 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Release Date: September 7, 2004Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known....
 |  | Captive Heart, The (The Daughters of Caleb Bender)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: The Daughters of Caleb Bender (Book 2) More Danger, Adventure, Romance in Dale Cramer's Next Installment!Bandit troubles intensify as Caleb Bender's family tries to settle into their new life in 1920s Paradise Valley. When El Pantera kidnaps Rachel and leaves her brother, Aaron, for dead, Jake Weaver and the Mexican native Domingo pursue the bandit leader to his mountain stronghold in a hopeless rescue attempt. Jake and Domingo manage to escape with Rachel, with the bandits hot on their trail. In a desperate attempt to avoid recapture, Domingo puts ...
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|  | Morningstar Pass: The Collapse of the UFO Coverup
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|  | Project for a Revolution in New York (French Literature)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: French Literature Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner’s nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again.Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity feat...
|  | The Evening Gun (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 3)
Publication Date: October 22, 2001| Series: War of 1812 Trilogy (Book 3) The year is 1814, the final year of the War of 1812. With the Atlantic seaboard closed by the British blockade, Isaac Biggs, Jack Clements, and Jake Tate, fresh from their harrowing adventures in Canada, find berths with Joshua Barney's Gunboat Flotilla in the Chesapeake Bay. These swift and shallow-draft vessels have become a thorn in the side of the British fleet, and the British command is determined to destroy them. Barney's Flotilla is eventually chased up the Patuxent River to find temporary refuge in Benedict, Ma...
|  | The Peony Pavilion = Mudan Ting (Chinese Literature in Translation)
Publication Date: December 1980| Series: Chinese Literature in Translation One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humor of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Jatakas: Birth Stories of the Bodhisatta (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 25, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics This volume contains twenty-six stories drawn from various ancient sources, and each story reflects one of the ten perfections-giving, restraint, renunciation, wisdom, strength, acceptance, truthfulness, resolve, loving kindness and equanimity. A detailed introduction elaborates on the ten perfections, explains the forms of enlightenment as well as the structure, and the historical and geographical contexts of the stories. ...
|  | Worship Service Program Builder
Publication Date: March 1, 2008(Lillenas Publications). Creative and practical all at once, this diverse collection gives you tons of options for your weekly worship services. And it all comes at a great price. Like other Lillenas Program Builders, the readings, short scripts, readers theatre, and service litanies for pastors help make your job easier by giving you hard to find program material. This is one of those "go to" books that you will use all year. ...
|  | Great Scenes for Young Actors (Young Actors Series)
Publication Date: May 30, 1991| Series: Young Actors Series 45 exciting selections for student actors ages 14-22. ...
|  | Rhymes of Love (Legas Italian Poetry in Translation)
Publication Date: January 15, 2011| Series: Legas Italian Poetry in Translation This is a translation of Torquato Tasso's Rime d'amore, introduced and translated into English verse by Maria Pastore Passaro. It contains and introduction and the Italian text faces the English translation on the opposite page. ...
|  | Obras I. Poes
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Tierra Firme La poesía del cubano Severo Sarduy empieza, literalmente, por el comienzo (Big Bang, 1974) y acaba con el fulgor del vacío que emiten sus últimos textos (Un testigo perenne y delatado, precedido de Un testigo fugaz y disfrazado, 1993). Desde la planeación "saturada, exuberante, amazónica y barroca" de la página, como el mismo Sarduy lo definiera, hasta el diseño de este otro "pabellón del vacío" (Lezama Lima), el poeta, narrador y ensayista elaboró su escritura con los materiales de constr...
|  | Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: September 5, 2011| Series: Modernist Literature and Culture The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists.Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Der...
|  | The Letters of Kingsley Amis
Publication Date: November 21, 2001In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion until his death in 1995. In his letters, he confirms the legendary aspects of his reputation, and much more. This collection contains more than eight hundred letters that divulge the secrets of the artist and the man, with an honesty and immediacy rare in any biography or memoir. Amis, so assured in his pronouncements on fell...
|  | Split Second (An FBI Thriller)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: An FBI Thriller A woman-killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover the killer has blood ties to an infamous and now long-dead monster. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on… ...
|  | Silver Bells: Man of Ice\Heart of Ice (Man of the Month)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: Man of the Month Man of IceAfter a less than magical one-night stand, cynical Dawson Rutherford needs the help of the woman he considers seduced him. Barrie Bell, still reeling from their encounter, is ambivalent about aiding his scheme. She's kept a secret from Dawson…one that could free them both to love again!Heart of IceKnowing she dislikes him down to his arrogant bones, Egan Winthrop invites Kati James to his ranch to research her next novel. He assumes she knows everything about love. But when passion flares between them, Egan is surp...
|  | The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple Mysteries)
Release Date: April 12, 2011 The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction.“Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,” declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, “would be doing the world at large a favor!”It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later—when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colo...
|  | Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction
Publication Date: February 25, 2008| ISBN-10: 0786432985 | ISBN-13: 978-0786432981Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors for whom the setting greatly contributes to their overall literary style, this book focuses on the many ways that "place" figures in modern crime and mystery novels.The authors (and their settings) are: Georges Simenon (Paris), Donna Leon (Venice), Tony Hillerman (American Southwest), Walter Mosley (South Central Los Angeles), George P. Pelecanos (Washington, D.C.), Sara Paretsky (Chicago), James Lee Burke (Southern Louisiana), Carl Hiaasen (South Flori...
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