 | Deception (Ollie Chandler, Book 3)
Release Date: April 15, 2008“Messin’ with me’s like wearin’ cheese underwear down rat alley.”-Ollie ChandlerHomicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when he’s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places he’s never gone before.Places he never wanted to go.Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. That’s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubtsȂ...
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|  | The Rosas Affair
Publication Date: August 15, 2008In the winter of 1637, Luis de Rosas, a tough, two-fisted soldier, stood outside the convent door beating on its staves with a gloved hand. Appointed to the governorship of New Mexico, he had petitioned the viceregal authorities for permission to set out from the city of Mexico for Santa Fe in advance of the regular supply caravan. While he was initially obliged to curb his restlessness, he could wait no longer. He wanted the supply wagons loaded and for Fray Tomas Manso and the men of his escort to hit the trail. Who could know that, in his impatience to beg...
|  | Queen's Bounty (Ursula Blanchard Mysteries)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Series: Ursula Blanchard Mysteries The tenth gripping mystery to feature Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I. Happily married to her third husband, Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I, Ursula helped foil a few months previously. Ursula dismisses the Countess’s letter as idle threats, but then a series of strange events rocks Ursula’s household – and Ursula herself is accused of witchcraft. Could ...
|  | Dogsbody Papers: or, 1066 And All This
Publication Date: March 1, 1989Dogsbody is an ancient family whose members have stamped their characters on some of the greatest events in history. Their diaries, letters, journals and household accounts were unearthed in the 1950s. Over the past 30 years E.O. Parrott has researched and collated these papers. The end result is a controversial human and historical document which questions accepted academic wisdom. E.O. Parrot's books include "The Penguin book of Limericks", "How to Become Ridiculously Well Read in One Evening", "Limerick Delight", "Imitations of Immortality" and "How to becom...
|  | The Third Reich: A Novel
Release Date: November 22, 2011On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town.Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo’s well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the ...
|  | For a Season: A Collection of Short Works
Publication Date: March 13, 2008For A Season is a collection of poetry and other short works dealing with the topic of Romance,friendship, family and relationships. The collection was selected and arranged by the author from a series of writing inspired by the events and experiences o ...
|  | Correspondence of Stefan Zweig With Raoul Auernheimer and Richard Beer-Hoffmann (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
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| | Die Arthur-Gedichte von Charles Williams (European university studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature) (German Edition)
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|  | Allowing the Light (Newfoundland poetry series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1993| Series: Newfoundland poetry series The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwaters twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwaters aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible. Voices of the Young is included in recognition of the abundance of young talent among the provinces youth. ...
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|  | La Verdad de las Mentiras (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003The greatest power of literature is to break any limits and this book allows us to partake in this.Vargas Llosa discusses here some literary works such as Lolita, Death in Venice, The Stranger, Manhattan Transfer, Tropic of Cancer and The Tin Drum. This splendid work is an immersion in the views of the author, one of the most brilliant writers of our time, about the purpose of literature and the present and future of books.Description in Spanish: Lolita, Muerte en Venecia, El extranjero, Manhattan Transfer, Trópico de Cáncer y El tambor de hojalata son ...
|  | The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
Release Date: July 20, 2006| ISBN-10: 1403967717 | ISBN-13: 978-1403967718| Edition: First Edition Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. In Medieval French Literature there are no Authors, only authors--and enigmas. The essays in this volume examine both well-known authorial figures such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, and lesser-known ones like Gerbert de Montreuil, Gautier de Coincy, Baudoin Butor, or David Aubert. This book will appeal to all those who are inter...
|  | The Romance of Arthur II
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|  | The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: November 28, 2007| Series: The Middle Ages Series Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches.In this highly in...
|  | 100 American Crime Writers (Crime Files)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Crime Files From Edgar Allan Poe to James Ellroy, crime writers have provided some of the most popular, controversial, acclaimed and disturbing works in American literature. 100 American Crime Writers provides critical biographies of some of the greatest and most important crime writers in American history. Both an important scholarly work and an enjoyable read accessible to a wider audience, this addition in Palgrave's Crime Files series includes discussion of the lives of key crime writers, as well as analysis of the full breadth and scope of the ge...
|  | Scottish Fairy Tales
Publication Date: May 1, 2001This folklore book has traditional stories of the Cletic lands regarding mystery and imagination. The stories include wicked queens, princes, ghouls, ghosts, and shape-changers. ...
|  | Hans Christian Andersen Illustrated Fairytales, Volume VI
Publication Date: April 25, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Hans Christian Andersen's spell binding stories present deep moral lessons spanning cultural and generational differences.A thread of optimism weaves its way through the stories, giving hope and inspiration to all readers. ...
|  | Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can! ...
|  | Soccer (On the Team (Gareth Stevens))
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