 | The Careful Use of Compliments: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (4) (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries)
Release Date: August 26, 2008| Series: Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries In the fourth installment of this enchanting, beloved series, Isabel Dalhousie, who is now a mother, returns to investigate an irresistible puzzle in the art world.Isabel Dalhousie—the nosiest and most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet—now has a son, Charlie, whose doting father Jamie has an intriguing idea to pose to Isabel: marriage. But Isabel wonders if Jamie is too young to be serious? And how would Cat respond? On top of these matters, the ambitious Professor Dove has seized Isabel's position as ...
 |  | Seen It All and Done the Rest: A Novel
Release Date: March 18, 2008For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine was the toast of Europe, and her fabulous apartment in Amsterdam’s theater district was a popular gathering place for an international community of artists, actors, and expatriates who considered themselves true citizens of the world. Josephine lived above and beyond the reach of conventional definitions of who and what an African American diva could be, and her legions of loyal fans loved her...
|  | The Thief of Always
Release Date: November 11, 2008 Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles where every childhood whim may be satisfied. There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood's wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the house shows its darker face—when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadows—that he comes to doubt Mr. Hood's philanthropy. But the house and its mysterious architect are ...
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|  | Passion's Shadow
Release Date: February 1, 1997Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes the place of other things in her life. Sondra Pinchot, an interior designer, has always depended on the comfort of alcohol. And Samantha, Sondra's dutiful daughter, is trapped in an affair that's become nothing but a habit. Now fate brings the three women together and their private addictions give way to deeper passions. But sometimes love can be an addiction too. ...
|  | Starlit: A Novel
Release Date: October 5, 2010In this town, you’re either it or you’re out. Glamorous parties, flashing lights, red carpets—Tally Jones has worked hard to join Hollywood’s A-list since she moved to Los Angeles. She finally gets her break on the hit nighttime soap opera Dana Point, with a coveted role that allows the former small-town girl to trade her crisp waiter uniform for a breathtaking ball gown, a career as a glittering starlet, and a red-hot arm charm: chiseled hunk Gabriel McNamara, the king of prime-time medical drama. Ratings have skyrocketed since Tally repl...
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|  | Norse Mythology A to Z (Mythology A to Z Series)
Publication Date: October 2003More than 400 alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, and important places of Norse mythology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Iph (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Oberon Modern Plays "[Iph] draws on the contemporary vernacular to ripping, rollicking, rumbustious effect."--Paul Muldoon ...
|  | Perfect Days (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Series: Nick Hern Books Celebrity hairdresser Barbs Marshall's biological clock is ringing when she meets an obliging 26-year-old stranger. ...
|  | Iwein: The Knight with the Lion
Publication Date: January 1, 1979Few stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants. The older German version, that by the Swabian nobleman Hartmann von Aue, won instant popularity and became a model of form, style, and language for the many courtly epics which his countrymen composed up to the beginning of the modern period. In recent years, his Iwein has enjoyed a remarkable revival among medieval scholars as traditional interpretations have been ch...
|  | Rumi 2008 Date Book
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|  | Brandstiftung (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Red Rock Yellow Stone (Red Rock Cover)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005Red Rock Yellow Stone is a photographic journey through America's greatest Western parks.Edwin Firmage, two-time recipient of the Printing Industries of America Premier Print Award, combines over 80 large-format photographs with classic haiku from Japan and haiku of his own to create a unique pictorial and literary appreciation of the landscape.As the haiku poets understood, you can find beauty in the commonplace as well as the unusual.Seeing beauty in ordinary things is what haiku and photography as art forms are about. ...
|  | Jian guo 50 nian Sichuan wen xue zuo pin xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Dead Wrong
Release Date: June 1, 2004Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the first is free.It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had one thing in common: they were all listed as M. Douglas. The fact that Mara Douglas is next on the list has her jumping at shadows, until FBI agent Aidan Shields shows up to make sure she doesn’t become the fourth victim.Aidan has been out of commission since an undercover operation went bad more than a year ago. Back o...
|  | The Empty Copper Sea
Release Date: April 20, 1996"The professional's professional of suspense writers."THE NEW YORK TIMESVan Harder, once a hard drinker, has found religion. But that doesn't keep folks from saying he murdered his employer, Hub Lawless, whose body hasn't been found. To clear his name, and cear up the mystery, Van asks friend-in-need Travis McGee to find out what really happened. What McGee finds is that Timber Bay is a toug h town to get a break in when you're a stranger asking questions. But what he also finds is that, dead or alive, Hub Lawless is worth a lot of money. Some are eager ...
|  | Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire (Seven Deadly Sins)
Publication Date: September 19, 2001| Series: Seven Deadly Sins The second volume in the Seven Deadly Sins Series, Speaking of Greed is a collection of short stories on the destructive deadly sin known as greed. In addition to being the title of this anthology, Speaking of Greed" is also the title of Lawrence Block's original novella that leads off this unique collection."My task as an anthologist in this series", Block writes in the introduction, "is threefold: first, I have to pick the stories; then I have to write a langoish novella with my four series characters, whom we know only as the...
|  | The 13 Culprits
Publication Date: August 7, 2002SIMENON — BEFORE MAIGRET! Georges Simenon (1903-1989) not only created the finest series of French detective novels in the cases of Inspector Jules Maigret, but he was also, according to André Gide, "perhaps the greatest and most truly ‘novelistic' novelist in France today." But before he wrote about Maigret, he contributed series of short tales to the magazine Détective in 1929 and 1930, collected in 3 books. The first of those volumes, The 13 Culprits, has never previously been published in English, despite extravagant praise from Alexander Woolcott, Ellery ...
|  | Death In Dublin (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
Release Date: November 25, 2003| Series: Peter McGarr MysteriesThe theft of the Book of Kells -- an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend -- from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking crime. But it is the brutal slaying of a night watchman that throws Peter McGarr of the Dublin Murder Squad into the mix. Forced to share investigative duties equally with a publicity-hungry co-Chief Superintendent, McGarr is soon entangled in a twisted web of murder, thievery, back-biting politics, and dark pagan rituals. And surely more blood will flow ...
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