 | Generations of Women: A Novel
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 |  | Dawn of a Thousand Nights: A Story of Honor (The Liberator Series, Book 2)
Release Date: September 1, 2005For fans of scrupulously researched historical fiction, Tricia Goyer releasesDawn of a Thousand Nights. Following on the heels of Goyer's From Dustand Ashes and Night Song, readers journey with Dan Fletcher and LibbyConner, both U.S. pilots fighting in WWII's Pacific Theater. Fletcher is capturedby the Japanese and is forced to endure the horror of the Bataan Death March inthe Philippines. It is here that he encounters Natsu Hidiki, a guard whose naggingconscience won't let him ignore the human degradation in which he is participating.Libby Conner is a WASP (Wo...
|  | Both Sides of the Door
Publication Date: August 18, 2011A re-issue of a remarkable little novella published in 1918, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle praised as "a unique experience". It comprises a fictionalised account of a psychic upheaval the young Margaret went through in 1913 while living in a disturbed house in Bayswater, London, with her sister. A casual experiment with table-turning triggered an intense and terrifying haunting, beginning with odd patches of shadow and light and soon developing into a full blown poltergeist manifestation - household items vanishing and reappearing in odd places, writing appear...
|  | The Midnight Club and New London
Publication Date: September 6, 2012You couldn't tell by the sight of him, but that hunched over figure, the one leaning heavily on his wooden cane like a withered old man, is Macy Crookstop: high school freshman. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Macy's condition isn't the only thing that outcasts him from his peers. When literary magazines aren't rejecting his writing, and he's not building sets at a run down community theatre, Macy is just trying to survive high school. But when his father disappears one evening after receiving a cryptic piece of mail, high school quickly becomes the last th...
|  | Wolf Totem: A Novel
Release Date: March 31, 2009China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost trans...
|  | Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1, 2003Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher’s fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a fin...
|  | A Lily of the Field: A Novel (Inspector Troy)
Publication Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Inspector Troy Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton's A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters—Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating paralle...
|  | Macbeth (Simply Shakespeare)
Release Date: December 3, 2001This tragedy tells of a power-hungry Scottish nobleman and his lady, and the price they pay for violently seizing the royal throne. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with a modern "translation" on the facing page. Starting in the late 1580s and for several decades that followed, Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment for London's theatergoers. His Globe Theatre was the equivalent of ...
|  | Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: February 18, 2003| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the ...
|  | Las mocedades del Cid (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1589770064 | ISBN-13: 978-1589770065Esta obra rememora las mocedades de Rodrígo Díaz de Vivar, Gimena Gómez, Diego Lainez, Urraca y el Rey, personajes con la sangre caliente de la nobleza castellana de la Alta Edad Media que evolucionan, gracias a de Castro, en un teatro que preconiza la mezcla de los géneros, el espíritu barroco, la libertad de escritura, y el desorden de las situaciones. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Treasure Island (Nick Hern Books)
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| | Birth of American Tragedy
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| | Antologia Critica De La Nueva Poesia Chilena (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Haiku for Hope
Publication Date: August 26, 2011A book of haiku and artwork created in 2011 by Amana Academy second grade students in order to raise money for humanitarian relief efforts around the world. ...
|  | Women in History - Women of the Renaissance (Women in History)
Publication Date: October 1, 2004| Series: Women in History Women of the Renaissance brings to life the daily work and notable achievements of early modern women in their roles as wives and mothers, caregivers, workers, religious leaders, queens, rebels, pirates, scholars, writers and artists. ...
|  | The Mystic Fable: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: June 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0226100375 | ISBN-13: 978-0226100371The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography. ...
|  | If You Desire (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 2)
Release Date: April 24, 2007 He tried to run....In his youth, Hugh MacCarrick foolishly fell in love with a beautiful English lass who delighted in teasing him with her flirtatious ways. Yet he knew he could never marry her because he was shadowed by an accursed family legacy. To avoid temptation, Hugh left home, ultimately becoming an assassin. She tried to forget him.... Jane Weyland was devastated when the Highlander she believed would marry her abandoned her instead. Years later, when Hugh MacCarrick is summoned to protect her from her father's enemies, her heartache has ...
|  | The Turning Point
Publication Date: April 15, 2001Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her small east Texas hometown with little more than the clothes on her back. With broken dreams and countless regrets, she points her twelve-year-old car east, hoping and praying to find a new beginning.Car thieves stole Adam Wakefield's Porche, his eyesight, and his identity. Once a prominent neurosurgeon in San Francisco, Adam now lives at his secluded estate in Louisiana. Fearing that is blindness is permanent and that he will never be in control of his life aga...
|  | Out of the Blue (Arabesque)
Release Date: October 8, 1998| Series: Arabesque A marine biologist based in Key West, Florida, Gaea Maxwell has no interest in men--especially after her ex-fiance shattered her faith in the power of commitment. A research trip to frigid Russian waters in pursuit of the blue whale is an opportunity to leave painful opportunities behind, and is the last place Gaea expects to meet a man with enough heated passion to thaw her frozen heart. ...
| | Making Crime: A Study of Detective Work
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