 | Miami en llamas (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 27, 2012Miami en llamas narra las experiencias de Bárbaro, el personaje principal, en la ciudad de Miami, Florida.Bárbaro describe sus entorno desde su apartamento en la calle ocho, mientras siente como esa sociedad, sórdida y consumista, lo arrastra todo y no deja a nadie ni nada a salvo. Por el lente de sutelescopio, y desde el bajo mundo de donde proviene, observa Bárbaro a las altas esferas. Bárbaroes un ser que no le encuentra sentido a esa vida de autómata que lleva. Sexo, drogas y corrupción se mezclan en esta novela, formando...
 |  | Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (Literary Conversations)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Literary Conversations From BooklistErdrich and Dorris currently share great success as a literary couple with their unique collaborative relationship. The editors have selected 25 interviews for this volume of the Literary Conversations series; together, the interviewers reveal some of the sources of the magic found in the fiction of these two fascinating writers. A striking characteristic surfaces from the slew of similar questions being asked and responded to again and again in these pages. If Erdrich and Dorris have forged a distinctive partners...
|  | Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6)
Release Date: May 2, 2006As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn’t want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley’s past—or for that matter, Hadley’s possessions. And they’re prepared to do anything ...
|  | Living in an Awakened World: A Spiritual Adventure into the Near Future
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|  | Terapia: Una novela
Release Date: June 5, 2001Graham Blake, un padre ejemplar, un sabio de mercadería, y presidente de la exitosa corporación Clean Earth, no puede dormir al enfrentar las decisiones difíciles de reducir el personal de su compañia. En busca de una solución a su problema se pone en manos del Doctor Carl Tolgate y su Corporate Life Therapy Institute. Por tres millones de dólares, le prometen reestablecerle una conciencia tranquila. Al someter al protagonista a un terapia radical el autor desarrolla el conflicto central de la novela donde Blake, Tolgate, y una bella y ...
|  | The Pagoda
Release Date: September 1, 1998A brilliantly original and exotic novel that brings to life the mysterious world of a Chinese immigrant who fled China in the 1890s to seek a better life in Jamaica--a mesmerizing tale of love, longing, and hidden identity. Jamaica is in turmoil--still reeling from the racial and economic tensions of Emancipation, which brought Indian and Chinese workers to the island from other parts of the British Empire.Lowe, the Chinese immigrant, is in his fifties--the owner of a small shop in an impoverished plantation village, and the guardian of a secret that is gradual...
|  | Great Apes (Will Self)
Publication Date: August 11, 1998| Series: Will Self Like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Great Apes is a strange and twisted tale, a surreal satire on the human condition, and an omen for those who wander too far. After a long night of partying, Simon Dykes, a successful British painter, wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. In fact, the world Simon once knew has become a planet of apes. Convinced he is still human, Simon is confined to the emergency ward of a hospital and put under the care of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, radical psychoanalyst, maverick...
|  | The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four (Bk. 3 & 4)
Publication Date: November 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872208559 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208551This title is part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume. ...
|  | Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (Yale Studies in English)
Publication Date: June 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0300126484 | ISBN-13: 978-0300126488| Edition: 1 In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth’s motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or—more recently—political repression, Fry redirects the poems and offers a strikingly revisionary reading.Fry argues that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth’s poetry is a more fundamental and...
|  | Skylight: A Play
Publication Date: July 13, 1995Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years.This is the definitive edition of Skylight. ...
|  | The Wanderer (Old English Library)
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|  | Spilling Kingdoms
Publication Date: June 1, 2011With a foreword from mathematics genius and Music professor Ernest G. McClain,Spilling Kingdoms finds Misdaq the poet in full 'Englishman-in-America' mode, making for a journey both humorous and touching. Tinged with more than a little spiritual-searching, this fourth part is the deepest and most well-rounded of the series thus far, featuring poems that are at times fresh, fleeting and impressionistic, and at other times, heavy with a thundering and solid intent. What's it all about? Looking at a world from the eyes of a journeying traveler, realizing how alien ...
| | In a Spring Garden (A Pied Piper Book)
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|  | Editing the Moon
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|  | Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Release Date: October 21, 2010Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over nine hundred books on war were considered most important by British officers and how those books might have affected the army from one era to another. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the ...
|  | Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Publication Date: November 30, 1990| Series: Cultural Studies of the United States The "Young American" critics—Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford—are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics.Blake draws on biogr...
|  | Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
Publication Date: March 16, 2000In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, Jaffe shows how mid-Victorian spectacles of social difference construct the middle-class self, and how late-Victorian narratives of feeling pave the way for the sympathetic affinities of co...
|  | Karel Teige
Release Date: June 2, 2002Known mainly as a critic and organizer of events on the Czech art scene of the 1920s, Karel Teige was also a leading figure of the avant-garde group Devetsil and a member of the Prague Surrealists. Between 1934 and his premature death in 1951, he privately produced nearly 400 collages, many of which are reproduced here as a testament to their vital role in the history of European Surrealism. ...
|  | American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place
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|  | Heartless (Hqn)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Hqn Secrets abound on a Texas ranch…As a teenager, Gracie worshipped her stepbrother, Jason, a strong, silent cowboy who left home early to seek his fortune. Now the wealthy owner of Comanche Wells ranch, Jason has finally come back home and discovered that the little girl he knew is all grown up.In a moment of unbridled passion, Jason realizes that he's falling for Gracie. But Gracie harbors a shameful secret that makes her deeply afraid to love. Stung by her rejection, Jason leaves, ready to put the past—and the one woman he can't have&mda...
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