 | Hagar (People of the Promise)
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 | Anatomy of a Vampire
Publication Date: December 8, 2006Set at the turn of the twentieth century “Anatomy of a Vampire” follows the journey of Dr. Ariel Lucard commissioned by a mysterious benefactor to research the Vampire myth. Dr. Lucard is a skeptic, believing in the absolute power of science but takes the assignment on the basis of the lucrative reward involved. His journey takes him to the source of vampire lore in the Europe, the Carpathian mountains. It is here he discovers the factual basis for the myth which forces him to see the weaknesses in his own scientific knowledge and question the ...
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 | Game Plan
Publication Date: January 2000USA Today bestselling author Charles Wilson delivers a cutting-edge scientific thriller based on real-life experiments at improving human intelligence currently underway in both government and private circles. Imagine a computer chip no bigger than the tip of a pencil. This chip, if implanted in a human brain, could give someone encyclopedic knowledge, lightning-fast reflexes and superior learning skills. In a remote military hospital in Montana, an experiment is being performed: implant the chip into the brains of five volunteers. These volunteers, four men and...
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 | In Pursuit of Justice
Publication Date: April 20, 2010In the dynamic double sequel to Shield of Justice and A Matter of Trust, Det. Sgt. Rebecca Frye struggles to return to duty after a near fatal shooting. Joining forces with enigmatic computer consultant J.T. Sloan, Rebecca accepts a temporary assignment with a Federal task force investigating an Internet child pornography ring. Rebecca's obsession with finding her partner's killer and her involvement in the multi-jurisdictional investigation threaten both her life and her new relationship with Doctor Catherine Rawlings. When Catherine becomes professionally in...
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 | The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition)(The Annotated Books)
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| Series: The Annotated Books "Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."—Mark TwainOne hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures with the five Llewelyn Davies boy...
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 | The Comedy of Errors (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: September 19, 2002| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest dramatic efforts, the play abounds in his trademark conceits, puns, and other forms of fanciful wordplay, foreshadowing his later and greater comedies. ...
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 | Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Italian Edition)
Publication Date: March 9, 1921Dopo aver raccontato la loro vicenda, i sei personaggi convincono il capocomico a rappresentarla, rifiutando però l'assegnazione delle parti ai vari attori: essi vogliono rappresentare di persona il loro dramma. Subito viene sollevato un problema dal capocomico: l'assenza di madama Pace, fondamentale per la scena nell'atelier. Il padre offre subito una soluzione: ricreare l'atelier in modo che madama Pace sia attratta sulla scena. Infatti appare subito dopo la madama, con grande spavento da parte di tutti gli attori, che scappano urlando. Iniziano subito l...
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 | Dom Juan: Ou Le Festin De Pierre, Comedy 1665 (Ldp Theatre) (French Edition)
Publication Date: October 1985| Series: Ldp Theatre Moliére was always careful not to attack the institution of monarchy and the authority of the Church. He earned a position as one of the king's favorites and enjoyed his protection from the attacks of the court. The King allegedly suggested that Molière suspend the performances of Tartuffe, and the author rapidly wrote Don Juan, ou le Festin de Pierre to replace it. It was a strange work, derived from a work by Tirso de Molina and rendered in a prose that still seems modern today. It describes the story of an atheist who becomes a...
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| Tullamore Train
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 | Hugh Lofting (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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 | The Oxford Francis Bacon VIII: The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh and other works of the 1620s
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199256667 | ISBN-13: 978-0199256662This volume belongs to the critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an edition that presents the works in broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship. This volume contains critical editions of five varied works Bacon composed during the 1620s. The most significant and substantial of these five works is his biography of Henry VII (The historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh) but the volume testifies as well to Bacon's contin...
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 | Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form
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 | The Dialectics of Sense and Spirit in Pater and Joyce (No. 12 in 1880-1920 British Authors Series) (British Authors 1880-1920 Vol 12)
Publication Date: January 1998| Series: British Authors 1880-1920 Vol 12 Modernist scholars have written a handful of comparative studies on Pater and Joyce. Frank Moliterno's *The Dialectics of Sense and Spirit in Pater and Joyce* is the first book-length exploration into the aesthetic development of these writers that underscores the importance of Pater in Joyce's works. Much of Pater's and Joyce's aesthetics evolves from the dialectical tension between the sensual and the spiritual. The Paterian-Joycean syntheses of basic antinomies--religion and sensuality, empiricism and idealism, Arist...
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 | The Bible As Literature: An Introduction
Publication Date: November 3, 2005| ISBN-10: 0195179072 | ISBN-13: 978-0195179071| Edition: 5 As in the widely popular earlier editions, the latest revision of this comprehensive and systematic text approaches the Bible from a literary/historical perspective, studying it as a body of writing produced by real people who intended to convey messages to actual audiences. Avoiding assessments of the Bible's truth or authority, the authors maintain a rigorously objective tone as they discuss such major issues as the forms and strategies of biblical writing, its actual historical and physical s...
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 | The Richard Burton Diaries
Publication Date: October 23, 2012Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity an...
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 | As Luck Would Have It
Publication Date: September 2, 2012Sydney is an average middle aged housewife who encounters some misfortune in her life. Her misfortune happens to be someone else's fate.What is supposed to be a therapy trip turns into a trip of lust and sexapades.They say "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." What if that's not what you want. What if what happened in Vegas is just what's missing back home? ...
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 | Caleb's Bride
Publication Date: December 2003Fleeing a typhus epidemic in Boston, Roxanne Sherwood ran headlong into a band of Indians and was immediately taken captive.At the mercy of the fierce warriors, Roxy feared for her life... until a white stranger claimed her as his wife.His well-fitting buckskins outlined every detail of his tall, muscular body, and the smoldering look in his dark eyes left no doubt of his desire.To secure her freedom, the Indians declared Roxy must share this man's bed along with all the intimacies of a married couple.could she possible trust the rough-riding frontiersman to in...
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 | Sister: A Novel
Release Date: December 20, 2011"Lupton enters the highly charged ring where the best psychological detective writers spar... Like Kate Atkinson, Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell… Both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, Sister provides an adrenaline rush that could cause a chill on the sunniest afternoon." –The New York Times Book Review When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty...
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 | The Echo
Release Date: February 27, 2007In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple story will unveil a web of deceit that is an appalling as the people behind it. ...
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| CHECKMATE!: A SHERLOCK HOLMES BURLESQUE
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