 | Bittersweet: A Novel Based on a True Story
Publication Date: April 1, 2012When a deeper hued playmate declares, “My mamma says you ain’t nothin’ but a whole lotta yellow gon’ to waste,” Ellie gets a taste of racism on her side of the fence. But the often-tortured, uneducated young girl refuses to let the taunt dampen her spirit. Instead her passion and drive for self-realization propel her from a childhood rape in swampy LeBeau, Louisiana to a spurious first marriage in the Indian/Creole/Black dust bowl of Oklahoma and a successful career as a fashion designer, business owner, and real estate e...
 |  | Nightlight: A Parody
Release Date: November 3, 2009About three things I was absolutely certain.First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe.Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead.And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me. And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, ...
|  | Home to Stay (Thorndike Christian Fiction)
Publication Date: December 2, 2011| Series: Thorndike Christian Fiction Country veterinarian Hank Corsaut isn't surprised to learn that the newest folks in town are Newberry women—of the boisterous Louisiana family. A quiet, orderly guy like Hank usually tries to avoid energetic females, though the adorable five-year-old and her pretty single mother are hard to resist. As he gets to know kind, caring Emma Newberry, he realizes she needs a strong shoulder to lean on. Problem is, Emma's returned to her roots only for the time being. Unless a changed man can convince her she's exactly wher...
|  | Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Publication Date: September 25, 2003| ISBN-10: 0262240459 | ISBN-13: 978-0262240451As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies...
|  | Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 19, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393932192 | ISBN-13: 978-0393932195Chinua Achebe’s tragic novel of pre-colonial Igbo society was a major literary and cultural event when it was published in 1958.Written during aperiod of nationalist assertion and an emergingmodern culture in Africa, Things FallApart’s influence quickly spread fromNigeria throughout Africa and beyond. In itsfifty years, this unforgettable novel has beentranslated into fifty languages and has beenread by millions.A Chronology ofAchebe’s life and work and a SelectedBibliography are al...
|  | Fallen Hearts (Casteel)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Casteel (Book 3) Proud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills -- to rise at last above her family's shame!As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay...lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise u...
|  | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 25, 2003 In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. ...
|  | Signs of Life
Publication Date: August 1997An unusual story of love finds drifter Mick Rose, who works in a shady waste-disposal job, at a friend's wedding, falling head over heels for a younger woman who dreams of flying." ...
|  | Weather in Japan
Publication Date: June 1, 2000Consolidating and expanding on the vision of his two previous collections, Longley takes the reader through the various hells we have made this century, from the fields of Flanders, through Terezin and Auschwitz to the troubled north of Ireland. In images drawn from Italy, America and Japan he explores the fundamentals of home and civilisation. ...
|  | Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition (Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation)
Publication Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation The novella and eight short stories that constitute Year of the Elephant--an allusion to a battle described in the Qur'an--serve as an eloquent representation of life in the wake of Morocco's successful struggle for independence from French occupation. In the titular novella the protagonist, Zahra, has just returned to her hometown after being divorced by her husband for being too traditional and unable to keep up with his modern way of life. Having devoted herself, alongside her husband, to the creat...
|  | Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends (Dick and Jane)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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|  | Poesias Liricas/ Lyrical Poetry: El Estudiante De Salamanca/ The Student of Salamanca (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Corceles (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 29, 2009En cada uno de los trabajos del presente libro escrito por Humberto Párraga Chirveches, se percibe la preocupación por todo lo humano,en las cosas del diario vivir, fusionando en un armonioso texto lo poéticocon unaliento de profunda meditación. Entrelíneas encontramos el inconformismo y el espíritu rebelde de todo auténtico poeta. ...
|  | WordChords: A Memoir in Poems
Publication Date: July 11, 2008A book of sonnets, sestinas, haiku free verse, blues, jazz, hiphop poems describing the author's life spanning over 75 years. The author travels as anAfrican American male in some of the momentous times of the 20th and 21st century. LenFraser's perspective as a husband, grandfather, teacher, civil rights activist, andplaywright is viewd through the prism of his literary skills. ...
|  | The Learned Banqueters, V, Books 10.420e-11 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 0674996321 | ISBN-13: 978-0674996328 In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century ce) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Do...
|  | The Mysteries of Udolpho
Publication Date: January 11, 2010This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy th...
|  | Cloaks and Veils
Release Date: July 17, 2012For disgraced CIA officer Dara McIntyre, a new assignment to monitor a troubled junior agent isyet another blow to her once high-flying career. Punished for her affair with a Jordanian spy, Darais stuck in a dreary desk job at Langley headquarters when orders come down for her to assesswhether recently widowed officer Caitlin Wolff is still fit to serve in the field. Dara soon discovers that the grieving widow has dark secrets; Caitlin and her late husband,Jonathan, were running a lurid shadow operation. Convinced that the couple’s unsanctioned acts ledto Jo...
|  | Bartimaeus 3-book boxed set (Bartimaeus Trilogy)
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|  | FA Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior
Release Date: March 2, 2000| Grade Level: K and up " A good swordsman should appear as calm as a fine lady, but he must be capable of quick action like a surprised tiger," says a seasoned warrior to Fa Mulan, unaware that the young soldier is in fact a woman. Award-winning author Robert D. San Souci and Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng have created an elegant, visually stunning retelling of the popular Chinese legend. When Fa Mulan learns that her father has been drafted into Khan`s army to fight the Tartars, she is shocked--her father is far too old and weak to go to war. She forms a brave plan, whi...
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