 | In My Father's House
Release Date: August 2, 2011For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach.Only the world’s most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn’t immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party plan...
 |  | Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire
Publication Date: June 29, 1973This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of...
| | The devil rides out: A novel
Publication Date: 1935The Duke de Richleau and Rex van Ryn know instinctively that something bizarre has happened to Simon Aron. Why else would he fail his most trusted friends? The Duke has a suspicion where the answer lies. But nothing can prepare him or van Ryn for the terrible confirmation of his fears. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Mission to Kala
Publication Date: February 1, 2008Mission to Kala (Mission terminée) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon. It won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1958. It describes the visit of a young Yaounde-educated man to a village in the interior. Jean-Marie Medza, the narrator, has just failed his Baccalauréat exam, and returns home expecting humiliation. Instead, he finds that as a scholar his prestige is immense, and he is charged with the duty of travelling to Kala, a remote village, to secure the return of a young woman who has fled her lazy, demanding husband. In Kala, while...
|  | A Case of Need
Release Date: August 5, 2003A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?...
|  | Justice at Risk
Publication Date: September 23, 2008Benjamin Justice's new assignment as a TV documentary writer takes a dire turn when the producer disappears from his hotel room in a trail of blood. As Justice delves into his predecessor's notes and follows his tracks, he enters a world of pleasure and peril--and deadly secrets. By the Edgar Award-winning author of "Simple Justice". ...
|  | It's Just Lola
Publication Date: August 3, 2012Born in1894, youngest daughter of a wealthy Peruvian landowner, Lola was seduced at an early age, disowned and forced to leave her father’s plantation. Twice widowed with three children by age 21, Lola braved a British blockade and German U-boats off the coast of South America in her quest for security and happiness. Lola lived a life of drama and hardship from the Andes to San Francisco, but she never gave up and she never stopped loving. Fear of impending death often impels people to divulge secrets they have guarded for many years. Thus it was that L...
|  | A-Dandy
Publication Date: August 13, 2012This novel begins August the 3rd 1876, in Dead-Wood South Dakota. That is the time and place that James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill) was in fact buried. The name of the main character of this book is "Lucas Mcallen." The first three chapters of this book give the reader a good under-standing of the early west and how things were. These first few chapters also give the reader a chance to know and under-stand Lucas Mcallen. Who he is, his age and where Lucas came from. The first three chapters lets the reader under-stand why this book is titled "A-Dandy." Lucas Mc...
|  | The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: June 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521114233 | ISBN-13: 978-0521114233| Edition: 1 Exploring how attitudes toward human emotions changed in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this book emphasizesthe shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton, and John Milton. Douglas Trevor asserts that 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes influenced the methods by which these writers came to analyze their own moods. ...
|  | El castigo sin venganza (European Masterpieces: Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Promises of Marriage: A Celebration of the Special Love and Commitment Couples Share
Release Date: April 8, 2008This book is a collection of some of the wisest and most heartfelt words ever written about marriage. It includes works by such authors as Pablo Neruda, Kahlil Gibran, Richard Bach, Susan Polis Schutz, as well as, many of Blue Mountain's most popular contributors. It is a beautiful gift for any couple getting married or celebrating an anniversary, as well as a great resource for couples who are planning their wedding and looking for meaningful readings to include in their ceremony. ...
|  | Poems Of Wine & Revelry (Kegan Paul Arabia Library)
Publication Date: May 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 0710309570 | ISBN-13: 978-0710309570| Edition: 1 Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining, explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756-c. 815), the bad boy of Abbasid poetry. One of the greatest of Arabic poets -- indeed, the greatest in the opinion of some critics -- Abu Nuwas wrote accomplished verse that demonstrated his technical mastery of all the major genres. However, his poems on wine (khamriyyat), homosexual love (mudhakkarat) and ribaldr...
|  | The International Directory Of Second-Hand Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual: Including Lists Of The Public Libraries Of The World; Publishers, Book Collectors, Learned Societies And Institutions, Theological Colleges Burns Clubs, Etc
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|  | Early Victorian novelists: Essays in revaluation (Pelican books)
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|  | The Sherlock Holmes Adventures!
Publication Date: December 25, 2009Sherlock Holmes!Perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most famous, literary detective in history.His tales have entertained readers for well over 100 years, and his adventures have been adapted into over 200 movies.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's keen investigator has thrilled fans of all ages.But ... did you know that some of his original stories might not be suitable for younger readers?Doyle created a sharp, insightful character ... but many do not realize that his original incarnation had a cocaine habit?That he smoked his pipe, not just casually, but almost...
|  | Belly Flop!: Book 3 (Mal and Chad)
Release Date: December 6, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Usborne Illustrated Stories for Girls
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Persephone the Ladybug
Publication Date: May 14, 2003| Grade Level: P and up ersephone the Ladybug finds herself taken to the city, where she discovers a new life among friends in a teashop. How Persephone escapes the rats and returns to her mother forms the climax of this enchanting story that introduces Moria Stephens, an exciting new talent, to the Little, Brown list. ...
|  | Stock Cars (Edge Books: Full Throttle)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Greedy Triangle (Scholastic Bookshelf)
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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