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 |  | Bad Habits: A Love Story
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Twenty-five-year-old graphic artist Cristy Road embarks on an uncensored and largely autobiographical tour of an underground world, one full of wild characters and personal revolutions. In her circle, drugs are cheap, ubiquitous, and sometimes feel like the only way out, and Road’s street psychopharmacology results in experiences that are both revelatory and tragic. Writing in a tradition of some of the finest transgressive authors, such as Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs, and Kathy Acker, Road depicts the damaged soul and psyche of her young protagoni...
|  | Vampires
Release Date: April 25, 2007| ISBN-10: 0670029726 | ISBN-13: 978-0670029723Seductive and mysterious, Vampires have the power to fascinate and horrify us. This anthology brings together some of the most beguiling and terrifying vampires from literary history. ...
|  | Saber perder (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 15, 2009Apasionante relato de supervivientes que nos ensena como vivir cuando todo, practicamente, esta perdido. Sylvia cumple dieciseis años el dia que comienza esta novela. Para celebrarlo organiza una falsa fiesta que solo tiene un invitado. Horas despues sufrira un accidente que, aun no lo sabe, significara su brusca entrada en la vida adulta. Su padre, Lorenzo, es un hombre que trata de tapar los agujeros que el abandono de su mujer y su fracaso laboral han causado en su rutina. Ariel Burano es un joven jugador de futbol que deja Buenos Aires para ficha...
|  | Anthem
Publication Date: April 25, 2012| ISBN-10: 1434440907 | ISBN-13: 978-1434440907Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (the use of the words I or Ego is punishable by death). ...
|  | The Vengeance of Superior Men
Publication Date: May 21, 2010The Vengeance of Superior Men is a political/action novel that builds on the characters and storyline in The Superior Men of Xinjiang (though the story will also stand on its own). Robert Jiang, a Chinese American doctor and martial artist, faces the mounting consequences of exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) attempts to use an environmental disaster against the large Muslim minority in the vast resource-rich Xinjiang Autonomous Region. In that expose, Robert was aided by a native Uyghur doctor, a young Uyghur-Chinese woman, a Chinese friend, and a Spe...
|  | Heredity
Publication Date: January 29, 2003New Yorker Elizabeth Mann travels to London on a travel writing assignment. Little does she know that her ultimate discoveries will be far more captivating than the happenings at Buckingham Palace or the activities of the royal family. When she becomes lovers with an infertility specialist, the two conceive a plan to create a new person using the DNA of an infamous 18th-century criminal. Combining elements of Girl, Interrupted and A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Heredity is both a deadpan detective story and a twisted historical romance. ...
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|  | The Religion: A Novel (Tannhauser Trilogy)
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Tannhauser Trilogy May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights’ Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the “The Hounds of Hell.” The Knights call themselves “The Religion.” In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla la Penautier, seeks a passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. The only man with th...
|  | Sweetness in the Belly
Release Date: March 27, 2007Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur’an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can’t escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the rid...
|  | Essays on a Science of Mythology
Publication Date: October 1, 1969| Series: Bollingen Series (Book 22) Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of psychologists." Kerényi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. Both men hoped, through their collaboration, to elevate the study of mythology to the status of a scienc...
|  | Euripides: Hecuba (Euripides)
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Series: Euripides This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. An introduction surveys the play, its possible date, features of the original production, the background of Theban myth, the general problem of interpolation, and the textual tradition. The commentary treats the constitution of the text, noteworthy features of diction and style, dramatic technique and structure, and the controversies over possible later additions to the text. ...
| ![Elysium: A Collection of Haiku and Senryu by Chang, M.D., Hernan R. published by Lulu.com [Paperback] 2005](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PFeW24MGL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Elysium: A Collection of Haiku and Senryu by Chang, M.D., Hernan R. published by Lulu.com [Paperback] 2005
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|  | Among My Books
Publication Date: September 21, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life (Vintage)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Vintage A celebration of Montaigne, the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers. In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his château to brood on the deaths of his best friend, his father, his brother, and his firstborn child. But finding his mind agitated, rather than settled, by idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays—a series of reflections on life in all its profundity and triviality. And, gradually, over the course of hi...
|  | Walden and Resistance to Civil Government (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: August 19, 1992| ISBN-10: 0393959058 | ISBN-13: 978-0393959055| Edition: 2 On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is ne...
|  | Chet (Cowboys)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Cowboys The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky--they get into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy ... except the love of a good woman.MELODYWhen Chet Attmore rode into the Spring Water Ranch, he was only a dusty drifter, hoping to find a fresh horse and stay one step ahead of his reputation as a gunfighter. But by the next morning he was being pressured into several unfamiliar roles: Young Neil Jordan saw him as some kind of hero, with g...
|  | The Walled Flower (Victoria Square Mystery)
Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Victoria Square Mystery (Book 2) If Katie Bonner's late husband hadn't invested all their savings inthe crafts fair Artisans Alley, the Webster mansion could have beenhers to remodel into a bed-and-breakfast. Instead that dreambelongs to another young couple. But that dream becomes a nightmarewhen a skeleton is discovered sealed in the walls of the mansion. Thebones belong to Helen Winston, who went missing twenty-two years ago.Heather's aunt, a jewelry vendor at Artisans Alley, asks Kate for helpfinding her niece's murderer. The case may be cold, but ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: In His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
Publication Date: June 4, 2003A series of first-hand accounts of the famed author's life, Holmes offers a unique perspective on the creator of Detective Sherlock Holmes. ...
|  | The Secret Adversary
Publication Date: January 1, 2011The Secret Adversary is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in January 1922 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie books and one collection of short stories written throughout her writing career. ...
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