 | Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, against Margins (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: January 27, 1995| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Book 88) Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a "minority" literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made...
 |  | Mutiny
Publication Date: May 6, 2002This book features a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, and three women in a prison cell built for two. A cyclone is building outside. It casts its mauve shadow inside the prison cell colouring their skin and the dull grey blankets. Their stomachs growling with hunger, Juna, Leila and Mama Gracienne begin to tell each other their stories, the crimes for which they stand condemned, and to exchange recipes to keep the hunger at bay. As the bonds of friendship grow, so too do the seeds of rebellion as the cyclone draws them into its embrace. "Mutiny" is a powerful...
|  | Prize of My Heart
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Rich in Historical Detail, This Is a Romance that Delivers!An unsolved mystery separates ex-privateersman Captain Brogan Talvis from his lost son--his only living relation, his only family. Shortly before her tragic demise, his wife abandoned their infant to strangers, refusing to reveal the child's whereabouts. Now, three years later, Brogan has discovered the boy at the home of a shipbuilder's daughter, Lorena Huntley.Lorena guards a dark secret about her young charge. She finds herself falling for the heroic captain who has come to claim his newly built ship...
|  | Deadlock: A John Hutchinson Novel
Publication Date: December 22, 2009| Series: John Hutchinson Hutch is a newspaper columnist, single dad . . . and last defense against a lunatic's high-tech killing machine. Special Forces veteran-turned-billionaire Brendan Page has some dirty not-so-little secrets. He's built an empire on supplying futuristic weapons and highly trained soldiers to the world's most powerful armies. But he's saved his most destructive weapons for himself. John Hutchinson, a Denver newspaper columnist and avid bow-hunter, has figured out the truth about Brendan Page and is determined to bring him down. B...
|  | Dwarfs (Warhammer)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: Warhammer The dwarfs are a stoic and long-lived race. Their unbending will and pride serve them as fearsome warriors on the battlefield and the greatest craftsmen across the Old World. But cross them at your peril, as a dwarf grudge is never forgotten, a quest for revenge handed down from generation to generation until the debt is settled in blood…In this action-packed omnibus, the bravery and resilience of the dwarfs is brought to life as they wage war against the twisted powers of Chaos, vile skaven ratmen, brutal greenskins and their oldest adver...
|  | Indelible: A Novel
Release Date: July 27, 2004The internationally bestselling author shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense. In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue t...
|  | Leche
Publication Date: April 12, 2011After thirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to his birthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heat and chaos of the city, he encounters a motley cast of characters, including a renegade nun, a political film director, arrogant hustlers, and the country’s spotlight-driven First Daughter. Haunted by his childhood memories and a troubled family history, Vince unravels the turmoil, beauty, and despair of a life caught between a fractured past and a precarious future.Witty and mesmerizing, this novel explores the complex colonial and c...
|  | Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Catherine De' Medici Trilogy)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Catherine De' Medici Trilogy Fourteen-year-old Catherine de’ Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Amid the glittering fÊtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers...
|  | Lexico familiar / Family Lexico (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Journey of the White Robes: An Aquarian Age Adventure
Publication Date: June 28, 2010Small Orbs of brilliant light, Mystical Mount Shasta, Aquarian Age schools inthe center of the Universe, interdimensional travel, and the survival of the humanrace are just the beginning. Join Forest Waters and Aurora Collins in this visionary adventure.Are you really ready to find out?* Find out who the Ancient Brotherhood of Light consists of, and what theircritical mission at this pivotal moment of time in Earth’s history is.* Learn what part dreams play in activating our super-conscious awareness, andwhen the past and the future become the present.* ...
|  | Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir
Release Date: April 19, 2003More than any other writer, Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) is responsible for raising detective stories from the level of pulp fiction to literature. Chandler's hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe set the standard for rough, brooding heroes who managed to maintain a strong sense of moral conviction despite a cruel and indifferent world. Chandler's seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor ...
|  | Classics in Translation
Publication Date: September 20, 2007Introducing the work of 20 of the ancient world's greatest authors, this work presents brief, readable essays, fully illustrated with quotations from modern (and some ancient) translations. The writers covered include Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, the Greek tragedians, the comic poets, sexy and subtle love poets such as Catullus, and vicious but witty satirists like Martial and Juvenal ...
|  | Beowulf
Publication Date: September 9, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up Welwyn Wilton Katz recounts this legend from the point of view of Wiglaf, Beowulf's young kinsman who was present at his last battle with the dragon. The retelling creates a new interpretation of the Beowulf legend. Laszlo Gal's powerful paintings bring the various adventures to life. ...
|  | Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students)
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|  | The Letters of William S. Burroughs, Vol. 1: 1945-1959
Release Date: June 1, 1994This volume of correspondence vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his text. "Sheds light on both the personal demons and lacerating misanthropy that inspired Burroughs' brilliant literary highjinks."-- Entertainment Weekly. ...
|  | Erotic City
Publication Date: November 14, 2008Erotic City is sex-fest central-a hip, upscale swingers club for grown-folks only, located in the heart of Atlanta. It is a grand, three-story sexual mecca where the uninhibited freaks come out four nights a week to get their ultimate groove on without fear of reprisal or judgment, yet judgment from the outside world threatens all that the club's owner, Milan Kennedy, has worked so hard to achieve.Pynk brings us a fast-paced, sexy ride through a world of having sex in public, bribery, judgments, and suspense that sheds light on family, churchgoers, relati...
|  | Shadow's Stand (Hqn)
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Hqn Shadow Ochoa is lying low in the western Kansas Territory, waiting for his fellow Texas Rangers—the Hell's Eight brotherhood—to clear his name. That is, until he's unjustly strung up for horse thieving…and pretty Fei Yen intervenes. Invoking a seldom-used law, the exotic lady prospector claims Shadow as her husband and rides off with the bridegroom shackled to her buckboard.Savvy, fearless Fei is single-mindedly devoted to her hidden claim and all it promises: wealth, security and freedom. A husband is just a necessary inconv...
|  | The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence)
Release Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full of wonder, terror, and delight. ...
|  | Chasing the King - Touchdown Edition (Dream Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Princess Petunia's Sweet Apple Pie (I Can Read! / Big Idea Books / VeggieTales)
Release Date: January 7, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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