 | The Critical Response in Japan to African American Writers (Modern, American Literature: New Approaches)
Publication Date: March 14, 2003| ISBN-10: 0820455377 | ISBN-13: 978-0820455372| Edition: annotated edition This annotated bibliography lists all the journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on African American writers published in Japan between 1927 and 1993. The introduction provides an overview of the critical reception of African American literature in Japan from the 1927 monograph on Booker T. Washington to a special session (« Today's African American Women Writers) at the 64th annual meeting of the English Literary Association of Japan in 1992. Also included is a list of ...
 |  | Someone Like You
Release Date: October 5, 2010 An unforgettable story about the bond between mothers, daughters, and sisters, by one of today's favorite women's fiction authors.When Joely Doyle was old enough, she left home and set out to create her own identity-away from the faded photographs of the father she never knew, and the faded dreams of her mother, Mimi, who would wait forever for his return. Now, an urgent phone call from her big sister Cat has brought Joely back to Maine for their mother's bittersweet final days. For Joely, now in love with a man of her own, home means scores to settle, debts t...
| | The Kingowan Affair
Publication Date: June 2000After her marriage breaks up, Jeenie returns to Kingowan and takes a job in an antiques shop.Her employer, Adrian Challis, seems friendly, but when he tries to seduce Jennie, she rebuffs him.Then her husband appears, begging Jennie to take him back.She refuses, and finds sympathy and support from Adrian's friend, Ian. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The Art of Standing Still: A Novel
Publication Date: January 5, 2007Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were performed across England hundreds of years ago---and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting. ...
|  | The Hidden Shore (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: May 1, 1997| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 19) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1843, and after Charlotte’s father dies, she believes herself to be destitute. But a lawyer’s letter reveals she is not only a part of the Morland family, but wealthy and a countess in her own right. She is expected to make a great marriage, and with her vivacious cousin Fanny at her side she is launched into her first season. It is Fanny, the hardened fl...
|  | Homegrown
Publication Date: May 9, 2011Homegrown is a story of longing, despair, and hope at a children’s home in the mid-1980s. Three teenaged boys – Howard, Mark, and Cooter – have lived at the Protestant Children's Home for much of their lives. Worldly and wise sixteen-year-old Howard is the role model. Fifteen-year-old Mark is the angry rebel. And fourteen-year-old Cooter, the only true “orphan” of the bunch, is the peacemaker, doing his best to make everybody happy and to diffuse bad situations with outrageous humor. They know the rules and the routines. They to...
|  | The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: October 9, 2007| Series: Vintage Classics The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad’s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the “shadow-line” between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine neces...
|  | My Father's Face
Publication Date: July 2003MY FATHER'S FACEDr. Byron Danielsen and his young wife Kathy want a child. So does Dr. Alexander Brundage, a scientist who was involved in the first mammalian cloning of Dolly the sheep. After their paths cross at a fertility clinic in Philadelphia, a son is born to the Danielsen's. But is he really their son? Their search for answers is complicated by the death of Dr. Brundage. They finally learn the truth when the boy develops cancer. And a final surprise awaits their son years later when he is a medical student. This first novel by surgeon Dr. Donald Duckles dea...
|  | Quicksand & Passing
Publication Date: April 19, 2001"Quicksand" (1928) is the first novel to give a voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helga Crane, the book's protagonist, is trapped in the conflict between an active and a passive sexual behaviour, between sexual fufilment and middle-class respectability. Conflicts of race and sex even a religious conversion cannot resolve. "Passing", written a year later, is overtly about black people who pass for white, but in a veiled way it also is the desire of one woman for another - a new and daring theme for the writing of the time. The eroticism and sexualit...
|  | My Father's Books
Publication Date: May 1, 2012<div>In My Father’s Books, the first volume in Luan Starova’s multivolume Balkan Saga, he explores themes of history, displacement, and identity under three turbulent regimes—Ottoman, Fascist, and Stalinist—in the twentieth century. Weaving a story from the threads of his parents’ lives from 1926 to 1976, he offers a child’s-eye view of personal relationships in shifting political landscapes and an elegiac reminder of the enduring power of books to sustain a literate culture. Â Â Â Through...
