 | Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
Release Date: March 1, 2011An irresistible novel about women, men, and the dogs that own them.Thirty-nine year old Rachel is having a really bad year. After losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, Rachel has inherited her late aunt's house, her beloved border collie, and a crowded rescue kennel, despite the fact that she knows almost nothing about dogs. Still, considering her limited options, she gamely takes up the challenge of running the kennel. And as Rachel starts finding new homes for the abandoned strays, it turns out that it might not just be the dogs that need rescuing....
 |  | The Lost Sheep (Colton Parker Mystery Series, Book 4)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0736921400Readers who loved the first three Colton Parker Mysteries will devour this latest entry in the fast–paced and highly recommended series. After closing a high profile case, Colton Parker’s life is beginning to turn around. His detective agency has money in the bank, a growingclientele, and the relationship between Colton and FBI agent Mary Christopher is beginning to blossom. Things are lookingup...until his daughter, Callie, vanishes.The search for Callie will lead Colton into a world he has never seen. A world where everythi...
|  | COLERIDGE/CONSERVATIVE IMAGINATION
...
|  | Between Sinners And Saints
Publication Date: June 15, 2011(Gay / Erotica / Erotic Romance / Contemporary) Levi Binder is a Miami bartender who cares about only two things: sex and surfing. Ostracized by his Mormon family for his homosexuality, Levi is determined to live his life his own way, but everything changes when he meets massage therapist Jaime Marshall. Jaime is used to being alone. Haunted by the horrors of his past, his only friend is his faithful dog, Dolly. He has no idea how to handle somebody as gorgeous and vibrant as Levi. Complete opposites on the surface, Levi and Jaime both long for something that t...
|  | First-base Hero
...
|  | Twelfth Insight (Celestine 4)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Celestine 4 The Twelfth Insight is the fourth book in the hugely successful Celestine series. It is an adventure tale that is both suspenseful and contemplative, and builds on the insights introduced in Redfield's previous books. It describes a new wave of tolerance and integrity that is emerging in reaction to years of conflict, warfare and political corruption. With unsurpassed insight, James Redfield continues the astounding spiritual journey that is the Celestine series. Through deep intuition of the world within and without he moves the series...
|  | Sartor Resartus (Canongate Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2002| Series: Canongate Classics This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values, and materialism. In Sartor Resartus ("the tailor retailored") a fictitious editor retells the theories of an equally fictitious German professor who has come to the conclusion that human institutions and morals are only clothes to shield us from nothingness, clothes that can be changed as the whims of the age or fashion dictate. This radically deconstructive vision reveals t...
|  | Who Is This Schiller Now?: Essays on His Reception and Significance (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1571134883 | ISBN-13: 978-1571134882The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- a dramatist and poet for the ages, one of Germany's first historians, and an important aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonical shifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schill...
|  | 33: A Collection Of 33 Poems
Publication Date: December 11, 2008This debut poetry collection by German expat Katrin Atienza features 33 hand-selected poems she wrote between 1995 and 2008. Composed in her own unique style, Katrin's works reflect the things that move us and make us or break us in our everyday lives. They are as torn and multifaceted as our lives and this world: nothing is just black and white. This collection of deep-thought poems will take you on an inspiringjourney from the contemplative/meditative/reflective to the seizing/gripping/stirring, from the somber/doleful/critical to the life-embracing/life-...
| | ANTHOLOGY OF GERMAN POETRY.Through the 19th Century.In English Translation with the German Originals
...
|  | Der schwierige Neubeginn - Vier deutsche Dichter 1949: Beitrage von Heinrich Detering, Dirk von Petersdorff, Hans Dieter Schafer und Albert von ... der Klasse der Literatur) (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 351509637X | ISBN-13: 978-3515096379English summary: Four German poets were the focus of the presentation at the opening of the Academy of Sciences anniversary celebration on April 23rd and 24th, 2009. Before the war Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann and Alfred Doblin were considered the most successful German writers. The speakers highlight the tension between East and West, between emigration and return, and between success and failure that faced the four poets after 1949. German text.German description: Vier deutsche Dichter 1949...
|  | Cool Menthol Woman - haiku and other verse
Publication Date: June 27, 2008Haiku and poetry from a lifelong writing junkie and working-class poet on the fringes of Philly.This volume began as a handwritten booklet of poetry given as a gift for a friend. It's now been polished up a bit and made available here as a collection of 80 poems (68 haiku, 12 in other formats) culled from years of scrawl in notebooks, journals and on websites. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture
Publication Date: July 26, 1995| ISBN-10: 0300060890 | ISBN-13: 978-0300060898This study of reading and writing in medieval Italy addresses the concerns of how people learned to write, what they wrote and read, how scribes were trained, the purpose for which books were copied, and how ideas about books influenced their use, preservation and transmission. ...
|  | Unacceptable Risk (Hidden Wolves, #1)
Publication Date: October 14, 2011Simon Conley was born a werewolf, making him one of a tiny minority in a sea of vanilla humans. The safety of the pack lies in absolute secrecy, sometimes violently enforced. In a species where pack-members are born and not made, being gay is considered a perversion. So when Simon falls in love with a human man, he's twice damned. Even his Alpha's grudging tolerance may not be enough to shield him from the hatred of the other top wolves. Then his lover Paul stumbles across pack secrets Simon was sworn to keep, and if the pack finds out, they may both end up ...
|  | Ruth (Brides of the West #5) (HeartQuest)
Publication Date: September 9, 2002The continuing story of mail-order brides in the successful Brides of the West series. Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an 80-year-old suitor. Her only hope of eluding him is to seek help from an unwilling protector, U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall. Copeland's readers will delight in this rollicking story of romance and danger. ...
|  | Silver Fang, The
Publication Date: September 11, 2005As the human world struggles with accepting the fact there are creatures that go bump in the night, in sultry New Orleans, one woman is swept into a world only nightmares are made of. But Samantha Houston is different than most humans. She bumps back....When a sexy vampire and his family hire her to protect them and track down a killer, Samantha finds herself a target of both vampires and werewolves. Rating: Contains sexual content, adult language, violence, and paranormal themes. ...
|  | The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana (Muqarnas Supplement) (Muqarnas, Supplements)
Publication Date: November 1, 1991| Series: Muqarnas, Supplements (Book 5) Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (AD 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature im...
|  | Omega
Publication Date: September 1, 1997A hospital on the front lines in South Central Los Angelesbegins losing patients to infections impervious to standardantibiotics, and a surgeon's search for the truth about a powerful newantibiotic becomes personal when his daughter falls victim to aninfection. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo." ...
|  | Snow Treasure
Release Date: October 5, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up In the bleak winter of 19 0, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lindstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated—until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Nazi guards with nine million dollars in gold hidden on their sleds. It meant risking their country's treasure—and their lives. This classic story of how a group of children outwitted the Nazis and sent the treasure to America has ca...
|  | Dancing Turtle: A Folktale from Brazil
Publication Date: December 29, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Turtle loves to dance and play the flute. But her exuberance puts her at risk when her music attracts the attention of a hunter who brings her home for turtle stew. After she is caught, her only hope for escape is the hunter's children ... and her own wit. This folktale, first told by the indigenous people of Brazil, is now told throughout Latin America. The versions are as different as the cultures that contain them, but all of them celebrate Turtle, who carries the world and its wisdom on her .... ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
