 | Strawberry Fields
Release Date: April 29, 2008The bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is back with an ?effervescent comedy? (The New Yorker) The follow up to her hugely popular first novel presents a Canterbury Tales?inspired picaresque that is also a biting satire of economic exploitation. When a ragtag international crew of migrant workers is forced to flee the strawberry fields they have been working in, they set off across England looking for employment. Displaying the same sense of compassion, social outrage, and gift for hilarity that she showed in A Short History of Tractors ...
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 | Women of Sand and Myrrh
Release Date: July 1, 1992A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. ...
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 | Final Exposure (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: September 8, 2009| Series: Love Inspired Suspense Safety. Serenity. That's what Jack Matthews wants, and what he seeks in Lost Falls, Montana. A quiet retreat is just what Jack and his orphaned nephew, Max, need--especially with gentle, beautiful Erin Cole as their host. But when sirens in the night leave Max screaming, Jack's faced with the harsh truth. They're not safe--not him, not Max and especially not Erin. What is she hiding? What does the shadowy figure stalking her want? And how much will Jack have to risk to keep her safe? --This text refers to the Kindle Edition ...
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 | The Angel Hunter
Publication Date: January 4, 2008When the chilling abduction of her infant twins leaves Victoria Hunter in shock, her memories in shambles, those around her believe she is suffering from post-partum psychosis. As she falls into a nightmare of grief and despair, an FBI agent is sure she is responsible for the disappearance of her sons and only her psychiatrist believes she is not delusional.As an ancient truth begins to unfold, the deeply guarded secret of her sons' destiny sends her into battle against the most terrifying adversary of all.The Angel Hunter is my kind of supernatural thriller-...
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 | Vampire Lover: What Doesn't Kill Me, Makes Me Stronger
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 | Treasury of Roman Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Latin and English
Publication Date: October 1, 1994Includes works by Cicero, Ovid and Horace. ...
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 | Le Traqique Dans Le Theatre Quebecois Et Canadien-Francais, 1950-1989 (Canadian Studies, 23) (French Edition)
Publication Date: February 2000| ISBN-10: 0773478027 | ISBN-13: 978-0773478022This work gives a treatment of tragedy to each of the six plays, and exposes fundamental concerns and deep structures common to all. It deals with the clash of legitimate and illegitimate value systems, the established social order and the heroic individuals who challenge it. ...
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 | Teatro para ninos (Obras Selectas Del Teatro Mexicano)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 2001| ISBN-10: 0393975169 | ISBN-13: 978-0393975161| Edition: 1st The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest epic masterpiece.More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang ofthe hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits byfinding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presentstranslations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman ofthe entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now inEnglish for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of thegreat Ak...
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 | Frozen
Publication Date: July 1, 2005One evening ten-year old Rhona goes missing. As her mother retreats into a state of frozen hope, a psychologist studies the brain of a serial killer to find out if what he does is pure evilor simply beyond his control. Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark on a long, dark journey that ends in the discovery of a common humanity. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Rosalind Ayres, Jeffrey Donovan, Laila Robins ...
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 | Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century
Publication Date: August 17, 2010"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."—Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel HillThis dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first c...
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 | Imitat de Notr Le Conc (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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 | Walking Swiftly: Writings & Images on the Occasion of Robert Bly's 65th Birthday
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 | Mozart & Salieri: An Essay on Osip Mandelstam & the Poetic Process
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 | Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities (Classical Culture and Society)
Publication Date: June 3, 2010| Series: Classical Culture and Society In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological commu...
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 | Victorian Ghost Stories
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 | Flawless
Release Date: August 28, 2007A former medical detective for the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Nate McCormick had seen enough suffering to last a lifetime. Now he’s left the CDC, determined to begin a new life with his girlfriend in San Francisco…until the vicious murder of a biotech researcher—an old friend—hurtles him back into the medical world he’d left behind. While the police hunt for a killer, Nate starts sifting through evidence, determined to find what his friend did to provoke his brutal death. And the truth he ultimately discovers far exceeds t...
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 | The Lotus Flower Girl
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 | The Sentry
Release Date: January 3, 2012After Joe Pike saves a man's life, the man's family seems oddlyresentful. Maybe because they're not who they seem to be-including theseductive Dru. But it's more than a charade-it's a trap. And Pike'salready been hooked... ...
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 | What a Girl Loves Puzzle Book (American Girl) (American Girl Library)
Release Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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