 | The Winds of Graystone Manor (St. Clare Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 1995| Series: St. Clare Trilogy In the grand tradition of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca, B.J. Hoff forges a groundbreaking new romantic suspense series in this, the stunning first novel of THE ST. CLARE TRILOGY. Joining the romance and nostalgia of rural Americana with the powerful, page-turning appeal of the Gothic, Hoff has crafted a tale of passion and pathos, introducing these compelling new characters:Roman St. Clare the Civil War photographer haunted by the slaying of his wife and unborn child. His relentless quest to find their murderer leads him ...
 |  | Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight
Publication Date: March 1991In this book John Martti Hill views focuses on what he believes is Chaucer's organizing purpose in his writings: the exploration of truth in human experience and fictions. Through readings of many of the "Canterbury Tales" and all of Fragment 7, Hill demonstrates the deep-seated faith that always accompanies Chaucer's skepticism and shows the major place that belief and feeling have in his scale of values. According to Hill, Chaucer is committed to affective cognition - what we know, through the salience of our emotions, about anything not fully open to reason or ...
|  | The Rainbow Cedar
Publication Date: March 25, 2008As interior designer Jay Burns watches her long-term relationship slowly unravel, she runs into--literally--landscape designer Drew Montgomery.As their paths cross, both professionally and personally, a friendship develops, one they each try to maintain despite the obvious attraction between them. But still, Jay is not willing to throw away an eight-year relationship, even when it becomes painfully obvious the end is near.The Rainbow Cedar is the journey of one woman struggling with the loss of love and commitment from one, and the possibility of finding it al...
|  | Death Club
Publication Date: April 27, 2001| Series: Mcnab, Claire. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery, 13. (Book 13) Loaded with brains, style and megabucks, Australian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants.And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women.This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world`s top female athletes to her private clubhouse.With a lot more at stake than the $1.5 million purse, tension soon flares among players, fans, and just about everyone else...
|  | Oliver Wiswell
Publication Date: June 1940| ISBN-10: 0385047932 | ISBN-13: 978-0385047937| Edition: 1st Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran ...
|  | Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope
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|  | Masks of God: Creative Mythology
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| | Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice (Excelsior Literature Series)
Publication Date: 1918This 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. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This text refer...
|  | Plays One: The Father, Miss Julie, The Ghost Sonata (Methuen World Dramatists Series) (Vol 1)
Publication Date: April 17, 1990| ISBN-10: 0413521605 | ISBN-13: 978-0413521606This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a ...
|  | Oresteia (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son Orestes must avenge his father's death. Only Orestes' appeal...
|  | Fireflies
Publication Date: January 1, 2002Poems published 1926-1940s. ...
|  | The Gardener
Publication Date: January 11, 2004The Gardener, a book of prose. Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book name Gitanjali. The verses in this book are far finer and more genuine than even the best in Gitanjali. ...
|  | FILE ON GORKY (Plays and Playwrights)
Publication Date: October 18, 1993| ISBN-10: 041365060X | ISBN-13: 978-0413650603Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities and championed by Checkov, Maxim Gorky ("the bitter") had his first play produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. Chekhov wrote, "Gorky is the first in Russia and the world at large to have expressed contempt a...
|  | My Blood's Country: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired Judith Wright's Poetry
Publication Date: December 1, 2010An intensely personal exploration and celebration of the life and work of one of Australia's premier poets, Judith Wright, through the landscape and country she loved so muchFiona Capp, novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir That Oceanic Feeling, was 17 years old when she first met Judith Wright. Everything that followed from this encounter led her, 30 years later, on a journey through the landscapes that made Wright one of Australia's greatest poets and environmental visionaries. Capp follows in Wright's footsteps through the high tableland of New Engl...
|  | Her Every Pleasure: A Novel
Release Date: March 25, 2008From the glittering ballrooms of Regency England to the sapphire waters of the Mediterranean, the dazzling finale of Gaelen Foley’s Spice trilogy unfurls the passionate tale of a rebel princess and the powerful warrior destined to become her champion.Princess Sophia was only a child when Napoleon conquered the island paradise ruled by her father. Raised in England and now twenty-one, she means to claim the throne that is rightfully hers and bring peace to her war-torn land. But an ambush by enemies forces Sophia into hiding outside London. Disguising herself...
|  | Lua de sangue (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 2012Sinopse Durante a ocultação do sol pela lua, um vampiro da linhagem Eixon é incumbido de sacrificar uma jovem bruxa, onde ele obterá poderes extraordinários e alargar a sua permanência na terra, além de poder ver o nascer e o deitar do sol. Será isso possível? ...
|  | The Plague Merchants
Publication Date: June 12, 2000The Plague Merchants describes the horrifying feasibility of a genetically engineered virus, formed from AIDS and influenza, that creates a doomsday weapon. If unleashed in a crowded subway, the resulting plague can sweep across the country, spread by airborne contagion, annihilating every other person. The creator of this weapon of mass destruction is the world-renowned and enigmatic molecular biologist Michelle Exeter, cloistered in a testing facility of the Neogenics biotechnology company in the Texas Hill Country. Her clandestine biological-weapons research...
|  | Under The Baseball Moon
Release Date: May 4, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Andy Ramos, a free-style skateboarding trumpeter, has dreams as big as a baseball moon. Born into a family of musicians, Andy wants to take his unique fusion of Latin jazz, rock, and hip-hop straight to the top. But when he crosses paths with Glory Martinez, a softball pitcher who has Olympian dreams of her own, the mysterious fusion of their athletic and musical skills changes everything. Or is that due to the elegant, but eerie man in black?...
|  | The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (Series Q)
Publication Date: October 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 0822329891 | ISBN-13: 978-0822329893In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in American literature and popular culture from the antebellum era to...
|  | Warrior's Return (Warriors #3)
Release Date: April 22, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upGraystripe and Millie have finally found ThunderClan's old territory, but Twoleg monsters have devastated the forest and Graystripe fears that all of his Clanmates have been killed or captured by Twolegs. Millie insists that they keep looking, and an old friend helps point the two cats on the path that the Clans followed many moons ago. But danger still lurks around every turn, and Graystripe worries that he and Millie are lost on an impossible journey....
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