 | Literature Packet for Patterns of Change
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 |  | Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel (DORY)
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: DORY (Book 3) Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing...Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he’s not an easy kill. It tur...
|  | Sweetest Thing, The
Publication Date: June 1, 2011The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known.At the insistence of her parents, Mary "Dobbs" Dillard, the daughter of an itinerant preacher, is sent from inner-city Chicago to live with her aunt and attend Washington Seminary, bringing confrontation and rad...
|  | Dark Horse: A Political Thriller
Release Date: January 5, 2010 At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, California governor Robert Long got robbed.It's a tight race between Long and Senator Salmon Stanley for the Democratic nomination for president. When Stanley triumphs, Long's delegates walk out, the media has a field day, and Long and his team -- including ace political strategist Jay Noble -- pack their bags and go home, knowing that whether Stanley fought fair or not, it's the end of the line. Unless...Would Long consider running as an independent? Independent campaigns of the past, such as those of Ross Per...
|  | Boy Culture: A Novel
Release Date: January 23, 2007X a wily hustler, has a dilemma. The object of his affections is his roommate Andrew, who is confused about his sexuality. Meanwhile, X's other roommate--a seventeen-year-old precocious partyboy--is falling for X in a big way. The result is an old-fashioned (well, sort of) love triangle peppered with savage one-liners-a touching portrait of love and lust among three very different gay men. ...
|  | Nothing Personal (A Romentics Novel)
Release Date: December 7, 2005| Series: Romentics The gay marriage ban is nothing personal, unless you're a Cuban-American gay man in the heart of red-state America.Carlo Batista takes on longtime conservative Tall Tony Scipione in a race for state representative. And he takes on mystery man Brian Gallagher in the race for his heart.Breaking all the rules of polite society, Carlo proves that love, sex, politics, and religion do mix -- with hilarious and heart-warming results. ...
|  | Sunken Red
Publication Date: August 5, 1995Sunken Red is a harrowing story based on the author’s own experiences in a Japanese concentration camp, interwoven with memories of an idyllic childhood in the Netherlands. ...
|  | The Man Who Turned Into Himself: A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 2008In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and then she is alive again, begging for help, and Rick Hamilton no longer is himself, but another man with another life, and a different history.Based on the "many worlds" theory of quantum physics, which posits the existence of parallel universes, The Man Who Turned Into Himself is a suspenseful, mind-bending mystery...
|  | Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerum natura
Publication Date: February 15, 1997Lucy Hutchinson, born in 1630, was the daughter of Lucy St. John and Sir Allen Apsley, James I's Lieutenant of the Tower of London. In a time when the education of women was of little concern, Hutchinson was fortunate to have parents who saw to it that from an early age she had a good education, including French and Latin. She undertook her translation of Lucretius' poem De Rerum Natura in the 1650s: it was the first English translation of the poem by a woman, and possibly the first in English as well. Hutchinson's translation well represents the complex wo...
|  | Frogments from the Frag Pool: Haiku After Basho
Publication Date: October 2005Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu’s seamless collaboration has resulted in frogments from the frag pool: haiku after Basho. This collection of poetry mixes joy with rigour, playfulness with contemplation, and the absurd with pure poetic passion. Barwin and beaulieu have created poetry that is wise, witty, and wry. Filled with translations, responses, remixes, and new takes on Matsuo Basho’s famous frog haiku, frogments from the frag pool exuberantly ripples genre,expectation,and meaning. Prepare to be splashed by this pool! ...
|  | Mahcic
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 097170354X | ISBN-13: 978-0971703544| Edition: 1ST Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. MAHCIC is part celebration, part lament, part conclusion, part beginning--bilingual sound bombing taken straight from the love of a father for his son and a poet for his people. A controlled lyricism drives the collection through movements of political awareness and spiritual awakening while swaying to the rhythms of hip hop, jazz and ceremonia. Engaged with the world and connected intimately with the hope that emerges from pain these verses draw you in then send ...
|  | The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
Publication Date: October 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0804745684 | ISBN-13: 978-0804745680| Edition: 1 This volume presents the complete correspondence between two of the most important and influential American poets of the postwar period.The almost 500 letters range widely over the poetry scene and the issues that made the period so lively and productive. But what gives the exchange its special personal and literary resonance is the sense of spiritual affinity and shared conviction about the power of the visionary imagination.Duncan and Levertov explore these matters in rich detail until, under ...
|  | Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child's First Three Years
Release Date: April 1, 2003“The ideal time to begin sharing books with children is during babyhood, even with children as young as six weeks.”—Starting Out Right National Research CouncilAll parents hope to give their children the best possible start in life. Many of them know it’s a good idea to read to their children at a very young age, not with the goal of teaching their kids to read, but with the joy of having special time together looking at pictures and playing with words. Carefully chosen books that introduce children to the pleasures of language, simple s...
| | Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women (S U N Y Series in Speech Communication)
Publication Date: August 1995| ISBN-10: 0791425452 | ISBN-13: 978-0791425459The authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of the Renaissance, male responses to this rhetoric, drama and fiction by both male and female authors considering women and political context, and how historians--then and now--have evaluated powerful women.A multi-disciplinary collection, the book includes an essay about Christine de Pizan and her fifteenth-century look at powerful women, an examination of seventeeth-century rhetoricians and how they viewed and reshaped the Renaissance in ...
|  | Arthurian Localities
Publication Date: August 10, 2003This book is Essay I of the Arthuriana Or Essays on the Arthurian Romance Cycle as the Formal Material of the New Poesy series. It represents the Arthurian localities, their historical origin, chief country and Fingalian relations. The author believes this article was the first to show that Southern Scotland and the English Border is the chief country of Arthurian localities, and to point out the relation of this district to that of the Fingalian topography of Scotland. Partial Contents: historical origin of Arthurian localities; chief country of Arthurian lo...
|  | Par Le Feu (French Edition)
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|  | Rapture Untamed (Feral Warriors)
Release Date: June 29, 2010They are called Feral Warriors—an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release . . .The most combative—and tormented—of all the Ferals, Jag is a predator who hunts alone—until daemons terrorize the human population. To stop them, he partners with Olivia, a flame-haired Therian temptress as strong as she is beautiful. But Olivia is no ordinary immortal. The survivor of a vicious supernatural attack, she possesses a deadly an...
|  | Murder on Marble Row (Gaslight Mystery)
Release Date: June 7, 2005| Series: Gaslight Mystery When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenge - but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed never to see or work with her again." For her part, Sarah is glad to be working with Mall...
|  | Identity Theft(the novella)(Library Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Identity Theftis a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him.Robert J. Sawyer's novella Identity Theft was a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Aurora Award, and it won the world's largest cash prize for SF writing. ...
|  | THE CHRONICLES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES VOLUME 2
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