 | Like a Bride and Like a Mother (Jewish Latin America Series, 13)
Publication Date: January 15, 2002| Series: Jewish Latin America Series, 13 These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness. This quest begins in Oshinica's childhood: at about age ten she's taken from the public school in Mexico City and placed in a Jewish one. There she begins to understan...
 |  | Tamarind Men
Publication Date: August 28, 1997Having moved to Canada from India, Kamini tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. Recounting the story of her mother's life, Kamini reveals the desires, secrets and fears that link different generations, exploring the bond between mothers and daughters. ...
|  | The Enchanter's Forest (Hawkenlye Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Series: Hawkenlye Mysteries It is midsummer 1195. An impoverished man claims to have discovered Merlin’s tomb and builds a hostel for pilgrims while spreading the word that his find is a place of miracles. This blasphemous intrusion is deeply resented both by the community at Hawkenlye Abbey and the pagan people of the forest. Though the finger of blame points at both communities following the man’s murder, the perennial sleuths Josse d’Acquin and Abbess Helewise soon discover that other parties also had an interest in his death. H...
|  | A Friend in the Storm
Publication Date: August 17, 2010Author Cheryl Ricker reaches into the depths of human suffering from the perspective of Christ speaking to the reader in soothing poetic words.This elegant gift book will reach the heart and soul of anyone facing difficult circumstances, leading them through their suffering into the arms of a faithful loving God.Each two-page spread includes a poem, as well as reflections written by Christian leaders, along with healing Scripture verses.An elegant foil-stamped fabric binding makes this the perfect gift. ...
|  | Beloved Rabbi
Publication Date: August 2000Many have seen the rabbi from Nazareth. Many believe. From all over Palestine they flock to hear him speak, to be healed, to witness the miracles. But even as Jesus reaches out his hands to heal, there are those who would put a crown upon his head, who would make him their king. There are others who are outraged by his breaking of the laws, by his healings on the Sabbath, his eating with unwashed hands. They fear he is leading the masses away from the traditions of the Fathers, from the law of Moses, and the divine will of God. It is a time of turmoil, of oppress...
|  | The Vampire Vanishes: Complete & Unabridged
Publication Date: October 1996A story featuring Count Alucard the vegetarian vampire, in which Alucard conjures up a vanishing act when he is chased away from his peaceful holiday by a crazed mob of police officers and who-dunnit enthusiasts. Illustratedby Tony Ross in black and white. ...
|  | Saving Grace
Release Date: April 23, 1996"LUCID IN EXECUTION, BREATHTAKING IN SCOPE AND HEART-RENDING IN EFFECT--A REDEMPTIVE WORK OF ART. . . . Lee Smith has done more than write another novel about the South. She has broken through the grotesque surface to the underground spring, the music of Scrabble Creek, and the effect is stunning--a beguiling, gentle prose formed by an honesty so severe we are brought to our knees. . . . This novel has a grand and singular purpose, to clothe the spirit with flesh. In this, Lee Smith succeeds."--The Washington Post Book World"A compelling journey into all matters s...
|  | No Name
Publication Date: June 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 1478103493 | ISBN-13: 978-1478103493The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. The first scene is a wonderfully dramatic legal thriller. The reader is introduced to Mr Andrew Vanstone, Mrs. Vanstone and their two daughters Norah, age 26, happy and quiet, and the irrepressible Magdalen, just 18, beautiful but with a steely jaw. They live in peace and contentment, looked after by their governess, Miss Garth. Magdalen likes nothing better than to read at her window while her pe...
|  | The Rx Factor
Publication Date: May 17, 2012After emerging from a five year hangover on the Bahamian Island of Exuma, Dr. Ryan Matthews begins his quest to find the truth behind the real cause of the death of his family. Sobered up by the sensational murder of the family of the new women in his life, Jordan Carver, Ryan sets off on a thrill ride of adventure, marred in danger, with villains at the highest level of both the corporate and political worlds determined to bring him down. To discover the truth and expose one of America's best kept secrets, Ryan will have to bend the rules, break the law and may...
|  | Back Ward
Publication Date: June 8, 2010Aberdeen State Mental Hospital, Alabama, 1950 - a place where a twelve-year-old child has died in an iron cage kept in the attic room above the back ward and where patients with dark black circles around their eyes roam the remote ward on the asylum grounds. Nurses Judith and Jean frantically attempt to solve the mystery of the child s death and the fate of patients transferred to a research unit in the hospital. What is happening on this unit that turns these patients into the black eyes, walking automatons unable to relate their terrifying stories? Ella Land i...
|  | The Reception of Byron in Europe (Reception of British & Irish Authors Europe)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0826468446 | ISBN-13: 978-0826468444| Edition: 2 Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soo...
|  | Letters of John Keats (Oxford Letters & Memoirs)
Publication Date: July 15, 1970| ISBN-10: 0192810812 | ISBN-13: 978-0192810816General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history. ...
|  | Strangers on a Train (French's Acting Edition)
Publication Date: April 5, 2011| Series: French's Acting Edition Craig WarnerBased on anovel by Patricia Highsmith Full Length, Thriller Characters: 5 male, 2 femaleUnit setGuy Haines and Charles Brunomeet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting.Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder-he could kill Guy's unfaithful wife whileGuy could eliminate his hated father. Guy does not take him seriously, but Bruno is deadly serious. The basis of the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock which starred Farley Granger and Robert Walker. "Skillful...
|  | Naked Masks: Five Plays (Meridian)
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|  | Un drama nuevo (Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Women in Traditional Chinese Theater: The Heroine's Play
Publication Date: August 4, 2005Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume feature women representing the most popular female a...
|  | Rumi: Versos desde el corazon
Publication Date: September 1, 2006Spiritual and possessing a devout wisdom, this masterpiece of poetry of the Persian Sufi tradition addresses some of the most fundamental human preoccupations—including the relationship between earthly and divine love—and argues that not only is God the beloved of humankind, but that humankind is God's beloved. Espiritual y poseyendo una sabiduría devota, esta obra maestra de la poesía de la tradición sufi persiana, abarca algunas de las preocupaciones humanas más fundamentales—incluyendo la relación entre el ...
|  | Anglo-Saxon And Norse Poems
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|  | The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. 1-4
Release Date: November 10, 2009For more than half a century, The Paris Review has conducted in-depth interviews with our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. These revealing, revelatory self-portraits have come to be recognized as themselves classic works of literature, and an essential and definitive record of the writing life. This beautiful slipcase edition brings together all four volumes of Picador’s selected Paris Review Interviews, including Q&As with Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Price, Joan Didion, Gabriel Garcia Marq...
|  | Tempt Me, Taste Me, Touch Me
Release Date: January 2, 2007California wine country is a world of sensual delights -- the tantalizing kiss of sunlight . . . the luscious decadence of gourmet cuisine . . . the slow burn of wine that warms from within . . . and sinfully sexy men. For three women hungering for more, it's a destination for pleasuring both body and soul. . . . TEMPT ME Carrie can't explain why she turned down a marriage proposal from Mr. Perfect. But a chance encounter with a rugged winemaker who works the earth unleashes something wild in her. His raw, hungry power has her intoxicated with desire -- and she k...
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