 | The Portrait of a Lady (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: November 26, 1991| ISBN-10: 0679405623 | ISBN-13: 978-0679405627(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times.A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece.Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europ...
 |  | Burying the Hatchet (Hometown Mysteries)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Series: Hometown MysteriesWhat happens when a psychic and a minister are invited to a debate, and both walk into the room but only one leaves alive? Longtime grump Earl Walker thinks it may be time to find a different church as his new pastor is now a suspect in murder. But can Earl’s lady friend convince him to stand up for his newfound friends and fight for the truth? (20110109) ...
|  | The Holy Warrior/The Reluctant Bridegroom/The Last Confederate/The Dixie Widow/The Wounded Yankee (The House of Winslow 6-10)
Publication Date: June 1992Includes The Holy Warrior, The Reluctant Bridegroom, The Last Confederate, The Dixie Widow, and The Wounded Yankee. ...
|  | Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 31, 200512,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires - and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves. Every village wants a Hunter - one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the ...
|  | Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 7)
Release Date: September 24, 2002Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno. ...
|  | Our Lady of Dreams: A Prophecy for the New Age
Publication Date: October 15, 2009For Katherine Marconi, an unassuming prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney s office, the countdown to 2012 really started in the 1980s when she discovered the murder of her brother, a new age guru. Never did she expect that the investigation into his death would lead her into the world of enlightened beings, professional football, and a prophecy for the future of mankind. ...
|  | How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
Release Date: July 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 019975750X | ISBN-13: 978-0199757503| Edition: 2 Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, Second Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from oth...
|  | Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
Publication Date: April 29, 1999| ISBN-10: 0198150946 | ISBN-13: 978-0198150947This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. The fourth play, Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature. ...
|  | Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Penguin ClassicsNew to Penguin Classics-a transcendent selection of poetry from the early Islamic era.Poetry has been the most powerful vehicle for conveying Sufism-the mystical dimension of Islam-from the early flowering of mystical Islam in Baghdad to the later heights it reached through Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) and Jami (d. 1492). Starting with the writings of eighth-century mystics, this anthology moves through the twelfth century with Ibn Arabi in Spain and Ibn Farid of Cairo, then onto the Maghrib prayer of Abul Ala Al Maari, Aynul quddat Ha...
|  | The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
Publication Date: February 1, 1993Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir"Kabir's poems give off a marvelous radiant intensity. . . . Bly's versions . . . have exactly the luminous depth that permits and invites many rereadings, many studyings-even then they remain as fresh as ever."-The New York Times Book Review ...
|  | Six Dynasties Poetry
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|  | Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865
Publication Date: October 2003Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Improving language: Victorian literature and the civilizing process.
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Whereas "civilization" has often been dismissed in nineteenth-century studies as a rallying cry for empire, this dissertation offers a critical re-evaluation of how the Victorians understood this concept and its implications for literature's educational possibilities. Integrating Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process into a critical framework that draws on literary linguistics and rhetorical studies, my first chapter studies nineteenth-century writings from a range of disciplines -- including economics, sociology, and linguistics -- to show that "c...
|  | Bomb Queen Gang Bang TP (Bomb Queen (Unnumbered))
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| Series: Bomb Queen (Unnumbered) Finally, all the Bomb Queen one-shot specials - in one package! Featuring the women of Shadowline as they battle the queen of mean from Las Vegas to London, join Jimmie Robinson and friends in this director''s version of the Queen''s best romps with BlackLight, Tempest, Fetish, Rebound, and DeeRail. ...
|  | Legally Hot
Release Date: January 3, 2012Three of today’s top writers of romantic suspense want you to meet a few good men who are so HOT, it’s criminal…Lora Leigh “Sheila’s Passion”As a former Marine, Nick Casey still wakes up in a sweat over the things he's seen in the field. However, when it comes to his best friend—and the only woman he has ever wanted—Sheila Monterey, he may have met his biggest challenge yet. Sheila has sworn off love after having her heart broken one time too many and Turk can't convince her to give it another try....
|  | Sex & the Immortal Bad Boy (Immortally Sexy, Book 4)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007Paige Darlington has a problem. See, she's the former apprentice to Satan's right hand, Becka Gibbs. As a result, she's got this pretty much all consuming need to be bad... not her fault, right? Well, that will be a small comfort when she loses all human emotions, including the ability to love and care about those who matter to her.To keep his brother alive, Jed Buchanan works for Satan Jr., the heir to hell and the most evil being in existence. Jed has been forced to do a lot of unsavory things during his time on the "job" and his latest assignment - killin...
|  | Forbidden (The Books of Mortals)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: The Books of Mortals New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker teams with Tosca Lee to create this gripping thriller set in a desolate future.Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pu...
|  | Wild Life
Release Date: May 10, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that’s been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik can’t keep him. But Erik has already named her Quill and can’t bear to give her up. He decides to run away, taking the dog and a shotgun, certain that they can make it on their own out ...
|  | The Tall Book of Princesses
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty are just some of the classic fairy tales you'll enjoy in "The Tall Book of Princesses," Eleven beloved tales, illustrated with Aleksey and Olga Ivanov's richly detailed artwork, make this a treasured addition to every child's bookshelf. ...
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