 | Touch: Poems
Release Date: September 4, 2012Henri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics—a mother’s death, a lover’s addiction, war—with a startling clarity. Cole’s new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body—both its pleasures and its discontents—and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. Alternating between innocence and violent self-condemnation, between the erotic an...
 |  | Memory Stones
Publication Date: March 3, 2003Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world...It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to...
|  | The 13: Fall
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: 13 Join CIA operative Jonathan Keene in a battle against America’s greatest enemy. Although initially investigating the disappearance of border agents along the US/Mexico border, Keene soon discovers another enemy waiting right at America’s doorstep. This enemy is swift—with sights set on something more precious than gold. As the US is pushed into a situation it hasn’t seen since its inception, Keene is forced to face a past he’d rather leave buried. Can Keene—and America—survive? (20120813) ...
|  | The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles, Book 3)
Release Date: June 1, 1999A schoolmistress who may have a handsome dowry is used by an archaeologist to help him win the heart of a local writer. Gresham Chronicles book 3. ...
|  | The Bird in the Tree (The Eliot Family Trilogy)
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|  | D. Gray-Man, Vol. 1
Publication Date: May 2, 2006Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is implanted into a human's soul during a moment of devastation and despair. The phantom uses the demons to then carry out his goal: destroy all humankind. ...
|  | Divorcing the Devil
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|  | Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder
Release Date: January 6, 2009I am Silver, and there is no other pirate like me on these waters. . . .This being the last testament of the infamous pirate Long John Silver, you would do well not to trust a word in its pages. Held captive aboard his own ship, the Linda Maria, he is to be taken to England, where he will hang at the King’s pleasure. But he has another plan: to exact revenge upon his captors by disclosing their secrets in a journal. It tells a tale of treason, murder, his own ascent from pickpocket street urchin to pirate captain, a lost treasure that would rival King Georg...
|  | Resistance
Release Date: February 10, 2009Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II.In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny group of farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter—along with a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survive drives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships t...
|  | The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Publication Date: March 29, 1973| Series: Oxford Books of Verse The latest reissue of Philip Larkin's new classic anthology includes a Foreword by the poet's biographer, Andrew Motion. Successor to W.B. Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ranges widely across this century's verse, introducing many less well-known poets among the acknowledged greats. ...
|  | Communication Theories in Action: An Introduction (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Speech Communications)
Publication Date: May 5, 2003| ISBN-10: 0534566391 | ISBN-13: 978-0534566395| Edition: 3rd This text introduces students to a select set of leading theories in the communication field and demonstrates how these theories apply to their lives. Chapters group theories coherently so that students can compare and contrast different approaches to particular interests in the field (for example: relationships, performance, language and mass communication). ...
|  | Early French Tristan Poems Vol. 1 (Arthurian Archives)
Publication Date: December 3, 1998| ISBN-10: 0859915352 | ISBN-13: 978-0859915359The strong and enduring appeal of the Arthurian legends shows no signs of abating, yet many medieval Arthurian texts remain unedited or printed in editions no longer available, while comparatively few of them have been translated into English, thus making them inaccessible to the scholarly or general audience unable to read them in the original. The Arthurian Archivesseries addresses these problems, aiming to provide authoritative critical editions with parallel translation of essentialtexts for Arthurian st...
|  | April Lady
Release Date: January 1, 2012"Graceful and exciting ... the best kind of 'escape' story." —LIBRARY JOURNALWhat seems a marriage of convenience... When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth ... Is getting trickier all the time...He thought he was marrying for love, but between his concern over his wife's spending sprees, rescuing her impulsive brother from one scrape after another, and ...
|  | Intimate Danger (Tempting Faith / Shattered Vows)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: By Request 2's Two women fighting for their lives . . . and for the men they love.Susan Mallery Tempting FaithFaith Newlin had never experienced trouble at her way station for big cats until the day two endangered tiger cubs appeared -- along with spy Cort Hollenbeck. When Cort, always a loner, experiences blanks in his memory, he has to face his deepest fears and trust a woman who walks on the wild side . . . Soon he and Faith are risking everything to stay together -- and stay alive.Rebecca York Shattered Vows 43 Light StreetAs maid of honor in ...
|  | Arizona Caress (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Zebra Historical Romance For a man of Chance Broderick's charm and wealth, Boston offers plenty of tempting distractions. But when he receives word that his brother is in danger in Arizona Territory, Chance dutifully travels west. There he finds a wild, lawless land full of surprises. The biggest shock is discovering that the tracker he's hired is not the brash boy he assumed, but a beautiful, thoroughly independent young woman. Raised by her grandfather after the death of her white father and Pima mother, Rori has learned to fend for herself. Nothing woul...
|  | House of Cards
Publication Date: 1990The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs' No 1 bestselling career - now reissued in a new cover. Michael Dobbs' entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming hero, Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, who uses fair means and foul to become Prime Minister, is one of the best-known characters of the last decade - the politician we all love to hate. Acclaimed for its authenticity and insights into a secret world - the res...
|  | The Magdalen Martyrs : A Novel
Publication Date: March 1, 2005Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Jack doesn't like the odds of finding the woman, but counts himself lu...
|  | Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Puffin Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | And Land Was Born
Publication Date: June 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up This is a story about Bhilalas, an aboriginal tribe in South Asia.In the beginning, the Bhilalas believe, there was only water. The frustrated and wet folks beg their lazy god to create land so that they can get dry and stay that way. Poor god is put to all sorts of trouble before this wish can be granted.An amazing message in the values of our environment. ...
|  | Daniel's Story
Publication Date: April 1, 1993| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Daniel, a composite character fashioned to reflect theexperiences of millions of children during the Holocaust, describes hisfamily's lives in pre-Nazi Frankfurt, their deportation to a ghetto,and their experiences in concentration camps. Reprint. ...
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