 | Zapata's Disciple: Essays
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0896085899 | ISBN-13: 978-0896085893| Edition: First Edition In his first collection of essays, award-winning poet Martín Espada turns his fierce critical eye toward a broad range of urgent political and cultural issues. With the same insight and integrity displayed in his poetry, he chronicles many struggles of the Latino community: the myths and realities of machismo, the backlash against Latino immigrants and the Spanish language, the borders of racism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico.Espada's poetry has survived everything from censor...
 |  | Handpicked Husband (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Can she drive away not one, but three suitors?Free-spirited photographer Regina Nash is ready to try. But unless she marries one of the gentlemen her grandfather has sent for her inspection, she'll lose custody of her nephew. So she must persuade them—and Adam Barr, her grandfather's envoy—that she'd make a thoroughly unsuitable wife.Adam isn't convinced. Regina might be unconventional, but she has wit, spirit and warmth. His job was to make sure Regina chose from the men he escorted to Texas—...
|  | Jaarfindor Remade
Publication Date: August 8, 2006For fans of "The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor", Lia-Va is back, but not as we know her. She is no longer a princess but a hard-nosed corporate business tycoon who owns the planet financially and from the technological stand-point. The assassin she has hired for the ultimate hit - that will guarantee her unrivalled power - has his own disturbing agenda and he aims to take control of New Jaarfindor. As a former lover of Lia-Va, he has a unique and intimate insight into her true nature, and his is a mission of primordial survival. Kill or be killed. He has a choice...
|  | Liquid Fear (Fear (Brilliance))
Publication Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Fear (Brilliance) When Roland Doyle wakes up in an unfamiliar motel room with a strange man’s wallet in his pocket and a woman’s dead body in the bathroom, he fears the worst…and that’s before he finds the vial of pills labeled “take one every 4 hrs or else.” Or else what?Ten years ago, Dr. Sebastian Briggs’s clinical drug trial for a cutting-edge fear-response drug went horribly wrong — or did it? It’s true that one trial participant died and five others were left with no memory of wha...
|  | We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
Release Date: June 12, 2012In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don’t even like? What do you do when a friend becomes obsessed with a political movement and won’t let you ignore it? How do you react when someone you’ve known for years unexpectedly changes genders? Irreverent yet earnest, he shares deeply personal experienc...
|  | A Servant to Two Masters (Student Editions)
Release Date: November 8, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408131056 | ISBN-13: 978-1408131053This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history.The play revolves around the wily, gre...
|  | Euripides: Hippolytus Euripides: Hippolytus (Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0856682411 | ISBN-13: 978-0856682414Written primarily in Greek, 1994 edition. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry
Publication Date: August 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 1852851430 | ISBN-13: 978-1852851439| Edition: 1 In The Germanic Hero Brian Murdoch looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined political and social constraints. the hero is not a sword-wielding barbarian, bent only upon establishing his own fame; such fame-seekers (including some famous medieval literary figures) might even fall outside the definition of the Germanic hero, the real value of whose deeds are given meaning only within the political construct. Individual prowess is not enough. The hero must conquer the bl...
|  | lion: the iran poems
Publication Date: May 15, 2010Lion is a narrative of sorts, but it is necessarily disruptive and disjunctive: ideas and literary structures are questioned, even the fixed boundaries of language itself are challenged. Lion is a meditation on the role of kinship in the development of cultural identity and the importance of rites of passage as cultural artifacts in the modern world. Ultimately, lion is about the impact of the loss of identity amongst the Iranian diaspora, and the creation of myths of origin. ...
|  | Drawing Lines: Selected Poems of Moon Dok-Su
Publication Date: March 2004| ISBN-10: 1931907129 | ISBN-13: 978-1931907125This selection of Moon Dok-su’s poems includes some eighty of his poems chosen from among a dozen different books and magazines. These poems cover a variety of subjects and show Moon’s perception of the world as well as his modernistic approach to poetic inspiration. He paints landscapes unseen in traditional Korean poetic scenes – landscapes made up of barbed wires, electric gadgets, machinery, elevators, automobiles, concrete buildings, and the likes that often assume novel and bizarre appearances...
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|  | Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ho: Four T'ang poets (FIELD translation series)
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|  | Rainbow Family Collections: Selecting and Using Children's Books with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Content (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
Publication Date: April 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 1598849603 | ISBN-13: 978-1598849608Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 11, Rainbow Family Collections examines over 250 children's picture books, informational books, and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Each entry in Rainbow Family Collections supplies a synopsis of the title's content, lists awards it has received, cites professional reviews, and provides suggestions for librarians considering acquisition.The book also provides a brief historical overview of LGBTQ children's literature along with the ma...
|  | Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac
Publication Date: September 22, 2005Empty Phantoms: Collected Interviews with Jack Kerouac gathers together, for the first time in one volume, all known printed, recorded, and filmed interviews—including those celebrated, infamous, or obscure—with the acclaimed American writer and father of the Beats, Jack Kerouac.In many instances, the interviews are transcribed from original tapes and are either unabridged, like the famous "Paris Review" interview in which the journal was excised for space constraints, or unexpurgated, such as in the infamous Northport Library interview, whic...
|  | Two Lives
Release Date: June 29, 2006Two Lives is a story told in two parts of two people in two eras struggling to find love and happiness. It is the story of Sarah & Richard and the story of Raven & Sidney. After Sarah and Richard's troubled relationship fails, they come back to try it again. . . this time as lesbians. Unfortunately, the more things change, the more they stay the same. ...
|  | Mullendore Murder Case
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|  | The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Definitive Text (The Collector's Library of Famous Editions)
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|  | Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work (Howdunit)
Publication Date: March 1995| ISBN-10: 0898796490 | ISBN-13: 978-0898796490| Edition: 1st Writers will see how to create cunning criminals who still leave clues protagonists can follow. The authors explain how law-breakers perform the dirty deeds of murder--from contract killers to seemingly ordinary people--armed robbery, arson, smuggling, white collar crime, prostitution, and more. ...
|  | Tortillas for the Daltons: Lucky Luke 10 (A Lucky Luke Adventure)
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|  | Don Quixote and the Windmills
Publication Date: April 2, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up A self-proclaimed knightSeñor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cries Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knows what he has to do . . . Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly cryst...
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