 | Lesson in Romance (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 304) Alex Dovington is a man with a secret. The internationally famous jazz musician never learned to read. If the world—and his legions of fans—knew, it would be a disaster. When he learns Cara Williams has been hired to teach him, he is reluctant to follow the plan. The sultry teacher will be given only three days to teach the music legend everything she knows. But the instructor becomes the student when Alex turns their mountaintop classroom into a sensual duet of passion.Cara will do anything to keep the doors o...
 |  | The Angel of History
Release Date: February 3, 1995Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines, become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to g...
|  | Roxanna Slade: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 1999Not since Reynolds Price's award-winning, bestselling novel Kate Vaiden has he told a woman's story in her own voice. Roxanna Slade is this woman.Roxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday -- a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of adulthood and changes the course of her life forever. From this day on, Roxanna is quick to share with the reader the intimate details of ninety years of life in North Carolina. Her beguiling tale is one that boldly reflects the high and low moments in the development of the modern South and the nation as well as t...
|  | Girlchild: A Novel
Publication Date: May 28, 2012Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she's checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.Rory's been told that she...
|  | My Name Is Red
Release Date: August 27, 2002At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a danger...
|  | The Changeling (The Wormling)
Publication Date: September 24, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Into the Dreamlands
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Through our dreams, we explore our greatest fears and desires.Some believe that we tap into a vast ocean of human consciousness and experience.Other believe that we live with one foot in the material world and one that is unknowable.Journey with us into the Dreamlands.Featuring stories by:Caitlin R. Kiernan, Christa Faust, Bev Vincent, Jane Gwaltney, James S. Dorr, Amy J. Benesch, Gary McMahon, Gill Ainsworth, Larisa Walk, Louise Bohmer, Lisa Mantchev, and AC Wise ...
|  | The Nature of Rare Things
Publication Date: March 10, 2005When paranormal investigator and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned by a dead man to find his killer, he dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. But when Nathaniel’s own wife disappears—an eventuality foretold by the same “unquiet spirit”—he is forced to look for connections between her predicament and the violent death of a man she never knew. Nathaniel’s search leads him through a labyrinthine investigation, involving a stolen Renaissance painting and the love life of Robert and Elizabe...
|  | Sex, Stories and Power Exchange: Adventures - And Lessons - Of A Naughty Power Exchange Couple
Publication Date: September 7, 2011Is this book fiction? Nonfiction? Self-help? Porn? A love story?"All of the above"…Like some other couples, Dan and dawn whispered naughty stories to each other while in the bedroom and sometimes actually took the step to write them down, sharing them with each other for the erotic aspect of it. But one day, they decided 'Is this really something we want to do…and if so, will we still be ok?' This book is the adventures of a loving and erotic power exchange couple who decided to make their fantasies come true. It tells the stories of what they...
|  | The Demon in the House
Publication Date: January 1, 1995In The Duke's Daughter, ordinary country pleasures provide the happenstance for the hopes and hesitations of young love. Family names familiar from earlier installments of Barsetshire series- Marling and Adams, Winter and Waring, Belton and Dale- populate the pages of this engaging novel, as enamored men and women find their way into each other's hearts, culminating in one day in which three engagements are announced! To the traditional concerns of the gentry is added a fierce displeasure with intrusions of the post-war government (the office of "Red Tape and...
|  | Behindlings: A Novel
Release Date: December 16, 2003Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" -- followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk through the dreary streets of their tiny English town, gathering their own scabby intentions, irritating habits, and weird manners, burying all differences in the common pursuit of their true prize, their Wesley.In Behindlings, the inimitable and ungovernable Nicola Barker takes her most compelling character to date...
| ![Trelawny of the "Wells' (Acting Edition)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31tjNXgPXgL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Trelawny of the "Wells' (Acting Edition)") | Trelawny of the "Wells' (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: February 24, 2011| Series: Acting Edition Comedy Arthur W. Pinero Characters: 10 male, 8 female 4 interior scenes Actress Rose Trelawny falls in love with the grandson of a snobbish knight. Unfortunately her visit to her lover's home is a humiliating failure and she finds she can no longer act. But the elderly tyrant relents, unexpectedly developing an interest in the theatre; he even finances a play and finally gives his blessing to Rose and his grandsonFEE: Public domain. ...
|  | Everyman's Book of English Love Poems
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|  | Sam Samurai #10 (Time Warp Trio)
Release Date: April 26, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric
Publication Date: September 18, 1986When a European poet becomes an expatriate living in America, what adjustments and sacrifices should he make? What should he resist? By the same token, how should English-speakers modify their expectations when they read his work? Donald Davie considers such questions and others in this first book on the 1980 Polish Nobel laureate who has been living in the United States for twenty-five years. According to Davie, Milosz holds to a conviction that the responsible poet today, whether under totalitarianism or in the free world, cannot afford to write only poe...
|  | Theaters of War
Publication Date: November 1, 2006Theaters of War should be read aloud in juxtaposition to the blare of world news broadcasts, to appreciate Dr. Ngwainmbi's grasp and illustration of the ironies of our daily acceptance and condoning of hostile tribalization of modern mankind. The book is a treasure and must be appreciated as a mirror of our times.- Hank Daidone, Lt. Colonel of US Army (Retired)Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi's verse is crisp yet full of imagistic details. His rhythmic pulse, enforced by love and war and a yearning for peace, and his fragmented references and repetitions have shock val...
| | Tang shi jian shang ci dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust (Modernist Latitudes)
Publication Date: June 14, 2011| Series: Modernist LatitudesIn the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family plot mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock Holmes, Leopold Bloom, and Charles Swann, McCrea tells the story of how bonds g...
|  | Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume I
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| ![Compromised Cowgirl [Bride Train 3] [The Reece Butler Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) (Bride Train: Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61uV6rZD4UL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Compromised Cowgirl [Bride Train 3] [The Reece Butler Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) (Bride Train: Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)") | Compromised Cowgirl [Bride Train 3] [The Reece Butler Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) (Bride Train: Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: July 25, 2011| Series: Bride Train: Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Western Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M] Having completed two years at a Virginia ladies' college, required to gain her inheritance, Jessamine Elliott returns to Tanner's Ford. Raised on a ranch with six wild brothers, she's determined to keep her independence by becoming a partner on her brothers' Bitterroot Ranch. But Ranger insists she prove herself by spending three weeks working for the Double Diamond, owned by a trio of greenhorn English aristocrats, posing as a ...
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