| Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity Publication Date: August 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0742507009 | ISBN-13: 978-0742507005Using narrative descriptions of the author's own lived-experience of her ethnic heritage, Martinez offers a systematic interrogation of the social and cultural norms by which certain aspects of her Mexican-American cultural heritage are both retained and lost over generations of assimilation. Combining semiotic and existential phenomenology with Chicana feminism, the author charts new terrain where anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work may be pursued. ...
| | No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'I During World War II (Asian American History & Culture) Publication Date: December 2003| Series: Asian American History & Culture When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In "No Sword to Bury", Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-d...
| | A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1) Publication Date: August 1, 2007In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks and refusing relationships. When Cody and Ali meet, their first instincts are to hide behind their emotional walls, seemingly doomed to repeat the patterns they h...
| | In Search of Eden Publication Date: February 1, 2007Best-selling author Linda Nichols tells a gripping story about law and grace, forgiveness and redemption, and about finding joy and rest in a broken world. ...
| | Alice Flagg: The Ghost of the Hermitage Release Date: July 31, 2004| Grade Level: 4 and up A 15-year-old planter's daughter commits the unpardonable social sin of marrying a man beneath her family's social station. But following her sudden death, the people of Murrellís Inlet, South Carolina, began to see a despondent ghost who haunts the countryside even today. ...
| | Bear, Otter, and the Kid Publication Date: August 12, 2011Three years ago, Bear McKenna's mother took off for parts unknown with her new boyfriend, leaving Bear to raise his six-year-old brother Tyson, aka the Kid. Somehow they've muddled through, but since he's totally devoted to the Kid, Bear isn't actually doing much living-with a few exceptions, he's retreated from the world, and he's mostly okay with that. Until Otter comes home.Otter is Bear's best friend's older brother, and as they've done for their whole lives, Bear and Otter crash and collide in ways neither expect. This time, though, there's nowhere to ru...
| | Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler Release Date: March 27, 2012One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. In this cutthroat $200 million business, no one was more successfulor posed a greater ecological dangerthan Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers. In Winged Obsession, author Jessica Speart tells the riveting true story of rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer's determined crusade to halt the career of a brazen and ingenious criminal with an almost supernatural sixth sense for survival. But the sto...
| | Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver Publication Date: 1985 Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs.Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold fever, and the lucky few who saw the riches and lived to tell of them spent the rest of their lives searching, haunted by faulty memories, changed landscapes, and quirks of fate.It is the stories of these men and the wealth they pu...
| | The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame) Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly enclosed, dark, and extremely hot environment. Participants who “sweat” together experience moral strengthening, physical healing, and the renewal of social and cultur...
| | Hymns Publication Date: April 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1840025484 | ISBN-13: 978-1840025484Frantic Assembly celebrates its 10th anniversary with a revival of the hugely popular and spectacularly physical Hymns, once again teaming up with Chris O'Connell (script), Natasha Chivers (lighting) and celebrated director Liam Steel.Four men reunite to mourn the loss of a close friend, but time and events have had a corrosive effect on this once tight-knit bunch. From beneath the surface bravura a brooding animosity emerges. Their struggle to deal with grief and guilt brings them to breaking point ahere the t...
| | Paris no se acaba nunca (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Narrativas Hispanicas (Book 350) ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### ...
| | Buffy The Vampire Slayer ~ The Watcher's Guide Publication Date: 1998The Official Companion to the Hit Show ...
| | The Hour of the Cat Publication Date: August 1, 2006On the eve of World War II, "just another little murder" in New York City draws two vastly different men - an American detective and a German admiral - into the Gathering Storm. Hour of the Cat is a stunning achievement: tautly suspenseful, huantingly memorable, and brilliantly authentic. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
| | Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 3 (Spider-Man (Marvel)) Publication Date: January 25, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Multiplication (Flash Kids Flash Cards) Publication Date: October 5, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Good Sports:Winning, Losing, and Everything in Between Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | My Dog, My Hero Publication Date: October 15, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up 'My Hero' to Be Chosen: Eight finalists will compete tonight for the title My Hero. The winner will wear the coveted gold Hero medal. These brave and courageous dogs will each appear with their nominator who will tell their story. There's Smiley, who fought a giant bull. Bear used his giant paws to save the life of another dog. Munchkin warned a gardener of a poisonous snake about to strike. Old Dog helped find people buried under rubble after a tornado. Buster pulled a baby carriage out of the path of a careening truck. Blue, who had n...
| | The Biography Of A Boy Publication Date: September 10, 2010This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
| | You're Thinking About Tomatoes Publication Date: July 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up An antique picture, a mad celebrity mummy, and 18th-century Britain come to life in this zany and unorthodox novel. In this sequel to the successful You're Thinking About Doughnuts, protagonist and hero Frank once again finds himself in a different era when a school field trip leads to unanticipated adventures in the colonial past. He soon finds himself on a quest to discover the identity of Sheba, a black servant girl trapped in a living picture. In the process he confronts issues of slavery, multiculturalism, and colo...
| | Look inside the Ocean (Poke and Look) Release Date: February 16, 1993 ...
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