 | Kenyatta's Escape
Release Date: September 1, 2000Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta's Escape, Gionse continues his story of the bloody, brutal world of crime he began in Crime Pathners and Death List. They're all back for a coast to coast chase that spells gripping adventure. ...
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 | Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Release Date: March 2, 2000Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of English at Hiram College, Ohio." ...
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 | BOX SET "PLAYBOY ANTHOLOGIES": The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy / Crime and Suspense / Horror and the Supernatural / Humor and Satire
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 | The Yellow Jersey
Publication Date: January 1, 1999The greatest cycling novel ever written. . . . An underground classic. . . . A bicycling book that follows a different course—one with characters you can relate to, whose actions raise questions about life on and off the bicycle. . . . The heart of The Yellow Jersey is the Tour de France itself, which serves as a metaphor for life.—Bicycling Magazine"This is sports fiction at its very best. Mr. Hurne has a cool, downbeat style descended from Lardner and Hemingway, and a fine hand with the hairpins turns of suspense."—The New York Times Bo...
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 | Brotherhood of the Pigskin: A Fantasy Football Novel
Publication Date: November 11, 2008Every year, "Buckeye Bob" DiGiorgio ponders how to pick the best fantasy football team, on a mission to win the coveted trophy in the Bernard I. Gregory Fantasy Football League. But endless reading, hours of deep thought, and even computer models never seem to pay off.Until one year, when he vows to win it all with a new strategy. Buckeye Bob's buddies, a colorful cast of characters including Ladies' Man, the Commish, Exacta, and Slowhand, watch in disbelief as their friend puts together an unthinkable lineup of rundown veterans led by an unproven rookie qu...
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| An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia)
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 | Olympos
Publication Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Olympos @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } From on high, the gods make sport of the mortals who toil below them. None know the cruelty of these beings better than Ganymede, a beautiful prince who was torn away from his family by the gods' divine hands. Granted immortality, Ganymede now whiles away his days in an inescapable miniature garden for the amusement of the gods, particularly Apollo. But the...
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 | Bacchae
Publication Date: September 1998| ISBN-10: 087220393X | ISBN-13: 978-0872203938This translation is intended primarily for classroom use. It is aimed first of all at being clear and true to the basic meaning of the text. After that Paul Woodruff has tried to bring across some of the beauty of poetry given the chorus as well as the rhetorical power and cleverness of the dialogue and speeches. The translation of this play through manuscript is unusually troublesome; many lines seem to have fallen out during copying and storage over the centuries and many errors have been introduced Although...
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 | Rumi: Versos desde el corazon
Publication Date: September 1, 2006Spiritual and possessing a devout wisdom, this masterpiece of poetry of the Persian Sufi tradition addresses some of the most fundamental human preoccupations—including the relationship between earthly and divine love—and argues that not only is God the beloved of humankind, but that humankind is God's beloved. Espiritual y poseyendo una sabiduría devota, esta obra maestra de la poesía de la tradición sufi persiana, abarca algunas de las preocupaciones humanas más fundamentales—incluyendo la relación entre el ...
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 | The Lady of the Lake
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 094887791X | ISBN-13: 978-0948877919This 200th anniversary edition of Sir Walter Scott's bestselling epic narrative poem is enriched with newly commissioned illustrations from a leading Scottish artist as well as an introduction and substantial notes by a leading scholar of Scottish literature. This is the only modern edition available of Sir Walter Scott’s hugely influential poem. ...
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 | Disability Discourse (Disability, Human Rights, and Society)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0335202233 | ISBN-13: 978-0335202232| Edition: First Edition Drawing upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography and contextual studies, this text seeks to emphasize the multi-dimensional and multi-functional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability and to locate disability more firmly within contemporary mainstream social and cultural theory. It considers such questions as: why has "the discursive turn" been sidelined in th...
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 | Delmira Agostini y el Modernismo. Nuevas propuestas de g
Publication Date: November 20, 2000| Series: Br Delmira Agustini, irreverente y visionaria, articula su voz y su sexo entre los pliegues del conflicto de la modernidad. Permite y al mismo tiempo continua la articulacion de otras voces de mujer que evidencian una larga tradicion literaria sistematicamente desestimada por el canon.El presente volumen pretende cuestionar ese canon, replantearlo para dar lugar al vasto aporte de la escritura de mujer en la historia de la cultura y el modernismo. Los diversos planteos de genero abordados en este libro se presentan, por lo tanto, como premisas de ...
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 | Le Pere Goriot(French Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999" Un brave homme - pension bourgeoise, 600 francs de rente - s'étant dépouillé pour ses filles qui toutes deux ont 50 000 livres de rente, mourant comme un chien " : telle est l'indication que l'on peut lire dans l'album de Balzac qui contient le germe du Père Goriot.Mais ce roman est bien autre chose que le récit d'une agonie. C'est l'" éducation sentimentale " de Rastignac, jeune provincial monté à Paris, son apprentissage de la vie, de la société et des hommes. C'est aussi le portrait d'une ville livrée au...
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 | Tinieblas (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: August 16, 2011| Series: Vintage Espanol (Book 3) Ella siempre creyó que él era su destino pero a veces el destino tiene otros planesEver y Damen han viajado a través de incontables vidas pasadas y luchado contra los más temibles enemigos sólo para poder al fin estar juntos. Pero el amor eterno tiene un alto precio: Roman les ha lanzado una poderosa maldición para que no puedan tocarse. Y, con una simple caricia o un suave roce de labios, Damen podría hundirse en el inhóspito abismo de las almas perdidas. Desesperada por salvar Damen, Eve...
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 | Dead Even
Release Date: October 26, 2010 Lawyer Sara Tate is in danger of losing her new job with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office if she doesn't get noticed fast. Smart and tough—a fighter who makes things happen—she grabs a high-profile burglary case that could make her career. There are two problems: Sara's husband, Jared, is the attorney for the defense . . . and she's been warned that if she does not get a conviction, Jared will be killed. What she doesn't know is that her husband has received a similar threat. Unless his client walks, Sara's life is over. Unaware of the stake...
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 | After the Banquet
Release Date: February 22, 1999For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thi...
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 | Scottie Pippen: Reach Higher
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up Scottie Pippen shares his experiences in life with young readers and encourages them to reach for high goals no matter their background or obstacles they face. ...
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 | One Rubber Duckie (Sesame Street)
Release Date: July 12, 1982| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | Tomas Y La Burbuja De Luz/ Thomas And the Light Bubble: Un Cuento Sobre Thomas Edison (Pequenos Grandes Genios) (Spanish Edition)
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 | The Executioner's Daughter
Release Date: June 12, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in lifeBorn into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany her father at the town executions, something she has never done before. Th...
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