 | Circle Series 4-in-1 (The Circle Series)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: The Circle Series Rare is the story that takes readers out of this world and into another. Rarer still the story that captures heart, soul, and mind...leaving the reader forever transformed. This is that story. Dive deep and enter the Circle. The Circle is an epic story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.It beings when a man named Thomas hunter finds himself being chased down an alley after working the late shift at a coffee house. When a bullet grazes his head, he awaken...
 |  | Wild Things Live There: The Best of Northern Frights
Publication Date: March 15, 2002One of the best series in the Horror and Dark Fantasy genre.Over the past 5 years, editor Don Hutchison has gathered a world-class and bestselling authors, including Charles Grant, Garfield Reeves-Steven, David Nickle, Hugh B. Cave, Gemma Files, and Nalo Hopkinson, among others....
|  | Crimson Coronation
Publication Date: April 15, 1999Crimson Coronation is a novel that deals with theconception of, development of and staging of a tournament to determinethe best University of Alabama football team in history. The timeframe is 1998 through 2000. The story culminates in the playing aneight-team tournament at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabamabetween December 7, 2000 and December 25, 2000. Celestial beingsreturn to earth to play, to watch, to coach and to participate inother ways. Tuscaloosa, Alabama becomes the news mecca of the world,with celestials visiting, the entertainment mecca o...
|  | Lady's Maid: A Novel
Release Date: May 15, 2007“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”–BooklistYoung and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixtee...
|  | The Envoy
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Kit Fournier, a disaffected former American officer, goes deep undercover and sides with the enemy in this sophisticated espionage thriller that takes place at the height of the Cold War. Giving a unique look into the CIA in London, Kit faces not only the looming arms race and an impending H-bomb apocalypse but also a crisis of the soul-brought about by the unveiling of his own dark, personal secret that might prove more deadly than the dispatches he's decoding. In a world where sexual blackmail and personal betrayal are essential skills, the consequences o...
|  | The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories
Publication Date: 1985The big bedroom was lovely:all pale, blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek.But to fourteen-year-old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong.Her stepmother's bedroom now:everything changed since her own mother had died. And stretched out on the bed:Stephanie, very white and pained.The new baby on its way, a month early.All of a sudden, with her father away on business, Emily had to take charge, keep calm, ring for the doctor and the ambulance.The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is j...
|  | Kabuki Plays on Stage: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905 (Kabuki Plays on Stage, Volume 4)
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|  | Augustus Welby Pugin, Designer of the British Houses of Parliament: The Victorian Quest for a Liturgical Architecture
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0773457690 | ISBN-13: 978-0773457690| Edition: 1st ed Much of the study of the nineteenth-century architect, Augustus Welby Pugin has focused on his architecture and design. Pugin himself believed that his strongest influence lay in his writing; he played an important role in the nineteenth century religious revival because of his views as a liturgical architect. This book talks about this person. ...
|  | Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form (Comparative Cultural Studies)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Comparative Cultural Studies Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or Beckett in the English language, he remains little known in English. As well as providing a commentary on his novels, plays, and short stories, this book sets Gombrowicz's writing in the context of contemporary cultural theory. The au...
|  | Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945
Publication Date: December 30, 2002InWomen's Experience of Modernity, 1875–1945, literary scholars working with a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies move feminine phenomena from the margins of the study of modernity to its center. Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modern...
|  | WM MORRISS DEF GUENEVERE (Garland English texts)
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|  | Mona Lisa Eclipsing (A Novel of the Monere)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: A Novel of the Monere (Book 5) The national bestselling author returns with a new passionate, erotically charged paranormal novel.Roberto, a jaguar-shifter of mixed Monère heritage, arrives in Cozumel to kill a rival. But he finds a more valuable prize in Mona Lisa, a Monère who's lost her memory and can be manipulated into believing anything-no matter how dark or dangerous. ...
|  | Frankenstein: En Espanol (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: Vintage Espanol En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su médico Polidori en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventaría una historia de fantasmas. La más callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida así a quien sería su personaje más famoso: el doctor Frankenstein. Al cabo de un año completaría la novela, hoy día un clásico imperecedero de la liter...
|  | One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Publication Date: February 2002| Series: Kurt Wallander Mystery On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander is focusing on living healthier, but his peace of mind is shattered when a f...
|  | The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Release Date: October 10, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton tells 24 stories that kept her ancestors' culture alive during slavery, from spirited animal trickster tales and robust tall tales to spine-chilling tales of the supernatural and moving narratives of slaves in search of freedom. Twelve of these tales are on the 78-minute CD, including the hauntingly beautiful title story, "The People Could Fly." Booklist praised the recording as "an outstanding and most welcome production that both complements and extends the original...
|  | Captain Cat (I Can Read Book 1)
Release Date: April 22, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Haleakala National Park (Parks for People Series)
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|  | Looking for The Gulf Motel (Pitt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Pitt Poetry Series Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultu...
|  | Viper Rum (Poets, Penguin)
Release Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Poets, Penguin In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink: I cast back to those last years I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink, bathrobed, my head hatching snakes,while my baby slept in his upstairs cage and my marriage choked to deathPrecise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" (Poetry). Also inclu...
|  | Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse
Release Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up A swashbuckling adventure full of sword fights, sea shanties, and persistent pirate!Jack Jones is a very ordinary boy until the day his great uncle passes away and he inherits a terrible, horrible pirate curse from, the famed pirate Blackstrap Morgan, his great-great-many-times-great grandfather. Chased by a merciless band of pirates who can temporarily take over the bodies of anyone close to Jack--his teacher, his friends, and even his parents--he must find the courage to confront the curse and outsmart the pirates or spend the rest of hi...
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