 | The Case of the Gilded Fly (The First Gervase Fen Mystery)
Publication Date: June 2005Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University.Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut – a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men.Rounding out the cast are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and the women who love them.And watching from the wings is Professor Gervase Fen – scholar, wit, and fop extraordinaire – who would infinitely rather solve crimes than expound on English literature.When Yseut is murdered, Fen fi...
 |  | Blue Glass
Publication Date: October 1992A mother and daughter suffers the slings and arrows of their adversarial relationship as they act out their outwardly ordinary suburban existence. A first novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Exile of Lucifer (Chronicles of the Host, Book 1)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002Lucifer, the Anointed Cherub, whose ministry in heaven is devoted to the worship of the Most High God, has become pessimistic about his prospects in heaven. Ambition inflamed, he looks to the soon-to-be-created Earth as a place where he can see his destiny realized. With a willing crew of equally ambitious angels, Lucifer creates a fifth-column of malcontents under the very throne of God. Hot on their heels, however, is a group of loyalists, led by Michael and Gabriel, who are suspicious of Lucifer's true motives. In detective style fashion they slowly start to u...
|  | Forsaken Soul (Medieval Mysteries (Poison Pen))
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Series: Medieval Mysteries (Poison Pen) The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, but not for Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal Priory. Her friend, Crowner Ralf, is newly widowed with a baby. And her new anchoress is welcoming visitors to her window at night: one of them a man the prioress secretly loves. Now his loyalty to her as head of Tyndal Priory is suspect. Then Martin the Cooper is poisoned at the local inn. Martin had a wealth of enemies. The killer could be any of them. No one likes the direction the evidence points, but God's justice must be re...
|  | The Screwtape Letters
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|  | A Cry of Stone
Publication Date: September 1, 2003In this long-awaited fifth novel in his series, Children of the Last Days, Michael O'Brien explores the true meaning of poverty of spirit. Loosely based on the real lives of a number of native North Americans, A Cry of Stone is the fictional account of the life of a native artist, Rose Wâbos. Abandoned as an infant, Rose is raised by her grandmother, Oldmary Wâbos, in the remotest regions of the northern Ontario wilderness. The story covers a period from 1940 to 1973, chronicling Rose's growth to womanhood, her discovery of art, her moving out int...
| | Rapture (Spanish): Oscuros 4 (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5)
Publication Date: May 3, 2005A New York Times Bestselling Author Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has only a few close friends, which isn't surprising - not many people can appreciate Sookie's abilities as a mind reader. When she sees her brother Jason's eyes start to change, Sookie knows he's about to turn into a werepanther for the first time. But her concern for her brother becomes cold fear when a sniper targets the local changeling population - and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Vampires: The Greatest Stories
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|  | American Gangster
Release Date: October 2, 2007The novelization of the major motion picture from Universal Pictures about Frank Lucas, drug czar of Harlem. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and is directed by Ridley Scott. For decades the Mafia controlled the flow of heroin onto the streets of Harlem. Frank Lucas changed all that. Born in rural North Carolina, he came to New York and rose to power under notorious mobster Bumpy Johnson. When Bumpy died, Frank moved to take over the drug business. Caught in a squeeze play between the Mafia and the street dealers, Frank got creative. Inste...
|  | Swallowing a Donkey's Eye
Publication Date: August 14, 2012Join Farm today! It's only six years of your life! Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, antagonistic and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits, and farm animals illegally engineered for silence. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator's single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be...
|  | Every Man for Himself
Release Date: March 27, 2012If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the voyage, from the suspicious fire in the Number 10 coal bunker, to the champange and crystal of the first-class public rooms, to that terrible midnight chaos in the frigid North Atlantic. This is remarkable, haunting tale substantiates Bainbridge as a consummate ...
|  | Strindberg: Plays: Two (The Dance of Death / A Dream Play / The Stronger) (Vol 2)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected PlaysThis volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain'; and both parts of The Dance of Death (1900), a terrifying analysis of a tormented marriage: 'it leaves an astonishing, an almost unaccountable, impression of genius … as a beggar's cloak full of holes may have a kind of majestic bea...
| | Shakespeare and Tragedy (Radical Social Policy Series)
Publication Date: July 15, 1981| Series: Radical Social Policy Series A critical study of the individual tragedies by one of Britain's most eminent literary scholars. ...
|  | The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: 1997| ISBN-10: 0486298574 | ISBN-13: 978-0486298573| Edition: Unabridged Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes such masterful stories as "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more. ...
|  | Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica
Publication Date: August 7, 2012Even though they may not get a lot of action on the field after high school and college, girl jocks always manage to see a lot of action off the field. Because female athletes have an easy confidence about them, a natural nonchalance, and usually a killer bod, that draws all kinds of women to them – straight, lesbian, bisexual, curious, questioning, you name it. Women are competitive by nature, whether they play sports or games. Women play hard and love harder. They don’t just score – they keep track. Girls Who Score is filled with story after ...
|  | The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry MasonMystery)
Release Date: March 12, 1986| Series: Perry MasonMystery HELL ON HEELSAfter her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds--left in Sarah's care--has suddenly vanished into thin air. Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem dealer Austin Cullens begs to differ. In fact, he's prepared to forgive and forget--until he is mysteriously murdered and Sarah is caught running from the crime scene. Now it appears the lady w...
|  | The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1)
Release Date: September 1, 2009As an environmental criminologist, Patrick Bowers uses 21st-century geospatial technology to analyze the time and space in which a crime takes place. Using an array of factors, Bowers can pinpoint clues to solve the toughest of cases. Bowers?s skills have made him one of the FBI?s top agents?until now. Called to the mountains of North Carolina to consult on a gruesome murder, Bowers finds himself in a deadly duel with a serial killer who seems to transcend Patrick?s analytical powers. Forced to track the killer?s horrific murders one by one, Bowers finds his te...
| | Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
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|  | The Priest with Dirty Clothes
Publication Date: February 11, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In this new edition of his classic story, The Priest with Dirty Clothes, Dr. R.C. Sproul continues his project of illustrating theological concepts for children. In this book, he teaches the concept of imputation, which lies at the heart of the important biblical doctrine of justification.Using the story of Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 5) as his jumping-off point, Dr. Sproul weaves a classic tale about a young priest who is invited to preach his first sermon before the king and his court. But on his way...
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