 | Played (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents What happens when you get too caught up in hustling? Beautiful Taj Jenson spends her evenings performing lesbian sex shows for an all-male audience and earns big bills while doing it. But her nonstop lifestyle full of cash, partying and drugs all comes crashing down when she meets San, a sweet girl with a tender soul who Taj develops deep feelings for. Taj tries to escape the hustling life in order to live normally with San, but breaking out of the game is harder than it seems. Taj’s world quickly spirals ...
 |  | Single in Suburbia
Release Date: June 27, 2006Amanda’s husband has just traded her in for an affair with a teenybopper. Brooke is a trophy wife collecting dust. And Candace (Don’t call me Candy) has had too many husbands and too little love. What do these three unlikely accomplices have in common besides a Little League team called the Mudhens? A plot to reclaim a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t. And they’re going to do it with a mop and a bucket.Maid for You starts as a way for Amanda to make enough money to keep the roof over her kids’ heads after her husband splits for his midlife crisis. B...
|  | Gertrude and Claudius
Release Date: February 8, 2000John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. A dark-eyed dreamer with a taste for foreign ...
|  | The Rum Diary: A Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting ...
|  | Dog Days (Mystery and the Minister's Wife) (Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered))
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered) When Renee Lambert's prize pooch is dognapped just before the start of the county dog show, Kate Hanlon sets out to find the tiny pup before it's too late.The dog days of summer are anything but boring when the Harrington County Dog Show comes to Copper Mill. Proud pooches and their owners will stop at nothing to take home 'Best in Show.' With only a few weeks until the big event, Renee Lambert is in for a serious shock when her pocket-pup Kisses is dognapped! While Renee mourns the loss of her faithful c...
|  | Southern Ghosts: Season of the Lights
Publication Date: July 21, 2005Southern Ghosts is a ghostly tale of terror that the author experienced as a young boy. He came face to face with the darker side of the unkown and found that the dreams and secret things of the night are not all just our mind playing tricks. This story is definately a nail-biter and will make you wonder if what was in your dreams, may actually be in your house, lurking in the dark. Southern Ghosts is a true story based on actual events that happened to the author and his family in a small rural community in Northern Alabama. The author was 15 at the time of th...
|  | Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)
Publication Date: July 18, 1986| ISBN-10: 0435080164 | ISBN-13: 978-0435080167Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Europe stole art treasures from Africa to decorate their houses and museums; in the twentieth century Europe is stealing the treasures of the mind to enrich their languages and cultures...."...
|  | Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Vol. II
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Great Translations for Actors Series Aeschylean tragedy represents the earliest extant Greek tragedy of the late-6th and 5th centuries B.C.E., as well as being one of the pinnacles of the art form. It is the product of an Athens that in the late 6th century devised and implemented a form of government known as democracy; not of a parliamentary or representative sort, but a direct democracy, one in which the Athenian citizen governed himself, which is what democracy means: rule by the people. Along with this gift to civilzation came trial by jury, and f...
|  | Thai Binh: Great Peace
Publication Date: March 24, 2009Poetry. "Kevin Bowen's poems are powerful, authoritative and essential. They bring news from a world much of America has turned its back on, and they do so without bitterness or rancor, offering instead profound testimony of love and compassionate wisdom. This is some of the most important and accomplished poetry I've read in a long time"--Sam Hamill. ...
|  | Lamentations from Sikaman
Publication Date: May 11, 2012This wonderful anthology of poems, Lamentations from Sikaman, covers everything from day-to-day activities to the environment to relationships. The author asks, "Isn't it strange that a path is smooth, but is still full of pits? But no, that is reality. It tells me about the complexities of life. Put simply, all that glitters is not gold." More precisely, one of the poems tells the tale of a man who leaves his wife for a younger woman. But the young lady screws up his life so badly and he wants to return to his wife. Lamentations, indeed. About the Author: James...
|  | Petrarch: Songs and Sonnets (Poetica) (English and Italian Edition)
Publication Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Poetica (Book 8) I saw the tracks of angels in the earth,The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.The great fourteenth-century poet's lyric and love poems are presented as living poetry in Nicholas Kilmer's powerful and moving versions. His selection convinces us that, as he puts it, "Petrarch deserves to be valued as a real man, a careful thinker, a good poet." Free in form yet holding close to the central impulses of Petrarch's inspiration, Kilmer's "readings" in this bilingual edition present Petrarch as a confessional poet, but one who...
|  | Roll Over and Play Dead (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 6)
Publication Date: July 1991Murder is going to the dogs. . .Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire. Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they are. Everything is just ducky...until they vanish. Other neighbors' pets have also disappeared, and no doubt a dognapper is on the prowl. . .Switching to her sleuthing chapeau, Claire quickly locates the shabby abode of Newton Churls, who runs a black market in stolen animals. But instead of a pen fi...
|  | Modern French Poets on Poetry: A Connected Anthology of Pronouncements on Poetry by the Poets Themselves: An Introduction to French Poetry from Baudelaire to the Surrealists
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|  | Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2
Release Date: November 8, 1999When Viking published the first volume of Jack Kerouac's letters in 1995, it was considered a major addition to Kerouac scholarship. The early correspondence portended the uninhibited and spontaneous prose style that would later become the author's trademark. In the second and final volume of this life-in-letters, Ann Charters, renowned Kerouac biographer and editor of The Portable Jack Kerouac, features selected letters that illuminate the latter years of this inimitable writer--the years of fame, alcohol, and disillusionment.Written between 1957, the year of t...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: The Beats: A Documentary Volume
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|  | Lost in a Stallion's Arms (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 188) Luke Stallion, youngest heir to the legendary Dallas family, likes his footloose and fancy-free life just the way it is...with a different woman in his bed every week. Isn't variety the spice of life? Then he meets Joanne Lake. The full-figured fashion designer arouses a passion the playboy simply can't live without. But Joanne's got a secret--one that threatens the future of Luke's powerful clan.Volunteering together at a local homeless shelter has shown Joanne a side of Luke the world never sees. Although she knows the free-l...
|  | The Old English Baron (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 8, 2004| ISBN-10: 0192803271 | ISBN-13: 978-0192803276The Old English Baron is an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medieval England. The noble hero endures many adventures of romantic horror in order to obtain his rightful heritage, and the story concludes with a dramatic day of retribution. Reeve's book is increasingly recognized as a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction. When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend, Arthur,...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: Three Tales of Betrayal
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Sherlock Holmes Includes the complete short mysteries: A Scandal in Bohemia: A story of love, intrigue, and scandal as Holmes first encounters New Jersey born opera singer Irene Adler. Silver Blaze: A trusted horse trainer is murdered. Holmes and Watson are on the case, but a strange knife and a missing horse confuse the investigation. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: Copper beeches in the front of a mysterious house expose betrayal. ...
|  | A Book of Princesses
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea are the five most beloved princess stories in all of children's literature. In these fresh retellings, just right for reading aloud, the magic of the tales combines with the charm of the illustrations to delight anyone who loves a princess. ...
|  | Superstars of USA Womens Basketball (Women Athletes of the 2000 Olympics)
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