|  | Vinegar Soup
Publication Date: April 5, 1999As though Martin Amis had been written by Henry Green and David Cook."" - The Times Literary Supplement.""Savagely black comedy along Evelyn Waugh lines with its merriments even kinkier."" - The Observer.Full of dark comic invention, teasing eroticism, and culinary joie de vivre, Vinegar Soup is spicy and delectable, a fantasy with a flavor all its own about food and sex, growing up and growing old. Gilbert Firestone, fat and fifty, works in the kitchen of the Hercules Café and dreams of travel and adventure. When his wife drowns in a pan of soup he abando...
|  | Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?
Publication Date: May 31, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674028325 | ISBN-13: 978-0674028326With literature waning in the interest of so many, is Shakespeare the only poet the public can still appreciate? John Milton, as this book makes clear, speaks more powerfully to the eternal questions and to the important concerns of our time. The Milton of this volume is an author for all Americans—conservative, liberal, radical—not only because he was a favorite of the founding fathers, his voice echoing through their texts and our very foundation, but also because his visionary writing embodies t...
|  | Myths and Legends of the Polynesians
Publication Date: December 8, 2011This authoritative volume combines a wealth of myths and legends with a lively commentary on Polynesian life and culture. Captivating tales include ancient stories of the gods and creation, nature and the supernatural, love and war, revenge, and more. Over 75 illustrations, plus a 42-page index and glossary of Polynesian terms. ...
| | Good: A play with music
Publication Date: 1983Good is the story of how a 'good' man gets caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich: "Germany in the thirties? Nothing, I should have thought was harder to dramatise. Witness all those turgid films and telly plays full of stuffed SS uniforms. Bu --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | Edmond Jabes
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0820438332 | ISBN-13: 978-0820438337The Poetry of the Nomad is a unique attempt to write a nomad's poetry, to encounter both desert and book, to speak and to be silent toward the divine.The poet accepts and denies the divine.His conversations are heard and not heard.Words designate and transfigure their designations.Men listen and they understand, but understanding is the beginning of nonunderstanding.This is a dialogue of a nomad, a wandering dialogue, one that is in the book and beyond it. ...
| | Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev; poems (Russian literature library)
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|  | Shattered: A High Risk Novel
Release Date: February 3, 2009| Series: High Risk More than a year after his red-hot affair in Baghdad with Army doctor Kirby Campbell, Army pilot Shane Garrett is trying to rebuild his life stateside. Kirby is also stateside, but when she learns a friend is being held hostage in Central America, she works with Phoenix Team to organize a rescue?and Shane isn?t about to let them leave him behind. Or let Kirby get away. But when Kirby and Shane stare danger in the face, they come to know each other in the way no civilian could ever understand. And they wonder: can they fight for their country,...
|  | The Bannerman Solution (Bannerman Novels)
Publication Date: December 1, 1999| Series: Bannerman Novels Paul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon -- a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability -- an unpredictable loose cannon that could irreparably damage America's shaky intelligence structure, if he chose to. So the decision has come down from the top: Bannerman and his people must be eliminated.Suddenly death is running in Westport, Connecticut-one in a nationwide network of secret "halfway towns" where the country's mo...
|  | The Moor (Mary Russell Novels)
Release Date: January 5, 1999| Series: Mary Russell Novels Though theirs is a marriage of true equals, when Sherlock Holmes summons his wife and partner Mary Russell to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case, she abandons her Oxford studies to aid his investigation. But this time, on Dartmoor, there is more to the matter than a phantom hound. Sightings of a spectral coach carrying a long-dead noblewoman over the moonlit moor have heralded a mysterious death, the corpse surrounded by oversize paw prints. Here on this wild and foreboding moor, Russell and Holmes embark on a quest with few...
|  | How Giraffe Got Such a Long Neck: ..And Why Rhino is so Grumpy
Publication Date: September 1, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up During a terrible drought in which there is nothing to eat, Man prepares a magic herb that results in Giraffe's long neck so he can reach the high leaves on the trees and a grumpy Rhino, who arrives too late for the magic. ...
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