 | Aztl
Publication Date: April 1, 1991"...As a symbol for political action, a place of spiritual plentitude, or as a challenge to transcend ethnic borders, Aztlan emerges throughout these essays as one of the Chicano Movement's fundamental ideological constructs. This volume will be of interest to students and critics concerned with the understanding and comprehensive reconstruction of one of the Chicano cultural emblems of the late 1960s. Given the present emphasis in Chicano studies on discourse analysis and critique of ideologies, this volume is a contribution to Chicano cultural criticism."--Ro...
 |  | Real Vampires Have More to Love
Release Date: December 7, 2010| Series: Real Vampires (Book 6) Read Gerry Bartlett's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.View our feature on Gerry Bartlett’s Real Vampires Have More to Love. Dangerous curves lie ahead in the latest hilarious novel from the national bestselling author of Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs.Glory St. Clair is a vampire with man trouble. Between her on-again, off-again lover Jeremy Blade, smoking hot rock star Ray Caine, and former bodyguard turned apartment mate Valdez, there's enough man-candy around to make even a gal with a liquid diet fe...
|  | Innocence
Release Date: May 23, 2006From Kathleen Tessaro, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Elegance, comes a poignant, funny, and utterly remarkable story of real life, real love, and fantasy -- and the changes they put you through. Following a dream can lead to unexpected places. . . . It is 1986, and eighteen-year-old aspiring actress Evie leaves Eden, Ohio, to study theater in London, England. Almost immediately she falls in with new female chums Imogen (born-again Laura Ashley poster child, frustrated virgin) and Robbie (gorgeous wild-child bohemian, far from virginal). The world ...
|  | Race with Death (Danielle Ross Mystery Series #6)
Publication Date: August 1994#6 in the Danielle Ross Mystery series. ...
|  | Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
Release Date: May 31, 2005From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banne...
|  | Man on Fire
Release Date: March 30, 2004Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode. ...
|  | La mas faulera (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005Andrea es una adolescente apasionada por el basquetbol. Todo esta subordinado al deporte: la escuela, la familia, los amigos,hasta su novio! Pero tiene un gran problema: comete demasiados faules y con frecuencia es expulsada de los partidos. Ademas hay que ver quien sera la capitana de la Seleccion. En un contexto de entrenamientos, rinas, trivialidades, la amistad y el numero 5 que la acompanan, Andrea, la mas faulera, hace de la cancha un pedazo intenso de la vida. """"La narracion corre por cuenta de la propia Andrea, y eso le da una frescura de lo mas encomi...
|  | To the End of the World (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
Publication Date: March 25, 2002| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Cendrars' (1887-1961) final novel from 1957 is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. The story races between Foreign Legion barracks in North Africa and the theatres, cafes, and police headquarters of post-war Paris. Therese is a bawdy actress-once a rival of Sarah Bernhardt herself-in her seventies enjoying an energetic affair with a young deserter from the Legion (in which Cendrars himself served). Disaster strikes wh...
|  | The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha)
Publication Date: June 15, 1995| Series: Teachings of the Buddha The Long Discourses of the Buddha is an invaluable collection of the teachings of the Buddha, revealing his gentleness, compassion, and penetrating wisdom. These thirty-four discourses are among the oldest records of the Buddha's original teachings. This book is a companion to The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha, and The Connected Discourses of the Buddha. ...
|  | The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart (Compass)
Release Date: January 1, 1998| Series: Compass Exquisite writings on love, marriage, and the spiritual union of souls add a fresh dimension to our understanding of the philosophy of love and the transformation of one's life through its all-encompassing power. ...
|  | Blending Genre, Altering Style : Writing Multigenre Papers
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0867094788 | ISBN-13: 978-0867094787 0 For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative. Writers can't just tell. They must show. They must make their topics palpable. They must penetrate experience. Multigenre papers enable their authors to do that.Blending Genre, Altering Style is the first book to address the practicalities of helping students compo...
|  | Great Classic Science Fiction: Unabridged Stories
Publication Date: April 13, 2010A solid grouping of classic science fiction short stories by various award-winning authors. Featured authors include H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester Del Rey, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, and Andre Norton. ...
|  | Cartucho. Relatos de la lucha en el norte de Mexico. / Cartridge: Tales of the fight in Northern Mexico (Biblioteca Era) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 9684114559 | ISBN-13: 978-9684114555| Edition: 3 Marginado por villista, por ser de una mujer, por salirse del canon, Cartucho, Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de Mexico es uno de los grandes textos de la literatura mexicana. Como senala Jorge Aguilar Mora en su prologo a este libro, Catucho esta en todos los vertices criticos de nuestro discurso historico-literario: es quizas el libro mas extraordinario, donde se funden la singularidad autobiografica, el anonimato popular, la relacion historica, la transparencia literaria, la cronica familiar. ...
|  | Lyon's Bride: The Chattan Curse
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: The Chattan Curse "When a Chattan male falls in love, strike his heart with fire from above..." They call him Lord Lyon, proud, determined— and cursed. He is in need of a bride, but if he falls in love, he dies. His fervent hope is that by marrying— and having a son—without love, perhaps he can break the curse's chains forever. Enter beautiful Thea Martin—a duke's headstrong, errant daughter and society's most brilliant matchmaker. Years ago, she and Lyon were inseparable, until he disappeared from her life without a word. Now she is ...
|  | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Publication Date: February 21, 2011This small novella tells the tale of two impossibly intertwined gentlemen living in Victorian London---the friendly and sociable Dr Jekyll, and the monstrously deformed, obviously dangerous Mr Hyde.As Mr Hyde's crimes gain the attention of the police, the manhunt is on; but every lead on Hyde consistently leads back to Jekyll instead.When the darker truth of Hyde's identity becomes clear to all, that the monstrous predator of London's industrial-fog enshrouded streets is none other than Jekyll himself, transformed by a tincture of his own making, he sets fo...
|  | Jane and the Genius of the Place: Being the Fourth Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery)
Release Date: February 1, 2000| Series: Being A Jane Austen Mystery (Book 4) For everyone who loves Jane Austen...The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth!In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes.It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal—but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds.A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise.While many urge the arrest of a known scoundrel ...
|  | Mighty Avengers: Earth's Mightiest
Publication Date: 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | When I Grow Up, I'll Be A Gator!
Publication Date: November 22, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Ready, set, Gators roll! Let's go beat the Seminoles! ...
|  | New Directions in Ancient Pantomime
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199232539 | ISBN-13: 978-0199232536This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars - the forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Baryshnikov - stunned audiences with their erotic costumes, subtlety of gesture, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissio...
|  | Life in the Slow Lane: A Desert Tortoise Tale
Publication Date: November 30, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Is life in the "slow lane" really better? Tortoises think so! Shelly the Tortoise and her Grandpa spend the day learning about their cousins(crocodiles), eating their favorite foods (prickly cactus and flowers) and losing races with jackrabbits. Life in the slow lane seems perfect - except for those homes and highways moving into the tortoises' habitat. How can people and tortoises really live together? Shelly and her Grandpa know the answer - do you? In delightful rhymed verse, Conrad J. Storad tells the story ...
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