 | Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology
Publication Date: January 1, 1996This landmark first anthology of Cuban-American literature is not a symphony of the exile or immigrant genration; rather this is a medley of voices--narrators, essayists and poets--staking their claim on part of the American literary mosaic with Pulitzer Prizes and other awards in hand. An introduction and bibliography by the editors accompany the selections. ...
 |  | One for the Money (Movie Tie-in) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: November 22, 2011| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels The dynamite blockbuster that started it all—now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum!ONE FINE MESSWelcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash—fast—but times are tough, and soon she’s forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family...ONE FALSE MOVEStephanie lands a gig at her sle...
|  | The King's Own
Publication Date: January 11, 2010This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy th...
|  | Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange and poignant novel of a boy prostitute in 1890s New York and the married man who ruins his own life to win his love....
|  | The Disorderly Knights: Third in the legendary Lymond Chronicles
Release Date: June 24, 1997The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the Knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for master. ...
|  | DNA (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1840028408 | ISBN-13: 978-1840028409A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right? DNA is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very dark heart.A new play for younger people DNA opened at the National Theatre in February 2008 ...
|  | Celestial Bride and Other Poems (Paukwa Pakawa Series, 1, 1)
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|  | The Case for Literature
Publication Date: May 20, 2008| ISBN-10: 0300136269 | ISBN-13: 978-0300136265When Gao Xingjian was crowned Nobel Laureate in 2000, it was the first time in the hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize that this honor had been awarded to an author for a body of work written in Chinese. The same year, American readers embraced Mabel Lee’s translation of Gao’s lyrical and autobiographical novel Soul Mountain, making it a national bestseller. Gao’s plays, novels, and short fiction have won the Chinese expatriate an international following and a place among the world&...
|  | Michael W. Balfe: A Unique Victorian Composer
Publication Date: August 9, 2010Michael William Balfe (1808-1870), rose to fame in London in 1835 immediately after the premiere of his first opera, The Siege of Rochelle. For the next 35 years, this unique Dublin-born musician was destined to be the most important operatic composer in Victorian Britain. He was to music in Victorian Britain what his renowned contemporary, Charles Dickens, was to literature. The popularity of their respected works reached far beyond London, Dublin, and New York, in the English speaking world. Balfe also personally achieved great success in places such as Pari...
|  | Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Release Date: January 8, 2002Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since Girl, Interrupted, criticizes herse...
|  | Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics
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|  | Reckless (Highland Brides 3)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Highland Brides 3 Heir to the clan MacFarlane, Ailis was a prize to be bartered by her calculating father, and her wedding to a man she despised seemed inevitable - until she is abducted by her clan's worst enemy, Alexander MacDubh, a brutally handsome laird with ice in his eyes and hot blood in his veins. Alexander had come riding into Leargan to claim the three children born of a forbidden love between his brother and lovely Ailis' sister. Now, with Ailis herself as his pawn, he can strike at the enemy whose treachery robbed his clan of so much. Her ...
|  | The Dead End (The Poison Apple #1)
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|  | Four Brothers (A Romani Folktale)
Publication Date: March 8, 2010Three beautifully illustrated Romani folktales from Magoria Books' Romani Folktales collection about four brothers who try their luck by travelling around the world, Saint Basil's special connection to the Roma, and the mythical origins of the Bear Clan. Hedina Sijercic, internationally published Romani Poet and Author, brings us the stories from her childhood with the vivid watercolour painted illustrations of Doris Greven. This special bilingual edition contains both the English version and the Romani original of the story. Look for other books from this seri...
|  | Mike Fink
Publication Date: September 21, 1992| Age Level: 3 and up Mike Fink, the larger-than-life hero of one of America's favorite tall tales, was the most daring and rugged frontiersman on any American river.A runaway at two days old, Mike eventually grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen--the strong, rowdy men who floated cargo downriver to New Orleans and poled their heavy boats back against the current. But first he became a crackerjack marksman with his gun, Bang All, then grappled with grizzlies, and defeated Jack Carpenter, the reigning Keelboat King, in an epic wrestling match. No man, allig...
|  | No Limits: Burton Snowboards' Pro Riders
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Camping (Great Outdoors (Gareth Stevens))
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|  | A Guide for Using Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in the Classroom
Release Date: November 8, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Little Boo!: A Preston Pig Toddler Book
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird (Everystory)
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