 | Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (Left Behind #2)
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: Basic In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear. Those left behind face war, famine, plagues, and natural disasters so devastating that only one in four people will survive. Odds are even worse for enemies of the Antichrist and his new world order. Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, Bruce Barnes, and Chloe Steele band together to form the Tribulation Force. Their task is clear, and their goal is nothing less than to stand and fight the enemies of God during the seven most chaotic years the planet will ever see. ...
 |  | The Last Oracle: A Sigma Force Novel
Release Date: June 24, 2008| Series: Sigma Force (Book 5) In Washington, D.C., a homeless man takes an assassin's bullet and dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms. A bloody coin clutched in the dead man's hand--an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi--is the key to a conspiracy that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity. For what if it were possible to bioengineer the next great prophet--a new Buddha, Muhammad, or even Jesus? Would this Second Coming be a boon . . . or would it initiate a chain reaction that would result in the...
|  | Rainbow Six
Release Date: August 3, 1998Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots” and his “natural narrative gift” (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before. At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse and well-known from several of Clancy’s novels as “the dark side of Jack Ryan,” the man who conducts the secret operational missions ...
|  | Laughing Sickness: A Medical Mystery
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Twenty-five-year-old Jessica Shephard always knows how to get a laugh.She's enjoying good health, friends and family when, without warning, she's struck by paralytic episodes.Doctors can't discover what's wrong, but laughter is mysteriously entangled in her illness.As relationships with friends, family and coworkers deteriorate and her life becomes threatened, she struggles to keep her job and independence. ...
|  | Hoosier Life & Casualty
Publication Date: December 1, 2009Objects in mirror are closer than they appearJust ask Elvis Scurvine. A brief joyride in a borrowed truck turns into a month-long rollercoaster with the woman he never wanted to meet. Her unorthodox views on health insurance, a failed jailbreak, a pair of Civil War reenactors, and a pharmaceutical experiment gone awry all add to the summer heat in the Crossroads of America. ...
|  | Female Ruins
Release Date: September 4, 2001"Geoff Nicholson's twelfth novel is an elegantly constructed and often funny story rendered with wry, surgical precision." (Matthew Klam, The New York Times Book Review) "Deliciously cynical and witty. A clever and original novel of deception, failures, and hope."(Washington Times)Female Ruins is the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built just one building-reputedly a wild, willful amalgam of styles ranging from 11th-century Norman to 20th-century Neutra. When Howell's daughter-and keeper of his flame-Kelly, and a Howell groupie named...
|  | Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1994Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers. J M Barrie wrote Peter Pan first as a work of prose and then adapted it for the stage. John Caird and Trevor Nunn first adapted Barrie's book and play in the 1980s for the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in 1997 for the Royal National Theatre. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Selected Plays, Volume I
Publication Date: August 2, 2012August Strindberg is often considered the father of modern Swedish literature. His vast output of plays was innovative in style and form. Volume 1 of Selected Plays presents selections from the beginning of his career, before Strindberg’s period of psychotic attacks in the 1890s. Master Olof (1872) is a historical drama set in early Reformation Sweden, influenced by Ibsen and Shakespeare. Two of his most produced plays today, The Father (1887) and Miss Julie (1888), are examples of his naturalistic plays. Strindberg described Creditors (1888), a tragicom...
|  | Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides' Hecuba (BCP Paperback) (Bcp Paperback S.)
Publication Date: December 28, 2009| Series: Bcp Paperback S. Euripides' Hecuba is is dominated by the vengence which Hecuba takes on the faithless Polymestor, and explores in a complex and profound manner the potential of revenge as a subject for tragedy. The sacrifice of Polyxena is in counterpoint to the revenge action; the whole is set in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of Troy. The combination of plots creates one of Eruipides' most effective dramas, full of pathos, suspense, and excitement. This, the first book-length study of the play in English, argues that it has been greatly unde...
|  | an Account of the Presentation of the Antigone of Sophocles (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 18, 2012Stanford University, in A pril, 1902, of the Antigone of Sophocles, in the original Greek, with Mendelssohn schoral music. This enterprise was taken in hand in December of 1901. Four months were given to preparation for it. The rdles were assumed by members of the Greek department, students and instructors. The chorus was drawn, largely ,from the university Glee Club. The university orchestra prepared the instrumental music. Cast, chorus, and orchestra were self-trained, except for help in stage-grouping from a teacher of dramatic art, Mr. Leo Cooper, of San Fr...
|  | Amor Y Dolor (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 29, 2008Alberto Cabrera Suárez:"La poesía, como genero literario, cala tan profundo en el espíritu humano que desencadena hermosas y variadas emociones, recuerdos, recuerdos de amor a la patria, a la madre, al amigo, a la novia.Si este amor está condicionado, entonces hay dolor.Este libro pretende establecer un proceso comunicativo escritor-lector y terminar dándonos la mano." ...
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| | Romances Tradicionales de Castilla y Leon
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|  | Theory as Practice: A Critical Anthology of Early German Romantic Writings
Publication Date: February 15, 1997Theory as Practice was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In light of recent, dramatic revisions in criticism of European-particularly German-Romanticism, this anthology brings together key texts of the movement, especially those written in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by a small, influential circle centered at Jena.In their introductory essays, the editors locate wr...
|  | Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric
Publication Date: January 6, 1994| ISBN-10: 0195080459 | ISBN-13: 978-0195080452Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the approach of the year 2000, such millennial visions seem once again to be increasing in popularity. Stephen O'Leary sheds new light on the age-old phenomenon of the End of the Age by proposing a rhetorical explanation for the appeal of millennialism. Using examples of apocalyptic argument from ancient to modern times, O'Leary identifies the recurring patterns in apocalyptic texts ...
|  | Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
Publication Date: August 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 0195338537 | ISBN-13: 978-0195338539In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction inside out in order to represent new struggles on the border between home, market and state. Edmunds uses the wor...
|  | Behind Closed Doors (The McCloud Brothers, Book 1)
Release Date: October 1, 2003A heart-stopping tale of obsession and desire that is dazzling both in the skill with which it is crafted, and in its seamless interweaving of exquisite sensuality and unrelenting suspense. ...
|  | The Changing Face of Madness
Publication Date: September 19, 2000Torn between her loyalty to her neo-nazi conspirators and her husband, Jane Polansky becomes riddled with guilt. Although she married Robert Polansky, head of Diamond Tech, to get at military secrets, she grows to love her husband, a man who espouses fine human qualities, unlike the hatred and misery which encompassed Jane's life. Stored in the same location as the secrets is the world famous Polansky diamond collection, sought after by organized criminals who will stop at nothing to get at those diamonds. Waiting in the background is a psychopath planning...
|  | The Jasmine Moon Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery)
Release Date: August 2, 2005| Series: A Tea Shop Mystery (Book 5) Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck....
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