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Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Follow the arc of a girl's life as she grows to womanhood. From crushes to surprise baby sisters to nail polish to a devastating death, Roxanne is our guide through a life that has moments of tenderness, poignancy, sorrow, and great humor, as well as some wonderful baking memories. A sumptuous novel -- though like the best pie, tart in all the right places.
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
"Villarreal illuminates here the world of 'pochos,' Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
An Irish girl's discovery of homosexuality and lesbianism and the effect it has on her. On arriving in Dublin to study at the university, she moves into a flat with two women and catches them kissing. Next, she develops a crush on a student, only to learn he is gay. First novel by the author of Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801.
69) The Last Samurai
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Ludo, age six, is a prodigy. His mother, Sibylla, raises him alone and tries hard to keep his voracious intellect satisfied, while she struggles to make ends meet. With her exasperated guidance, he teaches himself Greek, so that he can read The Odyssey, before moving on to study Hebrew, Arabic, Inuit, and Japanese. And both Sibylla and Ludo share a passion for Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which they watch repeatedly, absorbing its lessons of samurai...
73) Land girls
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A novel on three "land girls," members of Britain's Women's Land Army during World War II. Serving their country, plowing and shoveling manure are Prue, a boy-hungry hairdresser; Agatha, an undergraduate eager to share Homer's poems with the farmer's son; and dreamy Stella whose beau is in the Royal Navy. By the author of Invitation to the Married Life.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
It's Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve in Manhattan - five days from the holiday Ground Zero - but Tad Leary, the most confused man on earth, doesn't know whether to celebrate or go crazy.
He's just been fired, he's about to be evicted from his sublet, he's getting nowhere on his overdue folklore thesis, "Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places," and on top of everything else - or rather underneath everything else - at age thirty-four (older than Christ),...
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.