 | The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories Publication Date: September 17, 2007Twelve linked, wryly humorous storiesabout anunforgettable castof Russian-Jewish immigrantstrying to assimilate in a new world.Masha is just out of high school when her familyarrives in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh. Withtouching lightheartedness and tremendous humor,these stories trace her struggles and those ofother Russians in the community to find theirown place in the new society—seniors alienatedfrom their children, spouses trying to holdtheir families together while grappling withunemployment and depression, young adultssearching for love. In "Da...
 |  | Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World Publication Date: October 15, 2000Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own?In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.The poets - fourteen men and one wom...
 |  | Hundred Secret Senses 1ST Edition Publication Date: 1995book a collectible in fine condition, like new. ...
 |  | El tiempo entre costuras: Una novela (Bestseller Internacional) (Spanish Edition) Release Date: November 8, 2011| Series: Bestseller Internacional La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona el Madrid agitado de los meses previos al alzamiento arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Con él se instala en Tánger, una ciudad exótica y vibrante donde todo puede suceder. Incluso la traición. Sola, desubicada y cargada de deudas ajenas, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, capital del Protectorado Español en Marruecos. Gracias a la ayuda de nuevas amistades forjará una nueva identidad y logrará poner en marcha un taller d...
 |  | The Black Rood (The Celtic Crusades #2) Release Date: May 29, 2001The Celtic Crusades is an epic trilogy of a Scottish noble family fighting for its existence and its faith during the age of the Crusades. The series traces five generations of knights and noblemen over a span of almost 500 hundred years, during the crucial period when military and sacred history melded. Set against a backdrop of the declining Holy Roman Empire and its ruinous wars with the Saracen East, this series is full of exciting drama. Each of the three books centers on one of three periods of Crusades history as well as one significant relic: The Iron Lance ...
 |  | Different Blood: The Vampire As Alien Publication Date: June 2001Different blood flows in their veins-but our blood quenches their thirst.From Bram Stoker´s 1897 creation of Count Dracula, portrayed as a foreign invader bent on the conquest of England, the literary vampire has symbolized the Other, whether his or her otherness arises from racial, ethnic, sexual, or species difference.Even before the bloodsucking Martians of H. G. Wells´ War of the Worlds, however, popular fiction contained a few vampires who were members of alien species rather than supernatural undead.Guy de Maupassant´s Horla is only one of the ...
 |  | Sea Gypsy Journal - Classics Publication Date: January 10, 2011Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Sea Gypsy Journal. Part book, part magazine and part literary journal it is a unique collection of premium sea storiesexploring a central theme. In this, our first issue, we have collected some of our favorite sea stories from yarn spinners of old. Here you will find Masefield, Marryat, Crane, Conrad and Cooper relating tales of tall ship capers and steam ship miracles. But the Journal is intended to be more than a collection of classic sea stories. We want to collect new, modern stories as well. So - if you can write a ...
 |  | All's Well that Ends Well (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) Publication Date: January 31, 1986| Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare An international team of scholars offers: • modernised, easily accessible texts • ample but unobtrusive academic guidance • attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history • informative illustrations, including reconstructions of early performances This play has attracted unprecedented interest in recent times. Professor Fraser takes account of its history, in which neglect and unpopularity have been important features, and discusses such reactions and the reasons for th...
 |  | Imagining Argentina Release Date: November 1, 1991Imagining Argentina is set in thedark days of the late 1970's, when thousands ofArgentineans disappeared without a trace into thegeneral's prison cells and torture chambers. WhenCarlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, hediscovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he hadclear visions of the fates of "thedisappeared." But he cannot "imagine" whathas happened to his own wife. Driven to nearmadness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, andthe mystical secrets of the humanspirit. ...
 |  | Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books Translation Series) (English and Arabic Edition) Publication Date: December 13, 2011| Series: Alice James Books Translation Series "Through these poems, Amal al-Jubouri connects us to the earliest known poems, and yet the dialectic tension between them is utterly contemporary. Al-Jubouri writes 'This is my protest, this is my folly,' yet these poems are neither simple protest nor in any sense folly. These poems are both essential and eternal."—Nick FlynnThis translation of Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America's occupation of Iraq through the Qur'an's story of Hagar. Complementary pairs of poems portray life before and a...
 |  | Of Loving and Sensualities Publication Date: September 1, 2010This is a book that celebrates the many dimensions of love, evoking a sense of the spiritual from the physical, the universal from moments of intimacy.The interplay between the poet's accessible words and the artist's erotic images is tantalising, even titillating, giving rise to a fusion between what is real and what can be imagined. ...
 |  | Carrying Over Publication Date: October 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 1556590164 | ISBN-13: 978-1556590160| Edition: First Edition poetry from various countries, tr Kizer...
 |  | Qi shi guai zhuan 100 (Long xiang wen xue cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition) ...
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 |  | Coherence Theory: The Case of Russian (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) ...
 |  | Student's Book of College English: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide and Handbook with NEW MyCompLab with eText -- Access Card Package (13th Edition) Publication Date: May 4, 2012| ISBN-10: 0321845927 | ISBN-13: 978-0321845924| Edition: 13 This classic rhetoric/ reader/ research guide/ handbook offers the reader a complete course in writing in the rhetorical modes in one comprehensive volume. Includes critical reading/writing; research, readings that serve as models for good writing. ...
 |  | Snowy Night with a Stranger Publication Date: October 26, 2010Warm up on a winter’s night with three passionate love stories from three shining New York Times bestselling authors! Jane Feather leads an unwitting Yuletide traveler down a twisting path. . . . Edward Vasey, Viscount Allenton, is journeying precariously through a snowstorm when his coach is overtaken by highwaymen! Robbed of his money, Ned takes refuge at Selby Hall, where a spirited beauty with a shocking secret may steal something more—his heart. Sabrina Jeffries unlocks the heart of an embittered lord. . . . When a coach accident strands hei...
 |  | Desirea's Escape Publication Date: August 12, 2012A Frightening Stalker... Desirea Leighton, a Hollywood starlit with a quick temper, arrives in London for a photo shoot, only to find herself hiding with a woman in a closet.But this closet holds a tunnel, and the tunnel is really a wormhole that leads to nineteenth-century England, where they meet three very angry Regency lords with trust issues. A Desperate Escape... Panicked, Desirea flees the Regency lords and she hides in an alley, shaking with fear and confusion as night descends.The handsome victor of a nearby brawl proves to be Desirea's hero. The Duk...
 |  | Miscarriage of Justice: A Novel Publication Date: May 4, 2009Based on actual events, Anna Dotson is a passionate modern woman of the 1900swho finds herself stifled by the lingering outdated rules of Victorian society. When her every attempt to rekindle romance and affection with her husband--a prominent local doctor--fails, she finds herself turning to the friendship of Charlie Cobb, a new man in town. But as their relationship becomes more intimate, smalltown tongues start wagging, and their starcrossed affair leads to a shocking public murder. (2008) ...
 |  | To Catch a Leaf: A Flower Shop Mystery Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Flower Shop Mystery (Book 12) Flower shop owner Abby Knight is aglow with happiness now that she'sofficially engaged to her longtime beau, Marco Salvare. Nothing canpossibly dampen her joy-until wealthy dowager Virginia Newport iskilled, and Abby's assistant Grace Bingham is the prime suspect. Theplot thickens when they stumble upon mysterious stolen art and amissing cat, all part of an elaborate heist. Before Abby can throw herbouquet, she'll have to save her friend and throw a killer and a thiefin jail... ...
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