 | Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "In a voice that is all at once hilarious and mischievous, searing and seething and sardonic, Lorraine Lopez presents, in her most necessary book to date, a celebration of the liberating power of bad behavior," writes Heather Sellers about HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. Most of the stories are set in the South and focus around family relationships, by birth and choice, among characters from Latino and other backgrounds. Lydia, a childless linguist, takes care of her precious four-year-old niece while the mother f...
 |  | I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats
Publication Date: August 15, 2012Cat lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of housecats. In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans. With titles like "Who Is That on Your Lap?," "This Is My Chair," "Kneel Before Me," "Nudge," and "Some of My Best Friends Are Dogs," the poems collected in I Could Pee on This perfectly capture the inn...
|  | Weekend Warriors
Publication Date: November 2, 2004A New York Times Bestseller Life isn't fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty . . . if you're part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck. Drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover their inner strength. ...
|  | On Sparrow Hill (The Oak Leaves Series #2)
Publication Date: January 17, 2008Two time periods—Victorian Ireland and contemporary England—are again woven together in this sequel to The Oak Leaves. Rebecca Seabrooke is a commercial manager for Quentin Hollinworth's family manor and is focused on two things: running the best historical home in the country and forgetting about the childhood crush she's had on Quentin ever since her father worked as the valet for his family. They don't, after all, run in the same social circles. When Quentin's distant cousin Dana Martin Walker comes to visit the Hollinworth estate, Rebecca r...
|  | Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Series: P.S. An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. With the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza moves freely in a society of single men and prostitutes, creating an unconventional but independent life for herself. The young Chilean's search for her elusive lover gradually turns into anothe...
|  | Syndrome
Publication Date: February 1, 2011A terrifying medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook They were promised a miracle cure for the deadly diseases destroying their lives. It seemed too good to be true, but to the desperate and dying it was the only chance for survival. Now they're part of a bizarre secret experiment that reverses the aging process - an experiment gone out of control. To stop the madness, one woman must enter a shocking nightmare world, where scientists control your body - and your mind - and living makes you beg for death. ...
|  | Requiem for a Dream: A Novel
Publication Date: August 15, 2000Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby's p...
|  | Matelots: Raised By Wolves, Volume Two
Publication Date: April 1, 2007Buccaneer adventure/romance. The second of a series chronicling the relationship between an emotionally wounded and disenchanted English lord and an insane and lonely French exile, set among the buccaneers of Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1667. ...
|  | Banana Heart Summer (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Thorndike Reviewers' Choice In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing—at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship and community. Twelve-year-old Nenita is hungry for everything: food, love, life. Growing up with five sisters and brothers, she searches for happiness in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora, who first tells...
|  | Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte
Release Date: December 30, 2003It is a generation after the fall of Camelot. The legendary figures of Britain’s brief but shining renaissance—Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere—are gone but not forgotten. Their memories live on in song and story. But Arthur’s dream of a united Britain is fading fast. The hard-won alliance of independent kingdoms is fracturing. Sensing weakness, defeated enemies are returning.Such is the world of Tristan, Prince of Lyonesse. Born with the soul of a poet and the heart of a warrior, Tristan has been pushed aside by his uncle, Markion, who i...
|  | Peer Gynt (Oberon Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Oberon Classics Peer Gynt is a dreamer, a liar and a serial womaniser. Cast out from his hometown, Peer embarks on a wild and astonishing journey in search of fame and fortune that takes him from Norway to Africa and eventually back home again. An exhiliarating tale of a life lived on the edge.Ibsen's classic verse play is given a radical reworking for the modern stage by Colin Teevan, one of our most vibrant and imaginative playwrights.This version of Peer Gynt opened at Dundee Rep in September 2007 in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland...
|  | The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 0199577846 | ISBN-13: 978-0199577842The Hidden Chorusinvestigates the relationship between the chorus of Greek tragedy and other types of choral song in Greek society. Choruses performed on a range of occasions in Greek culture, ranging from private weddings and funerals to large-scale religious festivals, yet the relationship between these everyday or 'ritual' choruses and the choruses of tragedy has never been systematically examined. L. A. Swift discusses choruses from five ritual genres: paian (religious songs of celebration or healing), ...
|  | Charged
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 184842129X | ISBN-13: 978-1848421295Commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theater company working with women affected by the criminal justice system, Charged includes Fatal Light by Chloë Moss, Taken by Winsome Pinnock, Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard, Doris Day by E V Crowe, Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft, and That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. ...
|  | Main D Oeuvre (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Diario De Un Ilegal (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 2, 2008Diario de un ilegal, que apareció inicialmente publicado en forma de crónica semanal en el diario Al Alam, es el primer testimonio escrito en lengua árabe sobre la experiencia de los inmigrantes marroquíes en España. Nini ironiza con los estereotipos existentes sobre el otro a ambas orillas del Estrecho: de un lado, ese mítico El Dorado que se desvanece una vez alcanzado, y de otro, esa mezcla de visión paradisíaca («bajarse al moro») y prejuicios racistas. El libro, testimonio de primera mano sobre la vida de l...
|  | Old English Literature: Critical Essays
Publication Date: March 1, 2002Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in introductory Old English courses while also engaging with larger issues of Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and scholarship. Their approaches vary widely, encompassing disciplines from linguistics to psychoanalysis. In an appealing introdu...
|  | Darkness Becomes Her
Release Date: May 29, 2012 They live ordinary lives, but they are extraordinary. They are the Offspring, children of a mysterious experiment gone awry—and they are in terrible danger. Power Junkie: Lachlan McLeod spent wild years astrally projecting himself into other times and places. But he doesn't get out much anymore—not after the fatal mistake that cost him a precious loved one. Pixie Fugitive: Jessie isn't having a bad day. She's having a bad lifetime. After the terrifying act of supernatural violence that destroyed her family, she's been on the run for years. But now her...
|  | Pure Blood: Time Spirit Trilogy (Volume 3)
Publication Date: April 23, 2012It is only a matter of time before Gemma's parents find out she traveled through time to bring Harrison back into existence. The fear of being found out is a heavy weight on her shoulders, but she refuses to give up on everything she's fought for. Harrison is worth the risk. The couple draws closer together as they battle opposing forces from all sides. They stay strong until Gemma's parents welcome an exchange student into their home. Simeon, a gorgeous Californian, is as smooth as coffee and, supposedly, a fellow time spirit. Gemma's parents expect her to ta...
|  | Walking Shadow (Spenser)
Release Date: June 1, 1995| Series: Spenser (Book 6) In a shabby waterfront town, an actor is shot dead onstage. Granted, the script left much to be desired. But there's more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic--and Spenser and Hawk are combing Port City's underworld to find it... ...
|  | Doctor Glas: A Novel
Release Date: August 13, 2002Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary ...
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