| Love Cake Publication Date: September 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 1894770692 | ISBN-13: 978-1894770699Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, LOVE CAKE also documents the persistence of survival and beauty—especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of col...
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| | A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel: The Second Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon) Publication Date: February 19, 2010| Series: The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon (Book 2) Alan, the beadle of the manor of Bampton, had gone out at dusk to seek those who might violate curfew. When, the following morning, he had not returned home, his young wife Matilda seeks out Master Hugh de Singleton, surgeon and bailiff of the manor. ...
| | Elisha's Bones Publication Date: March 1, 2009Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he's offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor. Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn't think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones...
| | Alex Cross's TRIAL Publication Date: December 1, 2010| Series: Alex Cross Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written--a novel called Trial.Connected by bloodAs a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate ...
| | Scarecrow & the Army of Thieves Publication Date: July 5, 2012At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic, the battle to save the world has begun…THE SECRET BASEIt is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated…A RENEGADE ARMYWhen Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves, the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and there are no crack units close enough to get there in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon.ONE SMALL TEAMExce...
| | Parasites Like Us Publication Date: August 18, 2003Hailed as ?remarkable? by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T. C. Boyle. Now, in Parasites Like Us, he takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind?s quest for his own past. Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that...
| | The Acharnians Publication Date: August 23, 2011This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy t...
| | New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (New Playwrights) Publication Date: June 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 157525591X | ISBN-13: 978-1575255910The latest in Smith and Kraus' highly-acclaimed series, this comprehensive anthology is a rich and varied collection of the work of some of America's most promising new playwrights. Contains:BFF by Anna Ziegler. An Off Broadway success about two teenaged girls. One has a tragic end, the other keeps her memory alive by becoming her.DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS by Carlos Murillo. A smash at Louisville's Humana Festival, this provocative play focuses on a teenaged computer whiz who invents an alter ego in order t...
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| | The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry Publication Date: May 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0877459827 | ISBN-13: 978-0877459828 Poetry by Asian American writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary American poetry, and a book-length critical treatment of Asian American poetry is long overdue. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaojing Zhou demonstrates how many Asian American poets transform the conventional “I” of lyric poetry—based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian “I”—to enact a more ethical relationship between the “I” and its o...
| | Through the Shadows Publication Date: September 22, 2005This multimedia memoir is delivered with both a book and spoken word audio CD for a heightened sensory experience. Through poetry and prose, audio and photographs, Cori Brackett shares the strong force that lives within all of us.Through this intimate and candid portrait, Brackett encourages us to find our own courage and authenticiy.Through the Shadows redefines the experience of life to remind us that we are all connected and that the human condition exists on many levels. ...
| | Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne (Angelaki Humanities) Release Date: July 5, 2011| Series: Angelaki Humanities This book explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the familiar notion that modernism dissolved during the 1930s, it argues that the fusion of rationalism and mysticism which characterizes modernist poetics was sustained long after its politics had been discredited by the events of World War Two. This wide-ranging contextual study focuses on the poetry of Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, and J H Prynne. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
| | The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings Release Date: October 1, 2002William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the ...
| | Warriors of the Deep (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) Release Date: October 27, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Bang Goes a Troll (Awfully Beastly Business) Release Date: September 15, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Ball Sports (Olympic Sports) Publication Date: October 1991| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | Sport Bikes (Torque Books: Motorcycles) (Torque: Motorcycles) Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Funny Fingers: Super Sports Publication Date: September 28, 2003| Age Level: 2 and up...
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