| M. Butterfly. Publication Date: January 1998Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusiveas a butterfly. How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government—and a man disguised as a woman? In a...
| | Frantic Publication Date: February 7, 2012Can a deranged serial killer be stopped before it s too late?For gas station attendant Marny Toogood it s just another day on the job when an urgent message from a young girl in the backseat of a car draws him into a daring rescue attempt. Now on the run with the girl and her brother, Marny begins to realize he must conquer his own past and surrender all to Christ. As they face kidnapping, underground cults, and other evils, can Marny trust the simple faith of a child and stand his ground against a power so twisted? ...
| | Vendedor mas grande del mundo, El (Nueva Coleccion) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Nueva Coleccion This tale, set in biblical times, follows the journey of Hafid, who rises from his position as a lowly camel boy to become the greatest salesman in the world by heeding the wisdom set forth in the Ten Ancient Scrolls of Success.But don't let the title fool you! You can apply the vision of the scrolls to any area of your life, and you will see a positive and remarkable difference. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | The Power: A Novel of Voodoo Release Date: November 1, 2008The night before Mama was beaten with a salted leather strap, she told her daughter, Don t worry, chile. You be a queen. Those words sustain the little slave in the dark days ahead. THE POWER follows Reyna Royale, a slave girl, from her voodoo initiation on a Georgia cotton plantation to partial freedom and esoteric study with Marie Laveau in New Orleans, America s voodoo capital, and to gold rush San Francisco where she becomes a rich and successful madam, a courageous underground railroad worker, and ultimately a cold blooded murderess. ...
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| | LAS BRUJAS DE MAYFAIR 2-LASHER. LA VOZ DEL DIABLO (Las Brujas De Mayfair / Lives of the Mayfair Witches) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: May 15, 2010| Series: Las Brujas De Mayfair / Lives of the Mayfair Witches (Book 2) Al principio oia la voz de su padre. Emaleth"", le susurraba junto al vientre de su madre mientras esta dormia. Luego le cantaba largas canciones sobre el valle de Donnelaith, el castillo y el lugar donde un dia se encontrarian ambos. Le aseguro que naceria sabiendo todo cuanto el sabia. ""Asi somos nosotros"", le dijo su padre en el rapido lenguaje que los otros no comprendian. A los otros les sonaba como un murmullo o un silbido. Era su lengua secreta, pues eran capaces de oir unas silabas...
| | The Bear and the Dragon Release Date: August 21, 2000Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR--the former KGB--with a...
| | Bleed The Game Publication Date: September 10, 2003A tale of violence and intrigue inside the world of a major college football program.It is a world controlled by money and power...where blackmail, bribery, sex and insanity are the rules rather than the exception. ...
| | The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature Publication Date: May 20, 1999This anthology, gathered and introduced by distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, offers the panoramic literary range of the American West, from the romance of the mythic Wild West to the present-day creative explosion of the real, diverse West. The real West has been written about since first contact in the sixteenth century, in the diaries of explorers ranging from Franciscan missionary Pedro Font to Lewis and Clark. A Native American tradition of cultural expression preceded European settlers by thousands of years, and today a contemporary Native renai...
| | Afro-Cuban Tales Publication Date: January 1, 2005As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate.Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alter...
| | Culture Clash in AmeriCCa Publication Date: January 1, 2003"These guys are funny daredevils of performance, totally fearless as they skewer convention and lazy thinking. Cool."—Eric Bogosian"Important social satire for these urgent times."—Dolores Huerta, Vice President, United Farm Workers Union"Keep kicking them in the cojones."—George CarlinThe newest work by the ever-outrageous comic trio, Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza) collects their four most recent investigations into contemporary American culture as viewed in four very distinct American cities. Each piece ...
| | Anna in the Tropics - Acting Edition Publication Date: January 1, 2005Starring Jimmy Smits, this poetic Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and lectors are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and The American Dream prove a volatile combination. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Alma Martinez, Jonathan Nichols, Winston Rocha, Onahoua Rodrigu...
| | Elipse de la codorniz, La (Series Croatian Haiku Poets) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | Signs: Only the beginning of the new way (Russian Edition) ...
| | Mmiri a zoro nwayo nwayo: Softly, it rained (Ibo poems, with english translations) (Igbo Edition) Publication Date: November 5, 2011Mmiri a zoro nwayo nwayo (Softly, it rained).Poems written in the Igbo Language, with english translations.Igbo is the language spoken by the Igbo People of south-eastern Nigeria.The poems in this volume are modern poems written in Igbo, composed by the Igbo poet Che Chidi Chukwumerije, a writer and musician, representing his love for his language and his contribution to the collective desire of many Africans that their ancient languages find also written anchorage, that they do not fade away, suffering the fate of many a tongue which in the past was also on...
| | The Way the World Works: Essays Release Date: August 7, 2012Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the World Works, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about...
| | Requiem por un campesino español (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: April 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 8423342395 | ISBN-13: 978-8423342396Réquiem por un campesino español recoge un dramático episodio de la guerra civil en un pueblecito aragonés. Mosén Millán se dispone a ofrecer una misa en sufragio del alma de un joven a quien había querido como a un hijo. Mientras aguarda a los asistentes, el cura reconstruye los hechos: el fracaso de su mediación, con la que crey&iocute; poder salvar al joven, pero que sólo sirvió para entregarlo a sus ejecutores. El relato es de una perfect...
| | Masters of the Hotel Bentmoore: The Complete Collection Publication Date: April 9, 2012All the hosts of the Hotel Bentmoore are skilled at titillating, tantalizing, and pleasing, their guests. But only the Masters have what it takes to arouse the most lecherous of thoughts, seduce consent out of the most hesitant of women, and in the end, lay bare every erotic fantasy their guests ever had.The Hotel Bentmoore. Where anonymity, secrecy, and above all else, ultimate carnal pleasure, are guaranteed.MichelleMichelle greets her host, Mr. Dean, with vague and dubious claims. It seems she has no idea what she wants, and yet she specifically asks for Mr....
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| | Alice in Wonderland (Campfire Graphic Novels) Release Date: July 27, 2010 ...
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