 | In a Dark House (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James NovelsAn abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet's awful fears won't be silenced -- as she worries about her feuding parents, her sc...
 |  | The Proof (Mars Hill Classified, Book 2)
Release Date: August 25, 2006The mysteries of Mars, woven into a complex tapestryof international intrigue, lead Captain John Wells to answers eventhe most faithful fear. As he starts to put the pieces of the universal puzzle together,the pieces of his life fall irrevocably apart, but, as he mustconstantly remind himself, God does indeed have a plan forhim. ...
|  | Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles)
Release Date: October 2, 2001| Series: Vampire/Witches Chronicles In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches. ...
|  | The Greatest Course That Never Was: The Secret of Augusta National's Lost Course
Publication Date: May 1, 2001When a young lawyer comes across a half-baked caddie with an incredible story too good to pass up, hell soon find himself travelling across the country in hot pursuit of the truth. This story is bigger than Bobby Jones Impregnable Quadrilateral and Byron Nelsons consecutive victories. The question is, will his career as a lawyer be there for him when he comes back? ...
|  | A Proper Woman
Publication Date: June 15, 1987Anna is a child living in a remote Hebridean community when she meets the enigmatic and romantic Jimmy Pearl. She carries the memory of their meeting through to adult life - a life that is full of hardships. Anna`s parents die and her brother and his wife sell the family croft, forcing Anna into a loveless marriage with the heartless Fergus. Anna doesn`t reckon on the return of Jimmy Pearl however... ...
|  | Cold Country, Hot Sun
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Ever thought of retiring to Spain? When famous chef David Lytton sells his London restaurant in order to take early retirement in Spain with his new wife and her golden retriever, he anticipates a life of sun, sea, and sangria. Unfortunately, on the way to their new home, David and Melissa inadvertently come into possession of a secret of immense value which is sought by two rival retired crime barons, who are prepared to kill to get it. ...
|  | The Cherry Orchard (Methuen's Theatre Classics)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Methuen's Theatre Classics In Chekhov's tragi-comedy, one of his most studied plays, the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. When their estate is hopelessly in debt they are urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, a proposition which prompts a family struggle to act decisively. ...
|  | The Iliad (MCI) (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Chronicling the last year of the Trojan War, Homer's Iliad was the first great war poem. As the first of the major epics, it stands as the prototype for all successors. More than a war poem, the Iliad also offers plenty of information about the ancient Greek social structure.The title, Homer’s The Iliad, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Homer’s The Iliad through extracts of critical essays by well-known liter...
|  | The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib
Release Date: August 11, 1999Ghalib is an astonishing poet from India, perhaps the most important poet since Kabir. In The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib, poet Robert Bly and Urdu scholar Sunil Dutta collaborate to bring the delicacy and intensity of Ghalib's poetry to readers of English. This collection of thirty ghazals by Ghalib also serves as an introduction to the ghazal, the elegant and amazing poetic form revered for centuries in the Muslim world.Ghalib was unorthodox in many ways: he was a Muslim, but he drank and was fond of gambling. He had a diffi...
|  | The Nature of Things (French Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0873760808 | ISBN-13: 978-0873760805Poetry. Translated from the French by Lee Fahnestock. First published in 1942 and considered the keystone of Francis Ponge's work, Le parti pris de choses appears here in its entirety. It reveals his preoccupation with nature and its metaphoric transformation through the creative ambiguity of language. "My immediate reaction to Lee Fahnenstock's translation was: this must certainly be 'Ponge's voice in English'...[She] gives us his tones, rhythms, humor...[and] maneuvers his word play with respect and unost...
|  | Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature
Publication Date: September 27, 1995| ISBN-10: 086140310X | ISBN-13: 978-0861403103This is the second of four collections of essays published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s.Essays in this collection establish some of the defining characteristics of contemporary Irish poetry, examine common features of several groups of poets and present focused analyses of twelve individual poets. The contributors are Elmer Andrews, Rand Brandes, Rory Brennan, Terence Brown, Richard Allen Cave, Tom C...
|  | The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America explores the economics of professional authorship—the contiguity between business practice and aesthetic principle—in the most significant literary circles of the American nineteenth century, from Irving’s Knickerbockers, Emerson’s Transcendentalists, and Garrison’s abolitionists to Robert Bonner’s New York Ledger popular fiction writers, and George Fitzhugh’s proslavery pundits. Casting these cohorts...
|  | Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Publication Date: November 6, 2012This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology traces the evolution of devices used to store, retrieve, and communicate knowledge. Ong discusses diverse topics including memory ...
|  | Max Nordau's Fin-de-Si
Publication Date: August 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 0820441856 | ISBN-13: 978-0820441856Max Nordau (1849-1923) is the author of Degeneration and a founding father of Zionism. This Hungarian-born physician wrote fiction in which romantic and personal relations depicted in miniature the social and ethnic tensions of his day. His family stories metaphorically diagnosed the problems of minorities, especially Jewish populations, in European countries. Close analysis of Nordau's literary work opens new perspectives on his cultural and political efforts and thought. ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Publication Date: 1968The present volume is based upon the complete (two-volume) edition. This Major Authors Edition offers Beowulf complete, together with more comprehensive selections from the work of the 31 major authors whose portraits appear on the front of the jacket. This edition includes more authors than those included in previous published major authors anthologies. It contains over 600 pages of new material--from Beowulf to D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot. ...
|  | Dear Diane: Letters from the First Gulf War
Publication Date: July 31, 2010I decided to publish this now for two reasons. First I wanted to publicly acknowledge my wife Diane for being there for me when I needed her the most. My deployment all those years ago was a very trying time in our lives. I wanted the gesture to be heartfelt and tangible. But, more than something that I could just buy in a store. The 20th anniversary of the start of the First Gulf War struck me as a good time to do this.The second reason is larger and may very well be overly ambitious. Even so, my other aim is to call attention to the sacrifices of our soldiers...
|  | The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (New Middle Ages)
Publication Date: April 7, 2001| ISBN-10: 0312239416 | ISBN-13: 978-0312239411This book examines a medieval text long neglected by most scholars. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them. The perspectives presented here are very different from the view related by Abelard in his "History of My Calamities," an account which provoked a much more famous exchange of letters between Heloise and Abelard after they had both entered religious life....
|  | Vamps and the City (Love at Stake, Book 2)
Release Date: April 25, 2006Who says a vamp can't have it all?Darcy Newhart thought it was a stroke of genius—the first–ever reality TV show where mortals vie with vampires for the title of The Sexiest Man on Earth. As the show's director, Darcy's career would be on track again. And she can finally have a life apart from the vampire harem. Okay, so she's still technically dead, but two out of three's not bad. Now she just has to make sure that a mortal doesn't win. If only she wasn't so distracted by a super–sexy and live contestant named Austin...But Darcy doesn't know t...
|  | Lady of the Night (Timeswept)
Publication Date: July 1998| Series: Timeswept Manacled to a stone wall was not the way Katharina Fergesen had planned to spend her vacation. But a wrong turn in the right place and the haunted English castle she was touring was suddenly full of life--and so was the man bathing before her. Standing accused of spying on the loyalist Lord Sedgewick when she was really just ogling, Katharina was tossed in the dungeon. But how to convince Lord Sedgewick that she's traveled across time, not that she's not a witch. ...
|  | Mean Streets
Publication Date: January 6, 2009From four of today’s hottest fantasy authors—all-new novellas of dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s. The best paranormal private investigators have been brought together in a single volume—and cases don’t come any harder than this. New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden’s latest case may be his last. Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost—her memory—in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon...
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