 | Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas
Publication Date: February 1985The best-selling Chicano novelist, author of the prize-winning Bless Me, Ultima, turns his pen to narrative poetry in this mock epic. Here the myths and history of Mexico and the Southwest are revised in this phantasmagoric marijuana dream peopled by gods, ghosts and, of all things, the neighborhood pachucos. ...
 |  | Tongues on Fire: Caribbean Lesbian Lives and Stories
Publication Date: 1998| ISBN-10: 0889612269 | ISBN-13: 978-0889612266| Edition: 1st In this groundbreaking anthology, Caribbean women tell their personal stories of loving women. Through interviews and stories they reveal their hidden histories, their secret longings and sexual awakenings. Rosamund Elwin has put together a fine collection that includes well-known writers such as Michelle Cliff, Shani Mootoo and Makeda Silvera and also the voices of women who are not writers. Women who are mothers, poor or illiterate share their experiences with candour. From Trinidad to Toronto, these Ca...
|  | The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Vintage International A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel from one of our most distinctive voices in the English language. The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing—a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity—and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and...
|  | Sampson's First Christmas
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Sampson's First Christmas is a charming play that's perfect for a holiday children's program in small congregations. The story details the attempts of Sampson Squirrel to discover Christmas. After overhearing a conversation between the rustic characters of Ma and Pa, Sampson asks his forest friends where to find this wonderful place. When they are unable to help, Ma and Pa show Sampson the true meaning of Christmas.This adaptable piece can accommodate any number of actors, and can be presented as a play, a puppet show, or a readers' theater. The characters, p...
|  | Die Deutsche Gelehrenrepublik: Text/Apparat (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 13, 2002| ISBN-10: 3110164213 | ISBN-13: 978-3110164213The volume contains textual material, most of it unpublished hitherto, for the second part of the "Republic of Scholars," which Klopstock had planned but never executed. In addition, it presents the early printed version of the "Laws of the Republic of Scholars" together with early works on the topic area "The state and class of scholars." The critical apparatus refers both to the printed first part of the work (1774) (Vol. VII,1) and the texts in this volume. ...
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|  | Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987
Publication Date: October 23, 1989In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker’s bestseller, The Color Purple. ...
|  | The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau
Publication Date: May 5, 2002Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience" and "Walking," along with lesser-known masterpieces such as "Wild Apples," "The Last Days of John Brown," and an account of his 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mou...
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|  | Dark Cries of Gray Oaks
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|  | No Holds Barred (Daniel Whelan Mysteries)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Daniel Whelan Mysteries When ex-police dog handler Daniel Whelan is asked by his former boss to help a friend who is struggling to run her husband's haulage company while he is recovering from a vicious attack, he and his German shepherd, Taz, rapidly find themselves attracting the wrong sort of attention. Daniel investigates, and soon finds evidence of some very nasty business indeed - but after several violent warnings, he begins to,mx-yonder, has he bitten off more than he can che ...
|  | Tales from the Bamboo Grove
Publication Date: August 1992| Age Level: 9 and up The author of So Far from the Bamboo Grovepresents a collection of stories--based on the memories of a young Japanese girl growing up in Korea prior to World War II--including ""Dragon Princess,"" ""Monkey and Crab,"" and ""The Fox Wife."" ...
|  | Chip Hilton Basketball Pack
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|  | Jim Thorpe, Original All-American
Release Date: July 6, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools—strict, cold institutions that didn’t allow their students to hold on to their Native American languages and traditions. Jim ran away from school many times, until he f...
|  | Boas Ondas (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004He dropped out of law school to surf in Hawaii. His mother and friends came to believe that he had lost his mind, but Rico was only going after his dream. Today, he is considered the ambassador of Brazilian surf. In Boas Ondas (Good waves), the surfer and entrepreneur Rico de Souza tells the history of surfing in Brazil and abroad, since the first surfboards, made of tree trunks and about 80 kilos, until the most modern ones. The author gives tips on how to buy the right board, teaches the types of strokes, how to get on the board, the most radical maneuvers ...
|  | Hockey Sobre Hielo/Ice Hockey (Entrenamiento Deportivo) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Ultimate Sticker Collection: LEGO Minifigure (ULTIMATE STICKER COLLECTIONS)
Publication Date: December 21, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London.Now in paperback!It's 1735. Forrest Harper's life inside the Tower of London consists of three ways to pass the time: chores, chores, and more chores. His only friends are the spirited ravens he tends with his father. So when vicious Scottish Rebels are captured, Forrest can't wait to prove himself by standing guard. If only Forrest's prisoner hadn't turned out to be the noble and daring Maddy. And if only Maddy wasn't about to be executed. . . .Now, as Forrest c...
|  | A Book of Discovery (The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole)
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|  | The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
Publication Date: July 10, 2001The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition--Ginsberg's "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, T...
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