 | I Drink for a Reason
Publication Date: August 25, 2010After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book.Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the role of "David" in Mr. Show With Bob And David, as well as a hugely successful stand-up routine full of sharp-tongued rants and rages, Cross has carved out his place in American comedy. Whether deflating the pomposity of religious figures, calling out the pathetic symbiosis of pseudo-celebrity and its leaching fandom, or merely pushing the but...
 |  | Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, No. 7) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: June 19, 2001| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels Semiretired mob guy Eddie DeCooch is caught trafficking contraband cigarettes through Trenton, New Jersey. When DeCooch fails to show for a court appearance, bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is assigned the task of finding him and dragging his decrepit ass back to jail. Not such an easy job, it turns out, since DeCooch has learned a lot of tricks over the years and isn't afraid to use his gun. He's already shot Loretta Ricci, an innocent old lady, and left her for worm food in his shed. He wouldn't mind shooting Stephanie next.L...
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|  | Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publication Date: April 1986| Series: Classics of Western Spirituality "It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life."John B. Breslin, Theology TodayIn one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.ANGELUS SILESIUS-THE CHERUBINIC WANDERERTranslation and foreword by Mar...
|  | To Love Again
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|  | Moving On: The Gay Man's Guide for Coping When a Relationship Ends
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Filled with sensible, heartfelt advice from someone who's been there and bounced back, this guide has been designed specifically for the gay man who is undergoing--or has undergone--the break-up of a loving partnership. ...
|  | Ramage's Devil (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 13)
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 13) Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and his bride elude the grasp of Napoleon's secret police. ...
|  | Up
Publication Date: 1999When Ronald Sukenick's first novel, UP, came out in 1968, post-modernism, avant-pop and autofiction hadn't been invented yet. UP invented them. Ronald Sukenick's ten subsequent books are typically twenty or thirty years ahead of their time, and UP is more timely than ever. Ronald Sukenick is himself the main character of his book, in which he glides undisturbed from present to future, from reality to fantasy. Some of the time he's an adolescent Brooklynite, at other times a part-time English teacher, a struggling writer living in a Lower East Side tenement, or a fantasi...
|  | Time Stands Still
Publication Date: April 1, 2010“The play’s two hours fly by as if you’ve barely taken a breath. . . . Ethical dilemmas arise like exploding mines.”–Variety“Mr. Margulies is a skilled practitioner of fluid dialogue that is naturally funny and sensibly smart.” –The New York TimesIn his “absorbing intelligent” (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and foreign correspondent—once addicted to the adrenaline of documenting the atrocities of...
|  | Scratching Stars in the Dirt: Poems of Longing and Belonging
Publication Date: September 29, 2011Poems of longing and belonging, exploring the nature of the human soul, internal and external relationships and a deep, soulful contact with the natural world. ...
|  | Wonmun sihwa chongnim (Kkachi tongyanghak) (Korean Edition)
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|  | Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art
Publication Date: March 27, 2003| ISBN-10: 0199259585 | ISBN-13: 978-0199259588Early narratives have tended to be critiqued as novels, an approach that misses their distinctive Renaissance realism. Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative imagination after single-point perspective. The habit of an older, multi-point perspective long continued, accounting for "anachronism," discontinuous realism, "double time-schemes," and depiction ...
|  | Shakespearean Gothic (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
Publication Date: May 15, 2011| Series: University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies As evidenced by the vampires, werewolves, and other frights overrunning the best-seller lists, the Gothic remains immensely popular. This collection of essays traces the roots of the Gothic to an unexpected source: eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. Through close attention to literary, cultural, and historical detail, the contributors demonstrate that even as Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer, he was also being cited as justification for early Gothic write...
|  | Never Say Never: A Dedication to Love Beyond the Walls
Publication Date: February 16, 2007Never Say Never is a book about love; falling in love and staying in love. Three women all marry men incarcerated and share how they celebrate these committed relationships against tremendous obstacles. They offer a glimpse into a life that is often isolating, sometimes lonely and seclusive; but continues to thrive and prosper. Love does indeed conquer all. It is far-reaching and attainable even in the unlikeliest of places. Their voices tell beautiful stories of finding love beyond physical barriers.If you thought that you had a passion and a connection to...
| | Figures of Life and Death in Medieval English Literature
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|  | Ways to Be Wicked
Publication Date: October 1, 2006Long's trilogy about the three orphaned daughters of a murdered government official continues in this second steamy Regency-era novel. Original. ...
|  | The Bouquet: Flowers by Felicity/Petals of Promise/Rose in Bloom/Flowers for a Friend (Inspirational Romance Collection)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004When a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates a wedding bouquet in mid-flight, four, heart-hardened observers end up catching a piece. Is love on the way? ...
|  | Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2011The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le Carré makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de- force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little Drummer Girl ...
|  | The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler: (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)
Publication Date: February 22, 1995| ISBN-10: 0313279489 | ISBN-13: 978-0313279485In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteries, Chandler is now receiving the serious attention of scholars. He is seen as a writer with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life. The essays and reviews in this volume trace the response to Chandler's work from 1944 to the present.This volume traces the changing reception of Chandler's wor...
|  | The History of New York Jets: NFL Today (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
Publication Date: July 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
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