 | Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers
Publication Date: December 1, 2001During the past two decades, literary issues like multiculturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important. The same years have seen the flourishing of writers from a number of ethnic minorities, including the Mexican-American women who are the subjects of these probing and insightful interviews by Karin Rosa Ikas.The ten Chicana writers who are the subjects of this book reflect a remarkably diverse range of backgrounds and of personal and aesthetic program...
 |  | Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: September 12, 1990| Series: Vintage Classics With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz...
|  | The Journalism (Collected Writings of Walt Whitman)
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0820410195 | ISBN-13: 978-0820410197"The Journalism, Volume I: 1834-1846, the definitive authoritative, MLA scholarly edition, is a volume in « The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, the Whitman « Writings that « every library should own ("Choice). Volume I reprints 589 Whitman editorials, articles, essays, other prose matter, and poems from 20 journals, including 5 newspapers that Whitman edited. These writings were hitherto unreprinted or uncollected, or only available in out-of-print limited collections, most with unreliable t...
|  | The Preacher's Bride
Publication Date: October 1, 2010In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to risk her lone marriage prospect to help the little family.Yet Elizabeth's new role as nanny takes a dangerous turn when John's boldness from the pulpit makes him a target of political and religious leaders. As the preacher's enemies become desperate to silence him, they draw Elizabeth into a deadly web of deceptio...
|  | Chop Shop (Bug Man Series #2)
Release Date: July 1, 2004Intern forensic pathologist Dr. Riley McKay has noticed irregularities in autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's lab. Suspecting foul play, she seeks help from Dr. Nick Polchak, the "bug man" renowned for his ability to solve murders by analyzing the insects on victim's bodies. Nick and Riley uncover a sinister link between the lab's director and PharmaGen, a start-up drug company specializing in genetic research. They also discover that PharmaGen fronts an underground system to procure transplant organs for wealthy clients by finding and murdering matching don...
|  | Germ
Publication Date: April 8, 2008If you breathe...It will find you.The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children.None of them is aware of what is about to happen--but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known.The germ--an advanced form of the Ebola virus--has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it.Those whose DNA is not a match simply catch a cold.But those who are a match experience a far worse fate....
|  | Greek Mythology and Poetics (Myth and Poetics)
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|  | June of the Corn Huskers Ball
Release Date: August 9, 2005June of the Corn Huskers Ball is a contemporary mystery romance, spanning many generations and continents, and drawing the reader into a world of espionage, hidden secrets, and passionate love. ...
|  | Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture)
Publication Date: April 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0878056947 | ISBN-13: 978-0878056941The super hero has been the staple of the modern comic book since the late 1930s. The phenomenally successful movies "Superman" and "Batman" have made these two comic book super heroes as familiar worldwide as any characters ever created. Yet to relatively few aficionados are they known at first hand from their appearances in comic books.Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology explores the origins of the super hero by documenting how heroes emerged from the comic book genre and are defined both by its history and by a...
|  | Deeds of violence in Greek tragedy
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|  | Sharman MacDonald Plays One: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout, When We Were... (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber))
Publication Date: November 1995| Series: Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber) A collection of plays which includes "The Winter Guest", "Borders of Paradise", "When I Was a Girl..." and "When We Were Women". ...
|  | Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-three depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.“What’s new is the rhythm and snap of the hip, modern, contemporary voices that we would expect to hear rattl...
|  | The Slave Girl and Other Stories (CEU Press Classics) (Central European Press Classics)
Publication Date: September 10, 2009| Series: Central European Press Classics This is a string of newly translated as well as already published stories by the classic Serbian author of the greatest significance in Eastern European literature. This volume includes numerous examples of the oppression of women and the disaster that ensues if any should defy the established rules. In addition to evoking this society, Andric has woven into it a more personal experience of the categories which society assigns to women. ...
|  | Comun Presencia/ Common Presence (Spanish Edition)
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|  | El Dios de la intemperie. El Principio de incertidumbre (Sapientia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| Series: Sapientia In these two essays brought together for the first time in a single edition, the famous poet and essayist Armando Rojas offers us a stroll through the great questions about life, God and the religious experience in the modern world. He speaks to the spiritual dimension of life in light of literature and one s own inner journey. Rojas believes that the spiritual experience is within the reach of every human being. Through our own inner growth and struggle, enriched by the arts, we can be in touch with ultimate meaning in everyday life. The au...
|  | Der schwierige Neubeginn - Vier deutsche Dichter 1949: Beitrage von Heinrich Detering, Dirk von Petersdorff, Hans Dieter Schafer und Albert von ... der Klasse der Literatur) (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 351509637X | ISBN-13: 978-3515096379English summary: Four German poets were the focus of the presentation at the opening of the Academy of Sciences anniversary celebration on April 23rd and 24th, 2009. Before the war Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann and Alfred Doblin were considered the most successful German writers. The speakers highlight the tension between East and West, between emigration and return, and between success and failure that faced the four poets after 1949. German text.German description: Vier deutsche Dichter 1949...
|  | Many Mountains Moving: A Tribute to W.S. Merwin; Volume IV, No. 2
Publication Date: July 13, 2001Many Mountains Moving is a literary journal devoted to fostering an appreciation of diverse cultures through literature. This issue, "A Tribute to W.S. Merwin," is a special edition that is a departure from the usual format. It contains twenty-five critical essays that celebrate and analyze the work of poet W.S. Merwin. Also included are an interview with Merwin; new and old poems; archival, handwritten drafts of poems; and a section of photographs. ...
|  | Darkest at Dawn
Release Date: November 1, 2011In one volume for the first time-a Carpathian novel and novellafrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author. For the first time together, two of Christine Feehan's mostseductive tales of savage prey and sensual predators: DarkSecret, the story of a vampire hunter on the scent of a humanfemale; and Dark Hunger, which tells of a caged Carpathian, histhirst for vengeance, and his lust for the woman who will release him. ...
|  | Star-Crossed Lovers in Fictional History: From Romeo and Juliet to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Publication Date: March 24, 2011Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dramatic tales of unrequited, unsanctioned star-crossed lovers have intrigued readers throughout history. Here are synopses of some of the powerful tales of lovers in literature, from Romeo and Juliet to Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde and last but not least, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beach reading at its best!Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohes...
|  | Safe House: A Burke Novel
Release Date: March 30, 1999In Burke, Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers who've marked them as their personal victims. Burke's client is Crystal Beth, a beautiful outlaw with a tattoo on her face and a mission burned into her heart. She is tryin...
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