 | Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Vintage)
Release Date: December 20, 2011| Series: Vintage With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.This definitive edition of Ou...
 |  | Mother's Day: El Dia De Las Madres (Multicultural Celebrations)
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|  | The Way We Make Sense
Publication Date: October 1, 2002Rendered in intertwining passages of prose and poetry, this novel begins with the story of Indiana Redpaint, whose father traded her for a rodeo entry fee, and follows the path of her daughter, Manna, whose life has been deeply marked by her mother’s losses. Hitchhiking her way to Gallup, NM, Manna finds wholeness and healing in un-expected people and places.Dawn Karima Pettigrew, of Cherokee and other Native descent, is an ordained minister serving the Qualla boundary reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina. She has a B.A. from Harvard University, an M...
|  | Snobs/Past Imperfect Omnibus
Publication Date: September 1, 2011SNOBS Edith Lavery, the attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, leaves behind her dull job when she manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors in town. But is life amongst the aristocracy really all that it seems...? PAST IMPERFECT Damian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has one concern: who should inherit his fortune. A letter from an ex-girlfriend suggests Damian may have fathered a child, but the letter is anonymous. Finding the truth will not be easy - and the only man who can help is Damian's sworn enemy... ...
|  | The Mother-In-Law Diaries
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Much to the surprise of his mother, Lulu Penfield's first-born son has gotten married. It's not that she minds; she's fairly sure that he's made a good choice. What's really eating at her is the realization that she is about to become--gasp--a mother-in-law. Lulu's been around the block more than a few times. She's had more than the average number of mothers-in-law, and she's found herself more than once figuring out how these women manage to embed themselves in her marriages. As mothers-in-law go, she's had some real doozies. There was the Budgeteer, who ins...
|  | Combust the Sun (Richfield & Rivers Mystery Series)
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|  | The Golden Grotto or Bracko, The Prince Frog
Publication Date: 1971A comedy for children and bright adults. ...
|  | Five Stuart Tragedies (Oxford paperbacks)
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|  | Ninety-Nine Names of Love:Expressions of the Heart
Publication Date: December 1, 2003Perhaps no other human emotion has inspired as much of the world’s beautiful art and poetry as love.Artists, poets, and philosophers strive to define it for us, yet no single definition can capture this powerful emotion that changes in the context of each relationship.Ninety-Nine Names of Love is a gorgeous collection of words and images that draws on the world’s greatest art, poetry, and prose to describe the many aspects of the simple word “love.”Love is the protector or preserver of all things:“He who...
|  | American Made Haiku
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|  | Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World, and her Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Publication Date: February 28, 1986| Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost authorities on her work. It draws on a profusion of recent documentation and research, some of it hitherto unpublished, and encompasses the whole course of her life. Professor Karlinsky is careful to supply the reader with the necessary context for understanding the work by setting out the historical, political and literary background against which Tsvetaeva's life and literary development evolved. A particular feature...
|  | Dutch Romances: I. Roman van Walewein (Arthurian Archives)
Publication Date: May 4, 2000| ISBN-10: 0859915840 | ISBN-13: 978-0859915847| Edition: First Edition The gem in the crown of Middle Dutch Arthurian romance, the Roman van Walewein embodies the transformation of popular folktale into courtly romance; in its rich variety of Arthurian motifs, it stands as an equal to the masterpiece of English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The framework of the romance is a tripartite series of quests, in which the hero, Walewein, must acquire and relinquish successive marvellous objects. Events are set in motion after Arthur and his knights have...
|  | Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
Release Date: December 1, 1990In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner horizons and opening our minds and spirits to a deeper relationship with the world and the people around us.Complete with enlightening quotations, exercises, sample journal entries, and techniques to nurture and encourage the writer and seeker within you, Life ...
|  | Marsh House
Publication Date: January 5, 2001This after her famous fathers suicide, Elizabeth Dalton sails to England where, working with his official biographer, a handsome, older man whose motives in dealing with this project are suspect, in the ominous setting of a Gothic manor house, she discovers the secrets of her fathers life in that same house when she was a child, including the horrible details of her mothers death, a murder which may await her, as well. ...
|  | Clancy Gift Set CST
Publication Date: October 1, 1991Includes A Clear and Present Danger and The Cardinal of the Kremlin. ...
|  | The Old Contemptibles
Release Date: January 22, 1992"The author keeps us enthralled with the rich interior and exterior lives of her characters in this emotionally stormy family saga."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWhen Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and w...
|  | The Shamus Winners: Volume II: 1996-2009
Publication Date: July 14, 2010Sixteen topflight mysteries by authors judged by their peers as "best in the business." This volume includes Shamus-winning short stories from 1996 through 2009. Well-known private eyes Amos Walker, Aaron Gunner, Scott Elliott and Alo Nudger tackle their toughest cases, joined by newer talent that proves crime-fighting is a fresh 21st century game. Authors include Pearl Abraham, Mitch Alderman, O'Neil De Noux, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Terrence Faherty, Gar Anthony Haywood, Jeremiah Healy, Ceri Jordan, John Lutz, Lia Matera, Warren Murphy,I. J. Parker,...
|  | Flowering Judas: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Gregor Demarkian “Haddam manages to produce each time a layered, richly peopled, and dryly witty book with a plot of mind-bending complexity.” —Houston Chronicle on Glass Houses Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive—paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she c...
|  | Tripods Prequel: When The Tripods Came (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Ugly Duckling
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Ever since its publication in 1845, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling has been a favorite with generations of children around the world. Today's youngsters will be equally moved by the hapless ugly duckling, who, ridiculed and rejected by all, suffers terrible hardships. And they will celebrate along with him when he finally emerges triumphant as the most beautiful swan of all! Bernadette Watts's detailed illustrations chronicle the bittersweet story with charm and poignancy. Perfect for institutional, t...
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