 | The American Indian As Slaveholder And Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter In The Diplomatic History Of The Southern Confederacy (1915)
Publication Date: October 22, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
 |  | A Celtic Miscellany
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|  | A Case of Bad Taste (A Morning Shade Mystery #1)
Publication Date: June 26, 2003Frustrated author M. K. Diamond is suffering from another bout of writer's block when the perfect plot unfolds in real life: a burglar in Morning Shade is breaking into homes and redecorating, of all things! If only Maude can keep her feisty mother-in-law, Stella, on the case before the trail grows cold and her manuscript freezes up again. ...
|  | The Six-Liter Club: A Novel
Release Date: April 6, 2010ELUSIVE WHISPERS, A DARK CLOSET, STRONG ARMS... DOES SHE EVEN WANT TO REMEMBER?Camille Weller has arrived as the first African-American attending in the trauma service of the Medical College of Virginia. Never mind that the locker rooms are labeled "doctors" and "nurses" rather than "men" and "women" or that her dark skin communicates "incapable" to many of her white male colleagues in the OR. Camille has battled prejudices her entire career, but those battles were small spats compared to what she faces now. When a colleague discovers a lump in her breast, she beli...
|  | Spirits of the Adirondack Mountains
Publication Date: March 2001Featuring 36 delightful wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair, this book is a charming account of the "ghosts" and other forms of "spirit life" in the six-million acre "forever wild" forest preserve in upstate New York". ...
|  | Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction by Glover, David published by Duke University Press Books Paperback
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|  | Blood Mountain
Release Date: July 1, 1999New from the acclaimed author of Once A Marshal...Stranded in the bleak northern Rockies, a band of settlers is viciously savaged by a group of merciless outlaws rampaging through the mountains. But when the villains cross the wrong man, nothing on earth will stop him from paying every one of them back...in blood.*Stark realism combined with a classic good-against-evil Western story ...
|  | Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 4, 1986| ISBN-10: 0140432159 | ISBN-13: 978-0140432152‘Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!’ Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa fin...
|  | Beauvallet
Release Date: January 1, 2010"Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement." —THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The most daring, dashing hero of all "Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spain" to his enemies, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Queen Elizabeth's most dashing buccaneers and has never been known to resist a challenge. A Spanish lady all fire and heart When Beauvallet captures the galleon carrying Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylvan and her father, he vows to return them safely to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner don...
|  | Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real
Publication Date: 2005Book DescriptionPublication Date: May 19, 2005A vivid, uninhibited retelling of the classic Greek storiesSongs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and books like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf have demonstrated the power of ancient texts to enchant and enthrall us. And yet the modern translations of the Greek myths have soug...
|  | Collected Plays 2
Publication Date: January 9, 1975| Series: V. 1: a Galaxy Book, 392 (Book 392) '"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also...
|  | Shadowlands (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: December 3, 1990| Series: Acting Edition William Nicholsons Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and childrens author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. SHADOWLANDS shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great mans relationships, even with God.A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Arthur Hanket, Harriet Harris, Nicholas Hormann, Martin Jarvis, Christopher Neame, Kenneth Schmidt, W. Morgan Sheppard --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | I Lalla: The Poems Of Lal Ded (Penguin Hardback Classics)
Release Date: February 15, 2012| Series: Penguin Hardback Classics I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat: a lamp blazed up inside, showed me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp, scattering its light-seeds around me as I went. The poems of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal D d, popularly known as Lalla, strike us like brief and blinding bursts of light. Epiphanic and provocative, they shuttle between the vulnerability of doubt and the assurance of an insight gained through resilience and reflection. These poems are as sensuously evocative as t...
|  | Red candle Dead Water (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Wen Yiduo (1899–1946) was a famous poet in early twentieth century Chinese poetry. He studied art in the U.S. in 1923 and published his first collection of poetry Red Candle (Hong Zhu). He returned to China in 1925 andtaught at universities. He was a member of the literary group Crescent Moon Society. In 1928 he published his second collection of poetry, Dead Water (Si shui). He was also active in political movements and was assassinated in 1946. ...
| | Wen hua zhuan xing yu Zhongguo xin shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Victorian Novel (Blackwell Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: February 13, 2007| ISBN-10: 0631226281 | ISBN-13: 978-0631226284This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram ...
| | Lady of the Moors
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|  | The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
Release Date: August 21, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Los viajes de Perseo (Caballo mitologico) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | It's Christmas! (I Can Read Book 3)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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