 | (Out)Classed Women: Contemporary Chicana Writers on Inequitable Gendered Power Relations
Publication Date: September 30, 2000| ISBN-10: 0313311234 | ISBN-13: 978-0313311239Like so many other ethnic groups, Chicanos and Chicanas have suffered from political, social, and economic oppression in the United States. In addition to the problems they endure as a consequence of their ethnicity, Chicanas are further subordinated because of their gender. As women, they are treated inequitably by a culture in which authority is invested primarily in men, to the point that they are relegated to a separate social class. The experiences of Chicanas are presented in the works of contemporar...
 |  | The Penelopiad
Publication Date: April 22, 2006For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours and keep over a hundred lustful, greedy and bloodthirsty suitors at bay...And then, when Odysseus finally returns and slaughters the murderous suitors, he brutally hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. What were his motives? And what was Penelope really up t...
|  | DragonLight (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 5)
Release Date: June 17, 2008The fantastic land of Amara is recovering from years of war inflicted on its citizens by outside forces–as well as from the spiritual apathy corroding the Amarans’ hearts. With Kale and her father serving as dragon keepers for Paladin, the dragon populace has exploded. It’s a peaceful, exciting time of rebuilding. And yet, an insidious, unseen evil lurks just beneath the surface of the idyllic countryside. Truth has never been more important, nor so difficult to discern.As Kale and her father are busy hatching, bonding, and releasing the younger g...
|  | Pure Blood (Nocturne City, Book 2)
Release Date: August 26, 2008In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peace—while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: We see with empty eyes…To make matters worse for Luna, she can’t get wolfishly handsome Dmitri Sandovsky out of her mind. The last time he helped her with a case, Dmitri suffered a demon bite that infected him with a mysterious illness…and now his pack elders have forbidden him from associating with...
|  | The Witching Hour
Publication Date: September 2000Goddesses, hags, healers, wise women, sisters...powerful, victimized, good, evil, helpful, vengeful, respected, misunderstood...witches. ...
|  | Bite: The Most Gripping Thriller You Will Ever Read
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|  | Double Bogey
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|  | Bibliothek der angels
Release Date: October 18, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1857 edition by Georg H. Wigand, Goettingen. ...
|  | Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems (Romiosyni)
Publication Date: September 1996| Series: Romiosyni "Odysseus Elytis is a pure and dedicated poet, whose work is abundant, original, and thrilling", wrote Peter Levi when Elytis (1911-96) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. This is a representative selection of his poems, drawn from all periods of his distinguished career, tracing his development from early surrealism, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to his later work. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
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|  | La Voie Royale
Publication Date: December 1, 1976| Series: Ldp Litterature La voie royale, c est « la route qui reliait Angkor et les lacs au bassin de la Ménan. Aussi importante que la route du Rhône au Rhin, au Moyen-Âge ». Piste dans la jungle, voie de terre balisée par des temples khmers oubliÃÃ&#x...
|  | The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
Publication Date: March 5, 2004Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. InThe Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, l...
| ![Desire for Three [Desire, Oklahoma 1]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51twy3cf2OL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Desire for Three [Desire, Oklahoma 1]
Publication Date: November 6, 2008| Series: Desire, Oklahoma DESIRE FOR THREE [Siren Menage Amour #15: Erotic Contemporary, Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, with Dom/sub BDSM] With her fortieth birthday approaching and a bad marriage behind her, Jessica Tyler wants a fresh start. Marriage left her an emotionless shell and she vows never to get involved with a man again. Giving in to her sister, Jesse agrees to visit her in Desire, Oklahoma. But Desire is a small town unlike any other. Dom/sub and menage relationships are the norm in a town where ranchers and cowboys adore and protect their wom...
|  | Chanson de l'Ange, Book 1: The Bleeding Rose- An Epic Retelling of Phantom of the Opera
Publication Date: June 24, 2010Important announcement from the author. Chanson de l'Ange has been signed with a traditional publisher who will be releasing the novel as a revised 3 part series in August-September 2012. Please be aware that the unrevised edition is now out of print and is only available at a very high price through 3rd party sellers. The revised series in both paperback and ebook formats will be available upon release through all on-line retail sources at a reasonable price. Release date to be announced soon. Please visit my official website for more ...
|  | A Patent Lie
Release Date: June 17, 2008Forced out of his high-powered Manhattan law firm and stuck in a dead-end solo practice, Michael Seeley, the tough-but-wounded hero of Errors and Omissions, cannot say no when his estranged brother, Leonard, head of research at upstart biotech Vaxtek, Inc., flies in from California to beg him to take over the company’s lawsuit for patent infringement of its pathbreaking AIDS vaccine after the sudden death of the lead trial lawyer. The financial and moral stakes of the case are staggering, and Seeley suspects that murder cannot be ruled out as a hardball litig...
|  | Forget Me Not: Based on True Events
Publication Date: July 6, 2011Christina, a girl from an extremely abusive home, where her Father (a gunsmith), and his girlfriend Leah share the same sociopathic nature and idealism. After Christina's mother suddenly passes, the abuse becomes unbearable. Christina, who feels like the unloved, finds herself seduced by one of her father's friends. In fact, he's been a good friend of the family for many years - known as Uncle Frank. Christina falls for Frank and they make a plan to escape from her father's home. This is when things become unglued and Christina starts to second guess herself to ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (Otto Penzler Books)
Publication Date: December 10, 2003| Series: Otto Penzler Books In a crafty new novel featuring the world’s greatest literary detective, Alan Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with a knotty investigation that takes the celebrated sleuth and his cohort, Dr. Watson, far from the cozy Victorian comforts of 221B Baker Street. The mystery begins familiarly enough, in London, in the middle of the night. Holmes and Watson are summoned to a crime scene that, not so familiarly, seems to vanish before their eyes, as they find themselves with neither evidence nor a clie...
|  | Barnstormers:Game 1
Publication Date: February 27, 2007Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when al...
|  | Tales from Shakespeare (Puffin Classics)
Release Date: May 27, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (New Casebooks)
Release Date: November 27, 2012 ...
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