 | Cantos de Adolescencia: Songs of Youth (1932-1937) (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
Publication Date: September 30, 2007| Series: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage "Stop, Time, your fast race; / turn back to my lost infancy." With the final poem of this collection, Upon Turning Twenty One, famed Chicano folklorist Américo Paredes closes a chapter in his life--one written during his formative years from 1932 to 1937--as he grew from a seventeen-year-old boy to a twenty-one-year-old man. In doing so, the renowned writer looks "toward the unknown future maze." Originally published in 1937 by Librería Española in San Antonio, Texas, t...
 |  | Boston Mountain Tales: Stories from a Cherokee Family (Frank Waters Memorial Series, Vol 1)
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|  | Disturbances Of The Mind
Publication Date: September 4, 2011More strange tales from the pen of Diane Carsey ...
|  | Homeric Variations on Lament by Briseis
Publication Date: August 2002| Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Casey DuZ examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in theIliad, as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and self-contained oral poetic system. Briseis' lament for Patroclus inIliad 19 hints at her role in the larger epic tradition. DuZ argues that Briseis' role in theIliad is enormously compressed, both in relation to theIliad and the entire tradition of the epic cycle. Through a close reading of Homeric passages, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis shows how theIl...
|  | Euripides: Alcestis
Publication Date: March 1, 20041880. This volume includes an introduction by the author on the tragedy, Alcestis, written by Euripides and the text of the play in Greek. ...
|  | The First Action Heroes: A Musical for Children about the Power of God
Publication Date: October 14, 2005Here they come to save the day! Captain Super, the Bible Boy Wonder, David, Esther, Joseph, and Joshua help children learn how God wants them to react to bullies. ...
|  | Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 160329063X | ISBN-13: 978-1603290630| Edition: 1 Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry, and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1, "Materials," is fittingly collaborative and features brief overviews designed to give nonspecialists background on the more challenging aspects of teaching Ovid. Contributors examine his life and legacy, religion, and relation to the visual arts as well as his afterlife in the Latin classroom, in various translations, and ...
|  | Life in Translation
Publication Date: December 29, 2008Azila Talit Reisenberger is a Bible scholar, a rabbi, a mother, a wife, and a poet. In all these selves she grapples with translating her life from Hebrew to English and back again. Life in Translation is full of wry humour, longing, bitterness, sweetness, playfulness, and subversions of traditional meanings and texts - a delightful book that charms and surprises anew with each reading. ...
|  | The Cat Arches Her Back
Publication Date: November 26, 2001The Cat Arches Her Back is a witty collection of poems which draw upon Chinese folklore and East Asian philosophy to embellish the author's sensuous and paradoxical ode to life, nature, and love. The image of the cat, playful, smart, independent, and mysterious becomes a metaphor for the author's view of life. Shienny's knowledge of art and precious stones, bedazzles the fabric of her tales, garnishing them with imagery that sparkles! ...
|  | Sister Carrie (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 18, 1999| Series: Oxford World's Classics Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, "Sister Carrie," the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With "Sister Carrie," the original manuscri...
|  | Cowboy Christmas: A Husband for Christmas\The Homecoming\The Cattleman's Christmas Bride (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 963) Twelve days of Christmas--three heartwarming romances!A Husbandfor Christmas by Carol FinchTo reassure her overprotective parents,Victoria Thurston must convince the town marshal to be her "holiday husband."But the magical, festive air--and Tori's luminous green eyes--make itvery difficult for Logan Daniels to keep to their marriage in nameonly!The Homecoming by Elizabeth LaneBrooding rancherClay McAllister paid his reckless brother's dues in a tough Kansas jail. NowClay must win back his beautiful wife, Elise. And, a...
|  | A Place in Time
Publication Date: July 10, 2009Wes is a typical, self centered 17 year old from present-day Denver. Emma is a deeply religious 16 year old girl, traveling the Oregon Trail with her family in 1850. When they both are caught in a mysterious electrical storm they find themselves together on the Wyoming prairie some time before 1843. Alone, they realize they must rely on each other for survival. A Place in Time is a love story that transcends time and reveals the journey of discovery for two young people from very different worlds. As they learn to get along and begin to trust each other, neithe...
|  | Kisser: A Stone Barrington Novel
Publication Date: January 19, 2010| Series: Stone BarringtonStone Barrington is back in this thrilling new page-turner from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he's looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman & Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a sh...
|  | A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
Release Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Charles Lenox Mysteries (Book 1) Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery.Prudence Smith, one of Jane’s former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled...
|  | JLA: One Million
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|  | Pittsburgh Steelers (Favorite Football Teams)
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|  | Corduroy's Christmas Surprise
Release Date: September 25, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1985-1989: Books of Recognized Merit
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|  | The Secret Garden (Classic Starts)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullen and unloved little girl-and everyone around her, too. When the newly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India a...
|  | PLEASE Read My Book/ PLEASE Eat My Cookies!
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