 | Going All Out II
Publication Date: October 31, 2011Pharaoh decides that his fate would not be settled in court by twelve jurors. His fate would be decided in blood, as he sets out to kill Tez, and those who snitched on him.Pharaoh s definition of Going All Out is either death or freedom. Prison is not an option. Will Pharoah impose his will on those snitches? ...
 |  | Shakespeare
Release Date: October 26, 2004In this absorbing historical detective story, acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes an entirely fresh approach to the Bard's life, vividly re-creating the turbulent times through which he lived and painting a more convincing and complete portrait of the artist than has ever before been thought possible. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Wood takes us back into the staterooms and back alleys of Elizabethan England. Marked by murderous plots and government-sponsored terror, religious divisions and rebellious movements, the Spanish Armada a...
|  | Good Girls Pole Riders Club: A Novel
Publication Date: January 2, 2007 STRIPPING: IT'S NOT JUST FOR BAD GIRLS ANYMORE. When Shaundra finds an ambitious stripper's business card in her boyfriend's back pocket, she decides it's time to learn some new tricks. If dropping it like it's hot is what her man wants, then that's what she's going to give him. She tells her girlfriends -- Shay, Brenda, and Karina -- and they make a pact to buy a stripper's pole and learn how to work it like the pros. Trash talking on a girls' night out is easy. But fulfilling the promises these best friends make under the influence of vodka martinis proves...
|  | Sacrifice
Publication Date: April 28, 2009They're coming. They are a race of sadistic spirits known as the Curburide, and they are about to arrive in our world, bringing with them horrors beyond imagination. The secret to summoning -- and controlling -- them has fallen into the hands of a beautiful, sexy and dangerously insane woman. Ariana has dedicated her life to unleashing the demons in our realm through a series of human sacrifices, erotic rituals of seduction and slaughter. As she crosses the country, getting ever closer to completing her blood-drenched mission, only three figures stand in her w...
|  | Lycanthrope
Publication Date: February 1, 2006LycanthropesBe the hunter or the hunted in this jam-packed anthology. In theseremarkable stories of people who morph into other creatures,Lycanthropes takes the reader on an adventure they wont soonforget. Supernatural curses and fantasy diseases change ordinary people intoextraordinary were-beasts. Are you afraid of the dark? You shouild be...Let Lucinda Siverling take you to the islands as she shows you a youngman struggling with the affl iction that has overtaken him ever since hisrun in with a Komoto Dragon in Here There Be Dragons! He may notget involve...
|  | Rabbit Is Rich
Release Date: August 27, 1996Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence. Nevertheless, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life ...
|  | Corner Boy
Publication Date: March 1, 2010Urban Fiction. Life is hard for kids in the inner city. Corner Boy tells the story of a young man trying to find a way out of the hood. ...
|  | Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
Publication Date: February 23, 1990In his work the late Georges Dumézil, arguably the most important modernmythologist, demonstrated that every Indo-European religious and social system wasstructured according to three primary functions: sovereignty, war, and fertility.Mitra-Varuna, a penetrating inquiry into the first of these functions - religiousand political sovereignty - is among the first of his texts to implement thisrevolutionary theory.Dumézil shows how, from Vedic India to Ireland from Caucasia toRome, and from Iran to Old Germany, the sovereign gods and heroes always app...
|  | Advent/Christmas Resources For Young And Old
Publication Date: January 1, 1997These resources were carefully selected from almost 100 manuscripts submitted. They were chosen for their creativity and content, but also for their adaptability to churches of any size. None of them require complicated props or settings, nor do any require lengthy rehearsals. This collection of resources will enliven the worship of any church, involving members young and old in the presentation. -A Christmas Play: Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room -A Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion Service -A Christmas Program For Children (Or Entire Congregation)-An Old ...
|  | Travelling Light
Publication Date: July 8, 2010This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to discover that her life has been eerily usurped. Philosophical and profound, but with the deceptive lightness that is her hallmark, 'Travelling Light' is guaranteed to surprise and transport...
