 | from Sand Creek (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 42) The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small-press edition, from Sand Creek makes a large statement about injustices done to Native peoples in the name of Manifest De...
 |  | Remember to Wave
Publication Date: January 12, 2010Poetry. "Kaia Sand's REMEMBER TO WAVE maps the temporal palimpsests and traumatic political history of Portland, Oregon. Sand writes the seen and unseen city in the spirit of William Carlos Williams's Paterson, Charles Olson's Gloucester, or Barbara Jane Reyes's San Francisco. She reads the geography of Portland for its displacements, exclusions, migrations, disappearances, ruins, and hauntings. Sand asks: 'Do we need our ruins visible?' The answer resonates throughout REMEMBER TO WAVE as poetry creates a deeply felt awareness of past and present injustices....
|  | A Dark Orange Farewell
Publication Date: April 4, 2008An Aztec god. Two missing teenagers. A grisly secret. And a detective who must put all the pieces together- before it's too late. A fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The key to their disappearance lies decades in the past.. Even for veteran detective Jarrold Banyon, this is a baffling case. Two teenagers, whom friends describe as intelligent and stable-and who are new born-again Christians-have fled, allegedly taking two guns and stealing a valuable Aztec idol. Banyon doesn't trust his employers, who seem to care more about the id...
|  | A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales
Publication Date: August 1997More than 50,000 devoted Patrick O'Brian fans have made A SEA OF WORDS their companion book of choice. In response to passionate reader demand, Dean King adds hundreds of new definitions and new illustrations and background essays referenced in O'Brian's clipper ship adventure sagas, including two new novels. ...
| | Poetry for My People
Publication Date: December 1, 1970A free-lance writer, active in the area of “little magazine” writing and publishing, and a member of the teaching staff of the Experiment in Higher Education at Southern Illinois University in East St. Louis, Henry Dumas had amassed a considerable body of work at the time of his death in 1968 at the age of thirty-four. These two volumes (Ark of Bones and Other Stories and Poetry for my People), comprise most of his work, published and unpublished. They amply show the sensitivity and skill with which he approached the themes of blackness and youth...
|  | Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke
Publication Date: September 26, 1995| ISBN-10: 0861403371 | ISBN-13: 978-0861403370Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets.In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well.Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others...
|  | The Renaissance: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230001769 | ISBN-13: 978-0230001763This fascinating collection of rare and classic documents provides students at all levels with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. Informed by the latest scholarship and meticulous original research, these documents are crucial to understanding the explosive creativity of Renaissance literature. A wide range of pedagogically designed tools help students find their way into this time of momentous social, economic, and religious transformation era, these include:• ...
|  | Story of O
Publication Date: May 8, 1998O is a young, beautiful fashion photographer in Paris. One day her lover, Rene, takes her to a chateau, where she is enslaved, with Rene's approval, and systematically sexually assaulted by various other men. Later, Rene turns O over to Sir Stephen, an English friend who intensifies the brutality. But the final humiliation is yet to come. ...
|  | Dead and Gone: An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel (Inspector Thanet Mysteries)
Publication Date: February 28, 2000| Series: Inspector Thanet Mysteries The master of the classic British detective story -- the "modern-day version of Agatha Christie" (Booklist) -- returns with a stunning whodunit in her acclaimed series. Mystery fans will thrill as Inspector Luke Thanet unravels the intricate events leading up to the drowning of the wife of a renowned barrister.When Thanet gets a late-night call, he fears the worst. His daughter Bridget has been suffering complications with her pregnancy. But it's only a call to inform him that Ralph Mintaur, a respected figure in courtro...
|  | Baum's American Fairy Tales
Publication Date: November 1997| Age Level: 8 and up American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | A Look at Minerals: From Galena to Gold (First Books--Earth & Sky Science)
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Ten Seeds
Release Date: December 6, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up The perfect counting book for young nature-loversIf you plant 10 seeds, what do you get? Follow nature's wonderful cycle in this engaging counting book with a difference! Rounded corners and card pages make this picture book perfect for young children. ...
|  | eebee's Laundry Time Adventures (Eebees Adventures)
Publication Date: September 2, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | How to Build a Tornado in a Bottle (Hands-on Science Fun)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (Latinos in American History)
Publication Date: October 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Courageous Captain (Jataka Tales) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1989| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods (RE: Lit: Vintage Jesus)
Publication Date: December 23, 2008| Series: RE: Lit: Vintage Jesus Defines a biblical church as one that properly balances the eternal truths of Scripture with timely, relevant methods designed to engage the culture. The book in the popular Re:Lit series picks up where Vintage Jesus leaves off, beginning with a focus on the person and work of Jesus and then exploring the confessional, experiential, and missional aspects of his church. This study grows out of the vintage concept of taking timeless truths from Scripture-truths about church leadership, preaching, baptism, communion, and more-a...
|  | The One Year Book of Bible Prayers
Publication Date: August 14, 2000| Series: One Year Each of the 365 devotionals opens with a prayer from Scripture, gives a short two-paragraph reflection, and concludes with a simple one-sentence prayer designed to lead the reader to focus on that day's topic. ...
|  | The Latin Mass Explained
Publication Date: December 19, 2007This easy-to-read book reveals the What, Why and How<i/> of the Traditional Latin Mass - which Pope Benedict XVI has now called the Extraordinary Form<i/> of the Roman Rite. Catholics of all ages will find that the Mass - and the entire Catholic Faith- has been opened up to them for the first time. This amazing work shows the awesome dignity of the traditional Catholic Liturgy and the rich spiritual significance of every element of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Broken up into three parts, The Latin Mass Explained<i/> begins with a ...
|  | Prayers from a Grandma's Heart
Publication Date: October 1, 2002Whether they live a continent away or just down the street, grandmothers can have enormous influence on the spiritual well-being of their grandchildren. Even children who are reared in a Christian home need someone to pray for them regularly, and who can do it better than a grandma? Countless stories have been told about the power of a praying grandma. This small book of easy-to-read prayers helps grandmas pray according to the promises and blessings found in the Bible. Whether children are infants or adults, they need someone who will pray tenaciously on the...
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