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The Duck Song
A determined duck pleads for grapes at the most unlikely of places: a lemonade stand. The story and song in this comical, musical picture book will delight both adults and children, who can play the song aloud while learning important lessons about persistence and compassion.
When We Arrive
Most readers and critics view Mexican American writing as a subset of American literatureÑor at best as a stream running parallel to the main literary current. JosŽ Aranda now reexamines American literary history from the perspective of Chicano/a studies to show that Mexican Americans have had a key role in the literary output of the United States for one hundred fifty years. In this bold new look at the American canon, Aranda weaves the threads of Mexican American literature into the broader tapestry of Anglo American writing, especially its Puritan origins, by pointing out common ties that bind the two traditions: narratives of persecution, of immigration, and of communal crises, alongsi...
DARK DESIRES
in the depths of her subconscious, an illicit yearning awakens during Miya's initial encounter with Aman. Enveloped by a clandestine desire, she grapples with an irresistible need that can no longer be brushed aside, a craving too potent to voice aloud. Succumbing to an unfathomable obsession, Miya takes control, injecting venom into Aman to quell the relentless ache of her longing. It's a yearning that both terrifies and captivates Miya, leading her down a perilous path upon meeting Jay in college. She surrenders completely to its seductive pull, unable to resist despite the inherent risks. Miya acknowledges that this desire is eternally ingrained within her, a force that tragically leads to her untimely demise. Found raped and murdered on the streets, Miya's death unfurls a mystery that refuses to release the penitentiary convict despite the revelation of her dark desire to the world. In the process, the fragile façade of her innocence shatters, unveiling the profound consequences of her secret desires.
Song of the Circus
Little does that jungle cat know you don't play rough with the kind of kids who are raised in the world of the circus! They're brave, they're spirited, and they're not about to become tiger food.
Dabble Duck
A lonesome pet duck finally solves her own problem by befriending a bedraggled dog.
No More Separate Spheres!
DIVArgues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life./div
The Penguin Book of Brexit Cartoons
Not for many years has there been such a divisive issue as Brexit, and like all divisive issues it has provided a bonanza for cartoonists. This generous selection of pocket cartoons captures the sheer bewilderment and exasperation which have bedevilled us all since the referendum. Some of the cartoons favour one side or the other, but most celebrate (or at least commemorate) a period of unique bafflement. With the emphasis much more on ordinary people than on the politicians, The Penguin Book of Brexit Cartoons will bring together at Christmas-time even the most riven families.
The Dead Saint
It begins with a single gunshot, and Bishop Lynn Peterson watches in horror as a good friend, who is a member of the New Orleans Saints, collapses on the street. When a medal the player wore--a medal Lynn had promised to return to the man's family--disappears, Lynn is thrust into a suspenseful and fast-moving journey through four assassinations, an attempt on her life, conflicts with a mysterious and ancient society, and a behind-the-scenes conspiracy that reaches all the way to the White House. The turbulent, unstoppable intrigue challenges Lynn mentally, physically, and spiritually as she engages in a desperate battle with an opponent who is just as determined to kill as Lynn is to stop him even though she has no idea where--or who--he will strike next.
Unruly Media
Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style, fragments under the influence of audiovisual numbers and music-video-like sync. Music video becomes more than a way of selling songs. YouTube's brief, low-res clips encompass many forms and foreground reiteration, graphic values and affective intensity. These three media are riven by one another: a trajectory from YouTube through music video to the new digital cinema reveals commonalities, especially in the realms of rhythm, texture and form. This is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across medium and platform, and it demonstrates that attending equally to soundtrack and image reveals how these media work and how they both mirror and shape our experience.
Challenging Boundaries
What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this long-needed revision? This timely collection of essays by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. Not content to rediscover and awkwardly "fit" female writers into the "white male" scheme of anthologies and college courses, editors Margaret Dickie and Joyce W. Warren question the current boundaries of literary periods, advocating a revised literary canon. The essays consider a wide range of American women writers, incl...
