 | 'Yellow Woman': Leslie Marmon Silko (Rutgers Films in Print)
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 |  | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon (Vintage)
Release Date: July 13, 2010| Series: Vintage After adventures with Charles Darwin, Captain Ahab, and Karl Marx, The Pirate Captain faces off against his toughest—though not his biggest—challenge yet: Napoleon Bonaparte. Bruised from a crushing disappointment at the Pirate of the Year Awards, the Pirate Captain decides that it’s time for a career change. Before long, his loyal crew, much to their dismay, find themselves en route to St. Helena, a bleak speck of an island a thousand miles from anywhere. But the Captain’s plan for a quiet life rearing bees is int...
|  | Things We Left Unsaid
Publication Date: June 16, 2012A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life. She has all she's ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood. But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival of an enigmatic Armenian family across the street. The debonair widower, his beguiling tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way into Clarisse's home. Before she has time to understand what's happening, passions, politics, and a plague of locusts have...
|  | Lemon Reef
Publication Date: July 17, 2012What would you risk for the memory of your first love?When Jenna Ross learns her high school love Del Soto died on Lemon Reef, she refuses to accept the official Miami medical examiner’s report of death from natural causes.Lemon Reef is a realm of glimmering beauty, where marine life triumphs over industrial waste. Jenna and Del dove on it every day during the summer before their tenth grade year, their love for the reef deepening as their passion for each other grew. It is a site of tenacity and wonder that mirrored their own, until they were outed and ...
|  | Academy X: A Novel
Release Date: May 29, 2007Welcome to Academy X, an ethical wonderland in which up is down, right is wrong, and parents and students will stop at nothing (including lying, plagiarizing, and even seduction to name a few) in orderto get into the Ivy League. Caught in the middle is John Spencer, a bumbling but loveable English teacher struggling through the final weeks of his spring semester. But keeping focused on a Jane Austen seminar proves problematic when a His crush on the sexy school librarian andas well as a pending promotion threaten to divert his attentionare threatening to sink ...
|  | The Maya :Life, Myth and Art
Publication Date: July 18, 1998"The Maya" moves deftly from theme to theme to present a fresh appraisal of the cultural and artistic legacy of the Maya, most spectacularly seen at the great temple complexes. From monumental architecture to intricate stone carvings to breathtakingly vivid wall paintings, this lavishly illustrated volume features over 200 images in full color. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Revenge Tragedies
Publication Date: June 2003| ISBN-10: 0967912156 | ISBN-13: 978-0967912158This collection of four revenge tragedies is the first in a series of Shakespeare in context volumes, which considers the plays of William Shakespeare as part of the intellectual climate of his day and here presents his Hamlet with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, and Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy.The first part of the general introduction explores Renaissance revenge tragedy's relationship to Seneca's revenge drama and traces the development of th...
|  | The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 28, 2012 "Scott McClanahan is a powerful, exceptional writer, and the overall effect of reading his deceptively simple stories is like getting hit in the head by a champion cage fighter cranked up on meth that was cooked in a trailer without running water in some Kentucky backwoods where people sing murder ballads to their children to put them to sleep." -DONALD RAY POLLOCK, author of The Devil All the Time "He might be one of the great southern storytellers of our time."-VOL. 1 BROOKLYN "When I discovered the stories of Scott McClanahan last year, I was instantly enthr...
|  | After Midnight: True Lesbian Erotic Confessions
Publication Date: June 13, 2006The uncensored words of real lesbians describing their hottest, wildest erotic adventures.This real-life erotica collection is like peeking into the secret diaries of some very frisky girls.In this collection, lesbians from across the country reveal their deepest, most intimate erotic secrets — things they wouldn't dare tell anyone else. Like the blisteringly hot story of 21-year-old Jessica who seduces her mother's best friend. Or Stacy J.'s confession of her very naughty one-night stand that lasts four days. Plus, swaggering butch studs J.P. and Carla en...
|  | As Through A Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam
Publication Date: October 31, 2001This new edition of a classic work contains five lectures from a world-renowned scholar on the development of Islamic mystical poetry, from individual Sufi poets like the legendary Rumi, to the intricacies of sacred verse and the joys of nonsense poetry. ...
|  | Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children (An Owlet book)
Publication Date: August 1988 ...
|  | Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry: The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: January 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521054680 | ISBN-13: 978-0521054683| Edition: 1 This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting and photography. Taking as a starting point mid-nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of visual perception, Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving. This is played out in the aesthetic theory of John Ruskin, the early poetry of William Morris, paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the photographic technique of co...
|  | Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
Release Date: July 31, 2001In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and de...
|  | His at Night
Release Date: May 25, 2010Love is hottest in the darkness before dawn. Elissande Edgerton is a desperate woman, a virtual prisoner in the home of her tyrannical uncle. Only through marriage can she claim the freedom she craves. But how to catch the perfect man?Lord Vere is used to baiting irresistible traps. As a secret agent for the government, he’s tracked down some of the most devious criminals in London, all the while maintaining his cover as one of Society’s most harmless—and idiotic—bachelors. But nothing can prepare him for the scandal of being ensnare...
|  | Faery Special Romances
Publication Date: May 15, 2007Once Upon A Time, the faery princess Keely tried to match . . .. . . a misguided faery maiden and a surly but handsome knight, the pirate Devlin Angell and the ever-hopeful Myra, a faery under the ruse of Lord Kembell and a lady of nobel birth, a blacksmith and a duchess, a flapper and a barnstormer pilot . . .But can Keely keep her own heart? With faery magic, anything can happen!This enchanted carpet-ride features ten romantic faery tales, ten happy couples, and a journey through history with Keely, who grows from a kindergartener to a beautiful young faery wo...
|  | Skinny-dipping
Release Date: April 26, 2005Lilly Cleary is an attorney for a prestigious Sarasota law firm. But her killer cross-examination technique and take-no-prisoners courtroom attitude haven't stopped the senior partners from dumping one stink bomb after another on her desk—like the kayak-whiplash case she's currently saddled with. And problems at home, specifically with her ex–boyfriend, aren't making her disposition any sunnier.But it isn't until she's mugged outside her office that her troubles really begin. And when someone puts a bullet hole in her favorite suit, Lilly realizes thin...
|  | Trespasser (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)
Release Date: April 10, 2012| Series: Mike Bowditch Mysteries In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before. While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road—but both the driver and t...
|  | Night for Dreaming
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|  | L. A. Lakers (Inside the NBA)
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | YNA Macbeth (York Notes Advanced)
Publication Date: May 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 1405801743 | ISBN-13: 978-1405801744| Edition: 1 York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature.This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students.Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. ...
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