 | Children of Angels: Book One of the New Nephilim Series
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 |  | Blood Run, First Promise: Book One in the Blood Run Trilogy
Publication Date: August 9, 2012It is 1985 and the United States is reeling from a disease that has taken huge, bloody bites out of the country as people are changed into vampires. The survivors have grouped together in remote outposts and the National Guard is the lifeline that runs between the outposts, bringing news and supplies. In Wereburg, New York, a young woman named Destiny Riser has lost her parents in the plague but saved her little brother, Chance. But the outpost she brings him to is still young and learning and in an accident of fate, it is ravaged by vampires. Destiny sees her...
|  | Hinterland: Book Two of the Godslayer Chronicles
Release Date: November 7, 2006| Series: Godslayer Chronicles (Book 2) All of Myrillia is held in a grip of unease when a skull, twisted and corrupted by dark Graces, is found. It's the work of the Cabal, a faction of daemonic naethryn intent on destroying the Nine Lands. Former Shadowknight Tylar must unravel the mystery of the skull before all of Myrillia is threatened. To save the Nine Lands-and himself-Tylar must enter the Hinterland, the desolate territory beyond the blessed Lands, where rogue gods roam and dark Graces flow-and from which no Shadowknight has ever returned. ...
|  | The Mistakes 2: CONSUMED (Volume 2)
Publication Date: July 4, 2012| Series: The Mistakes The Mistakes are at it again! Junior year is off to a bumpy start with the arrival of a new girl, the beautiful Felicia Fireburn, whom Addison finds positively revolting…but Jordan and Cody couldn’t disagree more. Things get even more complex when Kelly finds a mysterious notebook that ominously seems to parallel the troubles in their lives.Some old friends rejoin the scene as the Mistakes take another year by storm. The dashingly dorky Dave Gregory still seeks to win Kelly over, and the Mistakes’ families are the same...
|  | A Week of This: a Novel in Seven Days
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest, this novel follow the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce in this novel full of barbed dialogue and hilarious, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics. ...
|  | Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte
Release Date: December 30, 2003It is a generation after the fall of Camelot. The legendary figures of Britain’s brief but shining renaissance—Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere—are gone but not forgotten. Their memories live on in song and story. But Arthur’s dream of a united Britain is fading fast. The hard-won alliance of independent kingdoms is fracturing. Sensing weakness, defeated enemies are returning.Such is the world of Tristan, Prince of Lyonesse. Born with the soul of a poet and the heart of a warrior, Tristan has been pushed aside by his uncle, Markion, who i...
|  | The Dances of Shakespeare
Publication Date: July 12, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415974348 | ISBN-13: 978-0415974349Invaluable advice on how to perform authentic dance styles from Shakespeare's time, covering all the styles featured in his plays as well as a number of dances of a similar vein. Designed for the practicing director, choreographer or actor, this book provides clear instructions on how to perform the popular dances of Shakespeare's day including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances and roundels. Illustrated throughout, these instructions allow non-specialists to g...
|  | Seasons (First Foil Poetry Haikus)
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|  | Song ci duo ying =: Song ci duo ying (Zhonghua wen ming bao ku) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34 (Loeb Classical Library No. 279)
Publication Date: January 1, 1933| ISBN-10: 0674993071 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993075Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduce...
|  | The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writings From Edgar Allen Poe to the Internet (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Publication Date: December 6, 1996In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing--his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them--requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts and, more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. Cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's lat...
|  | Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film
Publication Date: June 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521114837 | ISBN-13: 978-0521114837| Edition: 1 Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and its aftermath of broken and shocked bodies shaped a preoccupation with fragmentation in both film and literature. Film, montage and camera work provided poets with a vocabulary through which to explore and refashion modern physical and metaphoric categories of the body, including the hysteric, automaton...
|  | An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
Publication Date: February 27, 2012During the past twenty years, the world’s most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argument: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.Spivak’s unwillingness to sacrifice the ethical in ...
|  | Our Life Together: A Memoir in Letters
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|  | Showdown in Mudbug (Ghost-in-Law)
Publication Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Ghost-in-Law Who killed Helena Henry? The shorter list may be who didn’t want her dead. Psychic Raissa Bordeaux thought she’d left her former life behind, but when a child is kidnapped, she risks her secret identity by offering the police help with the case. New Orleans Detective Zach Blanchard doesn’t believe in psychic hooey and is certain Raissa didn’t get her facts about the case from a crystal ball. He suspects her of something besides being the most intriguing and attractive he’s every come across. But when Rai...
|  | The Duke's Undoing
Publication Date: April 20, 2012Meet the Duke of Ruisdell, the unlikely hero of this traditional Regency Romance, after the manner of Georgette Heyer and Candice Hern. The duke has just returned wounded from the Napoleonic wars. He is weary, cynical, and very bored. Known as the worst rake in England, he finds he has no interest in upholding that distinction, when his friend, the Marquis of Somerset, proposes a bet: "Five thousand guineas says that seducing Miss Elise Edwards will cure your ennui."Because his friend has just lost a packet to him, he agrees that the bet be posted in White's f...
|  | Bet Me: The Ace\The Joker\The Wildcard
Publication Date: August 7, 2007No Time to LoseThey don't call Vegas Sin City for nothing. And now that prime tourist season is around the corner, it's time to kick some criminal butt. Enter three full-throttle Vegas detectives, ready to eat their undercover assignments alive . . . Clarissa Rivers can't believe she's got to play fake maid to weasel her way into some of the city's dirtiest criminal activities. But pretend she's hitched, too? Meanwhile, Kim Wong is all over her undercover sting operation at the Great Wall Casino. Only problem: an old boyfriend's got intel on Kim's secret royal...
|  | The Earth Kingdom Chronicles: The Tale of Toph (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
Release Date: October 23, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Tales of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Oxford Illustrated Classics)
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|  | Nabeel's New Pants: An Eid Tale
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: Pre K and up Ramadan has come to an end. The fast is over, and tomorrow the celebration of Eid will begin. Nabeel decides to buy each of his family members something special to wear for the holiday. But while he’s choosing, the shopkeeper persuades him also to buy a gift for himself—a pair of new pants that are too long! Nabeel asks his wife, his mother, and his daughter to hem them, but no one has the time—everyone is busy preparing for the festivities. Will Nabeel be able to wear his new pants to celebrat...
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