 | Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
Publication Date: August 28, 2011Raised in the gang-controlled projects of Chicago,Tommy and his brother, Carl, had little hope of escape. When Tommy pulls the trigger on the drug pusher who's been molesting him for years, the brothers situation becomes even more desparerate. The court imprisons their father for turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse while their mother, overwhelmed by problems of her own, disowns the boys. The only way the brothers can survive their concrete hell is by hitching up with the Gangster Disciples who control their project and by joining the crusade of an all-out...
 |  | Petroleum Man
Release Date: February 28, 2006The wickedly satirical novel from the author acclaimed for his "originality and linguistic effervescence." (The New Yorker) ...
|  | The Year I Learned To Text: Why Am I Having Sex with a Muslim in My Basement?
Publication Date: March 3, 2011During the reign of America s first Black President and the continuation of the War on Terror, a post-menopausal Republican-Christian comedian/actor/realtor living in a small bungalow in Hollywood grapples with fear, prejudice, and the addictive chemistry of love when a Persian Muslim man, 22 years her junior, magically enters her orderly celibate life to change her forever.Born in California in 1948, Juliet Montague is a confused, irrational, and insecure woman of her time. She lives alone with her two dogs; her beloved cat now in Cat Heaven after being attack...
|  | Space Walrus
Publication Date: July 4, 2012 Space: the final frontier... these are the voyages of... a walrus?Meet Walter. He is the first walrus in a revolutionary space program. Someday, his blubbery form will float past asteroids, stars, and planets as he journeys through the dark beyond to become a Master of Space. But for now, Walter's dream is to win the heart of his lifelong love,Dr. Stephanie, who happens to be the scientist assigned to conduct experiments on him. The problem is Dr. Stephanie does not love Walter. She views him as a test subject and nothing more. To make matters worse, Dr. Step...
|  | Tradition and Originality in Plautus: Studies of the Amatory Motifs in Plautine Comedy (Hypomnemata)
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|  | Polyphony, Volume 1
Publication Date: August 28, 2002Polyphonyisanewbiannualanthologyoforiginalshort fiction.Featuring a mix of established and new writers, Polyphony Volume 1 offers a dozen stories that skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction. ...
|  | Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters
Publication Date: February 26, 2010Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. (wikipedia) ...
|  | Yaman: Its Early Medieval History
Publication Date: August 31, 2005Reprint of the 1892 edition. Hardbound. Cloth. Oversized octavo. Book xxv, 358 p., 1 l., 152 p., 1 large folding genealogical table, folding Map. London: E. Arnold, 1892. Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, Himyarite, Qatabanian, Hadhramawtian, and Awsanian kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade. It was known to the Romans as "Arabia Felix" ("Happy Arabia") because of the riches its trade generated; Augustus Caesar attempted ...
|  | Like It Was
Publication Date: 1999Autobiography. This collection of James Koller's writings from and about the 1960's in northern California presents a view of that time and place through prose, poetry, and a long excerpt from an unpublished novel. Involved in writer's and poet's circles, Koller came to know San Francisco poets Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, and Robert Creeley, participating in readings and in the Berkeley Poetry Conference. Koller's intent is to show how the intersections of historical fact, memory, and a writer's work can influence the current perception of times past. Include...
|  | Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader
Publication Date: January 1, 2006“We in South Africa needed the support of the international community in our efforts to end the vicious system of racial oppression called apartheid. We had to have eloquent advocates to tell the world our story and persuade it to come to our assistance. . . . We had none more articulate and with all the credibility and integrity so indispensable than Dennis Brutus to plead our cause. He was quite outstanding, and we South Africans owe an immense debt of gratitude.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu“Dennis Brutus stands as a tribune of the dispo...
| | Songs of Percy French
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|  | Books in Action the Armed Services Edition
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|  | Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture)
Publication Date: January 29, 1993| Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture For a period of thirty years in the mid-nineteenth century James Pennethorne was more intimately involved with the planning and building of London than any other major architect. A pupil of John Nash, he took over his teacher's practice and became government architect for the first half of Victoria's reign. He was responsible for the planning of new streets, the laying out of parks, and the design of important public buildings such as the Public Record Office, the west wing of Somerset House, and the...
|  | New Essays on Call It Sleep (The American Novel)
Publication Date: June 13, 1996| Series: The American Novel Henry Roth's Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades, and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been finally hailed as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism and canonization. Thus the volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status--as an Am...
|  | El Ni
Release Date: April 27, 2004“El niño perdido destaca como el libro más importante sobre la dedicación y el afecto únicos que los servicios sociales y las familias de acogida proporcionan a nuestros niños en peligro. Dave Pelzer es ciertamente un testamento vivo de persistencia, de responsabilidad personal y del triunfo del espíritu humano”.—John Bradshaw autor de los éxitos editorials, Bradshaw On: The Family, Homecoming y Family SecretsImagínese un muchacho que nunca ha tenido un hogar. Sus únicas posesiones son las viejas y ...
|  | In Too Deep: Book One of the Looking Glass Trilogy (An Arcane Society Novel)
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: An Arcane Society Novel The New York Times bestselling author begins a new trilogy setin a secluded coastal town in Northern California-a mysterious placewhere danger and passion run deep... ...
|  | The Associate: A Novel
Release Date: September 22, 2009Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to ruin him–unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world’s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he’ll be on the fast track to partners...
|  | An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries:A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts (China Bayles Mystery)
Release Date: June 3, 2003Now readers can join China Bayles in ten puzzling cases-and get a taste of her world. This delightful collection features loads of wonderful herbal tidbits on everything from rosemary to feverfew to catnip; recipes for such to-die-for dishes as a Deadly Chocolate Valentine, Ruby's Applesauce Mint Bread, China's Five-Spice Chicken and Veggie Stir-Fry, and McQuaid's Tex Mex-and a host of creative ideas for garden and home. It's a one-of-a-kind collection featuring a one-of-a-kind sleuth-who's worth spending some "quality thyme" with! ...
|  | The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night
Release Date: August 6, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Ten terrifying tales that will haunt you forever..."Some stories are too terrifying to tell," says R.L. Stine. "They are the ones that live in the darkest corners of my mind. The ones that give me chills in the dead of night. The ones that I must tell you now -- or they will haunt me forever!"Read the spine-chilling story of a baby-sitter who loves evil tricks...the terrifying tale of a boy who dared to lie down in an ancient mummy case...the frightful story of two boys just dyin...
|  | Spider-Man Newspaper Strips-Volume 1
Publication Date: November 11, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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