 | Seven Blessings: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2004The closed, secret world of matchmaking in contemporary Israel provides the titillating pivot for a story of uncommon proportions.In Ruchama King's skillful hands, Seven Blessings maps out the complicated lives of five expatriate women and men whose search for a soul mate, in many ways, mirrors their search for God.At the center of this fascinating novel is Beth, who at age thirty-nine longs to be married but despairs she ever will be.When she finally meets the man of her dreams, he has what she believes to be an insurmountable flaw.Can she overcome her repugnan...
 |  | Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
Publication Date: July 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 0521568285 | ISBN-13: 978-0521568289Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs such as "Jim Crow," "Zip Coon," and "Dan Tucker." The first book on the blackface traditi...
|  | Almost Like Being in Love
Publication Date: May 1, 2004A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart. Flash forward twenty years. Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing .... Travis is the first to figure it out. He's still in love with Craig, and come what may, he's going after the boy who captured his heart, even if it means forsaking his job, making a fool of himself, and entering the great unknown. Told in narrative, le...
|  | The Oath
Publication Date: August 20, 1996An ancient sin. A long forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret. Something evil is at work in Hyde River, an isolated mining town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Under the cover of darkness, a predator strikes without warning—taking life in the most chilling and savage fashion. The community of Hyde River watches in terror as residents suddenly vanish. Yet, the more locals are pressed for information, the more they close ranks, sworn to secrecy by their forefathers’ hidden sins. Only when Hyde River’s secrets are exposed is ...
|  | The Crying for a Vision
Publication Date: September 2003The Crying for a Vision is at once a dramatic account of the rise and fall of the Lakota Indians, and an absorbing allegorical saga of the Lakota orphan Waskn-Mani—Moves Walking. The Crying for a Vision vividly describes Moves Walking’s conflicts with the all-powerful, one-eyed warrior, Fire Thunder, whose rise to power eventually leads to the spiritual destruction of the earth and its people. In the end, it is up to the gentle, nature-conscious Moves Walking to save the world and heal its "elemental sorrow—the anguish of living things when the ...
|  | Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
Publication Date: March 19991916. A diverse collection of the legends of the Hawaiian Islands. Contents Part I-Legends: The Ghost of Wahaula Temple; Maluae and the Underworld; A Giant's Rock Throwing; Kalo-Eke-Eke, The Timid Taro; Legendary Canoe Making; Lau-Ka-Ieie; Kauhuhu, the Shark God of Molokai; The Shark Man of Waipio Valley; the Strange Banana Skin; The Old Man of the Mountain; Hawaiian Ghost Testing; How Milu Became the King of Ghosts; A Visit to the King of Ghosts; Kalai-Pahoa, the Poison God; Ke-Ao-Mele-Mele, the Maid of the Golden Cloud; Poona and the Dragon; Ke-Au-Nini; and The ...
|  | Women of the Silk: A Novel
Release Date: October 15, 1993In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength....
|  | A Tradition of Victory (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 14)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: The Bolitho Novels (Book 14) Plymouth, July 1801: Richard Bolitho's small squadron, still repairing the scars of battle earned in heavy action at Copenhagen, has been months away from the sea. After eight years of war with France, Britain must make a gesture that will show strength and determination—and one which will dramatically weaken the French cause. Rear-Admiral Bolitho must follow his flag's tradition of victory, even though—for the first time in his life—he is torn between the demands of public duty and personal need. ...
|  | Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure (Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature)
Publication Date: January 1, 1977| ISBN-10: 0888640188 | ISBN-13: 978-0888640185The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D. ...
|  | The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Edition: Literacy Program
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0194345734 | ISBN-13: 978-0194345736| Edition: 2nd A new edition of this popular topic-based dictionary which focuses on everyday, key vocabulary. ...
|  | Hawksley Burns for Isadora
Publication Date: September 1, 2002This strange blending of prose and poetry is a collection of enigmatic love letters-to an elusive object of affection-that first appeared in the classified ads of two Toronto newspapers. Stirring curious interest and provoking strong responses, these romantic notes capture one side of a fascinatingly eccentric love affair. Exquisitely rendered paintings combine with lushly written missives to offer a tantalizing peek into the intimate intricacies of a deeply felt love from a lauded musician whose lyrics have been praised as exotic, daring, vulnerable, brill...
|  | Endangered Speeches
Publication Date: March 28, 2012Poetically written Spoken Word that speaks and appeals to the mindset of the Post-Maafa (Black Hellacaust) Afrikan. The author constructively identifies problems in such a skillful way that the embedded solution is revealed. This is the level of Poetically constructed Spoken Word that was instrumental in ushering in the Renaissance of Poetry experienced in the mid 1990s in which the consciousness of the Post-Maafa Afrikan was being raised to the 'WE' degree away from the 'it's all about me' or the 'I' degree. The Title 'ENDANGERED SPEECHES' was chosen because ...
|  | The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature
Publication Date: March 8, 2008The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian women writers used the controversial figure of the woman painter to intervene in the discourse of aesthetics. These writers were able to assert their own status as artistic producers through the representation of female visual artists.Women painters posed a threat to the traditiona...
|  | Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--and One Man's Search to Find Them
Publication Date: September 26, 2006Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars.Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of its kind: a dramatic, intimate, and revealing look at warfare as seen through the personal correspondence of US and foreign troops and civilians who have experienced major conflicts firsthand. From handwritten missives penned during the American Revolution to e-mails from Afghanistan and...
|  | Shadows of Yesterday
Publication Date: May 1, 1992LEIGH...She was terrifyingly alone on a Texas highway about to deliver her first child when a rugged stranger in a pickup truck stopped to help her. Leigh Bransom had lost her husband eight months before when he was tragically killed on the job. This fateful meeting on a lonesome highway brought a handsome, new man into her life...yet he was a man with secrets and the power to break her heart again. CHAD...He pursued a dangerous business, and his past was a mystery he kept hidden. He was determined to make Leigh care for him, but there were no guarantees that his...
|  | Obsidian Flame (Guardians of Ascension)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Guardians of Ascension Obsidian FlameCaris Roane From paranormal romance author Caris Roane comes the fifth book in the "Guardians of Ascension" series.For a hundred years, Marguerite has been imprisoned and used for her powerful psychic abilities. Her only relief comes from her regular visits with Thorne, her vampire lover. His every touch leaves her hungry for more..and aching for their next encounter. When Marguerite is finally set free, she returns to Mortal Earth to begin a new life for herself. She dyes her hair white-b...
|  | The Last Sherlock Holmes Story / The Empty Copper Sea / Catch Me, Kill Me
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| | Les Archives de Sherlock Holmes/ Les Exploits de Sherlock Holmes (Oeuvres litteraires completes - VI)
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|  | Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Why are cats and mice enemies? Why do cats always land on their feet? Are cats as smart as they seem? Here's a story behind each of these feline traits. For centuries, people everywhere, from Tibet to Oman to Scotland to the United States, have been fascinated with cats and their intriguing personalities. In this captivating collection, New York Times best-selling author Jane Yolen has gathered and adapted cat stories, sayings, and nursery rhymes from around the world. The glowing jewel-like illustrations of cats galore...
|  | Wrestling in Action (Sports in Action)
Publication Date: March 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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