 | Safe Haven
Publication Date: June 26, 2012When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming incr...
 |  | Live And Learn
Release Date: February 1, 2010Set in her hometown of Newark, NJ, this popular bestsellingauthor brings you a hip, sexy, and drama-filled story of four friends withchoices to be made, sins to be forgiven, and lessons to learn.BOOK DESCRIPTION It's 24/7 money to burn, it's fancy houses, designer clothes, and luxurycars. It's leaving no-pay jobs and crumbling projects to have everythingmad cash flow. And best friends, Alize, Dom, Moet, and Cristal will doanything to get the glamorous life--and put the past in the rear-viewmirrors of their brand new whips. A savvy and smart business major, Ali...
|  | The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
Publication Date: June 1974| ISBN-10: 0395140528 | ISBN-13: 978-0395140529Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete, by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. ...
|  | Road Rage
Publication Date: August 21, 2012Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage, adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres. ...
|  | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A retired judge has been found brutally murdered on the outskirts of Las Vegas, complete with a macabre yet masterfully intricate tattoo on his face . . . the third seemingly random victim of the mysterious kidnapper dubbed by law enforcement as the “Tattoo Man.” The judge wasn’t the first person to have been abducted, drugged, and permanently altered with tattoos and body modification . . . but he was the first to wind up dead. At the same time, several other deceased are turning up all over Sin City ...
|  | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: September 21, 1992| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction — charmingly illustrated by author — describes the journeys of A. Square and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A. Square also entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions — a revolutionary idea for which he is banished from Spaceland. ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa
Publication Date: January 19, 1999"Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long forgotten.... These myths are more than just folk tales or fables.... Here are epics as grand as Gilgamesh, heroes as hardy as Hercules, heroines as vexing as Venus." And yet, as Clyde Ford discovered, the great myths of Africa were left out of the key works of modern mythology, missing from the sacred stories of world culture. Taking it as his mission to reclaim this lost treasure, he has written a fascinating and important book--one that both ...
|  | O'Flaherty, V.C (Players Press Shaw Collection)
Publication Date: November 2001| ISBN-10: 0887343503 | ISBN-13: 978-0887343506O'FLAHERTY. If you'd been brought up by my mother, sir, you'd know better than to joke about her. What I'm telling you is the truth; and I wouldn't tell it to you if I could see my way to get out of the fix I'll be in when my mother comes here this day to see her boy in his glory, and she after thinking all the time it was against the English I was fighting. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The Knights of the Dawn King
Publication Date: February 28, 2011The sun is setting over the realms of Un'Etheia. The lands have forsaken the memory of their liege and drift toward an age of horrific enslavement. Prophetic utterances are reaching fulfillment, while rumors of war multiply in the north and whispers of the Black Horde arise from the south. The mysterious race of the First-Born gather to reclaim their ancient homeland, even as the ruling houses succumb to greed and power lust. Over it all an ancient and dark force rises to crush the only adversary who would yet make a stand against the swelling tide of its e...
|  | Tragedy: Contradiction and Repression
Publication Date: December 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0226458261 | ISBN-13: 978-0226458267| Edition: 1 Drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation, Richard Kuhns explores modern transformations of an ancient poetic genre, tragedy. Recognition of the philosophical problems addressed in tragedy, and of their presence up through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophical texts, novels, and poetry, establishes a continuity between classical and modern enactments. Psychoanalytic theory in both its original formulations and post-Freud developments provides a means to enl...
|  | Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
Publication Date: May 17, 1987Intense, despairing accounts of life in MexicoCity.Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed. ...
|  | Certain Chance: Poems
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|  | Husband Hunting Made Easy : And Other Miracles for the Modern Gay Man
Publication Date: June 15, 1998The modern gay man is his own best friend, has healed his inner child, is in touch with the warrior within, has memorized the Kama Sutra, and owns a little black book that would make Casanova jealous. Why, then, do so few of them have the house, dog, Range Rover, and "husband" that so many yearn for?Husband Hunting Made Easy finally reveals the secrets to finding, getting, and keeping the husband of your dreams. From the basics ("What is a husband and why do I want one?") to the advanced course ("In-laws-how not to kill them"), this is the everything-you-need-t...
|  | The Letters of St. Boniface
Publication Date: May 15, 2000| Series: Records of Western Civilization Series St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans," was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity. His efforts were devoted as well to organizing and concentrating all of Germanic Christendom under the leadership of Rome. He numbered among his correspondents the popes as well as colleagues in England, France, and Rome. His letters provide unique insights into the religious, ecclesiastical, political, and social hist...
|  | The Legend of the Ditto Twins
Publication Date: July 15, 2012Since they have touched each other for the first time, eric and derrick know they are different. Know they are special. Know they will be bound together as long as they live. Most of all, the twin brothers know that no one else must ever discover the secret games they play in bed each night - until puberty hits and eric and derrick begin to understand that they are destined to become legendary. Follow two young men on their journey from a modest dairy farm in America's heartland to the glamorous world of Berlin's physique models, from the wonderland of Prague's...
|  | Classic Women's Short Stories
Publication Date: August 2002Includes "The Legacy" by Virginia Woolf, "The Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield, "Atrophy" by Edith Wharton, and more. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to an alternate Audio Cassette edition....
|  | The Man in the Brown Suit
Release Date: April 17, 2012 Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: "17-122 Kilmorden Castle"?...
|  | The Narrows (Harry Bosch)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Series: Harry Bosch FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rac...
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