 | The Last Tortilla & Other Stories
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| Series: Camino del Sol Premio Aztlan Literary Prize for the best book by a new Chicano writerSouthwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association"She asked me if I liked them. And what could I say? They were wonderful." From the very beginning of Sergio Troncoso's celebrated story "Angie Luna," we know we are in the hands of a gifted storyteller.Born of Mexican immigrants, raised in El Paso, and now living in New York City, Troncoso has a rare knack for celebrating life. Writing in a straightforward, light-handed style reminisc...
 |  | Killer Frost
Publication Date: September 1, 2012When Penny Weaver agrees to teach freshman composition at historically black St. Francis College, her teaching and relationship skills, not to mention her detective instincts, are more challenged than they've ever been.Despite being married to a man she loves deeply, she developed feelings for her boss, who is very passionate about their students' prospects because of how ill-prepared for college they are.When murder strikes, Penny's new boss is the primary suspect. Convinced of his innocence, Penny struggles to clear his name-and to clarify her feelings fo...
|  | Gethsemane Hall
Release Date: August 13, 2012The skeptics think they know what's going on at Gethsemane Hall. So do the religious. So do the spiritualists. They're all wrong. Richard Gray, grieving over the loss of his wife and daughter, learns that his ancestral home holds the secret of what lies beyond the grave. And all of a sudden, everybody wants a piece of Gethsemane Hall.Louise Meacham wants in because a fellow CIA agent committed suicide there, and she has to put the ghost rumours to rest to get her career back. Anna Pertwee wants in because she's determined to save the ghosts from the unbelievers a...
|  | For the Amazon Nation
Publication Date: June 28, 2006Thalassa, the young and brave princess of the tribe of Lemnos, sees her civilization’s future threatened and her world completely shaken by the arrival in her island of Elephthera, an audacious Amazon from Aretias, who seeks help for her tribe and the whole nation of warrior women after a ravaging attack of Sarmatian nomads. With the aid of their fellow sisters, they will embark on a thrilling mythological journey to save their own lives and their entire race. It will take them from Greek waters to Fezzan in the heart of the Sahara desert, and back to Aret...
|  | The Perfect Wreck - Old Ironsides and HMS Java: A Story of 1812
Publication Date: May 23, 2011"Naval historian Steven Maffeo has used the fiction format to give us what will probably be the finest, truest account ever of the 1812 sea battle between "Constitution" and "Java" -- in which the young American Navy demonstrated the confidence, pride, and professionalism that have served it well for over two centuries.A highly recommended must-read for every naval enthusiast-indeed, for every American!" -- Stephen Coonts, 17-times NY Times best-selling authorDecember 29, 1812 - The date of on...
|  | The World According to Clarkson
Release Date: March 24, 2010The world is an exciting and confusing place for Jeremy Clarkson - a man who can find the overgrown schoolboy in us all. In "The World According to Clarkson", one of the country's funniest comic writers has free reign to expose absurdity, celebrate eccentricity and entertain richly in the process. And the net is cast wide: from the chronic unsuitablity of men to look after children for long periods or as operators of 'white goods', Nimbyism, cricket and PlayStations, to astronomy, David Beckham, 70's rock, the demise of Concorde, the burden of an Eton education an...
|  | Whodunnit: A Comedy Thriller
Publication Date: November 2, 2010Mystery / Characters: 7 male, 3 femaleScenery:InteriorThis Broadway success by the author of Sleuth takes audiences to Agatha Christie's England. Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and other Christie types. One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others (each in private) that he has the goods to blackmail them. He is ripe for murder and so it happens. Who...
|  | Thanksgiving Program Builder No. 3
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|  | Performance in the Texts of Mallarme: The Passage from Art to Ritual
Publication Date: March 1, 1993Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarmé perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on pre...
|  | Jorge Luis Borges Obra Poetica/jorge Luis Borges Poetic Work (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2005Jorge Luis Borges Obra Poetica/jorge Luis Borges Poetic Work (Spanish Edition) ...
|  | Country poems and ballads,: Versified humour and sentiment of the Ulster countryside in the "brave days of old"
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|  | Beat Generation Writers
Publication Date: December 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0745306616 | ISBN-13: 978-0745306612This collection focuses on icons of the Beat generation as well as lesser known figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. It also includes an exploration of the role of women and gender through the work of writers such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser. Beat Generation Writers uncovers the key influences on the movement, such as Indian and Bu...
|  | The Captain and his Lady
Publication Date: May 29, 2012In the year of 1924, George N. Randolph, a US Army captain stationed at Camp Gaillard in the Panama Canal Zone, sat at his desk and began writing his first love letter to Ruth Morrison, a woman he had fallen in love with at first sight. Being a military man, he began expressing himself in a definite, precise manner. The recipient of his letter was the principal of the English Speaking School of Gatun, in the Canal Zone. She immediately replied to his letter in her own softer, more descriptive manner. Thus began their love story.In The Captain's Lady, the coupl...
|  | Forever... : A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope (Forever Trilogy)
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Forever Trilogy (Book 1) From A Knight in Shining Armor to The Mulberry Tree, Jude Deveraux's bestsellers sparkle with stunning originality, heartfelt wit, and adventurous passion. Now, this superb storyteller mixes the flavor of a classic fairy tale with a very modern love story -- set in a town locked in the shadows of an abiding evil -- in this imaginative new novel.Forever...Darci Monroe overcame a childhood of neglect with an ebullient spirit, a positive attitude...and extraordinary determination. Now the resourceful young woman, hired as Adam ...
|  | Writing And Inscription In Golden Age Drama (Purdue Studies In Romance Literatures)
Publication Date: November 1, 1992| Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Spain's Golden Age represents a transition from a largely oral tradition to a world in which information and culture were transmitted by way of written or printed documents. Contemporary theory has done much to elucidate the cultural and aesthetic implica ...
|  | The SON OF THE SUN AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON
Publication Date: May 1, 2000The son of the sun is searching for a wife, and since earthly women who cannot fly are unsuitable, his father approaches the moon, whom he has heard has a lovely daughter. But the daughter is young, and the moon whisks her off to hide her with an elderly couple who have never had a child. With them, Vanishia, as she is known, grows and flourishes. But how will she escape the renewed attention of the son of the sun?Holly Young Huth has artfully adapted this powerful, almost mythic Saami tale with its unusual tragic conclusion, as Vanishia finds herself in love wit...
|  | Turtle's Race With Beaver
Release Date: October 6, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Turtle lives in a beautiful little pond with everything a happy turtle needs. But one spring, Turtle awakes from hibernation to discover that her lovely home has been invaded! A pushy beaver takes over Turtle's beloved pond and refuses to share. Instead, he challenges her to a race to determine who can stay. But how can a little turtle outswim a big, powerful beaver? This charming fable of brains versus brawn is a great read for all the young readers in the forest to share!...
|  | What Is That?
Release Date: September 15, 1994| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up Share these familiar objects with your baby. It is never too early to look and talk together! ...
|  | Pat-A-Cake! (Nursery Time)
Publication Date: March 2006| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Black Beauty: A Guide for Teachers and Students (Classics for Young Readers)
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