 | A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida
Publication Date: October 1, 1996A Century of Cuban Writers Explores the intricateconnection that has existed between Florida and Cuba for centuries bycollecting the works of thirty-three Cuban writers who lived or livetoday in Florida. ...
 |  | Sex, Lies, and Child Support: The Unholy Trinity
Release Date: May 1, 2012In the often volatile world of relationships, three Atlanta individuals discover that crossing the thin line that separates love from hate can lead to explosive consequences. Mikaela Carter has a well-earned reputation as a woman to be feared in Atlanta's legal circles. A hot-shot attorney by day, the beautiful Miss Carter is nonetheless a sexually frustrated single woman by night. Just as all seems lost her love life receives an unexpected jolt. A deadly incident brings that to an abrupt end, though, leaving her as the central figure in that tragedy. To outside ob...
|  | The Little One (Quick Reads)
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|  | The Turn of the Screw
Publication Date: October 6, 2008This Coffeetown Press edition of Henry James's most famous, most widely read, and most frequently taught story presents the text as it appeared in 1908, with the author's final revisions. The Turn of the Screw, first published in serial format in 1898, is the chilling tale of a young woman who accepts a job as governess-that is, as teacher-of two lovely young children who seem to be haunted by the spirits of a former governess and her lover, both now dead. David Gorman's introduction is designed to help first-time readers of the tale by providing a brief hist...
|  | House of Windows
Publication Date: August 10, 2010When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son. But the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on a battlefield on the other side of the world, and of phantasmal visions, a family curse, and a house - the Belvedere House, a striking mansion whose features suggest a face hidden just out of view - draws him in, capturing him. What follows is a deeply psycholo...
|  | Deep Space Nine Companion (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
Publication Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Unnumbered Paperback) Erdmann was given unprecedented access to every aspect of the production of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in order to compile this book which is considered, by some, the ultimate guide to Star Trek's grittiest and most complex series. Insight into the making of Deep Space Nine is provided by the set designers, cast and crew, and the writers and producers. Characters over the series have grown and developed, matured and met several challenges, learnt to cope with disaster and joy, defeat and victory. Each o...
|  | Magic Fingers
Publication Date: August 8, 2011An Avondale Story David Majors should be looking forward to a long and prosperous life: after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's attending college courtesy of Uncle Sam and riding the fast track to success. He's tall, fit, and good-looking, so shouldn't the world be his oyster? But underneath his clothes-and beneath the surface-David is a mess of scar tissue and insecurity.Then he meets Kevin Boxer, another former Army Ranger. Their first night together, Kevin stares David's scars in the face and doesn't flinch, instead showering David with the passion and at...
|  | The Templars: Selected Sources
Publication Date: October 11, 2002| Series: Manchester Medieval Sources The Templars were members of a medieval monastic order, later accused of denying Christ and other heresies. The Order was subject to a torturous inquisition period during the 14th century and ultimately dissolved. This is a unique collection of translated sources, which in addition to documenting the origins of the Order and the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution, examines the many and varied facets of its activities during the 12th and 13th centuries. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the medi...
|  | Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America
Publication Date: October 17, 2002An excellent resource, Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology introduces readers to the mythology of Mexico and Central America. Its chief focus is on Mexican Highland and Maya areas, as they were, and are, of utmost importance to Mesoamerican history. An extensive and edifying introduction defines the nature of myth, the Mesoamericans as a people, and the cultural worldview that informed Mesoamerican mythology. The Handbook presents historical and mythological timelines, with each time period and cultural group fully defined. Also featured is a quick geographic...
|  | Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Shahnameh (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)
Release Date: November 22, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230113451 | ISBN-13: 978-0230113459| Edition: 1 Iran’s national epic, the Shahnameh, is Persian culture’s central text and is deeply connected to Iranians’ sense of self. This book considers Western interpretations of the poem and argues that those interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but reveal more about Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they do about the poem. Ultimately, Mahmoud Omidsalar reaches a radically different understanding of the history of the Shahnameh. ...
|  | An Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Val
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|  | Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: March 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0313323747 | ISBN-13: 978-0313323744Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. TShort story theory began with Edgar Allan Poe's review o...
|  | Kerouac: Visions of Rocky Mount
Publication Date: July 1, 1991Kerouac: Visions of Rocky Mount...describes Kerouac's life and times in Rocky Mount, Big Easonburg Woods, North Carolina.The book is full of black and white photographs of scenes right out of The Dharma Bums and other books that Kerouac published in his lifetime.Also photographs of the house that Neal Cassady pulled up to with the new muddy Hudson... Christmas 1948.This is described in On the Road, but Kerouac called the town Testament, VA.Also the cottage Kerouac wrote Visions of Gerard is covered in the book. ...
|  | Melancholy Baby (Sunny Randall)
Release Date: October 4, 2005| Series: Sunny Randall When Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past....
|  | Death Watch (Detective Shaw Mysteries)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| Series: Detective Shaw Mysteries “Ever since the days of Agatha Christie, the great divide in the British detective story has been between plot and character…The novels of Jim Kelly are. . . a find.” —The New York Times Book Review Rookie detective Peter Shaw teams up with his father’s tough expartner to investigate both a gruesome series of present-day murders and some unfinished business from the past. ...
|  | This Angel Doesn't Like Chocolate
Publication Date: November 29, 2005The MAC detective boys are back to investigate the death of a man in a vat of chocolate.The police rule it an accident, but soon the MAC Dectective agency is drawn into a wild investigation of Death By Chocolate. Second in the series-preceded by This Angel Has No Wings. ...
|  | Countdown to the Year 1000 (Dragon Slayers' Academy)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works
Publication Date: December 30, 2006Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an eclectic mix of poets and their styles, from the modern songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Tupac Shakur, to the nineteen sixties icons Jack Kerouac and Sylvia Plath, to such traditional poets as Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake.Poets from all multicultural backgrounds are included, many of whom wrote about the immigrationand/or protest experiences, from Colonial th...
|  | Texas Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)
Release Date: August 31, 1981| Grade Level: K and up With a team of Longhorns, Santa arrives at a sod shanty and drops down the chimney to fill the youngíunsí boots with toys. ...
|  | High Before Homeroom
Release Date: June 22, 2010Losers, now you can get the bad-boy rep the girls find positively irresistible! Unleash your dark side with the Doug Schaffer plan for drug addiction and rehabilitation! (Kids, don't try this at home.) At sixteen years old, Doug Schaffer knows two things for sure: 1. He is doomed to live in the shadow of his older brother, Trevor, a former high school football star who is stationed in Iraq. 2. Free-spirited Laurilee, the hot ear-piercing girl at the mall, only dates bad boys. Cue Doug's foolproof plan to tarnish his own unremarkable repu...
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