 | Maya Lin (Asian Americans of Achievement)
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 |  | Interpreter of Maladies
Publication Date: June 1, 1999Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insig...
|  | The Rope (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Anna Pigeon Mysteries The RopeNevada Barr It’s 1995. Fresh off the bus from New York City, a broken-hearted 35-year-old named Anna Pigeon takes her first job as a park employee: a decidedly unglamorous, seasonal stint at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, she goes hiking alone in the park—never to return. Her co-workers assume she’s moved on since her cabin is cleaned out. But when Anna wakes up—trapped at the bottom of a well, naked, with no supplies and no memory of how she got there—she must...
|  | The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel
Release Date: March 13, 2012Cherry Truong’s parents have exiled her wayward older brother from their Southern California home, sending him to Vietnam to live with distant relatives. Determined to bring him back, twenty-one-year-old Cherry travels to their homeland and finds herself on a journey to uncover her family’s decades-old secrets—hidden loves, desperate choices, and lives ripped apart by the march of war and currents of history. The Reeducation of Cherry Truong tells the story of two fierce and unforgettable families, the Truongs and the Vos: their harrowing e...
|  | Connecting
Release Date: March 1, 2005In Departures, Adrienne Bellamy introduced a cast of unique, strong women living in a Philadelphia neighborhood, whose colorful lives intersected with a bang, causing great drama and family struggles. In the tradition of The Women of Brewster Place, the women of Departures reunite-and a whole new crew is added to the mix...Sheila has finally gotten her nursing degree. Emily and Jared are back together-for now. And seventeen-year-old Amber is on the verge of womanhood, looking forward to the future. There are plenty of reasons for the women of this Philly neighbor...
|  | The Graveyard Book
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will...
|  | Clive Barker's Books of Blood
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|  | Three Day Road
Release Date: April 25, 2006Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niska—a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners—and her nephew Xavier. At the urging of his friend Elijah, a Cree boy raised in reserve schools, Xavier joins the war effort. Shipped off to Europe when they are nineteen, the boys are marginalized from the Canadian soldiers not only by their native appearance but also by the fine marksmanship that years of hunting in the bush has ta...
|  | The Two Krishnas
Publication Date: November 15, 2011In the tradition of A Fine Balance and The Namesake, The Two Krishnas is a sensual and searing look at infidelity and the nature of desire and faith. At the center of the novel is Pooja Kapoor, a betrayed wife and mother who is forced to question her faith and marriage when she discovers her banker husband, Rahul, has fallen in love with a young, male Muslim illegal immigrant who happens to be their son's age. Faced with the potential of losing faith in Rahul, divine intervention, and family, she is forced to confront painful truths about the past and the d...
|  | En Suelo Firme = A Place to Stand (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2002The power of the written word is revealed in this wrenching memoir of the author’s troubled youth and the five-year jail sentence that turned him around. Having been raised without a strong role model, in and out of trouble, he transforms his life and wants "to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless, of which I am one." Jimmy Santiago Baca.Description in spanish: Jimmy Santiago Baca escribe su autobiografía, en la que narra el proceso que le ha llevado a convertirse en uno de los más aclamados poetas norteamericanos. Pero su forma...
|  | The Eagle and the Wolves
Release Date: November 28, 2006The most dangerous mission of their military careers awaits two heroes of the Roman army in Britain. In the epic fourth novel of Simon Scarrow's series, it's ad 44 and Vespasian and the Roman Army's Second Legion are forging ahead in their campaign to seize the southwest. Centurion Macro and newly appointed Centurion Cato are ordered by Vespasian to provide Verica, aged ruler of the Atrebates, with an army. They must train his tribal levies into a force that can protect him, enforce his rule, and take on the increasingly ambitious raids that the enemy is ...
|  | A Timeless Collection Of Poems To Inspire and Encourage
Publication Date: June 18, 2012This poem book is dedicated to my many friends and family who have encouraged me during my hardships and trials. I hope you are encouraged by reading these poems and may at least one speak to your heart and point you to God. Some of these poems were written at the most critical points of my life and even have spoken to me while writing them. I know they were penned by me but most of them were inspired by the Holy Spirit. May God richly bless you. ...
|  | The Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre Imprint Series)
Publication Date: August 2002| Series: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre Imprint Series Stanley Burnshaw began to publish poems in the 1920s and founded his own verse journal in 1925. After serving as co-editor and drama critic of the New Masses weekly (1934-1936), he entered book publishing, directing the Dryden Press until 1958, when he joined Henry Holt. The first of his nineteen earlier works, Andre Spire and His Poetry, appeared in 1934 and the last in 1990, A Stanley Burnshaw Reader, with an introduction by Denis Donoghue. The present volume-the definitive Burnshaw collection-off...
|  | Moonsongs (Saros Star Series)
Publication Date: September 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 9782460176 | ISBN-13: 978-9782460172Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1991. Moonsongs won Honourable Mention in the 1989 Noma Award. The main body of the poems is given harmony by being centred on the image of the moon. Thirty-six poems explore original themes and imagery, enhanced by the rhythms of the language. ...
| | Shan shui yu gu dian (San min cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Le Chevalier Au Lion (Ldp Let.Gothiq.) (French Edition)
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Series: Ldp Let.Gothiq. Appelé à combattre aux côtés du roi Arthur, Yvain le chevalier fait à son épouse Laudine le serment de revenir au bout d'un an. Mais il manque à sa promesse et perd son amour. Fou de douleur, il erre inlassablement et, en chemin, sauve de la mort un lion qui devient son fidèle ami. Cependant, loin d'avoir oublié celle qu'il aime, il va tout tenter pour la retrouver et reconquérir son cœur. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Plato: Charmides, Alcibiades 1 & 2, Hipparchus, The Lovers, Theages, Minos, Epinomis. (Loeb Classical Library No. 201)
Publication Date: January 1, 1927| ISBN-10: 0674992210 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992214| Edition: Revised Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including t...
|  | At Low Tide
Publication Date: September 6, 2012Ryan Westin and Nicolette Carson are two strangers who are going through the most difficult times of their lives. Ryan's future is in serious jeopardy and Nicolette can't escape the nightmares of her past. When they accidentally meet they seem to be each others saving grace. However, in this mysterious and suspenseful romance, Nicolette's past and Ryan's future could become a disastrous and dangerous combination. ...
|  | Secondhand Bride (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy #3)
Release Date: November 30, 2004Dear Reader:Willow is a novel from early in my career, and it was originally shorter than many of my other historical romances. Now, I’m delighted to be able to share this brand-new edition with you. I’ve taken the opportunity to expand Willow to include the subplots, love scenes, and deeper characterization that are possible with a longer book. I hope you enjoy reading this retelling as much as I have enjoyed visiting these characters and this story once again.In 1883, the railroad had only recently come to Montana Territory, and outlaws still lurk...
|  | The Visions of Ransom Lake
Publication Date: July 2, 2007Youthful beauty, naïve innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure-an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience-in the form of a man.A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in the mountains, wholly disinterested in people and their trivial affairs. And somehow, young Vaden managed to be ever in his way-either by accident or because of her own unique ability to stumble into a quandary.Yet the enigmatic Ransom Lake would involuntarily become V...
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