 | Famous All Over Town
Release Date: April 1, 1984A Mexican-American boy has a rough time on the Los Angeles streets, but is determined to make a better life for himself. ...
 |  | Beyond Aztlan: Philosophy
Publication Date: August 31, 1990Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity? Beyond Aztlan argues that American society has historically viewed a distinctive cultural identity as something that an ethnic group gives up in order to achieve economic and political parity. Mexican Americans, who have scored limited gains in their struggle for equality since the 1940s, are proving to be no exception to the rule. However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other c...
|  | Archie Archives Volume 3 (Dark Horse Archives)
Publication Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Dark Horse Archives Archie Andrews and his crew of bosom buddies are some of the best-known characters to ever emerge from the pages of comic books. As readers, we''ve seen Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie, Jughead, and the rest of the gang through seventy years of teenage antics, filtered through the lens of our respective generations. Now Archie fans of all ages can go all the way back to the beginning of it all with Dark Horse''s beautiful Archie Archives! ...
|  | Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
Release Date: January 26, 2010There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there’s the small matter of the undead to take care of first. Demons stalk the crown, and political ...
|  | Ten Thousand Charms (Crossroads of Grace #1)
Release Date: May 1, 2006Unfit for Love?Pregnant—by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to care for her when his wife died during childbirth. So John and Gloria strike a deal. Gloria will care for Kate, and John will eventually raise her son. There is no offer of, nor seeking for, a hand in marriage. When John leaves the mines to seek his fortune in the new Oregon Territory , Gloria, Kate, and baby Danny mus...
|  | Henry Vaughan (Border Lines)
Publication Date: April 28, 1996| ISBN-10: 1854111426 | ISBN-13: 978-1854111425There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life. However, at the tercentenary of his death his writing remains as influential as ever and the writer continues to fascinate. Stevie Davies uses her skills as a novelist and critic to bring to life her now distant subject: 'I wanted to imagine him as a real and breathing person in a landscape both geographical and historical,' she writes in her preface to this book. Through Vaughan's writing and other sources...
|  | World Premieres from Horse Cave: Plays by Kentucky Writers
Publication Date: November 1, 2009During Warren Hammack's 25 years of leadership as artistic director at Horse Cave Theatre, 17 world premieres were produced. This collection of 14 of those scripts is documentation of an exciting and prolific period in Kentucky's literary, artistic and theatrical history.Playwrights whose work appears in the book are Billy Edd Wheeler, Jim Wayne Miller, Sallie Bingham, Liz Bussey Fentress, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Betty Peterson, Jim Peyton, Larry Pike, Joe Terrence Gray, John Howell, Ron Meilech and Frank Schaefer.As co-editor Fentress notes in her afterword, Ha...
|  | The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0814324851 | ISBN-13: 978-0814324851| Edition: Bilingual A collection of modern Hebrew poetry that presents the poems in the original Hebrew, with an English phonetic transcription. ...
|  | Velvet Paws
Publication Date: November 1981A variety of cats introduce themselves in poetry. ...
|  | Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Publication Date: October 6, 2005Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, "The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems" is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf. "Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person". (Helen Vendler...
|  | Northfield Poems
Publication Date: January 17, 1966Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level. Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the Year were published in 1965 by Cornell University Press. In 1966, Mr. Ammons received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for creative writing in poetry. ...
|  | George D. Smith, G.D.S., 1870-1920: A memorial tribute to the greatest bookseller the world has ever known
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|  | Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics (Toronto Iberic)
Publication Date: November 19, 2011| Series: Toronto Iberic What is the role of literature in the formationof the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes,Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that whenpublic speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politicsmust be addressed through indirect forms including comedy, myth, andtravellers' tales.Cervantes, Literature, and theDiscourse of Politics convincinglyre-engages the ancient roots of political th...
| | Arthurian Romance and Modern Poetry and Music
Publication Date: June 1970| ISBN-10: 0804610495 | ISBN-13: 978-0804610490| Edition: Facsimile of 1940 ed The object of this book is to suggest how a great poetic tradition has been built up and survives as an essential part of our Western culture. Treats especially of the use, by poets and musicians, of Arthurian imaginative motifs. ILLUS.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College; Bibliography of Comparative Literature - Baldensperger; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition....
|  | Killer Heat
Release Date: September 28, 2010The bodies of seven women have been discovered in Skull Valley, Arizona. Jonah Young, a private security operative from Department 6, has been hired by the Yavapai County sheriff to assist in solving these murders. But Jonah's not prepared for the complications that arise when he's forced to work with a woman from his past, private investigator Francesca Moretti.Jonah betrayed Francesca ten years ago. She hasn't forgiven him and she's pretty sure she never will. But the woman she was hired to find has been murdered in exactly the same way as the seven in Skull...
|  | Chains of Ice: The Chosen Ones
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: The Chosen Ones Only beloved author Christina Dodd could bring you this riveting paranormal tale of duty, family ... and the power of love...For one magic summer, Genny Valente escapes to spend time as a wildlife observer in the untamed mountains. Little does she know that a beast more fearsome that any beast lurks in the forest...a man, one of the Chosen Ones, betrayed by his gift and tormented by his memories. John Powell has fled his fate and his duty, yet in Genny he sees his one chance for redemption. He will stalk her, kidnap her, love her as on...
|  | A Mother's Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Series: Arabesque Three love stories celebrate Mother's Day in a collection that includes "Mama's Pearl," about the reunion of two high-school sweethearts; "Flowers for Rose Lily," about a widow who finds new love; and "Misty's Mothers," about love between a handsome vet and a bird-loving shop owner. Original. ...
|  | Los infortunios de la virtud (Letras mayusculas)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Letras mayusculas Depicting the beauty of the written word, the handsome books in this series present an assortment of universal literature from the drama of Shakespeare to the words of many well-known authors from the first half of the 20th century. Demostrando la belleza del arte de las letras, los libros elegantes en esta colección reúnen a los grandes clásicos de la literatura, desde el drama de Shakespeare hasta los autores más representativos de la literatura de la primera mitad del siglo XX. ...
|  | Tell No One: A Novel
Release Date: August 25, 2009For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.Beck has been warn...
|  | Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (Cultural Studies Series)
Release Date: May 17, 2007| Series: Cultural Studies Series An innovative and entertaining look at genre, popular culture, enjoyment, and psychoanalysis.Detective fiction, a category that, broadly defined, runs the gamut from Oedipus Rex to "The Purloined Letter," continues to draw a range of fans and scholars, and to play a pivotal role in popular entertainment, contemporary literature, and psychoanalytic theory. But how do we derive pleasure from reading about or watching a detective's exploits? Is our enjoyment in the vicarious experience of genius? Or in witnessing the commission of a cr...
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