 | America's Dream
Release Date: April 25, 1997América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparati...
 |  | The Honey Thief
Publication Date: September 28, 2000Elizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as "exceptional" (The New York Times Book Review), "a pleasure" (The New Yorker), and "exquisitely poignant and sensual" (The Boston Globe). Now, in her second novel, she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught shoplifting (for the fourth time), her mother, Miriam, decides the only solution is to move out of the city to a quiet town in upstate New York. There, she hopes, they can have the normal life she longs for. But Miriam...
|  | Face to Face
Publication Date: December 2002A mother's search for an estranged daughter who has disappeared and a sheriff's detective's inability to crack a murder case converge in a fascinating twist. ...
|  | A Country Such as This
Publication Date: March 2001| Series: Bluejacket Books The innocence the 1950s and turbulence of the 1960s and 70s--years when America reached out and touched the heavens, only to be torn apart by internal conflict and a war in Southeast Asia--provide a dramatic setting for this unforgettable story of three men and the women they love carving a place for themselves in a society where the rules keep changing. Written by bestselling novelist James Webb, it has been hailed as a major work of our time and a stunning commentary of political and social life in America over nearly three decades. Fr...
|  | Fantasy Game
Publication Date: June 2004Derrick Lawson, an aging Minor League pitcher with diminishing skills and desire, has decided that this will be the last game of his career.His son, Bud, who still dreams about baseball, about being a Major Leaguer when he grows up, is saddened by his father¡¦s decision.But something far worse is troubling him: his grandfather, his best friend, is in the hospital"odying from cancer.Being still a young boy, with a young boy¡¦s sense of wonder and magic, Bud Lawson thinks that he can do something about that, and he sets off on a journey to find an...
|  | TheShorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Publication Date: December 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0231119992 | ISBN-13: 978-0231119993 0 With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version ofThe Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popul...
|  | Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Release Date: October 11, 2011Imagine an altrnate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established them...
|  | A Child's Book of Animal Poems and Blessings
Publication Date: June 23, 2010These poems, prayers and blessings about our animal brethren are drawn from around the world and throughout history. Speaks to a child's sense of connection with the animal kingdom. By turns amusing and reverential, Blanchard weaves together a collection that inspires gratitude and joy for a world rich in diversity and wonder. Sources include the Bible, African and Native American cultures, Lewis Carroll, William Wordsworth and Christina Rosetti. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | In My Skin
Publication Date: May 1, 2000This is a book of poetry about being Jewish, and living in Israel. ...
| ![Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (Hispanic Civil Rights)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZMXY0S14L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (Hispanic Civil Rights)") | Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (Hispanic Civil Rights)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Hispanic Civil Rights One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking direct political action but also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays, and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama that could be communicated easily through the barrios of Aztlán, populated by Chicanos in the United States.Gonzales is the author of I Am Joaquín, an epic poem of the Chicano mov...
|  | Catullan Revolution
Publication Date: February 1969Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be a critic; equally it can show the critically trained student the importance of a sound philogical base today --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | Cherry-Blossoms; Japanese Haiku, Series III
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|  | Erotiku: An SM Journey Part One
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|  | Creative Oxford: Its Influence In Victorian Literature
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|  | Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Release Date: May 1, 1992Containing 74 essays written over the last ten years, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. ...
|  | Storm Kissed: A Novel of the Nightkeepers (FINAL PROPHECY)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: FINAL PROPHECY When sexy Nightkeeper Dez goes rogue, the bounty hunter enlisted to catch him is Reese, his former lover. The sexual energy between them is hotter than ever-but the life-and-death stakes attached to the chase may pull them apart for good. ...
|  | Wayward Lady (Love Spell)
Publication Date: February 1999| Series: Love Spell When Suzette Foxworth's fiance is murdered by bloodthirsty Indians, her hope for the future dies. She makes a secure but loveless marriage, then is taken prisoner by a feared Indian bandit. After a time, they fall in love, setting them on a collision course with the jilted husband. ...
|  | Poltergeists of Petoskey (Michigan Chillers)
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|  | Mother Holly
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up Two sisters--kind, industrious Rose and vain, lazy Blanche--experience two very different adventures when each tumbles down a well and into the magical world of Mother Holly. Rose's journey begins accidentally, but because of her generosity to all she meets along the way, and her hard work for ugly but kind Mother Holly, she returns home in a shimmering gown covered in gold. Envious of Rose's good fortune, Blanche decides to visit Mother Holly herself, but her pride, laziness, and foul temper earn her an apt and well-deserved punishment. ...
|  | Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
Release Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up Alexander is not going to leave his best friend Paul. Or Rachel, the best babysitter in the world. Or the Baldwins, who have a terrific dog named Swoozie. Or Mr. and Mrs. Oberdorfer, who always give great treats on Halloween. Who cares if his father has a new job a thousand miles away? Alexander is not -- Do you hear him? He Means it! -- going to move. Alexander's back, facing another of childhood's trials and tribulations with Judith Viorst's trademark humor and keen sense of what's important to kids. ...
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