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A tribute to courage and perseverance, and how adherence to those qualities can eventually lead to freedom.On a ranch in the desert there lived a bull unlike any other. His name was El Toron. This is the true story of a great fighting bull in Mexico who faced three matadors in one day, and who, through his bravery, led his entire species back into the wild following a thousand years of captivity. This book is a tribute to courage and persevera...

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In his first full-length novel, oft-anthologised short-story writer Romero does a good job of portraying the trials associated with an impoverished life. But simply because a novel showcases a Chicano protagonist in a barrio setting does not mean it is necessarily moving or powerful. Calle 10 introduces us to Zero, a college-educated 30-year-old headed nowhere in a rooming house on "Calle 10" -- Tenth Street -- in Ciudad Jimenez, near Oakland,...

Philip Daughtry writes, both autobiographically and fictionally, of love, intellectuality, danger, and farce. Daughtry trespasses federal land in Oregon to greet a wild stallion, follows a young cheating husband through pagan Ireland as he attempts to heal a wounded bird to win back the trust of his wife, visits a doomed drunken poet in Helsinki, finds first love, for a night, in 1960s Paris, works with an insane cowhand in lawless Belize back...

In 1916 literate cowboy Devon Young reflects on his life's journey. Saved from death by a shamanic intervention, he embarks on a quest to rescue his love, Dahlia de Belardes, from banishment in California. Out to hunt buffalo for their wagon train, Devon's father fails to return, requiring Devon and his mother to survive a hard winter of 1861 in a hastily-built sodbuster cabin on the North American plains. Devon's mother becomes a teacher to N...

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In The Face of the Deep we float on and submerge below the ocean's liquid mirror, surfing and diving in a "continuum, concatenation, of sunrises, sunsets... one's consciousness itself rising and falling with the swell." From villages in Samoa to haunts in Hawaii, Thomas Farber tells of encounters in bars and backwaters as he explores Oceania's mythologies and literatures. From treasure hunters of Cocos Island to writers of the Literary Pacific...

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A definitive guide covering almost 300 foreign films.

Has jazz become a white invention, "neutralized" by the attempts of white critics to describe, define, and even defend a black form of expression? Such is the provocative argument that emerges from David Meltzer's compilation of controversial and thought-provoking writings on jazz from the early decades of this century to the present. This diverse anthology of writings on jazz not only charts the evolution of a musical form, it also reflects e...

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As the Nazis begin their conquest of France, a group of young adolescents rally around their idealistic leader, Bertrand, who is determined to defend their island against the invaders.

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In Japanese, "Sarinagara" means "and yet". This word is the last word of one of the most famous poems of Japanese literature. When he writes it, Kobayashi Issa has just lost his only child: yes, all is emptiness. But Issa mysteriously adds this last word to his poem, leaving its meaning in suspense. This enigma is the theme of a narrative that brings together the stories of three Japanese artists across the centuries: Issa, the last great Haik...

Large sweeping novel set in India and New York, from a leading Indian-American author.

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