| The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture: From Tlatelolco to the "Philanthropic Ogre" (Studies of the Americas) Release Date: November 27, 2007| ISBN-10: 1403980780 | ISBN-13: 978-1403980786| Edition: 1st The Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) is a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. Edited by the Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz at a time in which he was reassessing his political and nationalistic commitments, it featured the editorial partnership of a heterogeneous group of Mexican writers. The book offers a detailed analysis of a vitally important moment in Mexican cult...
| | Stranger In My Arms (Hideaway) Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Hideaway Orphaned at birth and shuttled between foster homes, CIA agent Merrick Grayslake has made a practice of not letting anyone get close to him. But he finds that his emotions are at risk when he is introduced to Alexandra Cole.It has been all work and not enough play for Alex.And what little social life she's had has been on hold for a year while she completes her graduate degree. But her ordinary everyday life changes from the moment she meets Merrick Grayslake. ...
| | Catholic Religious Poets: From Southwell to Crawshaw ...
| | Ophan, Prince of Thrones Publication Date: September 23, 2010Nicholas Freeman has always had a difficult, inexplicable life. During the day, he's constantly reminded by his mother, his stepfather, his younger brother and his much younger half-sister that he doesn't really matter to them.He's the white sheep of the family, and the rest of the flock isn't impressed with him.At night, he's often plagued by terrible visions, which sometimes take him into the heart of Lucifer's abyss itself, and he frequently experiences physical attacks from invisible beings. Nicholas can only seem to find fleeting moments of peace in t...
| | Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 11) Release Date: August 31, 2004Vampire hunter Anita Blake learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline-and just how far she'll let herself get pushed around. ...
| | Son de mar/ The Song of the Sea (Narrativa (el Cuenco de Plata)) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: December 20, 2008| Series: Narrativa (el Cuenco de Plata) Son de Mar is a love story about shipwrecks and returns. The main character, Ulises Adsuara, who disappeared ten years ago, is found floating on the beach dressed as a groom. A few hours later, his widow, Martina, appears dressed as a bride almost in the same place. From that moment, the author rewinds the story to the time the couple met, when Ulises was a literature teacher, and Martina, a daydreaming waitress at her fathers bar. The tedium takes a toll on their marriage. He wants to be a real sailor, tired of all ...
| | Snowman (Beach Reading) Publication Date: June 5, 2010| Series: Beach Reading In the fourth release in San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling author Mark Abramson's Beach Reading series of gay mysteries, all is well in the City by the Bay. Tim Snow, recently recovered from a debilitating accident, finds himself aimless and troubled over waning feelings from his boyfriend. And just when he wants to escape all the troubles in his life, new complications arise... three M's worth of trouble: mayhem (a visit from his bigoted and big-haired cousin from Texas ), men (a handsome fashion model who's sending mixed signals), ...
| | Engravings of Wraith Publication Date: September 2002Bailey Cameron is a woman with secrets. The reclusiveowner of a successful corporation, she is also hostage to a covertlife she neither wanted nor asked for. One that refuses to become apart of her past.Blackmailed into a return to her deadly role as the Wraith, a frightening entity in the world that lives in the shadows, Bailey decides to break free. She settles in for a brutal game of chess with her former employers, prepared for every eventuality but one -- Piper Tate, her new assistant, who decides that the dark, mysterious Bailey is someone she wants to k...
| | Female Playwrights of the Restoration (Everyman's Library) Publication Date: April 15, 1994| Series: Everyman's Library Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. ...
| | Hilarious Skits for Youth Ministry Publication Date: October 1999| ISBN-10: 0764421859 | ISBN-13: 978-0764421853These 9 truly laugh-out-loud skits teach the Bible and captivate kids every time they're performed! Chris and Sue Chapman strike again...with easy-to-use skits that can be used as discussion starters, learning tools, entertainment, or even full-scale productions...all guaranteed to tickle the funny bone. Involve everyone! There are tiny bit parts, in-between parts, and long speaking roles. Youth workers can find something for each of their kids to do! Even the most hesitant teenagers will be laughing, learning, ...
| | Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England Publication Date: July 26, 2011Translating Truth is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which legislated a broad pastoral outreach to the laity, new forms of religious instruction played a decisive role in the lives of Christians throughout Europe. For royal and aristocratic laypeople, luxury manuscripts of spiritual instruction made sacred truths and religious knowledge accessible—and authorizing—as never before.In this beaut...
| | The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies) Publication Date: August 7, 2003| ISBN-10: 0859917851 | ISBN-13: 978-0859917858This book sets Malory's Morte Darthur in the context of the political concerns that he shared with the fifteenth-century gentry readers for whom he wrote his book; the author draws widely on their correspondence and reading material, but looks particularly at the political content of contemporary miscellanies owned, commissioned and read by the gentry. She shows how the themes of political governance and royal succession, which are of primary importance in contemporary historical chronicles and genealogies, in...
| | Cartas de Cortazar 3 (1965-1968) (Cortazar's Letters 3 (1965-1968)) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: August 25, 2012Odio las cartas literarias, cuidadosamente preparadas, copiadas y vueltas a copiar; yo me siento a la maquina y dejo correr el vasto rio de los pensamientos y los afectos, escribio Julio Cortazar en 1942: una declaracion de principios que mantuvo siempre. En estas cartas, que pueden leerse como diario personal, autobiografia y cuaderno de bitacora de sus libros, se asiste a la creacion de un estilo inconfundible. Con curiosidad permanente, Cortazar da cuenta de todos los aspectos de su actividad como escritor, de sus desvelos politicos y sus vaivenes personal...
| | Last Sherlock Holmes Story 1ST Edition ...
| | The Adventures of Marshall & Art Set 2 Publication Date: January 2010 ...
| | The Deep Release Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Alice lives in a house by the sea. Snakes and spiders don't scare her, but she's very afraid of the deep ocean water. Her swimming, splashing, diving family urge her to come out and play with them, but no matter how hard she tries, Alice still can't leave the green shallows for the deep. This moving story about a girl besting her fears is matched with warm, light-splashed illustrations. ...
| | Wilma Rudolph (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback)) Publication Date: October 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Columbia History of American Poetry Publication Date: August 1998--New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
| | Ten Tales from Shakespeare (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics) Publication Date: April 23, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Kitten for a Day (Picture Puffins) Release Date: February 18, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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