 | The Days of Awe
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Washington Post Best Books of 2005.Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005“[Nissenson] more than holds his own in the arena of gritty, all-too-present-day realism, brilliantly conveying his characters’ anxiety and suffering, their conflicting ideas,emotions and beliefs, and the love for one another that makesthem so vulnerable but also lends enduring value to theirmenaced lives.”-Wall Street Journal“Solid character writing and attention to the details of dailylife make the September 11 material well motivated; as chara...
 |  | Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life
Release Date: October 4, 2000From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty.Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty, How Did I Get to Be Forty, and Forever Fifty -- have delighted millions of readers worldwide who relish her wit, warmth, and wisdom. Now here she is with Suddenly Sixty, a funny and touching book that speaks directly to the sixty-ish woman, inviting her to laugh about...
|  | Mandarin Plaid (Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Mystery)
Publication Date: August 15, 1997| Series: Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Mystery It's a long way from the cramped, dreary sweatshops where Lydia Chin's mother once sewed for the heady world of fashion. But in New York City, worlds collide. And a petite, Chinese-American P.I. can still rub shoulders with the rich, the poor, the beautiful, and the depraved. Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand being demanded by the person who stole her design book. But when Lydia--backed by her partner Bill Smith--makes ...
|  | Turquoise and Terrorists
Publication Date: March 1998 The news hit Allison like a blow to the stomach. A helicopter carrying her kidnapped husband, Bart, had crashed into the side of a mountain. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Alexander . . .there were no survivors,” the secret service agent said.Was it true? Could she be a widow after only weeks of marriage to the man she had loved for a lifetime? They had come to the high desert of New Mexico because international terrorists had threatened to kidnap three famous celebrities and hold them for ransom. But now Bart and her father had been abducted by those sa...
|  | Mojave Crossing: The Sacketts: A Novel
Release Date: August 1, 1985| Series: The Sacketts In Mojave Crossing, Louis L’Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles, Sackett reluctantly agreed. Now he’s on a perilous journey through the ...
|  | Exit to Eden
Release Date: May 1, 1986"The same kind of skillful writing that brought respectability to the erotic works of Henry Miller, Anaís Nin, and D. H. Lawrence."--UPIThere is Lisa: They call her the Perfectionist. A stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer, she is founder and supreme mistress of The Club--an expensive, exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. There is Elliott: A thrill-seeking photographer who has risked his life in war zones around the world. Now he is committed to the ultimate plunge into personal risk--exploring his darkes...
|  | Three Days
Publication Date: October 18, 2011Dakota Riley is not looking forward to the next three days in Vegas. Her best friend Riann is getting married there, but Dakota doesn’t like the heat or the fact that she is going to be spending three days with twenty women she can’t stand. All she wants is a little free time and a warm body to fill her bed, that is until her world is upended by the introduction of her best friend’s cousin, the mysterious Shawn Camello.Shawn Camello has been invited to her cousin Riann’s bachelorette party at the last minute. She is reluctant to g...
|  | Judy of the Islands: A Story of the South Seas
Publication Date: September 1992| ISBN-10: 0918024978 | ISBN-13: 978-0918024978After surviving the explosion of a Pacific liner and being adrift in a lifeboat for four days, Judy is rescued and experiences life among the natives on the atolls. ...
|  | Dying To Know
Publication Date: July 16, 2012Callie Morrow, a thirty-six-old photographic illustrator, lays the groundwork for an arcane adventure, when she’s faced with a cancer diagnosis and must decide what to do. Dead set against the medical route for treatment, she panics her friends when she opts out determined to find another way.Though normally unadventurous, Callie bets her life on a hunch and the wisdom of three intriguing friends: a Taoist Chinese restaurateur, a renowned Inuit artist, and a disheartened internist. In her race against the clock, one question overshadows all the rest: Wha...
|  | Imminent Darkness: A Novel
Publication Date: January 20, 2010"The scent of candy on the wind reveals a family's darkest sin."Life has been anything but sweet for Russell Holmes. In fact, his presence has proved to be downright deadly to his wife and child-so he leaves them. He moves to Homestead, Florida, and after two years in the small town, Russell starts to believe that he did the right thing, but bad things are starting to happen again. Now, he must track a killer with supernatural ties before his family gets caught in the crossfire and the only way to guarantee their safety is to embrace a dark talent that is bo...
|  | Le Cid Corneille (Crofts Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 1955| ISBN-10: 0882950266 | ISBN-13: 978-0882950266Edited and translated by John C. Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give this tragedy its complex, interwoven structure. Also included are a selected bibliography and a list of the principal dates in the life of Corneille. ...
|  | Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition
Publication Date: May 18, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415555043 | ISBN-13: 978-0415555043| Edition: 1 "Tragic Seneca" undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of po...
|  | The Long Valley (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Twentieth-Century Classics Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works ...
|  | German Poetry in Transition, 1945-1990
Publication Date: November 1, 1999An ambitious bilingual anthology of postwar German poetry. ...
|  | Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198129947 | ISBN-13: 978-0198129943Although it is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, little attention has been paid to the ways in which he influenced both their creative practices and theories of the imagination.This work presents the fascinating picture of how the Romantics read Shakespeare and the ways in which his work inspired and informed their own poetry.The book provides the first full critical discussion of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, explores the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge, and...
|  | Sonnets and Shorter Poems
Publication Date: February 1, 2012In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch’s hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one’s own heart and mind. Slavitt renders the sonnets in Il Canzoniere, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do ...
|  | Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age
Publication Date: June 15, 2007Louis A. Markos places the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the context of the crisis of faith that marked the Victorian Age, whose notable figures included Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Huxley, John Henry Newman, and John Stuart Mill.In particular Markos reveals the significance of Tennyson's great poem In Memoriam for the transition from Romantic to Victorian literature, as well as the importance of his Idylls of the King for its refusal to accede to the Victorian myth of progress.Tennyson emerges as a strong critic of ...
|  | Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Convention of the Mid-Victorian Novel
Publication Date: July 15, 1996First published in 1972, the second edition of this highly respected classic of Trollope criticism will be welcomed by Trollope scholars everywhere. David Skilton examines the literary background against which Trollope wrote, and drawing on the vast evidence of mid-Victorian periodical criticism, he shows how this criticism controlled the novelist's creativity. He then goes on to examine Trollope's particular type of realism in the context of the theories of literary imagination current in the 1860s. ...
|  | Dying for Revenge (Gideon Trilogy, Book 3)
Publication Date: November 18, 2008After a bestselling doubleheader in 2007 with Sleeping with Strangers and Waking with Enemies (both reaching #9 on the New York Times bestseller list), Eric Jerome Dickey is back with the final installment in his thrilling trilogy—Dying for Revenge. This fast-paced story about a steamy, seamy underworld of crime that spans the globe features the hit man Gideon, a character who captivated fans in the first two books, squaring off against his most intriguing adversary yet. ...
|  | I Like Your Buttons!
Publication Date: April 2, 1999When Cassandra compliments her teacher, she starts good feelings flying throughout the school, out onto the playground, and all around the neighborhood. ...
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