 | We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History (Black Women in United States History)
Release Date: April 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0926019813 | ISBN-13: 978-0926019812| Edition: First Edition From the introduction: This book was put together to reclaim, and to create heightened awareness about, individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African-American survival and progress possible. We cannot accurately comprehend either our hidden potential or the full range of problems that besiege us until we know about the successful struggles that generations of foremothers waged against virtually insurmountable obstacles. We can, and will, chart a coherent future and win es...
 |  | The Fob Bible
Publication Date: June 1, 2009The Old Testament re-imagined through poetry, verse, closet drama, e-mail, and short story.At once irreverent, whimsical, sexy, feminist, and poignant, this ain't your mama's Bible, and you sure didn't learn this in Sunday school. ...
|  | Embark to Madness
Publication Date: August 30, 2005Nineteen authors will take you into the realm of madness: visit George Raymond's house, the Whisper Tide Inn, or a haunted hotel. Beware of the Dust Creatures, demons disguised as priests, or an eerie soul selling special watches. Feel the need for human hearts besides your own? Cheating on your wife, perhaps? Find a dead baby in the trash? A serial killer who thinks he's Dracula? Imagine a girl who doesn't exist, and you have to look for her. Can't get over the death of your dog? Too bad. Have to get a hold of someone who has the answer to all your problems ...
|  | Hawaii
Release Date: September 12, 1986"[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama, wonderful."THE BALTIMORE SUNAmerica's preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel. But it is also a novel about people, people of strength and character; the Polynesians; the fragile missionaries; the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried into a beautiful race called Hawaiians. Here is the story of their relationships, toils, and successes, their strong aristocratic kings and queens and...
|  | Before the Dawn (Dark Angel)
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Dark Angel (Book 1) Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel!Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing “brothers and sisters” from Manticore, the covert agency with a sini...
|  | Born on the Island
Publication Date: May 2000Galveston sits on an island just east of Houston, Texas. A favorite tourist spot for decades, natives born on the island refer to each other as BOI. This is the story of one such family. When Faith Kohl Coolidge returns from Europe in 1900, she finds her family decimated and her city in ruins. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sparring with Rembrandt
Publication Date: September 20, 2010Is a novel of heartbreak & challenge, misery and triumph, as Norman take us along on a journey from Brooklyn to California. Rembrandt follows him every step of the way, illuminating Norman's path and ours as well. ...
|  | Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has c...
|  | Death of King Arthur
Publication Date: January 1, 2012"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawa...
|  | Mimekor Yisrael, Abridged and Annotated Edition: Classical Jewish Folktales
Release Date: January 22, 1991"[Bin Gorion's] crowning achievement was Mimekor Yisrael, a multilayered compendium of post-biblical Jewish lore and demonology." —Commentary"One of the most extraordinary publishing events in my memory—a huge source of discoveries of the quintessential Jewish experience." —Nat Hentoff"This is a most important collection, actually unique in its field. I recommend it to all good readers." —Isaac Bashevis Singer"It is wonderful to have this treasure trove of Jewish Folktales finally available in English." —Bruno Bettelheim"Indisp...
|  | Casque to Cushion: Study of "Othello" and "Coriolanus"
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|  | The Scarecrow and His Servant
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Outrageously zany and filled with non-stop surprises, Simon Reade’s theatrical adaptation of The Scarecrow and His Servant (a children’s tale by renowned author Philip Pullman), is an enchanting play for young readers and performers. ...
|  | Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
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|  | The Un Saddest Factory presents a 10 Minute Play Festival: August 2010
Publication Date: August 12, 2010A collection of 10 plays performed as part of a 10 minute play festival at the Annex Theater in Baltimore, Maryland in August, 2010. ...
|  | Manual de psicomagia / Psychomagic Handbook: Consejos Para Sanar Tu Vida / Tips to Heal Your Life (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Sea Fighter
Release Date: October 31, 2000Packed with electrifying action and cutting-edge technology, Sea Fighter takes Commander Amanda Lee Garret on her most explosive mission yet: to stop a renegade Nigerian general before his bloody quest for power reaches catastrophic proportions...• Cobb's third marine warfare novel in a successful series ...
|  | The Big Kitty (A Sunny & Shadow Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: A Sunny & Shadow Mystery Did curiosity kill the cat lady? Sunny Coolidge left her New York City newspaper job to go back to Maine and take care of her ailing father. But there’s not much excitement—or interesting work—in Kittery Harbor. So when Ada Spruance, the town’s elderly cat lady, asks for help finding her supposedly-winning lottery ticket, Sunny agrees. But when she arrives at Ada’s, with a stray tomcat named Shadow tagging along, they discover the poor woman dead at the bottom of her stairs. Was it an accident&mdas...
|  | THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: VOLUME ONE.
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|  | Fairy Flight (The Fairy Houses Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Girls Play to Win Hockey
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