 | Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider
Publication Date: November 13, 2009What if your bestselling novel attracts the wrong kind of attention? Author Beth Rider's second vampire novel has hit number one and she is flying high on her new-found fame. But at a fated book signing that runs late into the night, Beth is confronted by an evil she'd only experienced in nightmares. Jack Dawn, a supernatural monster belonging to an ancient race of bloodthirsty immortals known as the Rakum, vows to track down and kill the young writer because of the vile redemptive message her book is bringing his people. The Rakum have spread evil among ma...
 |  | The degeneration of women: Bram Stoker's Dracula as allegorical criticism of the Fin de Siecle : mit einer zusammenfassung auf deutsch : avec un ... zur vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
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|  | Masters of the Sea - Ship of Rome
Publication Date: June 25, 2009| Series: Masters of the Sea Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship, is from Rome, born into a traditionally army family. It could never be an easy alliance. But the arrival of a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before, forces them to act together. So Attic...
|  | Gotta Call BS on That One - How the world pretend
Publication Date: August 5, 2012Was Star Wars designed to save the empire or to build an empire? Which party actually saves money? Did the framers of the Constitution actually think out the whole concept of a Supreme Court? Is being a member of Congress a service or a career?BS is ubiquitous to life as we know it. We have been so swamped with it for so long that we sometimes forget it is BS. Opposite positions justified by two sides from the same Bible. Balancing the budget by 1) reducing spending, or 2) increasing spending. Justifying big kids playing in space by science and/or politics. Bu...
|  | The Ugly American
Publication Date: January 1, 1999The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American blunders abroad.First published in 1958, The Ugly American became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing exposé of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. Based on fact, the book's eye-opening stories and sketches drew a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with Communism in Asia. Combining gripping storytelling with an urgent call to action, the book prompted President Eisenhower to launch a study of our milita...
|  | The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia
Publication Date: March 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 0313324263 | ISBN-13: 978-0313324260| Edition: annotated edition Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic. Many of his sayings are still quoted today. His Essay on Criticism shaped the aesthetic views of English Neoclassicism, while his Essay on Man reflected the moral views of the Enlightenment. He participated fully in the critical debates of his time and was one of the few poets who supported himself through his writing. This reference conveniently summari...
|  | Edda (Everyman's Library)
Publication Date: April 6, 1995But the king's heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down... Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings.His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking poetry and includes a lengthy poem of Snorrie's own, praising the king of Norway.Ironically, Snorri was killed in his own cellar in Iceland in 1241 on the instigation of the king of Norway, as a result of political intrigue.The Edda contains the most ext...
|  | Poemas de las Madres / The Mothers' Poems (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0910055297 | ISBN-13: 978-0910055291| Edition: Spanish Poemas De Las Madres includes translation by Christiane Jacox Kyle, paintings by Sara Adlerstein Gonzalez, and an introduction by Margaret Sayers Peden. ...
| | Six Choral Songs for Treble Voices
Publication Date: 1990Six choral selections from Rachmaninoff, including:- Slava (Glory to Our People)- Nochka (Night)- Sosna (The Pine Tree)- Zadremali Volni (The Waves are Slumbering)- Nevolia (Captivity)- Angel (The Angel)Words in Russian (with English Translation), Soprano and Alto vocal staves, as well as piano accomp. ...
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|  | Media Discourse
Release Date: September 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0340588896 | ISBN-13: 978-0340588895The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. In Media Discourse, Norman Fairclough applies the "critical discourse analysis" framework he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life to media language. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and newspapers, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change, particularly the tensions between public and priva...
|  | Highlander Unchained: A Novel
Release Date: September 25, 2007Lachlan Maclean will do whatever it takes to protect his clan–even if it means abducting the most willful woman in the Highlands with the secret intention of wooing her for marriage. A born searing sensual leader possessing brute strength, and an imposing command, Lachlan is unprepared for the beautiful spitfire Flora MacLeod, who jeopardizes his plans to save his clan, and digs beneath his hard, chiseled exterior to expose a tenderness that may be his undoing.The greatest marriage prize in the Highlands, Flora is determined at all costs to avoid her mot...
|  | Blood and Whiskey: A Cowboy and Vampire Thriller
Publication Date: April 20, 2012The worst things in life always begin with a phone call. When a young homeless woman is snatched from the streets of Portland, Oregon, she has time to make one terrified call to her uncle Lenny in tiny LonePine, Wyoming. A way-off-the-grid survivalist and paranoid conspiracy theorist, Lenny turns to his best friend Tucker for help. But Tucker's got his own problems, including a vampire girlfriend.A perpetually broke, down-on-his-luck cowboy, Tucker has fallen hard for Lizzie, a whip smart, big city girl and hotshot reporter. To everyone's surprise in LonePine ...
|  | The Hobbit
Publication Date: August 15, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world o...
|  | Scooby-Doo! and the Halloween Hotel Haunt: A Glow in the Dark Mystery!
Publication Date: October 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Scooby and the Gang are invited to a Halloween costume party at a luxurious hotel. But when they arrive, they find the rest of the guests scared out of their wits. Someone at the party isn't just dressed as a phantom, he (or she) is a phantom! ...
|  | The Berenstain Bear Scouts Ghost Versus Ghost (Berenstain Bear Scouts)
Publication Date: October 1996| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Destination Unknown (Remnants #2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up She¹s done it again! K.A. Applegate, best-selling author of author of the ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD series, presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Survivor and Armageddon, for a whole lot of action!Where would the Rock hit? Would it hit far out in the ocean and send a wave to wash this idyllic place into the sea like a sandcastle with the tide coming in? Would the Rock hit far across the planet and break the world apart? There¹ll be so much left to do. So much to ...
|  | 3 Awesome Alien Rhymes/Stories (Children's Picture Book)
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|  | X: Writings '79-'82
Publication Date: September 15, 1983One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions." ...
|  | Pig In Love, Level 3 (Lightning Readers)
Release Date: November 8, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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