 | On Black Sisters Street: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series)
Publication Date: January 17, 2012| Series: Modern African Writing Series Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, '...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'. At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat, four very different women have made their way from Africa to claim for themselves the riches of Europe. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic ...
 |  | The Corrections
Publication Date: September 15, 2001Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibi...
|  | Bloodroot (China Bayles Mystery)
Release Date: January 7, 2003| Series: China Bayles Mystery Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles returns to the Deep South, where her family’s legacy of silence is at last broken—and the past finally, unforgettably, speaks the truth… A frantic phone call from her mother brings China back to her family’s Mississippi plantation—a place she’d forsaken long ago. But the late-spring air is thick with fear—and from the moment of her arrival, China knows that something has gone desperately wrong at Jordan’s Crossing. An ancient property deed has ...
|  | Remembering Redbank
Publication Date: September 4, 2012REMEMBERING REDBANK is a coming of age novel that is certain to capture the hearts of young and old alike. In these pages, you will become acquainted with some close friends from the high school class of 1952 and walk with them through the best of times and the worst of times. You will read about the local soda fountain, a winning football team, the senior prom and an old car named Lizzy. Certainly these things represent the best of times. But then suddenly the worst of times are also experienced: a murder, an accusation, a prison cell and a verdict. Young ...
|  | Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre
Publication Date: January 1, 1990A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre. ...
|  | Hermetech
Publication Date: January 12, 2003hermetech or hermetechs n.:The science of orgasmic energy potential, esp. within fixed unit (within time, space), adj. of or relating to properties of orgasmic energy [C20, Gk L of Hermes traditionally inventor of magic seal] Tech-Green, an environmental movement with quasi-political powers, is doing its best to repair the damaged circuitry of the global village. The earth is dying and there is little that anyone can do to stop it - some sections of Tech-Green assert that Gaiah would be best left to repair herself without the interference of humanity, that m...
|  | The World of Harlequin: A Critical Study of the Commedia dell'arte
Publication Date: March 5, 1987The commedia dell'arte was an improvised drama performed by masked players. How did the actors react to these demands and limitations? What force kept this form of theatre alive for more than two centuries and made Harlequin such a potent image? In this study of the commedia dell'arte, originally published in 1987, Professor Nicoll's concern is not to provide an historical survey of its origins or to trace the ascent and descent of Harlequin or any or any other character or 'mask', but rather to explore critically the answers to these and related questions. His...
|  | My Father's Martial Art: Poems
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Series: Western Literature Series Stephen Shu-Ning Liu is a unique figure in contemporary letters--a native of China, from a family of scholars, who left his country as a young man and now writes in English, a language he learned only after emigrating. His poetry is compelling and intriguing, as hybrid as his life's experiences, strongly informed by the ancient traditions and aesthetics of his homeland, but equally shaped by the mobility and rootlessness of modern urban America. The poems reflect the delicate vision of Chinese art--its attention to the nat...
|  | EYESIGHT OF WASPS
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|  | The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality
Publication Date: October 20, 2000| ISBN-10: 0719059178 | ISBN-13: 978-0719059179This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality, exploring such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; the complexities of extended textual histories; and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation. The volume is closely informed by recent developments in textual theory that have led to a probing interrogation of traditio...
|  | The Idea of the Postmodern: A History
Publication Date: January 22, 1995| ISBN-10: 0415060125 | ISBN-13: 978-0415060127At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask.Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and po...
|  | Frosting on the Cake
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Every woman with a taste for great fiction knows that Karin Kallmaker cooks up the world's most delicious lesbian romances. The only problem is her mouth-watering novels always leave you hungry for more. So, because you asked for it, more is exactly what's on the menu today!MORE PASSION. MORE PLEASURE. More of everything you crave from the undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance.As a special treat, our gal-loving gourmet has whipped up a baker's dozen of scrumptious short stories -- each one filled with your favorite characters and settings from her critically...
|  | Time and Again: Time Was\Times Change
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Time and Again Stranded in the present, time traveler Caleb Hornblower's biggest problem isn't returning to the twenty-third century—but falling head over heels for the beguiling Liberty Stone, who shows him a love more powerful than time itself. Though Caleb knows he belongs in the future, how can he leave the past, and Liberty, behind?Cynical Jacob Hornblower has followed his brother, Caleb, back in time, hoping to convince him to return home. His mission is soon forgotten, however, when he finds himself captivated by Liberty's spitfir...
|  | The Stars In My Dreams
Publication Date: April 25, 2011 Wake up... you are not in the same world you recognize as yesterday. You know the place you are in, it is definitely familiar, but there is something about this place. You have been here before but yet you do not remember being here at all. Your life has already been written between these thin lines and now they are being read as you live through them. Please meet Derek and Marina... take a magical journey amongst the stars as they live their young lives through time and travel. Two loved ones who have been waiting to meet each other since the beggening of ...
|  | The Burning Man
Release Date: June 2, 1997From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a fast-paced legal thriller packed with page-turning suspense.Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses tocarry on w...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt: And Other Tales
Publication Date: March 12, 2002The famous tin box in the attic of the house on Baker Street is again unlocked in this new collection of tales contrived by the ingenious Donald Thomas. As in Thomas’s successful previous collection, The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson presents six cases of real-life crime that he has uncovered in the unpublished papers of the world’s most celebrated detective. Crossing historical fact with inventive fiction, Thomas introduces Holmes in these stories to such controversial clients as Oscar Wilde and Dr. Crippen. Holmes also meets and is ...
|  | The Boy Next Door (Fear Street, No. 39)
Release Date: June 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up Lauren and Crystal think Scott has it all. He's the new star of Shadyside High's football team. And he's moved in right next door! Both girls will do anything. Say anything. Try anything to get the chance to go out with him. That's all either of them want. But that's all Scott's last girlfriend wanted, too--and now she's dead. ...
|  | Fangs 'n' Fire: Ten Dragon Tales
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Following on from the hugely successful Dust 'n' Bones, this special gift book contains many traditional dragon myth and legends as well as some new and original tales. Stories include: 'George and the Dragon' (traditional), 'The Dragon's Teeth' (Greek myth), 'The Eyeless Dragons' (Chinese myth), 'The Dragon Swarms' (Edith Nesbit) and many more. A perfect book for boys who love dragons! @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; fon...
|  | Only a Game? The Diary of a Professional Footballer
Publication Date: September 30, 1976The classic inside account of a season at a professional football club. Midfield player Eamon Dunphy charts the progress of Millwall during a season that begins with high hopes and ends with him on the transfer list. Populated with extraordinary characters and filled with high drama, "Only a Game?" is a riveting read as well as being an exceptional insight into professional sport. "The best and most authentic memoir by a professional footballer" - Brian Glanville. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Rhinos Who Snowboard
Publication Date: October 7, 2004| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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