 | Asian Asian American Literary Studies (Introducing Ethnic Studies)
Publication Date: May 9, 2006| ISBN-10: 0748620125 | ISBN-13: 978-0748620128This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Vietnamese. Section I probes themes such as the vital role that war plays in the production of Asian American literary works, and the agency of th...
 |  | The Canterbury Tales (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 13, 2004| Series: Dover Giant Thrift Editions A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling — thus begins English literature's greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories. Translation into modern English verse by J. U. Nicholson. ...
|  | The Tortuous Serpent: An Occult Adventure
Publication Date: January 8, 1990John Dee, the greatest magician of the Elizabethan Age, and alchemist Edward Kelley follow the trail of a stolen Gnostic grimoire across a politically divided Europe. This grimoire is an occult cipher used to unlock the gate of the abyss and release the Death-Dragon Coronzon and the goddess of lust Lilith upon an unsuspecting world. Although the events are fictitious, the personalities of Dee and Kelley, their wives, magical work, and the times in which they lived are accurately set forth. ...
|  | The Accomplice: A Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012In this stellar debut by journalist turned Washington insider and political writer Charles Robbins, an eager politico finds himself on the rise only to discover the perilous costs of success. When Henry Hatten wangles a job as communications director for Nebraska SenatorTom Peele’s presidential campaign, he breathes a huge sigh of relief. Smarting over a recent gubernatorial campaign in which his pulling a political punch may have cost his boss the race, he’s thrilled to be back in action.This time around, Henry is determined to shuck his ethi...
|  | Magic City: A Novel (Thorn Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 20, 2007| Series: Thorn Mysteries A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph still remains. When it falls into Thorn's hands, he and everyone close to him...
|  | The Starlite Drive-in: A Novel
Release Date: November 22, 2011 When human bones are discovered on the grounds of the old Starlite Drive-in, only Callie Anne Benton knows the identity of the victim who mysteriously disappeared thirty-six years ago. It’s the sweltering summer of 1956 when a handsome drifter named Charlie Memphis arrives at the Starlite to help Callie Anne’s injured father run the theater. Both she and her mother, Teal, fall for Memphis’s rugged style and gentlemanly manners, but Callie Anne’s father—bitter in his role as caretaker for the rural drive-in and his agoraphobic wife...
|  | Pink Steam
Publication Date: February 15, 2008Pink steam rises from the vats of melting goo in the Vincent Price 3-D horror classic, House of Wax. Railroad buffs know pink steam as the first blast from a newly christened steam engine, which appears pink as it spews out rust. And now Pink Steam, the book, reveals the intimate secrets of Dodie Bellamy's life--sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, writing. Like L. Frank Baum's Dorothy, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Bellamy grows up in a dreary Midwestern town. She's a bossy, queer child who identifies with the freaks she watches on The Twilight Zone. Her father's...
|  | Shots Fired
Publication Date: November 3, 2008Kyla and Echo seem to have the perfect relationship and the perfect life until someone shoots at Kyla and causes a car crash that not only takes away her memory, but almost takes her life. Seeking a motive, the detectives investigating the case quickly turn their attention to the people closest to her, and there's plenty for them to find. Kyla can't believe Echo is having an affair, but the police are treating her as a suspect. The more Kyla learns, the less certain she feels about everything--her partner's love, her own choices, and her safety.Caught betwee...
|  | Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space
Publication Date: March 1, 2009Award-Winning Visionary Fiction "The DaVinci Code meets The X-Files. Mystic Warrior takes the spiritual novel to a whole new level," says Dannion Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Saved by the Light.Visionary fiction that illustrates humanity's largely untapped spiritual potential, Mystic Warrior takes place in a world where psychic abilities like telepathy, remote viewing and astral projection are used (and abused) by both ordinary people and those at the highest levels of government and world leadership.Since time immemorial, there have...
|  | The Property of a Lady
Release Date: January 1, 1991The magnificent Ivanoff emerald: It surfaced at Christie's at Geneva, "The Property of a Lady"--a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power . . . The terrifying Ivanoff secret: She lived like a pauper with a royal ransom in gems, determined to carry her secret to the grave . . . until an act of love and a public auction brought the world--and the curse--to her door . . . The last of the Ivanoffs--pawns in a...
|  | Sor Juana In
Publication Date: January 1, 1987bilingual, Mexico, tr Margaret Sayers Peden ...
|  | Seeing It Now: haiku & tanka
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1890193852 | ISBN-13: 978-1890193850Collection of haiku and tanka. With an introduction by H. F. Noyes. ...
|  | The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Release Date: November 6, 2007She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .—Virginia Woolf, To The LighthouseAn illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.Edward Mendelson—a professor of English at Columbia University—illustrates how each n...
|  | The Beat Hotel
Publication Date: September 27, 2001The Beat Hotel was home to a host of key figures of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 60s. It was also an unbridled hive of creativity, literary experimentation and drug-crazed extremity. During this period, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" went on trial for obscenity, William Burroughs was inspired to finish "Naked Lunch", the cut-up novel was born, Ginsberg and Corso collided with Duchamp, Celine and Man Ray, and Burroughs was nearly arrested for dealing heroin. Barry Miles, who knew many of the Beats, draws his material from diaries, letters and original...
|  | Prelude to Eternity: A Romance of the First Time Machine
Publication Date: August 29, 2009In an early nineteenth-century England in which there never was a Restoration after Cromwell's Revolution, a party of guests travels to a house-party in Yorkshire to witness the demonstration of the world's first time machine.Michael Laurel, a young painter, is in love with Cecilia Langstrade, and is avid to know whether his feelings are reciprocated-but as he travels to his appointment with destiny, he realizes that he might have a rival in Quentin Hope, an amateur philosopher.Gradually, Michael comes to realize that the entire future of the world might be a...
|  | Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run
Release Date: April 2, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Stonewall Hinkleman (yup, that?s his real name) hates participating in historical reenactments with his Civil War?obsessed parents. And they drag him to one every weekend. He can?t play his Game Boy but he has to play his stupid bugle (?cause he?s a bugle boy?how lame can you get?) to lead the battle charges. Who wants to pretend to fi ght in some old war anyway? But one day, Stonewall finds himself transported back in time to the actual Battle of Bull Run?and he?s not alone! Mr. Dupree, an ardent Confederate from Stone...
|  | Shredderman: Secret Identity
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Basketball's Greatest-'94 (Year in Sports, 1994)
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|  | Ben Franklin's Fame (Blast to the Past)
Release Date: September 5, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Shakespeare's Late Style
Publication Date: February 4, 2010| ISBN-10: 0521129621 | ISBN-13: 978-0521129626| Edition: 1 When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and...
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