 | Chicano Chicanery Publication Date: January 1, 2000In bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacón captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes tortuous ways by which Mexican-Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory--often only to trip themselves out. ...
 |  | Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America Publication Date: November 15, 1987| ISBN-10: 0807063037 | ISBN-13: 978-0807063033Important resource for feminist literary theory buffs and students. ...
 |  | The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III Release Date: January 22, 2008A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III---a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by historyIn this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III---vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower---from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, ...
 |  | The Road to Perdition Publication Date: July 1, 2002Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti as well -- but when a gangland execution spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family, a grieving father and his adolescent son find themselves on a winding road fo treachery, revenge, and revelation.Writer Max Allan Collins is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus...
 |  | Ride With the Devil Publication Date: November 1, 1999 Daniel Woodrell's shattering coming-of-age novel brilliantly captures the lawless universe of war as seen through the eyes of a young secessionist.The 1860s: While the great battles of the Civil War rage in the East, Jayhawkers and bushwhackers wage their own vicious heartland war, savaging all in their wake without conscience or pity. Where the First Kansas Irregulars ride, no one is safe.At sixteen, Jake Roedel joins this piratical band, and partakes in brutality excused in the name of retribution. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions h...
 |  | Company of Prophets: African American Psychics, Healers & Visionaries Publication Date: January 1, 1992A unique and significant collection of supernatural and ethnic materials never before arranged in one volume! Describes African Americans born in the United States who have extrasensory perception, psychic abilities and spiritual gifts, in a time-frame from the 17th century to the present. They share their experiences with astral projection, soul travel, levitation, healing, and more. ...
 |  | The Rats & The Cockroach: Two Plays Publication Date: December 5, 2001The Rats is the story of Dr. Rago and Fujikawa. Rago uses a profession of nobility and admiration to questionable ends. The other, Fujikawa, a wino and derelict, supplies the ethic and humanity.The Cockroach is a fusion of cultures in America, north and south. A light little comedy of high intent invaded by lowly interferences. ...
 |  | Poesia Mexicana Amorosa (Loving Mexican Poetry) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 2005El objetivo de esta antologia es presentar un mosaico de la poesia mexicana a traves de algunos de sus mas importantes representantes.Al encontrarnos con las diferentes voces poeticas, hicimos eco de ellas y decidimos que tu, lector o lectora, estuvieran de acuerdo en hacer el reconocimiento de quienes pensamos que Mexico ha sido, es y seguira siendo, independientemente de los nombres propios, como lo confirman estas paginas, un pais de poetas. ...
 |  | The Hungry Voice: The Poetry of the Irish Famine ...
 |  | "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 Release Date: February 2, 2010In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describesthe arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, anintense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctorsuffering fromtuberculosis.Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Viennato London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated marital lifein exile. Spanning the major part of Elias’s struggle for literary recognition,from 1933, before the publication of his novel, Auto-da-Fé,...
 |  | Breaking Point (An I-Team Novel) Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: An I-Team Novel (Book 5) Denver journalist Natalie Benoit and Deputy U.S. Marshal Zach McBride find themselves captives of a bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartel. Working together, they escape through the desert toward the border, the attraction between them flaring hotter than the Sonoran sun. They fight to stay ahead of the danger that hunts them as forces more powerful than they can imagine conspire to destroy them both... ...
 |  | Wrapped In Wishes Release Date: July 1, 1996Sent back through time by an accident in hypnosis, attorney Chloe Plum falls in love with rogue adventurer Harrison Connors only to return to her own time, but his appearance in modern-day New Orleans offers Chloe a second chance to be with him. Original. ...
 |  | Time After Time (Large Print) Publication Date: April 15, 2005Bestselling award-winning author Constance O Day-Flannery is the one true Queen of Time Travel Romance. Join her now in a story of a disillusioned young widow who returns to the past, caught, to her horror, in an unflattering lime green bridesmaid s dress when she meets the man whose love is destined to be hers. Existing in a fog since the death of her beloved husband, Kelly Brennan is suddenly ready to take control of her life. Only she didn t expect her new life to begin in post-Civil War New Orleans. Widower Daniel Gilmore is the epitome of the Southern gen...
 |  | The Smoke Jumper Release Date: July 30, 2002In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another hero...The Smoke JumperHis name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow “smoke jumper,” Ed Tully. Julia loves them both--until a fiery tragedy on Montana’s Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them, and burns a b...
 |  | Flowers for the Judge: Albert Campion #7 Publication Date: April 18, 2008| Series: Albert Campion (Book 7) The Barnabas publishing dynasty is no stranger to mystery; after all, the founder?s nephew is legendary for having disappeared in broad daylight. Yet the discovery of one of the Barnabas cousins, dead for some days inside a locked basement, throws the entire clan in disarray. As police suspicions settle on a member of the family, the Barnabas cousins have no choice but to ask Albert Campion to step in and salvage their reputation. But everywhere he turns, Campion finds more questions than answers. Just what was the deceased Ba...
 |  | SHERLOCK HOLMES SET OF 5 (ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, A STUDY IN SCARLET MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE SIGN OF FOUR) Publication Date: 1994Five, 5.5x8" softcover books. Matched set in size and style. ...
 |  | Cars 2 Little Golden Book (Disney/Pixar Cars 2) Release Date: May 17, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up...
 |  | New York's Bravest Release Date: August 22, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up In the 1840s, there was a real vounteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life proportions, much like those of Paul Bunyan. Mary Pope Osborne has honed down the legends about him to a brief, dramatic, sometimes comical, but ultimately moving text of picture book length. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher’s stunning paintings capture this 8-foot-ta...
 |  | Monica Seles (OA) (Overcoming Adversity) Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
 |  | Kids in the Kitchen Book & Kit Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Getting children into the kitchenand cookinghas never been easier, thanks to this all-inclusive and fun gift set!With the Kids in the Kitchen recipe book and an array of awesome supplies such as a rolling pin, whisk, wooden spoon, four measuring spoons, chef’s hat, and denim apron, budding chefs will have everything they need to cook up a storm. They can prepare up to 30 delicious, fun and healthy recipes that taste great and look terrificincluding Fruit Skewers, Personal Muffin Pizzas, a...
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