 | The American Heiress: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It and I Think I Love YouBe careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose ...
 |  | The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling
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|  | The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Publication Date: February 27, 2007| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama Falsely accused during the final days of Napoleon's reign, Edmond Dantès is imprisoned in the bleak Chateau d'If. After a hair-raising escape, he launches an elaborate plot to extract a bitter revenge against those who betrayed him. Amazingly based on actual events, Dumas' labyrinthine tale is popular fiction of the highest mark. ...
|  | A Damsel in Distress
Release Date: April 2, 1991There are some rather unusual things going on at Belpher Castle ...For one thing, the Earl's sister is set on pairing off her stepson, Reggie, and niece, lady Patricia (known as Maud). Maud, on the other hand, is after Geoffrey Raymon, and she is also being pursued by the unacceptable composer George Bevan. Love, anarchy, machiavellian plots, silly asses ...perfect Wodehouse reading. ...
|  | Poor Richard (Lost Play series)
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|  | The Roman Empire
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| ISBN-10: 0761811737 | ISBN-13: 978-0761811732The Roman Empire provides a concise, readable history of the rise of Rome's imperial spirit after the collapse of the Republic. The author depicts the expansion of the early Roman Empire as it gained dominance over a massive area where armies and officials left the indelible imprint of law. He exposes the natures of a succession of emperors, revealing their actions in Rome and abroad. Included with the details of the military and political expansion are the tremendous accomplishments that brought about mode...
| | It Gets Better as the Years Drag on: Humorous Sketches about Marriage (Lillenas Drama)
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|  | A Celebration of the Simple Life
Publication Date: November 1, 2010 Celebrate the beauty of simple living and experience new appreciation for a slower-paced, more enjoyable life. Featuring the original poetry of Wanda E. Brunstetter, bestselling author of Amish fiction, and paired with dozens of devotional readings, this unique package will bring delight and warmth to your spirit. (20101130) ...
|  | Fire in the Heart
Publication Date: July 9, 2010The poems presented here represent a first attempt at finding an audience broader than the small circle of my friends. Most of the poems were written between 1995 and 2010. Fire in the Heart is a title of special significance. The suggestion of a passionate creative struggle in that part which has long been considered the symbolic center of the human soul should be apparent. There is also a meaning which exists in stark physical terms. At the age of 36, I had a heart disease which turned my heart into useless fluttering pulp. The disease, myocardial sarcoidosis,...
|  | The 20th Century in Poetry
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1605983640 | ISBN-13: 978-1605983646| Edition: 1 The history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of the greatest poets of our time.This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology.By organizing the poems i...
|  | Building the Nation and Other Poems
Publication Date: January 1, 1990Crafted with rare wit and humour, the poems in this book deal with a diverse range of themes such as political opportunism and sycophancy, war, the baffling paradox of god, the enchanting richness and beauty of nature, and the fascinating yet sadly agonising and intractable nature of love. Spanning decades of experience and deep reflection by a veteran poet, this collection offers fresh and enriching insights into subjects that are of interest and concern to us all. ...
|  | A Genius for Letters: Booksellers and Bookselling from the 16th to the 20th Century (Publishing Pathways)
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|  | Best Bondage Erotica 2012
Publication Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Best Bondage Erotica Best Bondage Erotica 2012 fully explores the joys of restraint with stories from top-notch (pun unintended)writers who have mastered the bondage fiction. Editrix extraordinaire Rachel Kramer Bussel lets the reader in on the subterranean world offorbidden desires and sexual fantasies that shock and scintillate as theymesmerize. How do you want to be teased, tied, and tantalized? Best Bondage Erotica 2012 covers all the ways you can get your kink on with stories of spanking, corsetry, rubber, crossdressing, handcuffs, robe, and p...
|  | Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Publication Date: August 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 0761844147 | ISBN-13: 978-0761844143This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries of social, political, artistic, and cultural history. The chapters follow historical timelines starting with colonial experiences leading up to the American Revolution, followed by immigrant accounts before and du...
|  | Christmas Conspiracy (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Harlequin Intrigue Series (Book 1381) Four years ago, girl-next-door Kat Nelson had gone from being a tempting assignment to the fling P.I. Logan Carmichael never forgot. Now he'd been hired to find her by a king claiming Kat was heir to the throne. Locating her wasn't difficult.Learning he was the father of her toddler twins, however, made him ache. But his job was to protect her from a madman who wanted her dead, and keep her away from the king who needed her alive. And yet one look at his children made the steely CIA vet yearn to be more ...
|  | Uptown: A Novel
Publication Date: March 2, 2010ENTER THE WORLD OF UPTOWNUptown . . . where money rulesUptown . . . where ambition trumps traditionUptown . . . where politics come before everythingUptown . . . where a family’s secrets will bring them together—or downAfter twenty years away, Avery Lyons returns to New York when her mother and uncle suffer a serious car accident. The tragedy brings the family together, but Avery is not happy about the impromptu reunion. She no longer recognizes the Harlem of her childhood, but the same old family dynamics and secrets are all too familiar . . . He...
| | Lone Star Prince (Silhouette Desire)
Publication Date: August 2003| ISBN-10: 0373048475 | ISBN-13: 978-0373048472THE LOYAL PROTECTORGregory Hunt had always been the best—whether he was handling the toughest legal cases in Texas or coming to the rescue of damsels in distress. Only, this particular damsel was one he had loved once before—the regal Princess Anna von Oberland, whose privileged position made her off-limits. Now she needed his help, and Gregory had to risk all to save her. Because under the watchful, yearning eyes of Anna's four-year-old son—whose handsome features strikingly resembled his own—...
|  | 7 Sherlock Holmes: The final tribute
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|  | A Treasury of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the World
Release Date: October 3, 1996| Age Level: 1 and up From the Mayan people of Central America to the Xhosa people of Southern Africa, from the ancient mythology of China to the legendary Arabian Nights, every culture across the globe has its princesses. The princesses themselves may be as diverse as the lands they represent, but rich or poor, vain or wise, brave or spoiled, they have one thing in common: they all live happily ever after.Selected from world folklore and presented in a richly designed, elegantly illustrated volume, this lavish gift book is the definitive gathering of princess lo...
|  | Foul Football
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