| The Taming of the Shrew (Modern Library Classics) Release Date: September 14, 2010| Series: Modern Library Classics Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this scathing account of manners and matrimony—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including: • an original Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work• commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers• photographs of key RSC produc...
| | Legend of the Jade Dragon: A Chintz 'n China Mystery Release Date: May 4, 2004When a client gives seer Emerald O'Brien a statue of a jade dragon as payment, bad luck follows. To thwart its evil spell, she'll have to follow a trail of heartache to China's Ming Dynasty. ...
| | Reflections of a Dying Vampire Publication Date: October 16, 2006The Vampire, Victor, dreamed of living happily ever after in his castle at Gravesend where he planned to recuperate from the vicious attack in Central Park, NYC. His own wife had crippled him, but eventually she returned to Romania, the land of immortal overwhelming horror and alien phenomena, and apologized, bringing their nine year old daughter along to visit, but Violette would be returning because she was happier in NYC with her Grammy, Dark Rose was planning to stay for all eternity because time was running thin in Manhattan; the law was searching for t...
| | Ex-Patriots Publication Date: September 4, 2011It’s been two years since the world ended. Two years since the dead rose and the plague of ex-humanity decimated mankind. For most of that time, the superhero called St. George, formerly known to the world as the Mighty Dragon, has protected the people of Los Angeles at their film studio-turned-fortress, The Mount. Together with his fellow heroes—Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth—he’s tried to give the survivors hope and something like a real life. But the swollen population of the Mount is becoming harder and harder to sustain, and t...
| | Port After Stormy Seas - A Sailor's Tale ...
| | Vuelo final (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: June 19, 2008De alguna manera, los alemanes estan anticipandose a las incursiones aereas de los bombarderos britanicos. Hermia Mount, una inteligente analista britanica, empieza a sospechar de la existencia de una estacion de radar secreta en la costa de Dinamarca. En Copenhague, el policia colaboracionista con los nazis, Peter Flemming, intenta descubrir la red de la resistencia danesa. Entretanto, Harald Olufsen, un joven estudiante danes, se ve involucrado poco a poco en la investigacion de Hermia. Cuando finalmente descubre la verdad, en la isla danesa de Fano, ocupada ...
| | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) Release Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Penguin Classics Christina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This first fully annotated collection, based on the definitive texts, brings together fantasy poems such as "Goblin Market," terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, and ballads, as well as the vast body of her devotional poetry. Weaving connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures, Rossetti's poems startle the imagination with their extr...
| | Lightning Release Date: September 2, 2003A bolt of lightning brings a blond-haired stranger into Laura Shane's life. But is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space? ...
| | Bronx Noir (Akashic Noir) Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Akashic Noir Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace. S.J. Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. She’s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones Absent Friends and In This Rain (forthcoming). Her books ...
| | The Poetry Of Iranian Women Publication Date: March 19, 2009The voice that comes through this book is daring rather than desperate, decisive rather than doleful, and fairly composed, given the constraints that govern the lives of the featured poets, as women and as artists. ...
| | In Person: 30 Poets Publication Date: December 1, 2008Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. In recordings taken from live public performances, each poet reads up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of their work. There are six hours of readings on two DVDs pouched inside the back cover, and all the poems are printed in the book. ...
| | Quan Ming san qu (Mandarin Chinese Edition) ...
| | Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel (Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities) ...
| | As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto Publication Date: December 1, 2010With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting correspondence, in print for the first time, chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and t...
| | The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps Publication Date: October 30, 2004Organized in May 1863 to meet the Union Armys growing manpower needs, the Invalid Corps--later renamed the Veteran Reserve Corps--was a unique military unit. With more than twenty-four regiments of troops, nearly all of them men disabled by illness or combat wounds, it was at one point twice as large as the entire pre-war United States Army. During four years of service its troops enforced the draft, guarded prisoners and vital outposts, protected rail lines and supply depots, and served as military police in cities all across the country. Members of t...
| | Wicked Appetite Release Date: September 14, 2010Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston’s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down—and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony. Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isn...
| | Dark Symphony (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 9) Release Date: February 25, 2003...
| | Sprig Muslin Release Date: December 1, 2011A dashing man of honor... En route to propose to his sensible acquaintance Lady Hester, Sir Gareth Ludlow finds young, pretty Amanda wandering unattended and knows it is his duty to bring her back to her family. This turns out to be a challenge as Amanda seems to possess an imagination as intriguing as it is dangerous. A shocking refusal... Lady Hester stuns both him and her family when she refuses him. At her age, no one would expect her to turn down such an eligible suitor. But Lady Hester has met the indomitable Amanda. How can the quiet, intelligent Hester...
| | Audrey and the Maverick Release Date: February 1, 2010Virginia financier Julian McCaid has put his troubled past behind him. His plans for the future don't include Audrey Sheridan, the extraordinary frontier woman he met just once. But it's because of her that he's come to the Dakota Territory to investigate problems at his ranch. And it's all the more surprising when he discovers she isn't the innocent he believed. Now nothing but her complete surrender will purge her from his soul. If it weren't for the children she cares for in her makeshift orphanage, Audrey would have left Defiance long ago. Now the sheriff is...
| | Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) Release Date: October 12, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up You've read the book. You've seen the movie. Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel.Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olymp...
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