 | This Heavy Silence
Publication Date: October 2005Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family’s three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care.Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancée to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the power of the vows we maketo others, and, more binding, those we make to ourselves.Evoking thehardship, spring...
 |  | Tropic of Orange
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1566890640 | ISBN-13: 978-1566890649| Edition: First Printing This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news executive, Emi, and a Latino newspaper reporter, Gabriel, who are so focused on chasing stories they almost don't notice that the world is falling apart all around them. Karen Tei Yamashita's staccato prose works well to evoke the frenetic breeziness and monumental self-absorption that are central to their lives.-Janet Kaye, The New York Times Book Review ...
|  | Deja Dead: 10th Anniversary Edition (Temperance Brennan Novels)
Release Date: October 23, 2007| Series: Temperance Brennan Novels"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs's electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.Her life is devoted to justice -- for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an ala...
|  | Nathanial Leary: A Vampire's Odyssey
Publication Date: September 4, 2002One man.. Who's lost everything, In the depths of sorrow.. Finds his before and after.So begins this hero's sojourn.. And on his shoulders rests the salvation of a species.. His species.. Vampire..Redemption just became a four letter word. ...
|  | Invasion
Release Date: November 6, 2007Robin Cook's "pressure cooker of a thriller" (Booklist) takes medical technology into a new realm, where everything we know about the human body-and the universe we live in-is about to be challenged. ...
|  | How To Wrangle a Woman
Publication Date: March 20, 2012Most adult women can manage to wake up on time for work. It turns out that Brooklyn York is extraordinary. Yes, she has to be at work at 6 am, still…when you have to pay a perfect stranger very good money to be a human alarm clock it might be time to reassess. But Brooklyn isn't the most introspective person in town. She's much better at aiming pointed barbs at politicians and celebrities during her mornings on talk radio and her evenings on the college lecturecircuit.Kiri Klein rides to the rescue. She's very adept at helping celebs stay out of jail and ...
|  | The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography
Publication Date: April 1, 2007Blending fact with fiction and written in diary form, this unique biography of Shakespeare encapsulates his life like never before—from his views on daily events to vivid impressions of the Elizabethan era and his role within such a world. Delightfully whimsical, this distinctive life story provides answers to questions such as What was Shakespeare thinking while he wrote Hamlet? What did he and Ben Jonson talk about when they were having a drink together? and What might Shakespeare have said to the formidable Elizabeth I? Incorporating fragments of lines ...
|  | Making Mischief
Release Date: October 25, 2005Abby Morland's been making mischief since she was not-so-sweet sixteen, when she spied gorgeous Guy from the neighborhood being attacked by curvaceous Cara, the "Topless Piranha." It was a racy, tasty, spicy piece of gossip Abby couldn't resist passing along. But years later, her indiscretion may be coming back to haunt her -- since she now wouldn't mind a little nibble of Guy herself. With four cousins, two weddings, and a re-emergent piranha in the offing, the recipe for making more mischief is at hand, and it might just turn Guy in Abby's direction at last! ...
|  | Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought
Publication Date: October 18, 1984| ISBN-10: 0198126654 | ISBN-13: 978-0198126652| Edition: First Printing Looks at the Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought. ...
|  | Chaka (African Writers)
Publication Date: January 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0435902296 | ISBN-13: 978-0435902292This novel is the first of many works of literature that takes the great Zulu leader, king, and emperor as its subject. The story is well-known, partly due to Mofolo but also to the works of literature by Badian, Senghor, and Mazisi Kunene. O.R. Dathorne has said, "The historical Chaka is only the impetus for Mofolo's psychological study of the nature of repudiation." Mofolo presents it as a study of human passion, of an uncontrolled and then uncontrollable ambition leading to the moral destruction of the cha...
|  | Virgil, Aeneid 7: A Commentary (Mnemosyne Supplements) (Bk. 7)
Publication Date: December 1999| ISBN-10: 9004108424 | ISBN-13: 978-9004108424This commentary began in 1967, but most of the period from 1971 to 1996 was spent on work that was in some sense an essential preliminary to a detailed study of "Aeneid 7". The work aims to serve as a guide to work on Virgilian language, grammar, syntax and style. Approaches to the text have been, where possible, taken into account, with sympathy but without jargon. Virgil's sources, in verse and prose, have been studied with special care and the commentary presents a coherent approach to Virgil's view of Itali...
|  | The Alexandrine Plan
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|  | Working Classes in Victorian Fiction
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|  | Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult
Release Date: January 11, 1996Modernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to liberate repressed concepts, while Duncan and Merrill hunt for a lost understanding of sexual identity which will allow for androgyny and homosexuality. ...
|  | Thirteenth Night (Fools' Guild Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Series: Fools' Guild Mysteries Orsino is dead. Feste, a top operative of the Fools' Guild, returns to Illyria in disguise to investigate in this sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. This Mystery Company edition restores to print the 1999 novel that marked the debut of Alan Gordon and his Fools' Guild series. ...
|  | Fedora
Publication Date: July 2001| Series: Alan Rodgers Books This ain’t your Mama’s anthology and these tales ain’t for the faint-hearted. These are raw, gritty stories exploring the dark abyss of men’s souls.With the sound of gunfire ringing in their ears and the stench of blood on their clothes, these private eyes and tough guys face their darkest fears and most cunning adversaries.Here are tales of love and hate, sex and power, crime and punishment, fear and retribution — tales that grab you by the throat, slam you against the wall, then drag you back for more.Here are...
|  | Nana Hannah's Piano
Release Date: September 9, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up Nana Hannah helps Sonny play the piano and tells him that he will be good at whatever he does, and when Nana twists her ankle and needs some cheering up, they watch the World Series together, and Sonny realizes that he has room in his life for both baseball and the piano. ...
|  | New York Jets (Super Bowl Champions)
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|  | What if Camels Wore Lipstick?
Publication Date: November 1998What If Camels Wore Lipstick? is sixty-four 9x12 pages with 18 full-page watercolor illustrations.It is a children's book that illustrates one of Michele's whimsical poems.It was intended to highlight the importance for children to dream, but the timeless message has appeal for all ages.The book's success lies primarily in the brilliant illustrations, which not only showcase Michele's artistic talent, but communicate her understanding of what children would be motivated to read. ...
|  | Jefferson's Sons
Release Date: September 15, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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