 | Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Publication Date: July 1, 1999bell hooks crosses boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. She warns that "discourse" about "difference" is dangerously detachable from more essential struggles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Face of Betrayal (Triple Threat Series #1)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010FOX News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense series as timely as tomorrow's headlines. While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well as their uncanny ability to crack cases from ...
|  | Eye of the Beholder (Seaport Suspense #2)
Release Date: September 8, 2005Things Aren’t Always How They Appear!Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy’s pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Joneses rapidly deteriorates when Ellen’s stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI’s spotlight—and Guy’s bad grac...
|  | Treasures for Teachers
Publication Date: October 1, 1994The prayer poems in Treasures for Teachers reflect experiences--both highs and lows--that teachers encounter throughout the school year.Some poems will bring tears to your eyes; others will elicit a chuckle.All of the poems serve to encourage and affirm teachers in their challenging professions.Journaling pages are included so that teachers can vent their own frustrations, record their own joys and discover their own treasures. ...
|  | Recollections of Rosings: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (Pemberley Chronicles)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Pemberley Chronicles A disaster at Rosings unearths long-hidden secrets "Many surprises and turns in the lives of our favorite characters leave you riveted to each page." -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence O Sisters Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate, daughters of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, have very different personalities and temperaments. Both grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but as adults their paths diverged dramatically.When a catastrophe at Rosings Park brings Beck...
|  | The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 2
Publication Date: July 19, 2005The second in a three-volume set collecting all of Lord Dunsany's club stories, as told by Jorkens. Long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. Introduction by T.E.D. Klein. ...
|  | Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare Measure for Measure (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare's vivid dramatic projection of moral andethical issues in Measure for Measure has given the playgreat appeal to both readers and theatergoers. Exploringthe play's qualities as a complex work of art writtenspecifically for the theater, the introduction to thisnew edition sets the play in its historical context,discussing the originality of Shakespeare's treatment ofa well-known story. Bawcutt explains the obsoletemarriage customs, and also offers a comprehensive account of the text's theatrical afterlife fromRestorati...
|  | A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film
Publication Date: December 16, 2002Applying systems theory to the comedies of Chekhov, Balzac, Kleist, Moliere, and Shakespeare, A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film approaches dramatic genre from the point of view of the degree of richness and strength of a character’s potential. Its main focus is to establish a methodology for analyzing the potential from multidimensional perspectives, using systems thinking. The whole concept is an alternative to the Aristotelian plot-based approach and is applied to an analysis of western and easter...
|  | The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870
Publication Date: November 28, 2011All roads lead to London - and to the West End theater. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centered, gender-challenging managements and styles at the center, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little Strand Theater and the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street in the experience of mid-century London, and of plays drawn from the work of Charles Dickens as well as...
|  | De Luci
Publication Date: February 8, 2011"De Luciérnagas y Soledades" es un libro de versos concebido con la pasión del amor que no justifica, que da y entrega más. Y lo escribí sin pensar en el momento pueril de mi existencia. No sé si olvidé una coma, un verbo, un sustantivo en aquellos eternos labios suyos… Y aunque la crítica demuestre con su método de lágrima sutil, el defecto y no el genio que se oculta en cada uno de nosotros, estos poemas van por ella y para todos los amantes, enamorados. Sin embargo, por ella pude esculpir con mi musa cad...
|  | Luo Fu Yu Guangzhong shi ge xin shang (Zhongguo xian dai zuo jia zuo pin xin shang cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | It Had To Be You
Release Date: June 24, 2008 The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville—the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not ready for the Stars' head coach, former gridiron legend Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises—a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound. So why is Dan drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach's go...
|  | Nowhere to Run (Indigo Sensuous Love Stories)
Release Date: June 1, 1997| Series: Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories This novel is a riveting story on one woman's rise to success and the two men who inadvertently helped her find independence through selp-acceptance and perseverance. ...
|  | Wolf Runner (Leisure Historical Romance)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Series: Leisure Historical Romance Wolf Runner has always had a mystical connection with his namesakes, but even they won’t be able to help him when he loses his heart to an impossibly beautiful and troublesome senorita. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Teen InkLove and Relation (Teen Ink Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Teen Ink Series Once again, Teen Ink assembles the voices of teens speaking from their hearts on topics of real importance. Teen Ink: Love and Relationships delves into the deepest corners of their souls to reveal many insights. Teens explore their relationships with a parent, friend, grandparent or acquaintance, as well as their connections with beloved pets, special teachers, caring doctors and even nature. Tales of fun family moments, painful times of leaving friends, and memorable accounts of magical or heartrending moments with a grandparent are ...
|  | Errors and Omissions: A Novel
Release Date: July 11, 2006Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator—and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse.So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally that they own the rights to their corporate cash-cow franchise of Spykiller films, he has little choice but to comply.What Michael Seeley discovers in these gilded precincts will plunge him headfirst into the tangle of politics of the blacklisting era and then into the even darker world of Nazi-occupied Poland.He...
|  | Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2011The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le Carré makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de- force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little Drummer Girl ...
|  | The Plan
Release Date: July 1, 1996The selling of the president is an assignment that could salvage TV producer Ryan Bolt's damaged life and career, But Bolt doesn't know whom he truly serves. And by the time he finds out, it may be already too late...for one nation under siege. ...
|  | Cases of Sherlock Holmes #3 September 1986 (Renegade Press Presents)
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|  | Talking God CD Low Price (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
Release Date: April 5, 2005| Series: Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected -- and that others are pusuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilou...
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