 | Ruthless (Urban Christian)
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: Urban Christian Shelia M. Goss brings readers a modern day retelling of David and Bathsheba. Bathsheba Richards has just discovered that she has a half-sister who needs her help. Sheba's long lost sister isn't too happy about their reunion, though, since she has a lot of problems of her own. Sheba's dealing with her husband's boss, who wants her all to himself. After succumbing to his advances, Sheba gets pregnant, and there's no question about who the daddy is, since her husband has been overseas for the past three months. David King is the CEO of on...
 |  | Emotionally Weird: A Novel
Release Date: July 1, 2001A thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear--like who her real father was. Effie tells various versions of her life at college, where in fact she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed,...
|  | Autograph
Publication Date: April 26, 2006It was supposed to be a simple trip with the family and friends, full of sun, swimming, and baseball. Along the way, my friend and I met a couple of ballplayers. One was a journeyman being called up for his last stint in the majors; the other was an idealistic rookie getting his first shot. It was like we were looking in a mirror, and then he spoke. He tried to rip my soul apart. Are all ballplayers like this? We didn't want an autograph; we just wanted to meet them. He changed my view on the hero status of ballplayers. We got revenge though, the best way we c...
|  | Waking God: Book Two: The Sacred Rota
Publication Date: February 18, 2011Andrew, the young comparative religions professor from Book I, knows what he needs to do. He needs to give the still sleeping Adam flesh, by mating with a young and mysterious Middle Eastern woman known as Mara. The time is right at last, so what can possibly stop Andrew and Mara from coming together in fulfillment of prophecy? Well, for one thing, there's Michael.And then there are those who follow Michael, the great archangel who's made it his mission to keep humanity in its current ignorant and deluded state. Ranged on the looming battle's other side are...
|  | Blake: Prophet Against Empire (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
Publication Date: November 30, 2011| Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Definitive study of the strange symbolism through which William Blake undertook a literary campaign against the political tyranny of his time. Third edition includes updated material, over 30 illustrations, a Chronology, more. "For our sense of Blake in his own times we are indebted to David Erdman more than anyone else." — Times Literary Supplement. ...
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|  | Shout Hosanna!: Three Easter Dramas for Children
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|  | Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199540527 | ISBN-13: 978-0199540525| Edition: Reissue The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works.Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world.Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. Iphigenia at Aulis centers on the ultimate dysfunctional family as emotion is tested in the crucible of th...
|  | Sindbad: And Other Stories from the Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)
Publication Date: May 17, 2008Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—newdeluxe trade paperbackeditions ofthe beloved stories.Husain Haddawy’s rapturously received translationof The Arabian Nights isbased on a landmarkreconstruction of the earliest extant manuscriptversion. Readers of this classicwill also want to own Sindbad, a collection of four laterstories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition, including “Sindbad the Sailor” and“Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.” ...
|  | Other People We Married
Release Date: February 7, 2012In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People Must Really Fall in Love,” an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in “A Map of Modern Palm Springs.” In “Puttanesca,” tw...
|  | Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
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|  | Antologia Poetica Hispanoamericana (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's `Lanzelet': Narrative Style and Entertainment (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: December 7, 2000| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 45) Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long intrigued scholars both within and outside German studies: the only remaining trace of a Lancelot legend free of the adulterous affair with Guinevere, it has been seen both as a precursor of classical Arthurian romance in Germany, and as a post-classical imitation, and attempts to interpret it have often run foul of its contradictions. This new study takes a fresh look at its place in the history of German romance, arguing that...
|  | My Orchidia
Publication Date: September 10, 2012My Orchidia features two talkative characters who take a serious walk through an imaginary Lower East Side in Manhattan. Their conversations explore how we remember, grieve, commemorate, believe, despair, and give meaning to a constantly changing and seemingly meaningless world, within which Bowery bums appear to be the only real heroes and the landmark Italian-Ukrainian restaurant, The Orchidia, is the only beacon of hope ...
|  | 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry
Publication Date: March 1, 2009This book is about the greatest books in the world. All of them culty classics and books you have to have read. If you haven't, now's your chance to read them all at once. If you have you can read them again and see what you remember. In four illustrated squares we give you the entire story, a sort of distilled novel, so you can read 80 books in a couple of hours. It is great for people in a hurry or just anyone who likes books. ...
|  | Lesebuchgeschichten: Erzahlstoffe in Schullesebuchern, 1770-1920 (German Edition)
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|  | Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution
Release Date: June 24, 2004All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative histories. Frederick C. Corney draws on a wide range of sources-archives, published works, films-to explore the potent foundation narrative of Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution. He shows that even as it fought a bloody civil war with the forces that sought to displace it, the Bolshevik regime set about creating a new historical genealogy of which the October Revolut...
|  | The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies
Publication Date: May 4, 2002Harriet Martineau was a major figure in the Victorian period and a prominent speaker in a number of contemporary cultural debates, including racism, atheism, abolitionism, and the status of women.Her various novels, essays, and articles generated tremendous controversy in their reception as they forced such topics of debate into the public realm.Caroline Roberts's The Woman and the Hour provides an engaging examination of seven of Martineau's most contentious texts: Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34),Society in America (1837), Deerbrook (1839), The Hour...
| | Greek Prose Composition (Bryn Mawr Greek commentaries)
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|  | His Forgotten Forever (Silhouette Nocturne)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Series: Silhouette Nocturne (Book 44) Truvin Stone no longer remembered his victims…Or his enemies. As he fought for survival, the only person Truvin could trust was an outsider to his world, an innocent foolish enough to nurse him back to health.…Truvin's past was one story Lucy Morgan couldn't stop chasing, even after she discovered he was a vampire. Drawn in by his dark side, Lucy was one bite away from feeling the true power of his embrace—and his eternal curse. Standing in the midst of a new war, Truvin was the key to tipping the balance be...
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