 | Listen, a Story Comes / Escucha, que viene un cuento
Publication Date: September 1, 1996This is a text in English and Spanish. These lively stories from northern New Mexico blend elements from Native American, Latino, and Anglo sources and range from elaborate nursery rhymes to dark accounts of ghosts and spirits. ...
 |  | Courtship of Nellie Fisher, The
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Courtship of Nellie Fisher In the autumn of 1966, as deep-seated differences push Honeybrook's Old Order Amish community to the breaking point, Nellie Mae Fisher and her beloved Caleb Yoder find their families--and themselves--on opposite sides of what threatens to become an impossible divide. ...
|  | For Many Shall Come in My Name
Publication Date: May 15, 2007AnAncient Wisdom is drawing millions of people into mystical experiences and preparing the world for the end of the age ... find out how. Most people believe the New Age has been long gone from our society, and if practiced at all now it is only by unconventional fringe types. For Many Shall Come in My Name reveals this is not the case. In fact, quite the opposite has occurred. The New Age movement (a term not normally used by its proponents) has permeated virtually all aspects of our society. ThisAncient Wisdomspirituality can be quite readily encountered in th...
|  | Wrinkle
Publication Date: October 10, 2008Young women are dying under mysterious circumstances in Pelican Cove, Florida.The police and medical examiner need to find out what's going on before the next victim falls prey to this new epidemic of death.Renowned plastic surgeon and confirmed bachelor David Layton finds himself a suspect.His beautiful new nurse, Lisa Martin, is eager to avenge a friend's death and unravel the cause of the suspicious events.The dead women all share a recent treatment for wrinkles as a common event --- could the 'Botox' they received be more dangerous than anyone imagined?T...
|  | Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Amelia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets
Release Date: July 1, 2001 Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture. Whitney's poems offer the only glimpse into her life, express a concern for women's lack of social and economic power, and powerfully evoke sixteenth-centur...
|  | A Star Shall Fall
Release Date: August 31, 2010The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. It has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition and ushering in an age of enlightenment.To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. Magic is losing its place in the world—and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes.In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused ...
|  | The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters
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|  | Mary Stuart (Modern Plays)
Release Date: July 15, 2010| Series: Modern Plays Originally written in 1800 by Friedrich Schiller, the play examines the personal struggle between two extraordinary women, one French, one English, both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both caught in a tumult of political and religious intrigue. "Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their hands in blood," Mary Stuart proclaims in this extraordinary story exploring who is the rightful Queen of England: Mary Stuart or Elizabeth Tudor? The play was presented in this new version in 2009 by Mike Poul...
|  | The Homecoming: Unconditional Love: Finding Your Place in the Father's Heart
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|  | Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 29, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195658477 | ISBN-13: 978-0195658477| Edition: 1st Hardback This anthology covers nine Indian women poets writing in English. Edited by the poet and academic Eunice de Souza, it brings together poems which are witty, ironic, poignant and technically assured. The book includes a general introduction and critical appraisals of each poet. ...
|  | Veinte Poemas de Leonardo Huerta (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 2, 2012PREFACIO Intimidad al descubierto, así calificaría el trabajo de Leonardo Huerta quien, a través de susrimas,nos muestra elsentir de unpoeta forjado en la inspiración pura.Sus palabras recorren una gama de sentimientos que nos son familiares, hablan de un ser humano sencillo que, a través de un trabajo de expresión escrita, logra transmitir sus emociones a quien lo lee consiguiendo la identificacióndel lector con el poeta.Dicho por él mismo, tras sus versos solamente existen sentimientos que se desbordan en los renglones, e...
|  | Chopin: E. Gedicht in Etuden : 1925 (German Edition)
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|  | Conversation Analysis (Second Language Acquisition Research Series)
Publication Date: February 3, 2000| ISBN-10: 0805820000 | ISBN-13: 978-0805820003| Edition: 1 Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational behavior contribute to observable changes in the participants' states of knowing and using a new langua...
| | Dai Wangshu: The Life and Poetry of a Chinese Modernist
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|  | A Risky Affair (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 84) Following the deaths of her adoptive parents, Solange Washington is finally ready to move on. But after she has a run-in with magnificently bare-chested Dane Roarke, a private investigator hired to run a routine background check on her, Solange's pulse goes wild--even as questions about her past surface.... Dane knows there's more to Solange's story than meets the eye, and he suspects it has to do with secrets about her real parents. Torn by his desire for this vibrant lady and his growing suspicions, Dane walks a thin line be...
|  | Shame the Devil
Publication Date: July 27, 2011Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat, dozens of lives were shattered forever.Now it's three years later, and Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, is starting to live again. But Dimitri's old acquaintance, a P.I. named Nick Stefanos, has just unburied the past--by discove...
|  | Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Hercule Poirot MysteriesAmong the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: “You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?” Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met. . . ....
|  | The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century
Publication Date: February 1, 1993A collection of more than forty crime stories features work by such well-known writers as Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, P. D. James, Raymond Carver, Walter Mosley, George Chesbro, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and others. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | The Frightened Wife
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|  | Hollywood Crows: A Novel
Release Date: March 25, 2008When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan. In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a...
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