 | Zigzagger: Stories (Latino Voices)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Latino Voices Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Muñoz's first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. Usually depicted as the lush and green world of rural quiet and tranquility, the Valley becomes the backdrop for the difficulties these characters confront as they try to maintain hope and independence in the face of isolation.In the title story, a teenage boy le...
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 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Release Date: August 7, 2007 The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . an...
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 | Imperial Scandal (Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch)
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch Amid the treachery of war and the whirl of revelry, no one is what they seem...Nights filled with lavish balls...lush, bucolic afternoons.... Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures. But with the Congress of Vienna in chaos and the Duke of Wellington preparing for battle, the festivities are cut short when Malcolm is sent on a perilous mission that unravels a murderous world of espionage...No on...
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 | Penetrando la oscuridad (Esta Patente Oscuridad) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: March 4, 2008| Series: Esta Patente Oscuridad The two #1-selling novels that have captivated millions are now available together in one volumeThis Present Darkness takes place in the typical small town of Ashton where nothing much ever seems to happen. Until . . . a skeptical reporter and a prayerful pastor begin to compare notes. They suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous New Age plot to subjugate the townspeople, and eventually the entire human race.The battle against evil continues in Piercing the Darkness, where a young loner fleeing for her life while trying to recal...
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 | The Stationmaster (Novel)
Publication Date: May 19, 2009L to R (Western Style). To face the future, sometimes you need a little help from the past… An aging railway man facing the closure of his station and the sorrows of his past meets a mysterious young girl who brings an unexpected warmth to the old man’s cold and empty days. A man who has seen the rough side of life finds comfort in the memory of a wife he never knew. A husband and wife struggle to recapture the love they once shared by visiting the movie theater where they met as children. And more… In these eight short stories by award-winn...
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 | The Celtic Ring
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic On a dark night in the Danish harbor of Dragor, Ulf receives a log-book from a lone sailor who then disappears. The log's bizarre records lead Ulf and his friend, Torben, into a dangerous winter crossing of the North Sea toward Scotland. As they pass through the Caledonian Canal, a lock-gate bursts open, nearly killing them. Fear and paranoia begin to take hold as they come to suspect that someone wants them dead. And then they notice the black fishing boat trailing close in their wake...Before long, Ulf and Torben f...
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 | Teatro completo / Complete Theatre (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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![Causeries poetiques (Collection "Idees presentes,") (French Edition)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-sm._AA500_V192198896_.gif&width=150 "Causeries poetiques (Collection "Idees presentes,") (French Edition)") | Causeries poetiques (Collection "Idees presentes,") (French Edition)
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 | Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
Publication Date: November 27, 1992| ISBN-10: 0520081048 | ISBN-13: 978-0520081048Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature. ...
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![Shuppan, chotto ii hanashi: "honyasan" ga suki ni naru hon! (Japanese Edition)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D1BjuGt3L._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Shuppan, chotto ii hanashi: "honyasan" ga suki ni naru hon! (Japanese Edition)") | Shuppan, chotto ii hanashi: "honyasan" ga suki ni naru hon! (Japanese Edition)
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 | Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
Publication Date: May 28, 1999| ISBN-10: 0521651301 | ISBN-13: 978-0521651301This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction.Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction that is evident from family letters and other sources.In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book offers a fresh and unifying critique of the novels. ...
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 | Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biographical Criticism (The Theory and Practice of Biography a)
Publication Date: December 1, 1991| Series: The Theory and Practice of Biography a (Book 1) Stanley Fish opens the collection with a persuasive argument for the role of intention and biography. Michael McKeon, Gordon Turnbull, and Jerome Christensen are concerned with the late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century English cultural discourse that gave rise to the nearly simultaneous emergence of literary biography, Romantic sensibility, and reflexive human consciousness. The essays by Alison Booth, Cheryl Walker, and Sharon O'Brien reveal that the recognition or lack thereof the biographic...
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 | The Man from Beijing (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: March 8, 2011| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard The best-selling, award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only clue left at the scene is a red ribbon. Among the victims are the grandparents of Judge Birgitta Roslin, who sets out to find the killer. Despite being brushed off by the police, Birgitta is determined to prove that the murders w...
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 | Paris to Die For
Publication Date: July 28, 2011Inspired by an actual letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jackie and revealing her job offer from the newly formed CIAYoung Jacqueline Bouvier's first CIA assignment was supposed to be simple: Meet with a high-ranking Russian while he's in Paris and help him defect. But when the Comrade ends up dead, and Jackie-in her black satin peep-toe stiletto heels-barely escapes his killer, it's time to get some assistance. Enter Jacques Rivage, a French photographer and freelance CIA agent who seems too brash and carefree to grapple with spies, though he's a...
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 | Nuevo Did
Publication Date: March 26, 2009Este libro introduce al alumno en la lengua griega antigua y sirve de puente entre el bachillerato y la universidad. Se utiliza una metodología estructural en la interpretación de los textos, sin dejar de lado aspectos útiles de la gramática tradicional. Permite un ritmo individual. Los textos son progresivos, yendo de breves a largos. Al mismo tiempo, se resuelven los problemas de búsqueda en el diccionario de las formas verbales más complejas. ...
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 | Fa La La (Leslie Patricelli board books)
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Age Level: 1 and up...
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 | The Baseball Adventure of Jackie Mitchell, Girl Pitcher vs. Babe Ruth (History's Kid Heroes (Quality Paper))
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | In the Water (First Sports Science)
Publication Date: July 1998| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | One Checkered Flag: A Counting Book about Racing (Know Your Numbers)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | Pittsburgh Penguins (Favorite Hockey Teams)
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