 | The Most Beautiful Woman in Spain and Other Stories
Publication Date: June 21, 2012These stories by Domingos Monteiro, a Portuguese writer, deal with the intricacies of human relationships, both in Spain and in Portugal. The stories are: The Most Beautiful Woman in Spain, A Tale to the Contentment of All, The Hungarian Teacher, Sleep, Purity, The Day of Reckoning, and Revenge. ...
 |  | Murder in the Cathedral
Publication Date: March 18, 1964T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time. ...
|  | Dancing with Werewolves: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator
Release Date: October 30, 2007It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas - which is run by a werewolf mob - she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhound to help her out... ...
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|  | A Vampire And His Ghoul
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|  | Texas Fury/Texas Sunrise
Release Date: April 24, 2012Sizzling and sexy, these two novels in the Texas series complete Fern Michaels’s saga of the privileged Coleman family, whose lifelong drama of heartbreak and triumph has captivated millions of readers. TEXAS FURYFor Amelia Coleman Assante, the last surviving child of a legendary tycoon, it is a time of transition. Although she and her husband, Cary, have built a billion-dollar dream, his success threatens to break their fragile marriage. Worse, she may lose Cary to the temptations of another woman. But Amelia carries her own damning secret—with...
|  | The Gift - A Runner's Story
Publication Date: March 8, 2006Runners, Running, Olympics, Steve Prefontaine, Sports, Adventure, Olympic ...
|  | Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
Publication Date: February 1, 1990The people who call themselves Den Dhaá, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in the Dene language with literal interlinear English glosses and in a free English translation, represents a maj...
|  | Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy (Approaches to Teaching Masterpieces of World Literature, 2)
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|  | Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: September 21, 1992| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Choice collection reflects the poet's mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters. Included is one of his best narrative poems, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," along with such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "Paul Revere's Ride." Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | The Women Carry River Water: Poems
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|  | Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1861893019 | ISBN-13: 978-1861893017Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But what is it about this dark and morbidly morose aesthetic that fascinates us today? In Contemporary Gothic, Catherine Spooner probes the reasons behind the prevalence of the Gothic in popular culture and how it has inspired innovative new work in film, literature...
|  | I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
Publication Date: April 6, 2012 From the preface by SF legend Bruce Sterling: "Dery...brandishes a Diogenes lantern as the the smoke thickens on every side. ... Beset with Google erudition, [these essays] tackle a dizzying set of topics--even within the essays, within the very sentences, there are dizzying arrays of topics. ... He's very good at going into areas of culture you wouldn't care to visit yourself, and performing autopsies. He assesses each bone and organ in detail. Not in acrowd-pleasing way--he doesn't prettify it, culture-industrialize it andbuild a gift-shop at the door. ...
|  | Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
Release Date: September 30, 2008“A drop of truth, of lived experienced, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike modestly described his nonfiction pieces, of which Due Considerations is perhaps his most varied, stylish, and personal collection. Here Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A. S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, and Margaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of “Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,” and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, ...
|  | On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Publication Date: March 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0872200809 | ISBN-13: 978-0872200807Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A.O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index. ...
|  | Tangled Sheets
Release Date: January 1, 2005From Michael Thomas Ford, the critically acclaimed author of Last Summer and Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, comes this sizzling collection of fantasies culled from more than a decade of his best erotic work. These stories of heat, lust, desire, need, and transformation-an Olympian bacchanal, a chance meeting in the men's room, an S&M-fueled "coaching" session, a police officer who'll do what it takes to get a confession-are as incredibly hot as they are exquisitely crafted. There's "Becoming Al," an "X-rated Flannery O'Connor story" that takes place on the stage a...
|  | Missing
Publication Date: March 22, 2011Debt collector Matt Spears isn't having a good day. He's being framed by the cops over an alleged assault and has inexplicably found himself indebted to the blind, but ruthless gangster, Vincent Barbour. When Barbour’s supposedly dead niece, Emma, surfaces in a graphic sexual video on a porn site, he asks Matt to find her in exchange for wiping the slate clean. Within a matter of hours, Matt is plunged into a world of sex, blackmail and murder. Trying to unravel the mysteries of a troubled young girl's disappearance, he discovers the dark side of the po...
|  | Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Publication Date: April 16, 2012| Series: Phryne Fisher Mystery (Book 9) In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams Phryne picks her way through the mystery with help from the old faithfuls - Bert, Cec, Dot and Detective Inspector 'Call Me Jack' Robinson. But ultimately it is her stealth and wit which solve the crime - and ...
|  | The Denslow Picture Book Treasury (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: January 14, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | How to Star in Swimming and Diving
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