 | Still Dirty: A Novel
Release Date: June 30, 2009Now in paperback, following the phenomenal success of Dirty Red, Essence bestselling author Vickie Stringer is back with a sizzling sequel filled with the notorious cast of characters—Red, Bacon, and Q—who made Dirty Red a smash hit.Vickie Stringer catapulted into literary success when she sold thousands of copies of her first novel from the trunk of her car. That debut title, Let That Be the Reason, won praise from The Washington Post, who called it “a street lit insta-classic,” and gave birth to one of the wildest and most outrageous heroi...
 |  | The Root Worker
Release Date: May 21, 2001A remarkable debut novel than limns the shadowy landscape between innocence and experience, The Root Worker is the riveting story of Ellen, an eleven-year-old african-american girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s. As described in Ellen's own voice, the world is a threatening place. She is afraid of her teachers, nuns at the Catholic school she attends who instill in her a fear of punishment for sins she doesn't understand. She is afraid of her mother, who holds her responsible for her family's ills and is convinced that Ellen is possessed by evil spirits. But mor...
|  | The Price of Freedom (The Scottish Crown Series, Book 2)
Publication Date: May 6, 2003Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king. ...
|  | The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. The story of Christian, whose pilgrimage takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and the Delectable Mountains, is full of danger and adventure. Together with his trusty companions, Faithful and Hopeful, he encounters many enemies--the foul fiend Apollyon, Judge...
|  | Guilty Pleasures: The Magazine of Forbidden Films & Erotic Horror
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|  | The Outlaws (Presidential Agent, Book 6)
Release Date: December 27, 2011The former Presidential Agent's Office of Organizational Analysis hasbeen disbanded. Charley Castillo and his colleagues have retired, andthere is an adversarial Commander-in-Chief in the Oval Office. But justbecause Castillo is out of the government doesn't mean he's out ofbusiness. And when a barrel of nightmarishly lethal material is shippedto an Army medical lab, Castillo knows that the people behind it arejust getting started... ...
|  | The Damned Utd
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled, football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him. David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s. ...
|  | The Falling Woman
Publication Date: May 1, 2003One woman's journey into the heart's landscape is mirrored by a haunting desert odyssey in this novel told in three voices—Stella, Estella, and Estelle. The narration follows Stella from birth to age 29 as she confronts epilepsy, death, and lesbianism; Estella as she confronts the Australian desert and the metaphoric edge of her consciousness with her lover Olga; and Estelle, the timeless, mythical voice of women in different cultures and times sharing their stories that range from the mundane to the frightening. The final chapter draws all three voices toge...
|  | Poetria Nova (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010The Poetria nova, written by the Englishman Geoffrey of Vinsauf shortly after 1200, was the most influential medieval treatise on rhetorical poetics. Modeled on Horace’s Ars poetica, it is an art of poetry (and prose) in 2121 hexameter verses. With its updated scholarship and improved format, this revised edition is a valuable resource for anyone interested in medieval literature or the history of rhetoric and writing instruction. ...
|  | Eternal Love: Romantic Poetry Straight from the Heart
Publication Date: February 14, 2005How do you know when you are in love? What is true love and what is not?How can I find a person to love and share the rest of my life? Will true love come to me naturally? How can I build a relationship? The poems in my book answer these questions. People are eager to find true love-love that will not last a short period of time, but for a lifetime. Eternal Love is designed to answer these questions and more. It is divided into two sections that correspond with the way most people "experience" love: explanation of love (research) and the love poems (using p...
|  | CROSS-CULTURAL VISIONS IN AFRICAN AMERIC: FROM SPATIAL NARRATIVE TO JAZZ HAIKU
Publication Date: September 22, 2006Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937. Hakutani dissects and discusses the cross-cultural influences on the then-burgeoning discipline in three stages: American dialogues, European and African cultural visions, and Asian and African American cross-cultural visions.In writing Black Boy, the centerpiece of the Chicago Renaissance, Wright was inspired by Theodore Dreiser. Because the European and African cultural ...
|  | Haiku Journal: Issue #8
Publication Date: June 18, 2012Haiku Journal issue #8 Featuring poems by Andreacchio-miller, Rachelle - Boone, Randy - Cabrera, Gabriel Cabrera - Davis, Jim - Edwards, David - Fitzgerald, Genevieve - Gonzalez, Mauricio - Hall, Debbie - Hanson, Christopher Kenneth - Harris, Lyall -Hayes, Tina Dc - Huffman, A.j. - Kauffman, Ryan - Keller, Christopher - Lahiri, Gopal - Lynch, Stephanie - Melton, Bill - Morrison, Barb - Orr Stone, Mauri -Patterson, Jonathan - Pova, Rosie -Rousseau, Rita - Schmitt, Jennifer - Smith, Kael - Steele, Craig - Tustin, John - Williams, Robert B. - Wolper, Gail - Wong, ...
| | Gu dai ming ren shi ci zhang gu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Victorian Women Poets (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Publication Date: July 15, 1994| Series: Everyman's Library (Paper) This is part of the "Everyman" series which includes an introduction, chronology of the authors' lives and times and a summary of theme and style. The books also contain an annotated bibliography, selected notes and criticism. It contains poems in differing styles by 30 women who published between 1830 and 1900. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Bronte sisters and Christina Rossetti are amongh this period's chief proponents. ...
| | Julian Trevelyan: Catalogue Raisonne of Prints
Publication Date: October 1998Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) was a distinguished artist and printmaker known for his Surrealist prints of the 1930s. Despite this acclaim, it was in fact in rural and industrial landscapes that he truly found excitement and pleasure as an artist. Trevelyan had no formal art training but joined Hayter's atelier in Paris in 1931 where he worked alongside artists such as Ernst, Kokoschka, Masson, Miro and Picasso. The etching processes learnt in Hayter's atelier were radically different from anything that had been achieved in the medium previously, and in this atmo...
|  | Vitruvius: On Architecture, Volume I, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 251)
Publication Date: January 1, 1931| ISBN-10: 0674992776 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992771Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studi...
|  | Promise Me
Publication Date: December 15, 2009After spending years in an arranged marriage as the repressed wife of an older man, Amanda Wainwright has learned the hard way that money can't buy happiness.She arrives in Willow Creek determined to keep a deathbed promise to her husband and do something to help other people.When Amanda meets a handsome, mysterious stranger who tempts her with sweet promises and long nights of passion, she discovers a fiery, passionate nature that could lead her to disaster. For Samuel Calhoun, falling in love wouldn't just be foolish, it could be deadly. He's in Willow Cr...
|  | Purple Church
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Purple Church tells the story of Brother Jimmy Russell, avulnerable and lonely Baptist minister who has everything going for himuntil his life falls apart after leukemia claims the life of his devotedbride. Brother Jimmy is then tempted by the young and beautiful AshleyWhite, who was abused by her father as a child and then raped by herfiance's father when she was in college. Ashley's tragic past leaves herempty and starved for attention, a perfect combination that leads herto skid row on a lofted stage in a popular Memphis strip club. The taleis one of re...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: November 1, 2000| Series: Victorian Mystery Annabeth Gentry thinks someone wants her dead. When Mrs. Jeffries discovers three attempts on her life, she thinks Annabeth may be right. Now she must unearth answers-and fast!"Full of humor, suspense, adventure, and touches of romance...delightful."-Rendezvous• 15th in the successful series ...
|  | Una visita inesperada/ 97 Ways to Train a Dragon (Escuela De Cazadragones/ Dragon Slayers' Academy) (Spanish Edition)
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