 | House with the Blue Bed
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1562791060 | ISBN-13: 978-1562791063| Edition: First Edition Eloquent, graceful, stimulating essays by a fresh Chicano voice. ...
 |  | Barney Is Best
Publication Date: September 1994| Age Level: 3 and up Having your tonsils out isn't so bad if you bring a stuffed animal with you. The hard part is deciding whether to take a soft and fluffy animal, or Barney, who has to wear a bandage to keep his stuffing in and smells like a worn-out shoe. A young boy's family soon learns why we sometimes treasure most the things that are worn at the seams. Full color. ...
|  | The Study of Stolen Love (American Academy of Religion Books)
Publication Date: January 2, 1997| Series: American Academy of Religion Books This is the first complete English translation of an important work of Tamil poetics. Composed in southern India around the eighth century CE, this is a commentary structured around 60 verses of uncertain origin on the poetry of love. The commentary also includes hundreds of illustrative poems drawn from various Tamil literary periods ranging from the very earliest through the eighth century. ...
| | Breaking Silences (Asian-Americans Experience)
Publication Date: August 2002| Series: Asian-Americans Experience Documents contemporary efforts by Asian Americans to voice their experiences in regard to such events as the Japanese-American relocation camps of World War II, cultural biases that labeled Asian Americans as "model minorities," and racism. ...
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|  | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 17, 2011| Series: P.S.In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged. More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has become the town ...
| | Winter of Grace
Publication Date: December 1999Dylan and Susan St. John, settled comfortably into their life in the Cajun country of South Louisiana, are preparing to have their first child. They've grown to love the serenity and peace of the bayous and back roads of Evangeline, but their lives are about to take a different turn. Two armed men in military garb hold up a local business, the first in a series of robberies, and the teenage daughter of a local judge disappears shortly afterward. The violent men find sanctuary deep in the trackless basin. But while the shadowy swamps hide a killer, one man won't...
|  | Wild Grows the Heather in Devon (Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall)
Publication Date: April 1998| Series: Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall (Book 1) Journey across the ocean and back across the decades to stately and graceful early twentieth-century England in bestselling author Michael Phillips' new series THE SECRETS OF HEATHERSLEIGH HALL. In the rich tradition of George MacDonald and the Stonewycke novels, Phillips captures all the beauty and tranquility of another age. Wild Grows the Heather in Devon is the first book in this timeless and thoughtful tale of one family's journey toward faith. On the windswept downs of Devonshire looms Heathersleigh Hall, the ...
|  | Millones de mujeres quieren conocerte/ Millions of Women are Waiting to Meet You (Spanish Edition)
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| | Poor Richard (Lost Play series)
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|  | Anthologie de la Poesie Francaise Du XIXe Siecle: de Chateaubriand A Baudelaire (Collection Poesie) (French Edition)
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|  | Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Medicine and Culture)
Publication Date: December 3, 1999| Series: Medicine and Culture Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized.In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bew...
|  | Romancing the Postmodern
Publication Date: July 21, 1992| ISBN-10: 041507987X | ISBN-13: 978-0415079877| Edition: 1 "Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre. By re-aligning the two powerful genres of postmodernism and romance, Diane Elam highlights what is unique to postmodernism about the definition of history, and reintroduces the previously hidden figure of woman in the light of new gender definitions. Elam offers a new theoretical stance, reaching back to literature's greatest romant...
|  | A Victorian Posy
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|  | Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: 1999| ISBN-10: 0674990404 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990401 Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including those of computer science stil...
|  | The Swan Thieves
Publication Date: November 3, 2010Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist,has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow's patient. When Oliver refuses to talk or cooperate, Marlow finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this silent genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a trag...
|  | X-Men Forever - Volume 4: Devil in a White Dress (X-Men Forever (Numbered))
Publication Date: August 25, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Superbowl Upset
Publication Date: December 13, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Ginger and Lucas have been rivals on and off the field for years. These fifth graders both love sports but compete on and root for different teams. To make things worse, their parents recently got married. Now stepsister and stepbrother go head to head on a daily grudge match. Can the Superbowl bring them together? ...
|  | The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon
Publication Date: January 2003 Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including...
|  | The Misfit (Christian Heritage Series: The Charleston Years #1)
Publication Date: October 1997| Age Level: 8 and up With the crusade to abolish slavery nearing its peak, 11-year-old Austin Hutchinson (Great-grandson of Thomas Hutchinson) goes to Charleston to live with relatives. He is eager to make friends with his cousins (even though they're girls!) and experience the adventures he's dreamed of. But when Kady, Polly, and Charlotte take little interest in him, and Henry-James, the slave boy, won't trust him, Austin is convinced that he doesn't fit in after all. And if that isn't enough, Jefferson, his bratty younger brother, is spoiling everything! The...
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