 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: November 17, 1998| Series: Norton Critical Editions Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45.Textual notes illuminate the novel’s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novel’s long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys’s biographical impressio...
 |  | Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Release Date: January 15, 2008Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of age. But they do so with few resources-material or emotional-in a world where the cards are stacked against their success.Journalist Kai Wright paints vivid, intimate portra...
|  | Sundown
Publication Date: September 15, 1988Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century "when the god of the great Osages was still dominate over the wild prairie and the blackjack hills" of northeast Oklahoma Territory.Named by his father to be "a challenge to the disinheritors of his people," Windzer finds it hard to fulfill his destiny, despite oil money, a university education, and the opportunities presented by the Great War and the roaring twenties.Critics have praised Sundown generously, both as a...
|  | Courting Cate (The Courtships of Lancaster County)
Publication Date: November 1, 2012| Series: The Courtships of Lancaster County (Book 1) #1 Bestselling Author Leslie Gould Delivers a New Amish Romance SeriesWhen Amish farmer Pete Treger moves to Paradise Township, Pennsylvania, seeking a better life, he meets sisters Cate and Betsy Miller. Both are beautiful, but older sister Cate is known more for her sharp tongue and fiery temper than her striking appearance.Betsy, on the other hand, is sweet and flirty--and seems to have attracted most of the bachelors in Lancaster County!However, the sisters' wealthy father has made one hard and fast r...
|  | The Quickening: Unknown Poetry of Tahirih
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|  | John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross
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|  | Sepulchre
Publication Date: April 1, 2008From the author of the New York Times– bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France. I n 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They’ve come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde—and the Domain—are not what Léonie had imagined...
|  | Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Editorial Punto de Lectura ) Tapa Dura
Publication Date: October 1, 2008After having compiled the core of the 400th anniversary edition sponsored by the Real Academia Espanola, the text and notes of Don Quixote come now in this revised and augmented version; also in the care of Francisco Rico. The text became complete after an examination of all significant editions, old and modern, using the most rigorous philological methods. Notes clarify doubts that a modern reader could raise. They have been worded to provide maximum clarity and a streamlined reading.The appendix, located at the end of the volume, includes maps, diagrams a...
|  | Das Vierte Gebot (Dodo Press) (German Edition)
Publication Date: January 2, 2009Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889), er schrieb auch unter dem Pseudonym Ludwig Gruber, war ein österreichischer Dramatiker und Erzähler. Nach einer schweren Typhuserkrankung beschloss Ludwig Anzengruber mit 19 Jahren Schauspieler zu werden. In den nächsten zehn Jahren versuchte sich Anzengruber als Berufsschauspieler, doch nie hatte er einen zündenden Erfolg. 1869 nahm er einen Schreiberposten in der Polizeidirektion Wien an. 1870 gelang ihm der Durchbruch mit dem Stück Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, das am Theater an der Wien uraufgefüh...
|  | Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica (Bollingen)
Publication Date: April 14, 2008| Series: Bollingen (Book 41) George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."This volume presents the original text of Chapman'...
|  | Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The (Barron's Book Notes)
Publication Date: January 23, 1986| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
|  | Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis)
Publication Date: November 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521028191 | ISBN-13: 978-0521028196| Edition: 1 This groundbreaking book offers a new perspective on a central group of music theory treatises that have long formed a background to the study of Renaissance music. Taking theorists' music examples as a point of departure, it explores fundamental questions about how music was read, and by whom, situating the reading in specific cultural contexts. In particular it illuminates the ways in which the choices of Renaissance theorists have shaped later interpretation of earlier praxis, and reflexively...
|  | Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom: Volume 1. The Spoken Language
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0472085417 | ISBN-13: 978-0472085415Current methodological research has found that in order for learners to acquire language that is both linguistically accurate and socially appropriate, their awareness of patterns and of what is systematic about language must be developed. In Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom, Heidi Riggenbach has compiled activities that will foster this awareness by putting students in the role of discourse analysts and language researchers so that they may learn the patterns and systems for themselves.This book i...
|  | The Forecast Is Hot! Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of The Surrealist Movement in U.S. 1966-1976
Publication Date: January 1, 1997Essay Anthology. Organized in the summer of 1966 with the support of Andre Breton and the Surrealist Groups of France and other countries, the Chicago group quickly found supporters in other cities. As they expanded from coast to coast, the Chicago Surrealist Group became a significant factor in the global renewal of revolutionary thought and action that began in the Sixties. This book is a compendium of collective declarations--texts in which surrealists as a group have intervened in particular political or cultural affairs and controversies. The 100-plus tr...
|  | Consumer Society in American History: A Reader
Release Date: September 2, 1999| ISBN-10: 0801484863 | ISBN-13: 978-0801484865Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has received little serious attention from historians and other scholars.This welcome volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date. The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the...
|  | Collected Writings on Chinese Cultural History
Publication Date: March 1, 2011A great observer and writer of Chinese culture, Tsien Tsuen-hsin contributed profoundly to the West's understanding of the East, and vice versa, spending six decades as a professor and curator at The University of Chicago. These articles explore Chinese documents, Chinese paper, ink making, printing, cultural exchange, libraries, and biographies, which were Tsien Tsuen-hsin's primary interests. Most of these articles were written in English and then later translated into Chinese or other languages, but several were originally written in Chinese and have been tr...
|  | Christmas Road Trip: When Romance Meets a Dead End
Publication Date: June 1, 2011Sue Wright and Ken Polk are about to celebrate their third Christmas together. Sue thinks it’s about time for Ken to pop the question, but her dreams don’t seem to make a blip on his radar. Ken is ready to take Sue to a barbershop Christmas concert; she’d like a romantic evening alone with her beau. They’re at the theater when all hell breaks loose … Sue and Ken decide to part ways. She’s given him enough chances, and it’s time for her to hit the road. She links up with her friend from Hawaii, Lani. With dreams of...
|  | Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective
Publication Date: May 27, 2011In a city ridden with prostitute furries, cannibal cops and warehouse-sized mob bosses, I've got my work cut out for me. My name is Jimmy Plush. I'm a private detective. I'm also a teddy bear. It all started when the original Jimmy Plush entered my life, offering to take my gambling debts away if I agreed to switch bodies with him. But I didn't know that being a three-foot-high plush toy would be such a living hell, especially now that everyone in town wants a piece of me. All I've gotten out of this deal is a faithful Chinese chauffeur, a custom teddybear .45, ...
|  | Last Detective: Dangerous Davies #1
Publication Date: July 16, 2011| Series: Dangerous Davies (Book 1) Dangerous Davies earned his nickname the same way that fat men nicknamed Tiny earn theirs. He is known as the last detective not because there are no others like him, but because he is, in nearly every instance, the last boy picked for the team. With little actual work to occupy him, Dange has plenty of time to pick through the cases that everybody else has forgotten. When he stumbles across a piece of ancient history, it looks like the perfect way to keep him out of the real coppers' way. ...
|  | Beyond the Arc: The Jimmer Fredette Story
Publication Date: September 14, 2012Meet Jimmer Fredette, college basketball player of the year and young NBA athlete. This book follows his story from a small town in New York through AAU and high school sports to Brigham Young University where he electrified the college basketball world.This exciting biography highlights Jimmer's performances, his work ethic, and his journey to reaching his goal of playing in the NBA.Beyond the Arc is an inspiring story of how family, faith, and fortitude can lead to the top of the game. ...
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