 | Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature
Publication Date: 1997Migration and continuity have shaped both the Chicano people and their oral and written literature. In this pathfinding study of Chicano literature, Teresa McKenna specifically explores how these works arise out of social, political, and psychological conflict and how the development of Chicano literature is inextricably embedded in this fact.McKenna begins by appraising the evolution of Chicano literature from oral forms--including the important role of the corrido in the development of Chicano poetry. In subsequent chapters she examines the works of Richard Rodriguez ...
 |  | Child Crying Rock: Because The Blood Remembers
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|  | Plum Lovin' (A Between-the-Numbers Novel) (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)
Release Date: January 9, 2007| Series: Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers <DIV>From #1 blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes a Stephanie Plum novel that takes adventure, action, suspense (and maybe even true love?) to new heights.WATCH YOUR BACK . . .LOOK BOTH WAYS . . .BECAUSE LOVE IS IN THE AIR . . . AND THAT MEANS BIG TROUBLE!Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum s apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie--and he s not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a relationship expert who is wanted for armed robbery and ...
|  | Belong to Me
Release Date: June 28, 2011 Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly tested by her impeccably dressed, overly judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt—the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she'd find in suburbia. With Lake, another recent arrival, Cornelia shares a love of literature and old movies—as she forms an instant bond with this warm yet elusive woman and her perceptiv...
|  | The St. Zita Society: A Novel
Release Date: August 14, 2012From three-time Edgar Award–winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell comes a captivating and expertly plotted tale of residents and servants on one block of a posh London street—and the deadly ways their lives intertwine.Life for the residents and servants of Hexam Place appears placid and orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens, and Christmas candles lit uniformly in windows. But beneath this tranquil veneer, the upstairs-downstairs relationships are set to combust.Henry, the h...
|  | The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring
Publication Date: December 1, 2004This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Slaughterhouse-Five
Release Date: November 3, 1991Slaughterhous-Five is one ofthe world's great anti-war books. Centering on theinfamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim'sodyssey through time reflects the mythic journeyof our own fractured lives as we search for meaningin what we are afraid to know. ...
|  | Red Cavalry
Publication Date: April 2003"Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them...
|  | The Time of Darkness: Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea
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|  | Mercadet: The Napoleon of Finance : A Comedy in Three Acts
Publication Date: July 1, 1994| Series: The Napoleon of Finance : a Comedy in Three Acts Smith and Kraus offers the first ever English translation of Mercadet. In this sensational translation of Mercadet (The Napoleon of Finance), Robet Cornthwaite brings Balzac's play to the American stage, filled with the wit, and all the fun of the original French version. Balzac's words come alive in this satire of the glamorous world of 18th century Parisian financiers."Deficits are all the wealth this nation has," says Mercadet, the Napoleon of Finance. In 1840 this manipulator of the Bourse, the Paris...
|  | Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Laurie Wagner Buyer, award winning poet and author of Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles, wrote a haiku each day for a year. The experience was empowering. This book brings these 365 haiku to readers in the form of Laurie s year-long collection, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal. Learn from and enjoy Laurie’s haiku, but just as importantly, use this book as a journal. The practice of journaling goes back centuries; and now there is increasing evidence of the benefits in terms of stress reduction, critical self-reflection, an...
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|  | The Presence
Release Date: December 28, 2010The ultimate moneymaking plan—buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination. Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall.Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall—a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow familiar to Toni—the bodies of young women are found, dumped and forgotten in the nearby town.But even stranger, how is it possible this laird exists? Toni invented Bruce MacNiall for the per...
|  | The Veiled Picture; or, The Mysteries of Gorgono (Gothic Classics)
Publication Date: October 18, 2006| Series: Gothic Classics Beautiful young Emily D'Orville lives a peaceful existence in the French countryside with her loving parents. But when tragedy strikes and leaves her an orphan, Emily is separated from her true love Angereau and imprisoned in the Castle of Gorgono, her sinister uncle's fortress in the Apennine Mountains. Can Emily escape the horrors of Gorgono, or will she fall victim to Signor Androssi and his murderous friends? And what is the mystery of the horrifying picture that hangs in a locked chamber, shrouded in a black veil?First publishe...
|  | Sudden Prey
Release Date: May 7, 1996| Series: Prey After a vicious female bank robber named Candy dies in a shootout with police, her violent associates vow revenge, targeting the loved ones of the police officers involved, and it is up to Lucas Davenport to stop the nightmarish killings. By the author of Mind Prey....
|  | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Vol. 6
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|  | The Rabbit's Tail: A Story From Korea
Publication Date: March 15, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up Everyone knows that rabbits have short, fluffy tails. But this wasn't always the case. In this captivating version of a Korean folktale, a tiger tells a rabbit the story of how he narrowly escaped being eaten by an evil creature. Amazed that anything could scare a tiger, the curious rabbit dashes off to see the creature. The tiger warns him not to go, but the rabbit doesn't listen and gets himself in a spot of trouble that changes all rabbits forever.Illustrated with dramatic detail and vibrant hues, The Rabbit's Tail will transport young...
|  | New Orleans Saints (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Karate: Japanese Empty-Hand Combat (Martial Arts Sports Zone)
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|  | La Guerre du Feu (French Edition)
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