 | Languages Of Difference: American Writers And Anthropologists Reconfigure The Primitive, 1878-1940
Publication Date: April 1, 2005Focusing on American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Languages of Difference studies the pervasive and potent notion of "the primitive" - a notion with dubious colonialist backgrounds and intricate involvement with ideas of color and race, civilization and culture. Human difference and the relationship to the Other were highstakes issues both globally and within societies like the U.S., but this key defining term, "the primitive," often provided only a crude amalgam of perceived difference, ethnic and personal bias, and indiscr...
 |  | Shout Her Lovely Name
Release Date: June 26, 2012"Call it fiction, but this collection is achingly true to life when it comes to the many ways mothers and daughters grow together and apart, over and over again."—O, the Oprah Magazine Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a battle between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread and plain yogurt become weapons. An aimless college student, married to her much older professor, sneaks cigarettes while caring for their newborn son. On the eve of her husband’s...
|  | Going Home
Release Date: October 10, 2006 They say love feels like going home . . . but what if your home is no longer there? Leaving her tiny flat in London -- and a whole host of headaches behind -- Lizzy Walter is making the familiar journey back home to spend Christmas with her chaotic but big-hear ted family. In an ever-changing world, her parents' country home, Keeper House, is the one constant. But behind the mistletoe and mince pies, family secrets and rivalries lurk. And when David, the Love of Her Life -- or so she thought -- makes an unexpected reappearance, this one ranks as a Christmas she...
|  | Quo Vadis
Publication Date: September 12, 2006Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of...
|  | A Capeside Christmas (Dawson's Creek)
Release Date: November 28, 2000| Series: Dawson's Creek (Book 12) Stress Much?Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he's finding out the hard way it's easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas pageant filled with friends, family, and neighbors.Now everybody's feuding with everybody else. Dawson, Joey, Pacey, Jen, Jack, and Andie are all stressed out. Then a tremendous ice storm hits...and frozen hearts begin to melt....Joey, Dawson, Pacey, Jen, Jack, AndieSix teens re...
|  | Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
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|  | Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World (Volume 5)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Eliza turned to Tomas "This is the end...he is no longer alive in a dead world." Show MoreShow Less ...
|  | Loved In Pieces (The Intentions Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Intentions A-list actress Liana Marie Michael struggles to find herself when Hollywood's obsession with youth and power threatens to destroy her future.While filming her seventh major motion picture, Liana Marie reveals her love for her childhood best friend, patient and compassionate Manuel Biro, a humble bus boy and student athlete. Shocked and thrilled to find he loves her in return, she tries living an almost normal life. All seems lost when her mother's mistakes lead to harrowing consequences for mother and daughter. Fortunately, Liana Marie ...
|  | Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel
Publication Date: November 1, 2011A look back at the California mid-century dreamFor those of us living in an age of high unemployment, foreclosures, and diminished expectations, suburban life in 1960s California seems like a distant dream. Working-class men, their fingers worn by honest labor, witnessed the invention of comforts designed to take the hurt off with a beer after a long day: frozen food, washer/dryer combos, and a square of unfenced grass called a lawn. Their sons dragged the perfumed streets, discovering James Brown and trying their damnedest to work less than their fathers an...
|  | School for Husbands
Release Date: January 30, 2007Neil and Sarah are the ultimate happy couple.Until, that is, Neil’s new job leaves Sarah alone to juggle the baby, domestic drudgery, and her own career.When Neil fails to come home one night, Sarah rushes home to her mother, who has always wished that Sarah had married her childhood sweetheart, the fabulously rich lawyer Colin, who has coincidentally reappeared in her life. The stage is set for divorce, but Neil has other ideas. Distraught at the prospect of losing Sarah and recognizing what an idiot he has been, he enrolls in an experimental “School ...
|  | Pendragon (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 4)
Release Date: September 1, 1995At the dawn of his reign, a young king must prove his greatness . . . or forfeit a realmArthur is King—but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. In this black time of plague and pestilence, Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin—the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey through his own extraordinary past. So the noble king must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only thus can he truly win immortality—and the name he wi...
|  | Handbook of Classical Mythology
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|  | Kentucky Straight: Stories
Release Date: October 27, 1992Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and literally unmapped. These stories are set in a nameless community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation. Offutt has received a James Michener Grant and a Kentucky Arts Council Award. ...
|  | Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0875730841 | ISBN-13: 978-0875730844A new book of verses of Rumi by an award-winningtranslator and poet. This selection catches Rumi in a rare mood andthese are some of Rumi's most passionate and heart-felt expressions,each poem resonating with the intensity and fire rarely seen inEnglish language before. Shiva says, "Rumi--I am constantlyreminded--is a miracle. Everything about him is absolute magic. Poetryin perfect rhyme and meter poured out of him as he whirled for hourson end, or as he fell into various states of ecstasy andrapture. There ...
|  | Shadows
Publication Date: February 25, 2011Shadows, as the title insinuates, splits open and lays bare the frightening vision of humanity, the heart of man depressed, a veritable inferno in which there is little to be enjoyed and everything to be endured, as all is vanity, a gnawing emptiness.Nothing is but what it seems. Simple but without being simplistic, there is in the damp climate of Doh's poetry broken promises, displaced emotional centres, a pervading sense of doom, of impending disaster, and a total helplessness reminiscent of Plato's proverbial mythical cave in which all reality is but sha...
|  | The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (Crusade Texts in Translation)
Publication Date: November 2002| ISBN-10: 0754633810 | ISBN-13: 978-0754633815| Edition: New edition Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad's account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate of his, serving as his qadi al-'askar (judge of the army), from 1188 until Saladin's death in 1193. His position and his access to information make this an authoritative and essential source fo...
|  | PunditMom's Mothers of Intention: How Women & Social Media Are Revolutionizing Politics in America
Publication Date: June 1, 2011 Illuminating women's clout and influence both online and in the political realm, this book, by popular political blogger, PunditMom Joanne Bamberger, studies the rise of the motherhood political movement and how online and social media tools have enabled women to become a larger and more powerful presence in the world of politics and activism. Recognizing the fact that women make up the majority of online users and influencers, Bamberger traces this influence across the intersections of politics, motherhood and social media. Mothers of Intention, with it...
|  | Anglicanus ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century (Studies and Texts)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0888441800 | ISBN-13: 978-0888441805| Edition: 1 Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (ca 1088-ca 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England. Written entirely in Latin verse, the Anglicanus ortus describes the medicinal uses of 160 different herbs, spices, and vegetables. Henry drew on centuries of learned medicine to...
|  | Senseless
Release Date: January 1, 2011The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. Ten years ago, Eva Rayburn and her sorority sisters were celebrating the end of the school year. That party turned into a nightmare Eva can't forget. Now she's trying to start over in her Virginia hometown, but a new nightmare has begun. Every victim is linked to her. And Detective Dea...
|  | The Greatest Possible Mischief (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Zebra Regency Romance In Jo Ann Ferguson's newest tale of Regency romance and adventure, the intrepid Lady Priscilla Flanders and her dashing admirer, Sir Neville Hathaway, attend a soiree in Bath, where they find themselves at the center of a very dangerous liaison. ...
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