 | Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York
Publication Date: June 1, 1970Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero. Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism." ...
 |  | Chicano Chicanery
Publication Date: January 1, 2000In bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacón captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes tortuous ways by which Mexican-Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory--often only to trip themselves out. ...
|  | The Salt Eaters
Release Date: June 30, 1992Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever. ...
|  | Glue
Publication Date: May 2001An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally, exceedingly thin-skinned and vulnerable to catastrophe at every turn. ...
|  | Alaska Twilight (Women of Faith Fiction)
Publication Date: March 7, 2006"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try." For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak's bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts when another body turns up, and Haley beginst to wonder if the tragedies she exp...
|  | The Three Crowns: The Story of William and Mary
Release Date: November 2, 2010When an empire is at stake, one woman stands between the past and the future In post-Restoration England, King Charles II has fathered numerous bastards, but not a single legitimate heir. Because of this, his brother, James, Duke of York, is heir-presumptive to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland—the three crowns of Britain. But James’s devout Catholicism, and desire to return Britain to the rule of Rome, does not sit well with his subjects and his time as king is sure to be short.Raised under the Protestant guardianship of her uncle...
|  | Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS--A RECONSIDERATION (Illini books)
Publication Date: June 29, 1999| Series: Illini books This is the book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation - now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, "The Wild Bunch", it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since "Citizen Kane". "Peckinpah: The Western Films" first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's...
|  | Benito Cereno
Publication Date: January 12, 2011| ISBN-10: 1611043913 | ISBN-13: 978-1611043914"Benito Cereno" contains some of Herman Melville's most vivid action writing, though the action is all suspense and premonition until the climax. Why this story hasn’t been more widely acclaimed remains a mystery, as it captures the imagination of a 'young reader' in a tighter grip than Billy Budd. Joseph Conrad's famous story of the Congo was written decades after Melville's story of a mutiny, and it's extremely unlikely that Conrad was thinking of Benito Cereno when he wrote Heart of Darkness, but t...
|  | Alexandre Dumas' The Count Of Monte Cristo: An Adaptation for the Stage
Publication Date: May 31, 2002An exciting and powerful new stage adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of romance, revenge, obsession and redemption."Richly rewarding...fully satisfies any need for romantic intrigue...production is stunning...the artistry is simply magical...another triumph for Morey and the Pioneer Theatre Company" -Salt Lake Tribune"...a play that is powerful and rich with symbolism, but also smashingly entertaining...fabulously entertaining, not to mention meaningful and important...theatre at its finest" -Provo Daily Herald"...exciting edge of your seat drama with ...
|  | The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson
Publication Date: August 15, 2003Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Maxine Kumin writes in her foreword to this collection, "the majority of Swenson's love poems are human you-and-I poems, exquisitely tender and understated." Culled from Swenson's published poetry as well as from her unpublished manuscripts, the poems in this collection provide an intimate glimpse of one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century, "a poet of dazzling gifts" (Joyce Carol Oates). ...
|  | Chemical Warfare: A Study of Restraints
Publication Date: April 29, 1981| ISBN-10: 031322823X | ISBN-13: 978-0313228230This book analyzes the employment of toxic agents during the First World War and the subsequent pattern of restraints as they evolved during the interwar years. Part I examines the use of toxic agents in World War I as it influenced subsequent national policy decisions. Part II focuses on the evolution of political, military, economic, and psychological restraints to American employment of toxic agents from 1919 to 1939. Part III discusses World War II during two critical periods: 1939 to early 1942, when the ...
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| | Poems and Paintings of Shuangqing: In Chinese
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|  | Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume III: The Late Period
Publication Date: April 3, 2006| ISBN-10: 0520248449 | ISBN-13: 978-0520248441| Edition: 2nd Revised edition First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations.Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including biographical and historical inscriptions carved on stone, the various classes of literary works written with pen on papyrus, and the mort...
|  | Burning Lamp: Book Two in the Dreamlight Trilogy (Arcane Society)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Arcane Society (Book 2) In this second novel of the Dreamlight trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick, psychic power and passion collide when a legendary curse ignites a dangerous desire. ...
|  | Night Lost: A Novel of the Darkyn
Release Date: May 1, 2007| Series: NOVEL OF THE DARKYN Abandoned by his fellow Darkyn, Gabriel Seran is in continual torment as a prisoner of the religious zealots known as the Brethren. His only hope for rescue lies in Nicola Jefferson, a thief seeking a holy relic-and connected to Gabriel in more ways than she can possibly imagine... ...
| ![Dakota Heat, Volume 2 [Dakota's Cowboys, Dakota Springs] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tXWZZnjDL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Dakota Heat, Volume 2 [Dakota's Cowboys, Dakota Springs] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)
Publication Date: March 4, 2010[Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] While struggling to keep her ranch, Dakota Wells turns away the two sexy, hard-as-nails cowboys who come looking for work. But they won't take no for an answer and convince her to hire them. Little does she know how hard and fast she'll fall for them. Joe Taylor and Colt Mason have their own reasons for wanting to work at her ranch. The man causing their new employer trouble is the same man who ruined their lives years ago. Thoughts of revenge have kept them going and they won't let anyone get in their...
|  | Cast in Stone (Quinguard Immortals)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Quinguard Immortals He waited seven hundred years to find her.For what seemed an eternity, Julen endured a nightly punishment that never should have been his. Descended from a line of ancient warriors, he vowed not to become the creature his persecutors claimed he was - the creature they did their best to make him into. Now that he has found the healer who can end his nightly torment, the stirring she creates in his Agathyrsi blood threatens to bring more danger than redemption. She was sworn to destroy him.Sofia Evan, owner of Fortune's Cup coffeehous...
|  | Endless Night (Queen of Mystery)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Queen of Mystery Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night . . .When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman’s warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy’s Acre is the place where fatal “accidents” happen. ...
|  | Ride the Jawbone
Publication Date: August 1, 2011Ride the Jawbone weaves a compelling story of a gruesome murder and of a young lawyer who is called upon to defend the loathsome vagrant accused of the killing a young woman and throwing her body from the train. When no established attorney will defend the alleged murderer, the judge all but orders young T. C. Bruce, newly licensed to practice law, to undertake the task. While tracking the efforts of the young attorney to save his client from the hangman, the reader is transported back in time to central Montana, its ranching communities, and the famous Jawbon...
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