 | Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Zane Presents If you thought Las Vegas was where “what happens” stays, you have not been to homecoming at a historically black college or university, which means you have missed out. Until now, that is. Curtis Bunn’s novel, Homecoming Weekend, provides readers a provocative, engrossing and humorous journey to an HBCU campus for those two days of reminiscing, partying, sex, romance, laughs and even tears. There is nothing quite like homecoming. It is a combination of a massive family reunion and festival, a sentimental and reaffirming...
 |  | The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
Release Date: October 24, 2006A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men–though he is just as desp...
|  | Blue Marrow
Release Date: September 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 1550503049 | ISBN-13: 978-1550503043| Edition: 1 This moving tribute to Native female strength, nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry is available again in a rewritten, re-edited and redesigned edition. The beautifully designed cover depicts the author's 4 grandmothers dancing among the Northern lights. ...
|  | Liu Tsung-Yuan (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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|  | Breath(e)
Publication Date: September 6, 2012What do you do when your desire is stronger than you are? College freshman Elizabeth Foster is beginning to come to terms with her attraction to disabled men but she fears others might judge her harshly if they knew. And that's exactly what happens. When her mother learns the truth, she does everything in her power to stop Elizabeth from finding the only kind of man she could love. Now Elizabeth must learn to trust herself and reject her parents' vision for her future.*** Bonus Story: Stewart returns home to face his past and make up for his mistakes, but...
|  | A Race Against Death: (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Publication Date: August 2006| Series: Five Star First Edition Mystery In the midst of a brutal heatwave, the hospital workers at James Madison University Hospital are outraged by the death of a young woman from a botched abortion. They say the cold-blooded surgeon Dr. Odom is a murderer. But hospital bosses defend him, putting Lenny Moss in the middle of the most dangerous campaign of his career. As tempers flare and laundry workers pass out from the heat, a brutal murder sends Lenny down a dark path that threatens his job...and his life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Doctor Whom: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication (GollanczF.)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: GollanczF. Dr. Who better watch out—Doctor WHOM is here! He’s the grammatically correct TimeLord (or should that be Time Lord? Or Timelord?) who has come to save Earth from the terror’s of sloppy syntax and bad grammar. With his intrepid assistant by his side, Whom’s on a mission to correct greengrocers sign’s, the errors of popular fiction, and government memos (memoes?). If he fails, the results are dire: inaccurate and lazy communication will rip apart the very fabric of the space time continuum. And one thing’...
|  | Cratinus and the Art of Comedy
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 0199569355 | ISBN-13: 978-0199569359Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and offers a thorough analysis of the multifaceted art of this poet and his place in the history of comedy. Issues which she addresses include the creation of a poetic personality within a performative tradition of fierce interpoetic rivalry; the p...
|  | Flight And Earlier Poems
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|  | Home
Publication Date: September 21, 2012Home. A simple word; a loaded one. You can say it in a whisper; you can say it in a cry. Expressed in the voices of father and daughter, you can hear a visceral longing for an ideal place, a place never to be found again. Imagine the shock, imagine the sadness when a daughter discovers her father's work, the poetry he had never shared with anyone during the last two decades of his life. Six years after that moment of discovery, which happened in her childhood home while mourning for his passing, Uvi Poznansky presents a tender tribute: a collection of poem...
|  | Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism (Literature, Culture, Theory)
Publication Date: March 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521422582 | ISBN-13: 978-0521422581Kenneth Burke's influence ranged across history, philosophy and the social sciences. This important study examines Burke's influence on contemporary theories of rhetoric and the subject, and explains why Burke failed to complete his Motives trilogy. Burke's own critique of the "isolated unique individual" led him to question the possibility of unique individuation, thereby anticipating important elements of postmodern concepts of subjectivity. This book is both a timely and judicious exposition of Burke's long...
|  | Clandestine
Release Date: February 1, 1999Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his pr...
|  | Hey There (You with the Gun in Your Hand): A Rat Pack Mystery (Rat Pack Mysteries)
Release Date: December 9, 2008| Series: Rat Pack Mysteries It's 1961 and Las Vegas is still the place to be. Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands Casino, now considers the Rat Pack his friends. And this time, his friend Frank Sinatra wants him to help Sammy. Someone has an embarrassing photo of Sammy and wants $25 grand for it. All Eddie has to do is make the pay-off and collect the photo. Easy, right? But at the rendezvous, in place of a blackmailer, Eddie finds a dead body greeting him instead. Pretty soon Eddie and New York torpedo Jerry Epstein are up to their elbows in bodies. There's ...
|  | Seven Blind Mice
Release Date: March 15, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up The Caldecott Honor book and modern classic now in boardbook format. Finally! Nearly twenty years ago, Ed Young translated the ancient parable of the seven blind men and the elephant into a modern children's classic, one as simple as it is profound. A lesson in colors, numbers, the days of the week and most important, knowledge, this beautifully illustrated book has stood the test of time and continues to entertain and teach. Now in board book format, even the youngest children can experience the beauty and wisdom. ...
|  | Tikki Tikki Tembo (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Let's Have a Tea Party!: Special Celebrations for Little Girls
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Emilie Barnes invites her little friends to enjoy the wonder of teatime. Whimsical images by artist Michal Sparks dance around the many creative ideas for invitations, decorations, tasty treats, and frolicking fun activities for six parties, including Elizabeth's Pony Club Tea, A Musical Tea, and Tea with Grammy. ...
|  | Both Sides of the Border
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|  | Twice Freed (Freestyle)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | UC We Give a Squid a Wedgie (An Accidental Adventure)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Fox and the Clam
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