 | A Shroud in the Family
Publication Date: August 1994Lionel García's second novel demythologizes the Texas past while creatng an accurate, although satirized, portrayal of Mexican-American life in the modern metropolis. García is the master of humor, the incongruous tale and dialogue. García is a winner of the PEN Southwest Award. ...
 |  | The Marrying Kind
Publication Date: June 5, 2012Wedding planner Adam More has an epiphany: He has devoted all his life’s energy to creating events that he and his partner Steven are forbidden by federal law for having for themselves. So Adam decides to make a change. Organizing a boycott of the wedding industry, Steven and Adam call on gay organists, hairdressers, cater-waiters, priests, and hairdressers everywhere to get out of the business and to stop going to weddings, too. In this screwball, romantic comedy both the movement they’ve begun and their relationship are put in jeopardy when Steven&...
|  | Walk on the Wild Side: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 2
Publication Date: May 8, 2012The second volume of Karl Edward Wagner's horror fiction collects much of his shorter and painfully explicit later work, including such stories as "Little Lessons in Gardening," "Slug," "Prince of the Punks," "More Sinned Against" and other disturbing tales by an acknowledged master of the genre with an acidic and wry sense of humor. ...
|  | The Viper: A Highland Guard Novel
Release Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Highland Guard The war for Scotland’s sovereignty rages on—as Robert the Bruce is crowned king and the Highland Guard, his elite fighting force of legendary warriors, battle for land . . . and love. Prized for his snakelike stealth and deadly strikes, Lachlan “Viper” MacRuairi is a warrior to enlist but not to trust. His only loyalty is to his purse, his indifference sealed by bitter betrayal. All that changes when Lachlan is tasked to protect and deliver Bella MacDuff to the king’s coronation—and the prou...
|  | The Lasko Tangent
Release Date: July 12, 1985"Mr. Patterson is a natural storyteller....Fast moving...A handsome job."THE NEW YORK TIMESWilliam Lasko is a self-made millionaire who's got an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the president, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants the corrupt, untouchable Lasko brought down--and U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget is tapped to take on the job. To gather enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, Paget's got to go by the book. But Lasko makes his own rules. And eliminating enemies is Wil...
|  | The Science of Doctor Who
Publication Date: May 5, 2010Almost fifty years after he first crossed the small screen, Doctor Who remains a science fiction touchstone. His exploits are thrilling, his world is mind-boggling, and that time travel machine—known as the Tardis—is almost certainly an old-fashioned blue police box, once commonly found in London. Paul Parsons's plain-English account of the real science behind the fantastic universe portrayed in theDoctor Who television series provides answers to such burning questions as whether a sonic screwdriver is any use for putting up a shelf, how Cybermen ma...
|  | The Canopus Revelation: The Stargate of the Gods and the Ark of Osiris
Publication Date: April 1, 2004A radical reinterpretation of the myth of Osiris and Isis. Humankind has misidentified the constellation Orion with the Egyptian god Osiris in Egyptian mythology. Rather, it is the star Canopus that is linked with Osiris, as identified by both ancient writers and early 20th century scholars.Canopus, for Egypt the South polar star, is the second-brightest star and interplays with Sirius in such a way that ancient accounts surmised that the two stars controlled time. It was the navigators star, allowing access to the afterlife û the domain of Osiris. Canopus...
|  | In Case You May Drop by (Korea's Golden Poems) (Korea's Golden Poems) (Korean Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1565911709 | ISBN-13: 978-1565911703| Edition: Bilingual: Korean/English "In her lovely and exquisite poetry, Kim So-yeop tells about love: first: her pathetic love for her husband inextricably interwoven among her longings for him. Next: her love for man and God which underlies her metaphysical and religious ideas." Lee Myeong-jea, Literary critic and Professor at Chung-ang University ...
|  | Alfabeto del mundo (Literatura) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Series: Literatura Montejo reivindica para la poesía latinoamericana la abolición de las fronteras políticas: pertenecemos más a nuestra época que a nuestro país, pues hay familias poéticas, identidades verbales que no siempre coinciden con las demarcaciones geográficas. Esta segunda edición de la antología de poesía de Montejo enmienda la original, publicada en 1988, e incorpora trabajos de sus libros posteriores, Adiós al siglo XX (1992), Partitura de la cigarra (1999) y Papiros amorosos (2002). ...
|  | Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies)
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|  | Allusion: A Literary Graft (Emf Reprints)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: Emf Reprints Originally published in 1994 by the University of Toronto Press, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by brilliant close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet. "A model of what criticism should be and the definitive book on the subject of allusion in literature" - Jeanine Plottel, Hunter College ...
|  | What is Man?
Publication Date: April 25, 2007This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and different way of looking at who we are and the way we live. Anyone who thinks Twain was not a brilliant philosopher sho...
|  | Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publication Date: March 10, 2000| ISBN-10: 0822324482 | ISBN-13: 978-0822324485Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of ...
|  | Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Publication Date: February 8, 1993Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences, " and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with such early Russian novels as Mary, then treats his emerging art of memory from Laughter in the Dark to The Gift. ...
|  | Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Book 70) This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain. As many commentators worried about the political consequences of this 'Leap in the Dark', authors and artists began to re-evaluate their own role in a democratic society that was also becoming more urban and more anonymous. While some fantasized about ways of capturing and holding the attention of the masses, others preferred to...
|  | Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night (Immortals After Dark, Book 3)
Release Date: October 30, 2007Her breathless kiss haunts him... Bowen MacRieve of the Lykae clan was nearly destroyed when he lost the one woman meant for him. The ruthless warrior grew even colder, never taking another to his bed -- until a smoldering encounter with his enemy, Mariketa the Awaited, reawakens his darkest desires. When sinister forces unite against her, the Highlander finds himself using all his strength and skill to keep her alive. His slow, hot touch is irresistible... Temporarily stripped of her powers, Mari is forced to take refuge with her sworn adversary. It's rum...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes - 9 Volume Uniform Edition
Publication Date: 1994Beautiful matched set of nine hardcover books, including all of Sherlock Holmes's adventures - four novels and 56 short stories. Each volume has a dust jacket which features a slightly different period paisley or foulard pattern accent. Production values are very good - this is an attractive and durable set.Individual volumes are 8.5 " x 6"; all together, they occupy 10 linear shelf inches. The titles are: 1: Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (307 pages;) 2: The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes (320 pages;) 3: The Return Of Sherlock Holmes (381 pages;) 4: The Valley Of Fear (32...
|  | DEADLY TRAP; WAIT FOR WHAT WILL COME; THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY
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|  | Marvelman Classic - Volume 2
Publication Date: February 23, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | All in a Night's Work: Sound Storybook (Amazing Spider-Man)
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