 | Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
Release Date: October 2, 2012Dearest Reader,By now you might be wondering: Jenny McCarthy has more to say?! After six New York Times bestsellers, I've talked about pregnancy, autism, and motherhood. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's made you laugh and cry and all those things that bestselling books about such topics are supposed to do.But this book is about something entirely new--a subject that has pervaded my life since birth and confused the f*ck out of me for about the same time: Catholicism. As I enter into adulthood (play along, thanks), I think I may have finally figured out this ...
 |  | We Fed Them Cactus (Paso Por Aqui Series on Nuevomexicano Literature)
Publication Date: April 1, 1994| Series: Paso Por Aqui Series on Nuevomexicano Literature Prior to statehood, the Llano Estacado, the great plains of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, were colonized by Hispanic ranchers. Cabeza de Baca's beloved memoir of the era has been reissued as part of the Pasó Por Aquí Series on Nuevomexicano Literature.A member of an old Hispanic family, Cabeza de Baca celebrates her Spanish heritage rather than the Mestizo culture embraced by later writers.She portrays the erosion of Hispanic folkways under American influence, but by recordin...
|  | The Politics of Chicano Liberation
Publication Date: November 1977| ISBN-10: 0873485130 | ISBN-13: 978-0873485135| Edition: 1st Lessons from the rise of the Chicano movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, which dealt lasting blows against the oppression of the Chicano people. Presents a fighting program for those determined to combat divisions within the working class based on language and national origin.Index --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World's Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, and America's Greatest Indian Chief
Publication Date: May 1, 2012In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief Standing Bear.Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter,Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love. Becoming the tribe’s interpreter—its “speaker”...
|  | The Last Days
Publication Date: June 1, 2012Osama bin Laden is dead.Saddam Hussein is buried.Baghdad lies in ruins. Now the eyes of the world are on Jerusalem as Jon Bennett - a Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor - his beautiful CIA partner Erin McCoy, and the U.S. Secretary of State arrive in the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. On the table: a dramatic and potentially historic Arab-Israeli peace plan, of which Bennett is the chief architect. At the heart of the proposed treaty is the discovery of black gold deep underneath the Mediterranean - a vast and sp...
|  | Frankenstein: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Publication Date: December 1991This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms....
|  | A Wish In Time
Publication Date: November 20, 2006In eighteenth...
|  | Cougars
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Cougar: a woman, aged 35 years or older, with a taste for younger men—and the thrill of the chase Caroline Walker has it all. At 42, her immaculate looks and toned body are of a woman half her age. She's a successful entrepreneur, and juggles her career with domestic bliss: wife of City trading sensation Les Walker, and mother to their teenage daughter Rachel. But when Caroline learns that Les has been having an affair, her perfect world falls apart. Caroline is suddenly single—something she hasn't been in a very long time. With the help of Marya...
|  | Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets. His unique relationship with the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founded in the political and social ferment of 1795, produced a revolution in literature, resulting in the joint volume, Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805)--a landmark in the history of English Romanticism. This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all Wordsworth's finest lyrics, and a large sample of The Pr...
|  | The Coming of the Fairies (Extraordinary World)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Extraordinary World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published The Coming of the Fairies in 1922. Doyle’s book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence. This quirky an...
|  | Love Making Visits
Publication Date: April 26, 2002Alfred Jarry's work was a cannon shot fired at the French literary establishment at the end of the nineteenth century. His play "Ubu Roi" set off a riot, announcing the advent of surrealism, absurdist drama and the avant garde. Newly translated by Richard Henrich, Love Making Visits uses a framework of amorous trysts to paint a protagonist ripening from a cocksure fifteen year old, with a passion for experimentation, to a taster of many varieties of love, conventional and bizarre. Metamorphosing through symbolist and hallucinatory stages, he arrives transforme...
|  | A Time for Verse - Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes
Publication Date: November 30, 2009We quote Ecclesiastes - "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven," "there is no new thing under the sun," "cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days," "he hath made everything beautiful in his time."We quote it, but who reads Ecclesiastes? What does it say for us here, now? How can we reconcile the Twenty-first Century with a century ended before the counting began?Barbara B. Rollins, like The Teacher, looks back on decades of life. Her path traces the search for happiness and meaning through ti...
| | 20 Poems [Signed by Transtromer and by Bly]
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| | San Li shi jian shang ci dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers)
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing interest in Islamic teachings and culture, there has never been a truly satisfactory English translation of the Qur'an, until now. This superb new translation of the Qur'an is written in contemporary language that remain...
|  | Terrell Davis: TD! (Sports Achievers Biographies)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Scandals (The Olympics)
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|  | Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical Original Cast Recording (Knuffle Bunny Series)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up...
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|  | Silent Superstitions (Christy Series, No. 2)
Publication Date: June 26, 1995| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The old woman glared at Christy with fury in her eyes: "You brought the curse with you, girl!"that's what Granny O'Teale said.And everybody in the Cove seemed to believe it was true - their new school teacher, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston, was cursed.After all, who could explain Bob Allen's mysterious accident on his way to bring Christy to Cutter Gap?Or the lightning strike that sent a tree through the school window. . . Or the sudden appearance of a sleek raven soaring around Christy?Granny is determined ...
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