| Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Release Date: September 12, 2006David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot—where he is provided with his very own personal manservant—rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy s...
| | Mariah's Quest (Harwood House) Publication Date: July 1, 2012| Series: Harwood House (Book 2)Journey back to 1753 Baltimore, where Mariah Harwood is sold as an indentured servant to Colin Barclay. Her handsome new master just may be her ticket to paradise, but Mariah soon has her hands full as Colin plots to seduce her without being trapped into a commitment. Then when Colin is blinded in battle, Mariah must search within for qualities other than beauty to secure a marriage proposal. But how much will she sacrifice to garner true love? (20120701) ...
| | Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Penguin Classics) Release Date: February 1, 1991| Series: Penguin Classics Set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American republic. The un...
| | North Philly's Finest Part 2 Publication Date: April 19, 2012This is your official tour through the real and unrelenting streets of Philadelphia. If you've never been to the city of brotherly love, let these raw, gritty, detailed, and uncut pages be your introduction.The streets can't stop talking when someone gets bold enough to take shots at Quan, and those that he loves. After the Estradas lose one of their own, the city is immersed in bloodshed as Tony Estrada steps in to find out who is responsible. Mookie is far away from home, mentally unstable and has a passion for murder. He is past the point of trying to get p...
| | Private Practices (Alan Gregory Series) Publication Date: August 28, 2008| Series: Alan Gregory Series (Book 2) Dr. Alan Gregory is a practicing psychologist with a few little problems to work through. He has an office filled with bloody corpses. He has a teenage patient who may be a sad victim or a savage killer. He has a beautiful estranged wife who wants him back in the worst way, and a lovely lover doing her best to keep him. He has a cop who wants him off the case, and an unknown enemy who wants him permanently out of action. To round out his many dilemmas, the list of suspects reads like a Who's Who of his posh Colorado comm...
| | The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays Publication Date: April 27, 1999Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (includingThe Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramati...
| | Shakespeare: The Life, The Works, The Treasures Release Date: October 29, 2007Hailed as the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare has captured the hearts and minds of more audiences than any other. No other writer's works are more performed or more often quoted. Produced in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and beautifully illustrated with both contemporary pictures from Shakespeare's time and photographs of RSC performances, Shakespeare: The Life, The Works, The Treasures brings the poet's life alive. It delves into the likely sources that inspired him to write such masterpieces as The Merchant of Venice, Othello...
| | Prince Friedrich of Homburg: A New Translation for the American Stage Publication Date: January 17, 1978Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics.Available until now only in verse translation, it has been newly rendered for the American stage by Diana Stone Peters and Frederick G.Peters.A work of profound psychological insight, Prince Friedrich of Homburg probes with passionate intensity questions fundamental to “civilized” behavior. Prince Friedrich, the hero of the historic battle of Fehrbellin (1675) aga...
| | The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia (Unesco Collection of Representative Works: Persian Heritage Series) ...
| | Caricias Cinceladas (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: May 10, 2011La poesía forma parte de un vistazo personal a la vida de un escritor, y resulta ser en ocaciones una aventura intensa, como en el caso de CARICIAS CINCELADAS, de William Schwartzman.Através de estas páginas, él trata de compartir sus inquietudes y su percepción de la vida, sin olvidarse nunca de mencionar el amor, que lo mueve y lo motiva, a esforzarse minuto a minuto para hacer su mundo y el de su familia un sitio un poco mejor.Sus poemas nos hablan mucho de él, de sus opiniones, de su estado emocional. Pero también nos habla...
| | Tausenevye pesni russkikh Povolzhia: Regionalnoe svoeobrazie i mezhetnicheskie sviazi (Russian Edition) ...
| | Patrick Kavanagh: A Critical Study (Irish Studies) ...
| | Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens Publication Date: November 25, 2009In Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified 101 young adult books that featured gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters, and tackled such difficult subjects as teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional families, gangs, prejudice, violence, drugs, or other provocative issues. Teen readers were drawn to such books because they could identify with both the characters and the situations depicted in these raw and edgy works of fiction.In Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart continues where the first book left ...
| | Classics Revisited Publication Date: May 17, 1986Rexoth, Classics Revisited. Humourous and insightful essays on Classic literature. ...
| | 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. ...
| | The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel Release Date: February 1, 2011One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the pain caused by Billy Crosby on that catastrophic night. Now Billy Crosby is free, thanks to the efforts of his son, C...
| | The Crucifer of Blood: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery ...
| | Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ...
| | The Ghost Belonged to Me Release Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Aimsworth, adventurer Miles Armstrong, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
| | Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up Perfect for gift-giving--a classic illustrated by Michael Hague, in a beautifully redesigned edition.Hans Christian Andersen was one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Michael Hague has chosen nine of Andersen's best-loved fairy tales to illustrate in his unique style....
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