 | The Last Ten Percent
Publication Date: March 1, 2006From bestselling author Michelle McKinney Hammond comes a captivating first novel filled with her hallmark wit and insight.Tracy awakens one morning to a radio report—the ratio of eligible men to available women is slim to none. Now, armed with actual statistics and a past of heartbreak, Tracey explores, with her four good friends, how intelligent women with impressive careers, coveted urban dwellings, and closets full of fashions can still worry so much about the shortage of men.But as life unfolds, they discover that it is not the last ten percent of e...
 |  | Mammoth Book of Vampires
Publication Date: May 31, 2004The modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this special 're-vamped' edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. Here is the very best in vampire fiction, from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from haunting doppelgangers to nefarious historical figures; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This new edition includes over a dozen new stories from Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark to Kim Newman's Andy Warho...
|  | The Book of Fours (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Release Date: January 29, 2002| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pocket Paperback Unnumbered) The third Buffy adult hardcover fills in a missing link: the Slayer who died to make Buffy the Chosen One. When an old classmate of Buffy's in LA is killed, and Willow is severely injured in a car accident, both in the space of one week, the Slayer must yet again face the vulnerabilities of her mortal friends. At the same time, from a place of nightmares - which Buffy and Faith share - a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off a quartet of disasters. Earth, air, fire and water - each represent...
|  | The Enemy Within
Release Date: March 7, 2006It is early summer of 2009, an uneasy time in the American capital. Washington is tense over a showdown between the United States and the new ruler of Libya.Laura Chapman is a U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House. She is quirky, solitary, and frequently unorthodox. She is sexy and fit, adept with a pistol as well as with a hundred-pound Everlast bag. But she is also a brilliant intelligence analyst. That’s why she has been assigned to the Presidential Protection Detail for the past eleven years.The CIA assigns Laura to a case that borders on...
|  | Down a Road All Rebels Run
Release Date: January 23, 2006Set during the Irish struggle for independence, this is a passionate, elegiac novel that explores the way war affects the members of a tightly knit community. ...
|  | Satiric Comedies: America's Lost Plays, Vol. 21
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|  | Rejoice: Jesus Is Born!
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|  | Fierabras and Floripas: A French Epic Allegory
Publication Date: January 25, 2010"Fierabras and Floripas" relates the tale of two Saracen siblings who join forces with Charlemagne and his Peers. It was the most successful French epic tale - or chanson de geste - among audiences in medieval England, not excluding the great Song of Roland, with which it shares much of the dynamism of their oral-based genre. Its expansive narrative explores both the limits of epic battle description and the usefulness of allegory to explore moral and spiritual issues. Two separate compositions, "La Destruction de Rome" and "Fierabras" are translated here. B...
|  | Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium
Publication Date: April 21, 1998As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetr...
|  | New Letters to a Young Poet
Publication Date: January 15, 2011In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem—the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet, this slender volume explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a "road toward inner growth." For Margarit, poetry promises "a clarity that allows us mysteriously to live without the need to forget." This is essential reading for poets young and old, writers, and...
|  | The Art of Medieval French Romance
Publication Date: April 15, 1992Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. Kelly is the first scholar to present the “art” of medieval romance to a modern audience through the interventions an...
|  | Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition
Publication Date: January 1, 1994The period before 1917 was a revolutionary one for Russian literature, marked by the innovations and experimentations of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another? Victor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture, takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution, providing an appraisal of Russian literature during its most turbulent years. Probing the salient literary respons...
|  | J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Publication Date: June 2000The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books.Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty. He served in the first World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost many of the closest friends he'd ever had. After the war he returned to the academic life, achieving high repute as a ...
|  | Conan Doyle not only Sherlock Holmes Konan Doyl Ne tolko Sherlok Kholms
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|  | "Alcohol Was Not Involved": A Shallow End Gals Trilogy (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 24, 2012| Series: Shallow End Gals Trilogy "Alcohol Was Not Involved" FBI Special Agents Roger Dance and Paul Casey are faced with the worst case of their careers. Beautiful women are missing. Some are showing up weeks later next to busy highways in broad daylight. Dead, strangled, and dumped, like trash. Some are being held captive, prisoners, and starved to death. None of the traditional rules of profiling seem to apply, and the body count keeps growing. * Four friends die in an auto accident only to discover that Heaven has decided to make them 'special' Angels, w...
|  | Death in the Desert (Thumbprint Mysteries Series)
Publication Date: September 1999| ISBN-10: 0809206080 | ISBN-13: 978-0809206087"The Thumbprint Mysteries" series have been carefully written for young adults and adults at a particular reading level. Each book presents a suspense crime in which the reader must solve one or more mystery murders. Readers follow the clues and draw conclusions about the suspects and events, helped by the characters who are trying to solve the crimes. The mystery genre guarantees enjoyable reading. Teaching notes accompany the three different levels. These include, for each title, a pre-reading activity and s...
|  | Counter X: X-Force: Rage War
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure: A Geronimo Stilton Adventure
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The Elephant's Child and Other Just So Stories (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
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|  | The Unicorn's Tale (Nathaniel Fludd: Beastologist, Book 4) (Nathanial Fludd, Beastologist)
Release Date: October 23, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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