 | Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
Release Date: October 21, 2003The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian culture, history, and arcania, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the great lady's world more completely than ever before. Journey through the bustling streets and markets of Cairo a hundred years ago. Surround yourself with the customs and color of a bygone time. Explore ancient tombs and temples and marvel at ...
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|  | Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - Acting Edition
Publication Date: September 1, 1999In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: JB Blanc, Dakin Matthews, Ian Ogilvy, Peter Paige, Julian Sands, Simon Templeman, John Vickery, Douglas Wes...
|  | Maine (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Vintage Contemporaries A Time Book of the Year A Washington Post Book World Notable BookFor the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. As three generations of women arrive at the family's beach house, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush...
|  | Left Behind Series Hardcover Gift Set (Books 1-6)
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|  | The Canterbury Tales
Publication Date: April 13, 2000| ISBN-10: 0395978238 | ISBN-13: 978-0395978238Based on the definitive Riverside Chaucer, this edition of The Canterbury Tales contains the complete text of all 24 Tales, thoroughly updated scholarship from the past 20 years, and extensive editorial support. This volume is ideal for instructors who want to assign only the Tales and have no need for the complete Chaucer. An overview briefly outlines the basic plot and main idea of each Tale, while a section on language and versification helps students with pronunciation. Explanatory notes provide informatio...
|  | Midnight Sun
Publication Date: 19911st edition paperback, new ...
|  | South Carolina Sea Creatures (American Chillers)
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|  | The Bottom Line: An Inside Look at an IRS District Counsel's Dirty Dealings
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|  | Stargate SG-1: Hydra: SG1-13
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Series: Stargate Sg-1 (Book 13) All new novel based on the hit TV series Stargate SG-1. Follow Colonel Jack O'Neill and the Stargate SG-1 team as they travel from planet to planet vai the Stargate to safeguard humanity in a hostile Galaxy. This is another compulsive read for Stargate fans! ...
|  | Playing the Game
Publication Date: November 1, 1999Buruma’s prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was “not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him ...
|  | All's Well that Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199537127 | ISBN-13: 978-0199537129Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery.In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Eac...
|  | Comedias burlescas del Siglo de Oro. Tomo I. ""El rey don Alfonso, el de la mano horadada"" (An
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|  | History Bundle RC: Greek Tragedy (Routledge Classics)
Publication Date: April 28, 2011| Series: Routledge Classics'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics.Kitto argues that in spite of deal...
|  | Learning to Perform: An Introduction
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|  | La conjura de Cort
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|  | A View to a Kiss
Release Date: January 27, 2009 Mystifying kisses . . . It was a most coveted invitation—a glittering ball attended by all the important people of the ton. But Mariah, a ravishing beauty thought by all to be the catch of the season, never expected to find true love amid the shadows. The mysterious man she meets there ignites a passion within her she never thought possible. When he starts a clandestine midnight courtship in her bedroom, Mariah is scandalized—and enthralled. From a man who knows just what he desires . . . Harry Sinclair is a man of secrets who would do anyth...
|  | The Devil (Jack Taylor Novels)
Release Date: November 8, 2011| Series: Jack Taylor Novels America—the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who’s just been refused entry. Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an overly friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway. But when he’s called to investigate a student murder—connected to an elusive Mr. K—he...
|  | A Simple Murder
Release Date: May 8, 2012Five years ago, while William Rees was still recovering from his stint as a Revolutionary War soldier, his beloved wife died. Devastated, Rees left his son, David, in his sister’s care, fled his Maine farm, and struck out for a tough but emotionally empty life as a traveling weaver. Now, upon returning unexpectedly to his farm, Rees discovers that David has been treated like a serf for years and finally ran away to join a secluded religious sect—the Shakers.Overwhelmed by guilt and hoping to reconcile with his son, Rees immediately follows David to the Sh...
|  | It's Slobberin' Time! (Fantastic Four (Spotlight))
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