 | Every Night I'm Yours (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: February 1, 2008| Series: Zebra Historical Romance At twenty-six, aspiring novelist Avis Copley intends to wear spinsterhood as a badge of honour. But when she discovers a volume of erotica that ignites a searing fire within her, Avis realizes just how much she doesn't know about the actual pleasures of the flesh. Determined to learn more, she devises a daring plan...Avis chooses Emory Billingsworth, a fellow novelist - not to mention a beautiful specimen of manhood - to instruct her in carnal pleasure. But when the brash earl of Selby, Banning Talbot, a man she has known for y...
 |  | At the Cross (Jesus in Love)
Publication Date: January 15, 2008| Series: Jesus in Love Picking up where JESUS IN LOVE, JESUS IN LOVE: AT THE CROSS continues the story of Jesus' erotic, mystical adventures in first-century Palestine, this time all the way to his untimely death, his miraculous resurrection, and beyond. Jesus has today's queer sensibilities and psychological sophistication as he lives out his mythic story. ...
|  | Estrella distante (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. Escribía poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducía a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvió a verlo después del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de un avión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y...
|  | The Surgeon's Blade
Publication Date: January 9, 2012Mystery-suspense-thriller writer, Faith Mortimer is delighted to add book three to the best-selling Diana Rivers mystery thriller series. This latest novel, "The Surgeon's Blade" is chilling, tense and is described as a 'real corker of a read'. Nursing sister, Libby Hunter wakes up in hospital with amnesia after a traumatic sailing accident. The stranger she finds sitting by her bedside claims to be her fiancé. As she cannot remember ever being engaged, she finds excuses to put him off until she is completely sure of her true feelings.Returning home, Lib...
|  | Fate vs. Destiny
Publication Date: May 8, 2012Logan Greer devotes her life to investigating plane crashes for the National Transportation Safety Board. She works by the book and lives a very structured life; until she meets two very different women that simply cause her to unravel.Brooke McCabe is an investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration who literally flies by the seat of her pants. She gets what she wants and leaves trails of embers in her wake.Jensen Tirado is a recluse that is full of mystery. She appears and disappears like a ghost in the night. When Logan gets tangled in head games with ...
|  | The Loner: Seven Days To Die
Release Date: May 1, 2011| Series: The Loner Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan and the current occupant of a cell in Hell Gate prison. The Loner's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down a look-alike killer on the loose. But in or out of prison, Frank Morgan's boy knows better than to trust anyone. And with Hell Gate...
|  | Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
Release Date: February 14, 2006The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reade...
|  | Carn
Release Date: January 1, 1997Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. Carn is the story of two women; Josie Keenan, who returns to Carn, Ireland, the provincial hometown she once left behind, and Sadie Rooney, a factory worker who dreams of leaving. As the two women strike up a friendship--fueled by hopes to better their lives, yet inextricably tied to the tenuous fate of Carn--each mu...
|  | Amuse Bouche
Publication Date: September 1, 2000A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant-cute, gay, and a rookie private detective. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the smudgy streets of Paris, he cajoles and sleuths his way to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. ...
|  | Satyricon (Oneworld Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Oneworld Classics Documenting the colorful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less-than-faithful lover Giton, the Satyricon plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empire’s seamy underbelly. A host of unforgettable characters are satirically presented, such as Trimalchio, the pretentious parvenu host, in a memorable banquet scene; the lascivious priestess Quartilla; and the narrator’s unreliable, roguish friend Ascyltus. Sometimes referred to as the first novel—although sur...
|  | J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan
Publication Date: July 11, 2003J.M. Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of "Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and their circle, to describe Barrie's l...
|  | The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: November 5, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics The fairy tales of Perrault--stories that are known and loved around the world--are now available in this scintillating paperback edition, with twenty-six stunning illustrations by Gustave Doré. The superb translation by Christopher Betts exactly captures the tone and flavor of Perrault's world, and the delightful spirit of the originals. In addition to the classic prose tales--including The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Little Red Riding-Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Hop o' my Thumb--this new translati...
|  | The Fifth Figure
Publication Date: March 6, 2007Part novel, part poem, part family memoir, this is the story of three generations of women, their loves betrayals, innocence and suffering, in Jamaica. ""Breeze is also a dancer, choreographer, actress, and storyteller, and the five monologues of this poetic family saga are theatrically lively. ...A dazzling and somber tour-de-force."" --Booklist ...
|  | The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Publication Date: October 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0691129096 | ISBN-13: 978-0691129099Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. The Whole Difference, which includes new translations as well as classic ones long out of print, is a fresh introduction to the enormous range of this extraordinary artist, and the most co...
|  | Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Continuum Contemporaries Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series will ...
|  | Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations : Commentary (Soas Musicology Series) (Soas Musicology Series)
Publication Date: December 2000| ISBN-10: 0754602818 | ISBN-13: 978-0754602811Demetrius Cantemir has several reputations, for Romanians he is revered as a major national cultural figure; on the intellectual map of 18th-century Europe he is seen as an important historian; and in Turkey, where he is known as Kantemiroglu, he is recognized for his accomplishments in the field of music, as performer, theorist and, above all, composer. This text examines Cantemir's life and studies his work in these different fields. ...
|  | Without Mercy (Sean Dillon)
Release Date: September 5, 2006| Series: Sean Dillon As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, an enigmatic shadow from the past, burning with hatred, steals into her room and finishes the job. Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake Johnson, and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey upon which they are about to embark—or of the bloody war into which they are about to charge. Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, With...
|  | The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Frank Show
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This hilarious, offbeat picture book from the creator of Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School reveals that there is more to the older generation than meets the eye. Grandpa Frank doesn’t have any interesting hobbies, unless you count complaining about how everything was better in the old days. He doesn’t speak Italian like Paolo’s mom, or play the drums like Tom’s uncle. He’s just a grandpa. So when the young narrator of this story is forced to bring Frank to school for show-and-tel...
|  | Trouble on the T-Ball Team
Publication Date: October 21, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up When everyone on Linda's T-ball team starts "losing one" at the oddest times and places, Linda wonders when her big moment will come. This easy-reading mystery keeps readers guessing right up to the very end. ...
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