 | Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
Publication Date: April 1, 2006When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination . . . Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophi...
 |  | The School of Essential Ingredients
Release Date: January 5, 2010 A "heartbreakingly delicious" national bestseller about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food teaches about lifeOnce a month, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman coming to terms with her new identity as a mother; Tom, a lawyer whose life has been overturned by loss; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer adapting to life in America; and Carl and Helen, a long-married couple whose union contains surprises the rest of the class would never suspect... The students have come to le...
|  | The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (1)
Release Date: July 12, 2005| Series: Isabel Dalhousie Introducing Isabel Dalhousie the heroine of the latest bestselling series from the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.Isabel, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and an occasional detective, has been accused of getting involved in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business.In this first installment, Isabel is attending a concert in the Usher Hall when she witnesses a man fall from the upper balcony.Isabel can’t help wondering whether it was the result of mischance or mischief.Against the best advic...
|  | Scent: A Drak Secret Hidden in Petals of Pink (Sensations Series, No.1)
Publication Date: September 26, 2006Beauty in a bottle. Earth's most captivating scent. Danger hidden in petals of pink. From the corporate boardroom to the New Guinea rainforest, the hunt is on to capture 'the very breath of beauty' and secure the success of struggling perfumers Cassie and Nick Dixon. When the fragrance 'Cassandra' is at last unveiled, the public goes wild, and the Dixons are crowned the queen and king of fashion aroma. Then the unthinkable happens. 'Cassandra' has a dark side. And it's about to wreak deadly havoc ... havoc mirrored in the emptiness of Cassie's soul. As a w...
|  | Come Twilight
Publication Date: October 6, 2000Come Twilight begins in eastern Spain in the early 600s, when Saint-Germain makes a vampire of the headstrong Csimenae.In the next 140 years, as Spain is controlled first by the the Visigoths and then by Moors, Csimenae becomes a mother of vampires.Though he will regret it for centuries to come, Saint-Germain must act against her. ...
|  | Ghost Road Blues
Release Date: June 1, 2006 Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel From a new master of horror comes an apocalyptic showdown between theresidents of a secluded, rural town and the deadly evil that confronts themwherever they turn . . . Evil Doesn't Die The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a longtime ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and theBlack Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swaththrough the quiet Pennsylvania village. The evil that once coursed throughPine Deep has been replaced by cheerful tour...
|  | The Emperor's Tomb (Works of Joseph Roth)
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Series: Works of Joseph Roth The Emperor's Tombis a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life. ...
|  | The Song of Roland
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|  | The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Dante s Divine Comedy has, since it was first published, captured the imagination of readers with its amazing journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Now, in a dazzling reimagining of Dante s work, award-winning novelist and poet Philip Lee Williams presents his own version of our journey from suffering to final rest. The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts is Williams s stunning updating of Dante s original epic poem, though as fiction this time, filled with wild surrealist riffs, postmodern side trips, and multiple layers of meaning, plot,...
|  | Deutschland Ein Wintermarchen
Publication Date: 1967In German. PB, 80 pp., 1967, printed in Germany. 6 x 3-3/4 x 1/8". ...
|  | Canary's Songbook
Publication Date: April 1, 2005The power of history to shape people and politics is explored in this collection of finely wrought poems. The desire to find ancestors who can be invoked as sources of wisdom, or remembered as examples of imprudence, is a central preoccupation of these poems that are given additional potency because of South Africa's painful dialogue with its own past. While the poems dwell on South Africa's need to recover and learn from its history, they are also an affirmation of the universality of this theme that places South Africa within a global culture in which countri...
|  | Stranger Shores: Literary Essays
Release Date: August 27, 2002Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants ...
|  | Conceived Presences: Literary Genealogy in Renaissance England (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
Publication Date: November 1994| Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture This book explores the manner in which English Renaissance poets invented a poetic genealogy. "Conceived presence" described the ancient masters whose paintings had been lost but who nonetheless remianed important forebears of the tradition of visual art-Raphael Flaco applies the notion to late sixteenth centry poets intent on establishing a national literature - Sydney, Spenser, Jonson and Milton. They also conceived the presence of their forbears, both ancient and modern.-- ...
|  | Sir Gawain & the Green Knight: A Secondary Bibliography, 1978-1989 (Garland Medieval Bibliographies)
Publication Date: May 1, 1992A substantially annotated bibliography of the 30 or so works a year published about the corpus of the Gawain-poet. The 383 entries include editions, translations, essays, monographs, performances, and a few reviews of books. Does not include dissertations. Thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed. A ...
|  | Working Without a Net
Release Date: May 1, 1995In response to the fundamental changes sweeping corporate America, Morris Shechtman presents a cutting-edge management philosophy that challenges unrealistic, outdated approaches. Shechtman, a former university professor and psychotherapist, teaches the essential skills for adapting to a rapidly expanding corporate culture -- or any organization or situation where structure and vision are needed. No matter what your goals, here are the new rules of business that will help you generate success, including:* Growth strategies that help you establish your independence ...
|  | Esta noche dime que me quieres (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 5, 2012Tancredi es uno de los hombres m...
|  | The Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra on the Song of Songs (Reformation Texts With Translation (1350-1650). Biblical Studies, v.3)
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|  | Dark Desire: A Carpathian Novel (Dark Series)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Dark SeriesThey were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light . . . The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger . . . of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness. Drawn to the far Carpathian Mountains, Shea found a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And she trembled. For in his burning eyes she recognized the beloved stranger who'd alread...
|  | Knife Music
Release Date: September 19, 2008Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Dr. Ted Cogan, a 43-year-old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it’s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Cogan to justice at any cost--to the doctor or himself. ...
|  | Rebounder
Publication Date: March 1996| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Doug Fulton, coach of the Hamilton High Panthers, is certain that transfer student Chris Patton can lead the team to a championship, but a tragic accident has made Chris decide to never play basketball again. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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