 | Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (11th Edition)
Publication Date: January 4, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205727654 | ISBN-13: 978-0205727650| Edition: 11 Remaining one of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum helps readers of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college. This rhetoric and reader guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. ...
 |  | Beneath The Surface
Publication Date: April 18, 2011Now that he has taken care of all of the people responsible for the murder of his wife, Cassandra, Mike Black faces his toughest opponent, Carmen Taylor, an old girl friend who has recently returned to the city. Carmen is an entertainment reporter for a local television station, who wants to do bigger things. Her opportunity comes while she is covering the opening of an art exhibition. A woman is found murdered, and Carmen is the only reporter on the scene. The police say that the victim, a known call girl named Tangela House appears to have been strangled dur...
|  | You Don't Miss Your Water (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry A reissuing of You Don't Miss Your Water, poems by Cornelius Eady. ...
|  | The Odyssey: A Stage Version
Publication Date: July 1, 1993With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros.Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue. Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the giant Cyclops, Circe and her revellers, ghosts, and mermaids are among the cast. With its vast sweep and richly figurative language, The Od...
|  | Navajo Coyote Tales
Publication Date: January 30, 2007Coyote encounters Rabbit, Fawn's Stars, Crow, Snake, Skunk Woman, and Horned Toad in these 6 delightful, English-language adaptations of traditional Navajo Coyote stories collected by anthropologist William Morgan and translated by him and linguist Robert W. Young. ...
|  | Pursuit of Lucy Banning, The: A Novel (Avenue of Dreams)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Avenue of Dreams (Book 1) Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work--and the classes she is secretly taking at the newly opened University of Chicago. When she meets an unconventional young architect who is working on plans for the upcoming 1893 World's Fair, Lucy imagines a life lived on her own terms. Can she break away from her family's expectations? And...
|  | When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax
Release Date: December 7, 2000" J. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a twenty-year-old sophomore when he was introduced to fellow student Robert Lax (1915-2000) in the Columbia University cafeteria in 1935. They were brought together by an admiration for each other's writing in the college humor magazine. Upon graduation in 1938, Merton converted to Roman Catholicism; Lax began graduate study in English and took a job at the New Yorker. Three years later, Merton entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, and he and Lax saw each other only four more times. Yet their friendship was sustained for the next th...
|  | Mystery Walk
Release Date: April 1, 2010Two young psychics do battle with an ancient evil Billy Creekmore was born to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe’s ancient mysticism, understood that the barrier between life and death is permeable. She knew how to cross it, and used that knowledge to help the dead rest easier. She passed that power on to her son, and he has spent his whole life learning how to communicate with the dead to prevent them from meddling with the living. Though his powers are the same, Wayne Falconer’s background could not be more diff...
|  | Fingering The Family Jewels
Publication Date: February 15, 2004Derek Mason arrives in Charlotte, North Carolina for the funeral of his Aunt Walterene.He encounters the family who sent him away because he revealed he was gay.His mother and Uncle Vernon want him out of town because of Vernon’s senate campaign.His sister and Aunt Ruby urge him to stay.His cousin Mark denies their past relationship.Derek uncovers mysteries in the death of a family gardener, possibly at the hands of a young Vernon.Secrets and lies unravel as Derek digs into the family history with the help of hunky reporter Daniel. ...
|  | Eight Great Tragedies (Mentor Series)
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|  | A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 1968This collection reveals Alex La Guma as one of the most impressive of contemporary African writers. In the starkest form, it also shows, the plight of the non-whites in South Africa today ...
|  | The Fado House
Publication Date: May 14, 2012MARY NOONAN is an Irish poet and academic. She lives in Cork, and works as lecturer in French at University College Cork. Her poems have been published widely in print and online and poems have featured in The Alhambra Poetry Calendar (2010) and Best Irish Poetry 2010. In 2007, she was selected to take part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions series in Dublin and was invited to read at the Poetry Hearings festival in Berlin in 2009.The manuscript of The Fado House was awarded the Listowel Poetry Collection Prize in June 2010. Mary Noonan's debut collection of po...
|  | Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900
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|  | From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Publication Date: May 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0226723380 | ISBN-13: 978-0226723389Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520–87) and Catherine (1542–87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother...
|  | Something Like Love
Release Date: April 26, 2005Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever. This is the story that readers have been waiting for. He was a wanted man.But no one wanted him more than she did. Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west. She dreams of setting up her own seamstress shop in Henry Adams, a small all Black town in Kansas. But her plans are derailed when her train is robbed by Neil July and his notorious band of...
|  | Sweetwater
Publication Date: March 1, 1998As stated in a will, well-bred, cosmopolitan Virginia Hepperly will earn the rights to a Wyoming Territory ranch if she spends five years teaching Native American children in the territory. Discovering that her two little stepsisters are being mistreated by their guardians, Virginia takes them with her to begin a new life. But after arriving, she finds that there are those who want to destroy her--and her future. Features a 16-page insert with 30 frontier recipes and home remedies used by characters in the author's books. ...
|  | Saving Grace (Siren Publishing Menage and More)
Publication Date: August 31, 2010[Menage and More: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Cinq Romance, M/F/M/M/M, mild BDSM, public exhibition] Grace is thrust deep into cattle country with dozens of sex-starved cowboys. Her modest, timid nature soon fizzles away to make room for her raging lust. From one-night stands to a ménage a cinq, her body won't allow her to refuse the muscled ranch hands that seem desperate to pleasure her. Grace explores her sexuality and pushes her personal boundaries. She discovers the sensual woman that remained dormant during her adult years. It is the love of a good man ...
|  | A Broken Vessel: Julian Kestral #2 (Julian Kestrel)
Publication Date: April 16, 2011| Series: Julian Kestrel (Book 2) Julian Kestrel, the dandy detective of Regency London, is most decidedly a man of the world and, through his valet, Dipper, reformed Cockney pickpocket, is not without ties to the underworld. One such connection is Dipper's sister Sally, a prostitute who accidentally happens across the possibility of murder while picking her clients' pockets. Since Sally is not quite in the position to go to the police with her knowledge, she and Julian must chase the clues all through London, from glittery parlors to the dank halls of a home ...
|  | Quaterback Scramble (Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Mighty Big Book of Optical Illusions (Mighty Big Books)
Release Date: November 11, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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