 | Hawai'i One Summer (A Latitude 20 Book)
Publication Date: December 1998| Series: A Latitude 20 Book In this collection of eleven pieces, originally issued as a limited hand-printed edition, Maxine Hong Kingston does not attempt to capture Hawai'i but "instead and incidentally" to describe her "piece by piece, and hope that the sum praises her." The essays provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston's signature: an angle of vision, exquisitely balanced and clear-sighted, that awakens one to a knowledge of things. ...
 |  | Schmidt Steps Back
Release Date: March 13, 2012When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (“Schmidtie” to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of her baby—assuming it isn’t Schmidt. Meanwhile, his only confirmed child, Charlotte, had proposed a truce in their perennially strained relations, which Schmidt accepted, despite its obliging him to resume dealings with her repulsive husband and her mother-in-law-cum-psychiatrist, whose life&rsqu...
|  | Wish You Well
Publication Date: April 3, 2007Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determin...
|  | Arms of Deliverance: A Story of Promise (The Liberator Series, Book 1)
Release Date: July 1, 2006Arms of Deliverance is the fourth and final chapter in thethrilling World War II series. Mary and Lee have gone from best friends to competingWWII journalists, but a bombing raid gone wrong puts Mary's life at risk and sendsLee on a heroic rescue attempt through the fierce teeth of combat. Then, amidstan adventurous struggle for freedom, they uncover the story of the unspeakable Lebensbornatrocity.With equal doses of adrenaline and poignancy, Tricia Goyer's storytellingbrings well-crafted characters to life in a graphically authentic World War II setting. Shepl...
|  | Shadow Coast
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Barely surviving a terrifying yachting accident, Mark Sayres finds himself in a remote area of the Olympic Peninsula coast in Washington State. He has come to look for his wife, Maggie, who has been troubled by a discovery at the archaeological site where she is working. After recovering at the home of Sandra Torrel, whose mysterious husband is burdened with a disturbing family secret, Mark learns of a succession of strange events in the little town of Neah Bay that seem connected with the nearby excavation. Why are archaeologists Paul Radwick and Ken Matsamur...
|  | Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: Lost in the Tunnel of Time (Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs (Just Us Books))
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|  | Tom Sawyer in Hell
Publication Date: January 16, 2010All life is a series of stories and Tom Sawyer in Hell is mine. The narrativefollows the misadventures of a naive young man who has optimistic expectations about life that rapidly go south as he makes his way through three colleges on two coasts, courts and jails and small town lawyers, strip clubs, a gig as a Park Avenue doorman, hopelessness, psychopharmacology, absurdity, and the struggle to land a corporate job.The novel reflects and comments upon the dissatisfaction of the unconnected 20-30 year olds stuck in the midst of the deflated "American Dream." ...
|  | The Sleepwalker
Publication Date: October 29, 2010Winner of the Prix de meilleur livre étranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, Franc "Margarita Karapanou leads us into the labyrinth where God lives. One must read her as one reads Rimbaud or Blake... Karapanou's insistence on tearing off our everyday clothes and ridiculous masks makes her, indeed, a truly remarkable writer." --Jerome Charyn, Le Monde At the opening of Margarita Karapanou's stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah onto the earth. Or rather, onto a Greek island. Populated by villag...
|  | The Nature of Monsters
Publication Date: May 12, 20081666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark.1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary’s maid, a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child from scandal. But why is the apothecary so eager to welcome her when he already has a maid, a half-wit named Mary? Why is Eliza never allowed to look her veil...
|  | The Gentleman's Bedside Companion: A Compendium of Manly Information for the Last Fifteen Minutes of the Day
Release Date: May 3, 2011Delightful Things to Read About Before the Snoring StartsHave you ever found that once you are between the sheets, Madame Bovary is too heavy, magazines are too slippery, and Crime and Punishment is too long?The Gentleman's Bedside Companion is the answer-a bracing collection of information, humor, and curiosities that will help every man make his mark on the world with panache.Spanning the arts, sciences, sports, and the opposite sex, topics include:Bananas as proof of God's existenceGreat bits from the BibleFamous painters and how they diedThe Monkees...
