 | That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women (A Midland Book)
Release Date: December 22, 1984| ISBN-10: 0253203384 | ISBN-13: 978-0253203380The poems and stories Rayna Green has chosen for this collection represent some of the most interesting and innovative writing in today's literature, yet their authors are for the most part unrecognized outside of feminist and Native American circles. That's What She Said provides an opportunity to become acquainted with a unique, exciting body of work. ...
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|  | Forsaken
Publication Date: October 1, 2008When Simon Mason, the world’s best-known televangelist, receives threats from Muslim terrorists, he hires Taylor Pasbury, a beautiful former Secret Service agent, to take charge of his security. Taylor is thrilled to receive the high-profile assignment, but she has no idea that Simon already knows more about her than she could imagine.When the terrorists strike, making a demand of the pastor that would shake the most steadfast saint, Taylor draws on all of her hard-knock toughness and training as she fights to save Simon and his daughter. Along the way...
|  | Net Trigger
Publication Date: March 2, 2009The Federal Bureau of Investigation receives an anonymous tip of an international technology company's plot to shut down the Internet and create a national security risk. They also obtain photographic negatives from a 24-year-old 35-millimeter camera depicting passengers struggling to survive a Convair 580 plane crash. The resolution of the crisis can only be found in the remains of the crash, deep in the Campeche jungle of Mexico. Though separated by decades, two timelines converge as Agent Darin Newsom and a team from Honduras search for the wreckage and the ...
|  | Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse (Cistercian Studies)
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|  | The Gravedigger
Publication Date: April 19, 2007"Reminiscent of the work of Luis Alberto Urrea and Gabriel Garca Mrquez (Booklist), this enchanting first novelnow in paperbackwas an Original Voices feature at Borders and a Discover Great New Writers selection at Barnes & Noble. Juan Rodrigo, a gravedigger in a small Andalusianvillage, hears the voices of the dead and tells their stories to the livinga job that turns out to have both rewards and dangers in a magical place where spirits and people coexist harmoniously, and where readers will linger with delight. ...
|  | The Epics of Celtic Ireland: Ancient Tales of Mystery and Magic
Release Date: June 1, 2000A world-renowned Celtic historian restores the classic Irish epics to their original sacred context. • Restores the true Celtic morality and sentiment to these tales, which were expurgated by Christian monks. • Reveals how deeply these mythic tales have shaped modern sensibility. • Shows how the ancient Celtic tradition provides answers to contemporary spiritual needs. Some of the most powerfully moving tales in Western literature are to be found in the epics of Celtic Ireland. Heroes and heroines like Finn Mac Cool, Grainne, and Cuchulainn are now...
|  | The Ultimate Improv Book: A Complete Guide to Comedy Improvisation
Publication Date: September 1, 2001A complete improvisation curriculum in twenty-four class-length units. This comprehensive resource who shows the who, what, when, why and how of comedy improvisation. Main topics: What is improv?; Improvisational skills; Structuring; Strategies; How to start your own improvisation team. Includes many games and exercises. ...
|  | Early English Classical Tragedies.
Publication Date: June 1971| ISBN-10: 0403009138 | ISBN-13: 978-0403009138This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Scandal of the Fabliaux
Publication Date: February 1986R. Howard Bloch argues that medieval French comic tales are shocking not so much for their dirty words, scatology, and celebration of the body in all its concavities and protrusions, but moreso for their insistent exposure of the scandal of their own production. Looking first at fabliaux about poets, Bloch demonstrates that the medieval comic poet was highly conscious of the inadequacy of language and pushed this perception to its logical, scandalous limit. The comic function of the fabliaux was intentionally disruptive: anticlerical, antifeminist, and antiesta...
| | The bookhunter's guide to the Midwest, South and Canada: Compiled by Ray P. Reynolds
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|  | The Histories, Volume V: Books 16-27 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 160) Polybius’s theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years 264–146 bc, describing the rise of Rome, the destruction of Carthage, and the eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite the incomplete survival of all but the first five of forty books. ...
|  | Natural Histories of Discourse
Publication Date: July 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0226757706 | ISBN-13: 978-0226757704| Edition: 1 Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it.Eleven original essays of "natural history" r...
|  | A Place in the Country
Release Date: June 19, 2012Elizabeth Adler delivers an emotionally powerful novel about mothers and daughters, the secrets we share, and those we keep to ourselves. Fifteen-year-old Issy, and her newly-single mother, Caroline Evans, are struggling to find their way alone, as well as together. At thirty-eight, Caroline is coming to terms with this new life, even though she has little money and all the responsibility for the two of them. When she decides to leave their well-off lives in Singapore (and her cheating husband and his long-time mistress and powerh...
|  | Only His
Release Date: July 1, 1991Escaping the ravages of the Civil War, a gently reared lady must leave behind everything she knows -- and trust her life and her future to a dangerous gunfighter with a passion for vengeance. A team of prize Arabian horses is all that Willow Moran has left -- and Caleb Black is the only man who can help her reach her brother in the Colorado Rockies. But she fears this stranger who burns to avenge the wrongs of treacherous men. For Caleb is as wild and unpredictable as the uncivilized land he loves. Yet, though she challenges him at every tu...
|  | Five Little Pigs: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries / Queen of Mystery)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries / Queen of MysteryBeautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs” who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcÉe), who had her roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess), who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister), who cried all the way home.Sixteen years later, Caroline’s d...
|  | The Foolish Men of Agra
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Drawn from the traditional tales of Mogul India, The Foolish Men of Agra is a collection of ten delightfully funny and poignant stories. (1998) ...
|  | Disney's The Princess and the Frog: Kiss the Frog (Step into Reading, Step 2)
Release Date: October 13, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Walt Disney Pictures presents The Princess and the Frog. . . .Meet Tiana, Disney's newest princess! When she and the spoiled Prince Naveen are turned into frogs, they find themselves lost in the Louisiana bayou, with no one to turn to but a lovesick Cajun firefly, a trumpet-playing alligator—and each other. Determined to become human again, Tiana and Naveen embark on a hilarious and heartwarming adventure. Together, they find romance where they least expect it—and discover that dreams really can come tr...
|  | Allen Iverson (NBA) (Basketball Legends)
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 9 and up...
| ![Jim Copp, Will You Tell Me a Story?: Three Uncommonly Clever Tales [Book and Musical CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hqcjEJa-L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Jim Copp, Will You Tell Me a Story?: Three Uncommonly Clever Tales [Book and Musical CD]
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Once called "a musical Dr. Seuss," Jim Copp recorded nine children's albums from 1958 to 1971. These critically acclaimed, clever rhyming stories told through song won Jim Copp many passionate lifelong fans.Now, for the first time ever, his most popular characters--Kate Higgins, Miss Goggins and the gorilla, and Martha Matilda O'Toole--hop, stomp, and skip to life on the pages of this book. They're as captivating today as they were back when the New York Times called Jim's work "inspired nonsense." So come take ...
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