 | Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel (Chicana Matters Series)
Publication Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Chicana Matters Series This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela Campos, the central character, witnesses the violence against Mexicans, African Americans, and indigenous peoples after the infamous battles of the Alamo and of San Jacinto, both in 1836. Resisting an easy opposition between good versus evil and brown versus white characters, the novel also features Micaela's Mexican-Anglo cousin who assists and hinders her progress. Micaela'...
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 | The Shadow of the Wind
Release Date: January 25, 2005"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Bestseller Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically des...
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 | Living with Ghosts: Eleven Extraordinary Tales
Publication Date: October 17, 1996| Series: Living with Ghosts (Book 2) The ghosts of Europe's haunted castles and palaces tell their strange and tragic stories in this elegantly written narrative.Do you believe in ghosts? Perhaps you were once in an empty house, you were alone in that room, yet your intuition told you that someone or something else was there with you. A creak on the stairway, the rustle of a curtain, a barely perceptible change in the air . . . if you had stopped and listened, what else would you have found or seen?From the gothic elegance of Powderham Castle in Devon, to t...
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 | The Curse of the Vampire
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 | Enchantment of the Trossachs: Some Fairy Traditions of the District Published for the Tercentenary of the Spiriting Away of Robert Kirk
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 | Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes
Publication Date: October 25, 1994In Horace’s Odes love cannot last. Is the poet unromantic, as some critics claim? Is he merely realistic? Or is he, as Ronnie Ancona contends, relating the erotic to time in a more complex and interesting way than either of these positions allows? Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal that love conquers time and the notion that he succeeds becauses he eschews illusions about love’s ability to endure, this book challenges the assumption that temporality must inevitably pose a threat to ...
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 | Xi yu shao shu min zu shi xuan: Han wen gu dian shi ci (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War
Publication Date: April 23, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521036143 | ISBN-13: 978-0521036146| Edition: Reissue The terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important context for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. Sarah Cole's examination of the literary and cultural history of twentieth century masculine intimacy considers such crucial themes as the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often torture...
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 | Spider McGhee and the Hoopla (Slam Dunk)
Publication Date: February 2000| Age Level: 6 and up...
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 | On the Loose in Boston (Find the Animals)
Publication Date: May 15, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | Learn to Draw Lilo & Stitch (DMA LearntoDraw Books)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Adventures in Bikini Bottom (Nick Spongebob Squarepants (Simon Spotlight))
Release Date: June 20, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up...
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 | What's So Striking about Lightning (Ask Max)
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | My Favorite Nature Book: Animals on the Farm: Includes an Activity Kit with Posters & Stickers (My Favorite Nature Books)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Vegetarian Factfinder
Release Date: June 30, 1996| Age Level: 6 and up "Mom, I think I want to become a vegetarian. But will that really help save the rain forest? More and more children are asking such questions. The Vegetarian Factfinder defines vegetarianism and discusses why people choose such a lifestyle. The author describes the history of the vegetarian movement and the different types of vegetarian diets. Children discuss their decision not to eat meat and offer guidelines for getting along with parents and for living in a meat-eating culture. Up-to-date information on nutrition is included, as well as ph...
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 | I Got to Tell My Story About The Crucifixion of Jesus
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 | Glitz, Glamour, Style : A Fashionista's Journey in quest of...
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 | Muerte De Tinta: (Spanish language edition of Inkdeath) (Inkheart Trilogy) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | Bilingual Bright Baby Colors (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: December 26, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up...
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 | Labor Day (American Celebrations)
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