 | El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 10, 2011| ISBN-10: 0073385409 | ISBN-13: 978-0073385402| Edition: 8 El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designedfor intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides studentswith a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which toexpand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por-trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite-rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can beread in one sitting. ...
 |  | Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature: Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues)
Publication Date: March 21, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415955572 | ISBN-13: 978-0415955577Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology. ...
|  | You Can't Take it With You.
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|  | Ellen Foster
Release Date: November 5, 1997"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel. . . . [Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods Sout...
|  | High Desert Haven (The Shepherd's Heart, Book 2)
Publication Date: June 8, 2012| Series: The Shepherd's Heart Is Jason Jordan really who he says he is?Everything in Nicki's life depends on the answer. Oregon Territory, 1887 When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Determined to bring her ranch back from the brink of death, Nicki hires handsome Jason Jordan to help. But when William, her neighbor, starts pressing for her hand in marriage, the bank calls in a loan she didn't even know about, bullets start flying, and a burlap dummy with a knife in its chest shows up on her...
|  | Cthulhu Invictus Companion: The Mythos Threatens Ancient Rome (Call of Cthulhu roleplaying)
Publication Date: March 18, 2011| Series: Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying AS ROME S INFLUENCE SPREADS across the known world, so too spreads the worship of its gods. Roman leaders know that converting the people of conquered regions to the state religion makes them easier to control. But some gods have been worshipped longer than Rome has existed, and their supplicants won t easily change allegiances. The Cthulhu Invictus Companion is a collection of three scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, pitting investigators against cults from different regions of the ancient Roman Empire. Those with the will to...
|  | The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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|  | Bewitched Forever: The Immortal Companion To Television's Most Magical Supernatural Situation Comedy
Publication Date: September 2004...a heady dissertation on the culturally profound spells, curses, and machinations behind the seminal series.-- The Village Voice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | How It All Began: A Novel
Release Date: January 5, 2012 A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively-a wry, wise story aboutthe surprising ways lives intersect. When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by apetty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across thelives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels afteran illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phonemessage; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets abusiness partner who might prove too good to be true; an old-guardhistorian tries to recapture his youthful vigor with an ill-conceivedi...
|  | The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society.Along with the title piece, the volume includes "Gemini," "A Wayside Comedy," "The Hill of Illusion," "Only a Subaltern," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Black Jack," and others. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature...
|  | Book of Mercy
Release Date: October 12, 1984Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to ou...
|  | Words in My Lovesick Blood: Poems by Haim Gouri
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| | Stevenson and "Beach of Falesa": A Study in Victorian Publishing with the Original Text
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|  | Les Mots (Folio) (French Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1995| ISBN-10: 2070366073 | ISBN-13: 978-2070366071| Edition: French L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser l’autobiographie de Jean-Paul Sartre.• Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :– Les Mots dans la vie de Sartre– De Poulou à Sartre– Autobiographie et roman– Le thème du père absent– Une « entreprise de démystification »– Les techniques de n...
|  | Alien Diplomacy (Alien Novels)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Alien Novels Being newlyweds and new parents is challenging enough. But Jeff andKitty Martini are also giving up their roles as super-beingexterminators and Commanders in Centaurion Division while mastering thepolitical landscape as the new heads of Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps.Enter a shadowy assassination plot and a new set of anti-alienconspirators, and nothing will ever be the same... ...
|  | Night Passage (Jesse Stone Novels)
Release Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Jesse Stone Novels The author of two dozen Spenser novels as well as numerous other works of fiction, Robert B. Parker is no stranger to either critical or popular acclaim. With his hallmark sharp wit and taut action, Parker has created in the Spenser series the standard against which all contemporary detective novels are measured, and a character considered the paragon of private eyes. In Night Passage, Parker sets the bar even higher, with the introduction of Jesse Stone, a hero cut from different cloth.After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem ...
|  | Late Rain
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Desire, need, and ambition fuel Corrine Tedros, a Lady Macbeth wannabe who arranges the murder of her father-in-law, a soft-drink mogul. It's witnessed by a man in the late stages of Alzheimer's; he provides scattershot details but cannot accurately communicate what he saw.Dark and beautiful, this novel explores the fear that drives how far people are willing to go to find what they want, and the steps they'll take to get it.Lynn Kostoff is a professor of English at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He's previously written A Choice of Nigh...
| | THE ILLUSTRATED SHERLOCK HOLMES TREASURY : Adventures of, Memoirs of, and Return of Sherlock Holmes + Hound of the Baskervilles + A Study in Scarlet + Sign of the Four + Adventure of Wisteria Inn + Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (COMPLETE / UNABR
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|  | Disney's Read-To-Me Treasury, Vol. 3
Release Date: October 2, 2002| Grade Level: P and up Bring the magic home with six retellings of Disney's most recent movies, delivered in a lively style just right for family sharing. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring 102 Dalmatians, The Emperor's New Groove, The Tigger Movie, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Monsters, Inc. is a must-have for every family library! ...
|  | Barbie of Swan Lake: A Storybook (Barbie) (Look-Look)
Release Date: September 9, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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