 | Inseparable
Release Date: December 6, 2011Still reeling from her recent divorce, Christine, the beloved protagonist of Dora Heldt’s uproarious Life After Forty, is sure that yet another birthday is the last thing she needs. But here it comes nonetheless, the big 4-4, in all its lonely midlife glory. Making matters worse is Christine’s fear that she has always relied too heavily on the support of her girlfriends. As the big day nears, she begins to think that none of those women can understand just what she's going through. Alarmed by Christine’s growing despair, her best friend and sis...
 |  | Poems for Easter
Publication Date: January 2000A delightful book of poetry, having just the right size to be tucked into a pocket or purse. It is a great gift loaded with poems and illustrated with colour spot illustrations. ...
|  | Hellbound Hearts
Publication Date: September 29, 2009Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites -- in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart. Featured here is the graphic work "Wordsworth," from bestselling author Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, who unlock an explicit way to violate innocence -- one torturous puzzle at a time.... New York Times bestsellin...
|  | Euripides: With an English translation (The Loeb classical library)
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|  | Earth and Sky - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1992Head in the clouds, Sara McKeon lives in the rarefied world of library work and poetry readings. She seems completely unsuited to investigating the sudden brutal murder of her lover. A haunting mystery infused with humor, poetry, and urban grit. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ana-Alicia,Ed Begley Jr., Annette Bening, Jana Hupp, John Mahoney, Stephen Markle, Joseph Mascolo, George Murdock and Steven Weber. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | Of Flesh & Spirit
Publication Date: April 1, 1998Life interpreted, written, and emulated in the style of the Tao, spiced with experiences of NYC. ...
|  | The Most Dangerous Art: Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution
Publication Date: December 5, 2007At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional trajectory that corresponds to the intensity of the social and state pressures that threatened Russian poets from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. During a period when literature became intensely political, and creative freedom became intensely risky, these...
|  | British Outlaws of Literature and History: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Figures from Robin Hood to Twm Shon Catty
Publication Date: February 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0786458771 | ISBN-13: 978-0786458776The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the contemporary imagination judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible o...
|  | Working with Discourse Second Edition: Meaning Beyond the Clause (Open Linguistics)
Publication Date: July 31, 2007| ISBN-10: 0826488501 | ISBN-13: 978-0826488503| Edition: 2 This second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in clear steps, through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts that focus on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. The new edition includes a chapter on Negotiation, clear definition...
|  | American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction
Publication Date: March 13, 2007Jaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E...
|  | Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum Literary Studies)
Publication Date: January 5, 2012| ISBN-10: 1441178139 | ISBN-13: 978-1441178138| Edition: 1 Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide arra...
|  | Esposa por la manana (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Durante dos anos, Catherine Marks ha sido una companera de atencion de las hermanas Hathaway. Una posicion agradable, menos por un detalle. Su hermano mayor, Leo Hathaway, es totalmente desesperante. A Catherine le cuesta creer que sus constantes discusiones podrian enmascarar una atraccion mutua. Pero cuando una pelea termina en un repentino beso, Catherine es sorprendida por su respuesta de gran alcance, y mas aun cuando Leo le propone una relacion peligrosa. / For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters,a pleasant position...
|  | The Marriage Spell: A Novel
Release Date: May 29, 2007New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney is acclaimed by critics and readers alike for unforgettable storytelling and arresting characters. Now she introduces a Regency England you’ve never seen before, where dazzling magic is practiced in all but the highest reaches of Society, and where desire is the most mysterious and seductive force of all.One of the Duke of Wellington’s most respected officers, Jack Langdon, Lord Frayne, takes his family’s honor very seriously. He also hides a shameful secret: a talent for sorcery he has been raise...
|  | Best Gay Romance 2011
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Series: Best Gay Romance Richard Labonté is a self-confessed true romantic and it shows — Best Gay Romance 2011 covers every romantic possibility with first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between. Labonté has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often in the most unexpected places. Sometimes rowdy, always randy, and surprisingly tender, these tales celebrate the uniting of souls as well as bodies. Each story revels in romance, great sex, and characters w...
|  | Passion's Timeless Hour (Timeswept)
Publication Date: February 1996Committing herself to saving wounded Vietnam soldiers, nurse Rebecca Ann Warren is transported back to the time of the Civil War, where she falls in love with dashing Confederate officer Alexander Ransom....
|  | Noelle (Center Point Premier Romance (Large Print))
Publication Date: May 2010| Series: Center Point Premier Romance (Large Print) After a devastating flood orphaned Noelle Brown, she thought her handsome and charming benefactor, Andrew Paige, could be the man of her dreams. So why did his steely-eyed older stepbrother, Jared Dunn, make her heart race and her breath catch in her throat?Desperado turned lawman, Jared had come home to Fort Worth, Texas, ready to leave his dangerous past behind. The green-eyed, feisty young woman his stepbrother had taken in wasn't the gold digger Jared had expected. Far from it—the unconventional, innocen...
|  | "B" is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
Publication Date: May 15, 1985| Series: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.Still, business was slow, and even...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Tomb of Terror
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|  | The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: June 12, 2012| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard In this enthralling new addition to Hakan Nesser’s acclaimed Inspector Van Veeteren series, the Swedish detective must crack a secretive and uncooperative religious sect in order to solve a string of brutal murders. When one of the Pure Life’s members is found raped and strangled in the forest near the group’s camp, the Chief Inspector is called to investigate. The Pure Life has chosen to remain silent about the incident rather than defend itself, so Van Veeteren’s only lead is the anonymous caller w...
|  | Flight Explorer, Volume One
Release Date: March 25, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The first volume in a new series presents an anthology of comics and graphic short stories that revolve around the theme of flight, including works by noted comic book and graphic novel creators, top animators working at Pixar and other major studios, and new Web cartoonists, including Kean Soo and Kazu Kibuishi. Original. 25,000 first printing. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition....
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