Norton paperback

"It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. . . . The [story] . . . spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tio Tive, keeper of the family's history"--Provided by publisher.

American poet Joy Harjo's memoir detailing her journey to becoming a poet, covering her childhood with an abusive stepfather, the Indian arts boarding school she attended, and being a single teenage mother.

Discusses the science, history, and culture of human anatomies.

Letters written to F.X.Kappus during the years 1903-1908 and a series of his responses to the young, would-be poets. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908.

Studies the organization of ant colonies and explains how ants get their work done, how the colony operates without any central control, and how a colony is formed.

Captain Jack Aubrey, and ship's doctor and spy Stephen Maturin, encounter castaways, shipwrecks, and murder when they set sail for Cape Horn on a mission to foil an American frigate's plan to sabotage English whalers.

Explores European and American medicine, folklore, history, and literature to determine why many people in the nineteenth century were afraid they would be buried alive.

Provides a history of wealth and power throughout the world, discussing how many European countries were able to acquire and keep wealth by focusing on work and knowledge which led to increased productivity, new technologies, and the pursuit of change.

Chronicles the history of ocean science and describes some of the most startling finds of the last few decades.

Examines sexual physiology, discussing sex research from the ancient Greeks to Alfred Kinsey in order to better understand the correlation between sexual arousal and the orgasm, while pondering whether dead men are capable of erections, vaginal orgasms, and Viagra.