 | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn't until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirt: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book's publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been anoth...
 |  | A Raisin in the Sun: with Connections (HRW Library)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0030550998 | ISBN-13: 978-0030550997| Edition: 1 Amazing Condition ...
|  | Haunted Theaters: Playhouse Phantoms, Opera House Horrors, and Backstage Banshees
Publication Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Haunted Haunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England....
|  | Body of Contention
Publication Date: May 21, 2004In his funniest novel to date, John Haylock shifts his locale to 1960s Tangier. The setting is the Hotel Ritz, a run-down establishment peopled by a menagerie of eccentric expats. ...
|  | Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud
Release Date: August 7, 2012Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous career as a trader and arms dealer in Ethiopia. A cancerous leg forced him to return to France, where he died at the age of thirty-seven. Bruce Duffy takes these astonishing facts and brings them to vivid life in a story rich with humor, exquisite writing, and alarming parallels to our own...
|  | Coffee with Plato (Coffee with...Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Coffee with...Series Around 428 BC, Plato was born into one of Athens’s most aristocratic families, and ultimately gathered around him some of the greatest minds of his age. Travel back to ancient Greece with Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Donald R. Moor and author Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) to meet this legendary thinker. In addition to expanding upon his famous allegory of the cave, Plato talks about learning through dialogue, the primacy of good and the price of wrong doing, democracy, freedom and...
|  | The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Signet Classics Using the authorized English translation, edited and annotated by Engels, this edition features an extensive and provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia. ...
|  | The Mulberry Empire: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2003With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre.At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, pr...
|  | Euripides, VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Loeb Classical Library No. 504)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674996259 | ISBN-13: 978-0674996250Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striki...
|  | Duo!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century
Release Date: July 1, 2009Culled from the work of over 100 playwrights and encompassing the seminal issues of our time, this follow-up compendium is by turns comic and serious but always intensely human. Pieces include scenes from August: Osage County, George and Martha, Intimate Apparel, Take Me Out, and Water Music. ...
|  | Il N y a Pas Paradis (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Release Date: March 24, 1998"Me apprepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana," ya que "la sexualidad es un componente de la buena sauld, inspira la creatcion y es parte del camino del alma...Por desgracia, me demore treinta anos en descubrirlo." ...
|  | Besieging the Castle of Ladies: Bernardo Lecture Series, No.4 (Pegasus Paperbooks)
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|  | Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Book Club in a Box: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders)
Publication Date: January 20, 2012Ernest Hemingway was an iconic writer of the 20th century who gave modern literature a unique shape and form. Papa Hemingway was larger than life and created his own personal and professional mythical status. He was so powerful and energetic that he overshadowed the people around him. Paula McLain reaches behind the shadow to bring us an intimate portrait of Hadley Richardson, Hemingway s first wife. Hadley, a lovely and talented young woman in her own right, met Hemingway soon after her mother died and was swept off her feet by this handsome, energetic, and...
|  | Cicero: Vol. XXII, Letters to Atticus 1-89 (Loeb Classical Library No. 7)
Publication Date: April 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 0674995716 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995710In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except, perhaps, his brother. These letters, in this four-volume series, also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.When the correspondence begins in November 68 BCE the 38-year-old Cicero is a notable figure in Rome: a brilliant lawyer and orator, who has achieved primacy at the Roman bar and a political career t...
|  | Romances (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Journey to Terra Incognita, Epiphany in Time
Publication Date: August 5, 2009In the post-war 1950s, when a Communist was hiding behind every corner, anti-religious rhetoric began infiltrating America. It was Satan who tested the resolve of atheist Charles Mandrin in this powerful drama written by Gerald Shingleton.The story is set on a California college campus in 1950, with all the events, characters and developments of those "good old days" interwoven into the evil fascism that was entering the consciousness of the Western world. Mandrin studies the mysteries of the universe and becomes obsessed with how he believes the world is bein...
|  | The Kingmaker
Publication Date: August 1, 2003Listen, Drummond, your client betrayed this country in ways too horrible to contemplate....In the history of espionage, there's never been one like him. But Major Sean Drummond never says die. Especially when an old flame begs him to defend her brigadier general husband in the biggest treason case in U.S. history. And even when Drummond is up against the fiercest prosecutor in the Army and fighting two murder charges. With an unconventional and beautiful co-counsel, Drummond plunges into an investigation that will unearth a damning array of secrets and cover-u...
|  | Classic Goosebumps #1: Night of the Living Dummy
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Avengers and Power Pack Assemble!
Publication Date: November 29, 2006| Grade Level: P and up...
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