 | Happy Birthday to You!
Release Date: August 12, 1959| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er thanyou!" Since 1959, Happy Birthday to You!—Dr. Seuss’s joyous ode to individuality—hasallowed readers to experience firsthand the thrill of celebrating a birthday as itis done in Katroo. Awakened by the Birthday Bird, you (the reader) are swept outof town on a Smorgasbord’s back to begin a day and night of feasting and feting insuch Seussian splendor that it will take 20 days to sweep up the mess! ...
 |  | Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publication Date: June 11, 1991| Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the “canon”; representations of the Chicana/o...
|  | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1997| Series: S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one of more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer.Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Sau...
|  | Trauma Trails: Recreating Song Lines
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1876756225 | ISBN-13: 978-1876756222Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country. ...
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|  | King of Thorns (The Broken Empire)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: The Broken Empire (Book 2) In Book One of the Broken Empire, Mark Lawrence brought to life the “morbidly gripping”* (Publishers Weekly) story of a boy in search of power and vengeance. Now, in King of Thorns, that boy’s journey into manhood takes him to the dark depths waiting within his soul… The boy who would be King has gained the throne... Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that...
|  | Twenty Wishes (Blossom Street)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Blossom Street What do you want most in the world?What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness.On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…hope. They each begin a list of twenty wishes—things they always wanted to do but never did.Anne Marie's list includes learning to knit, falling in love again, doing good for s...
| | Monkey Bay (Contemporary American Fiction)
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|  | Risky Reunion (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: June 8, 2010| Series: Love Inspired Suspense As a novice FBI agent, Jackson McGraw was deeply touched by the young single mother--a murder witness--in his protective custody. When her baby girl was almost killed, Eloise fled--selflessly leaving her child in his care with a note to find her a good Christian home. Now, twenty years later, the mob is obsessed with retaliation against the woman whose testimony imprisoned their late don. Jackson is determined to track Eloise down to protect her--and reclaim two decades' worth of love. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edi...
|  | The Crossing (The Last Cavaliers)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: The Last Cavaliers (Book 1)From the beloved author of the bestselling House of Winslow series comes a new trilogy about the Civil War. Join Gilbert Morris as he explores the life of General Stonewall Jackson through the story of the fictional Yancy Tremayne. Raised among the Cheyenne, Yancy rejects the Amish community his father rejoins and instead studies under Thomas Jackson, a professor at the local military school. When war breaks out, will Yancy further distance himself from the pacifist community and join the fighting? And can he find a hom...
|  | Kept Boy
Release Date: October 1, 1997Kirkus calls him "the undisputed doyen of the effervescent gay novel of manners". Which, in his characters' vernacular, means he's a total scream.Having made a career of deconstructing the denizens of the modern gay world, Robert Rodi now turns his hand to -- and twists the knife in -- yet another gay archetype: the kept boy.Dennis Racine is 31, but looks 23...which might be considered his good fortune, except that even 23 is a bit old for his chosen profession: pampered "companion" to the fiftyish, filthy rich Chicago theatrical impresario Farleigh Nock (a.k.a. ...
|  | Immortal Armor
Publication Date: January 1998| ISBN-10: 0847688216 | ISBN-13: 978-0847688210Although military concepts in Homeric poetry have been studied since Alexandrian times, there has not been until now an extended study of the concept of alke, 'defensive strength,' as it unfolds intertextually within the Iliad and the Odyssey and archaic Greek poetry generally. Derek Collins uses evidence from Homeric poetry to reveal that alke, unlike other concepts of strength in archaic Greek, plays a central role in defining a warrior at the peak of his prowess, which can be related in turn to its applicatio...
|  | Mel White's Readers Theatre Anthology: A Collection of 28 Readings (Reader's Theater Series)
Publication Date: February 1, 1993| Series: Reader's Theater Series 28 all-occasion readings. Works of a variety of writers have been adapted: Thurber, Shakespeare, Dickens, Grahame, and many other writers, journalists and playwrights. Divided into 6 categories: comedy; mystery/suspense; Christmas specials; folklore; children's classics; and the human spirit (various cast). ...
|  | Prejudice in Harry Potter
Publication Date: March 5, 2008Crisp, insightful, engaging, and thoroughly researched, "Prejudice in Harry Potter's World" turns the tables on literary critique. Brown shows uncommon, in-depth knowledge of the Harry Potter canon. And she delves straight into her analysis of social themes in J.K. Rowling's work without pulling any punches. First, the book provides a detailed outline of the social hierarchy in the so-called "wizarding world." Then, the author offers perceptive and highly relevant commentaries. Each chapter focuses on how a select group contributes to wizarding society and help...
| | The co-responsibilities of American booksellers and publishers
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|  | Death in the FUNhouse (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol 2)
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|  | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Valis)
Release Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Valis The final book in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author’s search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient scrolls bearing the words of Christ. But, more importantly, this leads him to examine the decisions he made during his life and how they may have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son. This introspective book is one of Dick’s most philosophical and literary,...
|  | Madam Tinubu: Queens of Africa Book 6
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| | A Basic Guide to Softball (Olympic Guides)
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|  | The Boxcar Children Collection, Vol. 1: The Chocolate Sundae Mystery, The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain, The Mystery of the Spider's Clue, The Ghost Ship Mystery
Publication Date: August 15, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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