| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Publication Date: April 1, 2009Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native Ameri...
| | Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Vol. 1: 1852-1890 (Library of America) Release Date: October 15, 1992A collection of Mark Twain's early writings begins with his first published work at age sixteen and includes a dazzlingly varied array of tall tales, short stories, essays, anecdotes, hoaxes, speeches, philosophies, fables, satires, and maxims. ...
| | Mai Ya's Long Journey (Badger Biographies Series) Publication Date: August 31, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (US) Publication Date: September 1998In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the lastdecade this American literary master has not been published in his owncountry.No longer!Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue displays the same plainspoken power that hasdazzled Purdy's devoted audience for decades. The story of a woman'sstruggle to come to terms with a life seemingly emptied of meaning by herestranged daughter's death, it explores themes that Purdy has long made hisown: the mysterious connections between creativity and self destruction; thehuman alchemy that binds us even as it forces us...
| | The Torn Skirt Release Date: October 15, 2002I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside me.At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Ju...
| | The Young Wives Publication Date: November 1, 2002Fergus is older than Sheila, in the British Army, and fond of his drink, but he loves her and Sheila doesn't hesitate when he proposes, although their marriage will mean leaving Dublin. In November 1961, Sheila finds herself and her twin baby girls with three other young women on their way to join their husbands stationed in Germany. The young women are plunged into a very different life from the ones they have left. They become friends, sharing their worries, secrets, disappointments, and troubles. Elaine Crowley creates a community bound together by the sp...
| | A Darkness More Than Night (A Harry Bosch Novel) Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Series: A Harry Bosch Novel Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he has known and worked with in the past: LAP...
| | Try Fear Publication Date: July 16, 2009For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine about it. Because the cops suspect it's murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl's brother, for the crime. Now Ty, at the desperate urging of Eric's mother, agrees to defend him. But it won't be easy. Because there's DNA on the gun that matches Eric's, and a history of conflict between the brothers.Then Ty, assisted by Sister Mary Veritas, begins to uncover tentacles of corruption that reach int...
| | The Wild Duck (Drama Classics) Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Drama Classics The eighth of Ibsen's great plays in Drama Classics. ...
| | Temptations, Wicked Women and Denials Publication Date: February 2003These verse plays were written for rehearsed readings at evening church entertainments. As you will see, the three plays are unrelated. The "temptations" are not those of the "Wicked women," nor are the "denials" theirs; the women are more maginificent than wicked. Rather, each of ten women from the Bible explains in a soliloquy what really happened. Temptations is a duel between Jesus and Satan in the wilderness. Denials is an Easter play, requiring no scenery or costuming. ...
| | Poesia vertical / Vertical poetry (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | Goethe (Twayne's World Authors Series) ...
| | Poeziia "serebrianogo veka": Uchebnoe posobie (Uralskaia biblioteka slovesnika) (Russian Edition) ...
| | Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America Publication Date: June 28, 2011Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long beenpreoccupied with labor politics and with the racism, nativism, and misogyny oftheir public culture. Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America expandsour account of such men by asking questions about their social and bodily livesthat are more discrete, yet still engaged with the economic forces thatradically altered working life as the market revolution transformed a rural,agricultural nation into one that was commercial, industrial, and urban.To advance a more capacious view of workingmen, ...
| | This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Release Date: July 21, 2009The new paperback in the bestselling series of inspiring personal philosophiesThis collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that begins the book’s title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II, like the first New York Times bestselling collection, showcases moving and irresist...
| | The Bride of Hatfield Castle ...
| | A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: George Smiley "Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?"John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband—an assistant master at Carne School—is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime coll...
| | Jane and the Man of the Cloth: Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery) Release Date: November 3, 1997| Series: Being A Jane Austen Mystery For everyone who loves Jane Austen...the second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis.Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house.And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth.What murky secrets does the brooding Mr.Sidmouth seek to hide?Jane su...
| | Stone Quarry (Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels) Publication Date: January 15, 2001| Series: Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smith's partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It's a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician ...
| | Little Muddy Waters: A Gullah Folk Tale ...
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