 | Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Release Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0814731473 | ISBN-13: 978-0814731475Since the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. forming one of the nation's most significant "minority" communities. Yet no complete study of mainland Puerto Rican—or Boricua—literature has been written. Until now. Boricua Literature is the first literary history of the Puerto Rican colonial diaspora. The result of...
 |  | Bachelor Unleashed (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: November 16, 2010| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 213) They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentive—and ravished her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn't expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn't looking for forever.But Xavier is.There's something about Farrah…something that touches him deep in his soul…something that keeps hi...
|  | The Men Who Sleep With My Husband
Publication Date: June 11, 2012THE BIBLE OR THE BULLET? Pastor Quincy Wallace is a man of the cloth and a man of many secrets. When his beautiful and successful wife, Lavender, discovers his affairs with different men, she takes matters into her own hands with the help of a mysterious contract killer named The Magician. Lavender plans to get rid of each of her husband's lovers and then frame her husband for the murders. Everything seems to be going smoothly until Lavender finds herself falling for sexy Detective Tai Exavier, the same person investigating the disturbing case of the missing me...
|  | Poetry and Commitment
Publication Date: April 17, 2007In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich.With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situation...
|  | Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 2001| Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series (Book 38) In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a soc...
|  | Always And Forever
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Singer/Song Writer Shannon "Shann" Delaney has struggled for years to make a life for herself and her ten year old son, Corey. Her career is just starting to take off when Shann’s older sister, Liz, asks for help. Shann has been estranged from her family for over ten years due to an argument with her father. Now Liz begs Shann to return and help look after him while he undergoes surgery. With reservations, Shann agrees to help, hoping she can mend the breach with her family and introduce Corey to his grandfather.Shanns reservations of returning home are ...
|  | Tales of the Callamo Mountains
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|  | Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories
Publication Date: July 22, 2004| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Ten original ghost stories by Paul Yee dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America, from poor villagers who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to new arrivals from Hong Kong. Told in the style of traditional Chinese folktales, they are illustrated with moody, abstract drawings by Harvey Chan.In the title story, two friends seek gold, but the precious metal brings riches to one man and a curse to the other. In "Seawall Sightings," young lovers kept apart by immigration laws have a trag...
|  | The Last Aloha
Publication Date: May 15, 20092010 BAIPA Award Winner: Best Historical Fiction.How did Hawaii become part of America? This story, inspired by true events suppressed for nearly 100 years, is the one James Michener never wrote. In 1886, Laura Jennings travels to Hawaii to live with missionary relatives. She imagines she'll live in a grass hut, ministering to savages. When she arrives in Honolulu, she's surprised to find her relatives are among the wealthy elite plotting to overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy. And, far from being savages, the Hawaiians have developed a charming and prosperous Victo...
|  | Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Release Date: April 6, 2010For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fas...
|  | Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Publication Date: February 3, 2003This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years. ...
|  | Pygmalion
Publication Date: March 26, 2009Pygamalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill - a young, poor, gentleman. ...
|  | Whose Antigone?: The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone. In this groundbreaking book, Tina Chanter challenges the philosophical and psychoanalytic reception of Sophocles’ Antigone, which has largely ignored the issue of slavery. Drawing on textual and contextual evidence, including historical sources, she argues that slavery is a structuring theme of the Oedipal cycle, but one that has been written out of the record. Chanter focuses in particular on two appropriations of Antigone: The Island, set in apartheid South Africa, and Tèg...
|  | Poes
Publication Date: May 4, 2006| Series: Letras Mexicanas Entre los poetas de México, Rosario Castellanos se singulariza por la propensión a descender al interior de su conciencia enbusca de emociones que, convertidas en canto o en elegía, suelen afloraren descarnados versos. En este volumen puede encontrarse, entre otrasobras, "La lamentación de Dido", que sobresale entre lo más fino ydepurado de su voz poética. ...
|  | Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums.
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|  | Tolkien and Modernity 1
Publication Date: September 29, 2006The current volume, being the first of two dedicated to 'Tolkien and Modernity', grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a 'contemporary writer', i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the challenges of the modern world. It comprises papers that focus on the following themes: Tolkien and the 20th century, feminist theory, time, creativity, and freedom. Although one could argue that most of these topics have been discussed since the beginning of literature, it is with the shaping events of the first half o...
|  | The Accidental Diva
Release Date: May 3, 2005Being a diva isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask Billie Burke. Brainy, beautiful, and at the top of her game, she's the beauty editor at the world's leading fashion magazine, where paying tribute to the perfect pink lip gloss is serious business. Trouble is, all this corporate climbing and party-hopping has left her with migraine headaches-and a long, lonely bout of celibacy. Enter Jay Lane-a gorgeous performance artist who came up in a grisly 'hood in a part of Brooklyn completely foreign to Billie. In no time, this beauty expert's nights are bubbling over wit...
|  | The Traveler's Tale
Publication Date: June 7, 2010When Korvan Orm decided to live among the Pyrrans he was not prepared for the hatred so many felt for his people, the Travelers. He wasn't prepared to fall in love, either.When two thugs try to beat the Gypsy out of him, he is saved by the timely arrival of Avorra, Princess of the Realm. Suddenly, he's smitten with feelings he has no right to feel in a society that considers him an outcast, feelings that could get him killed.The visiting Prince Gregor of Vasulia has no love for the upstart Traveler but he does have plans for an alliance between his Royal House a...
|  | Vital Parts (Signet)
Release Date: February 1, 1993| Series: Signet With fame, fortune, and a wealthy lover, model Vivienne Laker has it all, or so she thinks, until her boyfriend offers her the medical promise of eternal health and unaging beauty through a new and frightening procedure....
|  | Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Tess Monaghan MysteriesIn a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer’s notoriety—and his taste for illicit midday trysts—make the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this town—from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill—now unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the guy the c...
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