|  | Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 17, 2011Roberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world.We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume.Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection is I Have Tasted the Apple. ...
|  | The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry
Publication Date: April 2, 2001This rich and vital anthology of fifty-nine poets and more than 350 poems offers readers intricate conversations between poets and poems, between the living and the dead, between the present and the future. It is a book that will enrich the reader's experience and understanding of modern poetry. Edna Longley shows us the key poets of the century-from England, Scotland, Wales, and the north and south of Ireland-and through inter-linking commentary and biographical sketches points out the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing ...
|  | Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
Publication Date: September 15, 2012| Series: University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny traces sonic Gothic from the echoing footsteps in Gothic novels to the dark soundscapes of Goth club nights. This broad perspective importantly widens the scope of Gothic music from Goth subculture to literature, film, television and video games. This book also provides the musical and theoretical definition of Gothic music that lacks in current scholarship. Whether voicing the spectral beings of early cinema, announcing virtual terrors in video games, or ...
|  | Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies (Hispanic Issues)
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815332068 | ISBN-13: 978-0815332060| Edition: 1 The essays in this collection represent the first effort in Hispanism to address the conflicted status of Cervantes studies by interrogating the possibility of continued critical dialogue in the context of postmodern theories that threaten to divide into oppositional discourses. Comprising broad historical overviews as well as close readings of texts, and wielding the rhetoric of scientific detachment and of impassioned political commitments, the essays at once exemplify and critique multiple cr...
|  | The Seagull Reader: Literature (Second Edition) (Seagull Readers)
Publication Date: December 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393932648 | ISBN-13: 978-0393932645| Edition: Second Edition Less than half the price of full-lengthanthologies and more economical than most valueeditions, The Seagull Readers, Second Editionsare a portable and inexpensive alternative tobulky anthologies.Each volume offers aninviting mix of classics and less familiarpieces, complemented by concise genreintroductions, short headnotes and annotations,brief author biographies, and a glossary ofterms. ...
|  | The Magical Christmas Cat
Release Date: October 7, 2008 Put a little meow in their stocking this year with these tales of Christmas and felines-from beloved bestselling authors! New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and top-selling authors Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones have a special gift for readers this year: heartwarming holiday stories featuring passionate romance, paranormal adventure, and a distinctly alluring feline touch. With four new stories-including one featuring Lora Leigh's genetically altered Feline Breeds-this is a collection packed with more surprises than Christmas mor...
|  | La Elegancia del Erizo / The Elegance of the Sprocket Wheel (Seix Barral Biblioteca Formentor) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Our Husband
Publication Date: November 15, 2000They're three women with one thing in common...Our Husband.When they found out about his cheating heart, they wanted to get even. But how even?Fate has just thrown a curveball at the women in Raymond Carmichael's life-- all three of them. When they meet at his hospital bed, they discover they're all married to the same man. And when Raymond suddenly dies, the police suspect that one of these spunky ladies has commited murder...The Socialite-- Blonde, post-menopausal, and mad as hell, Beatrix always suspected Raymond married her for her daddy's money...twent...
|  | Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States
Publication Date: September 2000Combining biographical data with recent theoretical studies on travel writing, Between History and Romance unravels the conventions, voices, discourses, and gender issues embedded in some American travel texts on Spain produced in the early nineteenth century and ascertains their cultural work in fostering a romantic representation of that country in the antebellum United States. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | White Heat: A Novel
Release Date: August 4, 2011A riveting Arctic mystery that marks the fiction debut of a "wickedly talented*" writer. (*New York Times)Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the elders who ruled her isolated community on Ellesmere Island. When a man is shot and killed while out on an "authentic" Arctic adventure under her watch, the murder attracts the attention of police sergeant Derek Palliser. As Edie sets out to discover what those tourists were really after, she is shocked by the sui...
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