 | Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature
Release Date: May 12, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403969450 | ISBN-13: 978-1403969453| Edition: First Edition This study outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature; the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature. ...
 |  | Latino and Latina Writers (Scribner Writers Series)
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|  | Concord Cunningham the Scripture Sleuth (Concord Cunningham Mysteries)
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|  | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Creatures of Narnia
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Florida
Publication Date: November 1, 2005In this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called "an amazing achievement" and Mary Gordon dubbed "a wholly original endeavor," Christine Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory, the mystery of the mad and missing, and the power of words.Set in the Midwest, where Florida represents a faraway paradise, this novel tells the story of Alice Fivey. Fatherless since she was seven, Alice is left in the care of her relatives at the age of ten, when her mother, whose "toenails winked in the foil bed we knew for Florida," is institutionalized. Alice is m...
|  | Legal Larceny
Publication Date: January 22, 2007What would happen if doctors across the United States, tired of endless litigation and skyrocketing malpractice costs, decided to simply quit?When Senator Cynthia “Maddi” Madison from Washington, D.C., elects to take on the Trial Lawyers Association, she pits herself against a very formidable—and dangerous—enemy. Maddi soon realizes that her life could be in jeopardy, especially since she and her newfound allies will ultimately wind up as participants in the very court system that they are trying to reform. Can Maddi succeed in her endeav...
|  | Stoning Mary
Publication Date: September 1, 2005Mysterious while compelling, bewildering while intoxicating, Stoning Mary is a mix of Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, and Edward Bond. Yet Debbie Tucker Green has a voice all her own, one that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. In 2004, she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer. ...
|  | La Dorotea (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2002La Dorotea, publicada en 1632, es una narracion en prosa enteramente dialogada[1] de Lope de Vega (1562-1635). El critico Jose Manuel Blecua la valoro como una de las grandes creaciones de la prosa espanola. La historia se centra en las relaciones de Dorotea, una mujer casada con un hombre que esta en Lima, con dos jovenes: por un lado, Fernando, un poeta, y, por otro, don Bela, un indiano. En principio, Fernando y Dorotea mantienen una relacion amorosa, pero el deseo de la madre de esta de un mejor partido para su hija, hace que busque a don Bela y que, con la...
|  | The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Release Date: August 8, 2006Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades.Vividly featuring scenes of bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, frustrated lovers, acutely obcerved children, and even vengeful ghosts, these stories reinforce Bowen's reputation as an artist whose finely chiseled narratives̵...
|  | Virgil's Augustan Epic
Publication Date: April 28, 1989| ISBN-10: 0521353580 | ISBN-13: 978-0521353588An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemp...
|  | Summer Cicadas
Publication Date: July 5, 2006Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and love. "Summer Cicadas is an extraordinary poetic reflection on place and displacement, on memory's gains and its losses, that marks the emergence of a striking new voic...
|  | Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment
Publication Date: December 1, 2008<DIV>This book offers creative strategies, tips, and activities to help young people discover - or rediscover - the joy and empowerment of reading.</DIV> ...
|  | Screaming in the Silence
Publication Date: October 27, 2010Running away from a complicated life, Raleigh finds herself plunged into a nightmare. While hitchhiking across the country, she and her companion are struck by a car. Her friend is killed but Raleigh survives and her life is thrown into the hands of the three men involved in the accident. Bruised and in shock, Raleigh is locked in the basement of their remote country house, unsure of her fate. Kaden, one of her captors, is handsome and at times protective, and he convinces his friends to spare Raleigh’s life to ransom her. But the safety he provides i...
|  | Forbidden Magic (Magic Series, Book 1)
Release Date: November 29, 2005Cheyenne McCray's paranormal romances seduce with an award-winning combination of heat and fantasy. Now, she weaves the first tale in an enthralling new series sizzling with dark magic and dangerous desires. Prepare to be spellbound by Forbidden Magic...D'Anu witch Silver Ashcroft knows she walks a perilous line by practicing gray magic. But it's the only way to protect herself from the evil that surrounds her. After the horrors she has witnessed, Silver thinks she is ready for anything...until the most intensely arousing being she has ever encountered swiftly-...
|  | The Savior Vaccine: The Health Club Mysteries Trilogy (Volume 2)
Publication Date: August 18, 2012| Series: Health Club Mysteries Trilogy After rescuing President Jane Williams from an assassination attempt within the White House, U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jonathan Rogers, wakes up in the lethal cross hairs of a rogue terrorist cell on the verge of annihilating tens of millions of citizens.Inching ever closer toward lighting the fuse that will trigger a world holocaust, the President charges Rogers with ensuring the safety of a newly discovered vaccine touted to spare American lives.Secretly informed that the scientist who invented the savior vaccine may ...
|  | The Conspiracy (Animorphs, No. 31)
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of the Dead - Book #2
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Ghost Catcher
Publication Date: December 19, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In this Bengali folktale, a barber uses his wits and his trusty mirror to outsmart some scary, but unintelligent ghosts. ...
|  | Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (World's Classics)
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|  | Great Spirit Horse
Publication Date: January 2003Follow the Great Spirit Horse on his journey across theGreat Plains. Enjoy his adventures and watch him receive magical giftsfrom the other creatures. His story has been told for manygenerations. This richly-woven legendary tale is now in print to beenjoyed by everyone. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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