication Date: September 3, 2009This 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. ...
|  | My Father's Martial Art: Poems
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Series: Western Literature Series Stephen Shu-Ning Liu is a unique figure in contemporary letters--a native of China, from a family of scholars, who left his country as a young man and now writes in English, a language he learned only after emigrating. His poetry is compelling and intriguing, as hybrid as his life's experiences, strongly informed by the ancient traditions and aesthetics of his homeland, but equally shaped by the mobility and rootlessness of modern urban America. The poems reflect the delicate vision of Chinese art--its attention to the nat...
|  | Deep Feelings: Poetry from the Heart
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|  | The diary of Otto Braun with selections from his letters and poems / edited by Julie Vogelstein; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis; translated from the German by Ella Winter; poetry translated by F.W. Stella Browne
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|  | The Tyger Voyage
Publication Date: July 1976The adventures of two young inexperienced Tygers who set out from Victorian England into the timeless unknown. ...
|  | The Inconvertible Sky
Publication Date: January 1, 1997Poetry. Translated from the Russian by John High and Patrick Henry. Born in Siberia in 1948, Ivan Zhdanov emerged in the early 1980s as one of the leading Russian poets of his generation, admired by the traditionalists and the avant-garde alike. "I have never, under any circumstances, been directly engaged in politics," he said in a recent interview. "For me it was more important to discover the roots of the events that make up our lives, the life of our country, our society, and our history, in that order." Zhdanov's work has been honored by poets and critic...
|  | Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews
Release Date: November 26, 1991" D.H. Melhem's clear introductions and frank interviews provide insight into the contemporary social and political consciousness of six acclaimed poets: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dudley Randall, and Sonia Sanchez. Since the 1960s, the poet hero has characterized a significant segment of Black American poetry. The six poets interviewed here have participated in and shaped the vanguard of this movement. Their poetry reflects the critical alternatives of African American life -- separatism and integration, feminism and sexua...
|  | Discourse and Communication: New Approaches to the Analysis of Mass Media Discourse and Communication (Research in Text Theory)
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| | Surrealism in its purest forms: Robert Desnos, the poet and Yves Tanguy, the painter (Honors papers / Macalester College)
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| | Inline Skating Pb (Radical Sports)
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|  | The San Francisco 49ers (America's Greatest Teams)
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|  | Extrme Snowboarding (Extreme Sports No Limits!)
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| ![Stories of Robots [With Music and Sound Effects] (Usborne Young Reading: Series One)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ampyGZEpL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Stories of Robots [With Music and Sound Effects] (Usborne Young Reading: Series One)") | Stories of Robots [With Music and Sound Effects] (Usborne Young Reading: Series One)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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