 | The Song at the Sea: Being a Commentary on a Commentary in Two Parts
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 |  | My Dearest Mr. Darcy: An amazing journey into love everlasting (The Darcy Saga)
Release Date: January 1, 2010| Series: The Darcy Saga Darcy is more deeply in love with his wife than ever As the golden summer draws to a close and the Darcys look ahead to the end of their first year of marriage, Mr. Darcy could never have imagined his love could grow even deeper with the passage of time… Lizzy is full of surprises… Elizabeth is unpredictable and lively, pulling Darcy out of his stern and serious demeanor with her teasing and temptation. Looking ahead and planning for celebrations and life events large and small, Lizzy can still catch Darcy unawares when he l...
|  | Desire After Dark
Release Date: February 1, 2006Vicki Cavendish knows she should be careful. After all, there's a killer loose in town - one who drains women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes just like her. She knows she should tell police about the dark, gorgeous man who comes into the diner every night, the one who makes her feel a longing she's never felt before. The last thing she should do is invite the beautiful stranger into her house...Cursed to an eternity of darkness, Antonio Battista has wandered the earth, satisfying his hunger with countless women, letting none find a place in his hear...
|  | Passport to Panic
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Lewis Page needs money urgently and a way out. He determines to get it from his wealthy brother who lives in a remote region of San Mateo in South America. Upon his arrival, however, he finds his brother desperately ill and in the hands of a notorious man named Benevides. Held prisoner, Lewis slowly but surely learns what is going on, while Benevides is making newspaper headlines throughout the continent. Fearful and dramatic events, with dangerous and violent intermissions, allow Lewis to rediscover his true self. ...
|  | Swimming Naked with Jellyfish: The coming-of-age story of a girl who hates semicolons, loves extremes, and lives her life exposed.
Release Date: August 8, 2008IRIS ANDREA confronts her grief over multiple loss of family by writing her memoir. She flashes back to growing up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, 1950s-60s, then fast forwards to an immediate presence of understanding. In her effort to discover her identity and self-worth, she digs up intense childhood anger for her beloved tyrant father, neglecting mother, jealous sister but she also finds love.She powerfully narrates her encounters with her violent father and rebellion against the trapped submissive females of her family by escaping with the freedom-loving males. ...
|  | Brave New World
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0060929871 | ISBN-13: 978-0060929879A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."--Saturday Review of Literature "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."--Forum"It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appro...
|  | Myths and Legends of Japan
Publication Date: April 15, 2007Nowadays Japan is seen as a modern and technologically innovative place, but in 1913, when Myths and Legends of Japan was first published, its culture seemed strange and exotic to the average Westerner.With this collection, F. Hadland Davis uses folklore to bring Japanese civilization to life and introduce this alien society to a Western audience. Davis arranges myths into 31 categories, including heroes and warriors, legends of Mount Fuji, animal legends, superstitions, and legends of the sea.Each chapter contains numerous examples of the genre, making for a ...
|  | Cowboy Versus Samurai
Publication Date: February 7, 2011ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 1 female A laugh-out-loud, romantic comedy exploring the sexual dynamics that surface around race when an attractive Korean American woman moves to town. The play is a politically edgy examination of inter-racial dating and identitythrough irony, humor, and social commentary. Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming. When a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she...
|  | Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar
Release Date: December 6, 2011In March 1987, a young author from Oklahoma published her firstnovel, Arrows of the Queen. This modest book about a magicalland called Valdemar was the beginning of a fantasy masterwork seriesthat would span decades and include more than two dozen titles. Nowreaders can travel to the world of Valdemar with Tanya Huff, MickeyZucker Reichert, Fiona Patton, Rosemary Edghill, Judith Tarr, andothers in these original stories, including an all-new novella fromMercedes Lackey. ...
|  | Candy Cane Murder
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|  | Vergil's Aeneid 8 & 11: Italy & Rome
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0865165807 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165809Latin text of 395 lines of the Aeneid (608-731: shield of Aeneas; 11.498-596-introduction to Camilla; 11.664-835-Camilla's heroicism and defeat), with same-page vocabulary and notes. These passages introduce episodes that can only enrich and deepen appreciation for and understanding of Vergil's poetic project. Vergil's description of the scenes on shield presented to the uncomprehending Aeneas, and of the heroism and defeat, through trickery and misplaced desire, of Camilla (deemed 'Italy's ormanment' by Turnus...
|  | Translating Modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Publication Date: September 23, 2010In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.Here Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, Berman addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation&quo...
|  | American Yakuza
Publication Date: May 15, 2012Luce Potter straddles three cultures as she strives to live with the ideals of family, honor, and duty. When her grandfather passes the family business to her, Luce finds out that power, responsibility and justice come with a price. Is it a price she's willing to die for? Brooke Erickson lives the fast-paced life of an investigative journalist living on the edge until it all comes crashing down around her one night in Europe. Stateside, Brooke learns to deal with a new reality when she goes to work at a financial magazine and finds out things aren't always as th...
|  | What Dreams May Come
Publication Date: July 5, 2005An all-new paranormal romance anthology headlined by a New York Times bestselling author.This is an exquisite trio of stories by three beloved authors skilled at making the most impossible dreams come true. All new, original novellas of fantastic romance by:New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon. A bare-chested hunk on the cover of a paperback romance literally comes to life to fulfill a lonely woman's fantasies in Knightly Dreams.Award-winning author Robin D. Owens With other-worldly assistance, two unlucky lovers are given one more chance to ...
|  | Time and Time Again
Release Date: May 29, 2001Novelist Marion Mead invents worlds from her imagination. But what world invented her?An eighteenth-century newspaper article about Susanna Grier -- a runaway Virginia wife and mother who abandoned an abusive husband to follow a criminal -- is Marion's latest inspiration. The story calls to her, resonating in some deep, forgotten corner of her soul. Now her research has drawn her to the sprawling Southern estate of Raymond Lord, and to a diary penned by the real-life Susanna's great-granddaughter, Pearl. But names and people Marion dreamed up for her novel-in-progre...
|  | Bushwhacked Bride (Wink & a Kiss)
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|  | The Angel Maker
Publication Date: June 2001Urban legend, or frightening fact? "One of the better fictional detectives ever penned,"* Seattle's Lou Boldt, and forensic psychologist Dephne Matthews suspect illegal organ harvesting is behind recent assaults on teenage runaways.The trail leads them down dark streets and darker corners of the mind, as they find themselves pursuing a twisted surgeon with his own ideas of mortality and social justice. Packed with action, The Angel Maker takes the reader on a joy ride from Seattle's homeless to an abandoned homesteading cabin and kennel hidden away in the forests o...
|  | Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Other Favorite Tales
Publication Date: June 1, 2000| Grade Level: 2 and up The universally celebrated fairy tales of Charles Perrault--Little Red Riding Hood,Puss in Boots, Blue Beard, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Little Tom Thumb, amongothers--were first published in France in 1697.Everyone knows most if not all of these tales, but few realize that Perrault was the first to put these stories, which had been passed down through the oral tradition for generations, in written form.Through the centuries, the stories have been adapted and changed.Now, this profusely illustrated volume presents Perrault's ori...
|  | Moto X (Record Breakers)
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|  | Ice Cold
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