 | A. R. Gurney, Vol. II: Collected Plays, 1974-1983 (Contemporary American Playwrights) (A R Gurney Selected Plays)
Publication Date: February 1999| Series: A R Gurney Selected Plays The six plays in this collection all link personal and cultural change.Two are set in summer places, where families go for awhile every year as a release from where they live the rest of the time.One is set in an early twentieth century city in transition, while another takes place in a motel--by definition a place of passage. Two are set in particular rooms: a dining room, and the trophy room of a private club.The nostalgic appeal of these plays arises from their delightfully comprehensive anthropological accuracy.Not only a...
 |  | Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
Release Date: October 4, 2011WHAT IF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT ENDED TOMORROW? The America we are accustomed to is no more. Practically overnight the stock market has plummeted, hyperinflation has crippled commerce, and the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure have fallen. The power grids are down. Brutal rioting and looting grip every major city. The volatile era known as “the Crunch” has begun, and this new period in our history will leave no one untouched. In this unfamiliar environment, only a handful of individuals are equipped to survive. Andrew Laine, ...
|  | The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Publication Date: October 26, 1989With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination.Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead.As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction traditio...
|  | Regeneration
Release Date: July 1, 1993In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I.His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter.He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital.There a brilliant phsychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches.This novel tells what happened as only a novel can.It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired.It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide ...
|  | Capitol Murder CD
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. 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 receives threatening messages in D.C., where he is working for Senator Jack Carson, a high-ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. A dead body, murdered according to Little's M.O., is found in the senator's Georgetown home, and Carson ...
|  | Code Red
Publication Date: April 18, 2007Code Red combines a deadly Ebola-like filovirus, art smuggling, and international intrigue, with a host of believable and engaging characters including a beautiful virologist, and the charismatic chairman of a medical aid organization who may not be what he seems.A heady mix of romance, terrorism, and non-stop action."Don't miss Code Red, a medical thriller that will keep you hyperventilating!"—Catherine Coulter"Nancy Fisher is breathing hotly down the neck of Robin Cook."—Stuart Woods"Gives Robin Cook a run for his money."—Orlando Sentinel ...
|  | Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Bernie Gunther This The New York Times bestseller will make the BernieGunther series the new gold standard in thrillers.Bernie Gunther is one of the great protagonists in thrillerliterature. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo,Bernie learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as aprivate detective-until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS'sfield gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front.Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides acrossthe killing fields of Europe, landing Be...
|  | Herding Cats
Publication Date: August 1, 2003In a small town in the Southwest of England, rivals of a large business are being brutally dealt with one by one. Enter Tim Power, hot-shot advertiser, whose girlfriend has placed him on a strict 12-month relationship test. Caught in a commercial war between two low-grade meat producers, Tim discovers that bad advertising can be every bit as effective as good advertising, provided you don't mind upsetting violent psychopaths with dubious family histories. Worse than this, Tim finds that failing in a relationship can be even more harmful to your health than acc...
| | The Lady and the Mortician
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|  | The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin
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|  | Once upon a Dream
Release Date: November 1, 2000| Series: Once Upon Roberts heads the cast of writers that includes Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Marianne Willman in delivering all-new tales of dreams and desires. Roberts' story, "In Dreams", concerns a beautiful woman who is drawn to a castle in the forests of Ireland and becomes the link to a stranger's past. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Crush (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
Release Date: February 27, 2007| Series: Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories Sportswriter Miranda Penney hits all the wrong notes when she falls for Welsh rock superstar Lucas Fletcher. ...
|  | Vigil
Publication Date: October 9, 2010Donte won't be happy until his fragile human lover is immortal. Adin won't be happy until Donte accepts that immortality isn't for him.After a case of mistaken identity leads Adin to what appears to be the sale of an underage boy named Bran, Adin decides to rescue him and turn him over to the police. Soon it becomes clear that Bran is no ordinary boy. Unless Adin can find out who wants him and why, someone else's plan for Bran will get them both killed.Adin is confident -- but he's not stupid -- and it doesn't take him long to realize that he'll need Donte by...
|  | Three Complete Novels (Silent Prey, Winter Prey & Night Prey)
Release Date: November 12, 1996Contains Silent Prey, Winter Prey, and Night Prey, three fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers in the popular Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport and an array of potential victims, unexpected twists, and twisted minds. ...
|  | Strong Stuff: Herakles and His Labors
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Herakles was one of the greatest of all Greek heroes, and his exploits have been celebrated in paintings, songs, poetry, and sculpture for thousands of years. Now it's time for him to have his own children's book, one devoted exclusively to his labors and adventures. Written by John Harris and illustrated by artist Gary Baseman, Strong Stuff tells the amazing stories of the Stymphalian Birds (defeated by crashing cymbals), creepy King Geryon (with three heads AND three bodies), the Augean Stables (don't ask), an...
|  | Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated By Anne Anderson
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|  | The Princess & the Pea
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| | My Book of Gymnastics: Health & Movement
Publication Date: September 1993A beginner's guide to the techniques of gymnastics, featuring simple exercises like stretching, balancing, bending, and jumping. ...
|  | Making Shelter (Survive Alive)
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|  | The Great Mogul Diamond (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles)
Publication Date: April 25, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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