 | The Snow Angel
Release Date: October 25, 2011The woman in the picture was so young she looked like a child. Her hair was loose, eyes wide, blue T-shirt stark against the pale lines of arching collarbones. I felt the air leave me in a quiet rush. Not because of the way the photo captured her fleeting youth, but because of the way it highlighted the bruise.It was a photo of me.Rachel Price has just one happy memory from her childhood: the moment her father took her hands while playing outside on a cold, snowy day and called her his angel. It was a rare and sacred moment in her young life, one in which she fi...
 |  | Night Shift
Publication Date: April 1, 1979This is a collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered, a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. ...
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|  | Our Lady of West Hollywood
Publication Date: February 16, 2012Two homeless teen-aged girls are "rescued" from the mean streets of Los Angeles and eagerly exploit new opportunities that turn the tables on the women who try to help them. At the end of the 20th century, some of the characters in "Our Lady of West Hollywood" are striving to gain a foothold in the film industry and some simply like to watch. All of them are prey to sexual and spiritual dilemmas which threaten to upset their precarious lifestyles. The reader is admitted inside the doors of Hollywood parties and premieres as well as kitchens and bedrooms. In...
|  | Winding Stair
Release Date: December 6, 2011Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding overthousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land thatharbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman isfound murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to theterritory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood anddestruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful,traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessedhangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to thecourtroom, Winding Stair is a classic...
|  | Outlaws of Poplar Creek / Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail / His Brother's Debt
Release Date: February 12, 2008Outlaws of Poplar CreekFew travelers happen by Lee’s Canyon. But when Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie suddenly appears at Moby Fosdick’s door looking for Shad Tucker, slowly brewing trouble begins boiling over fast. Before the sun sets, bullets are flying. And by the time it rises again, Bowdrie's badly outnumbered, sixteen-year-old Lily Fosdick is trapped in a cave with a cold-hearted killer, and it's high time for nineteen-year-old Jerry Fosdick to decide which side of the law he's one.Bowdrie Follows a Cold TrailWhen Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie rides...
|  | Sonnets (No Fear Shakespeare)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: No Fear Shakespeare No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of the Sonnets on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare containsThe complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary ...
|  | The Play out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture
Publication Date: August 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521038685 | ISBN-13: 978-0521038683This volume of essays, based mostly on papers presented at the Jerusalem Theater Conference in 1986, examines the relationship between the play and its historical and cultural contexts.Transferring plays from one period or culture to another is an even more complex process than simply translating the wORD approaches vary from the theoretical to the practical, from the literary to the theatrical, with plays examined both in their own time and through history. The essays interact with each other, presenting a d...
|  | The Theban Plays of Sophocles (The Yale New Classics Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Series: The Yale New Classics Series In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of the plays and those encountering them for the first time. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and energy of the dramas, engaging the reader—or audience member—directly with Sophocles’ great texts. Slavitt chooses to present the plays not in narrative sequence but in the order in whi...
|  | Four Morality Plays (English Library)
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|  | Obras completas de Virgilio/ Virgilio's Complete Works (Biblioteca Avrea/ Avrea Library) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Geser: Buriatskii Geroicheskii Epos, Kniga Pervaia
Publication Date: 1988A landmark of Buryat Mongolian folklore and mythology translated into Russian. ...
|  | The Long Game and Other Poems
Publication Date: February 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0702235091 | ISBN-13: 978-0702235092‘Their laughter in the game rose high as any flameconsuming every woe, beyond all praise and blame.With or without the sun it rose in joy uponthe long ecstatic dance, the circling marathon.’from ‘The Long Game’The Long Game and Other Poems brings together the last poems from one of Australia’s greatest poets. Written in the final years of Bruce Beaver’s life, these honest and generous poems look back on a life fraught with illness and turmoil, but one concomitantly enric...
|  | Politics and the Novel
Publication Date: July 30, 2002Irving Howe’s classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction is here reprinted in a new paperback edition. In establishing the role of the political novel and tracing its growth into the twentieth century, Mr. Howe draws his examples from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. He also explains why American novels failed to integrate ideology, including Henry Adams’s Democracy, Henry James’s The Bost...
|  | Duets # 29 (Beauty And The Bachelor/Counterfeit Daddy) (Harlequin Duets)
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|  | Frostbound: The Dark Forgotten
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: DARK FORGOTTEN As a snowstorm locks down the city, someone beheads the wrong girl. Vampire-on-the-lam Talia Rostova thinks it was meant to be her. And now she's the prime suspect in her own botched murder and the prisoner of her smoking-hot-neighbor: a hellhound. And the hot-blooded Lore was bred to serve and protect, so he's not freeing Talia until he's sure she's the prey and not the hunter... ...
|  | Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great (Volume 3: Little Journeys To the Homes of American Statesmen)
Publication Date: June 5, 2006Volume: 3 Publisher: New York : W.H. Wise ...
|  | Tomb of the Golden Bird (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: March 27, 2007| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesBanned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter "discover" the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time. But the Emersons' own less impressive excavations are interrupted when father and son Ramses...
|  | In a Witch's Wardrobe: A Witchcraft Mystery
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Witchcraft Mystery (Book 4) Lily Ivory is living her dream of owning a vintage clothing store—and practicing magic on the side. But when she encounters a sinister sleeping spell, Lily comes face-to-face with a nightmarish evil…Taking a night off from running her successful San Francisco clothing store, Lily attends a local art deco ball where vintage fashions steal the show. But when a young woman at the event falls under a mysterious sleeping sickness, Lily senses that a curse was placed on the woman’s corsage.Before Lily can solve ...
|  | The Icebound Land(Ranger's Apprentice, Book 3)
Release Date: February 5, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Kidnapped and taken to a frozen land after the fierce battle with Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as captives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue his young apprentice, and he will do anything to keep his promise? even defy his King. Expelled from the Rangers he has served so loyally, Halt is joined by Will?s friend Horace as he travels toward Skandia. On their way, they are challenged again and again by freelance knights?but Horace knows a thing or two about combat. Soon his s...
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