 | The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Release Date: February 28, 2007A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P.T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress. It begins with a mute boarding a Mississippi boat and ends without a conclusion: "Something further may follow of this Masquerade." In between, the "confidence man," so well disguised as to avoid clear identification even by the reader, meets and tr...
 |  | Desire
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Poetry. Villanueva's poems fuse the personal and the political, anchoring the abstract in the sensual world and revealing a belief in the power of language to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves. "We are all witness to our human history," (from "Witness"), and Villanueva's witnessing takes the form of honest poems that employ a clarity of perception to inspire their readers. Villanueva won the Latino Literature Prize in 1994 for her book PLANET, and has written four other volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and two prize-w...
|  | The Roots Of A Thousand Embraces
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|  | Nantucket Nights: A Novel
Release Date: May 12, 2009The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean--but so can their secrets.For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover l...
|  | The Devil's Backbone
Release Date: September 5, 2006Two sisters. One murder. And a woman who will cross the line to uncover a killer's secrets. Though they are sisters, Kit and Jenny could not be more different. Jenny is the dutiful daughter, following in her father's footsteps to become a Texas cop. Now working as a detective in the Austin Police Department, Jenny is surprised when she sees a crime report with her sister's name on it. Kit is the rebellious one, hiding from her past. She's trying to escape the fallout of her mother's death, and the gravitational pull of her father's expectations. Worki...
|  | Christy: The Collectors Edition with Fan Letters and the Author's Personal Photos
Publication Date: March 2001The beloved story of Christy with never-before-published memorabilia from the Catherine Marshall estate. ...
|  | Darkness Comprehended
Publication Date: September 25, 2007Can she survive the horror?Connor died protecting his wife.But despite her husband's tremendous sacrifice so that she might live, Estelle has grown alienated, drifting along in a life without direction or purpose. Despite valiant efforts to continue her career and care for her loved ones, she drops further and further from the ebb and flow of humanity as she gradually loses all touch with those around her.Two years later a stranger arrives. He tells her that a terrible error occurred that fateful night - she was meant to die rather than Connor. The strange...
|  | Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (Nonsuch Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| Series: Nonsuch Classics Silas Rutvyn is something of a riddle. To some, including his niece, he is something of a ghost. There are, however, no simple answers. As Le Fanu gradually unfolds the layers of this story, we are irresistibly drawn into his world. From the writer of such works as Through a Glass Darkly, and The House by the Churchyard, this eerie and chilling tale is one of the finest examples of his art. ...
|  | A Zombie Apocalypse 5: Desperate Measures (Volume 5)
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|  | The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England
Release Date: March 1, 2010Trapped in the Wars of the Roses, one woman finds herself sister to the queen...and traitor to the crown "The Wars of the Roses come spectacularly to life in Susan Higginbotham's compelling new novel about Kate Woodville, sister to Queen Elizabeth of England. A sweeping tale of danger, treachery, and love, The Stolen Crown is impossible to put down!" -Michelle Moran, bestselling author of Cleopatra's Daughter "A fascinating and compelling look at a tumultuous era. Susan Higginbotham writes the perfect blend of historical fact and fiction." -Elizabeth Kerri Mahon, c...
|  | The Power of the Dog : A Novel
Publication Date: June 2001First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between them when one marries now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx. ...
|  | History of the Harlequinade
Publication Date: June 1968| ISBN-10: 0405089120 | ISBN-13: 978-0405089121| Edition: Reprint This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of th...
|  | Achilles in Scyros (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 29, 2012That far from undersea riseth to crown I ts flowery head above the circling waves, A home for men with groves and gardens green, I chose not ill to be the hiding-place Of my loved son, A las, I could not take him To live in my blue caverns, where the nymphs Own me for queen: and hateful is the earth To me, and all remembrance, since that morn. When, in the train of May wandering too far, 1trafficked with my shells and pearls to buy Her fragrant roses and fresh lilies white.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About th...
|  | Winter Sun: Poems (Chinese Literature Today Book Series)
Publication Date: January 15, 2012| Series: Chinese Literature Today Book Series (Book 1) Shi Zhi has been a major force in Chinese poetry since 1968, when several of his poems were circulated as secret handwritten manuscripts in the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited youth, and although once relegated to obscurity, he is today celebrated as one of China’s most important cultural influences, having spawned the modern Chinese poetry revolution of the 1980s. This bilingual collection of Shi Zhi’s most significant poems, featur...
|  | Haiku Du Xxe Siecle (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Isocrates II: On the Peace. Areopagiticus. Against the Sophists. Antidosis. Panathenaicus (Loeb Classical Library, No. 229) (English and Greek Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1929| ISBN-10: 0674992520 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992528The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of 'philosophia' involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such ...
|  | Cosmopolitan Twain (MARK TWAIN & HIS CIRCLE)
Publication Date: January 2, 2008| ISBN-10: 082621827X | ISBN-13: 978-0826218278| Edition: 1 Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain’s life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to the suburban utopia of Hartford. Traditional readings of Mark Twain orient his life and work by distinctly rural markers such as the Mississippi River, the Wild West, and small-town America; yet, as this collection shows, Twain’s sensibilities were equally formed in the urban centers of the world. These essays rep...
|  | The Fortunes of King Arthur (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: November 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 1843840618 | ISBN-13: 978-1843840619This collection of thirteen essays, all but one of them entirely new, focuses on the intersection of two processes: the evolving fortunes of Arthur himself and the fate of the legend he inhabits. Some of the contributions explicitly examine the role of Fortune - involving both fate and accident, both historical determinism and flaws of character - in the fall of Arthur and Camelot. Others explore the formation of the Arthurian legend, its ascendancy, its inevitable downfall and, as Fortune's wheel continues...
|  | One Magic Moment
Release Date: May 3, 2011Medieval studies scholar Tess Alexander is thrilled for the chance to live in a medieval castle. But then a trip to the village brings her face-to-face with the owner of the local garage, who looks a great deal like the man who married her sister...800 years in the past. She's determined to remain objective about magic and destiny, but she can't help wondering about that mysterious, sword-wielding mechanic. ...
|  | The Little Mermaid (Picture Books)
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