 | El Ladr
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Se fue quedando dormido como tantas veces, tratando de recordar. ¿Qué quería recordar? Aquel silbido retumbaba en su interior, ¿cuántos recuerdos más podía malgastar? Cada remembranza que revivía se escapaba de él. Se estaba quedando seco. Pero no merecía menos que eso, aunque sus recuerdos sí les pertenecían. ...
 |  | King's Pleasure (Arabesque)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: Arabesque The sexy King brothers own a successful bachelor-party-planning business and a string of upscale clubs across the country. What could be better than living the single life in some of the world's most glamorous cities?Finding a woman worth giving it up for…Jeremy King's brothers may have turned in their player cards, but that just leaves more action for him. Like the gorgeous, bikini-clad party crasher who saunters into the Malibu bachelor bash he's hosting. Leigh Matthews wants Jeremy, but just for one last fling. And wh...
|  | The Maverick Room: Poems
Release Date: December 23, 2004With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Thomas Sayers Ellis’s debut becomes a powerful argument against monotony A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty.And yet another anthem and yet another heavenand yet another party wants you. Wants you wants you wants you.—from “Groovallegiance”In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, “Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show / Will slip on a peel left in the avant- gutter.” The result is The Maverick Room, the testing ground of determination and serendipity, where ca...
|  | Out of Time (J. D. Stanton Mystery Series #3)
Release Date: September 25, 2003The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. 'This can't be.' Stanton stared at the gray-white battleship. 'It's a Dreadnought.'But that kind of ship ceased sailing three-quarters of a century ago.It starts as a trip to help five troubled teens, courtesy of a new Navy youth program. With retired submarine commander J.D. Stanton serving as captain and two young naval officers heading the expedition, the state-of-the-art catamaran leaves port. It's a routine voyage . . . until a mysterious...
|  | A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation (Wheaton literary series)
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|  | Scoundrel: A Novel of Suspense (Sailing Thrillers)
Release Date: December 20, 2011| Series: Sailing ThrillersBostonian Paul Shanahan is many things: part-time marine surveyor, smuggler, gunrunner, suspected CIA agent . . . and a full-time scoundrel with ties to nothing and no one except an ex-lover who died years before in a hail of bullets. Now he’s agreed to transport $5 million in gold across the ocean by sailboat, money earmarked by the Irish Republican Army for the purchase of fifty-three Stinger missiles. Shanahan’s instincts are telling him there’s more to this deal below the surface and that he’s not meant to su...
|  | The Good Doctor Guillotin
Publication Date: September 29, 2009The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution: Dr. Guillotin, of course, a physician and member of the National Assembly, involved in many important events, including the Tennis Court Oath. Nicolas Pelletier, the first victim or patient as they were sometimes called, since the new beheading machine was seen as a humanitarian medical intervention in the state s technique of dealing death. Father Pierre, the curé who accompanies Pelletier in his last days, ...
|  | Away All Boats (Classics of Naval Literature)
Publication Date: March 1996| Series: Classics of Naval Literature A vivid portrayal of the officers and sailors of the fictional amphibious transport USS Belinda in the Pacific of World War II. ...
|  | Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure (Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature)
Publication Date: January 1, 1977| ISBN-10: 0888640188 | ISBN-13: 978-0888640185The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D. ...
|  | A Companion to Horace (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
Publication Date: April 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 140515540X | ISBN-13: 978-1405155403| Edition: 1 A Companion to Horace features a collection of commissioned interpretive essays by leading scholars in the field of Latin literature covering the entire generic range of works produced by Horace.Features original essays by a wide range of leading literary scholarsExceeds expectations for the standard handbook by featuring essays that challenge, rather than just summarize, conventional views of Homer's work and influenceConsiders Horace’s debt to his Greek predecessorsTreats the reception of ...
|  | The Private Rod : Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
Publication Date: September 22, 2000| Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behavior in marriage. Largely excluded from the academic canon of the late twentieth century, sensation novels had an impact on Victorian culture that we have only recently begun to evaluate.Exploring the central metaphor of marital violence in these novels, Marlene Tromp uncovers the r...
|  | Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: August 5, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521604222 | ISBN-13: 978-0521604222Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will. Through close study of meter, rhyme and rhythm, Campbell reveals how closely, for these poets, questions of poetics are related to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate, making a major contribution to the c...
|  | Defenseless
Release Date: September 30, 2008They’re overworked, underpaid, and unstoppable: four young women in a big-city attorney general’s office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s not just their careers that are in danger—it’s their lives.It’s after midnight when a young coed’s body is thrown from a car—right before their eyes. When their boss finds out that their presence at the scene might jeopardize the prosecution, Marianna takes the fall, exiled to a job ins...
|  | The Medusa Amulet: A Novel of Suspense and Adventure
Release Date: February 28, 2012Benvenuto Cellini, master artisan of Renaissance Italy, once crafted a beautiful amulet prized for its unimaginable power—and untold menace. Now the quest to recover this legendary artifact depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago’s world-renowned Newberry Library. What begins as a simple investigation spirals into a tale of dangerous intrigue, as Franco races from the châteaux of France to the palazzos of Rome in a desperate search for the ultimate treasure—and an answer to a riddle that has...
| | El Ultimo Secreto De Da Vinci
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|  | Little Firefly
Publication Date: March 2004| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The People Could Fly Picture Book and CD
Release Date: September 11, 2007| Grade Level: K and up LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who could fly to freedom offered hope in the darkly brutal times of slavery. "That is what Virginia Hamilton set out to show, what the Dillons have so astutely expounded on and what ultimately makes this version of 'People' so powerful. Think of it as a triad of words, pictures, and storytelling." - New...
|  | Sailing Is for Me (The Sports for Me Books)
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| | Football (Inside Story)
Publication Date: August 31, 1989 ...
|  | Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood (Sesame Street)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Age Level: 1 and up...
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