 | The Mother
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences. ...
 |  | Her Little Black Book
Release Date: April 1, 2008It's less than a week before Sonya Morrison's wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who's fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya’s little black book seems to be just what she needs. That's until Courtney discovers she and her cousin have completely different tastes when it comes to men. But just when ...
|  | Nine miles to Reno
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|  | Montgomery County Ghost Stories
Publication Date: June 2000Chilling True Tales of Haunted Places and Legends in Pennsylvania's Historic Montgomery County. ...
|  | No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Prior to the first American Publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead waking, best-selling Necroscope ® in 1988--the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series--this British author had for twenty years been earning an envious reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. In addition and for a further twenty years Lumley's non-Mythos Fantasy, SF, and Horror stories have been appearing on a regular basis in some of the world's most famous publications; for exam...
|  | Berserk, Vol. 14
Publication Date: December 19, 2006The once unbeatable Band of the Hawk is smashed, and their former leader, Griffith, has made an unholy pact with the demon lords of the Godhand, sacrificing his former troops to resurrect his crippled body and ascend to stand in power beside these profane gods. The Invocation of Doom has unleashed a plague of unspeakable horrors upon the earth, and the first battle not only shatters the Hawks, but the hand of their champion, Guts, and the mind of their captain and Guts' lover, Casca. And while time may heal some of Guts' wounds, it will not heal his desire ...
|  | The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy (Women and History)
Publication Date: March 25, 1993| Series: Women and History (Book 2) A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume magnum opus Women and History (1986) received wide review attention and much acclaim, winning the prestigious Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association for the best work on Women's History that year. Ms hailed the book for providing "a gra...
|  | Look, No Hans (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: June 3, 2011| Series: Acting Edition Genre: Farce Characters: 2 males, 4 females plus 1 optional male Scenery: 1 set This fast paced, fun filled farce by two masters of the genre enjoyed a successful run at London's Strand Theatre, starring David Jason as the hapless Fisher. Peter Fisher is the manager of the West Berlin office of a British car company, where selling British cars is like selling pork chops at a bar mitzvah! He is also an undercover agent for British Security of Industry, a role for which he is singularly ill-equipped. With his wife Monica due to fly home to...
|  | The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
Publication Date: October 27, 2005The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everyt...
|  | The Purgatorio (Signet Classics)
Release Date: July 1, 2001Following The Inferno (also available from Signet Classic) and preceding The Paradiso (available next month from Signet Classic) this brilliant translation of Dante's immortal three-part Divine Comedy beautifully captures the conception of the aspiring soul.Ciardi's version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen. (John Crowe Ransom) ...
|  | Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments.; Musaeus: Hero and Leander (Loeb Classical Library No. 421)
Publication Date: January 1, 1973Callimachus of Cyrene, born ca. 310 BCE, after studying philosophy at Athens, became a teacher of grammar and poetry at Alexandria. Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (reigned 285–247) made him when still young a librarian in the new library at Alexandria; he prepared a great catalogue of its books.Callimachus was author of much poetry and many works in prose, but not much survives. His hymns and epigrams are given with works by Aratus and Lycophron in another volume (no. 129) of the Loeb Classical Library. In the present volume are included fragments of t...
|  | The Gathering Wave
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|  | Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series (Smart Pop series)
Publication Date: April 6, 2010| Series: Smart Pop series Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is a literary sensation, thanks to its strong female hero, well-fleshed (both literally and literarily) characters and unabashed attitude toward sex. The world Hamilton has created is powerfully compelling and stunningly complex—and it gets deeper, richer and more perilous, with every book.Straddling the series’ dominant themes of sex and power, Ardeur gives Anita fans a deeper look into the dynamics, both personal political, that have kept readers fascinated th...
|  | Victorian Horizons
Publication Date: December 2001| ISBN-10: 0810837390 | ISBN-13: 978-0810837393Lundin explores the contemporary response to the picture books of three pioneer Victorian illustrators of children's books: Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Over a century after their first printing, the picture books are striking—breathtaking in their line, color, and design.The author frames "the horizons of expectation"—the context of assumptions and values—that shaped the way picture books were read and reviewed by their audience and examines their critical receptio...
|  | No Paso Nada
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|  | El Corazon Es Un Cazador Solitario (Spanish Edition)
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|  | 1022 Evergreen Place (Cedar Cove)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Cedar Cove Dear Reader,Guess what? I'm falling in love! With Mack McAfee.My baby daughter, Noelle, and I have been living next door to Mack since the spring. I'm still a little wary about our relationship, because I haven't always made good decisions when it comes to men. My baby's father, David Rhodes, is testament to that. I'm so worried he might sue for custody.In the meantime, the World War II letters I found are a wonderful distraction. Both Mack and I are trying to learn what happened to the soldier who wrote them and the woman he loved.Come by so...
|  | Marry Me... Maybe? (By Request 2's)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: By Request 2's paperback ...
|  | Tendrils
Publication Date: November 23, 2009Eighteen-year-old Bailey has one recurring dream-that her affluent parents actually love her and spend time with her. She and her fifteen-year-old sister, Amber, have spent their childhood with nannies and other household help. A high school senior, Bailey can't wait to graduate and attend the University of California to study art.In the meantime, to foster her love of art, Bailey volunteers at a local art museum. That's where she meets a handsome stranger. She soon discovers that twenty-year-old Ashton is like no other man she's met-he's a vampire. Ashton ...
|  | Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown
Release Date: February 21, 2006Agatha Christie is the world's most popular fiction writer; her works have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for her classic crime novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. With such masterpieces as 'Witness for the Prosecution' (the basis for the classic film) and 'Three Blind Mice' (the basis for her Mousetrap,...
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