 | Another Country
Release Date: December 1, 1992Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s. ...
 |  | History of Indian Literature, The
Publication Date: December 17, 2002The literature of India is one of the most ancient (along with Egyptian and Assyrian) literatures of which we possess written records.Indian literature divides itself into two great periods, the Vedic and the Sanskrit. ...
|  | May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
Release Date: February 28, 2012An engrossing, epic American drama told from four distinct perspectives, spanning the first major wave of Irish immigration to New York through the end of the Civil War. Four unique voices; two parallel love stories; one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it introduces four unforgettable characters. Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban d...
|  | Journey
Release Date: October 23, 2001Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges.Maddy has always tried to deny Jack’s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation — as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy’s secrets ...
|  | Little Women (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: June 11, 2001| ISBN-10: 1551111918 | ISBN-13: 978-1551111919| Edition: 1 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece of Children’s literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the story’s center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her desire to become a successful writer. The many appendices in this Broadview edition inclu...
|  | Babylon Rising
Release Date: October 21, 2003| Series: Babylon Rising (Book 1) Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy.Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today.Babylon...
|  | Straight Guys: Gay Erotic Fantasies
Publication Date: September 18, 2012GAYBIE award-winning editor Shane Allison has cooked up some hot plots and even hotter action in his bold new book where boundaries blur. Gorgeous guys who can get any woman (or guys) they want and know their power. Allison has curated a heady mix of fiction and true life stories about the sex lives of straight guys when nothing is what it seems, when it’s never just black or white.Straight Guys range from husbands on the down low to boyfriends sneaking away from their girlfriends for late night trysts with other men. to sudden encounters where you j...
|  | Dragon Sun (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Book 2)
Release Date: August 28, 2001Years after the war that threatened the last remnants of humanity, the divided colonists of the planet Chiron become immersed in new crises as the secrets of their world begin to emerge....Beneath the surface of the planet, a growing rebellion threatens Sheng-ji Yang's dreams of immortality, as the former executive officer of the "Unity finds his carefully controlled world unraveling. Across the ocean, Lady Deirdre Skye's very life is in jeopardy as the Planetary Council withholds vital supplies, demanding that she turn over her research concerning the mysterio...
|  | The Man Who Knew Too Much (Large Print Edition)
Publication Date: August 18, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | The Masks of God, Vol. 1: Primitive Mythology
Release Date: November 1, 1991The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discussesthe primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries inarchaeology, anthropology, and psychology ...
|  | It's Animal but Merciful
Publication Date: October 1, 2012A collection of fearless poetry and prose from fifty-five writers across the United States, plus Botswana, the Philippines, Denmark, and Canada. This is world writing with a New York flair-no nonsense, no claptrap, ready to spit in your eye or call you lover in a cyberminute.There's brutality, glamour, danger, and glitz...but an unexpected tenderness too.Contributors include Rich Ferguson, Joan Gelfand, Janet Hamill, Aimee Herman, R. Nemo Hill, Puma Perl, Cin Salach, and Jon Steinhagen. ...
|  | Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns
Publication Date: June 15, 2003Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse — by turns assertive, observant, devout — of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a glimpse into the extraordinary diversity and sometimes startling richness of these women's lives. Daughters of Emptiness includes original hand-drawn calligraphies of each poet's name, as well as the poems in their original Chinese, alongside the translations. ...
|  | When Men Speak As Women Vocal Masquerade
Publication Date: January 1, 2008This is a collection of poems written by men speaking in women's voices and from their perspective. The poems, translated for the first time originate from three different bodies of marginalized poetry: Punjabi Kafis, Dakani Ghazals and Rekhti Ghazals. The poets hailed from the royal courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Deccan plateau in South central India; nineteenth-century Lucknow, and rural Punjab of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. ...
|  | The Princessa : Machiavelli for Women
Release Date: March 9, 1998A legacy of leadership for women only.For centuries men have used the lessons of Machiavelli's The Prince to gain and hold power. Today's women, struggling to succeed in a man's world, must learn a crucial lesson of their own: men and women are not equal--and that is a woman's greatest strength. From the wars of intimacy to battles of public life, whether confronting bosses, competitors, or lovers, the greatest power belongs to the woman who dares to use the subtle weapons that are hers alone.This provocative work urges women to claim what they want and deserve, of...
|  | Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory (The New Middle Ages)
Release Date: November 8, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230109845 | ISBN-13: 978-0230109841Ekphrasis, a genre of poetry describing a work of art, has traditionally existed on the ideological battleground between the verbal and visual arts. Medieval ekphrases, however, reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and show how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Claire Barbetti explores the high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions, ending with considerations of contemporary poetry to illustrate how medieval ekphrasis can illuminate current stu...
|  | A Valentine Collection: Sweet
Publication Date: January 5, 2011The Lace Thief by Charlotte RabyAs Aveline Halifax prepares for the Valentine’s tea party to celebrate the pending sale of her family’s historic home, she suddenly finds herself in the past, celebrating Valentine’s Day – Victorian Style.A Heart for a Heart by Cheryl PiersonKiera is excited to take Cory into her home as a foster child. When his uncle returns from military duty and claims the child belongs with family, Kiera's protective instincts take over. Can she and Sam work this out for the best, or does Cory lose one of them?Ti...
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Publication Date: January 23, 2012| Series: The Double Rider Men's Club [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, public exhibition] Her ten-year class reunion looming, Jessica Troy decides she's been a virgin long enough. With the recent promotion to her dream job, her only dilemma is whether to choose businessman, Deacon Wilder, or mechanic, Boyd Caldwell, to initiate her into her first sexual liaison. Deacon and Boyd haven't spent a considerable amount of time searching for perfect woman to share their unbridled lifestyle, but they both agree she has to be wi...
|  | Against the Wind (Signet)
Release Date: March 1, 2001| Series: Signet Brought to trial for murder, the much-hated motorcycle gang, theScorpions, must rely on the expert counsel of their self-destructivedefense attorney, who is himself up against the powerful D.A. andoverwhelming public opinion. Reprint. PW....
| | Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes - including = The Adventures - The Memoir.
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|  | The Road to the Majors - Touchdown Edition (Dream Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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