 | The White Tiger: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative...
 |  | Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Love Comes Softly introduced the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. The story of how Clark's patient, caring love mirrored that of the heavenly Father, drawing Marty to faith and to love, has captured the hearts and imaginations of over one million readers on Book One alone! ...
|  | Unclaimed Legacy
Publication Date: August 17, 2012"I call it time-surfing," Abby said. "It's like being there, except no one can see or hear us.""Whatever you call it," John said, "that was crazy--what we just did. Beyond realistic. I mean, I was in that guy's headand knew everything he was thinking."Abby's weird computer program is working again. And it comes in handy when they agree to help the Old Dears next door with their family tree. Except Abby and John learn more about one of the ladies' ancestors than they ever wanted to know. Convicted in 1871 of mu...
|  | Dead Space
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Dead Space A second tie-in novel to the popular video game "Dead Space". ...
|  | The Dawn Country (People of the Longhouse, Book 2)
Release Date: November 29, 2011The epic tale that began in People of the Longhouse continues in this second book of the thrilling new Iroquois quartet by bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda of the Standing Stone People have successfully rescued their children, Odion and Tutelo, from Gannajero the Trader. Known as the Crow, Gannajero is a figure out of nightmare—a witch who steals children. Odion’s friend Wrass is still held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero’s camp, a...
|  | The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dweller a Story of a Happy Cruise
Publication Date: April 1, 20051910. Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse, travel books and edited several magazines; but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, with whom he lived and traveled for four years. Bigelow writes the memoirs of his cruise through the Mediterranean. The book is filled with chatter and information about places to go and the wondrous sights along the edges of the Mediterranean. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...
|  | Summer Wine Country
Publication Date: October 1991The small West Yorkshire village of Holmfirth and the surrounding countryside form the familiar backdrop to the long-running television series, "Last of the Summer Wine". In this book, the writer of the series sets out to capture the rugged beauty of the haunts of Compo, Clegg, Seymour Utterthwaite and Nora Batty, from the warm glow of Sid's Cafe to the bleak light on the wind-torn and isolated farms with thick-coated horses braced against the elements on steep hillsides. The author uses entries from Clegg's wry journal to accompany the photographs by Paul Barke...
|  | Dance: Rituals of Experience
Publication Date: December 12, 1996This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater--a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance--links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamental life impulse made visible in motion--a spontaneous transformation of ...
|  | Italian Comedy in the Renaissance (Essay Index Reprint Series)
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|  | Cymbeline (Penguin Shakespeare)
Publication Date: April 7, 2005| ISBN-10: 0140707425 | ISBN-13: 978-0140707427The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. Having fled to Rome, the exiled husband makes a foolish wager with a villain he encounters there gambling on the fidelity of his abandoned wife. Combining courtly menace and horror, comedy and melodrama, Cymbeline is a moving depiction of two young lovers driven apart by deceit and self-doubt. ...
|  | Oedipus at Colonus (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: February 11, 2002| Series: Plays for Performance Series This play forms a bridge between the events in Oedipus the King and Antigone. It begins with the arrival of Oedipus in Colonus after years of wandering; it ends with Antigone setting off toward her own fate in Thebes. ...
| | Time in the Play of "Hamlet"
Publication Date: April 1986| ISBN-10: 0404542050 | ISBN-13: 978-0404542054Read before the Royal Society, December 3rd 1885. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Poems of St. John of the Cross (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0226401103 | ISBN-13: 978-0226401102| Edition: 3 San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art.This dual-language edition makes available the original Spanish from the Codex of Sanlúcon de Barrameda ...
| | The book in America;: A history of the making and selling of books in the United States,
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|  | Philo: On the Special Laws,On the Virtues. On Rewards and Punishments (Loeb Classical Library No. 341)
Publication Date: January 1, 1939| ISBN-10: 0674993764 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993761The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he developed ideas that had wide influence on Christian and Jewish religious thought.The Loeb Classical Library edition of the works of Philo is in ten volumes and two supplements, distributed as follows. Volume I: C...
|  | Humo en tus ojos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 11, 2010Las narraciones de Cristina Pacheco indagan en las mas intimas experiencias de hombres y mujeres que se enfrentan a la dificil vida cotidiana. Anclados en el aqui y en el ahora, conocen el abandono, la separacion, el fracaso y la violencia. Sin embargo, no se dejan vencer por la desesperanza ni renuncian a la busqueda del amor. Mantienen viva la ilusion de reconstruir su mundo. Lloran pero saben reir.Reconocida por su trayectoria en todos los medios, escritora sensible y duena de una prosa narrativa precisa y eficaz, Cristina Pacheco logra en este nuevo lib...
|  | Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Release Date: February 15, 2000Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother."Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, genero...
|  | The Bridegroom (Stone Creek Novels)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Series: Stone Creek Novels Undercover agent Gideon Yarbro is renowned for stopping outlaws almost before they commit a crime. But now he must stop a wedding—despite the bride's resistance. Lydia Fairmont will lose everything if she doesn't honor her betrothal to a heartless banker. Unless she marries someone else instead…whether it's a love match or not.Determined to honor his own decade-old promise to help Lydia, Gideon carries her off to Stone Creek and makes her his reluctant wife. Forget a honeymoon for "show"—not with a vengeful ex...
|  | Power & Beauty: A Love Story of Life on the Streets
Release Date: June 12, 2012 One of hip-hop's most accomplished and respected artists, T.I. now makes a bold leap into the world of fiction with the epic love story of Power and Beauty. Adrift after the death of his mother, Charlotte, Paul "Power" Clay turns to Slim, a local businessman, for guidance. Slim always has the best of everything, and if Power learns his ways, perhaps he'll someday be worthy of Tanya "Beauty" Long. Eleven years old when her own mother died and Charlotte Clay took her in, Beauty has always known that the only person she can rely on is herself. Now Charlotte is go...
|  | Z4ck
Publication Date: October 6, 2004Duncan has nowhere to run when he creates Z4CK, software which bypasses any network security. Nervous government agencies will do anything to obtain it.This cyber thriller, unlike films such as The Net, provides an insight into realistic hacker techniques, whilst not becoming too technical, allowing anyone to enjoy it. ...
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