 | Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir
Publication Date: August 1, 1999Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--'all this' writes Alberto Rios, 'and things people will not tell you.'Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange, stirring together Rios's memories of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses--in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico. The vignettes in this memoir are not loud or fast. Yet like all of Rios's writing they are singular. H...
 |  | Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: September 2001| Series: S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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|  | The Hellfire Conspiracy (Barker & Llewelyn, No. 4)
Release Date: July 10, 2007In the latest adventure in what is "fast becoming one of the genre's best historical-mystery series" (Booklist), roughhewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn must track down London's first serial killer. When Barker and Llewelyn are hired to find a girl from the upper classes who has gone missing in the East End, they assume her kidnapping is the work of white slavers. But when they discover five girls have been murdered in Bethnal Green, taunting letters begin to arrive in Craig's Court from a killer calling himself Mr. Miacca. Ba...
|  | El gran teatro del mundo; El gran mercado del mundo (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Milton Among the Romans: The Pedagogy and Influence of Milton's Latin Curriculum (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: November 2001| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies In the 1640's, John Milton led a group of students through an extensive curriculum of ancient authors. In Milton Among the Romans, DuRocher provides the first scholarly study of Milton's Latin tutorial by tracing the reshaping of Roman ideas and expressions in Milton's poetry. Drawing upon previously unexamined evidence from Milton's classical curriculum, this book takes a new approach to Milton as a teacher, scholar and poet. It is necessary reading for Milton scholars and students of the classics. Milton Among...
|  | Spoon River Anthology
Publication Date: February 23, 2007"Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry taken from the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is of course no Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional. "Spoon River Anthology" is Masters's masterpiece, a collection of poetry that reveals the posthumous confessions of the transgressions of a group of small-town Americans. Together this collection reads like a novel exposing the fallacy in the idea of the rural American utopia. "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature. ...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: March 29, 1999When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume set of the Collected Work: a new selection of Borges's finest poems edited by Alexander Coleman.Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems -- the largest collection of Borges's poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated...
|  | Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony
Publication Date: October 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0804758247 | ISBN-13: 978-0804758246Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life and articulates their poetic and philosophical innovations with their political statements in new and powerful ways. Through readings of Baudelaire's poetry and prose and Marx'...
|  | Jumping off Shadows (Poetry/literary criticism)
Publication Date: May 1995| Series: Poetry/literary criticism An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the death wail of a dying beast, experienced a remarkable resurgence in the late 60s and early 70s. This emanated mainly from the poetry magazine INNTI, first issued as a broadsheet by UCC students and later going on tyo become one of the...
|  | Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries (Blackwell Bible Commentaries)
Publication Date: January 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0631225293 | ISBN-13: 978-0631225294| Edition: 1 Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced numerous and diverse aspects of life and thought. Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries assesses the effects of the book on the culture of the various times in religious, artistic, and social contexts.Presents an innovative, reception history approach to the study of Ecclesiastes, by tracing its influence on religion, culture, literature, art, and social thought Explores a fascinating range of Jewish and Christian readings Features engaging and unusua...
|  | Passion in Paradise: Tropical Heat (Books 2 & 3)
Publication Date: September 30, 2004Passion in Paradise - Paradise Revival By Jaci Burton Book 2 in the Passion in Paradise series Morgan Brown owns Paradise Resort, a sexy, Caribbean getaway for the sexually adventurous. Painful memories from her past prevent her from enjoying the erotic pleasure to be found at the resort she loves, but she's determined others should be allowed to express themselves freely. Love hurts, literally and figuratively, and she wants no part of either sex or romance.Tony Marino is a freelance reporter assigned to do a story on the resort and its mysterious owner. ...
|  | A Familiar Rain
Publication Date: January 4, 2011| ISBN-10: 0983504407 | ISBN-13: 978-0983504405The sudden death of his wife pushes Alex Hemmer, a young neuroscience researcher, to press ahead with his attempts to relive past events. In a startling breakthrough, he synthesizes a bacterial toxin that is a bona fide memory drug. By administering the substance in conjunction with electric needling of key areas of the brain, test subjects are able to relive past events. Besides the enormous benefits to mankind, the implications of this research for Alex himself are obvious-it is now possible for him to retu...
|  | Moon of Ripening
Publication Date: January 18, 2011When Lakota warrior Thunder Heart, who is destined to be a leader of his people, saves the lives of two white women during Red Cloud's War, he places his family and, indeed, his entire village at risk. Can Thunder Heart keep these women safe? Will his act of compassion cause the death of his family? Will his people demand the abandonment or death of these women in order to avoid the wrath of the Bluecoats or perhaps that of Red Cloud? Uncertain of the outcome, he knows only one thing: He desires the pale-haired beauty, Victoria Abernathy, and will do anythin...
|  | A Stolen Season: An Alex McKnight Novel (An Alex Mcknight Novel Series)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: An Alex Mcknight Novel Series (Book 7) On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. With Alex McKnight on the rescue mission, the passengers are brought safely to shore. Alex figures the story’s over…but he’s dead wrong.The boat accident’s happy ending turns into a living hell for Alex when he discovers that the three men h...
|  | Class Trip & The Mustache
Publication Date: May 1, 2003 La Moustache--now a film directed by Emmanuel Carrère "What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?" asks The Mustache's hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether. A metaphysical nightmare of the grandest kind, The Mustache is a stunning blend of absurdist comedy and philosophical speculation. In Class Trip, young Nicholas's vivid imagination gets the best of him when a boy disappears from a school excursion. What the youthful detective find...
|  | The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upPrince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You've never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince Charming. But all of this is about to change. Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger each of their kingdoms. Now it's up to them to...
|  | Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck Volume 1
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|  | Writ in Stone (Nancy Drew Graphic Novels: Girl Detective #2)
Release Date: October 13, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up It's double trouble for Nancy and her friends, when an ancient artifact and a little boy are both suddenly missing. The artifact is a piece of an old stone marker that may prove that the Chinese were in America eighty years before Columbus. The little boy is Owen Zucker, a sweetie who Nancy sometimes baby-sits. Nancy's determined to recover both the artifact and little Owen, but someone's out to stop her - permanently! Ages 8 to 12. Papercutz is the exciting new graphic novel publisher th...
|  | The Incredibles
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