 | Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Release Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Crossing Press Feminist Series Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde...
 |  | Water by the Spoonful
Publication Date: September 25, 2012The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ...
|  | Marcus In Iraq
Publication Date: September 26, 2011A short story by women's fiction bestselling author Sonia Rumzi. A good man can stray. A good woman can stay faithful and caring despite it all. A war separates a couple who are in love. Will she wait for his return? Will he come home to an empty house? The story of courage and love. ...
|  | Admit The Horse
Publication Date: March 17, 2012Ripped from the headlines of the 2008 election, and based on real, seldom revealed events, "Admit The Horse" is a gripping political thriller about a dark-horse political candidate--the mysterious Congressman Okono-- whose meteoric rise to the pinnacle of power is engineered amidst illegal campaign contributions, voter fraud and murder. The story's unlikely players--an honorable Chicago detective, a retired DEA investigator, an idealistic venture capitalist, an African-American congresswoman and a suburban mom volunteering for his opponent--all...
|  | Anticipation
Publication Date: June 30, 2006Attorney Toni Barston is assigned to prosecute a serial killer who has already confessed and agreed to plead guilty to life without parole. Then a mistake at the city jail allows the killer to walk free… soon the killing of prominent women in the community begins again.After the brutal murder of someone closely involved in the case, Toni’s supervisor assigns a new female investigator from their office to protect her.Soon both women are struggling to remain professional as the search for the killer intensifies. Will the killer be caught before Toni bec...
|  | Depths of Depravation (Nexus)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Nexus In an attempt to shield her wayward daughter from a handsome and domineering neighbour, Belinda falls for the dark allure of Tony and soon finds herself hooked on the perverse and decadent tastes of the man next door. ...
|  | Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
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|  | The Journey of Life: Collection of Poems
Publication Date: September 25, 2012The purpose of this book is to share my experiences and what I have seen around me in the last 20 years through the expression of poems. While some might be able to relate to it, for some it might be a new perspective to life. "Journey of Life" is a book about all the different experiences that you would have as an individual from being a young kid in school to a matured person in college and then moving on in life and working and how life is portrayed from the time you are born till death through poems. Even though it is very personal, it can still be rel...
|  | Everything under heaven: The life and words of a nature mystic, Issa of Japan
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|  | Gwen Harwood Collected Poems
Publication Date: February 1, 2003This definitive collection is a bumper edition of over 600 pages of published and previously uncollected poems, many illuminated by the poet’s own notes. Harwood’s pseudonymous selves have made literary history, most famously perhaps as Walter Lehmann whose Bulletin acrostic “f*#k” — once deciphered — rocked the Establishment. This collection is the product of diligent research by Harwood scholars Alison Hoddinott and Gregory Kratzmann, both longtime friends of the poet. Their editorial introduction places Gwen Harwood, wh...
|  | Mad Madge
Publication Date: August 21, 2003Margaret Cavendish's life as a writer and noblewoman unfolded against the backdrop of the English Civil War and Restoration. Pursuing the only career open to women of her class, she became a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Henrietta Maria. Exiled to Paris with the Queen, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle. In exile, Margaret did something unthinkable for a seventeenth-century Englishwoman: she lived proudly as a writer. Eventually she published twenty-three volumes, starting with Poems and Fancies, the first book of English poetry publis...
|  | Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre
Publication Date: June 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 1563083353 | ISBN-13: 978-1563083358Ramsdell's book responds to the tremendous growth in and diversification of romance fiction over the past decade and to the demand for a thorough guide to the literature. After a fascinating overview of the genre as a whole (e.g., definition, history, reasons for appeal), the author discusses each of its major subgenres, listing and describing the titles in each and offering tips for readers' advisory and collection development. A revision of Happily Ever After: A Guide to Reading Interests in Romance Fiction, ...
|  | Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath
Publication Date: August 22, 2000Imagine a hot tub party where a married couple tests the boundaries of fidelity. A model who finds herself unaccountably aroused as she poses for a watercolor artist. A pool of water on a desert road and two lovers who know how to make the most of it. This is Aqua Erotica, a sensuous tasting of desire's liquid, ecstatic other worlds.Aqua Erotica is a siren's song, a book so unforgettably sexy that you will want to take it with you to the bath, the sauna, the night-lit pool.What's amazing is that you can.The first-ever waterproof book for adults. The most sedu...
|  | The Essential Chaucer: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies (Reference Publication in Literature)
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|  | Demon Mistress (Otherworld, Book 6)
Release Date: June 2, 2009Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the D'Artigo Sisters-half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the city-and to stop a demon from devouring Delilah's soul. ...
|  | A Fairytale Christmas: Baby Beneath the Christmas Tree\Magic Under the Mistletoe (Harlequin Romance)
Publication Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Harlequin Romance (Book 4203) Baby Beneath the Christmas Tree by Susan Meier Single mum Gwen McKenzie’s new boss, Andrew Teaberry, is amazing but totally out of her league. And he hasn't a clue about babies! Yet it's soon clear that the excitement in the air comes from more than just the yuletide season! Magic Under the Mistletoe by Barbara WallaceGlossy PR executive Gill McKenzie is organizing a Christmas party at her local children's center. To her astonishment, she's drawn to the gorgeously disheveled director, Oliver Harrington! Under the...
|  | Afterimage
Publication Date: February 2000District Attorney Chris Sinclair has never really forgotten his first real love, Jean, a college girlfriend from the era of free love, a wild young woman who introduced him to a world of sex and drugs and alcohol drastically unlike is own.But she left his life in college and he's never seen her since, until a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of San Antonio.Through forensic reconstruction of the decomposed skull, a face takes shape.A detail or two is different, but there's no doubt the face is Jean's, like an after image in his min...
|  | The Dragon's Back
Publication Date: November 16, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When a family hike into the hills and witness a forest fire, they become worried about the fate of the friendly dragon which lives there - because in Chinese culture, there is a hidden dragon in every green valley, protective of the mountains and its route to the sea. Firefighters arrive to put out the flames, but can they succeed without the dragon's help? This illustrated story teaches the need to treat nature with respect. ...
| | Mother Crocodile
Release Date: January 1, 1995Rosa Guy's evocative translation of this story of disobedient young crocodiles can be read as a cautionary tale or as a symbolic retelling of the history of Africa. This Senegalese folktale is the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and is an ALA Notable Book. "Visually this book isstunning."--New York Times Book Review. Full color. ...
|  | If I Were a Philadelphia Eagle
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