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 |  | Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 2: Raiser of Gales
Publication Date: August 30, 2005The adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue!Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads or exposure to sunlight. By the year 12,090 A.D., vampires have ruled the Earth for almost 300 years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world. ...
|  | Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 1 (The Penguin English Library)
Release Date: January 30, 1970An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death.Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into a wonderful completeness by the magic of his prose style.The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the...
|  | The Rebels: Sons of Texas
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: Sons of Texas (Book 3) It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of the turmoil are the Lewis brothers – Andrew, Michael, and James – scions of Mordecai Lewis, who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade past.Now the news along the Texas frontier is of a young general, a self-styled "Napoleon of the West," named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who wants to stamp out any gringo talk of independence from Mexico and oust the American interlopers from Texas....
|  | Voyager's Tales (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
Publication Date: May 8, 2009Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com ...
|  | The Guru of Golf: And Other Stories about the Game of Life
Publication Date: September 1, 2011 For centuries, the game of golf has captivated everyone from the poor working class to the upper crust of society. There is something enigmatic about the game that sets it apart from all other sports. Rife with strict rules on etiquette, yet often played in solitude, golf truly tests the body, mind, and spirit.In this collection of 18 short stories, The Guru of Golf celebrates perhaps one of the most widely popular of athletic pursuits. Thomas Moore shows us how golf can be a perfect metaphor for life itself—endlessly mysterious, joyful, and fa...
|  | The Alchemist's Code
Publication Date: March 4, 2008The legendary Maestro Nostradamus may be able to glimpse the ever- changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him and his daring apprentice Alfeo when Nostradamus is hired to find a foreign spy by Venice's ruling Council of Ten. The only clues they can offer him are the spy's intercepted messages, encoded in a seemingly unbreakable cipher.But Nostradamus soon detects evil influences working against him, and realizes the spy can only be caught by occult means. He turns to his able apprentice, the young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, who...
|  | The Devil of Nanking
Release Date: May 30, 2006Like the thrillers of Thomas Harris and Philip Kerr, Mo Hayder's riveting new novel animates the dark corners of modern history. The solitary Englishwoman Grey comes to Japan looking for a rare piece of footage that is said to document a particularly monstrous episode of the 1937 Nanking Massacre. Her quest will take her to a reclusive scholar and a wheelchair-bound gangster who clings to life with the aid of a mysterious elixir, and to a handsome American whose interest in Grey may be more sinister than romantic. The result is a work of spine-chilling suspense, mas...
|  | Four French comedies
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|  | The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance
Publication Date: June 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521543525 | ISBN-13: 978-0521543521This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to ...
|  | The Mahabharata
Publication Date: April 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0231110553 | ISBN-13: 978-0231110556| Edition: Rev Sub Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text. ...
|  | C. M. Wielands s
Release Date: January 18, 2002This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1796 edition by Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig. ...
|  | Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles: The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation (Oxford Oriental Monographs)
Publication Date: June 27, 1996| ISBN-10: 0198263732 | ISBN-13: 978-0198263739This is the first modern, annotated translation of the Christian chronicles of Georgia, adapted by the Armenians in the thirteenth century. An important source for writers on Armenia after 1200, the chronicles deal with the history of Georgia from its mythical origins to the time of their composition--and are of particular interest to the historian for the way that they were then altered in a pro-Armenian manner. ...
|  | Within the Flames: A Dirk & Steele Novel (Dirk & Steele Novels)
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Dirk & Steele NovelsJoining the Dirk & Steele Agency turned Eddie’s life around. A pyrokinetic and former car thief, he cannot refuse an assignment to cross the continent in order to rescue an extraordinary woman in peril . . . even though he fears losing control of the destructive power of flame at his fingertips. The last of her shape-shifting kind, Lyssa hides in the abandoned tunnels beneath Manhattan, seeking refuge from those who murdered her family a decade ago and would now destroy her as well. Like Eddie, fire is her weapon, her dest...
|  | The Charmer (Liars Club, Book 4)
Publication Date: October 5, 2004Collis Tremayne could make any female swoon; yet no one would guess the hidden desperation that drove him to become the most skilled spy in service to the Crown. All that stands in his way...is Rose Lacey, a confounding chit who manages to outsmart him with cunning and courage. She is the only woman he cannot melt with his smile. With every breath, he wishes he never laid eyes on her. And with every flash of her green eyes, he craves to possess her...Rose Lacey fought hard to meet the challenge of becoming a spy for the infamous Liars Club. And if it weren't ...
|  | Liberty for Paul: Scandalous Sisters Series, Book 2 (Volume 2)
Publication Date: March 29, 2012Liberty Banks loves revenge almost as much as she hates one Mister Paul Grimes, whom she considers the most improper creature she has ever clapped eyes upon. But when her plans for revenge against Paul go bust, she suddenly finds herself walking down the aisle toward him. Once married, a battle of the wills breaks out as each tries to reform the other. Liberty wants nothing more than to have a proper husband. Much to Liberty's dismay, Paul will stop at nothing to have his all-too-proper wife do something--anything--to break the rules of society. Specifically, ...
|  | A Time To Heal (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 2, 2012A Time to Heal is a timetravel romance in which Dr. Nathen Miller travels back in time from 1998 to 1898.The rich history of Alabama is the back drop for his adventures to follow including deadly epidemics, marriage and diving deep in all natural medicines and cures. ...
|  | Catilina's Riddle: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome)
Release Date: November 11, 2008| Series: Novels of Ancient Rome "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian "Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- San Francisco Chronicle The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianu...
|  | Criminal Types in Shakespeare
Publication Date: June 1966| ISBN-10: 083830558X | ISBN-13: 978-0838305584| Edition: New ed of 1909 ed An interesting attempt to relate the hypotheses of modern criminology to the penetrating psychological insights of Shakespeare, whom Freud called "the master of us all."THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:A Shakespeare Bibliography - Ebisch. ...
|  | Conor and the Crossworlds, Book One: Breaking the Barrier
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