 | Night of the Radishes
Release Date: January 7, 2004From critically acclaimed author Sandra Benitez comes a compelling novel that takes one woman on a journey from Minnesota to Mexico in a search that tests her marriage, uncovers family secrets, and forces her to discover who she truly is nnie Rush-a 34-year-old Minnesotan-seems to be living every woman's dream: She has an interesting job, loyal husband, and adorable sons. But just beneath the surface, a series of family tragedies haunts her, including the death of her twin sister more than three decades earlier. Her father, plagued by guilt, shot himself soon the...
 |  | Ghetto Re'sume' part 2
Publication Date: December 16, 2010After serving sixty months of hard time for defending his mother s honor, DeQuan Goldie Walker is released back into society and the one thing he knows how to work well...the streets. After a joyous welcome home, Goldie reacquaints himself with the hood and studies how the environment has changed. With the memory of his dear friend Snake s last words Never underestimate your enemies and a determined mind, Goldie sets out to build an impressive Ghetto Resume. However, unbeknownst to him, a murderous stalker is lurking in his shadow; one who Goldie doesn t re...
|  | The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 26, 2008| Series: P.S.American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence—until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision—to surrender to temptation or to preserve her seemingly safe partnership with Lawrence—will have momentous consequences for her career, her friendships and familial relationships...
|  | Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2007Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen created a profound impact on the cultural landscape when it was originally published in 1972. A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class, Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, the novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo but which were ultimately accepted as matters of major political significance: sexual harassment, job discrimination, the sexual double standard, rape, abortion restrictions, the double binds of marriage and motherhood, and the frantic quest for...
|  | The Husband Trap: A Novel
Release Date: March 28, 2006Here comes the substitute bride. . . .Violet Brantford has always longed for the passionate embrace of Adrian Winter, the wealthy Duke of Raeburn. Problem is, he’s set to marry Violet’s vivacious, more socially polished look-alike twin sister, Jeannette. But when Jeannette refuses to go through with the ceremony mere minutes before it is to begin, soft-spoken Violet finds herself walking down the aisle and taking vows in her sister’s place. Soon shy Violet is a high-society wife, trying to keep her real identity a secret while living out the f...
|  | Shrouded in Silence
Publication Date: March 2011Determined to find an answer, Jack and Michelle Townsend set out on a quest to find the original ending to the Gospel of Mark. Following ancient clues, they head for Rome, but what starts out as a scholarly search turns violent as two separate groups strive to stop the Townsends, plunging their quiet research into chaos. After a bomb destroys their office, the Townsends are pushed to the limits of their determination and commitment to God’s will. Can faith in God’s purposes endure in a swirl of conspiracy and espionage that brings the couple to t...
|  | Agent 6
Publication Date: January 5, 2012THREE DECADES.TWO MURDERS.ONE CONSPIRACY.WHO IS AGENT 6?Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle th...
|  | The Man with the Baltic Stare: An Inspector O Novel
Release Date: August 17, 2010From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government...
|  | Claire of the Moon: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Love it or hate it (and there doesn't seem to be any in-between!), Nicole Conn's Claire of the Moon is without question one of the most influential lesbian films ever made. Here is the novel on which it was based. The story of brash, beautiful Claire, whose heterosexuality is pushed into question by a lesbian academic, is smart, sexy, challenging and surprising. In addition to writing the novel, Nicole Conn also wrote and directed the film version of Claire of the Moon. She is also the author of Passion's Shadows, Angel's Wings, The Wedding Dress and She Walks...
|  | La Cour des Contes (Volume 1) (French Edition)
Publication Date: July 11, 2012La Cour des Contes est une ronde d’histoires paillardes et grivoises mettant en scène des personnages fictifs bien réels, tous issus de contes divers (contes de fées, contes politiques, contes religieux, cons de présentateurs télé…). On peut dire que c’est un règlement de comptes en quelque sorte. C’est également un récit à tiroirs (non pas à tiroirs-caisses comme pourrait le laisser entendre le titre du livre), où l’auteur intervient épisodiquement pour faire pa...
|  | The Art of the Turkish Tale, Vol. 1
Publication Date: January 15, 1990| Series: V. 2: Ministry of Culture Publications of the Republic of Turkey In casting them into English, Walker has paid particular attention to capturing the flavor and excitement of the Turkish telling, while not infringing "on the narrator's right to have the tale recreated as he had told it." …The Beauty, power, and appeal of the present volume for the general reading public, however, depends largely upon Barbara Walker's own consummate skill as a teller and re-teller of tales and her commitment to conveying as much of the Turkish performance contex...
|  | Hamlet-Machine and Other Texts for the Stage
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0933826451 | ISBN-13: 978-0933826458| Edition: First This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore, and Gundling's Life. One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Müller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson. ...
|  | Paradise Hotel (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 1990| Series: Plays for Performance Series A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. ...
|  | Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0943742196 | ISBN-13: 978-0943742199| Edition: First Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Thomas Medwin & Percy Bysshe Shelley + Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited and with Foreword by John Lauritsen. This book contains two major works. The first is the Aeschylus play, Prometheus Bound, masterfully translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley and his cousin, Thomas Medwin. The second is Shelley's own poem, Prometheus Unbound, which is considered his masterpiece. This book also includes an appreciation of Prometheus Unbound by John...
|  | Figurative Design in Hamlet: The Significance of the Dumb Show
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|  | Coming on Strong: New Writing from the Royal Court Theatre : Peaches, the Knocky, Essex Girls, Corner Boys (Royal Court Writers)
Publication Date: October 1995| Series: Royal Court Writers Four plays by Royal Court Theatre writers: "Essex Girls" by Rebecca Pritchard, "Peaches" by Nick Grosso, "The Knocky" by Michael Wynne, and "Corner Boys" by Kevin Coyle. ...
|  | Der Arme Heinrich
Publication Date: December 1, 1997This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy th...
|  | The Art of Love: Love Poems and Paintings
Publication Date: October 1, 1993Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Melinda Camber Porter explores desire in her paintings and poetry.Leo Castelli says, “Not since William Blake has an artist created such a profound relationship between the visual and verbal worlds.”Saul Bellow says, “The great meltdown of modern sexual anarchy is the real subject of Melinda Camber Porter’s work.” Ms. Porter’s fifty five love poems are in their directness and pure lyrical quality a reminder of Yeats. They speak of unrequited love and loneliness into g...
|  | Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest (Houghton Library Studies)
Publication Date: November 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0976547287 | ISBN-13: 978-0976547280A pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist, Verbum dei, deo natum, within its broader cultural context. Written and illuminated at the Dominican nunnery of Paradies bei Soest in Westfalia as part of a set of liturgical books that are among the most elaborate of their kind from the entire Middle Ages, the richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Chr...
|  | Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood
Publication Date: April 6, 2000| ISBN-10: 019820728X | ISBN-13: 978-0198207283Scholars continue to find that fictional narratives provide rich insight into the historical development of a modern national consciousness. In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide important windows on British culture and draw from very different perspectives. King Arthur and Robin Hood have traditionally been diametrically opposed in their ideological orientation, with Arthur a...
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