 | The Last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics)
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|  | Gone: A Novel
Release Date: June 19, 2012For the past fourteen years, Eve Adams has worked part-time while raising her two children and emotionally supporting her sculptor husband, Eric, through his early fame and success. Now, at forty-two, she suddenly finds herself with a growing career of her own—a private nutritionist practice and a book deal—even as Eric’s career sinks deeper into the slump it slipped into a few years ago. After a dinner at a local restaurant to celebrate Eve’s success, Eric drives the babysitter home and, simply, doesn’t come back. Eve must now shift t...
| | Freaky Friday
Publication Date: 1996 Like Mother, Like Daughter... Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her on what to do. She's tired of being told to do her homework, clean up her room, and be nice to her little brother, Ape Face. If she were an adult, she could do anything she wanted, like watch TV all day and eat marshmallows for breakfast. One Friday morning, Annabel's wish comes true when she wakes up and realizes she's turned into her mother! But after a major washing machine mishap, losing Ape Face, and a terrible teacher conference, Annabel starts to suspect that being an adult is n...
|  | Satin Doll : A Novel
Release Date: July 16, 2002Until that fateful moment when she was shot and left for dead, Regina Harris was living la vida loca with pimps and hustlers and using whatever money she had to get high and forget that she was living in poverty in Harlem. Now she's a college graduate and journalist who has turned her life around, living on the Upper West Side and hobnobbing with movers and shakers. She's become the classy Satin Doll of the Duke Ellington song...but she's never forgotten where she's from.On a night out partying with her homegirls in Harlem, Regina meets aspiring lawyer Charles Wh...
|  | Season of the Witch
Publication Date: November 1, 1999In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee, was preyed upon by a strange creature that also terrorized the community, tortured the Bells' youngest daughter, and eventually took the life of the family patriarch, John Bell. Taylor delves into the mysterious happenings surrounding this famous case, exploring the many myths and misconceptions regarding the Bell Witch. ...
|  | Tales of the South Pacific
Release Date: September 12, 1984"Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller."THE NEW YORK TIMESWinner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise. ...
|  | Tears Don't Become Me
Publication Date: November 1, 2007GW DIAMOND, Private Investigator, deals in missing children cases only. It doesn't alter her own traumatic childhood experience, but it's her way of trying to keep other children from the same horrors. Now the buried past she thought she'd left behind has returned to haunt her. The Sheriff of Elk Grove, Missouri, asks her to find a teenage runaway, and she has to take a cop as partner - and the cop just happens to be the missing girl's aunt.ERIN DUNBAR received the call concerning her niece's disappearance from an old partner rather than her sister, from who...
|  | Cry of the Hawk: The Plainsmen (Scout)
Release Date: August 1, 1993| Series: Scout (Book 1) Forced to serve as a Yankee after his capture at Pea Ridge, Confederate soldier Jonah Hook returns from the war to find his Missouri farm in shambles. Reprint. K....
|  | Barnaby Rudge (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Publication Date: October 22, 1987| Series: New Oxford Illustrated Dickens Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barn...
|  | The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
Publication Date: March 15, 1985| ISBN-10: 0674630769 | ISBN-13: 978-0674630765 Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions of language, philosophy, and aesthetics.Vendler describes a Keats far more intellectually intent on creating an aesthetic, and on in...
|  | Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros
Publication Date: August 27, 1997In Epic of the Dispossessed, Robert D. Hamner offers an insightful, well-researched analysis of Omeros, the masterful epic poem by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. Rich and various, Omeros is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. Despite Walcott's insistence that he violates the formulaþhe notes his autobiographical presence in the poem and the absence of classical heroic figures and epic battlesþthe poem incorporates fragments of all the definitive characteristics of the genre. Hamner establishes that through its self-reflexive textual...
|  | House in the Sand
Publication Date: September 1990Few writers are as integrally bound to place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on the Chilean coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of images fundamental to an understanding of his work. Renowned documentary photographer Rogovin’s photographs were taken in Isla Negra at the suggestion of Neruda himself. The poems and photographs reveal the landscape of Isla Negra as well as the home into which Neruda put so much of himself. This volume is issued to celeb...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: July 3, 2008| Series: Tierra Firme La compilación es un reencuentro con cuatro décadas de la vida -literaria y personal- de ese solitario que para Marco Antonio Flores es el poeta. Su escritura nace de la interiorización de elementos cotidianos: imágenes, emociones, pasiones, experiencias. Los recuerdos se trasforman a través del lenguaje en experiencias únicas, vueltas a formular para expresar su esencia subcutánea. Cada poema es una migaja dejada en el camino, las observa con curiosidad, como tirada por una mano ajena: un instante de la ...
|  | El Hombre Mas Rico Que Jamas Existio/ The Richest Man Who Ever Lived (Exito/ Success) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Bound in Moonlight
Release Date: December 26, 2007In this provocative follow-up to her sensational debut, House of Dark Delights, Louisa Burton issues another invitation to the notorious Castle of the Hidden Grotto—a place of entrancement, temptation, and searing eroticism.For centuries the Castle of the Hidden Grotto, tucked into the French countryside, has provided its guests with a captivating haven where no fantasy is taboo and any erotic dream can be indulged. Seduced into this world by the chateau’s beautiful immortal residents, the latest crop of visitors cast off their inhibitions and sur...
|  | Simply Irresistible
Release Date: January 1, 1998 Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancÉ at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of them—a night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is on her way to becoming Seattle's domestic darling and...
|  | All Roads Lead to Murder
Publication Date: April 19, 2011The ancient Roman world comes to life in this complex tale of horrific murder. Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, the future historian, are returning from a posting by caravan and break the journey in Smyrna. In the morning one of their number is discovered with his heart cut out. The authorities assume his slaves are responsible and prepare to take action: torture and death for all the man's enslaved household. Pliny is convinced not all is as it seems: the man did not die from having his heart removed, and the guilty party is not among his slaves. More than a se...
|  | Men and Gods: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS (New York Review Books Classics)
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|  | Freestyle Motocross
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