 | Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Release Date: October 26, 2010When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who will she choose, the man she loves, or the man she's supposed to hate? Detroit hustlers Free and Six have been together seven years, but their relationship has been nothing but drama. Free hasn’t been faithful and Six has taken out her hurt by physically hurting the other women. Free ends up in jail for three years, and when he’s sprung, he’s not happy to learn that Six has been living the high-life on his dime and blown through $100,000! Then Six gets entangled in o...
 |  | Confidential Sources
Release Date: October 31, 2006She’ll take Manhattan. He’ll take Managua. When two ambitious reporters from the same New York newspaper get married, something’s got to give. And in this wry, witty tale of a modern globe-spanningromance, what gives is the conventional and the expected–as fact turns more fantastic than fiction.Jim Mulvaney has never met a story he didn’t think he could write. Barbara Fischkin isn’t sure she can write anything in the midst of their maddening marriage. But while Mulvaney is following his legendary nose for war, disaster, ...
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|  | Hand Me Down
Release Date: April 12, 2012 A tough, tender, debut novel, in the tradition of DorothyAllison and Janet Fitch, Hand Me Down is the unforgettable storyof a girl who travels between California and Utah in search of her truefamily, having never been loved best of all. Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting hersister, Jaime, from their parents' cruel mistakes. Their father, who'drather work the system than a job, pours every dollar into his manyvices, denying his daughters the shoes and clothing they need. Theirmother, once a loving parent, is going through a post-post-ad...
|  | The Tree Bride
Release Date: August 24, 2005ational Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters- influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a ...
|  | A Heart Full of Love
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|  | Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts (Library of America, Nos. 210 & 211)
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|  | Lord of the Silent
Release Date: May 1, 2001Dateline: Cairo and Environs, 1915. Risking life and limb, the intrepid Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and company defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of archaeological discovery -- and crime solving.When a fresh -- but not fresh enough -- body turns up in the tomb they are evacuating, Amelia vows to protect her family and find the killer no matter what the cost. ...
|  | Friends at Thrush Green (Thrush Green Series #10)
Publication Date: November 7, 2002Miss Read's charming Thrush Green series continues with Friends at Thrush Green. There had been general dismay when Miss Watson and Miss Fogerty retired to Barton-on-the-Sea after many years of devoted service teaching the children of Thrush Green, so their visit to see old friends in the village brings great pleasure. The new headmaster, Alan Lester, is cautiously accepted, but rumor is rife about his wife's health. Meanwhile, Farmer Percy Hodge is also the subject of local speculation: Is his strange behavior the result of an infatuation with the young Dor...
|  | Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 3, 2009| ISBN-10: 019955465X | ISBN-13: 978-0199554652| Edition: Reissue Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better "man's estate", they shared a common language and cultural heritage.The quest for "origins", the nature of the relationship between society and the individual, and what it meant to be human were subjects that occupied both the writing of scient...
|  | The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture
Publication Date: February 16, 2009Court masques were multi-media entertainments, with song, dance, theater, and changeable scenery, staged annually at the English court to celebrate the Stuart dynasty. They have typically been regarded as frivolous and expensive entertainments. This book dispels this notion, emphasizing instead that they were embedded in the politics of the moment, and spoke in complex ways to the different audiences who viewed them. Covering the whole period from Queen Anne's first masque at Winchester in 1603 to Salmacida Spolia in 1640, Butler looks in depth at the polit...
|  | La Dama Boba (Catedra Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (Madrid, 25 de noviembre de 1562 – 27 de agosto de 1635) fue uno de los más importantes poetas y dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro español y, por la extensión de su obra, uno de los más prolíficos autores de la literatura universal.El llamado Fénix de los ingenios y Monstruo de la Naturaleza (por Miguel de Cervantes), renovó las fórmulas del teatro español en un momento en que el teatro comienza a ser un fenómeno cultural y de masas. Máximo exponente, junto a Tirso de Mo...
|  | National Theatre Connections 2011: Plays for Young People
Release Date: May 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 140813179X | ISBN-13: 978-1408131794This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary scho...
|  | Veinte poem
Publication Date: 2001| Series: Biblioteca Edaf (Book 236) A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Strawberry Lips: Memoirs of a Mosotho Woman
Publication Date: June 8, 2012A multitude of books have been written about the Kingdom in the Sky, yet not one book has emerged out of Lesotho more personal, balancing candor and creative ability to bring alive a cosmopolitan Mosotho confronting, among other things, her own Mosothoness or lack thereof in the face of a fast changing world. Admittedly the emergence of such a book might have been anticipated; however the Mountain Kingdom’s literary diamond will leave you wondering how she birthed with seeming ease this mainly satirical gem. ‘…not all women go through life j...
|  | Lords and Commons
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|  | Night Navigation
Publication Date: April 14, 2009Night Navigation opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del’s thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son needs a ride, but she’s afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed.Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict—from break-your-arm dealers, to boot-camp rehabs, to Rumi-quoting NA sponsors. Al-Anon tells Del to “let go”; NAMI tells her to “hang on.” Mark...
|  | The Blade Itself: A Novel
Release Date: November 27, 2007On the South Side of Chicago, you're only as strong as your reputation. Danny Carter and his best friend Evan earned theirs knocking over pawnshops and liquor stores, living from score to score, never thinking of tomorrow…until, in the roar of a gun blast, everything changed. Years later, Danny has built a new life: a legitimate career, a long-term girlfriend, and a clean conscience. He's just like anyone else. Normal. Successful. Happy. Until then he spots his old partner staring him down in a smoky barroom mirror... Now, with all he loves on the line a...
|  | Death of a Cozy Writer (A St. Just Mystery)
Publication Date: July 8, 2008| Series: A St. Just Mystery (Book 1) Winner of the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First NovelFrom deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patriarch decides to weave a malicious twist into his well-worn plot. Gathering them all together for a family dinner, he announces his latest blow – a secret elopement with the beautiful Violet... who was once suspected of murdering her husba...
|  | The Game
Publication Date: 2004Unabridged. Narrated by Jenny Sterlin. ...
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