 | Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance (New Cultural Studies)
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| Series: New Cultural Studies In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume—all best-selling romance writers—explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances.In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and controversial book, the authors dispute some of the notions that plague their profession, including the time-worn theory that the romance genre contains only one single, monolithic story, which is cranked out over and over again. The authors discuss positive life-affir...
 |  | Love, Honor, and Betray (A Reverend Curtis Black Novel)
Publication Date: August 10, 2011| Series: A Reverend Curtis Black Novel Tabitha, Curtis's long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old child, Curtina, has died, and Curtina must now move in with them permanently. Charlotte is mortified. Curtis, on the other hand, couldn't be happier to finally have his entire family together. Charlotte begins to resent Curtina more than ever before. Curtis quickly notices and when he finally confronts her about her cruel and selfish behavior, Charlotte makes it very clear that Curtina is his baby, not hers. Charlotte begins spending more t...
|  | Lady of the River (Reardon Valley #2)
Publication Date: March 13, 2003Wilderness explorer Max Bremmer's dreams are shattered when he suffers a severe injury that forces him to settle in Reardon Valley. When he catches sight of the mysterious Belinda Gregg, he is driven to uncover the secrets of her family's secluded life on the river. As Max enters the uncharted territory of Belinda's heart, Belinda must expose the truth or risk losing love forever. ...
|  | A Texan's Choice: The Heart of A Hero, Book 3
Publication Date: October 2012| Series: The Heart of a Hero (Book 3) Texas, 1874. Long ago, Scout Proffitt gave up on ever being a man of honor like his Civil War hero brother Clayton. But when Scout steps foot on the rundown remnants of the Circle C ranch, he wonders if maybe—just maybe—the Lord has something different intended for him. Rosemarie has lived most of her life doubting her worth and shouldering the blame for her brother’s death. But when a stranger rides onto her ranch, claiming he owns it, she suddenly is given a choice: either keep looking at the dark s...
|  | The Fields of Clon Miarth
Publication Date: September 3, 2007Rebellious Dukes make a bloody bid to seize the kingdom. King Osric Murchadha and a handful of loyal followers hold fast the fortifications of the Sceir Naid while chaos spreads throughout the land. Amidst the beginnings of civil war, Aine Ceallaigh is kidnapped by Eowulf Fitzwarren, and an intrepid band attempts a desperate rescue.Yet beyond the selfish ambition of man, a deeper evil threatens Glenmara; the Red Goblin Klabaga turns his wrath against the world of human-men. On the rolling meadows of Clon Miarth he pits himself against Evan MacKeth in a batt...
|  | Near the Beginning: A Christian Fantasy
Publication Date: July 27, 2009Joseph Winters lived most of his adult life as a God-fearing Christian man.Now it was time for him to meet his maker, and things are not exactly as he had assumed they might be!Near the Beginning is a Christian fantasy that is well grounded in biblical truth. ...
|  | Medical Mystery - The Yale Experiments
Publication Date: September 4, 2011Harriet Wong, MD thinks her father passed away, during surgery, two years ago, but by accident stumbles upon a secret medical experiment that gives her reason to doubt. Is she crazy and stressed and needs a good long vacation, as she is told, or should she risk everything and challenge Yale General's powerful physicians, no matter what ? What would you do ? Who can she trust ? No one.This book is written by a former Yale MD who knows all the ins and outs of top brass hospital politics and egos. This book is all - 100 % all - fiction, and there is not one ch...
|  | Best Lesbian Love Stories 2009
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Series: Best Lesbian Love Stories Whether romance is missing from your life or you just want a little injection of fantasy, this book will have you dreaming about love and lust. Pick it up and fall in love.Simone Thorne is also the editor of the Tales of Travelrotica for Lesbians series. ...
|  | Mistakes were Made - Acting Edition
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|  | Latin-American Plays (NHB International Collection)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: NHB International Collection Plays by five of the most famous Latin-American authors to have emerged over the last 30 years. ...
|  | Instant Christmas Pageants: The Not-So-Silent Night
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|  | Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: March 12, 1961| Series: Vintage Classics Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, i...
|  | A Key to Old Poems: Oral-Formulaic Approach to the Interpretation of West-Germanic Verse
Publication Date: October 1, 1988This book examines the fundamental principles whereby the tradition of Indo-European oral-formulaic composition provides a context for the critical interpretation of certain kinds of English and German Medieval poetry. Renoir's purpose is to apply the rapidly increasing amount of original and far-reaching research in oral-formulaic theory and tradition to the critical interpretation of poetry. He concentrates on works of recognized literary merit, such as Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, primarily because the book is aimed at English speakers - and the examin...
| | Deutsche Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts : Vom Naturalismus zum Surrealismus : Band I und II (German Poetry of the 20th Century in Two Volumes)
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|  | W.B. Yeats and Irish Folklore
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|  | Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (Continuum Discourse)
Publication Date: June 23, 2006| ISBN-10: 0826477259 | ISBN-13: 978-0826477255<p> This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:</p><br/><p>* collocations,<br/>* keyness<br/>* concordances<br/>* dispersion plots<br/>* building and annotating corpo...
|  | Poison Flower: A Jane Whitefield Novel
Publication Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Jane Whitefield Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry’s celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife’s murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby’s freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.Jane’s captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby’s wife. He believes he won’t be safe until Shelby is ...
|  | Scorched Earth
Release Date: March 26, 2002From David L. Robbins, bestselling author of The End of War and War of the Rats, comes a novel of searing intensity and uncompromising vision. Part mystery, part legal thriller, it is a story of crime and punishment set in a small southern town during one brutal, hot, and unforgiving summer that lays bare the potential of the human heart to hate–and, ultimately, to heal. Scorched EarthThe inhabitants of Good Hope, Virginia, haven’t felt the cooling effects of rain in weeks. The crops are withering. The ground is parched. There is no relief in sight. Wi...
|  | Blood of the Dragon
Publication Date: May 18, 2011Here's a gripping techno-thriller, laced with political intrigue, in the finest tradition of Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton.Iranian scientists develop an ingenious plan which is destroying America's petroleum supply. A coup is underway to overthrow the Iranian government. The leader of this group has murdered the President of Iran. China is testing the first of twenty of the largest mobile machines ever built. These huge moving factorieswill convert China's vast soft coal fields into synthetic crude oil. This will double the carbon dioxide content of the world'...
|  | Everlasting Embrace: Embrace Series (Volume 4)
Publication Date: April 17, 2012Sophia Pierce has walked the earth for over a century. She’s struggled, but finally found meaning to her existence. She found love, friendship and an amazing family. Now with the love of her life by her side, Sophia feels strong enough to conquer anything. Even raising a baby, born as his mother died at the hands of the Cerberus, evil Vampires. Sophia helps her best friend deal with the loss of her husband and raising their daughter. Stronger than ever, Sophia isn’t prepared for everything she’s about to learn. Good versus evil seems like ...
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