 | The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Release Date: December 9, 2001| ISBN-10: 0807854069 | ISBN-13: 978-0807854068In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Lim¹n, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seam...
 |  | Latina Writers (The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0313348065 | ISBN-13: 978-0313348068| Edition: First Edition Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on Latina writers ever compiled. Learn about these authors' lives and extraordinary careers, as well as the social and political issues their works address.10 signed articles, essays, and...
|  | In the Time of Assignments
Publication Date: January 28, 2008In the Time of Assignments transforms a decade’s worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin’s work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator’s evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragment...
|  | Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: December 20, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415972582 | ISBN-13: 978-0415972581This volume of fourteen original essays written by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. The collection contributes towards repositioning childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination - a ready emblem of innocence, mischief and playfulness. The essays present a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development an...
|  | Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
Release Date: October 21, 2003Ronald Reagan’s “Handwriting File” contains an archive of thousands of handwritten missives from the president to his constituents, written throughout his eight years in office. Historian Ralph E. Weber and his son have selected the highlights from this treasure trove, creating a uniquely intimate portrait of Reagan at work.A fascinating glimpse at the issues facing the United States during the 1980s, Dear Americans is arranged chronologically to trace history in the making. Taking time each week to respond to dozens of Americans who asked h...
|  | The Darkening (Immortals, Book 2)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Created at the dawn of time to protect humanity, the ancient warriors have been nearly forgotten, though magic lives on--in vampires, werewolves, the Celtic Sidhe, and other beings. But now one of their own has turned rogue, and the world is again in desperate need of the IMMORTALS.A werewolf and bounty hunter, Lexi was badass to the bone. She had no problem protecting herself in the seedy underground vampire clubs of New York City.Until the Immortal she had tried to summon actually appeared. It wasn't the intricate tattoos around his well-defined muscles that in...
|  | Siren's Song (Leisure Historical Romance)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Series: Leisure Historical Romance Alexandra Stafford always considered herself an adventurous sort. Escaping slave traders--no problem. Captaining a ship on storm-tossed seas--piece of cake. But putting on a gown and attending a ball for the crème de la crème of London Society--now that terrified her. Especially if she had to dance with the new duke of Worthington. He held her way too close, made her heart beat way too fast, muddled her thoughts with his silken kisses.Worthington knew Alex was trouble the minute he laid eyes on her. She was stalked ...
|  | Justice League Adventures Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven
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|  | The Weaving of a Dream (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: October 1, 1989| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The New York Giants (NFL Today Books)
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|  | Swimming (Training to Succeed)
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|  | Celtic Body Art Tattoos (Dover Tattoos)
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|  | Legends: The Wrath of the Gods
Release Date: July 17, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury
Publication Date: October 29, 1998"The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury" is a timeless collection of favourite nursery rhymes, lullabies, poems and stories, featuring well-loved characters, such as Spot, The Snowman and Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten. Brought to life by some of the most talented children's illustrators, this treasury is perfect for sharing and will make any collection complete. ...
|  | Milkweed (Lib)(CD)
Publication Date: September 23, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A New York Times Bestselling Author A Newbery Award-winning Author He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw, who steals food for himself and the orphans, and who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He wants to be a Nazi someday, with tall, shiny jackboots and a gleaming eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.For ages 10 and up. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable...
|  | Mrs. Crump's Cat
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upFrom Linda Smith and David Roberts comes a funny, heartwarming tale about the wonderful things that can happen when you open your door to friendship.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | OLIVIA Talks Turkey
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Lions (Naturebooks: Carnivores)
Publication Date: January 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Bear for Breakfast
Publication Date: February 15, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up Presenting a Picture Board Book perfect for babies and toddlers!An excellent platform for early learning, this sturdy, oversized boardbook features larger-than life illustrations in vibrant colors withlarge, easy-to-read text.In A Bear for Breakfast a fidgety young boy who’s eager to playbecomes bored while dawdling over his breakfast.So when Mom leaves theroom, he invites a pretend menagerie of wild animals – with their ownunusual eating habits – to pass the time at the table.Hilariousillustrations wil...
|  | How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? - Audio
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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