 | Three Plays
Release Date: April 5, 2005Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand's unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people's willingness to betray their highest values-symbolized by a Hollywood goddess suspected of a crime....
 |  | Fendar's Legacy (Passages 6: From Adventures in Odyssey)
Publication Date: March 15, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up Panicking in an unruly crowd, Danny, Wayne and Michelle tumble head over heels into the icey waters of Trickle Lake.But when they come up for air, they're shocked to find themselves in a large public fountain - in a time and place far from Odyssey!When the trio attempts to escape from the police, one is seized and taken to the king's palace.Given the choice of escape or the enticements of this correupt kingdom, she decides to stay.Meanwhile the other two join forces with an exiled prince intent on leading his people to freedomCaught on o...
|  | Glass Dragons (Moonworlds Saga)
Release Date: February 1, 2005| Series: Moonworlds Saga A broad and complicated novel filled with wonderful characters, woven through with low humor and great courage, and built upon grand acts of heroism and love. It is the tale ofLaron, the chivalrous 700-year-old vampire, the appallingly dangerous and beautiful Velander, and the long-suffering Terikel, as they investigate a secret project of arcane magic, a magic so dangerous it could destroy their world . . ....
|  | Eerie Archives Volume 4
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Eerie Archives Join Frank Frazetta, Steve Ditko, John Severin, Gene Colan, Angelo Torres, and other legendary artists for an eerie excursion through the haunted halls of comics history, as Dark Horse Comics unleashes the fourth volume of Eerie magazine archives. Vampires, ghouls, werewolves, and axe-wielding maniacs are only the beginning of the thrills you'll find inside this huge collection crafted by the most gifted storytellers the medium of comics has ever known. You'll get 260-pages of luridly luscious artwork collected into a magazine-sized...
|  | Amsterdam: A Novel
Release Date: November 2, 1999On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will mak...
|  | Falling for a Dolphin
Release Date: April 13, 1989This dramatic poem, by the writer of "Whale Nation", describes the encounter between man and dolphin. His research led him to a remote cove in the south-west of Ireland where a hermit dolphin was rumoured to live. Submerged, alone in the alien sea, he was aware that the dolphin could torpedo its half-ton weight into him at 30 knots, snapping his spine as if it were a sardine's. Yet inches away, eye to eye, it appeared to enternatin no such wish and only invited play with its three-foot-smile. Drawn into the dolphin's force field, Williams had the sense of some old...
|  | Ad Absurdum: A Hans Weigel Potpourri (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: July 1987| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Hans Weigel, for half a century one of the leading wits of Twentieth Century Austria, is here introduced to the English-speaking public.The book offers a generous sampling of Weigel's art: a comedy, two critical essays, and 24 feuilletons. ...
| | Tang dai shi ci yu ci dian gu ci dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: December 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415979528 | ISBN-13: 978-0415979528This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town’s enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular, present and past, as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes, aesthetic anxieties, business practices, and even immigration. By displacing these issues from the metropolis, these social authors defamil...
|  | The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms (University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: July 15, 2011| Series: University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages The Arthur legends and literature are generally associated with England and France, where they grew up and reached their full flowering. But as early as the thirteenth century, they had also reached Scandinavia and begun influencing poetry and ballads there. The Arthur of the North explores the circumstances of the transmission of Arthurian literature to the Nordic region, with a particular focus on Belarus. ...
|  | L'Enfant Noir: Prix Charles Veillon 1954 (Pocket) (French Edition)
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|  | The Wicked One
Release Date: January 9, 2001The bluest of blood; the boldest of hearts;the de Monteforte brothers will take your breath away Meet Lord LucienThe head of his noble family, the dark and dangerous Duke of Blackheath spends his time manipulating other lives without giving a thought to finding a wife of his own. Yet Lucien must admit he finds exquisite Eva de la Mouriere most intriguing. What adventurous, red-blooded male would not be intrigued by a flame-haired beauty who appears in his chambers demanding that he make love to her? Certainly this hot-tempered minx would make a delightful bedmate...
|  | Best Gay Erotica 2006
Publication Date: November 11, 2005| Series: Best Gay Erotica Best Gay Erotica 2006 is a cornucopia of searing man-sex. From the languid, Bolero-paced striptease of a magnificently buff lover in James Williams’s “The End” to the fevered gropings of a skater boy and a pink-haired goth in “DogBoy and the BetaGoth” by Nadyalec Hijazi and Ben Blackthorne, Best Gay Erotica holds something for every wicked taste. In Jeff Mann’s “Daddy Dave,” a lover awakens his gentle new partner’s dominant side by letting him witness a master's skillful savagery....
|  | Third You Die (Kevin Connor Mystery)
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|  | How to Train Your Dragon Book 8: How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III))
Publication Date: June 12, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Zack Files 15: Hang a Left at Venus
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|  | Frantastic Voyage (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist)
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The One-Eyed Giant
Release Date: April 15, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up In fresh retellings and witty, glowing illustrations, Anne Rockwell presents ten famous monsters from Greek mythology, including Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops; the Gorgon Medusa; and the half-bull, half-human Minotaur. Scaly, fanged, horned, or many-headed, the creatures in this collection will delight young and old. Full color. ...
| | Who's Who in Whoville (Wubbulous World of Reading)
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|  | Leader of the Tribe
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