 | Humor of the Old Southwest
Publication Date: September 1, 1994One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861 in an area that extended from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia westward to Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to produce a collection that over the last three decades has become the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor.This new, extensively revised edition includes an expan...
 |  | Black Coffee Blues (Henry Rollins)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Series: Henry Rollins "If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." Henry Rollins, renowned spoken-word performer, musician, actor and author of several books, has a unique, hard-edged view of the world. This collection of writings from 1989 - 1991 is the classic Rollins book. From dramatic fiction shorts detailing stark, disturbing realities to gut-wrenching tour journal...
|  | Song of the Taino
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|  | Circle Series 4-in-1 (The Circle Series)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: The Circle Series Rare is the story that takes readers out of this world and into another. Rarer still the story that captures heart, soul, and mind...leaving the reader forever transformed. This is that story. Dive deep and enter the Circle. The Circle is an epic story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.It beings when a man named Thomas hunter finds himself being chased down an alley after working the late shift at a coffee house. When a bullet grazes his head, he awaken...
|  | Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
Release Date: April 17, 2012One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife. Through the years, seasonal floods continua...
|  | Ride the Wild River (Originally The Runaway) (Reno Western Saga #3)
Publication Date: October 7, 1992A frightened teenage runaway fleeing a brutal stepfather hires Reno to ride west with a wagon train. ...
|  | Heaven and Hell (North and South Trilogy)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Series: North and South Trilogy (Book 3) The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies. The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. Beautifully repackaged for the Dutton hardcover release of On Secret Service--John Jakes's long-awaited return to the Civil War years......
|  | COP: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 2011Author and law enforcement officer Daniel Silver tells the story of a tattooed punk rocker turned rookie San Francisco policeman, Dougie Cohen. In his first year on the job, the stresses, horrors and frustrations Dougie encounters take their toll on his patience, health, sanity and love life. Dougie struggles with night terrors, addiction, disease and the loss of his former self to his new police persona. Dougie is on a collision course with the reality of urban law enforcement. He'll either break, or accept the fundamentals of what it means to be a real cop.Win...
|  | Girl Unmoored
Publication Date: March 6, 2012.cs2654AE3A{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs2CAA79F6{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .cs566403DE{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s sudd...
|  | Lovesick: Modernest Plays Of Same-Sex (Gay) Love
Publication Date: February 12, 1999| ISBN-10: 0415185572 | ISBN-13: 978-0415185578This volume makes available an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential and fascinating resource for anyone interested in the theatre culture of this period. Lovesick brings together six plays, each with individual introductions, including an author biography and a production history. The editor provides a contextual introduction to the volume offering valuable information about the ancestry of gay theatre and queer performance. The antholog...
|  | The Birth Of The War-God
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|  | Poets For Palestine
Publication Date: August 7, 2008Poets For Palestine is a unique collection of poetry, spoken word, hip-hop, and art devoted to Palestine. Unifying a diverse range of poets who have used their words to elevate the consciousness of humanity, the book aims to bridge a younger generation of poets with those who, for decades, have cultivated and strengthened the poetic medium. Poets For Palestine includes poems by the late Mahmoud Darwish, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Patricia Smith, E. Ethelbert Miller, Melissa Tuckey, Ghassan Zaqtan, Remi Kanazi, Dima Hilal, S...
|  | Max Ernst and Alchemy : A Magician in Search of Myth (Surrealist
Publication Date: March 2001| Series: Surrealist Revolution Series Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.A revival of interest in alchemy swept the ...
|  | Truth in Nonfiction: Essays
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1587296543 | ISBN-13: 978-1587296543| Edition: 1 Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers’ claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, “How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowle...
|  | A Voyage to Terra Australis, Volume 2
Publication Date: March 1, 2006The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Time Travel; History / Australia ...
|  | Villette
Publication Date: April 25, 2012Villette begins with its famously passive and secretive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, observing her godmother, Mrs. Bretton, Mrs. Bretton's son, Graham, and a young visitor, Paulina Home, known to everyone as "Polly." The child is a peculiar little thing and soon develops a deep devotion for the older Graham, who showers her with attention until her stay is cut short when her father comes to take her away. Lucy left the house soon after the child's departure, and after some initial hesitation, she was hired as a caregiver by Miss Marchmont, a rheumatic crip...
|  | Mystery and Detection with The Thinking Machine, Volume 2
Publication Date: January 15, 2009Two plus two makes four, not some of the time, but all of the time. That's the creed of The Thinking Machine, Jacques Futrelle's classic crime and puzzle solver, who uses logic to solve mysteries and the power of his focused mind to think through knotty situations. This second volume has 21 short stories, and the novel, The Chase of the Golden Plate. ...
|  | Flush
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . . by sinking the boat. But his bold protest fizzles: within days the casino is back in business, and Noah's dad is behind bars and out of action. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his father failed. But even though pumping raw sewage into the waters of the Flori...
|  | Women Win the Vote (The American Adventure Series #38)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that shaped our nation. ...
|  | Rhyme, Meter, And Other Word Music (Understanding Poetry)
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