 | Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
Publication Date: November 17, 1998The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold and unique collection that the Miami Herald describes as "breathtakingly broad and deep."In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speech...
 |  | Judgment Call: A Brady Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Series: Joanna Brady MysteriesNew York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert Judgment Call When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the desert, the Cochise County sheriff's personal and professional worlds collide, forcing her to tread the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders has always me...
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Publication Date: 1950One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic—slow, distant, and dreamy—he begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemp...
|  | Pure
Release Date: May 29, 2012Jean-Baptiste Baratte, an engineer of modest origin, arrives in the city in 1785, charged by the King’s minister with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, a ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood’s air and water and leaving a vile taste in its inhabitants’ food. At first the ambitious Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to both his own demise and that of...
|  | The Departed : A Novel
Publication Date: March 8, 2005Unexplained voices.Desperate apparitions.A dangerous coven of witches.Welcome toThe Other Side.Joshua Lazarus and his wife, Maggie, are reeling from the overnight success of his new television show, starring Joshua as a medium--passing messages to the audience from their dearly departed.It's all a sham, of course--but when strange voices begin to haunt him without relief, and ghosts seemingly cry out to him for help, he realizes he's involved with forces he never believed existed.As Joshua and Maggie try to make sense of the visitations, a closer, more visible ...
|  | Last Dance (A Winston Patrick Mystery)
Release Date: January 30, 2012| Series: A Winston Patrick Mystery (Book 2) Winston Patrick was a successful lawyer who defended the downtrodden of Vancouver's criminal world. Dissatisfied with his career, he traded in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Winston is barely surviving his first year at a Vancouver high school when his students present a human rights issue. A student wants to bring his same-sex partner to the high school prom, but the school won't let him.Winston reluctantly leads his proteges on their first legal quest: suing the school. He never thought that fighting f...
|  | Freddy vs. Jason (New Line Cinema)
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|  | Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History- The Tragic Events in the Life of the Royal House of the Hundred-Gated Thebes
Publication Date: June 1960Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical person? Such questions have provoked interest among historians and authors for centuries. In Oedipus and Akhnaton, Immanuel Velikovsky identifies the scene and all the personages of the Greek Oedipus legend with the life patterns of the family of the Egyptian King Akhnaton, reputedly the first monotheist during the most famous famous period of Egyptian history. As a feat in unraveling myth, lore...
|  | Epic and Lyric (Aspects of Portugal Vol 2)
Publication Date: November 1989| ISBN-10: 0856358355 | ISBN-13: 978-0856358357Luis de Camoes (c.1524-1580), the 'national poet' of Portugal, wrote the first epic poem which, in scope and universality, spoke for a modern world. 'The Lusiad' was the poem of European conquest and its moral misgivings, its human consequences. Camoes himself possesses qualities of the epic hero. He was Galician and Celtic in ancestry, descended from the trovador Perez Camoes. Though orphaned, he was a scholar, lover and soldier who bore deep injuries and long exile for empire and love and travelled the world ...
|  | Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society,
Publication Date: January 2, 2000| ISBN-10: 0520224736 | ISBN-13: 978-0520224735| Edition: Updated Updated Edition With a New PrefaceLila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about ...
|  | The Early Heidegger & Medieval Philosophy: Phenomenology for the Godforsaken
Publication Date: November 29, 2006| ISBN-10: 0813214718 | ISBN-13: 978-0813214719The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy is a major interpretive study of Heidegger's complex relationship to medieval philosophy. S. J. McGrath's contribution is historical and biographical as well as philosophical, examining how the enthusiastic defender of the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition became the great destroyer of metaphysical theology.This book provides an informative and comprehensive examination of Heidegger's changing approach to medieval sources--from the seminary studies of Bonaventure ...
| | English Literature of the 1920s
Publication Date: July 15, 1999Focusing principally on the novel, Ayers sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms and explores the engagement of these texts with social concerns. ...
|  | Tin Angel
Publication Date: January 1, 1990Kat and L.J. Martin have announced the re-release of one of their most popular novels, the only novel they've written as a team, Tin Angel. Henry Taggart had gone to San Francisco several years prior to 1872 and had built up Taggart Enterprises, which included the Tin Angel. Henry had been killed and left 51% of his businesses to his daughter, Jessica, and 49% to his manager, Jake Weston. Jessica lived in Boston and Jake thought she would remain there and let him run the business. But Jessica had other ideas. In their telegrams after H...
|  | Pearl's Redemption (Five Star Expressions)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1594147000 | ISBN-13: 978-1594147005Pearl Lloyd would do anything to keep her ranch and protect her girls. When Davidson Smythe shows up on her doorstep claiming to have bought her ranch, she shoots first and asks questions second. Davidson Smythe wants to start over, leaving Boston and his brother's suspicious death behind. Sight unseen, he spends his half of the inheritance on a ranch out in Colorado, only to find the ranch occupied by a battered angel who can shoot like the devil. ...
|  | Desert Fire
Publication Date: July 11, 2011She opened her eyes and beheld, for the first time, the face of Jackson McCall. Ruggedly handsome and her noble rescuer, he would, she knew in that moment, forever hold captive her heart as he then held her life in his protective arms.Yet she was a nameless beauty, haunted by wisps of visions of the past. How could she ever hope he would return the passionate, devotional love she secreted for him when her very existence was a riddle?Would Jackson McCall (handsome, fascinating, brooding) ever see her as anything more than a foundling-a burden to himself and his ...
|  | The Informationist: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel (Vanessa Michael Munroe Novels)
Release Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Vanessa Michael Munroe Novels “Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed reviewVanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—work...
|  | Criminal Intent
Release Date: July 1, 2003When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there’s bound to be controversy—and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice. And smack in the middle of the explosive case is Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid.Kincaid rescued Father Daniel Beale once before. When the priest’s renegade views and violent temper nearly cost him his position as rector of St. Benedict’s Chu...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles
Release Date: October 13, 2009“With wit and careful analysis, Bayard makes a convincing case…This slim yet satisfying inquiry will make readers eager to pick up the classic mystery and test Bayard’s methods for themselves.”—Los Angeles Times In his brilliant reinvestigation of the classic case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Pierre Bayard uses the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key to unravel the mystery, leading the reader to the astonishing conclusion that Holmes—and, in fact, Arthur Conan Doyle—got things all wrong. Part intellectual ...
|  | The Violet Fairy Book (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 1966| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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