 | Evergreen: A Guide to Writing with Readings
Publication Date: January 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 0495798576 | ISBN-13: 978-0495798576| Edition: 9 Evergreen combines carefully crafted instruction, high-interest readings and student models, and plentiful practice exercises, to provide the most effective paragraph-to-essay-level developmental writing text on the market. The ninth edition includes expanded and revised coverage of writing essays, including an additional essay chapter and numerous additional student models. Photos enhance high-interest readings and promote critical viewing as well as critical thinking and clear writing. ...
 |  | Between Two Worlds
Publication Date: January 1, 1990This landmark collection is a life's work in poetry by the famous folklorist, novelist and mentor of at least two generations of Chicano scholars and writers. Comprised of a selection of Paredes' poems from the 1930s and 1940s, some of which were published in Texas newspapers, the poetry has both historical and literary merit. ...
|  | Changing the Game (A Play-by-Play Novel)
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Series: A Play-by-Play Novel (Book 2) An erotic new game from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Play. Sports agent Liz Darnell will do anything to win back her number-one client, baseball pro Gavin Riley. And Gavin's more than ready- especially when Liz is offering herself as part of the bargain. But when love unexpectedly enters the playing field, neither Liz nor Gavin are ready for the biggest game-changer of all. ...
|  | Wait
Publication Date: December 1, 2002Every once in a while, a rare poetic treasure emerges and speaks to usin a profound and meaningful way*the kind of piece you keep close byto share its gentle wisdom.For more than 20 years, Russell Kelfer'sinspirational poem, Wait, has ministered to countless individuals, yetthe author's identity was always unknown*until now.Russell Kelfer speaks to our human desire to hear God's plan forour life and our subsequent frustration when we feel we are met withHis silence.What we often hear as God's "no", however, is God's"wait"."Wait*for My timing.Wait for Me to w...
|  | Garden of Shadows
Release Date: November 15, 1990| Series: Garden of Shadows (Book 5) Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions -- of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jeal...
|  | Running in Bed
Publication Date: May 15, 2012Josh Silver is an ambitious young college grad who's just landed his first job at a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising agency. He's been given his own office, a personal secretary, and a decent salary. Everything in his life is working out just fine--except for one nagging problem: although he assumed that once he got out in the real world his feelings would change, Josh finds he still can't stop dreaming about men. He seeks professional help to reprogram his sexual desires but in 1977 New York is the glimmering Emerald City at the end of the Yellow Brick Ro...
|  | Sut McCaslin: A Baseball Romance
Publication Date: September 22, 2000Sut McCaslin, a Baseball Romance tells the story of a major league baseball player in the early 'Fifties. Sut is a reserve outfielder on the Washington Senators, the worst team in baseball. From Opening Day through midseason Sut and his teammates experience the joys and pains of the game until one night in St. Louis that transforms his life. Sut's story is not only baseball. Strains of racism and McCarthyism run strongly through the novel, along with many levels of inquiry into the nature and meaning of the game itself. The story is tilted somewhat more to...
|  | Incident at Twenty-Mile
Publication Date: July 15, 1999For fifteen years he has been silent. Now, the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of such classic suspense novels as The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi returns-- unleashing a stunning thriller set against the backdrop of the American West.A godforsaken town. A young, eager-to-please stranger carrying a homemade shotgun and a staggering secret. And a madman escaped from the Territorial Prison at Laramie, cutting a swath of sadistic violence with two killers at his side. Now, for the people of Twenty-Mile-- the God-fearing and the godless, heroes, whores,...
|  | The Dove of Death: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland (Mysteries of Ancient Ireland)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Mysteries of Ancient Ireland In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ship’s captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Once safely ashore, Fidelma—sister to the King of Muman and an advocate of the Brehon law courts—is determined to bring the kill...
|  | Once Five Years Pass: And Other Dramatic Works
Publication Date: May 1990Spain, tr Logan & Orrios, bilingual...
|  | Arthur Ransome (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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|  | After Theory
Release Date: November 30, 2004As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public intellectuals."-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What's needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today's gl...
|  | Teach Yourself Postmodernism
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|  | Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Release Date: May 12, 2009| ISBN-10: 0719079276 | ISBN-13: 978-0719079276| Edition: 3rd This book has been helping students navigate through the thickest of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their o...
|  | A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
Publication Date: December 23, 1991| ISBN-10: 0520076699 | ISBN-13: 978-0520076693| Edition: 2 The first edition of this widely used work has been reprinted many times over two decades. With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, it provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms--mostly Greek and Latin--that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or to find useful in their writing. Now the Second Edition offers new features that will make it still more useful:--A completely revised alphabetical l...
|  | Le Ventre de Paris (Ldp Classiques) (French Edition)
Publication Date: January 2, 1985| Series: Ldp Classiques Émile Zola (1840-1902), né à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et homme public français, considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme. C’est l’un des romanciers français les plus universellement populaires, l’un des plus publiés et traduits au monde, le plus adapté au cinéma et à la télévision. Sa vie et son oeuvre ont été étudiés dans le détail par la science historique. Sur le plan littéraire, il est principal...
|  | La divina comedia purgatorio (Illustrated by Dore) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 4, 2010| Series: Illustrated by Dore La Divina Comedia es considerada una epopeya alegórica. La obra se divide en tres partes: Infierno, Purgatorio y Paraíso. Esta gran aventura narra un gran viaje por el mundo espiritual. La composición del poema se ordena según el simbolismo del número tres (número que simboliza la trinidad sagrada, Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo, así como el equilibrio y la estabilidad en algunas culturas): tres personajes principales, Dante, que personifica al hombre, Beatriz, que personifica a la fe, y Virg...
|  | Saddled
Publication Date: June 2001Getting a passionate man like Rio McCaine to do what she wanted would be like breaking a stallion, Abbie realized. It would take a lot of work. Easy enough to change her own appearance--to make herself seem more ladylike than perhaps she was, to present herself as the type of woman a man might want to marry--but to get Rio to do everything she wanted, she'd have to resort to a lie. Or two. And if she wanted to save her sister from the Apaches and keep her inheritance for her own, this half-Comanche gunslinger was the only answer. Still, while Abbie was relatively w...
|  | Beep and Bah (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
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|  | X-Men Forever - Volume 5: Once More...Into the Breech (X-Men (Marvel Paperback))
Publication Date: November 10, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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