 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Publication Date: October 20, 1982Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another. ...
 |  | A Virgin's Diary
Publication Date: 1999This collection of the diarised thoughts of Mary in the months leading up to Jesus' birth offers a humorous and insightful commentary on the original nativity and our celebration of it today. ...
|  | Dying to Live
Release Date: September 28, 2010A lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, Jonah Caine wandered for months, struggling to understand the apocalypse in which he lives.Unable to find a moral or sane reason for the horror that surrounds him, he is overwhelmed by violence and insignificance. Then Jonah comes across a group of survivors living in a museum-turned-compound. They are led by Jack, an ever-practical and efficient military man; and Milton, a mysterious prophet who holds a strange power over the dead. Both share Jonah’s anguish over the brutality of their world as well as his ho...
|  | The Rabbit Factory: A Novel
Publication Date: August 26, 2003Larry Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, this "true original" (Chicago Tribune) weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning, fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results.Set in Memphis and north Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease...
|  | La Muerte Blanca (Spanish Edition)
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|  | High Stakes Fantasy: An Alternative Reality Sports Thriller (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Blacklisted newsman Matt Riser is recruited for seven figures to draft a fantasy baseball team. Hard to believe, right? Matt doubts the offer's legitimacy but a hefty cash advance and season tickets behind home plate convinces him to travel to Las Vegas to at least meet the man seeking his fantasy expertise.Big mistake. Mystery man turns out to be pharmaceuticals tycoon Kyle Stark who also co-owns a real Major League Baseball franchise. He and fellow owners of real MLB teams compete for a $2 billion pot in an illegal, underground fantasy league.Matt takes the as...
|  | Hamlet - A User's Guide (Limelight)
Release Date: July 1, 2004(Limelight). "Pennington's great experience of the play...love for it...depth of knowledge...of many productions and interpretations culminate in a book of infinite value to any actor, director and above all to any passionate playgoer...written with passion, humor and rigor...an excellent read."Ralph Fiennes ...
|  | The Oedipus Cycle: A New Translation
Release Date: February 28, 2012 The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vibrant new translations by award-winning poet Robert Bagg Sophocles' three great masterpieces, gathered here in one volume, dramatize the inexplicable animosity directed at three generations of Thebes' royal family by Apollo, the inscrutable god who terrifies and deceives his victims into acts of incest, betrayal, and kin murder. These fifth-century BCE family dramas—Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone—are fraught with horrific crises, confrontations, and excruciating choices, all of ...
|  | The "Lost" Sam Spade Scripts
Publication Date: June 10, 2009When Dashiell Hammett's THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE made its debut over CBS in August of 1946, the series became an instant success. Howard Duff, a virtual unknown among Hollywood circles, found himself bombarded with movie offers. The early broadcasts of the series revealed a dark side of Spade: stealing money out of a dead man's wallet to sleeping with a married woman. Over time, the script writers cut down on the dark side and added an emphasis of humor. Spade's romantic relationship with his secretary Effie was more obvious.While many recordings exist from ...
|  | Aknos (Collection Voix) (French Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Collection Voix This work features text in French. ...
|  | The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True Adventures of an Elizabethan Traveller
Publication Date: October 1, 2006In 1601, an English traveler sets off into the unknown to discover the East. Leaving behind a wife and children, he journeys to Alexandria, overland to Cairo and then to Gaza, encountering plots against his life and racing camels along the way. But Henry Timberlake then meets a companion who will change his life. A Moroccan Moor on his way to Mecca saves Timberlake's life, not once, but twice, and they become friends and travelling companions as the Moor detours to join the explorer in his voyage of discovery. In this fascinating true story of a seventeenth-c...
|  | The Marriage Paradox: Modernist Novels and the Cultural Imperative to Marry
Publication Date: December 31, 2005Departing from the tradition of reading literary modernism in terms of formal innovation, Pines’ study examines literary modernism through the lens of marriage. She considers the marriage plots of selected modernist novels by Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Nella Larsen, and Virginia Woolf in relation to the social and legal restructuring of marriage occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain and the U.S. In particular, she identifies and explores the strategies by which the modernist critique of ...
|  | Russian Classics in Russian and English: The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev (Dual-Language Book) (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: November 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 0956401090 | ISBN-13: 978-0956401090This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on Russian Novels in Russian and English page on Facebook. ...
|  | Basic Latin Vocabulary
Publication Date: June 7, 2001| ISBN-10: 1853995053 | ISBN-13: 978-1853995057| Edition: Bilingual This selected Latin vocabulary includes a thousand of the most common Latin words and words-groups faced by those tackling Latin at an early stage. It is designed to give them increased confidence with vocabulary as they deal simultaneously with grammar and syntax. Words which have a common root and connected meanings are always linked together and an added mnemonic is provided by means of easily recognizable English words derived from the Latin. This is a simple and 'user-friendly' way to b...
|  | Irish Dreams: Irish Rebel\Sullivan's Woman (Emerald Legacy)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Emerald Legacy Irish RebelFrom the moment she met him, Keeley Grant knew there was something wild about Brian Donnelly. He dared to ignore everything that said a poor Irish rogue shouldn't touch her, and battered down every wall she threw at him. But a wild thing by nature cannot be contained, not by convention or fences or even by love. Could she give him everything if he was just going to walk away?Sullivan's WomanColin Sullivan had a vision—the painting of his career, with Cassidy St. John as his model. She would be a challenge to paint, with he...
|  | With A Song In My Heart (Arabesque)
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Series: Arabesque Elle Ransom is in love with Brennan Cunningham III. After being together for a while, Elle proclaims her love to Brennan after a night of passionate lovemaking, but it's too much for him to handle, so he skips out in the middle of the night leaving Elle alone and unbeknown to them both, pregnant. ...
| ![Wild Need [Werewolves of Forever, Texas 4] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O0JyDft3L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Wild Need [Werewolves of Forever, Texas 4] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: September 19, 2012[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Paranormal Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, shape-shifters, bondage, spanking, HEA] Kate Wingate takes a job as a personal assistant even though she has to move to the small town of Forever, Texas. Still, the benefits are better than she'd imagine when she finds herself getting up close and personal to three hot cowboys. It's a dirty job, but, hey, someone's got to do it, right? Travis Williams, Cort Cartland, and Tucker Lawson, the men of Moonlight Ranch, searched and found their mate in the beautiful Kate. But wh...
|  | A Curtain Falls
Release Date: May 11, 2010The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Ziele’s fiancée in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both men were earmarked for much bigger things, Ziele moved to Dobson, a small town north of the city, to escape the violence, and Mulvaney buried himself even deeper, agreeing to head up the precinct in the most crime-ridden area in the city.Yet with all of the detectives and resources at Mulvaney’s dispos...
|  | Becoming Me: A Story of Creation
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up Have you ever imagined how you came to be? Do you stop and wonder what your place is in creation? Becoming Me presents a way of looking at life and the meaning of our existence, based on timeless spiritual insights. The simple words and beautiful illustrations touch something deep within us. With each page turn, we begin to see our place in the world and realize the potential of our lives. We discover that we are part of something greater and experience our connection to all things and to one another. Becoming ...
|  | Brown Bear & Friends CD
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle’s classic Bear books have been a hit with children for many generations, and have sold more than eleven million copies. This wonderful compilation CD brings together the beloved first three Bear books—Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?—and includes the newest addition, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? The stories are read with warmth and humor by Academy Award-winning actres...
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