 | The Starter Wife
Publication Date: April 4, 2006there are starter jobs. starter cars. starter houses. and then there are starter wives.From the bestselling author of Maneater comes The Starter Wife, a sexy, savvy, and wickedly funny novel about life after divorce and one woman redefining herself after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio head.When her husband Kenny dumps her by cell phone mere months before their ten-year wedding anniversary, Gracie Pollock finds herself reeling. Though her nine-year role as the wife of a semifamous Hollywood studio executive often left her dry and she never fully emb...
 |  | Memories of Underdevelopment
Publication Date: August 30, 2004| Series: Discoveries Malabre is an upper middle-class Cuban businessman with an intellectual bent. He chooses to remain in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs without his family and friends. Dissatisfied with his life, he hopes to find a more authentic existence. To break his crippling isolation, he as an affair with a young girl, which culminates in his trial for statutory rape.Edmundo Desnoes began his literary career in the 1950s, went to New York in 1956, returned to Cuba in 1959, and defected to the U.S. in 1979. Desnoes is also the author of No Hay Problema (Th...
|  | WWW.COM (5 Star Publications Presents)
Publication Date: July 31, 2012As the internet expands and creates a playground, Ramon Ramirez & Daniel Munger surreptitiously slither to the top by creating an inconspicuous organization, The Secret Society, which makes them the most powerful and feared men in America; and they only have 1 rule: There Are No Rules! A simple click can get you sex, money, and even murdered! Unexpectedly, things change when Ramon and Daniel's fate leads them to cross paths with a charismatic group of ambitious women paired with sinister talents. These women have a master plan to outsmart the smartest and do th...
|  | Refusing Heaven
Release Date: March 13, 2007More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life.”T...
|  | The Little Book of Love
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|  | For Keeps
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| | Gerard Manley Hopkins (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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|  | The Lineage of Grace: Unveiled: Tamar/Unashamed: Rahab/Unshaken: Ruth/Unspoken: Bathsheba/Unafraid: Mary
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: The Lineage of Grace Five novellas combined in one audiobook! Ruth, Mary, Tamar, Rahab and Bathsheba. Each one of these women faced extraordinary – even scandalous – challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling. Each played a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. In this audio book compilation, you will hear Francine Rivers’ gripping characterizations of these five remarkable women. Remaining true to the facts given in Scripture, she brings these l...
|  | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition
Release Date: August 3, 1998THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORIn this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury. ...
| | Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows
Publication Date: May 1998Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows is a travelogue embracing a summer of shows and fairs in the northern counties of England. It includes picturesque descriptions of the landscapes, livestock and inhabitants of Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and North Yorkshire. Harry Pearson tells of onions larger than human heads, the design faults of earwigs, and much more! ...
|  | Crime Without Punishment
Publication Date: July 18, 2012The ordinary investigation led the detectives to the international mafia whose interest are special goods slaves. Poor women from former USSR have to sell themselves to survive in the new society. The slaves were used on the island of entertainment where everybody could visit the zoo with the ladies in the cages and even hunted for sport. The leader of the mafia tried to justify the crime by the ideas of Dostoevskiy. ...
| | Peony Pavilion Onstage: Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies)
Publication Date: November 21, 2002| Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies (Book 88) This book explores responses to Tang Xianzu's classic play The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) from three distinct segments of its public-literati playwrights; professional performers of Kun opera; and quite recently, directors and audiences outside China. Catherine Swatek first examines two adaptations of the play by Tang's contemporaries, which point to the unconventionality of the original work. She goes on to explore how the play has been changed in later adaptations, up to its most recent productio...
| | The chamomile rage: Haiku daily journal, 1998
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|  | Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831
Publication Date: October 2011| ISBN-10: 1409428621 | ISBN-13: 978-1409428626Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary critical definitions and defenses of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fantastic literature, demonstrating that a century of debate and experimentation preceded the Romantic's interest in the creative imagination. In "The Fairy Way of Writing", Joseph Addison f...
|  | Plotinus: Volume IV, Enneads IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 443)
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0674994884 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994881Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and t...
|  | The Modern Debacle: And Our Hope in the Goddess: A Literary Testament
Publication Date: June 19, 2007The period covered in this book ranges from the early part of the 20th century right through to its end—roughly from the death of Chekhov to that of Ted Hughes. The question is raised whether the vision of the modern world that opened up to the authors of this period does not still apply in our own time. The book’s main theme is the finality of modern nothingness. What remains that is superhumanly possible, despite all appearances that nothing more and nothing new is left to man to break through with? Civilization for these authors had become denuded ...
|  | The Shadow Dweller Series, Volume I: One With The Hunger, Retribution
Publication Date: November 15, 2001An exciting double volume containing Books I and II of the Shadow Dweller series by J. C. Wilder!Book I - ONE WITH THE HUNGERShai Jordan, fledgling New York journalist, is on the trail of a serial killer.The excitement of her first big assignment turns to terror when she sees an eerie resemblance between this string of murders and the death of her mother years before -- the bodies have been drained of blood. All signs point to Shai as the next victim, but no one, not even the police, will believe or protect her. Out of the darkness comes a man who turns her...
|  | Improve Your Romance Writing Skills
Publication Date: March 10, 2003Geneviève & Michael Montcombroux, both multi-published authors andteachers, have collaborated on this comprehensive how-to manual.Improve Your Romance Writing Skills will help the aspiring writerbecome a successful author and avoid many pitfalls. It will help moreexperienced writers hone their skills.Clear and systematic, it's a must for all romance writers. Some of the topics covered include characterization, plot, dialogue, voice, description, pacing, and a host of other skills needed to write a compelling romance novel. ...
|  | A Killing Frost (Blue Satan Mystery series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Blue Satan Mystery series The fourth book in the award-winning Blue Satan Mystery series begins in the winter of 1715 when the River Thames freezes over and a Frost Fair is erected on the ice. A frozen corpse, leaning against a booth and dressed in expensive coronation robes, turns out to be Sir Walter Tatham, a recent visitor to Hawkhurst House. Lord Harrowby Hawkhurst asks Hester Kean to discover what she can about the baronet’s affairs, but will give no reason for the request—all Hester knows is that the mention of Sir Walter is enough t...
|  | The List of Seven
Release Date: April 26, 2005Dark Brotherhood As the city of London slumbers, there are those in its midst who conspire to rule the world through the darkest and most nefarious means. These seven, seated in positions of extraordinary power and influence, marshal forces from the far side to aid them in their fiendish endeavor. Force of One In the aftermath of a bloody sÉance and a terrifying supernatural contact, a courageous young doctor finds himself drawn into a malevolent conspiracy beyond human comprehension. All or Nothing The future is not safe, as a thousand-year reign of pure evi...
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