 | Tunaluna
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0984441506 | ISBN-13: 978-0984441501| Edition: First Tunaluna is classic alurista: passionate, sensuous, and political. alurista's tenth book of poetry is a collection of 52 poems that takes us on a time trip through the first decade of the 21st century where he bears witness to the Dubya wars, terrorism, oil and $4 gallons of gas, slavery, and ultimately spiritual transformation and salvation. The Word Wizard of Aztlan is at his razor-sharp best, playing with his palabras as well as with our senses and sensibilities. alurista is a Xicano poet ...
 |  | Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays -- 30th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: April 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0970904614 | ISBN-13: 978-0970904614| Edition: 1st A collection of all ten scripts from the 2006 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Encompassing some of the most eclectic and exciting voices in theatre today, this anthology includes full-length and ten-minute plays by Pulitzer Prize finalists Rolin Jones, Jane Martin, and Theresa Rebeck, as well as playwrights Liz Duffy Adams, Adam Bock, Eric Coble, Dan Dietz, Rha Goddess, Jordan Harrison, Rick Hip-Flores, Julie Jensen, Lisa Kron, Charles Mee, Sharr White, Tracey Scott Wilson, and Chay Yew. ...
|  | Laelia: A Novel
Publication Date: December 30, 2003 Laelia is the story of the Cates sisters, vibrant and prosperous African American matrons who decide to free themselves from ailing husbands and lackluster marriages. Led by the eldest sister, Rebecca, the three women embark upon a plan to discreetly but systematically place their men in care facilities.Rebecca commandeers her two younger sisters, Claudia and Gracelyn -- assigning each a role in distracting their community from their real intent -- to live life unencumbered by rarely sober Timothy, confused Jake, and terminally ill Bernard. Rebecca's ski...
|  | Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12)
Release Date: March 30, 2004| Series: Left Behind (Book 12) Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan. ...
|  | The Runaway Parents: A Parable of Problem Parents (Spirit Flyer)
Publication Date: October 23, 1991| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales
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|  | Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
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|  | A Midwinter's Tale (O'Malley Novels)
Publication Date: November 15, 1999Stationed in Bamberg, Germany, in the chaotic aftermath of WWII, pint-sized Charles "Chucky" Cronin O'Malley can't seem to keep himself out of harm's way. Whether it be with black marketeers, border patrols, or even his commanding officer, Chucky always seems to land in impossible scrapes, relying on a quick wit and blind luck (or is it Heavenly intervention?) to save his hide. And until the day he meets beautiful seventeen-year-old Trudi, a girl on the run from smugglers and the U.S. Army, he manages to keep himself in one piece. Trudi needs Chucky's help....
|  | Second Time Around (Across Time 2)
Publication Date: January 27, 2009| Series: Across Time 2 Book Two in the amazing Across Time series is here--and they’re all back, Jessie Ferguson, Madame Ceara, Tanner, Cate and Maeve. Jessie, who first stumbled upon a portal to the past in Across Time, reluctantly answers a call from an altogether different place and time--Elizabethan England--and to her consternation, she emerges to find herself incarnated as a male! She’s Captain Spencer Morgan, trolling the seas in search of the same mysterious chest, unearthed from its Druid burial ground, that none other than Sir Franci...
|  | Everybody Calls My Father, Father
Publication Date: January 22, 2010Son of Catholic priest tells all. Everybody Calls My Father, Fatheris based on a true story-the story of the author's parents. The character of a tenacious young woman, Bouvette Sherwood, who is a successful New York Broadway producer and actress, drives the plot. In the mid 1940s Bouvette meets and falls in love with a charming alcoholic, Hughie Hewitt. He has a secret though, which he keeps from her during their intense courtship-he is a Catholic priest. Their love story unfolds into a kaleidoscope of intrigue, suspense, betrayal, and romance. ...
|  | Raki
Publication Date: July 1, 2000This story, set in Australia and Bosnia and about an Aboriginal boy, deals with issues of black and white relations, ethnic conflict and multi-culturalism. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Persuasion (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: March 29, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393911535 | ISBN-13: 978-0393911534| Edition: Second Edition Jane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen’s achievement.This revised Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition text (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817). The editor has spelled out ampersands and made superscript letters lowercased.The novel, which is accompanied by revised and expanded e...
|  | Invisible Friends
Publication Date: January 21, 1991This play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy, who revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara, who in turn materializes, bringing with her an idealized father and brother, and shows Lucy how to make her real family vanish. ...
|  | Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems
Publication Date: July 2003A fusion of east and west, high culture, popularculture, and ancient Chinese history mark thisdistinguished collection.Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered,multidimensional, intercultural singing,elegizes the loss of her mother and maternalgrandmother and tries to unravel thecomplexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwartedinterracial love, and of social injustice. Somepoems recall the Confucian "Book ofSongs," while others echo the AfricanAmerican blues tradition and Western railroadballads. The title poem re...
|  | Views from Along the Middle Way
Publication Date: February 1, 2002In Thomas Centolella's newest book, he asserts the need "to make peace / with the indeterminate"—a journey that leads him from the tenuous nature of human intimacy into philosophical considerations from the East and the West. The "Middle Way" of the title derives from both Buddha and Dante: on one hand it's the middle ground between the extremes of asceticism and self-indulgence, on the other it's an Inferno-like overview of middle age.Against the background of daily life in San Francisco, Centolella examines the complications of love in its various in...
|  | From Haiku to Haikuru Volume 1 (1)
Publication Date: 2009This is a forty-five page book of over One Hundred Haikus intermixed with Sonnets, Free Verse, and metered poetry. Cutting edge Including Nature's Fury, Earth on the Edge and Modern times over thirty photos. ...
|  | Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 041550970X | ISBN-13: 978-0415509701| Edition: 1 This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-wor...
|  | A Dictionary of Narratology (Revised Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0803287763 | ISBN-13: 978-0803287761| Edition: Revised History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies. Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable ...
|  | American Literature (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys)
Publication Date: May 1, 1992| Series: Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys Key topics start with colonial writers and cover three centuries of American prose and poetry, including present-day trends and influences. Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks. ...
|  | La Teoria Literaria Contemporanea (Spanish Edition)
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