 | The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
Publication Date: July 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 0674011031 | ISBN-13: 978-0674011038A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international allianc...
 |  | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn't until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirt: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book's publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been anoth...
|  | Ghost Stories Of Henry James (Mystery & Supernatural)
Publication Date: February 5, 2008With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling; ...
|  | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: August 27, 1996| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle “Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.” –The New York Times“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”–The Boston GlobePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore’s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to ...
|  | In the Tall Grass
Release Date: October 9, 2012Mile 81 meets “N.” in this collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.As USA TODAY said of Stephen King’s Mile 81: “Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?” In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What...
|  | The 13: Fall
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: 13 Join CIA operative Jonathan Keene in a battle against America’s greatest enemy. Although initially investigating the disappearance of border agents along the US/Mexico border, Keene soon discovers another enemy waiting right at America’s doorstep. This enemy is swift—with sights set on something more precious than gold. As the US is pushed into a situation it hasn’t seen since its inception, Keene is forced to face a past he’d rather leave buried. Can Keene—and America—survive? (20120813) ...
|  | The Prayer Chest: A Tale about the Power of Faith, Community, and Love
Publication Date: October 3, 2011Since the beginning of time men and women everywhere have prayed — millions of prayers daily. Why, then, are only a handful answered? What roles do luck, chance, and fate play in our lives? How can we discover and live our destiny? Rich in romance, mystery, and spiritual insight, this wise and warm parable will revolutionize everything you’ve ever thought about prayer.Joseph Hutchinson’s life has been filled with misfortune and adversity. A widowed father of two living on a farm that is about to be taken from him, Joseph embarks on a missio...
|  | Quest for Honour (Eskkar Saga)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Eskkar Saga The Bronze Age is brought vividly to life in this action-packed historical saga in the tradition of Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell, and Jean Auel The beginning of civilization is fraught with war, invasion, plunder, and rapine. The little city state of Akkad is carving out a mini-Empire on the banks of the mighty Tigris river—prosperity has returned after the bloody pitched battles waged by Akkad’s ruler Eskkar and his beautiful wife Trella. But now comes Akkad’s greatest threat from the south: Akkad’...
|  | Forest Song: Finding Home
Publication Date: February 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0981473989 | ISBN-13: 978-0981473987| Edition: 1st The story of Judy Baumann s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a witch, the witch s consort, a family of fairies, an ancient oak, and a bevy of animals each help her in this enterprise.We lived just at the edge of the frontier, as Mama called it, at the border of civilization. According to her the woods beyond our field was a lawless place, full of perils far worse than I could imagine, and so she made me ...
|  | The Illumination: A Novel
Release Date: February 1, 2011What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all. At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of a hospital patient and from there through the hands of five other su...
|  | Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Release Date: June 1, 1988With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House. ...
|  | Divani Nurbakhsh: Sufi Poetry
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0933546041 | ISBN-13: 978-0933546042| Edition: First Edition A collection of the sufi poetry of Dr. Javad Nurbkhsh. These poems reveal aspects of Sufism and of travelling the sufi path that are not accessible in prose writings. A glossary of some of the more technical sufi terms found in the poems has been provided at the end of the text. ...
|  | 21 Love Songs for the Sphinx
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| | Antologiia TSekha poetov: Russkaia poeziia Urala XVIII-XX vekov (Russian Edition)
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|  | Teikin orai: Kuzoshi (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Nine Stories
Publication Date: January 30, 1953The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Beforethe War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy. ...
|  | Pure Fusion
Release Date: September 7, 2004A pure fusion neutron bomb is more deadly than a twenty-kiloton nuclear device--and it can be carried by one man. And now, it will be up to Dr. Graham Higgins and the United States' Counterterrorist Center to search out and destroy the facilities manufacturing the bombs, before America's enemies set one off on U.S. soil. ...
|  | Town Mouse and Country Mouse (Well Loved Tales)
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|  | The Lost Years of Merlin
Release Date: September 20, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Science at Work in Basketball (Benchmark Rockets)
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