|  | Cloud Gate Song: The Verse of Tang Poet Zhang Ji
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|  | Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age: The Penetrating Eye
Release Date: June 26, 2007Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer.Discussing a variety of texts, it studies how contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance over transgressive sexuality.It articulates the complex manifestations of desire through examining the discourses of the body, in particular the gaze, and shows how the Gothic's ambivalent gender politics destabilize heteronormative narratives and gives a voice to queer desires. ...
|  | The Mirror and the Word: Modernism, Literary Theory, and Georg Trakl (Texts and Contexts)
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| Series: Texts and Contexts 'Williams has found an ingeniously indirect method for dealing with powerful and conservative voices in Trakl criticism, a method that unburdens the debate of its weighty pomposity and elicits delight from readers familiar with the critical context' - Francis Michael Sharp, author of "The Poet's Madness: A Reading of Georg Trakl" bib 1993 x, 350 pages. ...
|  | Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
Publication Date: April 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0231105959 | ISBN-13: 978-0231105958 0 The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers.Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth, in the book that bears his name, the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. Central to these is the belief that only by understanding Tao (...
|  | Teaching Shakespeare: A Handbook for Teachers (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Publication Date: February 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521577888 | ISBN-13: 978-0521577885Teaching Shakespeare is a major contribution to the knowledge and expertise of all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education.It makes explicit the principles of active learning that underpin Cambridge School Shakespeare and helps teachers develop their existing good practice.Practical examples are given from the plays most frequently used in schools, but Rex Gibson shows that the principles apply equally to the less frequently studied plays, thereby extending the cano...
|  | Montana Destiny
Publication Date: May 1, 2010They're the McCords...three rugged, sexy cowboy cousins who'll inherit the family range--if they seek the treasure hidden on it.But even more precious are the women who can tame their wild hearts...Emergency medic Marilee Trainor likes her freedom and lives for trouble.But when she stumbles upon a clue to the legendary McCord gold, she 's suddenly in a mysterious killer's sights--and the arms of irresistible playboy Wyatt McCord.This McCord cousin has been everywhere, yet the ranch is the only place he feels at home.Now Marilee's courage and independence make him...
|  | Succubus On Top (Georgina Kincaid)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Georgina Kincaid Georgina Kincaid's job sucks. Literally. Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. If she so much as kisses her new boyfriend, she'll drain his life force. Georgina is a succubus - a demon who draws her power from other men's pleasure. Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks are terrific, and yes, Georgina did choose to join the ranks of hell centuries ago. But it seems completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can't get hot and heavy with the one mortal who knows and accepts her for who...
|  | Lord of the Far Island
Release Date: November 24, 2009The past is never far behind.… Ellen Kellaway, orphaned at age five, was raised by wealthy cousins, but was never allowed to forget that her every advantage was owed to the charity of others. However, when the son of a powerful London family asks for her hand in marriage, her world is opened up to untold wealth and social position. She never imagined that such an unlikely dream would come true. Despite these wonderful new developments in her life, Ellen continues to be wracked b the bad dreams that have haunted her since childhood. What i...
|  | Luck of the Wolf (Hqn)
Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Series: Hqn Branded an outcast by the noble branch of his werewolf clan, Cort Renier had come to San Francisco seeking fortune—and revenge. What he found was a mysterious beauty who could not—or would not—reveal who she truly was. At first glance she seemed vulnerable and afraid, like so many girls caught up in the debauchery of the city's whiskey-soaked gambling dens. But one look into her stunning turquoise eyes and he knew he'd found the winning hand.Aria di Reinardus had reasons of her own for concealing her identity, but Cort's kisses w...
|  | Scooby-Doo! In Jungle Jeopardy
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Scooby and his friends are exploring the jungle! But soon the gang crosses paths with a crazed half-man, half-beast, who warns them to stay away. Now the whole gang is in jungle jeopardy . . . and there¹s only one way out. They¹ve got to stop that monster‹or else! ...
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