 | Roots of Indifference
Publication Date: December 1, 2009A suspenseful novel filled with unbridled passions, jealousy, incest, murder, witchcraft and dark superstitions. Roots of Indifference is interwoven with the story of a prestigious family during the early 1900s, struggling with racial intolerance as they try to carve a place for themselves in a hostile land during the Mexican Revolution, World War 1, and The Great Depression. This fascinating novel brings to light the horrendous injustices inflicted upon the Mexican-Americans, who suffered cruel indignities and discrimination. It is a story that needs to be ...
 |  | Term Limits
Release Date: December 29, 2009Taking America back . . . one politician at a time. In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach—not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O’Rourke, a former U.S. Mar...
|  | Heaven's Song (Portraits Series #8)
Publication Date: October 1997Their paths first crossed in a sleepy airport terminal, where they revealed just enough to hope they'd never meet again. But just around the corner, a greater destiny is drawing Cassie and Nick together - .Nick Meyers is a single father and a doctoral student at Texas A&M University; Cassie McCormick has just begun pursuing her master's degree in hopes of healing from a splintered love life. Both carry wounds from the past they'd rather hide, but when their lives are thrown together, it is only a tenuous future that grips their attention. A brutal murder, ch...
|  | Broken Trail
Publication Date: June 1, 2006This heartfelt novel traces the intertwined fates of a pair of honest horse wranglers and a group of kidnapped Chinese women during the late 1800s. Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail is the basis for the Emmy award-winning AMC cable network's first original production, starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. ...
|  | Slaughter (Texas Tradition Series)
Publication Date: September 15, 2008| Series: Texas Tradition Series As white buffalo hunters slaughter huge herds of bison and the Comanche nation fights back with strength and guile, a cast of rugged characters braves the rugged frontier. By the author of Honor at Daybreak.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | 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...
|  | Lucan's Civil War
Release Date: September 22, 1988"... eminently readable, supple, and coherent... essential... " —Choice"... translated into English verse with great force and precision... " —History"There is... a very real need for a new poetic version, and Mr. Widdows has carried out the difficult task most creditably.... his translation is both accurate and readable, and in our age, so much kinder to baroque art than the ages that preceded it, he should have many readers." —New York Review of Books"On all counts this translation of the Pharsalia is a resounding success and will, one p...
|  | Poems for Life: Famous People Select Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
Publication Date: April 6, 2005Gift book, book of inspiration, celebrity book, Poems for Life is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous people and handed down from one generation to the next. What do Allen Ginsberg and Angela Lansbury have in common? Isabella Rossellini and E. L. Doctorow? Wendy Wasserstein and Yo-Yo Ma? They each have a favorite poem ...
|  | The Boy Who Catches Wasps: Selected Poetry of Duo Duo (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002Duo Duo began to write poetry in the early 1970s when the Cultural Revolution was still in full swing. He was obliged to write clandestinely, never imagining he would have readers. He continued to write throughout the 1980s, publishing in samizdat publications, and then more openly as the authorities relaxed their grip. Duo Duo left China for a reading tour of England June 4th 1989, the morning after the Tiananmen massacre that he had witnessed.Duo Duo’s poetic vision embraces a historical and political vision that is much more diverse, more global than tha...
|  | John Gay's 'The Beggar s Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden ... Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 9042021136 | ISBN-13: 978-9042021136When Richard Steele remarked that "the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at", he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since.With N. Playfair's...
|  | How to Ruin a Reputation (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1108) Ashton Bedevere: renowned libertine who can ruin a reputation quicker than other gentlemen can drink their brandyAfter years in Italy, honing his skills in the delicious art of seduction, Ashe returns to London's high-class establishments—preceded, of course, by his reputation for lavish opulence and unashamed wickedness.Then his scandalous ways are abruptly ended by his father's death. To claim what is rightfully his, notorious lothario Ashe must do the inconceivable—take a wife!But who could po...
|  | Big Jack
Release Date: February 23, 2010In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who's willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years. ...
|  | Dare to Dream (Arabesque)
Publication Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Arabesque Gallery owner and artist Desiree Armstrong is lucky to be alive after a fire destroyed her SoHo studio. Since then, she's been unable to paint. With the pressure of an upcoming art exhibit looming, she's in a panic and getting nowhere fast…until her best friend and sorority sister, Rachel, steps in. Rachel insists Desiree take a vacation, and even makes the reservation herself. But her good intentions could backfire—the reservation just happens to be at the Sag Harbor bed-and-breakfast owned by Desiree's ex-fiancé...
|  | Break Out (Blood Hunter)
Publication Date: August 14, 2012| Series: Blood Hunter The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they’ve discovered the secret of immortality—Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon evolves. The Collective, as they’re called, rule the universe.Two-thousand-year-old Ricardo Sanchez, vampire and rogue pilot of the space cruiser, El Cazador, can’t resist two things: gorgeous women and impossible jobs. W...
|  | Angel Creek and A Lady of the West
Publication Date: November 2005Desire and danger blaze like wild?re across the bold American West...in these scorching novels from New York Times bestselling author Linda HowardANGEL CREEKAfter her father died, beautiful Dee Swann held on to her homestead in the Colorado hills, ?ercely determined that no one would claim her land -- or her independence. Then ruthless, ambitious Lucas Cochran came to Angel Creek valley to challenge her on both counts....He needs the valley's cool waters to turn the drought-cursed high country into the cattle dynasty he craves. But as their ?ery confrontation ?...
|  | The Scarpetta Factor (A Scarpetta Novel)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: A Scarpetta Novel In the extraordinary new novel by Patricia Cornwell-the world's #1 bestselling crime writer-forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame. A CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called The Scarpetta Factor. But the glare of the spotlight could make Kay a target for the very killers she would put behind bars... ...
|  | Artists in Crime (Dead Letter Mysteries)
Publication Date: October 15, 1997| Series: Dead Letter Mysteries The art of detection gets clouded by desire.It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck-and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay a fatal dagger, and behind her murder lies all the intrigue and acid-etched temperament of an artist's colony. Called in to investigate, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn finds his own passions unexpectedly stirred by the feisty painter Agatha Troy-brilliant artist and suspected murderess. ...
|  | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
Release Date: February 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Terrible Hodag and The Animal Catchers
Publication Date: February 28, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Deep in the north woods of Wisconsin lives a creature like no other on earth. It stands forty feet tall. Its eyes glow like fire. It is a scary sight.It's the HODAG! Don't worry. The Hodag isn't as scary as he appears. Ask Olee Swensen, the lumberjack. He'll tell you that the Hodag is a friend to all the lumberjacks in the north woods. Once, the Hodag helped them get rid of a bad boss. Now it's time for the lumberjacks to rescue the Hodag. Animal catchers have come to the woods to trap the creature and haul him ...
|  | The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales
Publication Date: August 1992| Age Level: 7 and up Tam is mistreated by her stepfamily, befriended by a fairy, and later rescued by a prince. But a royal marriage doesn't end this Cinderella's problems... Four other Vietnamese folktales are included. ...
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