 | Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
Release Date: April 17, 2012For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. ...
 |  | The Love Ceiling
Publication Date: April 1, 2009A 2009 NEXT GENERATION INDIE FICTION WINNER!After the death of her Japanese American mother, sixty-four-year-old Anne Kuroda Duppstadt finds the courage to confront the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist. When a former art professor invites her to his island art studio, she begins pursuing her lifelong dream to become an artist in her own right. But the needs of her family tug at her heart. Her thirty-two-year old daughter s love life is falling apart, and Annie s husband, facing retirement, struggles with depression, leading her t...
|  | Passing (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Publication Date: October 26, 2004| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence — until a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been "passing for white." Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender. ...
|  | Funland
Publication Date: October 26, 1990The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse. ...
|  | From the Shadows
Publication Date: February 13, 2008| ISBN-10: 0980137322 | ISBN-13: 978-0980137323Embrace the darkness in this collection of stories from thirteenauthors of contemporary horror. From vampires and werewolves to serial killers and supernatural places, From the Shadows will take you to a world that will frighten and delight your senses.Stories by: Jumpers (Norm Applegate), Eleven (Rebecca Benston), Night Whispers(Kathy Blaylock), The Slasher (E.W. Bradfute), A Dark Secret (April Campbell),Killing Time(Kevin Lucia), The Wooden Box (Thomas McReynolds), The Town (T.M. Mason), Blood Alley (Yvon...
|  | The Lonely Hearts Club
Publication Date: February 1, 2008Take three friends, add two ex-lovers and several new ones, then mix with more secrets than any of them know--and the result is a recipe for explosive rivalries and incendiary romance.Candace Lory is a high-power commodities trader and swinging playgirl who meets her match when she hooks up with older, butch corporate attorney, Parker Jones, an associate of Candace's ex-lover, Liz Ramsey. Parker is as much a swinger as Candace but try as they might, the two can't seem to stop repeating their one night stand.Brenda Beal writes best-selling erotic romance nove...
|  | The Breaking of the Shell
Publication Date: February 26, 2010The Breaking of the Shell weaves the teaching of ancient wisdoms into a modern context in classic story-telling style. Like the works of Paulo Coelho which deliver timeless truths, this book brings together the subtle energies of the awakening consciousness of the 21st Century through the sometimes dramatic, sometimes seemingly ordinary life experiences of a middle class Englishman, Alexander Baker.When a tragedy strikes during an innocent childhood game, 6 year old Alexander's life is changed forever. It will be many years before the outcome of that day is...
|  | The Mystic Diaries: The Whispered Secret (book 1): Lexi exposes secrets never meant to be shared. (Volume 1)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: The Mystic Diaries Alexandra is just another ordinary teenager. She has typical High School drama, a close knit group of friends, and a somewhat normal home life. Her close friends and family call her Lexi. Lexi's favorite hobby is photography. Little did she know photography would lead her down a new path, a path she was searching for but not of this world or time. Lexi finds, with the help of her best friend Dave, the history oftheir home town holds more than just what is read in books. Her pictures are showing her more than just the scenery. The...
|  | Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult
Publication Date: December 30, 2008Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance.Drawing on close readings of period medical texts, literary sources, archaeological evidence, and earlier studies,...
|  | German Poetry from 1750 to 1900: Goethe, Holderlin, Nietzsche and others (German Library)
Publication Date: May 1, 1984| Series: German Library (Book 1) This anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche. The selection is representative, including both the universally known (Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin) and the less familiar (Brentano, Droste-Hulshoff, Holty, Hebbel, Storm). Among the translations are classics by Coleridge, Longfellow, and the Irish poet James Mangan. ...
|  | Austria in Poetry and History: Bilingual (Anthology of Austrian Literature ; V. 1)
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|  | Die Deutsche Gelehrenrepublik: Text/Apparat (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 13, 2002| ISBN-10: 3110164213 | ISBN-13: 978-3110164213The volume contains textual material, most of it unpublished hitherto, for the second part of the "Republic of Scholars," which Klopstock had planned but never executed. In addition, it presents the early printed version of the "Laws of the Republic of Scholars" together with early works on the topic area "The state and class of scholars." The critical apparatus refers both to the printed first part of the work (1774) (Vol. VII,1) and the texts in this volume. ...
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|  | Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Series Q)
Publication Date: September 22, 1999| Series: Series Q In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to current issues in cultural studies. In the process, she makes important connections between past and present cultures that until now have not been realized. In her pursuit of his...
|  | The Ghosts of Modernity (Crosscurrents)
Publication Date: May 19, 1996| Series: Crosscurrents "Rabaté's strength is that he does not treat modernism as a monolith. The study's originality is in its close examination of several 'key' themes in several 'key' texts, almost all of which he reads autobiographically. . . . It is the pattern of these themes as well as the psychoanalytic method that holds these essays together. The result is a fresh look not at modernism as a whole, but at some central themes and images of the modernists."--S. E. Gontarski, Crosscurrents Series EditorJean-Michel Rabaté, the eminent...
|  | Turkish Embassy Letters
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 1853816795 | ISBN-13: 978-1853816796| Edition: Reprint Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was described by a contemporary as "one of the most extraordinary shining characters in the world." Her letters, collected here, tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her liveliness makes them delightfully readable, and her singular intelligence provides us with insights that were exceptional for their time. Her ability to study another culture according to its own values, and to see herself through t...
|  | Saviours of Oestend
Publication Date: August 13, 2012Life on the prairie has never been easy, but now Oestend itself seems bent on destruction. Banished from the BarChi by the man he loves, Dante Pane must find a way to rebuild his life and heal his broken heart. Unable to love women, afraid to love men, Dante wants only to find some peace. But peace is hard to come by in Oestend. Dante’s new home reeks of death, he can’t keep his ranch hands in line, and his new cook is taking over his house. As if that’s not enough, strange occurrences plague the prairie—dead animals, unnatural wea...
|  | Blood Dreams: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel
Release Date: November 25, 2008| Series: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even the Special Crimes Unit may not be able to stop. Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her dreams—and her life. But she never expected to find herself on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning that he’s eluded the best law enforcement could send against him; and so deadly that he doesn’t hesitate to kill even a senator’s daughter. Or a cop. Dani doesn&...
|  | My Lord Viking
Publication Date: January 2001Viking Nils Bjornsson turns his back on a warrior's reward to find his chieftain's stolen knife and erase the dishonor brought upon Nils's family. When he appeals to the Norse gods to send him a handmaiden to help him fulfill his pledge to bring the knife to his chieftain, he forgets how the old gods like to meddle in the lives of mortals.Lady Linnea Sutherland knows her father wishes her to marry their neighbor Lord Tuthill.It is certain to be the perfect match for a Regency miss.But Linnea is looking for a hero, a man who excites her heart as boring Lord Tuthi...
|  | The Curse of Bloodstone: A Gothic Novel of Terror
Publication Date: December 8, 2011“My home is nowhere, as is yours,” the old Cajun woman said. “Bloodstone is a place to forget.” “Forget? Never,” Vanessa said. “We came from Bloodstone. We will return to it. Why prevent me from going where happiness waits for me?” “You do not belong at Bloodstone. It is dead, and if you return you too will be dead....” A crumbling castle, a haunted village--and a love that would fulfill her destiny. But first, she must overcome...The Curse of Bloodstone! A riveting tale of gothic romantic...
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