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 |  | Scoundrel!: The Secret Memoirs of General James Wilkinson
Publication Date: January 30, 2012In the humorous, iconoclastic tradition of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, Gore Vidal’s Burr, and Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, meet real-life scoundrel James Wilkinson as he lies, schemes, back-stabs, and seduces his way through our nation’s early history. In Scoundrel! historian and novelist Keith Thompson mixes fact and fiction with intense characterization and a riveting story. After experiencing Wilkinson’s irreverent spin, you’ll never view the American Revolution or the Founding Fathers the same way agai...
|  | Topping from Below: A Novel
Release Date: July 17, 2012 An explosive, erotic novel about two sisters, each of whom embarks upon a voyage into the heart of evil and a game with a seductive man who knows no rules or limits. Only one returns. Successful, attractive, and in control, Nora seemed so different from her shy, terribly vulnerable younger sister. Grieving for Franny, Nora reads her diary and is stunned when it reveals a secret sadomasochistic affair with a mysterious professor known only as M. Nora vows to seek justice for the sister she never really knew and undertakes a daring scheme to seduce this l...
|  | The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Release Date: November 3, 1990| Series: Anne Rice Two people with special powers are drawn together to attempt to unlock the mystery of the woman's past and the secret of the man's unwelcome gift. 2 cassettes. ...
|  | Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
Publication Date: September 14, 2012The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill-until he is captured by a w...
|  | Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventure)
Release Date: February 3, 2004| Series: Dirk Pitt Adventure The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century......
|  | The Facility: A Novel
Release Date: August 28, 2012"Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this." In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes. But when unassuming dentist Arthur Priestley is snatched and held prisoner at a top-secret facility, his estranged wife, Julia, and a brave but naive journalist named Tom Clarke embark on a harrowing quest for the truth. Following a trail that leads to the very top of gove...
|  | Spanking New
Publication Date: February 16, 2010Getting born is trickier than Spanky ever imagined.Yearning for life, Spanky chooses Nina, a flighty actress just out of college, and Rick, a sax player who changes tires to get by, to be his parents. Only Nina seems to be hung up on her gay guy friend Pablo, and Nina’s best girlfriend Dink is hung up her! Will Nina and Rick get it together in time to conceive Spanky before he evaporates? And if this hurdle gets crossed, will they choose to keep him?There’s not much Spanky can do but watch from above while his fate plays out—and if that&#...
|  | The Dramatic Values in Plautus
Publication Date: January 7, 2008A Thesis:Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ...
|  | S?ndrome de Ulises (Extasis / Ecstasy) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Extasis / Ecstasy En este libro se pueden leer episodios de la nostalgia de un emigrado cubano que arrastra referencias de una vida anterior, a la vida cotidiana de su nuevo entorno. Comidas, calles, familia, amigos y ciudades que visita van siendo desveladas al lector com ...
|  | Love Poems of Irving Layton
Publication Date: March 1985A new format reprint of one hundred poems. potency and tendernessThegratifying thing about reading his work now is that it grows with you. The older I get the morethe poems reveal. I'm knocked out by the richness, the resonance, the generosity, the hardintelligence, the clarity, the passion, and above all else, the great, great aching tenderness, whichremains very much a part of who he is and he means to me.Leonard Cohena poetic mind ofgenuine dignity and power an unobstrusive mastery of technique.Northrop FryeWhen I firstclapped my eyes on the poems of Irving Lay...
|  | Nostalgic Waves from Soweto. Poetic Memories of the June 16th Uprising
Publication Date: July 12, 2010Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself a product of the era, Sol Rachilo turned both to science and to art as he strove to depict the atmosphere and the emotions of the people of those tumultuous times. Not relying solely on his own deeply engraved memories, he spent 18 months researching the events which swirled around the Morris Isaacson High School, a magnet for the activists and intellectuals of the...
|  | Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Release Date: January 2, 2007“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes amoment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and h...
| | The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers [and an account of newspapers ...] (Burt Franklin: Bibliography and reference series)
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|  | Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics and the Dominant Culture (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)
Publication Date: May 24, 1997| ISBN-10: 0802080472 | ISBN-13: 978-0802080479| Edition: 0006- When attempting to globally divide ideas into orthodox and subversive categories, it is not always clear what precisely is subversive to the dominant ideology and vice versa.Going against recent trends in English Renaissance studies, Deborah Shuger examines orthodox, rather than subversive, methods of thought in the English Renaissance. Instead of finding a monolithic, unified body of thought, she reveals a remarkably non-uniform 'orthodox' ideology containing a wide range of views.Shuger's appr...
|  | Fleeing from the Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees from the Nazis
Publication Date: November 17, 2011An extraordinary history told through postcards and letters provides rare insight into how refugees kept their culture and communities alive throughout the world Written by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, this unique history and collection of correspondence shows the incredible nature of this worldwide emigration and the indomitable spirit of these Jewish refugees. The Jewish flight from Nazi Germany was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen, sparking an international refugee crisis that changed society and c...
|  | Hotshot (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: Berkley Sensation Major Vince "Vapor" DeLuca may have just accepted his most difficult recon mission ever-keeping an eye on Shay Bassett. As a pilot in the Air Force's top-secret test unit, Vince keeps a cool head at the controls. But ever since they were teens, Shay's had a way of jamming his radar. Now she's scheduled to tell Congress about Cleveland's escalating gang activity, and someone out there is trying to cut her testimony short. Living to tell the tale may depend on trusting the one man who burned her so badly years ago-and still makes her feel wa...
|  | The Snow Queen (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 4)
Publication Date: February 1, 2009Aleksia, Queen of the Northern Lights, is mysterious, beautiful and widely known to have a heart of ice. But when she's falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, she realizes there's an impostor out there far more heartless than she could ever be.And when a young warrior disappears, Aleksia's powers are needed as never before. Now, on a journey through a realm of perpetual winter, it will take all her skills, a mother's faith and a little magic to face down an enemy more formidable than any she has ever known…. ...
|  | Rodeo Cowboys: The Series: Melanie's Protector : Karly's Drifter : Josie's Heartbreaker (Melanie's Protector : Karly's Drifter : Josie's Heartbreaker, Siren Publishing Classic)
Publication Date: November 21, 2006| Series: Melanie's Protector : Karly's Drifter : Josie's Heartbreaker, Siren Publishing Classic Three sexy, sassy, and bold heroines find love and romance with three rugged, hunky cowboys who capture their hearts.* * *MELANIE'S PROTECTOR:Melanie Blake needs protection so she picks Steve McCall to help her escape the people in hot pursuit of her. Steve has no idea the woman stowed away in his camper is smoldering with passion.* * *KARLY'S DRIFTER:Karly Jackson follows the Montana rodeo circuit shooting photos of the cowboys for her book. Hawk Rivers is oppo...
|  | Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
Release Date: February 26, 2008 She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the f...
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