 | Some Assembly Required: A Novel
Release Date: July 1, 2008Thirty-nine-year-old Rose is content with her safe life: both her job writing manuals for appliances and her long-term boyfriend are reasonably satisfying. But when Mr. Almost Right betrays her, Rose decides there has to be more to it than writing succinct descriptions about how to use the timer on a Pause 'n Serve coffeemaker. Lured by the therapeutic promise of Cape Cod's sand, salt, and waves, Rose abandons her careful past and leaves the city far behind. Rose wants only to heal her broken heart. But with the help of a few eccentric neighbors, a fulfilling new jo...
 |  | Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms (Studies in the language and literature of United States Hispanos)
Publication Date: November 1981| Series: Studies in the language and literature of United States Hispanos critical study--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Shadow Warrior: A Novel of the Old West
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Doc, a young scout and hunter, gets separated from his wagon train when he encounters a band of Llanero Apache warriors, with fatal results for two young warriors. The Apaches, in search of glory and revenge, begin the hunt for the white man they come to call "Shadow," but Shadow is a capable enemy and he quickly turns the tables, with the hunters becoming the hunted, too. The struggle becomes a three-way test of wits and wills among Doc and Gunsi, brutal and cunning, who leads by intimidation, and Toh-Yah, a wiser, more strategic thinker, who leads by exampl...
|  | A Scattered Life
Release Date: August 23, 2011Free-spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satisfying, but can’t seem to quell Skyla’s growing sense of restlessness. Her only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne, who has five kids (and counting) and a life in constant disarray – but also a life filled with laughter and love. Much to the dismay of her intrusive mother-in-law, Audrey, Skyla takes a part-time job at the ...
|  | Amaryllis in Blueberry
Release Date: February 8, 2011In the stirring tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Poisonwood Bible, Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships set against an unforgettable backdrop. Told through the haunting voices of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters, Christina Meldrum's soulful novel weaves together the past and the present of a family harmed--and healed--by buried secrets. "Maybe, unlike hope, truth couldn't be contained in a jar..." Meet the Slepys: Dick, the stern doctor, the naive husband, a man devoted to both facts and f...
|  | The Silver Chair (Radio Theatre)
Publication Date: May 19, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Release Date: September 18, 2007Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also th...
|  | By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: August 31, 1999| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post).A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream. Mov...
|  | The Ignored Cries of Pain and Injustice from Mauritania
Publication Date: June 14, 2011This book, a historic and political account, depicts the daily horror endured by hundreds of thousands of blacks in the south of Mauritania and purposefully ignored by the international community. It also pictures the Senegal river valley or at least the north bank of it as an occupied territory highly militarized by the Mauritanian authorities to keep under terror the original inhabitants -blacks from the Fulani, the Wolof and the Soninke ethnic groups- and allow invaders from the north; Moors in general, Arabs in particular; from the Smassid, Moawiya's tribe ...
|  | Killing The Curse
Publication Date: October 14, 2003The Boston Red Sox haven't won the World Series since 1918. Many blame the dreaded Curse of the Bambino. Burned out Boston homicide detective and lifelong Red Sox fanatic Paul Doyle doesn't know about that, but he's certain that this is the year. Superstar outfielder Tommy Flair is the man to lead them to glory. But there's a problem when Doyle is assigned to investigate the murder of a beautiful young woman and the evidence starts pointing to Flair. Doyle must face a moral and ethical crisis that could break him. Will his allegiance be with his job of thirt...
|  | The Great Secret (Stories from the Golden Age) (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: September 8, 2008| Series: Stories from the Golden Age Boldly go to worlds where no one has gone before. Fanner Marston was raised a slave as a child, became a petty street thief as a teen, and now masters his own craft and crew as a grown man. He's also gone completely mad.Driven by privation, with a vicious greed and slavering lust for power, Marston alone of forty men has survived the perilous trek through a blistering desert to the magical city of Parva, where legend says a secret awaits which will give him absolute control over the Universe. However, Marston finds th...
|  | The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (American Literature Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: American Literature Series "This is one of the best short books of literary criticism that I know."—Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismWide-ranging enough to encompass Buster Keaton, Charles Babbage, horses, and a man riding a bicycle while wearing a gas mask, The Counterfeiters is one of Hugh Kenner's greatest achievements. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural criticism, Kenner seeks the causes and outcomes of man's ability to simulate himself (a computer that can calculate quicker than we can) and his world (a mechanical du...
|  | The English Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary: A glossary of English words and expressions with their Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents : together with an ... arts and crafts, folklore and folkways
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|  | I Hear My Gate Slam: Chinese Poets Meeting and Parting
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0978515625 | ISBN-13: 978-0978515621Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Taylor Stoehr. These adroit translations of an assortment of Classical Chinese poets provide modern readers access to an ancient lyrical tradition of celebrating real intimate lives. Equally a display of the contemporary practice of translation and of the specific power of the included poems themselves, Stoehr's collection suggests parallels between the lives of past and present. The effect of such a union between source and transmission leads David Budbil...
|  | Romantic Poetry (Blackwell Essential Literature)
Publication Date: September 23, 2002| ISBN-10: 0631229744 | ISBN-13: 978-0631229742| Edition: 1 The six great Romantic poets represented in this concise collection – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – are those considered essential reading for anyone with an interest in the verse of the period.An essential selection of poetry by the six great Romantic poets. Ideal for general readers or for students taking short courses in Romanticism. Includes the whole of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Gives readers a concise overview of Romantic poetry. ...
|  | Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture
Publication Date: August 1, 1995Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psycho-somatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. Vrettos uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the work of...
|  | Requiem For a Glass Heart
Release Date: February 3, 1997REVENGE CAN BE ECSTASY.Irina Ismaylova is a sexual assassin, luring men and women to her bed...and their death. From St. Petersburg to Paris, she kills not for money or for pleasure, but under orders from the Russian mafioso who holds her in thrall. Desperate to buy back what is left of her shattered life, Irina must carry outone last mission....Cate Cuevas is a special agent in Houston's FBI office. Devastated by her husband's death--and his betrayal--she has plunged into the most dangerousassignment of her career. Bu...
|  | THE LAST GOOD WAR: A Novel
Publication Date: January 15, 2007They were young lovers, caught up in World War II. She took part in codebreaking efforts. He fought in Poland and France. The three main characters are fictitious.However, most of the novel is based on historical events. ...
|  | The Enormous Crocodile
Release Date: September 3, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all! ...
|  | Beaded Bands: Super Stylish Bracelets Made Simple (Klutz)
Publication Date: August 27, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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