| The Harriet Lane Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print, 19e Publication Date: June 22, 2011| ISBN-10: 0323079423 | ISBN-13: 978-0323079426| Edition: 19 Trusted by generations of residents and practitioners, The Harriet Lane Handbook from The Johns Hopkins University remains your first choice for fast, accurate information on pediatric diagnosis and treatment. Now even more convenient to carry, it's your go-to resource for a wealth of practical information, including the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization schedules, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines, as well as a unique, comprehensive drug formulary. New information...
| | A Price to Pay (View Park Novel) Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: View Park Novel Wealthy and high-profile, the Chase dynasty has everything an African-American family could ever want--except what money can't buy...Ever since Carter Chase's ex-fiancé, Avery, married another man, he's resolved to win her back. And when an accident sends her to his side, Carter seems to have sealed the deal. But fate has a different plan...Meanwhile, Carter's brother, Michael, is entangled in a scandal that's alienated him from his powerful father. Hoping to redeem himself, Michael proposes a new business idea. But his partner in th...
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| | Shem Creek (Lowcountry Tales) Release Date: January 3, 2006| Series: Lowcountry Tales Pat Conroy has called her books “hilarious and wise”, noting that they are “funny, sexy and usually damp with sea water.” Anne Rivers Siddons said of Sullivans Island that it “roared with life.” Now Dorothea Benton Frank takes us back to the Lowcountry to introduce a whole new cast of characters whose lives will surely move your heart. Linda Breland has no experience managing a restaurant, but then neither did Brad Jackson, and he owns the place. Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daught...
| | He's Saved...But Is He For Real? Publication Date: February 1, 2008It's been almost two years since Michelle Williamson's boyfriend, Pierre Dupree, walked out on her to marry a minister's daughter. Since then, Michelle's friendship with her church buddy David has deepened into something sweet and special, but learning that Pierre has called off his wedding throws her into confusion. When Pierre wants Michelle back, she's forced to make a choiceone she may regret.Liz Coleman has two great blessingsher calling as a minister, and a saved man who truly loves her. But Liz's insecurity and jealousy are eating at her p...
| | The Ghost Pirates and Others: The Best of William Hope Hodgson Publication Date: December 4, 2012William Hope Hodgson was a contemporary of H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith, and was one of the most important and influential fantasists of the 20th century. His novel The Ghost Pirates is a take-no-prisoners supernatural adventure story that is just as powerful today as it was 100 years ago.In addition to his landmark novel, this volume contains some of his most influential short fiction; from his supernatural detective Thomas Carnacki to tales of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. The Ghost Pirates and Others is the perfect introduction to the magic, mys...
| | Vampire Tales: Ashes to Ashes Publication Date: December 21, 2006ForewordMy mother was a Queen.She was a brutal and merciless queen.Some of her kind murdered her, and returned her back into Ashes.They believed her destroyed, but did not realize that the ashes that consumed her was from which she came, and so shall another.They did not realize that their queen's spirit could not be cinched.The spirit within her was as old as time, and had survived since the dawning of their kind.Their queen's cinched ashes found me, Chose me, and thus, created me.I am my mother's daughter, aroused from her ashes.She is with me always; gui...
| | The Goon, Volume 8: Those That Is Damned Publication Date: July 22, 2009The town on the edge of Horse-Eater's Wood is permeated by all manner of dark things - hatred, fear, unhappiness, demons, and the undead (to name a few) - brought on by a curse that has festered within the forest for many years. The Goon himself was drawn by the power of the curse, but his soul is not consumed by this bleak place, and he discovers that he is the only hope for his town. Goon's greatest foe, the dead mobster Labrazio, mounts his assault from a macabre burlesque house, using the Zombie Priest and his demonic kitty to put on the squeeze. It's up to...
| | Tragedy and Athenian Religion (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) Publication Date: March 2003| Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. A contextual analysis of the...
| | The Aeneid (Cliffs Notes) Publication Date: December 29, 2000| ISBN-10: 0764586807 | ISBN-13: 978-0764586804| Edition: 1 The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.CliffsNotes on Aeneid takes you on the journey of a band of survivors who leave their destroyed city to seek another home in a faraway country. Woven from myth and legend, the story is about rebirth, about life springin...
| | Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq Publication Date: August 29, 2008| ISBN-10: 0870138421 | ISBN-13: 978-0870138423| Edition: first edition In this stunning collection — the first since the American invasion — Iraqis themselves vividly depict the bombing of Baghdad, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the invaders (on both sides), the sectarian violence — and in the midst of it all, the hardships, loves, and hopes of the Iraqi people. This collection was compiled by Iraqis in exile in the U.S. Poets, editors, and translators in Iraq run the daily risk of suicide bombers, gunfire from all ...
| | Next Ancient World, The Publication Date: August 1, 2001What Jennifer Michael Hecht manages to accomplish, in poems that demonstrate a mastery of craft and a uniquely voiced understanding buoyed with an air of brilliance, is astonishing. Her introduction explains - in her endlessly appealing half-outrageous, half-conspiratorial voice - her purpose: to offer a guidebook for those that come after. We are the next ancient world, and Hecht chronicles our motivations, our interactions, our dreams and half-remembered thoughts with wit, aching romance and savvy intuition.Out of the quotidian, Hecht manufactures something ...
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| | Vanishing Lives: Style and Self in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne and Yeats (Virginia Victorian Studies) ...
| | The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Publication Date: July 1, 1996| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world’s leading social theorists. Drawing upon the history of literature and art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Bourdieu develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value. He argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the str...
| | General Jack's Diary, 1914-18 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France.Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Jack kept a secret diary.This diary is unique.It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of the First World War on the Western Front.Jack was witness not only to the horror and wretchedness of much that happened in the trenches but also to the bravery and spirit th...
| | Christmas Road Trip: When Romance Meets a Dead End Publication Date: June 1, 2011Sue Wright and Ken Polk are about to celebrate their third Christmas together. Sue thinks it’s about time for Ken to pop the question, but her dreams don’t seem to make a blip on his radar. Ken is ready to take Sue to a barbershop Christmas concert; she’d like a romantic evening alone with her beau. They’re at the theater when all hell breaks loose … Sue and Ken decide to part ways. She’s given him enough chances, and it’s time for her to hit the road. She links up with her friend from Hawaii, Lani. With dreams of...
| | Cowboy Combo [Cowboy Sandwich: Cowboy Double-Decker] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour) Publication Date: July 30, 2010Cowboy Sandwich [Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Candy needs just one glorious night of wild sex to blast her inhibitions away. Adam and Bryan, determined Montana cowboys, are eager to use their callused hands, hungry mouths and more to unleash her orgasms. But they need more than just one night to fulfill her deep, dark fantasies... ** Cowboy Double-Decker [Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/F/M] Bryan Raman needs a polyamorous wife to complete his life with ranch and bed partners Adam and Candy Richardson. Sing...
| | Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback)) Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite...
| | A Quiet Place Release Date: April 26, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up "Sometimes a person needs a quiet place."A place that's far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life -- a place that isn't ringing or talking or roaring or playing. But sometimes that place isn't easy to find. Explore what it's like to find a special someplace where we all can think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. ...
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