 | Murder Mamas
Release Date: September 27, 2011Robyn and Aries are “The Murder Mamas,” contract killers taking no prisoners in Los Angeles. It doesn’t take them long to link up with Hollywood’s biggest drug kingpin, who hires them to take out a snitch and a judge. But the plans backfire and they only complete half the job. Robyn gets caught and put on Death Row, and Aries goes on the run. She winds up in the Islands, where she takes up a new life as a mother and wife, and tries to forget who she once was. But unfinished business has a way of coming back to haunt you; and when it...
 |  | Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Black Women Writers Series)
Release Date: October 31, 1986| Series: Black Women Writers Series (Book 716) Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a blackdomestic, and her friend Marge. They create a vibrant picture of thelife of a black working woman in New York in the 1950s.Rippling withsatire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts capture vividly her whiteemployers’ complacency and condescension—and startled reactions to amaid who speaks her mind. As Mildred declares to a patroniz...
|  | Digital Disaster (Hyperlinkz #1)
Release Date: May 18, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up It’s a Long Way Back to Normal...Austin and Ashley Webster are normal 12-year-old kids, living in Normal, Illinois. But things get very abnormal when an odd digital camera transports them into the wild, wild world of the Internet. Soon they’re hopping from website to website, searching for their Aunt’s Jessica’s lost prize-winning beagle, Applet. From the Titanic to the Apostle Paul’s shipwreck, they’re really there! But things get really wired when they run into the mysterious Mattie Blankenskrean, who...
|  | Devil's Keep
Release Date: March 30, 2010BORN TO KILLEven trained warriors often feel an internal blink of resistance when the killing takes place within the zone of body heat.Not Ray Favor. He killed with the easeof flipping a light switch.ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTIONA decade ago, Ray Favor was a remorseless killer for theBlack Ops cell Bravo One Nine. He did what he was hiredt o do out of patriotism and duty. Now, having amassed a fortune but deeply troubled by his past and suspicious of his own nature, Favor is motivated by something more: a chance to r ight the wrongs he committed and restore balance .He g...
|  | This Game Has No Loyalty
Publication Date: July 30, 2010Life offers no explanation, only lessons to be learned and no one is immune. Junior is involved in a treacherous game he believes he will be able to change in his favor but quickly finds out he cannot change a game that has been played the same since before his time. Extreme betrayal soon invades his life and what was once a thriving business is derailed by threats of murder. In order to survive, he is forced to deal with the deadly situation by seeking help from his girlfriend Shondra who is left to make the unfortunate choice to destroy her friendship with he...
|  | Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
Publication Date: March 16, 2012Othello--a play full of secret marriage, evil villains, and revenge! It's often credited as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies!. But if your like many people, you just don't get it! If you don't understand Shakespeare, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of Othello. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram ...
|  | Gods and Kings (Chronicles of the Kings #1)
Publication Date: June 2007Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they are to save themselves and their country. Book 1 of Chronicles of the Kings. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Children of the Gods
Publication Date: February 9, 2005In 1929 a retired newspaper editor vacationing in the archeological digs of an old Mayan ruin has a preternatural vision that tells him Earth was created as an experiment in altered consciousness by children of higher beings who then forgot their original awareness. Although the vision occurred over a six day period, the editor spends the next forty years of his life transcribing his original notes into two large journals mailed posthumously to his grandchild as a strange inheritance. ...
|  | Fathers and Sons: A Play in Five Acts
Publication Date: December 26, 2011Based on Ivan Turgenev's novel of the same name, Frank J. Morlock's new play clearly dramatizes the societal divisions in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, deftly contrasting the defenders of the old regime with the younger generation of no-nonsense nihilists who will eventually succeed them. Nicolai and Pavel represent the older values (Nicolai softly, Pavel somewhat rigidly), while the two youths, Arkady (softly) and Bazarov (gruffly), make the case for change. In the end, Pavel and Bazarov fight an inconclusive duel--but the heightened animosity between gen...
|  | Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women
Release Date: January 22, 1998"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded—not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." —Theaatre Journal"A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." —BookwatchThis anthology is the first to address the impact ...
|  | King Lear (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 16, 1994| ISBN-10: 0486280586 | ISBN-13: 978-0486280585Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, it explores themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, wretchedness and the meaninglessness of life with unsurpassed power and depth. Reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes. ...
|  | JAMES JOYCE: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music
Publication Date: 1992An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Tygerberg Muses: A Student Anthology of Poetry
Publication Date: July 26, 2012The poems in this anthology constantly extend one’s frame of reference, subvert one’s assumptions, and encourage one to make challenging and illuminating connections. The writings represent the voice of the youth within a range of themes – love, education, gender, feminism, life, etc… A strong feature of this anthology is the powerful feelings and acute observations in the poems. It is heartening to note that students are grappling with cross-cultural worlds with words. (Rajendra Chetty, South Africa) ...
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|  | Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
Publication Date: June 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0816649650 | ISBN-13: 978-0816649655Like our own, early modern beliefs about race depended on metaphorical, selective, and contradictory understandings of how membership in groups is determined. Although race took distinctive forms in the past, the fallacies that underlie early modern racial experience generally are precisely-and surprisingly-the same as those in contemporary culture. Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race...
|  | Come Hell or High Water: A Broken Heart Novel (Broken Heart Vampires)
Release Date: January 5, 2010| Series: Broken Heart VampiresThe newest paranormal romance in the national bestselling Broken Heart seriesEverybody makes mistakes-and my first one was named Connor, a heart- stealing Scottish hottie. I thought our night together was the beautiful beginning to a love story, which turned out to be my second mistake. I, Phoebe Allen, lifelong Broken Heart resident and vampire, am now mated to a half-demon.Thankfully Phoebe's four-year-old son Danny is safely away at Disneyworld with his human father. Because Phoebe's right in the middle of major paranormal ...
|  | Uprising
Publication Date: July 1, 2007In Uprising, Dean Urdahl has crafted a story about Minnesota s war within a war in the Minnesota River Valley during the autumn of 1862. His saga is enriched by unfolding . . . on an even broader background beginning with the bloody battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862 and carrying his main character, Nathan Thomas, from there to Minnesota where he participates in an extraordinary number of adventures during the six-week ethnic earthquake variously known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Conflict, and the Dakota War. In casting Nathan as his central figure and...
|  | Ninjago Graphic Novels #6
Release Date: January 22, 2013| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Wolves (Look-Look)
Release Date: March 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Pride of the Plains (Lions of Lingmere)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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