 | Rumbo al Hermoso Norte: A Novel (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 19, 2009Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve años que trabaja en una taquería de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en sueños a su padre, que emigró al nortecuando era niña. Recientemente se ha dado cuenta de que su padre no es el único hombre que se ha ido del pueblo, de hecho ya casi no quedan hombres, todos se han ido al otro lado, a los Estados Unidos. Un grupo de narcotraficantes también se ha percatado de ese hecho y ven la oportunidad para apoderarse. Pero una noche, durante la exhibición de la película Los Siete Mag...
 |  | Latina Healers: lives of power and tradition
Publication Date: June 27, 2003Latina Healers casts new light on the centrality of gender and migration status on the lives of Latina women. Encompassing the idiosyncrasies of individual decisions and the social context of the healers' lives, this book presents an original analysis of the relationship between gender, power, religious beliefs and social status. It brings the scholarship on life narratives together with understandings of the impact of migration and traditional beliefs on the lives of these women. Heralding women not as passive victims of social forces, but as active and creati...
|  | The Biscuit Tin: Our Lives and Times in Poems and Tales
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|  | Guilty Wives
Release Date: September 18, 2012No husbands allowed Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever kno...
|  | The Clear Light of Day: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2007Recently ordained and more recently divorced, Reverend Esme Browne finds herself at an uncomfortable crossroads when stationed at the Portland Road Chapel. In addition to the seaside town, she also now bears the spiritual responsibility for two country chapels, which, for the efficient, well-versed, forty-something lifelong student should be exciting, invigorating and even hopeful. Esme, however, has forgotten how to pray, and, she fears, how to feel.A chance encounter with an eccentric pair of country gnostics may change all that, but she’ll have to be ...
|  | Marduk's Tablet: What If the Legend Is True?
Publication Date: September 1, 2003Graduate student Emilie Nazzaro saw her father's obsession with Marduk's Tablet lead to his betrayal and murder. Now, she's been charged with deciphering the symbols on this centuries-old piece of clay, which legend says contains omens with healing powers. On a harrowing journey through Israel and into ancient Babylon, she tries to uncover the secrets surrounding her father's death--while fighting to stay alive herself. Along the way, she must decide if she will find answers to her own spiritual questions in the ancient mythologies of reincarnation or in th...
|  | Stray Souls (Magicals Anonymous)
Publication Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Magicals Anonymous (Book 5) LONDON'S SOUL IS MISSING.When Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she's a shaman, it's not a moment too soon: London's soul is lost.Using her newfound oneness with the City, she sets about saving London from inevitable demise, but the problem is she has no clue where to start.Meanwhile, a mysterious gate has opened, and there are creatures loose that won't wait for her to catch up before they go out hunting.Now Sharon and her motley crew of magical misfits must find a way to save the world... ...
|  | The 13th Valley
Publication Date: July 27, 2012A work that has served as a literary cornerstone for the Vietnam generation, The 13th Valley follows the strange and terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese Army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out warmonger. The seminal novel on the Vietnam experience, The 13th Valley is a c...
|  | The Patriot Spy
Publication Date: July 15, 2012"The survival of Washington's army--and the new nation--depends on the success of...The Patriot Spy. S. W. O'Connell's debut novel is filled with action, intrigue, and adventure as it captures the birth of a nation in a page-turning, exciting read for the reader by an up-and-coming writer who has so much to offer in the area of historical fiction. Buy it; read it; and, enjoy it!" ~ David E. Meadows, author of the Sixth Fleet series. "James Bond meets George Washington in 'The Patriot Spy,' a swashbuckling blend of espionage, intrigue, and military adventure! "E...
| | The Thief (An Isaac Bell Adventure)
Release Date: March 5, 2013| Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure An invention that could change the world… A ruthless agent that could destroy it… Only Isaac Bell can save it.On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a groundbreaking new invention are rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky when one of the thugs attacks a second time. What are the scientists holding that is so precious? Something that will revolutionize business and world culture—and perha...
|  | All for Now
Publication Date: March 2, 2012Brother Stephen dies suddenly. That s when matters get more complicated. Is Stephen's death his wake-up call? That s a possibility that slowly dawns on him. Soon he is behind the wheel of a Prius, driving through his afterlife, listening to himself being interviewed on NPR. His afterlife feels a lot like high school, he tells Terry, and she questions him about those lawsuits filed by students who claimed to have been molested by pedophile Brothers. As an administrator of his Roman Catholic religious order, he was caught in the middle of these heartbreaking case...
|  | Whose Antigone?: The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone. In this groundbreaking book, Tina Chanter challenges the philosophical and psychoanalytic reception of Sophocles’ Antigone, which has largely ignored the issue of slavery. Drawing on textual and contextual evidence, including historical sources, she argues that slavery is a structuring theme of the Oedipal cycle, but one that has been written out of the record. Chanter focuses in particular on two appropriations of Antigone: The Island, set in apartheid South Africa, and Tèg...
|  | The Singer Trilogy: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict
Publication Date: September 10, 2009Hundreds of thousands have thrilled to this extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Through the story of the Singer, his Star-Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created a book full of life. Now, in one volume, you will find a powerful tale of incarnation and redemption. ...
|  | My South: A People, A Place, A World of Its Own
Publication Date: July 25, 2005What started as a simple advertising campaign for the Turner South network has expanded into a phenomenon.The beautiful language brings the South to life in the experiences, memories and emotions of her people.My south is home It's the tall pines under which I played in my youth It's the soft red clay that was a key ingredient in my mud pies It was those hot summers When my cousins and I would gather in the shade sucking on icees we had made with red cherry Kool-Aid and a Styrofoam cup My South has big families where everyone remembers everyone else's birthda...
|  | 101 Haiku for Moms
Publication Date: June 6, 2012"Faith R. Foyil has managed to reduce parenting down to its basic components and being a Mom, Dad, spouse or caregiver has never been as funny. Would make the perfect gift for those brand new parents for whom free time is at a premium!"—Linda Sharp, columnist and author of Stretchmarks On My Sanity.Each page of 101 Haiku for Moms contains at least one delightfully irreverent, but far from irrelevant, parenting truth. Everyone with children will nod their heads sympathetically and say, “Gee,we know JUST what you mean!” Like traditional Haiku,...
|  | Jacques Derrida (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: June 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226042626 | ISBN-13: 978-0226042626This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. In an unusual and unprecedented "dialogue," Derrida responds to Bennington's text by interweaving Bennington's text with surprising and di...
|  | The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation
Publication Date: February 4, 2010Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson are known as much for their formidable egos as for their contributions to twentieth-century arts. That either could collaborate intimately with anyone is surprising. Yet Stein and Thomson did work together, magnificently so, most notably on the landmark opera Four Saints in Three Acts and the fanciful The Mother of Us All. This annotated collection of correspondence reveals the spark that existed between the two American masters over the course of their sometimes rocky friendship.The roughly 400 letters written between 1926-...
|  | Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Basketball Hall of Famers)
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|  | The Maroon Knights
Publication Date: December 13, 2011Football may be just a game, but it can change Charlie's life forever! This adventurous novel portrays a historical perceptive of life in the early 1900s, and a story line depicting how two friends encounter physical, and emotional intimidation directed at them by a group of rowdy boys. When Charlie Spagnuolo attempts to save his friend, Benny, from a close encounter with the school bully both boys end up in the principal's office. Determined to stay out of trouble, they shake on a truce--a game of backyard football, and if Charlie's team wins,...
|  | Flower Tattoos (Dover Tattoos)
Publication Date: January 24, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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