 | <p>Student Almanac of Asian American History</p>: Student Almanac of Asian American History: Volume 1, From Gold Mountain to Picture Brides, 1848-1924
Publication Date: January 30, 2004During the 1800s, hard times in China and other Asian countries prompted the first wave of immigration to the United States. This volume covers the immigration of Chinese workers to California during the gold rush and railroad construction boom, as well as the immigration of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean people to work at plantations in Hawaii. Despite their hard work, they were denied many basic rights and struggled to survive. Students will learn how Asian immigrants were excluded and discriminated against, and how they began their long battle ag...
 |  | Coming of Age ... AGAIN
Publication Date: December 7, 2011Four friends of a "certain age" find their well-planned lives falling apart. With a mix of moxie, wisdom, humor, and a weekly mahjongg game, they prove that "coming of age" can happen more than once. As long as Barbara's husband had his affairs with women who bought their perfume at Walgreen's, she was content to look the other way, but when she sniffs $400 an ounce Coco Chanel on his jacket, she hires a private detective, who uncovers more than she bargained for. Irene, an incurable romantic, has been looking for the perfect man ever sin...
|  | Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (Left Behind)
Publication Date: March 16, 2011| Series: Left Behind (Book 11) The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when human history culminates in the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation, safe houses are no longer safe and the world has become a powder keg of danger. Except for those already in Petra, everyone has been forced to relocate as the Antichrist ratchets up the pressure in the world's most treacherous game. As the Trib Force waits for the coming of Christ, Chloe Williams is drawn out of the safe house ...
|  | The inner me: A lifetime of poetic writings
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|  | A Man of Parts
Release Date: September 15, 2011 A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and manyloves-of author H. G. Wells.H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of theWorlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic andcreative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics andfree love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact withthe most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of histime, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored anddisillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic DavidLodge has taken the compelling true s...
|  | Haweswater: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: October 10, 2006| Series: P.S.The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arrives with plans to build a new reservoir, he brings the much feared threat of impending change to this bucolic hamlet. And when he begins an intense and troubled affair with Janet Lightburn—a devout local woman of rare passion and strength of spirit&...
|  | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 4: Athaliah
Publication Date: April 4, 2013| Series: Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Book 4) As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine's last play, is "perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit." Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined to maintain her throne and exterminate the detested race of David; he, no less fiercely determined to overthrow this heathen queen and enthrone the orphan Joash, the scion of the house of David, whom Athaliah beli...
|  | Moliere (Obras selectas series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Obras selectas series The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.Includes The Doctor In Spite of Himself, The Hypochondriac, The Miser, and Tartuffe.Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillo...
|  | ATainted Dawn (Instant Playscript)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: Instant Playscript A powerful drama, based on company improvisations, which tells the tales of ordinary people trapped on the wrong side of the border following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. ...
|  | Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat?
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 1848611323 | ISBN-13: 978-1848611320| Edition: Bilingual Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra. This book takes up the experiment of connecting Buddhist practices to an American landscape. In a 2008 interview Perez states, "If Buddhism is to have a role in Cuban life it must be in harmony with the basic ethical and natural values of this land; it must give, so to say, its blood and marrow to the soil." Perez seems to have thrown even "revolutionary" readers for a loop by pursuing that...
| | The Art of Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: 1966This concise introduction to Chinese poetry serves as a primer for English-speakers eager to expand their understanding and enjoyment of Chinese culture. James J. Y. Liu first examines the Chinese language as a medium of poetic expression and, contrary to the usual focus on the visual qualities of Chinese script, emphasizes the auditory effects of Chinese verse. He provides a succinct survey of Chinese poetry theory and concludes with his own view of poetry, based upon traditional Chinese concepts."[This] books should be read by all those interested in Chinese poetry."&...
|  | Letters from the Front, 1898-1945 (Voices of the Wisconsin Past)
Publication Date: December 15, 1992| Series: Voices of the Wisconsin Past This volume tells the stories of 62 men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. Letters from the Front is a vivid social history of wartime as told by those who took part in these foreign conflicts. Most of them are "ordinary" people, uprooted from farms, factories, and offices, who took part in extraordinary events. This work explores how war changed their lives and reveals the emotions they felt in uniform, in remote outposts, in combat, and in prison camps.
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|  | El Ladron de Espadas = The Sword Thief (39 Clues) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Another Thing to Fall (Tess Monaghan)
Release Date: February 24, 2009| Series: Tess Monaghan The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy . . .When Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she never expects to be hired to serve as bodyguard/babysitter to the young female lead, Selene Waites. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing "mishaps" lately. And the discovery of a corpse surrounded by photos of the beautiful, difficult superstar-in-the-making is causing Mann's creator and Holly...
|  | Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, Book 1)
Release Date: March 9, 1999He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . . An alluring laird...He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length—...
|  | Nora Roberts Sign of Seven CD Collection: Blood Brothers, The Hollow, The Pagan Stone
Publication Date: June 29, 2009| Series: Sign of Seven Blood Brothers: Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox, and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. This modern-day legend draws reporter and author Quinn Black to Hawkins Hollow with the hope of making the eerie happening the subject of her new book. It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins, descendent of the town founders, has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Cal will need the help of his best friends, but surprisingly he must re...
|  | The History of the Caliph Vathek
Publication Date: March 20, 2008Vathek is an Arabian tale with oriental setting, characters, oriental cultures. and myth.It is also a Gothic novel because of the supernatural, ghosts, spirits, and the terror it tries to induce on the reader.William Beckford was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament.The History of Caliph Vathek is his best known work.The novel Vathek (1786), written originally written in French and the author boasted it was written in a single sitting of three days and two nights.Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Ar...
|  | A Touch of Gold (A Missing Pieces Mystery)
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: A Missing Pieces Mystery Long before he became curator of the Duck Historical Museum, Max Caudle discovered its greatest treasure-a wooden chest full of gold. But a thief with his eye on the gold fires a cannonball into the museum, destroying the building-and killing Max. Injured in the explosion, Dae finds her abilities have been amplified, overwhelming her with intense visions every time she touches an object. Now if ex-FBI agent-and burgeoning beau-Kevin Brickman can help Dae decipher her visions, she just might be able to stop the modern-day buccaneer...
|  | The Delta Star
Release Date: December 1, 1983A dead prostitute leads a gang of cops on a wild international chaseIn death she looks thirty-five, but Missy Moonbeam, a.k.a. Thelma Bernbaum, is only twenty-two when the cops of Rampart Division find her flattened on the sidewalk. A Nebraska farm girl, Missy came to Los Angeles to act, and died not long after her dream did. The detectives assume that her pimp threw her off a roof—but they couldn’t be more wrong. Missy had a trick at Caltech whose name draws the Rampart detectives into a bizarre conspiracy. A beached Soviet sub has Europe on the brink of ...
|  | Spooky America: Four Real Ghost Stories (Step into Reading)
Release Date: July 22, 2003| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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