 | Shaking Off the Dark (Clasicos Chicanos) Publication Date: January 1, 1998| Series: Clasicos Chicanos Poetry/Spanish (untranslated), English and Spanglish. First published in 1984 by Arte Publico, Shaking Off the Dark has become one of the classics of Chicano literature. This new, corrected edition features poems not included in the first edition, as well as an introduction and bibilography. These poems are thoughtful, angry, perceptive, and address such topics as art, time, love, oppression, history, and language itself. "Distraught,/mad-eyed from told formulas/bound to rule my easy ways,/I look, I see,/but fail once more to know....
 |  | The View from Frog Mountain (The Bluenight Mystery Series) Publication Date: March 1, 2000Linda Bluenight travels to Mt. Lemmon, Arizona to help anold friend open a bed and breakfast inn.Soon after, violence beginsto befall the pets.When the violence reaches into the human realm ofthe animal kingdon, Linda finds those she loves in mortal danger...Book Two in the Bluenight Mystery Series ...
 |  | The Cathouse Release Date: May 27, 2008Inside the walls of Allure, your kinkiest fantasies can become reality. With top of the line women, top shelf drinks, and top quality drugs, you can be floating on cloud nine in a matter of minutes. That is, if you are amongst the fortunate few to be invited.Lady Dee, a retired working girl who is the madam at Allure, lets nothing slide. But one of her top performers has been making it almost impossible to maintain serenity within the walls of Allure. Will Lady Dee get a handle on the situation or will it be an all-out war? For Kimona, losing her spot as the top v...
 |  | What Answer ? (Classics in Black Studies) Publication Date: January 2003| Series: Classics in Black Studies This first and only novel by Anna E Dickinson attracted tremendous interest when it first appeared in the fall of 1868, and was enthusiastically endorsed by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Set in the midst of the Civil War, this controversial work of fiction traces the tragic history of an interracial marriage, which is doomed to disaster by the intolerance of a northern society that refuses to accept racial equality. The central love story provoked strong reactions from supporters and critics alike. Dickinson's friends praised the pow...
 |  | Beowulf (Mentor Series) Release Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Mentor Series The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more than twelve centuries.MASS MARKET PAPER ...
 |  | Such is My Love: Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets ...
 |  | Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers Publication Date: 1969Hardcover book. ...
 |  | Anciennes voix celtiques (Verite interieure) (French Edition) ...
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 |  | Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story Release Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The astonishing story of a cub reporter who was there on the day that the President died.On November 22, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. office.Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter, answered and heard these words: "Three shots fired!"It was the voice of the U.P.I. White House reporter.The gunshots had been fired at President Kennedy—and young Hampton was the first to receive the news.This is his story, a riveting account of a young man swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the worl...
 |  | Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition Publication Date: April 2, 2001Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as well as a volume of Nabokov's correspondence with other people and Brian Boyd's definitive two-volume biography of Nabokov. The additional letters and a considerable body of new annotations clarify the correspondence, tracing in greater detail the two decades of clos...
 |  | Hell, Yeah Release Date: August 1, 2010Praise for Carolyn Brown: "Carolyn Brown takes her audience by storm...I was mesmerized."—The Romance Studio "Carolyn Brown creates a bevy of delightful and believable characters."—The Long and Short of It Reviews She's finally found a place that feels like home... When Cathy O'Dell buys the Honky Tonk, the nights of cowboys and country tunes come together to create the home she's always wanted. Then in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to trade in the happiness she's found at the Honky Tonk for a life on the road with him... He lives ...
 |  | Journey of Takanuva (Bionicla Growing Reader, Level 3) Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up LEGO's most successful property arrives in books for younger fans!Enter the world of BIONICLE with books designed especially for younger readers.Join Takanuva, the Toa of Light, as he journeys to Karda Nui to find the other six Toa and deliver an important message. ...
 |  | New Journeys: Journey To The Planet Of The Blawps (Lost In Space) Publication Date: November 1, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
 |  | Three Tales of Three (Once-Upon-a-Time) Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up...
 |  | MoMA Modern House (MoMA Modern Kids) Publication Date: May 5, 2010| Grade Level: P and up Create a delightfully modern house with this innovative set of modular nesting boxes! Aspiring architects and designers of all ages can create modern spaces, arrange furniture and accessories, and pack it all up to go with this distinctive house!Includes: 6 nesting boxes, 8 mix-and-match furniture pieces, 12 removable vinyl clings, and endless possibilities!WARNING: CHOKING HAZARDSmall parts. Not for children under 3 years. ...
 |  | A Picture Book Primer: Understanding and Using Picture Books Publication Date: September 30, 2008Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they're made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy. Picture book reviews, building a ...
 |  | Of Mice and Men (York Notes Gcse) Publication Date: August 20, 2002 ...
 |  | Roodee: The River's End Publication Date: March 22, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Roodee, the short-tongued, weed-whipping frog, sits on a rock at the edge of a cliff that overlooks all of slip-on-a-rock-canyon.He gazes down at the river as it glides across the canyon floor and disappears through the crack in the south wall.Its been 299 years since the great lizard war, and 299 years that frogs have existed on this mountaintop.Even though no frog has ever traveled beyond the safety of the walls that surround slip-on-a-rock-canyon, it is highly advised by the elders to not even ponder the t...
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