 | A Tibetan Family (Journey Between Two Worlds)
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 |  | The Final Solution: A Novel for the End of Days
Publication Date: October 20, 2000The terrorist bombs and guns going off in our world, along with practically every bit of political violence of the last forty years, starting with the assassination of President Kennedy, are part of a single man's demented plot to "save the world" through terror and a climactic, apocalyptic act of sacrifice that will make the crucifixion of Christ look insignificant. Or so we are told by Wolf Berlin, who has accidentally uncovered the mad plot on the Net. Who is Wolf Berlin? He is a man who has always wanted to found a new religion and who now is tempted by ...
|  | Humor, Horror, and the Supernatural: 22 Stories By Saki
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|  | The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
Release Date: January 10, 2012From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the world’s most eminent court. Under...
|  | The Program: A Novel (Tim Rackley Novels)
Release Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Tim Rackley NovelsIn this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice. Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation call...
|  | The Pink Palace (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents They say you can t judge a book by its cover and I guess you can say the same thing about strippers, too. On the surface I m Mo Nique, the hottest stripper dancing at The Pink Palace, but on the inside I m really just Janelle Taylor, a teenage runaway trying to survive in Atlanta. You might wanna call me a hoe but I m the one your man is spending his whole paycheck on! This isn t the life I envisioned for myself but it s the path I was forced to take in order to get by. Nobody saw the real me until I met Tommy, a sex...
|  | TRIPPING From Cleveland to Paris & Beyond
Publication Date: June 11, 2012TRIPPING is the story of Barbara Glass, an American misfit from the Silent Generation who, after a heartbreaking loss, decides to say "Goodbye Cleveland... Bonjour Paris!"She embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, and the result is a fascinating series of adventures and misadventures.From 1957 to 1967 our heroine, nicknamed Bear, "trips" from Cleveland to New York, London, Paris, Siena and Algiers.Along the way she encounters history-making events and people, both ordinary and extraordinary, who shape her life.Death, both peaceful and violent, punctuates her ex...
|  | X-Men: A Novelization
Release Date: June 6, 2000It's the movie event of the year--and the action-packed book you've been waiting for. Outcasts from society, the X-MEN are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to protect rejects and fears--even hates--them. Not all mutants seek to protect mankind. One terrorist group--led by the supremely powerful Magneto--seeks to strike first. Battling against prejudice and agents of intolerance, the X-MEN must establish a peaceful coexistence between mutant and mankind or they will s...
|  | In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)
Publication Date: June 3, 2005| Series: Nonpareil Books, #21 (Book 21) IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass’s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce’s Dubliners.First published in 1968, this b...
|  | Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God (American Tribal Religions)
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|  | Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico
Publication Date: October 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 080614209X | ISBN-13: 978-0806142098Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central Mexico. Franciscan missionaries, seeking effective tools for evangelization, fostered this new form of theater after observing the Nahuas’ enthusiasm for elaborate performances. The plays became a controversial component of native Christianity, allowing Nahua performers to present Chr...
|  | Becoming Female: The Male Body in Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0715637126 | ISBN-13: 978-0715637128Becoming Female, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure of Heracles in Sophocles' The Women of Trachis, an exemplary specimen of the tragic process of becoming female, who e...
|  | Norman Conquests (Acting Edition)
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|  | The Procession
Release Date: June 1, 2000A collection of insightful and powerful writings by one of Eastern philosophy’s most prolific thinkersKahlil Gibran’s reflections on the wistful beauty, lofty majesty, and abiding peace of Eastern wisdom revolutionized Arab literature. This collection of dramatic poems uses the dialogue between age and youth as a platform to discuss deep subjects such as freedom, death, and the eternal soul. From “Of Life and Sorrow” to “Of Science and Knowledge,” Gibran’s vision transcends boundaries of religion and culture, finding beauty ...
|  | Classical Epic Tradition (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 1986| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions. ...
|  | Xenophon's Apology of Socrates
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|  | Witness for the Defense
Release Date: October 1, 1998After a lifetime devoted to the law, a San Francisco attorney's life is torn apart when he is accused of coercing testimony from witnesses. His only hope is a beautiful lawyer whose ex-judge father holds a grudge against him. But for her help, he must agree to represent her father's handyman who stands accused of kidnapping. He takes the case reluctantly with the hope of salvaging his dwindling reputation, but knows it will take a miracle to win. With the life of an innocent man as well as his own in the balance, the attorney will come face-to-face with a twisted...
|  | The Westminster Poisoner (Thomas Chaloner Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Thomas Chaloner Mysteries Christopher Vine, a Treasury clerk working in solitary piety in the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, is not alone. A killer waits in the draughty hall to ensure Vine will not live to see in the New Year. And Vine is not the only government official to die that season. The Lord Chancellor fears his enemies will skew any investigation to cause him maximum damage, so he decides to commission his own inquiries into the murders and, with his suspicions centered on Greene, another clerk, he instructs Thomas Chaloner to...
|  | The Light King Strikes! (Dc Super Heroes (Dc Super Villains))
Publication Date: January 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Zel
Release Date: November 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up High in the mountains, Zel lives with her mother, who insists they have all they need -- for they have each other. Zel's life is peaceful and protected -- untila chance encounter changes everything. When she meets a beautiful young prince at the market one day, she is profoundly moved by new emotions. But Zel's mother sees the future unfolding -- and she will do the unspeakable to prevent Zel from leaving her..."Will leave readers spellbound."-- Publishers Weekly, starred review...
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