 | A Self-Made Thief
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 |  | Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: March 4, 1999| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series-the first prime-time soap opera.Contemporary readers of Peyton Place will be captivated by its vivid characters, earthy prose, and shocking incidents. Through her riveting, uninhibited narrative,...
|  | The Secrets of Jin-shei
Release Date: April 27, 2004Enter an ancient world of courtly elegance and intrigue, where sages are also sorcerers, and the daughter of a lowly seamstress can become a companion to an empress. In this magical land there is a secret language -- a language that women have passed down from mother to daughter for countless generations -- a language that signals a bond like no other . . . the bond of jin-shei.Set in a mythical Chinese kingdom, The Secrets of Jin-shei is a timeless story of what sustains friendship -- and what tears it apart. Accepting all the joys and responsibilities of jin-s...
|  | The Clique
Release Date: January 1, 2008The Clique ventures into the world ofMo, Royal, Emil, Pepper and Ascada; five young women who, after they have a violent altercation, are thrown into the grimy Walsh facility for women. Their lives are on the line to stay alive and they have no choice but to form a clique to survive. ...
|  | A Slender Thread (Nal Accent Novels)
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|  | The Outrageous Juan Rana <em>Entremeses</em>: A Bilingual and Annotated Selection of Plays Written for This Spanish Age <em>Gracioso</em> (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publication Date: August 18, 2009| Series: University of Toronto Romance Series Juan Rana, the most famous actor of the Spanish Golden Age, enjoyed a long and successful career from 1617 to 1672. Over fifty entremeses - interludes featured between the main acts of full-length plays - were written especially for him by some of the most important playwrights of the period. This bilingual and annotated edition of The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses translates a selection of the entremeses for the first time, highlighting their literary complexity and providing historical context for the many do...
|  | Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness
Release Date: November 10, 2005This book is a feminist reading of the history of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theater. It is not limited to a "theater arts" focus, rather it is a mapping and close analysis of transformative genders through several historical periods in Japan (the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries). In particular, the work focuses on undoing of binary genders, the sensual ambiguity of boy-ness, youth, and female-likeness and the cultural development of the aesthetics of eroticism, nostalgia, and cruelty base...
| | Gower's Confessio Amantis: Responses and Reassessments
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|  | Der Mensch und die Natur: Poetische Darstellung (German Edition)
Release Date: June 18, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1851 edition by C. Krämer, Potsdam. ...
| | Ou, Mei, Su yu Song shi di xing cheng (Bo shi wen ku) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: May 8, 2003| Series: Suny Series in Postmodern Culture Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
| | Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and Pragmatics (Multilingual Matters, 49-50)
Publication Date: January 1989| Series: Multilingual Matters, 49-50 These volumes present a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields - quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies - which expose the richness of approaches represented in the volumes. A generalized view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- an...
|  | Poetry and Life Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem
Release Date: July 1, 2000An epic poem celebrating the activist, visionary, and original poetic mind, Allen Ginsberg--in many ways the avatar of the Beat Generation--inaugurated the countercultural zeitgeist of the '50s and '60s with his brazen poetry and fluorescent persona. In this allusive, inspired narrative poem, Edward Sanders, one of the Beats' favorite sons and a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, charts a path through what he calls the "Forest Ginsberg."An unsentimental elegy, a grand tribute, a masterful blazon, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg shares with us the man, his art, ...
|  | Wanted by Outlaws (Siren Menage Amour #43)
Publication Date: May 20, 2009| Series: Siren Menage Amour [Siren Menage Amour 43: Wild West Menage Romance, F/M/M/M/M] They're not your average bad boys. They're armed, dangerous, and ready to kill. Trouble with that is, they look good enough to eat, even when they're drawing their guns. Still, Emily has somehow avoided getting tangled up with the three men who share too many delicious similarities. They should--they're cousins. Making a pact to stay away from the gentle and beautiful woman living all alone, the outlaws form a friendship with Emily and it proves important soon enough. With ...
|  | Zero Hour (Tom Clancy's Power Plays, Book 7)
Release Date: November 4, 2003Created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, written by Jerome Preisler. ...
|  | Murder Most Fair : The Appeal of Mystery Fiction
Publication Date: November 2000Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or ‘serious’ fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising thequestion whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery’s conventions are not belief systems or ideologiesto be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Father and Daughter Tales (An Abbeville Anthology)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Stowaway Monster (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Jorinda and Jorindel
Release Date: April 8, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up Once upon a time, deep in the middle of a forest, stood an old castle. If a young girl wandered too near the castle walls, the witch turned her into a bird, and locked her in a cage inside the castle. But true love triumphs over evil enchantment in this story of one young couple, the beautiful Jorinda and Jorindel, the shepherd boy who loves her, who break free of the witch's spell and live happily ever after. ...
|  | Catch Flies! (Leftovers)
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