 | The Return of Simple
Publication Date: August 31, 1995Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he also cheered them on with his wonderful wit and passion for life. ...
 |  | Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt: Watsonville: Some Place Not Here and Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto
Publication Date: December 31, 2002In this third volume of plays by Cherríe Moraga to be published by West End Press, we confront the changing California landscape of the 1990s, as anti-immigrant, anti-youth, and English Only legislation sweeps across the farmworker towns and multi-racial urban communities of the state.Both plays were developed through interviews conducted with residents in the two towns of Watsonville and East Palo Alto. Both towns stand in the shadow of the first world culture of the University: East Palo Alto is a poor neighbor of Stanford University south of San Fra...
|  | Born In The Year Of The Butterfly Knife
Publication Date: January 5, 2004This poetry collection includes Derrick's best poems from the past 5 books. 1994-2004. Includes A finger, two dots then me and Kurosawa Champagne. A Classic. National Bestseller. ...
|  | The Host: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2011Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.Featuring one of the most unusu...
|  | Doin' the Box Step
Release Date: October 20, 1992Fireworks erupt when Chelsea Cox returns to Beechwood, an ultra-WASP Philadelphia suburb, with her fiance+a7, Bennett Edwards, a stuffy Princeton grad who also happens to be black. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. Tour. ...
|  | Salt Eaters
Publication Date: January 10, 1998Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world. ...
|  | Whispers Through the Trees (Mysteries of Sparrow Island Series #1)
Publication Date: February 15, 2007Abby Stanton, a noted East Coast bird specialist, rushes home to the magnificent San Jan Islands in Pacific Northwest after a terrible car accident leaves her sister Mary paralysed from the waist down. While there, Abby spots a rare and endangered marbled murrelet and its mate. Determined to save them, she finds herself caught up in fascinating intrigue and one of the long-time families on Sparrow Island. Will Abby's quest for the birds draw her back home? What adventures await her in this marvellous place of serene beauty? Join Abby as she begins her new c...
|  | Bad Moon Rising
Release Date: May 1, 2008Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive...For a monstrous evil lives among them, a savage presence whose malicious power has grown too powerful even for death to hold it back. Only a handful of brave souls stand against the King of the Dead and a red wave of destruction. Daylight is fading and a bad moon is rising over Pin...
|  | Poached Eggs
Publication Date: October 23, 2000"Poached Eggs" is a work of fiction that inter-weaves ingredients of medical duplicity and suspense into a highly entertaining novel.Centered on investigative reporter, Rusty Dormier, the story unfolds when she discovers financial irregularities in an academic medical center.Her investigation leads to the Institute of Human Assisted Reproductive Health, where ultra-new techniques for the treatment of infertility are conducted.Rusty discovers that infertility specialists at the institution have been impregnating women with eggs harvested from other patients w...
|  | Road to Rupp
Publication Date: April 19, 2012Road to Rupp is the fictional recollection of a small-town, Kentucky high school basketball phenom as he and his team overcomes obstacles, both on and off the court, while chasing the state title. JoWayne Boone and the Liberty High Colonels are headed to the state championship. But, this is Kentucky - the only state in the entire country that pits schools of different sizes and classes against one another in the ultimate basketball showdown in Rupp Arena.To go home champions, all JoWayne and his teammates have to do is win four games in four days against some ...
|  | The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Publication Date: August 22, 1996From the twelve days of Christmas to the Spring traditions of Valentine, Shrovetide, and Easter eggs, through May Day revels and Midsummer fires, and on to the waning of the year, Harvest Home, and Hallowe'en; Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. His comprehensive study covers all the British Isles and the whole sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present day. Great and lesser, ancient and modern, Christian and pagan, all rituals are treated with the same attention. The result is a colorful ...
| | Terence: The Brothers (Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0856687243 | ISBN-13: 978-0856687242"This is a very important work. It must be noticed not simply as an edition for young students, but as a challenge to most people's received notions about Terence: his text, his metre, and his ways of dealing with his material. Everybody interested at all in New Comedy should acquire a copy at once." Classical Review. ...
|  | God's Imagination
Publication Date: March 17, 2011Appealing to all ages, God's Imagination is an inspirational poem partnered with pictures."My inspiration for God's Imagination actually came from my children watching Baby Einstein.We were watching 'World of Animals' and I would point out the animal and my son would name it and my daughter, still a baby, was also learning. This was both educational and fun for us," says author Maribeth Zuesi.She remembers as a child reading and learning The Creation Story, in which God created the world in seven days. "The Creation Story came to mind and the next thing I know...
|  | The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise
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|  | Reading Revolution: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
Publication Date: May 2000| ISBN-10: 0300081529 | ISBN-13: 978-0300081527This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them. Based on the voluminous reading notes of one gentleman, Sir William Drake, the book shows how readers formed radical social values and political ideas as they experienced civil war, revolution, republic and restoration. By analysing the strategies of Drake's reading practices, as well as those ...
|  | Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources
Publication Date: December 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 1591580994 | ISBN-13: 978-1591580997One of the most perplexing aspects of research today is what to do when there's too much information on a topic. What then of the librarian, charged with teaching new generations to appreciate the search for intellectual wheat, especially when the chaff has greater appeal? The key, suggests Leslie Stebbins, is to impress upon students the importance of good filtering instincts and careful management of search results. At the same time, it is equally essential to impress upon them the particular challenges a...
|  | American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: July 10, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521067650 | ISBN-13: 978-0521067652| Edition: Reissue Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth century analytical positivists such as Quine.Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism.This insight leads Goodman, through Cavell...
|  | Orpheus in the Middle Ages (Medieval Studies)
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|  | Pillars of the Earth & World Without End (2 Books)
Publication Date: 2007Both of Ken Follett's stunning and sweeping medieval historical epics. ...
|  | Fifty South to Fifty South
Publication Date: June 1, 2000The thrilling record of the voyage of the 85 ft. pilot schooner Wander Bird around Cape Horn in the course of a voyage from Tangier to San Francisco. A salty tale of a magnificent voyage. Many photos."The photographs show as well as the written wordwhat a Cape Horn passage is like." NY Times ...
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