 | City of God
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Gil Cuadros published stories and poems in Indivisible, High Risk 2, and Blood Whispers. His work is also on the compact disc, Verdict and the Violence: Poet’s Response to the LA Uprising. He was awarded the 1991 Brody Literature Fellowship, and was one of the first recipients of the PEN Center USA/West grant to writers with HIV. He lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1996. ...
 |  | Spoiled Rotten (Urban Renaissance)
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|  | The Canterbury Tales Revisited21st Century Interpretations
Publication Date: January 7, 2008In "The Canterbury Tales Revisited - 21st Century Interpretations", Editor Kathleen A. Bishop has brought together a group of authors that is both diverse and international including scholars from the United States and Canada, as well as the UK and the continent and Asia. The articles they have contributed cover 'hot' new areas such as Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism and gender. The eminent Medievalist David Matthews has contributed an insightful opening piece situating Chaucer studies in the new century and discussing where we have been and ...
|  | The Devouring-Kavachi's Rise
Publication Date: September 1, 2012A Dark Secret. Thomas Morehart and his sister, Kara are vampyre, not the undead, but creatures evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to mimic their prey, man. Then - rescued from a Nazi Prison Camp, Thomas and Kara are brought to the U.S. and forced to work inside government-owned mortuaries. Now -betrayed by the government, Thomas and Kara are in a race against time to transform back to their feral states or risk Exsanguination by government sanctioned hit squads. ...
|  | Admit The Horse
Publication Date: March 17, 2012Ripped from the headlines of the 2008 election, and based on real, seldom revealed events, "Admit The Horse" is a gripping political thriller about a dark-horse political candidate--the mysterious Congressman Okono-- whose meteoric rise to the pinnacle of power is engineered amidst illegal campaign contributions, voter fraud and murder. The story's unlikely players--an honorable Chicago detective, a retired DEA investigator, an idealistic venture capitalist, an African-American congresswoman and a suburban mom volunteering for his opponent--all...
|  | The Crazyladies of Pearl Street: A Novel
Release Date: June 6, 2006“Nostalgic, richly textured. Sweetly evokes an innocent if hardscrabble lost age.” —Publishers WeeklySix-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward...
|  | The Fellowship (That Healing Touch Series)
Publication Date: May 15, 2003| Series: That Healing Touch Series This beautifully written story is the first in That Healing Touch Series and introduces characters who will tug at your heartstrings. In a world filled with suspense, where lives hang in the balance, real life sometimes intrudes. Meet Dr Garrett Trivoli and her nurse, Danni Bossard. Join them as they bring humor and drama into the already exciting world of The Trauma Center. Will it be all they expected? Or perhaps a little more? ...
|  | A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (New Millennium Library)
Publication Date: January 30, 2001| Series: New Millennium Library With his characteristic sardonic humor, Mark Twain (1835-1910), lambastes nineteenth-century aristocratic and religious ideals through the 1896 story of Hank Morgan's transport back to feudal times. The Yankee's attempt to engineer and enlighten Arthurian society meets with unexpected and always humorous results. Underneath the comedy, however, is a dark, ambitious critique of human nature that marks an important transition to Twain's pessimistic later writings. ...
|  | Scenes for Actors and Voices
Publication Date: June 26, 2003Daws Butler was the Master of Voice. He spoke the words for most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap'n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multi-million-selling records such as St. George and the Dragonet are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for years. This is his book of scenes, exercises and advic...
| | A book of French poetry from A.D. 1550 to the present time: Selected by James Parton (Le parnasse français)
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| | Francis Ponge (American University Studies Series II, Romance Languages and Literature) (French Edition)
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|  | Dance With Desire
Release Date: March 1, 1992`Don't let the title fool you; this is not a book of romantic bric-a-brac, a Valentine's Day gift to be lightly given and lightly forgotten. Irving Layton's career was based on an unflinching attention to everything he could discover about the human character, including its less savoury aspects. In the poems of Dance with Desire chosen from across the span of his long career, Layton styles himself as a 20th-century Catullus, loving and hating with equal glee, given to passionate excesses and epigrammatic precision, utterly unconcerned with sweet nothings or politic...
|  | Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
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|  | Approaches to Victorian Autobiography
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|  | Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels
Publication Date: November 12, 2011In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to drytheir tears and ‘be good soldiers.’ How was this phenomenon interrogated anddeconstructed in the period's literature? Bea Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child inmodernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression asmanifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.Jennifer Margaret Fraser providessophisticatedclose readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce,among others who share striking concerns abo...
|  | The Road to Wigan Pier
Publication Date: October 18, 1972In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz. ...
|  | Black Silk
Release Date: March 25, 2008Maryanne Hamilton had expected to be shocked, but the wanton orgy she finds in Mrs. Master's salon makes her wonder if she has walked into hell. Desperate to escape, she comes upon the master of sin himself - Lord Swansborough. Fascinated by his nakedness, she longs to touch every inch of his long, hard body. And when he bids her come near, she quickly surrenders to his wicked promises of carnal pleasure and sensual ecstasy. ...
|  | Cover of Night: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2007For breathless action, gripping suspense, and intense romance, bestselling author Linda Howard never misses a beat–and her thrilling new novel will have your heart racing. In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between–occasional hunters and lake fishermen–Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-tra...
|  | Betrayal of Trust: A J. P. Beaumont Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012 At first glance, what happens on the video appears to be a childish game: a teenage girl with dark, wavy hair smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. Then things turn dark and gruesome, and the girl ends up dead. When a snuff film is discovered on a cell phone belonging to the governor of Washington State's grandson—a boy with a troubled background who swears he doesn't know the victim—the governor turns to an old friend, J. P. Beaumont, for help. Of the many horrors the Seattle private investigator has witnessed over the years, this...
|  | The Writer's Club
Publication Date: September 8, 2002Here is a short story mystery collection about four women writers that form The Writers Club. Each writer faces mysterious happenings in her life. Taylors beloved bridal chest, a wedding gift from her husband suddenly has new names carved into it. A baby monitor warns Jenna, while working on assignment, that someone is following her. Jenna is working on an investigative report concerning a famous dating service that has a scandal brewing. Amy finds an old letter in a secret drawer of a writing desk she has refinished. This letter describes a relationship th...
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