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37 Temptitle for Title RemovalThrough the story of one family, we learn how white settlers moved into the Florida territory, taking it from the natives with false treaties and finally all-out war. The natives in Florida had arrived there not long before, coming to fill the area left...
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Death in Bloodhound RedJo Beth Sidden raises and trains bloodhounds for search-and-rescue missions in the Okeefenokee Swamp. She is used to dealing with lost kids, prison escapes, snakes, bugs, macho deputies, and her abusive ex-husband. But now she is suspected of murder and has to choose between...
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The Poet in ExileIs the lead singer of America's most notorious rock and roll band really buried in Paris? Years after the Poet's apparent death, his longtime musical collaborator and friend Roy receives the first of several mysterious postcards bearing cryptic verse, signed only "J." Trusting his...
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Manhattan Tropics / Trpico En ManhattanThis engaging historical novel reveals the experiences of Puerto Ricans in New York City in the mid-twentieth century.Author: Guillermo Cotto-ThornerPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublished: 04/30/2019Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20dISBN: 9781558858817Language: Multiple LanguagesThis title is only available via back order
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George Washington GomezOriginally written in English in the 1930s, this first-ever Spanish translation of folklorist Amrico Paredes' epic novel follows Gulinto, the American-born son of undocumented Mexicans, and illuminates the discrimination and abuse suffered by Mexican Americans in South Texas.Author: Americo , Amaerico ParedesPublisher: Arte Publico...
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Women's BarracksThis novel--based on the author's real-life experiences--is credited as the first candidly lesbian novel, originally published in 1950, that "scandalized mid-century America" (The New York Times). As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won...
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The Wind That Lays WasteA taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their...
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EncirclingThe brilliant first novel in the Encircling Trilogy, a searing psychological portrait of a man by his friends David has lost his memory. When a newspaper ad asks his friends and family to share their memories of him, three respond: Jon, his closest friend;...
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There Are Little KingdomsFrom the author of City of Bohane, a debut collection that "could easily have been titled 'These Are Little Masterpieces'" (The Irish Times)This award-winning story collection by Kevin Barry summons all the laughter, darkness, and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...
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Platitudes: & the New Black AestheticTrey Ellis's uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community. Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne's latest sexist comedy. Alternately telling the story...
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Morning at JalnaIt is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children. However, the Sinclairs come to visit and the Whiteoaks begin to...
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Young RennyYoung Renny takes us even farther back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just 18. The plot thickens when two outsiders join the mix: a gypsy woman who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin from Ireland...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich: And Other StoriesThis edition brings together Tolstoy's 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a fascinating selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy's letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote...
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And the Birds Rained DownAn award-winning and haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest...
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The Mere FutureClever word craft, poetic political satire and biting humor on every page.--Publishers WeeklyThe paperback edition of Sarah Schulman's dystopian satire about urban mores set in New York sometime in the future, when the city has morphed into an idealized version of itself: where rent...
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Queer Fear II: Gay Horror FictionQueer Fear II builds on the successes of its predecessor, Queer Fear, the groundbreaking gay-themed horror anthology that Gothic.net called the best horror anthology of the year], which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda...
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Whisper Their LoveJoyce is eighteen, a freshman at a fashionable school for girls; suddenly all that matters to her is a woman twice her age. This beautifully written pulp novel from 1957 is widely considered a historic milestone for its openly lesbian, feminist content.Includes an appendix...
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The Sign of FourThis new edition focuses on the novel's treatment of criminology, race, and imperialism. Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 07/08/2010Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9781551118376About the Author Shafquat Towheed is a Lecturer in English at the Open University,...
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The Last of the MohicansThe Last of the Mohicans is put in its complex historical and literary context in this edition. Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 02/23/2009Pages: 460Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9781551118666About the Author Paul Gutjahr is Associate Professor of English,...
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Peter PanFor twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations: the three-act play Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904), the illustrated novella Peter Pan in...
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