 | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
Release Date: January 12, 1999Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. ...
 |  | Fear - An Anthology of Horror and Suspense
Publication Date: November 1, 2006We are afraid of our own mortalities. We re afraid, at one time or another, of just about everything. We re afraid of hurt. We re afraid Daddy won t ever return after he closes the bedroom door. We re afraid of the spider on the wall, of the bear outside our tent, of our next-door neighbor, of the consequences of arriving to work late, that nobody loves us, the bills won t get paid, of our reputation at school. We fear the outcome of our predicaments, the resurfacing of undesirable situations thought well laid to rest, and we fear those nonexistent imagining...
|  | At the Mountains of Madness
Publication Date: October 19, 2010At the Mountains of Madness is a brilliantly told horror novel. Best of all, it's a "perfect" Lovecraft story, combining everything that makes Lovecraft ... well, 'Lovecraftian:' constant impending dread, mysteries beyond time and space, characters driven to the brink of -- and then beyond -- insanity, and science knocking at the doors of the nightmarish unknown. ...
|  | Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen’s monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, the brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Grac...
|  | The Art of Naming
Publication Date: September 1988"...clarifies unfamiliar modes of thought...in the language of 16th century poetry..." ...
|  | The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books
Release Date: June 1, 1998Readers around the world continue to mourn the 1995 death of a beloved literary icon,but this rich and varied collection of Robertson Davies?s writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely from Davies? own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from "The Novelist and Magic" to "Literature and Technology," from "Painting, Fiction, and Faking," to "Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?" and "Creativity in Old Age." For devotees of...
|  | The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0226712117 | ISBN-13: 978-0226712116"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of t...
|  | Readings in Social Theory
Publication Date: July 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 0072300604 | ISBN-13: 978-0072300604| Edition: 3 This highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorist and schools from classic to contemporary to modernist and postmodernist in a chronological organization.While designed to be a supplementary reader, its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage their students to read and interpret original sources without a traditional main text. ...
|  | Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
Publication Date: June 1998| Series: Twayne's Masterwork Studies Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has never been out of print in English and has inspired literally hundreds of popular films. In fact, this remarkable work, like its predecessor Frankenstein, almost immediately established itself as an important modern myth. It explores various fin de siecle anxieties about race, class, and gender as well as tensions about the place of science and technology in the modern world, all questions that continue to haunt readers a century later. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Jay DeFeo and The Rose (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
Publication Date: November 13, 2003| Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation of San Francisco, was just starting to garner widespread national recognition, the visionary work occupied the artist for eight years. Massive in scale, layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint, the overpowering painting was already famous before its first exhibition in 1969 at the Pasadena Art Museum. It was next exhib...
|  | In Search of Grace
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Alexandra Davis has a dark secret from her past that she has hidden from everyone, including those that love her the most.After meeting her new neighbor, she realizes that her secret has been holding her back from living a full life.Would she have the courage to open her heart to him before it is too late? Seth Walton, an ex-Navy Seal and now Massachusetts State Trooper knows his new neighbor has a past that she wants to keep buried yet is bound and determined to help her not only face her demons but confront them head on. Soon, he realizes that he would need...
|  | Darkness Dawns (Immortal Guardians)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Immortal Guardians (Book 1) In this dazzling, sensual novel, Dianne Duvall beckons readers into a world of vampires, immortals, and humans with extraordinary gifts . . . where passion can last forever, if you're willing to pay the price . . . Once, Sarah Bingham's biggest challenge was making her students pay attention in class.Now, after rescuing a wounded stranger, she's landed in the middle of a battle between corrupt vampires and powerful immortals who also need blood to survive.Roland Warbrook is the most compelling man Sarah has ever laid hands o...
|  | First Touch: Forever Yours\Serenade\Beguiled (Arabesque Collector's Series)
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|  | Megan
Publication Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Women of Primrose Creek (Book 4)Megan McQuarry returned to Primrose Creek after attempting to become an actress -- and innocently losing both her heart and her beloved land. But instead of the healing homecoming she needs, Megan is met with a shocking revelation that changes everything she believed about her family. Feeling lost and betrayed, she finds herself befriending Webb Stratton, the handsome new owner of her land.Webb can see this lovely lady is in need of refuge, and he could certainly use her help around his ranch. He offers her a posit...
|  | The Blood Waltz
Publication Date: October 2000“We share the same blood . . . and the same evil desires.”Selena D’Agostino needed a vacation.So when she received a mysterious invitation from England to meet long-lost relations at their family castle, it seemed just the ticket.But nothing could have prepared her for what she would find there.Not only were her newfound relatives not what they seemed . . . it soon became clear that they were not about to let her leave.And perhaps the most frightening of all was her overwhelming attraction to the seductive, engimatic Kieran Ramsey, who bore ...
|  | Dead Like You (Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Book 6)
Release Date: November 23, 2010Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forever haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Sandy, nearly ten years ago. Ever since she went missing, he’s been consumed with finding out what happened to her. Finally, he may be moving on. He has fallen in love and is going to marry his girlfriend, Cleo, who is pregnant with their child. But his life is put on hold when, after a wild New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her hotel room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims’ shoes are taken by t...
|  | Phineas and Ferb Comic Reader #6: The Beak Strikes!
Release Date: October 11, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Broomsticks The Halloween Spirit
Publication Date: September 10, 2012Halloween has always been a special day for kids, especially when those kids.. ARE WITCHES! All the students at Asher School for Gifted Children are excited about the school's annual Halloween party.Everyone, that is, except for Maggie when she learns the party is being held in a haunted theater! Join magical nine year olds, Stamp and Pocky, in their second adventure full of thrills, chills, and things that go pirouette in the night!Will Stamp and Pocky meet a real ghost?Will the snotty Snodgrass twins ruin everyone's fun? And wiil the town of Maysville ev...
|  | Kickboxing (Torque Books: Action Sports)
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Easy Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America: 18 Fun-to-Create Reproducible Models that Bring the Colonial Period to Life
Publication Date: September 1, 2002 ...
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