 | Memories of Ana Calderon
Publication Date: September 1994Now available for the first time on paperback, The Memories of Ana Calderón is the fictional memoir of a talented woman, born in tradition-bound rural Mexico, who comes to the United States and greater opportuninty only to find that here, too, society, family and religion seem to conspire to hold her back. In order to succed Ana must give up all that she holds dear. She must re-make herself into a rootless and obsessed individual. But even after accomplishing this, fate still conspires to wound her. Ana Calderón has will, guts and intelligence, but h...
 |  | House with the Blue Bed
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1562791060 | ISBN-13: 978-1562791063| Edition: First Edition Eloquent, graceful, stimulating essays by a fresh Chicano voice. ...
|  | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Publication Date: May 1, 2000An Interview with bell hooks, author of Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate PoliticsSOUTH END PRESS: Your work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of color, and you yourself were in your early 20s when you wrote your first book, Ain't I a Woman. What differences do you see in the political and cultural climate that young progressive activists face today, compared to when you were formulating your own politics?BELL HOOKS: One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective supp...
|  | Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology
Publication Date: January 1, 2000It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that Boas was doing with Tate’s stories? It is this question that Ralph Maud sets out to address in Transmission Difficulties.Boas’s original misrepresentations of the more than 2,000 pages of material he received from Henry Tate hav...
|  | More Than a Dream (Return to Red River #3)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of Blessing, North Dakota, following the Red River flood of 1897. Thorliff returns home to help family and friends recover from the aftermath of the disasters and rebuild their town. A captivating and heartwarming tale of asp...
|  | The West Wing (The Official Companion)
Publication Date: January 8, 2002A dark-horse candidate comes from behind to win his party's nomination. As if to spite the pollsters and talking heads, the frank and brilliant former governor, Jed Bartlet, captures the White House to become President of the United States.Surrounding himself with the best and the brightest, the president chooses his staff from the team responsible for putting him in the White House. Leo McGarry, the president's oldest friend -- and the man who convinces Bartlet to run -- is named chief of staff. One of the most powerful men in his party, Leo presides over ...
|  | The Iliad
Publication Date: November 10, 2009"Other competent translations of Homer exist, but none accomplish what Merrill aims for: to convey to the reader-listener in translation the meaning and the sounds of Homer, coming as close as possible to the poetry of the original. Merrill accomplishes this virtuosic achievement by translating Homer's Greek into English hexameters, a process requiring not only a full understanding of the original Greek, but also an unusual mastery of the sounds, rhythms, andnuances of English."---Stephen G. Daitz, Professor Emeritus of Classics, City University of New York...
|  | Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes
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|  | At Quarter Past Reality: New and Selected Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 1998This book won an award from Writer's Digest and contains four prize-winning poems. The subjects range from early experience in the Boston area to Armenian-American memories. The special interest is oral history with a background of Watertown, Cambridge and Boston, MA. Some poems in the book have been anthologized. More information on the Ohan Press web site at home.comcast.net/~hsarkiss. ...
|  | Toward the Poetics of Surrealism
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|  | European and Nordic Modernisms (Series a)
Publication Date: September 19, 2005| ISBN-10: 1870041585 | ISBN-13: 978-1870041584This important collection of essays explores the growth and development of Nordic Modernisms in a European context. Modernism is a truly international movement that cuts across many boundaries - geographical, cultural, and linguistic. Modernism involves the literatures of several countries; indeed, as these thematically homogenous but methodologically diverse essays demonstrate, cross-fertilization is a prerequisite for its very existence. The essays gathered here discuss the diverse forms of Modernism tha...
|  | Love You More: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Detective D. D. Warren WHO DO YOU LOVE?Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . .As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherho...
|  | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor (America's Sherlock Holmes in Sneakers, 13)
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|  | Power Pack, Vol. 1 (New Avengers, X-Men) (v. 1)
Publication Date: July 23, 2008| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Khan's Daughter: A Mongolian Folktale
Publication Date: June 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up A poor but ambitious shepherd tries to win the hand of the Khan's independent daughter in this lavishly illustrated folktale from an award-winningwriter and illustrator team.In ancient Mongolia, Mongke, a poor shepherd, heard a prophecy: he would become a rich man and marry the khan's daughter. Mongke goes tothe court but the khan laughs at him. However, if he can perform three tasks, he may marrythe princess. Through luck and chance, he completes the first two tasks, but then the khan's daughter sets the third. He must defeat the bandit Ba...
|  | Ch'askin: A Legend of the Thunderbird
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|  | Happy Birthday USA!
Publication Date: July 4, 2010Victory in the French and Indian War cost the British plenty. At the war's end in 1763, King George III and his government decided to tax American colonies to recoup war costs.A series of taxes were passed against the American Colonies.And when the Crown tried to tax tea, that was the last straw for the colonists.Penelope Dyan takes a look at our history through her poetry and art and seeks to teach kids what they do not seem to be taught anymore.It used to be that year after year school kids were inundated with the familiar phrases and other acts in American hi...
|  | Devil Storm
Publication Date: October 26, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The great hurricane that devastated Galveston in 1900 is the centerpiece of [this] tightly knit novel. The writing is powerful. A fine work, integrating nature with character.Starred review, The Horn BookNelsons strong sense of place, poetic style and inspired characterization make this far more than just an enthralling adventure.Pointer, Kirkus Reviews ...
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