 | Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature
Publication Date: June 1, 1993Given the explosive creativity shown by Chicana writers over the past two decades, this first major anthology devoted to their work is a major contribution to American letters.It highlights the key issues, motifs, and concerns of Mexican American women from 1848 to the present, and particularly reflects the modern Chicana's struggle for identity.Among the recurring themes in the collection is a re-visioning of foremothers such as the historical Malinche, the mythical Llorona, and pioneering women who settled the American Southwest from the sixteenth to twentieth...
 |  | The Deliverer: Book Two of the Reluctant Demon Diaries
Publication Date: April 17, 2009| Series: The Reluctant Demon Diaries (Book 2) Ancient language expertSamantha Yale returns to translate a new batch of scrolls written by the fallen angel from Lucifer’s Flood. Samantha Yale has taken on a daunting translation project. A set of scrolls, delivered by a man she knows nothing about, tells a fascinating and frightening tale of what went on behind the scenes of biblical history. What is even more incredible is who is telling the tale—a fallen angel who immediately regretted his decision to side with Lucifer....
|  | Heaven's Fury on Hell's Cafe
Publication Date: September 2002It is Sam and Joey's first trip to the Big Apple and its underground party circuit. Their first stop is a bar called Hell?s Café. All hell breaks loose. Danger lurks in every corner. Death and destruction are unfolding at their feet. They had heard of things like "End Days", "The Return of Christ," and "Mark of the Beast" at Sunday school as children. Never in their wildest dreams did they think it would actually happen. Will their world as they knew it ever be the same again? ...
|  | These Our Actors (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Publication Date: October 7, 2002| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The past couple of years have seen Willow's Wiccan powers develop to an impressive -- and potentially dangerous -- level, as viewers of Buffy Season Six will know. But even the most confident of witches has her deepest secret fears, and Willow's have always involved performing on stage in front of an audience. In her near-fatal dream sequence in the crucial Season Five episode 'Restless', it was this fear that enabled the Primal Slayer to enter her consciousness in order to destroy her as she slept.So when Willow decides to ...
|  | Alistair MacLean's UNACO: Borrowed Time
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| Series: UNACO Militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their warThe Vale of Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth, and one of the most deadly. When Malcolm Philpott, head of UNACO, the United Nations' Anti-Crime Organization, receives a tip-off from a local priest that the peace of the valley is being threatened by militant religious extremists and the suspicion of a highly organized drug-traff...
|  | Briefs: A Virile Display of Verse Witty & Gay
Release Date: June 10, 2000Uncover the fun and sexy attractions of gay life and love in thishumorous,eye-popping picture book of verse. View hunks in trunks and leathersand feathers in 40 vividand original color illustrations that accompany eachverse.Chapters include: Thongs of Love, Boxer Rebellion, Truss Me, Darling,Heavenly Bodies and Fig Leaf Briefs."Brevity is the soul of wit, and Walter Cooper takes it to new heights with his pithy, saucy, tres gay verse." (Michael Musto)Here's an honest look at the lighter side of the gay experience, touching suchriveting topics as:decorating, male an...
|  | The Union Jack (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
Release Date: January 19, 2010| Series: The Contemporary Art of the Novella "It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prizewinner.An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the UnionJack—the British Flag—during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days precedingthe uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, partly a digressivemeditation on "the absurd order of chance," he recalls his youthful self, and theepip...
|  | Education 101: One Man's Journey to the Final Four
Publication Date: July 26, 2007This story is about two issues. One is the Big Time players Coach Young recruited, the recruiting stories, and the different methods used in the recruiting wars. The other issue is about Ron Young and his struggle to learn what it takes to win big, how he learned his lessons and the results from his lessons. After many years of trying to get to the top of his profession, Ron Young finally gets his opportunity, makes the most of it and guides his Cinderella team into the Final Four Championship. Ron Young has his days of glory and then the tables turn on him as ...
|  | Purgatory (Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man #3)
Release Date: August 1, 2008Purgatory, Arizona, is the last place you'll ever cross the law. Because in this town, the law is the personal fiefdom of an evil man - as Matt Jensen discovered on his first day in town, when an unavoidable gunfight and a dead deputy landed him in jail, sentenced to hang at Yuma Prison. But when the train from Purgatory to Yuma is violently derailed, Matt is set free amidst the carnage - with a choice to make. He can run for his life and live like an outlaw or take a chance with the determined U.S. Marshall who must hunt him down. For Matt, the choice will be eas...
|  | The Faeries of Spring Cottage
Release Date: April 22, 2003While searching for shelter from a rainstorm, a little faery named Sneezle is pursued by a band of strange creatures with wooden swords. They're not faeries, they're not goblins...in fact, he doesn't know what they are. With their long sticklike limbs, gnarled faces, and mouths full of knife-sharp teeth, they aren't like anything the denizens of Old Oak Wood have ever seen. Sneezle barely escapes, but another band of the ugly little creatures chases him out of the safety of the woods. Fleeing for his life, the little faery is forced to find refuge in a place that ...
|  | Cherokee spirit tales: Tribal folklore, legend and myth
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|  | Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Winter’s Tale. Set in a fictionalized Sicily, it has the complex plot of love, disguise and the threat of death much loved by early modern theatre-goers. This edition provides an authoritative, modernized text by a leading scholar with detailed on-page commentary notes giving readers a deeper understanding of the play. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses Philaster from a performanc...
|  | The Aeneid (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))
Release Date: July 21, 2009| Series: Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster)ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Virgil's sweeping epic of Trojan warrior Aeneas and the founding of Rome -- a stirring tale of exile, heroism, and combat, and of a man caught between love, duty, and fate. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot...
|  | Desolacion & Ternura & Tala & Lagar / Desolation & Tenderness & Tala & Lagar (Sepan Cuantos / Know How Many) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Essential Poems and Prose of Jules Laforgue (English and French Edition)
Publication Date: December 16, 2010Poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) is considered one of the creators of modernism: part-symbolist, part post-impressionist, he was one of the first poets to write in free verse. He heavily influenced such modern poets as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. This is a completely revised and greatly augmented version of Patricia Terry's now classic 1958 edition of this work. Fully bilingual edition (French-English) Terry fully captures Laforgues intricate word play, puns, and rhythm in a way lacking in many modern translations. Great introduction to this poet. ...
|  | Hole-In-One Haiku: Golf Poems for Hackers, Whackers and Handicappers
Publication Date: December 2002Know a golfer who needs a gift?110 golf haiku poems -- 45 million golfers.A beautiful lake - The final resting place for Ten thousand golf balls.Golf is colorful. Green grass, blue skies, silver clubs, White knuckles, red face. ...
|  | The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics
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|  | Absolute Certainty, ze3094
Publication Date: August 2003After Martha "Marty" Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, won a murder case, the suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man? ...
|  | How to Write Kids' Mysteries: A Guide for Teen And Adult Writers
Publication Date: September 1, 2005You don...
|  | The Wooden Dragon
Release Date: June 28, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This is the story of lame Window and her sailor brother, Handle, who live in a small house in a wooded hollow. Each autumn, when the leaves fall from the trees, the little house is buried right up to its bedroom windows, so each year Handle must sweep the leaves away. But one day, Handle breaks the news that he must go away on an extra long trip. Window is sad, and desperately worried that she cannot survive without him. Before he leaves for the harbor, however, Handle gives Window a little wooden dragon and promises hi...
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