 | Moon Over Buffalo
Publication Date: May 7, 2010Comedy / 4m, 4f / Unit setCharlotte and George Hay, an acting couple not exactly the Lunts are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac "revised, one nostril version" and Noel Coward's Private Lives. This backstage farce by the author of Lend Me a Tenor brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway co-starring with Philip Bosco as her megalomanic, drunken husband and leading man. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch...
 |  | A Tibetan Family (Journey Between Two Worlds)
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|  | The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians
Publication Date: August 9, 2011A pocket guide to the twenty-three most painful things in life, written by the most well-adjusted man in the universe.Does it make you sad to be alive?Boo-hoo. You're living all wrong.My name is Andersen Prunty. I'm happiest while napping. I am a man with tennis shoes. They get older every time I put them on. This is how I deal with the pain of being alive. Now is our chance to deal with our pain together. You'll thank me later.Lover and euphoria,Andersen :) ...
|  | Three Men on a Plane
Publication Date: May 2002Pamela Pryor's son has, at long last, left home. She now feels a certain freedom -- and also certain restlessness. There have been three significant men in her life -- Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, a style guru; and Dean, a beautiful younger man -- all of whom have begun to think of Pamela in romantic terms once more. But Pamela wants to get to know herself again and can't quite decide with which of her three suitors (if any) she should take up. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Haunt of Murder
Release Date: February 17, 2009As night sets in, Chaucer’s weary pilgrims find themselves in a Kent copse, rumored to be haunted. Huddling around the fire, they persuade the Clerk of Oxford to tell a ghostly tale of love and death that will further chill their blood... ...
|  | London Under Midnight
Publication Date: September 1, 2006A novel of vampiric terror from one of the masters of the genre Vampyr Sharkz ? ?They?re coming to get you?. The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has the old African preacher seen emerging from undergrowth near the river? Is this the essence of evil encountered long ago? Ben Ashton is an investigative writer. When he's commissioned to find out who is res...
|  | Jailbird: A Novel
Release Date: January 12, 1999Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government—and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate’s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times. ...
|  | Gladiatrix
Release Date: April 14, 2009The Ancient Roman public's hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The Emperor Domitian's passion for novelty and variety in the arena has given rise to a very different kind of warrior: the Gladiatrix. Sole survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Asia Minor, Lysandra finds herself the property of Lucius Balbus, owner of the foremost Ludus for female gladiators in the Eastern Empire. Lysandra, a member of an ancient Spartan sect of warrior priestesses, refuses to accept her new status as a slave. Forced to fight for survival, her deadly combat...
|  | El barbero y otros corazones solitarios/ The Matchmaker of Perigord (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Late Middle Classes (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Series: Nick Hern Books A new black comedy by Simon Gray. ...
|  | Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
Publication Date: May 27, 2002Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the liad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider context of agonistic exchange, to demonstrate how the struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system of Homeric society. The study thus asserts the integral role of compensation in the traditional, cultural and poetic matrix of this foundational epic...
|  | To Bind A Dream: Collected poems by Victor O'Leary
Publication Date: August 13, 2011This book presents a diverse selection of 144 poems by the New Zealand poet Victor O’Leary (1927-2008.) O’Leary was influenced in his youth by the poetry of R.A.K.Mason and others. He became a friend of poets like Fleur Adcock (who migrated to London where she has won many literary awards) and James K. Baxter, as well as New Zealand prose writers Maurice Shadbolt, Marilyn Duckworth and Barry Crump. Irish poet W.B.Yeats was a great influence on Victor’s poetry, which has been categorised as heavily concerned with religion, sex and even mor...
|  | Aifric: The Official Book (Irish Edition)
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|  | Santa, Baby (Harlequin Blaze)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Harlequin Blaze (Book 510) Sometimes a good girl needs to be naughty When bookshop owner Caron Avery dresses up as Marilyn Monroe for a charity ball, she decides that for once in her life she'll let her inhibitions go. Before she knows it, Caron is living a night of fantasy with sexy millionaire Baxter Remington in hot pursuit. And what a night it is. Sizzling, red-hot, and sensual, Baxter can't believe he's fallen under the adorable blonde's...er...brunette's spell. But with the scandal going on in his life, he knows he should let her go before sh...
|  | Virgil: Aeneid X (Latin Texts) (Bk. 10)
Publication Date: November 14, 2002| ISBN-10: 1853990450 | ISBN-13: 978-1853990458Latin text, with Latin-English vocabulary and notes in English. ...
|  | Raintree: Inferno / Sanctuary / Haunted
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Inferno by New York Times bestselling author Linda HowardTwo hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated them, the Ansara wizards are rising up again to take on their bitterest foes. As king, it's up to Dante Raintree to protect his clan, but when Lorna Clay walks into his life, suddenly fire, always his to control, defeats him, leaving him wondering whether Lorna is to blame. Will Dante's strength be enough to win the fight of his life?Sanctuary by New York Times bestselling author Beverly BartonFor Mercy Raintree, war with the evil Ansara clan means she ...
|  | Guilty Pleasures Bestseller's Choice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
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|  | Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1)
Publication Date: September 20, 2006| Series: Time Travelers (Time Travelers Press) (Book 1) Reflections of Toddsville ~ America's best selling historic romance writer, Trudy Johnson, has just one problem -- her love life! The only man she's taken to bed in the last 5 years is the photo of a Victorian man taken in 1891 that's on her bedside table. Her agent, Jennifer, thinks she needs a break after writing five books in five years. She pays for Trudy to take her summer vacation in a rustic cabin by a peaceful lake in Richfield Springs, just outside of Cooperstown, N.Y. On June 21, 1997, she ...
|  | North By Northanger, or The Shades of Pemberley (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries The winner of the 2007 Daphne du Maurier Award and the Romantic Times BOOKreviews Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2006, now in trade paper! After the intrigues and excitements of their time in the city, the Darcys are more than prepared for a bit of peace and quiet at Pemberley. Finally, they can spend time together as Elizabeth settles into her pregnancy. However, serene solitude is not meant to be. First a letter from Lady Anne Fitzwilliam Darcy, long deceased, is discovered. The contents are both m...
|  | At the Pool (All Aboard)
Release Date: April 8, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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