 | Black Water Rising: A Novel
Release Date: April 20, 2010 Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall—where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl—and he's determined to leave the sins of his past buried: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him. That is, until the night he saves a woman from drowning and inadvertently opens a Pandora's box. Her secrets reach into the upper echelons of Houston's corporate power brokers and ensnare Jay in a murder investigation that could cost him his ...
 |  | Down Low Diva (5 Star Publications Presents)
Publication Date: March 27, 2012Take a small town girl, and add Delicious Divas Escort Service to her mix...and you will get a Down Low Diva. Christina lets her hidden fantasies and skills take her on a vacation from the long time love of her life to a secret society where her every dream can come true. But she didn t fulfill her sexual desires of endless nights of unlimited fun with sex toys and tantalizing fruits for money. Earning thousands of dollars for being tossed, banged, and licked was just the added bonus. All goes well with her new job until her best friend begins hating, her boss...
|  | Hot & Bothered
Publication Date: June 1, 2009When Victoria Hamilton's vacation fling resulted in a baby, she began a new life far from her overbearing family. Now Tori's father has been murdered—and her half brother, Jared, needs her help to prove his innocence. But confronting her past when she comes face-to-face with private investigator John "Rocket" Miglionni sure isn't what she had in mind.Thrilled to find the woman who once rocked his world, John takes one look at her little girl and gets the shock of his life. Now the rugged former Marine has two females holding a big piece of his heart, a trou...
|  | Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text p...
|  | Mob
Release Date: July 1, 2007Travis Burns, a.k.a. Mr. Blue, Jackie Washington, a.k.a. Mr. White, and Ronnie Grier a.k.a. Mr. Green live by rules. The first and foremost of these rules is M.O.B. The rules have serviced them well in what they do to earn a living. They are a robbing crew, who operate under the protection of Mike Black's organization (Is It A Crime). They rob banks, grocery stores, jewelry stores, and anything else that they can hit quick and come away with a large return on their investment of time. They are organized, prepared, and over all else, disciplined. All college graduate...
|  | Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q)
Publication Date: July 19, 2006| Series: Series Q Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to cam...
|  | Ultramarine (Tusk Ivories)
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Series: Tusk Ivories This is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as mess-boy on the freighter "Oedipus Tyranjnus" bound for Bombay and Singapore and of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates. This book alternates between Dana's own narrative and the humour of the seaman's conversation. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Face of the Enemy: A New York in Wartime Mystery (Helluva War)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: New York in Wartime December, 1941: With New Yorkers painfully aware of their vulnerability after the Pearl Harbor attack, the FBI prowls the city snatching up Japanese residents. Tension increases for a sensitive Japanese artist when she’s accused of murder as well as espionage. Is Masako Fumi guilty? Or a victim of racial paranoia? Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged and vows to help her friend.When the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he’d been closing down her controversial show, Masako&rsqu...
|  | The Silly Season: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Jack Stack is an editor with the full-blown tabloid virus. He says “bollocks” a lot and his headline signature is a “double ejaculation mark.” He revels in Fleet Street’s nonstop silly season of hunting down young royals and petrifying cabinet members. He even outsmarts the Palace, prime minister, and proprietor to win a knighthood for “services to journalism” at the hand of the sovereign whose family he has comprehensively shafted. When Jack takes over the beleaguered Mercury, within a day he transforms the formerly re...
|  | Gorse Fires
Publication Date: October 1991| ISBN-10: 0916390497 | ISBN-13: 978-0916390495Gorse Fires is an unusual artistic blend: darkly austere, yet abundant in images, catalogues and syntactical virtuosity. Longley’s versions of Odysseus’ return to Ithaca and ‘Ghetto’ – based on the polish ghettos – epitomize his concern with the meaning of home and family. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners
Publication Date: May 1997This is the second book in a series by Dunmire and Tierney exploring native plant uses. The book emphasises prehistoric uses of plants in the Four Corners area, focusing on Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins, Hovenweep, and other major sites of the region once occupied by the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Apache people. Dunmire and Tierney are able to eloquently illustrate the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among native peoples and how ancient traditional uses of these plants infor...
|  | Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Release Date: October 14, 2008Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in three short lines, is celebrated for its ability to express a simple moment in a profound way. The “haiku moment,” as it is called, refers to a heightened awareness of the world around us and how, in that small, transient period, the greater essence of our lives is reflected. As our culture speeds up and our personal lives feel overbooked and busy, haiku can offer an easy way to slow down, appreciate the simple things around us, and give us a moment to reflect on our lives. In Haiku Mind, Patricia Doneg...
|  | God'S Torment: Poems By Alain Bosquet
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|  | The New Russian Poets (Bilingual Edition)
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|  | Fabrication of Late Victorian Femme Fata (Women's Studies at York/Macmillan)
Publication Date: November 20, 1992| Series: Women's Studies at York/Macmillan 'This is an impressively intelligent work of investigation, which makes good use of late Victorian imperial history and criminology' - Chris Baldick, TLS This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late 19th-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siecle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or Af...
|  | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction
Publication Date: July 21, 2009This is an unabridged audio collection of the best of the best science fiction prose originally written in 2008 by current and emerging masters of the genre as narrated by top voice talents. Exhalation, by Ted Chiang, tells the story of a world totally unlike Earth where mechanical men use the gas argon as air, replacing their lung tanks daily from an underground well. Exhalation won both the 2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for best story and the 2009 Locus Award for the best short story. The Ray-Gun: A Love Story, by James Alan Gardner, tells th...
|  | Open Invitation
Release Date: December 5, 2006A bachelorette party at a place called The Sex Club is the last place Debbie Carter expects to find the man of her fantasies. But in "Invitation to Seduction" Stephen wants to be that and so much more - if only Debbie will let him... The fourth time's the charm? So thinks Virginia Hansen, whose fourth walk down the aisle is with Mr. Nice Guy - without the sparks. That is, until she considers offering her new husband, Brett, an "Invitation to Pleasure" - and he more than happily accepts... In "Invitation to Passion" fortysomething Stacy Parrish is used to surroun...
|  | Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment
Publication Date: October 1, 2008In Aiken's sequel to Jane Austen's complex and fascinating novel, after heroine Fanny Price marries Edmund Bertram, they depart for the Caribbean, and Fanny's younger sister Susan moves to Mansfield Park as Lady Bertram's new companion. Surrounded by the familiar cast of characters from Jane Austen's original, and joined by a few charming new characters introduced by the author, Susan finds herself entangled in romance, surprise, scandal, and redemption. Aiken's diverting tale gives the reader interesting speculation on how the Crawfords, whose winning person...
|  | Dark Angel (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Signet Regency Romance Betrothed to the impeccably upright and honorable Lord LionelKersey, Jennifer Winward is baffled--and dismayed--by her attraction tothe licentious Earl of Thornell, Regency England's most notorious rake. ...
|  | Taking Care of Business
Release Date: August 2, 2005After a hard day's work, falling in love-or lust- is the only way to unwind.From three of today's hottest romance authors-an anthologyof sizzling stories about the trials and tribulations that occurwhen professions and passions collide.In Driven, LuAnn McLane tells the story of a hard-boiled mystery author who has writer's block when it comes to sex scenes-and gets paired with a sassy romantic comedy author to come up with a very happy ending...Patricia Ryan's What Happens in Vegas follows a gambler on a hot streak and the beautiful woman who's out to discover...
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