 | What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
Publication Date: August 28, 2012How scapegoat politics is dividing America and bankrupting the middle classThe size and stability of the American middle class was once the envy of the world. But changes unleashed in the 1960s pitted Americans against one another politically in new and destructive ways—while economically, everyone fell behind except the wealthy.Right-wing culture warriors blamed the decline on the moral shortcomings of "other" Americans—blacks, feminists, gays, immigrants, union members —to court a fearful white working and middle class base with ever more bit...
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 | Days of Black
Publication Date: February 25, 2012India, 1984.The Indian government quarantines Amritsar and enforces a total media blackout to prepare for an assault against 'separatists' taking refuge in the Golden Temple--the most sacred temple of the Sikhs. They choose a religious anniversary to attack. The temple and Amritsar are crowded with the most devout pilgrims from all over India. They attack the Golden Temple with more than 65 000 soldiers to exterminate less than 150 'separatists'.An entire generation is wiped out.After the attack, the government keeps the temple closed for months to clean up...
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 | AMY Tan: THE JOY Luck Club (Leather Bound)
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 | Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Publication Date: May 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0804758336 | ISBN-13: 978-0804758338Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs.When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms of the Eucharist), they lost a doctrine that infuses all materiality, spirituality, and signification with the presence of God.That presence guaranteed the cleansing of human fault, the establishment of justice, the s...
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 | New Terrors: v. 1
Publication Date: July 11, 19801st edition paperback, vg+ ...
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 | BioShock: Rapture
Release Date: June 26, 2012It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing…and many are desperate to take that freedom back. Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired...
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 | Catching the Drift
Publication Date: September 4, 2012We don t belong here. Wake up. Wake up before we both die. Fate and near supernatural circumstances throw two young lovers into aharrowing situation where they must rely on each other for survival.Barely surviving a ruthless shooting in his Montana hometown, sixteenyearold Alex Fahlstrom awakens from a coma only to find that hismemory is compromised. In an attempt to build a new life that has nosemblance of their roots, Alex s family moves to Kansas City. Lost andemotionally adrift in this new town, Alex seeks comfort from a cast ofeccentric high school str...
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 | Soldier of Fortune (Captain Rawson 1)
Publication Date: February 4, 2009| Series: Captain Rawson 1 It is 1704 and Europe is at war. 'Take this sword as your own and wear it with more honour than the man from whom you took it'. With Lord Churchill's words ringing in his ears, the courageous young Captain Daniel Rawson embarks on a dangerous mission to lead his men into battle against the French enemy. He must succeed at all costs - the future of England is at stake.The author of the bestselling 'Railway Detective' series triumphs with this stunning first book in the Captain Rawson series. ...
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 | Representative Chapters in Ancient History (Vols. I & 2)
Publication Date: November 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0761818197 | ISBN-13: 978-0761818199Representative Chapters in Ancient History is not just another set of reference books or an attempt to completely summarize the ancient world. It is meant to be read as a lively and realistic portrait of classical antiquity. These books represent eras of ancient history at a level of detail usually reserved for full scale accounts, making it a great text both for college students and for the general reader. The approach is evolutionary. Students are given a thorough grounding in the origin and development o...
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 | Ernest Dawson and his wonderful book shop: A reminiscence
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 | The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 5, 1992| Series: Penguin Classics (Book 217) No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus' ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Pr...
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 | Stories Of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study
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 | The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism
Publication Date: February 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521034035 | ISBN-13: 978-0521034036This study is a major reappraisal of Virginia Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time. Through extensive archival research, Ann Banfield offers the first full analysis of Woolf's engagement with the theories of a remarkable trinity of thinkers: G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Roger Fry. ...
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 | Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative
Publication Date: November 2004What is the best way to tell a story?In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative,cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and Kevin Killian, writers who have spent years pondering the meaning of storytelling and how storytelling functions in our culture, as well as presenting a newgeneration of br...
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 | The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times
Publication Date: October 1998This book is a collection of Ayn Rands column in the Los Angeles Times . ...
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 | Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 8)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting ideas of religionless Christianity, his open and honest theological appraisal of Christian doctrines, and hi...
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 | The Prey: A Novel
Release Date: December 27, 2005First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real.Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim had the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan’s novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed–again, the murder ripped from...
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 | The Haunted Ghoul Bus
Publication Date: October 7, 2008Of course children know about the big yellow school bus…but have they ever heard about the haunted ghoul bus? It’s wilder and way cooler, with a Mutant Mummy driver and a menagerie of monster passengers. But one Halloween day someone else gets on board by mistake: a normal little boy. Soon he’s taking a ride with a furry werewolf, a skeleton whose rickety bones go clitter-clatter, a grinning pumpkin head, a swirl of bats, and a friendly witch named Dolores. Told in fun and appealing rhyme, and featuring holiday-bright illustrations ...
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 | Sleeping Beauty: A Grimm's Fairy Tale
Publication Date: August 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Sleeping Beauty is perhaps one of the most well-known and best-loved of all fairy tales.Beautifully illustrated in soft watercolours. ...
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 | Greg Maddux: On the Mound with... (Matt Christopher Sports Bio Bookshelf)
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
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