 | Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community
Publication Date: November 30, 1995| ISBN-10: 0822316404 | ISBN-13: 978-0822316404Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In essays on texts by writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Abe Kobo, Gabriel Garc&...
 |  | Selected Writings of Edward S. Curtis
Publication Date: June 1976The only comprehensive selection of the works from the greatest chronicler of North American Indians at the turn of the century. ...
|  | Gull Island
Publication Date: October 1, 2010The year is 1917 and Barbara Jones is shocked to be told that she is carrying a child. Her boyfriend is a soldier and there is no one to whom she can turn for support. Indeed, her horrified father sends her away in disgrace when he learns of her condition. Fortunately, the generous Carey family give Barbara a home in a derelict house on a beach near Gull Island and it is there that her daughter Rosita is born. Gull Island traces the lives of Barbara, Rosita, and the Carey family over many years—through wars, hurt, hope, and betrayal. When Rosita grows up...
|  | The Starter Marriage: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2005Tess Leonard thought her marriage vows to Barney were for life. But when he leaves her for a busty young secretary, Tess realizes that she needs to rethink her idea of happily-ever-after. Tess is falling apart-until she sees a life raft on the horizon. It's called the Divorce Survival Class-something like boot camp for the broken-hearted. As Tess gets to know her classmates-and their Machiavelian tutor, William-she sees that life will always continue to move forward. As William leads them through bizarre yet effective methods for healing their broken spirits, the en...
|  | The Technologists: A Novel
Release Date: February 21, 2012The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril. The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE TECHNOLOGISTS Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wast...
|  | Eagle in the Sky
Release Date: August 29, 2006With bold characters and stirring prose, Wilbur Smith writes riveting novels filled with adventure and intrigue. In EAGLE IN THE SKY, this master storyteller tells the story of a man born to...FLY LIKE AN ANGELOn land, he was a youth too handsome and too blessed--with carefree charm and enormous wealth. In the air he was something else entirely: born to fly fast and hard, to send the fastest jet fighters into towering climbs and screaming, murderous dives. In a country struggling for its survival, David Morgan found a home, a cause, a woman and a war.FIGHT LIKE T...
|  | The Angels of Morgan Hill
Release Date: October 17, 2006From Donna VanLiere--the author of the beloved Christmas Hope series--comes a moving novel of faith, family, and destiny. You might think that what you're about to read has a great deal to do with my father and growing up poor in east Tennessee, but there is so much more--what captured my heart was the hope of belonging and the dream of family. The woman I am has a great deal to do with that ninth year of my life. It started out as any other year, nothing extraordinary, but as each day unfolded it became remarkable in every way. There are ...
|  | Green Team: Rogue Warrior
Publication Date: February 1, 1996Richard Marcinko's revelations in his explosive #1 bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, reverberated through the highest levels of the U.S. government. But, bound by government restrictions, he was forbidden to tell the whole story. The answer was fiction. First came Rogue Warrior: Red Cell, the take-no-prisoners bestseller with Marcinko as hero. Now the Rogue Warrior's back and he's hotter than ever, in a knockout novel of courage and nonstop action. In Portsmouth, England, an aircraft carrier has been sabotaged, killing the American Chief of Naval Ope...
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|  | Calendar Girls
Publication Date: April 1, 2010When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an 'alternative' calendar. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small Yorkshire village of Knapeley. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame. "Calendar Girls" opened at the Chicheste...
|  | Manilius: Astronomica (Loeb Classical Library No. 469) (English and Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1977| ISBN-10: 0674995163 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995161Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial phenomena, and then proceeds to treat of the signs of the zodiac and the twelve temples; there follow instructions for calculating the horoscoping degree, and details of chronocrators, decans, injurious degrees, zodiacal geography, paranatellonta, and other technical matters. Besides exhibiti...
|  | Vitruvius: On Architecture, Volume II, Books 6-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 280)
Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993098 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993099Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studi...
|  | The Hound Of The Baskervilles
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|  | 23 Shades of Black (A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery This tense, psychological thriller set in the East Village punk scene during the early 1980s shadows a single evening shift of NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela. When Filomena learns that the toxic leak may have been sabotage, and a key witness—an East Village artist—dies in a suspicious accident, she decides to pursue the case on her own by cruising the Alphabet City punk rock clubs for clues about the artist’s last days. But as she attempts to punish environmental criminals, Filomena finds the case, and her ...
|  | Scholastic Reader Level 2: Rainbow Magic: The Fairy Treasure Hunt
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | On the Mound with Randy Johnson
Publication Date: July 2003| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An inspiring story of the first American female athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games shares her triumphs over childhood illnesses to become a high school basketball player. A Childhood Of Famous Americans title. ...
|  | My Family Tree Workbook (Dover Children's Activity Books)
Publication Date: March 1, 1982| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Oh, No...Not Again!
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|  | You Be Me, I'll Be You
Publication Date: March 1, 1990| Age Level: 3 and up Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin-colors with her father. With wit, compassion and a very light and non-didactic hand, this book examines issues of concern not only to interracial children, but to all children who have ever worried about their diferences. Full-color illustrations. ...
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