 | The Lilac Bus: A Novel
Release Date: January 25, 2011The Journey... Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor's daughter, have their reasons for making the journey.The Destination...Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long. And this weekend, when the bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them...as each of their private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a ...
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|  | Pharmacide
Publication Date: August 17, 2011It looks like Carolyn and Mark are in deep, deep shit... Mark and Carolyn live in an alternate 1989 where Ronald Reagan is on his fourth presidential term. The USA has a rigid, long-standing caste system and abortions were never made legal. Being homeless is a crime that is punishable by imprisonment in an internment camp the inmates call Tent City.Most of Mark’s ER patients are inmates at this camp and are victims of a new disease these illegals call the Transient Flu. This deadly and rapidly spreading disease mutates with each new host, collecting in...
|  | Black Bartlemy's Treasure
Publication Date: May 18, 2009Jeffery Fernol (1878 - 1952) was an English writer of romance/adventure stories.He is thought to be the co-founder of the Regency romantic genre.He produced approximately 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children's books.Black Bartlemy's Treasure, the story of the Spanish Main, was published in 1920.Martine Conisby, Lord Wendover, enraged by his five years of slavery on a Spanish galleon escapes during a sea fight.He is rescued by an English ship.Lord Wendover is determined to avenge this wrong.He returns to England disguised as a tramp...
|  | My Name Is Asher Lev
Release Date: March 11, 2003Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe.Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a ...
|  | The Dunciad (revised first edition) (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: January 11, 2009| ISBN-10: 1408204169 | ISBN-13: 978-1408204160| Edition: 2 A paperback edition of Pope's notoriously difficult - and notoriously brilliant - The Dunciad in Four Books. This new edition of Pope's Dunciad is clearly presented and benefits from a number of features:Explanatory notes are included on the same page as Pope's text and are written in a clear styleThe prose sections - an integral part of the work - have been annotated as fully as the verseA substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bi...
|  | African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life
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|  | Terence: Andria (Classic Commentaries on Greek and Latin Texts)
Publication Date: September 15, 2002| Series: Classic Commentaries on Greek and Latin Texts The "Andria" is Terence's version of a play of the same name by Menander, into which the Roman poet also introduced elements from the same Greek playwright's Perinthia. Shipp's edition was first published in 1939 but much changed and expanded for its second edition in 1960. On the one hand it still serves as an admirable introduction to Roman comedy; on the other its meticulous detail and scholarship have never been replaced. The introduction includes sections on Greek New Comedy and Comedy in Rome, o...
|  | Lazarus Laughed: A Play for Imaginative Theatre
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Lazarus Laughed, sub-titled "A Play for Imaginative Theatre", is O'Neill's imaginative speculation as to the remained of Lazarus' life after he was raised from the dead. ...
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| ![The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's "Shahnama" (Bodleian Library - Treasures from the Bodleian Library)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pLRwHiywL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's "Shahnama" (Bodleian Library - Treasures from the Bodleian Library)") | The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's "Shahnama" (Bodleian Library - Treasures from the Bodleian Library)
Publication Date: March 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 1851243461 | ISBN-13: 978-1851243464India has the Mahabharata, Greece has Homer’s epic cycle, and the national history of Iran is chronicled in Firdausi’s epic poem The Book of Kings, or Shahnama. This lavishly illustrated study explores the intricate complexity of this epic as it is beautifully rendered in a rare fifteenth-century reproduction.The Shahnama positions Iran at the heart of human civilization, and its sprawling and compelling narrative stretches from the beginning of time to the seventh-century takeover of the Persian...
|  | Cicero: The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library No. 221) (Pt. 1, v. 7)
Publication Date: January 1, 1928Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few ...
|  | Livy: History of Rome, Vol. I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library: Latin Authors, Vol. 114)
Publication Date: January 1, 1919| ISBN-10: 0674991265 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991262Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE.Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long after his death, divided into Decades or series of ten. Books 1–10 we have entire; books 11–20 are lost; books 21–45 are e...
|  | Ginsberg at Evergreen: An extended interview
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|  | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: February 10, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393933997 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933994| Edition: Second Edition One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker’s Appeal, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden...
|  | 143 - Love According to Musiq
Publication Date: June 25, 2012About- "1 4 3" Love According to Musiq, is a book on love and relationships from the LOVE man himself, Musiq Soulchild.With a practical approach both serious and fun, the book brings to light the truth behind love and what it really means.The book's main premise is that true love is only possible when a person knows, accepts, and loves who they are.Before that happens, a true love relationship with another person is not possible.OUTLINE & SAMPLES Table of Contents- DEDICATION INTRO ACT I: LOVING ME - "The Act of loving yourself" -...
|  | The Jericho Sanction
Release Date: August 31, 2004When his cover is blown and his wife is kidnapped in Jerusalem, Lt Col Peter Newman realises he may have to pay a catastrophic price for his participation in a secret government mission to uncover Iraqi nuclear weapons. Newman has always been willing to put his life on the line for his country. As concern that Iraq may already possess nuclear weapons grows, he once again puts America first and agrees to undertake a clandestine mission to uncover the weapons. But when his cover is blown and his wife is kidnapped in Jerusalem, Newman discovers that his courage has ...
|  | Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Publication Date: February 1, 2004| Series: Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery S. Mr. & Mrs. Darcy, the joyous newlyweds from Pride and Prejudice, have not even left for their honeymoon when they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving one of their wedding guests.The lovely Caroline Bingley is engaged to marry a rich and charismatic American. Unfortunately, this windswept courtship is marred by many strange events: nocturnal wanderings, spooked horses, carriage accidents, and even an apparent suicide attempt. Soon the whole Bingley family seems the target of a mysterious plot.Only the Darcy...
|  | A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County, No 3)
Release Date: July 27, 2004New York Times Bestselling author, Selection on International BOMCSara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues-and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal-but for Sara and police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Storytime
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 2 and up Following the success of The Story Tree and in response to our customers demand for a comprehensive preschool collection, this anthology brings together a cast of characters that kids and adults will love from the Gingerbread Man to The Ugly Duckling and The Three Little Pigs. While it is tailored for two- and three-year-olds, this collection will entertain everyone with its dynamic storytelling and vivid illustrations. ...
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