 | A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affair
Publication Date: September 1993The author of Family: The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag!turns her eye on the institution of marriage, charting her ownwedded bliss from ""Living on Love"" to the stage of ""Get a (Mid)Life."" 500,000 first printing. $350,000 ad/promo. ...
 |  | Dark River Legacy (Daybreak Mysteries #5)
Publication Date: February 1999Daniel and Jennifer Kaine find themselves in a small Kentucky town protecting an eccentric woman with a hidden past from a man contracted to kill her. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Treasures from the Huntington Library)
Publication Date: June 7, 2004| Series: Treasures from the Huntington Library The Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, commonly referred to as the "Ellesmere Chaucer," is one of the most valuable and cherished manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Compiled within five years of Chaucer's death in 1400, it is considered by most experts to be the definitive manuscript of this cornerstone of English literature. This book is an ideal introduction to the Ellesmere Chaucer, covering its context, construction, and provenance, with more than two dozen full-page color illustra...
|  | Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Release Date: November 3, 2011Henry Burton, a former congressional aide, is pressed into service as an assistant to Jack Stanton, the governor of a small Southern state who has set his sights on the presidency. Thus begins a rollicking adventure of backyard barbeques, draft-dodging dilemmas, sex and seduction scandals, and media mayhem. Combining familiar events with juicy behind-the-scenes gossip, the novel presents a unique picture of the politics of a nation which is at once tiredly cynical and hopefully idealistic. National ads/media. ...
|  | Paisley Girl: A Novel
Publication Date: October 13, 2000Dazzling in its language, exquisitely moving and desperately funny, Fran Gordon's Paisley Girl is a work of rare power.From the novel's first line - "Word has spread of my body" - we are thrust into the mind of a young unnamed woman whose skin is spiraled by mast-cell leukemia.Brilliant, panicked, obsessed, and richly human, she tumbles into a journey of discovery that carries her from backstage parties to hospitals, and from London flats to the shores of Barbados.Less a novel of disease than a tracing of the path from body to soul, Paisley Girl is a bold an...
|  | The World at Night
Release Date: May 14, 1996From the author of The Polish Officer comes the tale of a film producer, one of the last remaining Romantics, who is fighting the good fight against the German occupation in 1940's Paris. A story of honor and lost love, The World at Night tells of the few honorable people who lived in an era when "honor" was not in fashion. ...
|  | Given Time: I.Counterfeit Money (Vol 1)
Publication Date: September 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0226143147 | ISBN-13: 978-0226143149Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time...
|  | The Best Stage Scenes of 1999
Publication Date: January 2001| ISBN-10: 157525235X | ISBN-13: 978-1575252353The eight edition of America's best selling scene series for men and women. All scenes are excerpted from plays produced in the 1999 theatrical season. ...
|  | Virgil, Aeneid 3 (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams (1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of book 3's place in the growth of the poem, matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. Full attention is given to matters geographical and nautical. New critical approaches and recent developments in Virgili...
|  | Yuan Ming Qing shi ge pi ping shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | El alquimista (Compendios Vosgos series) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| Series: Compendios Vosgos series Created by teachers and writers, each title in this series provides a complete and thoughtful analysis of several of the most valuable works of world literature. Intended as a starting point for a better understanding and appreciation of literature, each analysis also imparts information about the author, the social and historical background, structure and traditions of literary genres, facts about characters, and a bibliography to encourage further intellectual exploration. Esta colección es una herramienta indispens...
| | Love by the Book (Sweet Dreams Series #83)
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|  | The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
Publication Date: February 27, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415806992 | ISBN-13: 978-0415806992Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early British film culture in literature, thus providing the first account of cinema as a cause for modernism. Shail’s study draws on little-known sources to create a detailed picture of cinema following its ‘s...
|  | Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Revised Edition) (Longman African Writers)
Publication Date: August 7, 2006| ISBN-10: 1405849428 | ISBN-13: 978-1405849425| Edition: Revised Edition This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a best seller for 30 years. Retold by griots, the guardians of African Culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval African kingship. It is the epic tale, based on an actual figure, of Sundiata (Sunjata). Part history and part legend, it tells how Sundiata fulfilled the prophesies that he would unite the twelve kingdoms of Mali into a...
|  | The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Outlander Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in her first-ever graphic novel, Gabaldon gives readers a fresh look at the events of the original Outlander: Jamie Fraser’s side of the story, gorgeously rendered by artist Hoang Nguyen. After too long an absence, Jamie Fraser is coming home to Scotland—but not without great trepidation. Though his beloved godfather, Murtagh, promised Jamie’s late parents he’d watch ove...
| | The Guilty Plea: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2011With The Guilty Plea, a gripping sequel to the international bestseller Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller with an explosive conclusion. On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto’s Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to death in the kitchen of his luxurious home. Detective Ari Greene arrives minutes before the press and finds Wyler’s four-year-old son asleep upstairs. Hours later, when Wyler’s wife, Samantha, shows up at her l...
|  | Dragon's Hoard (A Knight's Story, No. 3)
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|  | Shoot-Out (Comeback Kids)
Release Date: April 14, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | America's Greatest Game: The Real Story of Football and the NFL
Release Date: September 12, 1998| Grade Level: P and up A historical overview of how the game of football has evolved through the years and how the National Football League began. ...
|  | Karate (Martial Arts in Action)
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