 | Some Tame Gazelle
Publication Date: March 14, 1999"One of my favorites of Pym's novels, it turns a shrewd, mocking, but always affectionate eye on English country life 30 years ago. Pym's fans will feel completely at home when they step into the Jane Austen-like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede."- Christian Science Monitor ...
 |  | The Partner: A Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down.Now Patrick is coming home. And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. As prosecutors circle like sharks, as Patrick’s...
|  | Circuit of Sanctuaries - The Four Craftsmen
Publication Date: February 27, 2012Could the contents of an antediluvian ossuary actually destroy Earth’s future? Not if ElDann of the Four Craftsmen can intervene in time. He and his crew were sent here to accomplish this one goal— prevent the Earthers from cloning Adam, the first human. He knew there would be potent opposition on this planet of cosmic rebels— alien and demon, as well as mere human. But, the one obstacle he failed to consider was the possibility of falling for an Earth woman. ...
|  | The Once and Future Witch
Publication Date: July 31, 2012It's 2076, Washington D.C. and a new president is about to be sworn in.She's a witch. No, REALLY! A lot of things have changed but some never do.One thing for sure, Starr Draper had better watch her back while trying to run the country.There's more than one person in the capital city who works with occult energies. Technology in the latter half of the 21st century can be wondrous.For instance, there's the new Dark Energy Drive that makes trips to Mars quick and easy.But there are also problems that threaten everyone on the planet with slow, agonizing death.And ...
|  | Toreador (Clan Novel, No. 13)
Publication Date: January 14, 1999Fiction ...
|  | A Midwinter's Tale (O'Malley Novels)
Publication Date: November 15, 1999Stationed in Bamberg, Germany, in the chaotic aftermath of WWII, pint-sized Charles "Chucky" Cronin O'Malley can't seem to keep himself out of harm's way. Whether it be with black marketeers, border patrols, or even his commanding officer, Chucky always seems to land in impossible scrapes, relying on a quick wit and blind luck (or is it Heavenly intervention?) to save his hide. And until the day he meets beautiful seventeen-year-old Trudi, a girl on the run from smugglers and the U.S. Army, he manages to keep himself in one piece. Trudi needs Chucky's help....
|  | The Fantasy Eaters: Stories from Fiji
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|  | Charmed Circle
Publication Date: January 1994Adored by their parents, the four Rossiter children seem, to their next-door neighbor, Rachel, an ideal family, but as Rachel spends more time with them, she begins to guess the terrible secret they all hide. 40,000 first printing. ...
|  | How to Be a Stand-Up Comic
Release Date: June 1, 2000Comedian Richard Belzer promises that he can turn anyone into a stand-up comedian. Here he makes good on that promise and provides a generous helping of laughs in the process. This irreverents and informative book prepares wannabe comedians with tips and inside information from a seasoned veteran. Photographs. ...
|  | Die franzosische Komodie (Schwerpunkte Romanistik) (German Edition)
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|  | One in Every Crowd
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Ivan E. Coyote's wry, honest stories about gender and identity have captivated audiences everywhere. Ivan's eighth book is her first for LGBT youth, written for anyone who has ever felt different or alone in their struggles to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan's tomboy youth and her adult life, where she experiences cruelty and kindness in unexpected places.Funny, inspiring, and full of heart, One in Every Crowd is about embracing and celebrating difference and feeling comfortable in one's own skin.Ivan E. Coyote was also featured in th...
|  | Hoy es siempre todav
Publication Date: March 26, 2009Con este libro, un manojo de personas, amantes de la obra de Machado, rinden desde la Córdoba Patrimonio de la Humanidad, la que aspira a ser Capital Europea de la Cultura, justo homenaje a la poesía y el pensamiento de don Antonio. ...
|  | Songs of a Friend: Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal
Release Date: February 14, 1996Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover survive today. Until now, however, they have remained inaccessible except to a small circle of scholars.In her translation of nearly one hundred representative examples of...
|  | Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)
Publication Date: May 26, 2010| Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and meter-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and meter in the nineteenth-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf.The Lied, as a genre, is characterized especially by the fusion of poetry and music. Poetic meter itself has expressiv...
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|  | I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
Publication Date: April 6, 2012 From the preface by SF legend Bruce Sterling: "Dery...brandishes a Diogenes lantern as the the smoke thickens on every side. ... Beset with Google erudition, [these essays] tackle a dizzying set of topics--even within the essays, within the very sentences, there are dizzying arrays of topics. ... He's very good at going into areas of culture you wouldn't care to visit yourself, and performing autopsies. He assesses each bone and organ in detail. Not in acrowd-pleasing way--he doesn't prettify it, culture-industrialize it andbuild a gift-shop at the door. ...
|  | Can Anything Beat White?: A Black Family's Letters (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities.Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as in-spiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited...
|  | Le Chevalier de La Charrette (Ldp Let.Gothiq.) (French Edition)
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|  | Death Magic
Release Date: November 1, 2011Recovering from an attempt on his life by an FBI traitor, Lily Yu's boss forms a ghost unity that will operate in secret-and outside the law. Lily's conscience won't let her join. Her fiancé, lupi Rule Turner, has no such reservations. But when a senator is killed, Lily's decision becomes a matter of life and death-and all the magic in between. ...
|  | Echoes of Tomorrow
Release Date: June 1, 1997Transported back in time to 1844 New Orleans, Elise Gerard comes face to face with handsome Reed Blackwell, the husband of Elise's dreams, who had vanished suddenly on their wedding night. Original." ...
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