 | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Release Date: August 12, 1976FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
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 | Poison Darts: Protecting the Biodiversity of Our World
Publication Date: June 2004The first half of this book contains a not so serious adventure story involving a group of off-center intellectuals and their efforts to acquire and protect tropical hot spots around the globe. Although fictional, the tale serves as a matrix in which real sets of solutions have been embedded.This is followed by a collection of nonfiction essays discussing nature, human nature, evolutionary biology, and the synthesis between them that has put in motion the sixth great extinction event in the history of our planet. ...
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 | EXPRESSIONS OF COMFORT (Helen Steiner Rice Collection)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Helen Steiner Rice Collection This new deluxe gift book offers uplifting words for any day of the year-all penned by America's best-loved poet, Helen Steiner Rice. With the timeless theme of Comfort you will find just the refreshment you need to get through the day. In addition to the 125 poems, Expressions by Helen Steiner Rice is packaged in a portable, go-anywhere format and includes an appealing full-color interior. ...
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 | The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legend)
Publication Date: June 2004| Series: Vampire Huntress Legend A Neteru---a hunter or a huntress---is born every thousand years in favor of the Warriors of Light as they fight against the Dark Realms.But Damali Richards is the Millennium Neteru.The one who will play a pivotal role in the Final War.The Warriors of Light had been waiting for her and the Dark Realms will do anything to either possess or destroy her.What they did not account for was the man who would love her.Damali Richard has been to hell and back---literally---and she is not eager to repeat the trip.A Vampire civil war has been...
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 | Pocket Kings
Publication Date: March 27, 2012In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.When frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this newfound realm, populated by alluring characters—each of them elusive, mysterious, and glamorous—he becomes a smash success: popular, rich, and loved. Going by the name...
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 | Caesar: De Bello Gallico VI / Gallic War VI (Caesar) (Bk.6)
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0862920884 | ISBN-13: 978-0862920883| Edition: Bilingual Edited with Introduction, Notes & Vocabulary ...
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 | The White Road (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 28) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1914, and the outbreak of war is greeted with euphoria. Thousands flock to volunteer. Everyone believes the war will be over by Christmas, so there’s no time to waste. Bertie, a reservist, is one of the first to go to France; Jack is invited to join the Royal Flying Corps, and Ned joins one of the new "Pals" units. The brutal reality of Ypres dispels illusion, ...
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 | Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Publication Date: April 15, 1985| ISBN-10: 0231082738 | ISBN-13: 978-0231082730 0 Hailed by theNew York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson'sPrincess. ...
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 | Arms and the Man
Publication Date: April 27, 2011This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
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 | Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women
Release Date: January 22, 1998"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded—not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." —Theaatre Journal"A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." —BookwatchThis anthology is the first to address the impact ...
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 | Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology
Publication Date: July 26, 1996A major collection of 20th century Irish poetry representing 47 poets since Yeats. ...
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 | W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism
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 | The Art and History of Books
Publication Date: March 1995| ISBN-10: 1884718035 | ISBN-13: 978-1884718038A beautifully written and well illustrated panorama of book design from its earliest history to recent years.Tracing the history of fine books against a background of changing patrons, improving technology, religious and social change, and the state of the arts throughout the world.With 176 illustrations, "The Art & History of Books" is more than a valuable reference source: it is a perfect example of expert design, cogent description, and relevant illustration.Oak Knoll's edition contains a foreword by Nicolas Ba...
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 | In the Victorian Style
Publication Date: October 1, 1991San Francisco is famous for its distinctive and well-preserved Victorian architecture. Victorian architectural historian and longtime SF resident Randolph Delehanty and photographer Richard Sexton provide a pictorial and historical overview of this timeless look. In the Victorian Style traces the development of Victorian architecture—influenced by both aesthetic trends and new advances in building technology—as well as the history of the city's street plan development, building trends, and parks. The book also offers a rare tour of the traditional V...
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 | William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance (Literary Modernism Series)
Publication Date: February 2002| Series: Literary Modernism Series From the beginning, William Faulkner's art was consciously self-presenting. In writing of all kinds he created and "performed" a complex set of roles based in his life as he both lived and imagined it. In his fiction, he counterpoised those personae against one another to create a written world of controlled chaos, made in his own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self. In this groundbreaking book, James Watson draws on the entire Faulkner canon, including letters and even photographs, to decipher the ...
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 | The Capital Conspiracy
Publication Date: January 1996When nuclear arms technology has been discovered in a developing socialist country, the target appears to be Israel--and Washington is in an uproar. As key aides to the national security advisor and to the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee work to unravel this plot, they stumble on a much greater, deadlier agenda of global proportions. ...
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 | Cat in a Sapphire Slipper (Midnight Louie Mysteries)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Series: Midnight Louie Mysteries Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglas’s sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. The tough-talking, twenty-pound, tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favorite roommate from losing her man. PR honcho Temple Barr’s romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She’s snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-...
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 | War for Independence (Chester the Crab's Comics with Content Series)
Publication Date: April 15, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Children of the Force (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Release Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Odysseus and the Odyssey (Graphic Mythical Heroes)
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