 | Deaf American Literature: From Canival to the Canon
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 1563680947 | ISBN-13: 978-1563680946| Edition: 1st Good condition ...
 |  | Wildlife
Publication Date: January 26, 2010When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback—is a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | A Thread of Sky: A Novel
Release Date: March 29, 2011"This is one of those rare novels that delivers on the promise of its opening pages... No smart woman should leave on vacation without it." -ChicagoTribune.com When her husband of thirty years is killed, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. In a desperate attempt to heal her fractured family, Irene plans a tour of mainland China, reuniting three generations of women-her fiercely independent daughters, her distant poet sister, and her formidable eighty-year-old mother. But each woman bears secrets big and small, and just as they begin to r...
|  | Agnes & Molly
Publication Date: April 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 190455928X | ISBN-13: 978-1904559283International Book of the Year, TLS. The story of two friends, Agnes and Molly, and the man they both desire - Aksel, the father of two children. When Aksel's ex-wife is taken ill, he asks a favor of Molly: would she take care of his children in her summerhouse? But Agnes, who is disabled, is jealous of Molly's relationship with Aksel and his children. When Agnes comes to the summerhouse to help Molly, the real struggle for power begins, with the women battling for the affections of the children. This is a ric...
|  | Christian Mythmakers: C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J. R. R. Tolkien, George Macdonald, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, a
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|  | The Origin of Sin: An English Translation of the "Hamartigenia" (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
Release Date: October 27, 2011| Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology (Book 61) Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-ca. 406) is one of the great Christian Latin writers of late antiquity. Born in northeastern Spain during an era of momentous change for both the Empire and the Christian religion, he was well educated, well connected, and a successful member of the late Roman elite, a man fully engaged with the politics and culture of his times. Prudentius wrote poetry that was deeply influenced by classical writers and in the process he revived the ethical, historical, and political fun...
|  | The Orchid House
Publication Date: October 1, 1996Lally helps to raise three white sisters in the Orchid House on the Island of Dominica and observes as each flees to the cold northern lands of England and America only to return to their magical past and the man they love. (General Fiction). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx
Publication Date: October 1, 2008“Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.”—Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance“Nersesian is a first-rate observer of his native New York.”—Publishers Weekly"The unquestioned authority of Moses is difficult to fully grasp today -- this unimaginable, outsized character whose outrageous deeds seem the stuff of novels. And that is how Nersesian is tackling him, by blending fact with fiction. Historical events and persons are interwoven with a fascinating apocalyptic st...
|  | Unworthy (Star Trek: Voyager)
Release Date: September 29, 2009Freed with a thought, the greatest menace to humanity, the Borg, are gone, absorbed into the Caeliar gestalt. But are they? Can this deadly menace that has hovered over humanity for decades truly be gone? Might some shadow of the Caeliar remain? The Federation decides that they have to know, and Starfleet is ordered to find out. The Starship Voyager leads a fleet into a region of space that has lived in fear of instant annihilation for generations: the Delta quadrant, home of the Borg. Afsarah Eden -- the new captain of Voyager -- is charged with getting answe...
|  | The Path of the Mystic Lover: Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy
Release Date: March 1, 1993Carrying on the living tradition of mystic minstrels, the Bauls roam the countryside of eastern India enacting the spiritual love dalliance of Radha and Krishna through songs and dances. The Path of the Mystic Lover explores the Bauls' lifestyle and philosophy, describing their sexual and ritual practices as well as their sacred teachings. ...
|  | Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (Performance Interventions)
Release Date: June 21, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230580513 | ISBN-13: 978-0230580510This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France. ...
|  | The Flowers of Albion
Publication Date: January 16, 2008In The Flowers of Albion, the author has attempted a fusion between the classic repertoire of Persian imagery and lyricism with Western influences of metered prose and rhyming verse. The result is a collection of 275 poems that examine with ecstatic voice and energy the breadth and myriad truths of human emotions.These encompass the spurs of love, rage, sadness, pleading and longing; consuming desire for an unnamed Beloved and the euphoric pleasure that comes from reunion. Parables about human follies and revelation are told that emerge from the deepest moti...
|  | Sammlungen alter arabischer Dichter (German Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009This collection of the works of ancient Arabic poets encompasses the original three volumes of the collection by Ahlwardt from 1902 and 1903. The substantial introductions and comments are in German while the works referenced appear in the original Arabic. The three volumes contain material from al Asma Iyyat of al Asmai, al Ajjah, az Zafayan, and Ruba ben al Ajjaj, poets of the pre-Islamic period. This title, bound into one volume for affordability, is increasingly difficult to acquire. The selections of the poems themselves are essential reading for any histo...
|  | Mine
Publication Date: April 1, 2007Something has happened here: An empire has gone to seed, an entire country goes on strike, people begin eating dirt and flowers, and a couple lives on a riverboat to avoid the ground. In Mine, Tung-Hui Hu makes myths out of the personal. He speaks of desire and awkwardness and the earth that contains both. Resonant, blunt, and sharply intelligent, this is writing that excavates.As history unfolds over and over the same geography, these poems become, as Hu has written, “practice for the living.” The book grows out of the poet’s interest in how ...
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|  | God Don't Make No Mistakes
Release Date: January 29, 2013In the sparkling conclusion to Mary Monroe's bestselling God series, two forever friends face their biggest betrayals yet and learn the hard way that putting your trust in the wrong hands can change your life forever…These days, Annette Goode Davis has a pretty full plate--literally and figuratively. Although she's trying to reconcile with her husband, Pee Wee, she's still seeing other men on the side. A woman's got to cover her bases, right? With her love life hopping, Annette should be as pleased as punch. Instead, the stress has her eating everything i...
|  | Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)
Publication Date: October 7, 2009Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, Harmony Bites, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding. In Germany, Faith and Giles discover a town where Slayers retreat from a world that has turned against them, only to find themselves in the arms of something far worse. A rogue-Slayer faction displaces an ...
|  | The Dark of Day
Publication Date: June 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0792754654 | ISBN-13: 978-0792754657| Edition: 1st New York Times bestselling author Barbara Parker introduces one of the most unforgettable female characters in suspense fiction: high-profile Miami defense attorney C.J. Dunn.C.J. is an expert at spinning her clients’ image in the media—the perfect lawyer to deflect suspicion from Rick Slater, head of security for an influential U.S. congressman. A beautiful model has vanished from a party on Miami Beach, and Slater was the last person seen with her. C.J. has reasons to dislike the co...
|  | Murder on Washington Square (Gaslight Mystery)
Release Date: April 2, 2002| Series: Gaslight Mystery Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Molloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder—when a seductress falls victim to her own charades. ...
|  | Shock Troops of Justice: Duke Ashby of the F.B.I.
Publication Date: April 9, 2012“You are a soldier in the front-line trenches. You are fighting a force that threatens to overwhelm your country. That fact justifies any sacrifice you may be called upon to make.”—from the special agent’s handbook It’s 1935 . . . and crime dominates the headlines! With the backing and resources of J. Edgar Hoover’sF.B.I., Special Agent James “Duke” Ashby unleashes his Shock Troops of Justice to relentlessly battle crime on the front lines. Follow this fight through such cases as “Scarlet Hands,...
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