 | Anyone But You (Hqn Romance)
Publication Date: December 1, 2006| Series: Hqn Romance Part basset, part beagle, all Cupid . . . For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom -- from the ex-husband, freedom from their stuffy suburban home, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed -- a puppy. A bouncy, adorable puppy. Instead she gets . . . Fred. Overweight, middle-aged, a bit smelly and obviously depressed, Fred is light-years from perky. But he does manage to put Nina in the path of Alex Moore, her gorgeous, younger-by-a-decade neighbor. Alex seems perfect -- he'...
 |  | Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire : Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
Publication Date: July 1992| ISBN-10: 0815602685 | ISBN-13: 978-0815602682| Edition: 1st The first major collection of Mark Twain's antiwar writings, including six previously unpublished essays. Although not a pacifist, Twain was the most prominent opponent of the Philippine-American War and served as vice president of the Anti-Imperial League from 1901 to 1910. His essays, stories, and commentaries on the war are now offered in one volume. 21 illustrations. ...
|  | Julia's Hope (The Wortham Family Series #1)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation.Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's objections, and asks for permission to stay. The owner is Emma Graham, a woman in her eighties who longs for home...
|  | The Piano: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 1995| ISBN-10: 0786880961 | ISBN-13: 978-0786880966In the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of the film, exploring the mysteries of Ada's muteness, the secret of her daughter's conception, the reason for her strange marriage and the past lives of Baines and Stewart. ...
|  | Guns of the Timberlands
Release Date: June 1, 1984Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and fifty of the toughest lumberjacks in the county. But as Colleen Riley, Devitt’s fiancée, realizes the brut...
|  | Rum Spring
Publication Date: December 14, 2010Sometimes love doesn't play by the rules.Rebecca Lapp is a devout follower of her Amish faith and a firm believer in the Ordnung, the set of rules that govern her life in the tiny Pennsylvania town she calls home. When she meets Dylan Mahoney, however, the rules go out the window. During Rebecca's rumspringa—the four-year period during which Amish teenagers decide whether to join the church or leave it for the outside world—Dylan, a film buff and aspiring movie critic, shows Rebecca a world she never dreamed of. The pair make plans to spend the re...
|  | School's Out Forever
Release Date: September 18, 2012“After the world died we all sort of drifted back to school. After all, where else was there for us to go?” Lee Keegan’s fifteen. If most of the population of the world hadn’t just died choking on their own blood, he might be worrying about acne, body odour and girls. As it is, he and the young Matron of his boarding school, Jane Crowther, have to try and protect their charges from cannibalistic gangs, religious fanatics, a bullying prefect experimenting with crucifixion and even the surviving might of the US Army.Welcome to St. Mark&...
|  | The Few: A Tale of the Marines in the Near Future
Publication Date: November 23, 2009Gunnery Sergeant Jacob McCardle is the commander of the Marine Detachment at the US Embassy, New Delhi, when the president of the United States arrives on an official visit, the same man who, as a Congressman, sponsored the bill that had decimated the Corps in a cost-cutting effort. As the president arrives, the embassy is attacked and isolated by a mob of nationalists. With the Indian government seemingly unwilling to take action to restore order and with an ambitious vice-president seizing this as an opportunity to move up to the White House, it is up to ...
|  | The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
Publication Date: October 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226772357 | ISBN-13: 978-0226772356Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt, vengeance, language, and the power of evil—each undiminished over time. George Steiner's stunning novel, now with a new afterword, will continue to provoke our thinking about Nazi Germany's unforgettable ...
|  | The Bronzes of Grand Juction
Release Date: July 6, 2006The five Bronzes of Grand Junction are ordinary people instantly bronzed, like baby shoes, right in front of reliable witnesses, cause unknown. Could be the work of God, aliens, an artist, a magician. The bronzes cause quite a stir in town. And tourists arrive by the busload to see and talk about them. The result is an extended colloquy that is much more about us- America and Americans - than about the "bestatued" ones. ...
|  | The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009 (Cornell East Asia Series)
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|  | Studies on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age: Tras el espejo la musa escribe (Monograf
Publication Date: July 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 1855661829 | ISBN-13: 978-1855661820This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic production. The studies of secular verse demonstrate how female poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry explore the multiple manifestations of female piety and mysticism. The women's words are brought to life and mo...
| | Russian poetry: An intermediate-level manual for literary discussion
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|  | Morning Star: surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia (Surrealist Revolution)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Surrealist Revolution An expanded edition of revered theorist Michael Löwy's Morning Star: Marxism and Surrealism (previously published in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek), this masterwork collects the author's essays on the ways in which surrealism intersected with a variety of revolutionary political approaches, ranging from utopian ideals to Marxism and situationism. Taking its title from André Breton's essay"Arcane 17," which casts the star as the searing firebrand of rebellion, Löwy's provocative work spans many persp...
|  | Disability Theory (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
Publication Date: June 16, 2008| ISBN-10: 0472050397 | ISBN-13: 978-0472050390"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays. Disability Theory is a field-defining book: and if ...
|  | Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy
Publication Date: July 20, 2001| ISBN-10: 0262011824This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's expe...
|  | How to Murder a Millionaire (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, No. 1)
Release Date: October 1, 2002Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector. ...
|  | Scent of the Wolf
Publication Date: January 8, 2011The Rügen Islands, 1804. From the moment Sophia Miller and her cousin, Karl, arrive at an old European castle to hear their grandfather's Will, Sophia experiences frightening dreams and visions. Plagued by memories of her troubled past and thrust into an unwanted situation in a foreign land, she intends to collect her inheritance and return to London as soon as possible. Her plans change, however, when she and Karl learn they must remain in the castle for a month or the Will is void. Matters are further complicated when another benefactor is named. Peter...
|  | The Eight
Release Date: June 23, 1997New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client who is trying to collect the pieces of an ancient chess service, purported to be in Algeria. If Cat can bring the pieces back, there will be a generous reward.The South of France, 1790—Mireille de Remy and her co...
|  | The Land Of Sokmunster
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