 | A Glass of Water
Publication Date: September 14, 2010A Glass of Water is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at our country’s borders. The first novel from award-winning memoirist, poet, and activist, Jimmy Santiago Baca, it is a passionate and galvanizing addition to Chicano literature.The promise of a new beginning brings Casimiro and Nopal together when they are young immigrants, having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. They settle into a life of long days in the chili fields, and in a few yea...
 |  | The Strong Current: Book One: Attaugee
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|  | Mending Fences
Publication Date: January 1, 2010For ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever.As the Carters try to deal with the unthinkable, Emily discovers her daughter has been hiding a terrible secret…a secret that threatens the futures of both families. Recently divorced, Emily struggles to keep it all together—to s...
|  | The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Vampyre Majick After defeating the thirteenth demon, Jonathan Steel and Josh Knight return to Dallas, Texas, to finish up Josh's family affairs. When they arrive, a mysterious assassin named Raven surfaces from Steel's murky, dangerous past. At the same time, Rudolph Wulf, the twelfth demon, has arrived from Romania with plans to fulfill a two-thousand-year-old promise to unleash an army of demonic creatures-creatures that will inhabit the bodies of his "vampyre" army. When Wulf kidnaps Josh, Steel must find them in time to save Josh from a violent dea...
|  | The Downs (King of the Trees #5)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005Trapped in a phantom forest filled with deadly creatures of the cold, Owen son of Tadwyn leads Lucambra’s royal family into a forbidden faery kingdom. As the long awaited “shepherd’s son,” he must sacrifice all to save his friends, restore the realm and revive lost souls. He is not alone, for a faithful ally in feathered guise will follow him to his appointed doom. The Downs is a touching tale of sacrificial devotion and valor woven into a rich retelling of ancient legend. This is the fifth book in the King of the Trees fantasy seri...
|  | The Fallen Kings (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 32) Continuing the addictive saga of the Morland family, now with its many branches spread across the Empire and the new world 1918: German troops flood back from the Russian front for an all-out assault in France, before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat; and for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation. At the front, Bertie struggles to bring his battered battalion out safely; at home Jessie, carrying his child, faces her family’s censure. Thom...
|  | Steal the Dragon (Sianim, No. 2)
Release Date: November 1, 1995A new look for a New York Times bestselling author. Patricia Briggs' "unique" (Kliatt) novel of a slave, swordwielder, and spy gets a second life with an exciting new package to attract the fans that made her Mercy Thompson novels bestsellers. ...
|  | Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling
Publication Date: June 1, 2006“I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m watching people’s lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work. Spider Speculations is the beginning of trying to understand the hows and whys of all the changes.”—Author Jo CarsonJo Carson lays bare her personal investigation into her own creative process after a spider bite on her back begins a se...
|  | Steve McQueen Would Be Proud
Publication Date: December 2001Early morning steam rises from the pier pilings of the Subic Bay Naval Base as the shore patrol escorts a handcuffed Fatty Fitzgerald to the quarterdeck of his new ship, the U.S.S. Dermody.From that moment, life changes for the men aboard the Dermody, especially Larson, a young sailor fresh from electronics school.“Steve McQueen Would be Proud” is a coming-of-age story that explores a world that no longer exists, except in the memories of thousands of sailors who served in the Western Pacific during the Vietnam War. --This text refers to the Kindl...
|  | The Man Who Turned Into Himself: A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 2008In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and then she is alive again, begging for help, and Rick Hamilton no longer is himself, but another man with another life, and a different history.Based on the "many worlds" theory of quantum physics, which posits the existence of parallel universes, The Man Who Turned Into Himself is a suspenseful, mind-bending mystery...
|  | superstonerdude!
Publication Date: April 20, 2012Mike is a young policeman living a happy life in Wholesometown when he's tasked with violently cracking down on the city's supposed marijuana problem, during which time he's framed for drug possession. Which causes his happy life to spiral away from him, leaving him on the streets without anything. Then, he befriends a fellow homeless man, one he had recently roused as a cop, and he learns the man was once an acclaimed botanist, who was cast out of society for developing a strain of marijuana that would give users superhuman powers. And, later on, when the wom...
|  | The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Penguin Classics A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffe...
|  | An Ordinary Man
Publication Date: April 5, 2011A new play from the Hong Kong Arts Festival about carefree young Kuan, who falls into a personal crisis after a few missed calls during a night out in Shenzhen, forcing him to redefine his relationships with family, friends and lovers. ...
|  | Mysticism, Love Poems, Reality, and Deliverance
Publication Date: September 20, 2010A wonderful collection of Mystical poems. A total of forty nine poems included. The poet was born in Iran, and raised with the rich culture of great Persian Poets such as Rumi, Hafez, Sa'adi, and others. Upon arriving in the U.S., he was exposed to 'Leaves Of Grass', the great work of American Poet Walt Whitman. This is an absolutely inspirational collection drawing from the great influences of both the east and the west. We sincerely hope that it would be a great inspiration and blessing to you. Please share it with others. Thank you - Please Note: This i...
|  | Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity
Publication Date: January 8, 1998| ISBN-10: 0198159471 | ISBN-13: 978-0198159476Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world. ...
|  | Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (October Books)
Publication Date: March 13, 1998| ISBN-10: 0262100673 | ISBN-13: 978-0262100670| Edition: First edition. There is not one Marcel Duchamp, but several. Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas: artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse.In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. Taking into account under...
|  | Cuentos Completos Cortazar II (Complete Short Stories 2, Cortazar) (Spanish Edition) (Cortazar Cuentos Completos)
Publication Date: June 30, 2011| Series: Cortazar Cuentos Completos (Book 2) Includes the short stories found in Historias de cronopios y de famas, Todos los fuegos el fuego, Ultimo round, Octaedro and Alguien que anda por ahi.Spanish Description: Incluye todos los cuentos de: Historias de cronopios y de famas, Todos los fuegos el fuego, Ultimo round, Octaedro, y Alguien que anda por ahi. ...
|  | Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wordsworth Classics)
Publication Date: December 30, 2001Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly coloured by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only ...
|  | Dangerous in Diamonds
Release Date: April 26, 2011When the outrageously wealthy Duke of Castleford is bequeathed a small piece of property that houses a modest flower shop, he encounters its owner, the mysterious Daphne Joyes-a budding rose who quickly becomes the object of his seduction. ...
|  | A Fitting End: A Magical Dressmaking Mystery (A Dressmaker's Mystery)
Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: A Dressmaker's Mystery (Book 2) Business is booming at Harlow Jane Cassidy's custom dressmaking boutique-even with her great-grandmother's ghost hanging around the shop. But when a local golf pro is found stabbed with dressmaking shears, the new town deputy suspects Harlow. Now she has to clear her name before the next outfit she designs is a prison jumpsuit... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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