 | Words Fail Me
Publication Date: July 1, 2006This lively and informative new title was originally inspired by the author's Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English is full of contradictions and peculiarities (not counting such dull grammatical inconsistencies as 'i before e except after c', which are really no fun at all) and hoodwinks us into believing one thing while meaning s...
 |  | Played (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents What happens when you get too caught up in hustling? Beautiful Taj Jenson spends her evenings performing lesbian sex shows for an all-male audience and earns big bills while doing it. But her nonstop lifestyle full of cash, partying and drugs all comes crashing down when she meets San, a sweet girl with a tender soul who Taj develops deep feelings for. Taj tries to escape the hustling life in order to live normally with San, but breaking out of the game is harder than it seems. Taj’s world quickly spirals ...
|  | The 47 Ronin Story (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2006| Series: Tuttle Classics 47 Ronin Story is the classic Japanese story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history.In a shocking clash between the warriors and the merchant class of seventeenth century Japan, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes--the forty-seven ronin, or ex-samurai, of Ako. ...
|  | Petit Morts 1: Sweets to the Sweet
Publication Date: June 19, 2010Indulge your sweet tooth with five deliciously weird tales by gay mystery virtuoso, Josh Lanyon, and the queen of gay erotic horror, Jordan Castillo Price!A storefront. You've never noticed it before. It's small, unassuming, and yet there's something about it that draws your eye. And the aroma drifting out, rich and dark, so enticing. How could you have overlooked it? It must be new.So why does it look like it's been there for ages? And the chocolatier behind the counter...certainly you'd remember him.#1: Hue, Tint and Shade by Jordan Castillo PriceYellow is as...
|  | Nuclear Hornet
Publication Date: September 16, 2012A Story of Modern War... In the aftermath of America’s wars in the Middle East, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is scrambling for the means to defend itself.Their efforts to acquire nuclear materials are thwarted by the UN, and their income is constricted by sanctions on Iran’s vast oil supplies.Seeking allies and trade partners they turn to the Russians and the Chinese.What they get is an international cabal of organized crime led by a man known only as Rannovich. Taking advantage of the corruption and Islamic radicalism of th...
|  | More Views from North Lochs: Aimsir Eachainn
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1841588059 | ISBN-13: 978-1841588056Giving a voice to the Scottish Gael at the end of the 20th century, the late Hector Macdonald scribed the brilliant weekly column, 'A View from North Lochs' for the West Highland Free Press. Inspired by the great Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, who published novels under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien but wrote for the Irish Times as 'Cruiskeen Lawn', Hector Macdonald commented for more than fifteen years from the North Lochs, creating an array of unforgettable characters, eccentric scenarios, magnificent satire and...
|  | An Unsuitable Bride (Blackwater Brides)
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Series: Blackwater Brides Long ago, young Viscount Bradley’s prudish family forbade him to marry his beloved. Now, the aging lord has plotted a subtle revenge. His three nephews can split his fortune, but only if each marries a fallen woman. Two have found brides who meet the terms . . . and all depends on the youngest, Peregrine Sullivan. New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather’s Georgian trilogy concludes with a sexy tale sure to delight. Only desperation would drive a lady to disguise herself in hopes of employment, but the twenty thousand p...
|  | The Fifteen Streets: A Novel
Release Date: November 26, 2002Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have captured the imaginations of readers around the globe. Now, available for the first time in this country, comes one of Cookson's earliest and most stirring historical romances: "The Fifteen Streets."John O'Brien lives in a world where surviving is a continual struggle. He works long hours at the docks to help support his parents' large family. Many other families in the Fifteen Streets have already given up and desce...
|  | Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Publication Date: January 27, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521464900 | ISBN-13: 978-0521464901The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women that issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of his interpretation, N.T. Croally is able to offer a coherent view on a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean criticism, such as the relation of Euripides to the Sophists. ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of Drama (Shorter Edition)
Publication Date: November 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393934128 | ISBN-13: 978-0393934120| Edition: Shorter Edition The only one-volume drama anthology that’s a Norton.The most comprehensive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Drama, Shorter Edition, offers plays unavailable in any other drama anthology, with the careful preparation and scrupulous editing you expect from a Norton–all at a lower price than other one-volume drama anthologies. With a total of thirty-three plays, The Norton Anthology of Drama, Shorter Edition, includes two major plays and one translation ex...
|  | McDougal Littell Nextext: The Odyssey Grades 6-12 (Classic Retelling)
Publication Date: August 3, 1999| Series: Classic Retelling T en years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus's palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus's son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their domi...
|  | Epreuves Exorcismes (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Sigmund Freud (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
Publication Date: June 10, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415473691 | ISBN-13: 978-0415473699| Edition: 2 The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and responses to Freud’s work, including:tracing contexts and developments of Freud’s work over the course of his careerexploring paradoxes and contradictions in his writingfocusing on psychoanalysis ...
|  | Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library No. 91)
Publication Date: January 1, 1918| ISBN-10: 0674991028 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991026| Edition: RevisedTHIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITIONJuvenal, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (ca. AD 60–140), master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born at Aquinum. He used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire 1); vices of fake philosophers (2); grievances of the worthy poor (3); and of clients (5); a council-meeting under Emperor Domitian (4); vicious women (6); prospects of letters and learning unde...
|  | You...Again: Baby Blessed\Yesterday Once More
Release Date: December 27, 2011Baby BlessedGoing home, baby and all?Molly Larabee left her husband, Jordan, after a tragedy destroyed her faith in their marriage. She began a new life as a foreign aid volunteer. But now, four years later, her safety is in jeopardy—and Jordan comes to her rescue. She discovers that her feelings for him have never died, and they share a night of passion that results in pregnancy.…Molly wants her husband back. But Jordan, still hurt by her leaving, asks for a divorce. Can a baby reunite them?Yesterday Once MoreGoing back to Kansas—and a wedding?T...
|  | El Corazon De Una Bridgerton/ When He Was Wicked (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Case of the Amorous Aunt (A Perry Mason Mystery)
Release Date: March 2, 1994| Series: A Perry Mason Mystery The incomparable Perry Mason must prove that a well-to-do widowwho recently remarried a man whom her relatives branded a fortunehunter did not kill her supposedly sinister new husband. Reprint. ...
|  | Terminal Ambition: A Maggie Mahoney Novel
Publication Date: March 24, 2012 Maggie Mahoney wants justice for women at her law firm. The firm chairman wants to be Attorney General. Only one can win in this legal thriller. Sweeny, Owens & Boyle sits at the top of Wall Street law firms. Brilliant and beautiful, Maggie Mahoney became a partner and the trophy wife of its managing at...
|  | A Little White Death
Publication Date: February 8, 2007The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard’s chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair.England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth, sets out to fight back. The battle reaches uncomfortably close to Troy. While he is on medical leave, the Yard brings charges against an acquaintance of his, a hedonistic doctor with a penchant for voyeurism and young women, two of whom just happen to be sleeping with a ...
|  | The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: Ann Lindell Mysteries Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, The Princess of Burundi introduces American readers to a crime writer who has quickly become an international sensation. This spellbinding new thriller opens when a young father fails to show up for supper on a snowy night just before Christmas. His is not the only sinister disappearance, and before the final breathtaking climax, a secret killer terrorizes an entire frightened town. ...
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