 | The Derrick Bell Reader (Critical America (New York University Paperback))
Release Date: August 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0814719708 | ISBN-13: 978-0814719701Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell has provoked his critics and challenged his readers with uncompromising candor and progressive views on race and class in America. A founder of Critical Race Theory and pioneer of the use of allegorical stories as tools of analysis, Bell's groundbreaking work shatters conventional legal orthodoxies and turns comfortable majoritarian myths inside out. Edited and with an extensive introduction by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Je...
 |  | Disconnect/Desencuentro
Publication Date: February 2, 2012Prize-winning Cuban writer Nancy Alonso has been chronicling the desperate times of the ''Special Period'' and Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems since 1997. Desencuentro (Disconnect), released in Spanish in 2008, Alonso makes love in all its diverse facets the essential connection between the twelve stories. Yet each one has an internal disconnect of one type or another, revealing the inherent contradictions of life itself. In Disconnect we have a whole gamut of human relations including lesbian love, unconventional mother and son ties, chance en...
|  | The Golden Cross (Heirs of Cahira O'Connor)
Release Date: February 16, 2010| Series: Heirs of Cahira O'Connor (Book 2) THE HEIRS OF CAHIRA O’CONNOR SERIESBOOK TWOA line of women who would be warriors for truth“It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O’Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the courses to which they are bound and restore right in this murderous world…” To Kathleen O’Connor, Cahira’s story is nothing more ...
|  | Nowhere, Carolina: A Novel (Southern Discomfort)
Release Date: May 18, 2010| Series: Southern Discomfort Maggie Pickwick is a lifetime away from her days as head cheerleader and the mistakes she made in high school. Twelve years later, this single mom has traded pompoms for an auctioneer’s gavel, popularity for peace and quiet, and strives to be a good example for her daughter Devyn. She’s keeping it together just fine, too—until an old flame moves back to her little North Carolina town. Renowned artist Reece Thorpe wants nothing to do with Maggie—not after what she did to him in high school—but he might ...
|  | Wind Chill (Red Rock Mysteries)
Publication Date: August 21, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | There Goes Santa Claus (Ivy Towers Mystery #4) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #33)
Publication Date: October 28, 2008IVY TOWERS-TUCKER IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HER FIRST CHRISTMAS AS A MARRIED WOMAN. . . .But a few days before December 25, Ivy and her husband Amos are awakened by noises on their rooftop. Amos s joke that Santa Claus must have arrived early loses its humor when a body goes flying past their second-story window. A look outside reveals two legs covered in red velvet trousers and black boots sticking out of a snow bank! Ivy and Amos are even more surprised to find they belong to a dead man dressed as Santa Claus. The story circulates quickly through the small tow...
|  | The Brueggen Stones
Publication Date: March 31, 2007Lynn is a self-assured teenager who doesn't feel like a child anymore. After all, she has a real job in a department store. But she can't identify with the adult world either. She's an "in-between." Then one day, after bumping her head on a Chicago sidewalk, she falls into the world of Tarth.and is plunged into the midst of a war between the kindly Stallis and the sorcerer, Gefcla. A new world has new viruses, and Lynn catches them all as she learns the Stalli language well enough to fulfill a prophetic rhyme given to Tarth by Keshua, the Healer. Although Gefc...
|  | Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome)
Release Date: March 4, 2008| Series: Novels of Ancient Rome Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people. Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city's first thousand years -- from the founding of the city by the ill-fated twins Romulus and Remus, through Rome's astonishing ascent to become the capitol of the most powerful empire in hi...
|  | Just This Once
Publication Date: May 31, 2006Wynne Connelly is marketing manager for a major travel organization and her job requires that she attend meetings twice monthly at the company's Orlando headquarters. Paula McKenzie is second-in-command on the night shift at the Weller Regent - an upscale hotel in Orlando. The same upscale hotel that Wynne Connelly stays in whenever she's in Orlando. Paula finds herself intrigued by the twice-monthly guest, who possesses an aura of mystery and elegant beauty. When things grow hectic one night at the front desk, Paula emerges to lend a hand - just in time to gree...
|  | Disneyland, Please
Publication Date: November 23, 2010| Age Level: 0 and up “There was a time, about a thousand years ago, when I wasn’t Angie Leblanc. I didn’t weigh 240 pounds and I wasn’t six feet five inches. I was a younger brother called Guy and we lived in a remote and beautiful village on CapeBreton Island where the houses front on the sea, the highlands behind”..For Guy (Angie) Leblanc, an Acadian from Cape Breton, California is still the land of Disney— the magic world he has known through television as he was growing up in the village of Bel Etang. But...
|  | Way We Lived, The: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences
Publication Date: October 1, 1992Presenting a new and revised edition of this well-loved and popular classic. The Way We Lived is a rich and varied collection of stories, love songs, chants, and more from native people around the state. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and always fascinating, these pieces show the remarkable perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times. ...
|  | Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: March 12, 1961| Series: Vintage Classics Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, i...
|  | Anointed to Fly
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|  | Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia
Publication Date: June 30, 2011A collection of essays on the Mountain South by New York Times best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb. Contents include 'Keepers of the Legends,' 'A Novelist Looks at the Land,' 'The Celts and the Appalachians,' Magic Realism in Appalachia,' 'Nora Bonesteel and the Sight,' and 'Reflections on Historical Fiction.' ...
|  | Female Dominance: Rituals And Practices
Release Date: September 27, 2005As a sexual adventurer, you have already taken the first steps into the magical world of romantic, consensual BDSM. You've started exploring the boundaries of your innermost fantasies in the arena of dominance and submission. You are on top in this breathless exchange of power--the one who takes whip in hand to orchestrate the most delightfully wicked ways of the domina.Now, in Female Dominance, former professional dominatrix and glamorous fetish diva Claudia Varrin helps you and your ever-willing slave take it to the next level. This lavish, fully illustrated...
|  | The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales
Publication Date: April 8, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Follow the Stars
Publication Date: July 1998| Age Level: 5 and up A journey made across snowbound lands by animals in search of the missing Birds of Summer results in the return of the warm season. ...
|  | San Antonio Spurs (NBA Champions)
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|  | Apples A to Z
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A fun and fact-filled ABC book -- all about apples!ApplesBeatCandyEveryone knows that.But there is a lot more to learn about this delicious fruit.Fox, Bear, and their friends lead young readers through an apple alphabet--from apple buds and blossoms through nutrition and orchards to the X on an apple pie. Along the way, apple lovers will pick up a windfall of apple science and lore, as well as fun facts and child-friendly information. And twenty-six apple varieties are introduced, even ones for X, Y, and Z!...
|  | A Parable about the King
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up No matter where you are in life or who you are, if you are one of God's children you are a child of the King. Let beloved Bible teacher and author Beth Moore help you teach your child that they are a princess or prince. ...
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