 | Life After Death
Release Date: September 18, 2012In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with...
 |  | Anterooms: New Poems and Translations
Publication Date: November 12, 2010Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human condition through reflections on nature and love. Anterooms also features masterly tr...
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|  | Night Probe!
Release Date: June 1, 1984| Series: Dirk Pitt Adventure Cussler's most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt's most dangerous adventure.Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet—the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it’s worth a war. Pitt’s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britian’s ...
|  | The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series)
Release Date: July 24, 2004| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up...
|  | Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: April 3, 2012Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller have overcome more than a few daunting challenges and powerful enemies to see justice done. Against tremendous odds, they successfully unmasked an American president's involvement in a chain of murders. They also saved the life of a Supreme Court justice while foiling a conspiracy by rogue members of the CIA to fix a case headed for the court. Now wicked threats old and new are about to bring them together once again. Convicted serial killer Clarence Little has escaped from death row in Oregon, and Brad rece...
|  | Look At All The Happy Creatures
Publication Date: February 25, 2011Sort of an updated Animal Farm, set in a Conspiratorial Future, intermixed with Psy-Phi, Pop-Culture, and an Exploration of Consciousness. Look At All The Happy Creatures is a modern fable set among the ashes of the fire presently burning all around us. It's a world where the global state rules with an iron fist and the television is its greatest weapon. Follow the trained animals that are forced to sing and dance for you, to entertain you and keep you subservient. As they struggle to make sense of life in a cage, they find love and friendship - and a deter...
|  | In This Earth and In Heaven, A Novel of the American West
Publication Date: June 15, 2010Even though seventeen year old Eddy Gavolin gut shot his drunken stepfather, the older man managed to get a lucky stab that killed the youth's mother. She died in his arms without revealing his real father's identity. And after she was put to rest in the New Mexico desert the stark realization infected him--he had a hell of a mountain to climb. Not only was he a country boy with Indian blood, he was a real life bastard as well. Under the tutelage of Deputy Dave Brinkle and Lambert Snodgrass, a transplanted Texas oil field driller, he starts his climb toward for...
|  | Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies (The How to End Human Suffering Series)
Publication Date: April 24, 2012| Series: The How to End Human Suffering Series In a world where ZOMBIES control banks and governments, only one young man sees the way things are and emerges from the CHAOS and destruction: GUY BOY MAN. While he tries to end human suffering worldwide and in his high school, Guy Boy Man meets a cute PINK-HAIRED girl named BABYDOLL15 who has a UNICORN that follows her everywhere. An EPIC ROMANCE begins, but forces BEYOND THEIR CONTROL are intent on keeping the young couple apart. One of those FORCES may--or may not be!--Guy Boy Man's closest friend, a handsome ...
|  | The Queen's Tragedy (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Gonville College lay in shadow beneath a rosy evening sky as the door from the hall opened, and a young man in a masters gown and cap ran out and across the cobbles, followed by half a dozen others. He waved his hand hurriedly as they called after him, shouted something back, and disappeared into a staircase-door in the chapel corner. Supper had been done ten minutes before; and the half-dozen sisars had been eyeing the cooling dishes regretfully as the old Master, standing up in his place, had told to the company the news for which they had almost forgotten to...
|  | The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity
Publication Date: November 30, 1998This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods. Synthesizing a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and literary sources, this exce...
|  | Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture Many dogmas regarding Greek theatre were established by researcherswho lacked experience in the mounting of theatrical productions. In hiswide-ranging and provocative study, Clifford Ashby, a theatre historiantrained in the practical processes of play production as well as themethods of historical research, takes advantage of his understanding oftechnical elements to approach his ancient subject from a newperspective. In doing so he challenges many long-held views. Archaeological and written sources relating to Greek ...
|  | The Best Stage Scenes of 1995
Publication Date: April 1, 1996| Series: Best Stage Scenes The best stage scenes of 1995 for men, women, and both. The scenes in this volume come from the following plays: Boca by Christopher Kyle, Dates and Nuts by Gary Lennon, Kept Men by Richard Lay, Rain by Gary Williams, Twelve Dreams by James Lapine, Emma's Child by Kristine Thatcher, and many more! ...
|  | Xenophon: Cyropaedia Volume V: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1914| ISBN-10: 0674990579 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990579Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, m...
|  | Mis Versos (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: December 13, 2011Mi amiga María Cristina Beltrán solamente ha escrito un puñado de poemas. Me contó que descubrió sus poemas cuando revisaba sus escritos diarios e íntimos, los que escribe en su balcón todos los días. Confesó que los revisaba para destruir sus secretos y descubrió sus poemas. Siente que a veces amanecen éstos en su mente, completos, y lo que tiene que hacer es pasarlos al papel. La avergüenza firmarlos, dice, porque cree que no es ella la que escribe, sino si ''ángel amor: . . . Sus poemas, Có...
|  | Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination (Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
Publication Date: June 30, 2011| Series: Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | A Little Harmless Sex
Release Date: August 21, 2007Is it love, or just a little harmless sex? Book one in the Harmless series. Max has always been Anna's knight in shining armor. But Max has always seen her as a charming, and very sexy, little sister. Until Max's cold fianc dumps him, Anna unloads another of her many conquests and she invites him over for margaritas and Mexican food. Too much tequila, too much flirting, and too many years of fighting the attraction-Max loses control and has mind-blowing sex with Anna on her couch. And in her shower. And in her bed. When the sun rises the next morning, both of the...
|  | When Dashing Met Danger
Release Date: April 26, 2005From an exciting new voice in romantic fiction comes a fast-paced and emotional historical romance. Shana Galen is sure to dazzle readers with her undeniable talent and unique brand of wit and charm. This is an author to watch! Alex Scarston, Earl of Selbourne. Rake. Spy. With his efforts for England in the war against the French suspended, family obligations compel him to investigate the disappearance of Viscount Brigham's son. When the viscount's daughter becomes involved as well, Alex finds himself entangled in a venture that risks both heart and soul. It's not...
|  | The Crab with the Golden Claws (The Adventures of Tintin: Young Readers Edition)
Publication Date: April 17, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Scholastic True or Fales: Rocks & Minerals (Scholastic True Or False)
Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up...
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