 | Collected Stories (Vintage Classics)
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 |  | Orchard Valley Grooms: Valerie\Stephanie
Release Date: May 25, 2010Valerie rushes home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father, David, suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters, Stephanie and Norah, are gathering at his side, praying he'll live, fearing he'll die….At a time like this, falling in love is the last thing on Valerie's mind. And with Dr. Colby Winston, of all people! He's David's heart surgeon, a renowned specialist who enjoys small-town living, while Valerie is a high-powered businesswoman who prefers city life. They're complete opposites in every way. Yet David keeps insisting she and Colby are...
|  | The Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: November 8, 2011 In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apartGrowing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly w...
|  | The Wandering Jew's Daughter
Publication Date: March 27, 2005"The rays of sunlight passing over Lotte's diaphanous beauty lacked the power to color her whiteness. 'May God have pity on us!' stammered the nurse. 'She was like that when I saw her for the first time.' In a voice as sweet as a lullaby, Lotte murmured: 'My Father is coming.' ""The Wandering Jew's Daughter anticipates later developments in popular fiction, featuring an invulnerable but flawed hero who stops bullets and blades with his body and gives succor to the wounded. The book adds another item to an already-extensive catalogue of Féval's anticipatio...
|  | Medical Error (Prescription for Trouble, Book 2)
Publication Date: July 12, 2010Dr. Anna McIntyre's life was going along just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient died because of an identity mix-up, her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions, and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn t get worse, but that was before she opened the envelope and saw a positive HIV test with her name on it. Her allies are two men who are also competing for her affection. Dr. Nick Valentine is a cynic who carries a load of guilt. Attorney Ross Donovan is a recovering alcoholic. The deeper Anna digs to discov...
|  | False Memory
Publication Date: August 3, 2000Martie is an ordinary woman with an ordinary life until one morning she develops a terrifying phobia: autophobia, fear of oneself. As Martie's condition worsens, her husband Dusty is determined to learn what triggered her illness and so encounters Dr Mark Ahriman, a leading psychiatrist, who runs a local support group for sufferers. Dusty's suspicion is aroused when he discovers that two of Mark's patients have recently committed suicide. It becomes apparent to Dusty that Mark, although a doctor, is not a healer. As Dusty comes ever closer to the truth, he too...
|  | The Pink Palace (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents They say you can t judge a book by its cover and I guess you can say the same thing about strippers, too. On the surface I m Mo Nique, the hottest stripper dancing at The Pink Palace, but on the inside I m really just Janelle Taylor, a teenage runaway trying to survive in Atlanta. You might wanna call me a hoe but I m the one your man is spending his whole paycheck on! This isn t the life I envisioned for myself but it s the path I was forced to take in order to get by. Nobody saw the real me until I met Tommy, a sex...
|  | Almost Dead: A Novel
Release Date: April 13, 2010Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle EastA thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch's life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure—this ...
|  | Islam - The Dark Night Of Humanity
Publication Date: November 10, 2008Islam - the dark night of humanity - is one of the condensed segments of the whole story 'dark night of the Soul. This thought provoking and controversial segment tackles the complicated issue of Islam from the perspective that Muhammad was not a true prophet, but a fraud and a charlatan preying upon the simple and uneducated minds of his peers. To protect himself and to disqualify true future prophets, seers and saints of the Church, Muhammad addressed himself as the last prophet of God, thereby fueling the minds of his subjects all other religions are fal...
|  | Socrates Without Tears
Publication Date: November 16, 2011SOCRATES WITHOUT TEARS is a beautifully written Novella which reveals the exciting discovery of the long lost Dialogues of Socrates by his devoted pupil Aeschines. They give us a totally different picture of Socrates' great wisdom told with amusement and irony. It shows Socrates connection with Eastern Non Dual Thought and portrays the mildly camp atmosphere of the Symposium in graphic form .It will appeal to all seekers after truth in a palatable form and as the title says 'without tears'. ...
|  | The White Cockade: Catholic Poetry and Verse
Publication Date: October 1, 2009There are many wonderful books in the world that address and teach how a good Catholic should think. However, it is important that a person not only think like a Catholic, but feel like a Catholic. Mr. Coulombe’s poems convey the feelings that millennial Catholics regularly have: feelings of angst regarding the future, but also that of hope; feelings of righteousness and feelings of awe over the majesty and wonders of Catholic tradition. The White Cockade is filled with bite-sized poems that will inspire you and touch you on an emotional level. ...
|  | The Essential Aeneid
Publication Date: March 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872207900 | ISBN-13: 978-0872207905Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W.R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid, and by students of Roman history, classical mythology, and Western civilization. ...
|  | Slivers of a Mirror: Glimpses of the Ghazal
Publication Date: April 2006For nearly three centuries, the Urdu ghazal has been beloved of connoisseur and layman alike. This translation attempts to capture the best qualities of the ghazal in a contemporary voice. Many of the enduring names of the ghazal are to be found here - from the early mystic Siraj Aurangabadi through the great Ghalib to modern poets like Faiz and Sahir Ludhianvi. Urdu and Devnagri renderings of the poems ensure that the originals are also accessible to many readers, retaining the essence of ghazals. ...
|  | Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion
Publication Date: November 17, 2008A San Francisco Chronicle BestBook: a celebrated collection from "one of thefinest and boldest poets of the last halfcentury" (Poetry Review).These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors whereseductions, quarrels, memories, and griefsoccur. A marriage is a window for outwardviolence; a painted cup becomes a theater for along love; in an ordinary room a mythicviolation takes place. 7 illustrations ...
|  | Among My books
Publication Date: January 28, 2009This 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. ...
|  | Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: October 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230115276 | ISBN-13: 978-0230115279Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer’s poetry and interprets his adaptation of medieval genres through an ecofeminist lens. His self-conscious experimentation with talking birds reveals both a curtailment and an expansion of narrative perspective. The projection of a nonhuman subjectivity in texts not only erodes the edges of human superiority, but also teaches us the power and evolutionary optimism of storytelling itself. This b...
|  | Shanghai Baby: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2002The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide.Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China. The risque contents of the breakthrough novel by hip new author Wei Hui have so alarmed Beijing authorities that thousands of copies have been confiscated and burned. As explicit as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, as shocking as Trainspotting, this story of a beautiful writer and her erotically charged affai...
|  | Crime Seen (Psychic Eye Mysteries, Book 5)
Release Date: September 4, 2007Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye, is having a hard time getting over a gunshot wound from her last case-especially because she didn't see the shots coming. Out of work and second-guessing her abilities, she tries to get back in the saddle by helping her boyfriend Dutch with some of his FBI cases. And soon enough, her intuition returns-with a vengeance. ...
|  | Monumental Verses
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|  | Asterix in Britain (Classic Asterix hardbacks)
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