 | 1636: The Kremlin Games (Ring of Fire)
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Series: Ring of Fire #14 in the multiply bestselling Ring of Fire Series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17th century Western Europe, the out-of-time modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must fight for its life in a war-torn Europe just emerging from medieval skullduggery.1636. Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission and identity, but it seems some have been left behind—people like Bernie Zeppi, courageous in the battle, but unable to figure out what to do with himself in a world that’s utterly c...
 |  | Philosophy Made Simple
Publication Date: March 1, 2007Rudy Harrington is ready for a new life. His daughters are grown, his wife has died, and the idea of running an avocado grove in Texas suddenly seems infinitely more appealing than staying in his rambling Midwestern house. So a new life it is. Rudy heads off for a part of the world where he knows scarcely a soul. But he has a guide: a slender book called Philosophy Made Simple, each chapter highlighting the ideas of a different philosopher. No amount of Plato, Schopenhauer, or Sartre, however, can prepare Rudy for the surprises that emerge as he arranges for hi...
|  | Disaster Status (Mercy Hospital, Book 2)
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|  | Under the Cajun Moon
Publication Date: September 1, 2009What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs--only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she knew to be true about herself and her family.Framed for murder, Chloe and a handsome Cajun stranger must sear...
|  | The Rehearsal: A Novel
Publication Date: May 17, 2010A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.But when the local drama school turns the story into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With the dates of the performance...
|  | Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend (Classics of Naval Fiction)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Classics of Naval Fiction Set in 1699 and framed around the Jacobite (supporters of the overthrown king, James II) conspiracies of the time, Lieutenant Cornelius Vanslyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Channel. Snarleyyow is his "indestructible" dog. ...
|  | Jack Tier
Publication Date: August 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0554314231 | ISBN-13: 978-0554314235This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | The Dead School
Release Date: April 1, 1995From the award-winning author of The Butcher Boy comes a new novel of extraordinary power that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "confirm[s] McCabe's standing as one of the most brilliant writers to ever come out of Ireland."In The Dead School, Patrick McCabe returns to the emotionally dense landscape of small-town Ireland to explore the inner lives of two men: a headmaster and a schoolteacher, each man the product of a soul-stifling cult...
|  | Phantom
Release Date: March 1, 1991A child is born... His mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant outcast... the world is his home. Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemason's apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera...
|  | The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a Complete History of the Literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, With Copious ... Romances, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: August 20, 2012Bgt interview with Groethe His popularity on his return home Made Professor of Esthetics Marries Oehlenschliffer snumerous after works Attacks of Baggesen His Gods of the North, lately translated by Mr. Bowrine Publishes a German translation of Holberg splays Still continued writing numerous works What they are Vain attempt of Sir Walter Scott to get a translation of his Island in the South Sea, a romance, published in Eoglaud Oehlenschlager striumphal visit to Sweden Crowned with laurel by Tegnr His remarks on the public estimation of poets Numerous wor stil...
|  | Bumerang (Russian Edition)
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| | Li dai xi chui bian sai shi yan jiu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science)
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| | Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature, for the Ten Years, 1965-1974
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|  | Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson
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|  | Birth of the Cool
Publication Date: March 4, 2002A stunningly illustrated cultural history of the American underground in the forties and fifties and of the artists at its core - Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, William Burroughs, Jackson Pollock, and more. The idea of 'cool' is one of the most pervasive forces in modern culture - but what is it? Where does it come from? Who invented it? Birth of the Cool is the first serious examination of how cool came about - its meaning, its heroes and its place in the world, from the gritty avant-garde fringes of the culture in after-hours joints in Harlem and cold water ...
|  | I Only Have Fangs for You (The Young Brothers, Book 3)
Publication Date: December 1, 2006One thing you have to know about my brother Sebastian: he loves being a vampire. After all, what's not to love? He's eternally twenty-five. He's single, and frankly, he's a chick magnet. Yeah, undeath is good. The only thing he's serious about is his nightclub, Carfax Abbey. It's the sort of dark, happening spot where vampires can really let their fangs down. You know, hiding in the shadows, feeding, giving pleasure to unsuspecting mortals, being all cool and vampirey. Whatever. My brother Rhys and I have tried to get Sebastian to clean up his bad-boy ways l...
|  | Fingersmith
Release Date: February 4, 2002From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a m...
|  | A Shoot in Cleveland: A Milan Jacovich Mystery
Publication Date: May 1998When a gaggle of Hollywood types invades working-class Cleveland to shoot a movie, P.I. Milan Jacovich is hired to see that the star doesn't get into any trouble. When the hotshot actor is found murdered, Milan learns the hard way about the high cost of fame. ...
|  | Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
Publication Date: February 26, 2008 Lord Peter Wimsey Clears the Family Name in this Classic Mystery! In Clouds of Witness, murder strikes close to home.Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver, is being held for the crime.The dead man?Their sister's fiancé.Lord Peter must clear his brother's name to avoid the death penalty.There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence against the Duke, but Lord Peter firmly believes that his brother is innocent and begins his own investigation...
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