 | The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
Release Date: May 27, 2002In Timothy Schaffert's seriocomic debut, two sisters on the cusp of womanhood struggle to understand their father's suicide as well as their mother's abandonment of them many years earlier.Lily and Mabel live on their own in their grandmother's antique shop in rural Nebraska. They are bonded by their loyalty to each other and their haunting urgency to reconcile their own versions of the past so that they might build their futures together.In a rebellious act, Lily steals a car with her boyfriend and heads southwest to an Arizona vineyard to confront her mother. ...
 |  | Collected Ghost Stories
Publication Date: December 1, 2011The ghost stories of M.R. James, considered by many to be the most terrifying in English, have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. They draw on the terrors of the everyday, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where the imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, and ancient churches provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. This book presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "Casting the Runes," p...
|  | The Lifted Veil (The Art of the Novella)
Release Date: October 1, 2007| Series: The Art of the Novella Horror was my familiar. Published the same year as her firstnovel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliotwould become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing.It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the onlytime she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote aboutthe supernatural.The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the futureand the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can&rsq...
|  | News from Nowhere
Publication Date: April 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 8132008278 | ISBN-13: 978-8132008279| Edition: large type edition This is England -- but an England none have ever seen, and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a country of the future, when the blights of poverty and inequity have been corrected and cured, and when the sky-blackening industries of the Modern Age have been transformed . . . Morris may have had his greatest influence on English and American culture through his extraordinary designs for wallpaper, furniture, and books. Yet his written works have retained a persistent life as well...
|  | Fatal Revenge Pb (Pocket Classics)
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|  | Recollections of Rosings: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (Pemberley Chronicles)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Pemberley Chronicles A disaster at Rosings unearths long-hidden secrets "Many surprises and turns in the lives of our favorite characters leave you riveted to each page." -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence O Sisters Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate, daughters of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, have very different personalities and temperaments. Both grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but as adults their paths diverged dramatically.When a catastrophe at Rosings Park brings Beck...
|  | Machine Dreams
Release Date: November 9, 1999In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history. Here is a stunning chronicle that begins with the Depression and ends with the Vietnam War, revealed in the thoughts, dreams, and memories of each family member. Mitch struggles to earn a living as Jeans becomes the main breadwinner, working to coplete college and raise the family. While the couple fight to keep their marriage intact, their daughter Danner and son Billy...
|  | P-Town Summer
Release Date: June 1, 2004Ah, Provincetown. An oasis of lazy days, ocean air, and frosty summer drinks--the perfect place to relax and bond while soaking up the summer sun. At least, that's the plan when long-time couple Claire and Rita initiate newbies Kit and Sabi to the pleasures of Provincetown. But from the first flat tire to the constant delays (can anyone say "hold it in"?) on the road to the Cape, it's clear that this is one ride that will be anything but smooth. Claire may be in a relationship with Rita, but that doesn't mean she doesn't notice the attractive and extremely available...
|  | Ralph Compton Death Rides a Chestnut Mare (Signet Historical Fiction)
Release Date: July 6, 1999| Series: Signet Historical Fiction The national bestselling phenomenonWaylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws, Daniel Strange's lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail, packing Strange's trademark twin Colts, and answering to the same name. And he won't stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate... ...
|  | The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0451526805 | ISBN-13: 978-0451526809| Edition: Revised This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most controversial play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics.The collection offers a spectrum of the more recent writings on the play that open up its historical, cultural and political significance, and serve to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism is both based upon critical theory and is also ab...
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|  | The Insomniac Dragon
Publication Date: January 1, 1987A further title in the Kraftgriots poetry series. Ebereonwu's poetry isthe restless song of the city, the night and vampires. Animal imageryrecurs and reverberates through the collection. In the title poem, thepoet prefers to sing of vultures, dogs in chains and hiding rats, ratherthan 'sweet songs/or like the caged bird praises'. His song - poetry thatengenders insomnia - is intended as the antithesis of the lullaby, butinsomnia turns out to be a positive metaphor in the poet's incursions. Hewrites that a man's mentality may limit his wealth, and 'I [mankind...
|  | Adages: IV iii 1 to V ii 51, Volume 36 (Collected Works of Erasmus)
Publication Date: April 24, 2006| ISBN-10: 0802088325 | ISBN-13: 978-0802088321| Edition: Volume 36 This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia).This volume's aim, like that of the others, is to provide a fully annotated, accurate, and readable English version of Erasmus'commentaries on these Greek and Latin proverbs, and to show how Erasmus continued to...
|  | Take Me Down
Release Date: April 1, 2009They'd risk their lives for love--and they may have to.With a young daughter to raise and multi-million dollar hotel chain to run, the last thing Stephanie Mason wants is a relationship. But she's looking for a man--to keep her hotel safe. Enter Jack Kaufman. Ex-Navy Seal, former mercenary, and security specialist, not to mention dangerous and pulsing with raw sexuality, Jack is exactly what Stephanie needs--and everything she doesn't. Yet after a game of cat and mouse too seductive to resist, Jack charms his way into Stephanie's bed--and her heart. But Stephanie i...
|  | Out Of Time
Publication Date: October 15, 2008When a series of man-made disasters strike the USA, altruistic rock star Dante Benedick (AKA "The One") must travel back in time to rescue the world and the love of his life. ...
|  | Blue Fire
Publication Date: August 1991Marriage takes Susan to South Africa, a country she had left 16 years before. In Cape Town she finds her ageing father to be totally unlike the ogre her mother had made him out to be and in unravelling the past she finds herself caught up in the complexities of the present. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Vampire, RN
Publication Date: September 24, 2012Elizabeth Evans possesses all the qualities that make a good nurse: dedication, empathy, and a healthy respect for human life. But there's only one problem-Elizabeth is dead. After a chance encounter in the cardiac catheterization lab of Mercy Memorial Hospital results in her demise, the newly turned vampire joins the ranks of the hospital's undead subculture. She becomes the protégé of Dr. Paul Bertrand, a cardiologist who is more than willing to train her in the ways of her new existence. While Elizabeth struggles with her love for humans and h...
|  | Sherlock Holmes By Gas Lamp: Highlights from the First Four Decades of the Baker Street Journal
Publication Date: January 1, 1989Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands.His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Never mind that Trevor's name wasn't really Trevor, or that Holmes hid the name of his university. Or perhaps you do mind, as so many have before you. It was such a like-minded group of people who got together in 1934 to found the world's first Sherlockian organ...
|  | The Three Astronauts
Publication Date: March 10, 1989| Age Level: 10 and up A Martian's concern for a frightened bird shows three space explorers from America, Russia, and China that just because two creatures look different doesn't mean they have to be enemies. ...
|  | Pippi in the South Seas
Release Date: February 24, 1977| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up "Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration.This installment is no exception." -The New York Times ...
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