 | One Stick Song
Publication Date: June 1, 2000Poetry. Native American Studies. "Whether slyly identifying irony as a white man's invention, or deftly moving from prose-like multilayered narratives to formal poetry and song structures, this fifth collection from poet, novelist, and screenwriter Alexie demonstrates many of his skills. Most prominent perhaps is his ability to handle multiple perspectives and complex psychological subject matter with a humor that feeds readability: 'Successful non-Indian writers are viewed as well-informed about Indian life. Successful mixed-blood writers are viewed as wonderfu...
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 | Nature Girl
Release Date: October 30, 2007From "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald) comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and now available in trade paperback for the first time. ...
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 | Into the Wilderness (Wilderness Saga 1)
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Series: Wilderness Saga 1 Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place…and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty.It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as ...
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 | Skin Game (Dark Angel)
Release Date: February 4, 2003| Series: Dark Angel (Book 2) The saga of Dark Angel continues!Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems of their own. In an area under siege by the oppressive arm of the police, the transgenics must protect their fledgling colony against the outside world—a world that eyes them with contempt and suspicion . . . and will do anything to be rid of them.As the killings escalate, Joshua c...
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 | Damn Straight: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Series: A Lillian Byrd crime story After her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you would think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from Palm Springs, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from Detroit to California and danger. It's the weekend of the Dinah Shore golf tournament, the wildest women's sporting event in the world, when thousands of lesbians from around the country descend on the small desert town of Rancho Mirage and take over. At a pre-championship party, a capsized tray of champagne s...
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 | Coming Home
Publication Date: September 1995Judith Dunbar comes of age while confronting her feelings aboutlove and sadness and journeying back to her childhood home. By theauthor of The Shell Seekers. 850,000 first printing. Lit Guild &Doubleday Main. Tour. ...
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 | Dance: Rituals of Experience
Publication Date: December 12, 1996This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater--a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance--links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamental life impulse made visible in motion--a spontaneous transformation of ...
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 | Parzival: An Introduction
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 | Naked Clay
Publication Date: January 2, 2012'Naked Clay' is an intimate response to the paintings of Lucian Freud-"the great amplifier of twentieth century figurative art"' as the critic Sebastian Smee has written. The poems are as urgent as the paintings, and taken together they constitute an essay on the ambiguous gifts from a painter of such mortal, material presences. Barry Hill has created a unique space for the senses and the intellect to be prompted, explored and disturbed. ...
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 | The History of the Book in the West: 400AD1455 (The History of the Book in the West: a Library of Critical Essays)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 075462773X | ISBN-13: 978-0754627739This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the "Gutenberg Bible" and the beginning of the print revolution. The collection opens with wide-ranging papers on handwriting and the physical make-up of the book. In the second group of papers the emphasis is on the 'look' of the book, complemented by a third group dealing with scribes, readers and the availability of books. The editors' introduction provides an overview...
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 | A Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Western Manuscript Books at the Newberry Library
Publication Date: October 15, 1989| ISBN-10: 0226733505 | ISBN-13: 978-0226733500| Edition: 1 The Newberry Library in Chicago possesses one of the most distinguished collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in North America. Based on two major private collections of the late nineteenth century—those of Henry Probasco and Edward E. Ayer—and scrupulously added to in this century, the holdings include late medieval bibles and breviaries, books of hours and books of homilies, and seminal texts on astronomy.Some of the books, such as those from the libraries of P...
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 | Death Before Dishonor (G Unit)
Release Date: January 9, 2007| Series: G Unit <center>ONE REASON TO LIVE.THREE REASONS TO DIE.</center>Trill Johnson has five years of jail time under his belt, two women trying to get inside his pants, and one mission in his heart of hearts: Get the suckers who sold him out. And get 'em good.Sunni James will do anything for Trill. Lie, cheat, steal. Even risk losing her successful beauty salon to save him from the mean streets of Richmond.Precious Pay will do anything for Trill, too. She cribbed his kid while he did his time, so now she wants Trill to pay for the leg she los...
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 | Ride (Studs in Spurs)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Studs in Spurs What happens in Vegas…sometimes follows you home. Studs in Spurs, Book 3 Pro bull rider Chase Reese knew things move faster than an eight-second ride in Las Vegas. He just never expected to be driving home with a national championship under his belt and a wedding band on his left hand with no clue how it got there.Yet he can’t complain about the stripper bride beside him. From the moment his buddies bought him a lap dance from her, her trembles told him there was more to her than stiletto heels. Lee...
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 | Romantic in Spain (Lost & Found)
Publication Date: June 7, 2001| Series: Lost & Found "I travel for the sake of traveling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like."In May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of his travelogue, Gautier recorded his experiences and impressions with extraordinary vividness and enthusiasm. The end result was the book Voyage en Espagne (1845), an enthralling piec...
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 | The Blue Lotus (The Adventures of Tintin)
Publication Date: July 30, 1984| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Spider-Man: The Next Chapter - Volume 3 (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: August 22, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | When the Soldiers Were Gone
Release Date: February 15, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding. ...
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 | Caveman, A B.C. Story
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up 1 caveman + 26 letters = wild and wacky ABC fun!When a caveman and a squirrel try to grab an ACORN for dinner, a big brown BEAR chases them into a CAVE. But then a DINOSAUR comes out and goes after them all! What else will happen in this hysterical, prehistorical story?The slapstick hijinks go from “A” all the way to some cuddly, friendly “ZZZZZs” and a sweet goodnight. ...
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 | Madeline's Rescue (Viking Kestrel picture books)
Release Date: April 3, 1953| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | The Cat Food Mystery: A Pet Club Mystery (Stone Arch Readers - Level 2)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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