 | The Dawning of Deliverance (The Russians, Book 5)
Publication Date: September 2001As a Nation Battles for Its Future, a Young Woman Struggles to Find a Way to Hope and Love in the Midst of Tragedy and Heartache. Though a daughter of a princess and a count, Mariana has grown up as a peasant girl in an obscure village. Suddenly she finds herself thrust back into elite society and must take her rightful place as an aristocrat. But Mariana wants to do something more meaningful with her life. Trained as a nurse, she refuses the easy life of a Russian socialite and goes to the front lines in Manchuria to care for the wounded soldiers. There she i...
 |  | Grid Down Reality Bites
Publication Date: August 17, 2011The author of Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide for Xtreme Safety, Survival, Profit, Pleasure. This is now a collector's book. His new novel brings you a working man's guide to the end of the world. If you enjoyed One Second After and Lights Out then you will love this fast paced novel of 3 different groups surviving the confusion and terror of The End Of The World As We Know It.Two young men, Mark and Eric struggle desperately trying to make it to their retreat in Northern California. Their truck is dead from an EMP. They have to walk 200 miles. Wi...
|  | Turn, Magic Wheel
Release Date: January 1, 1999Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell’s New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: “...
|  | Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Publication Date: March 24, 2012It's one of the best known scenes in all of literature--young Oliver Twist, with empty bowl in hand, asking "Please Sir. I want some more." In Dickens and the Workhouse, historian Ruth Richardson recounts how she discovered the building that was quite possibly the model for the workhouse in Dickens' classic novel. Indeed, Richardson reveals that Dickens himself lived only a few doors down from this notorious building--once as a child and once again as a young journalist. This book offers a colorful portrait of London in Dickens' time, looking at life in the st...
|  | The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
Publication Date: May 28, 2007| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama (Book 14) A concert saloon is an establishment offering various kinds of entertainment, including alcohol, with some also providing gambling and prostitution. Brooks McNamara explores the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century.He focuses on the theatrical aspects of the concert saloon and examines the sources of saloon shows, changes in direction during the century, performing spaces and equipment, and employees and patrons. ...
|  | Beckett in an hour (Playwrights in an Hour)
Publication Date: April 8, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936232081 | ISBN-13: 978-1936232086BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father passed from this world into the next. On his deathbed, his father's final words to Beckett were "fight fight fight" and "what a morning." Though his father's gallows humor expressed itself in many of the plays Beckett wrote, ultimately Beckett came to his own conclusions about death. The ending lines of his last play may well be a response to his father s final words: "It is winter....
|  | The Good Things About America
Publication Date: April 1, 2009"We are not who we were...”The Good Things About America is a book that, above all else, celebrates the enduring awesomeness of the United States of America. This is not meant to sound glib, ironic, or superior. Rather, what we imply is that despite every blind, deaf , and dumb thing America has done in its long and strange history- every misstep, unpunished crime, and lingering bias- there is still something honest, beautiful and hopeful about who we are as a country and as a people. This book serves as a historical document that uses poetry and prose to ...
|  | Elogios.Eloges (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies
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|  | Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott
Publication Date: September 1985 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }The subject of Victorian Domesticity is family life in America. The life and works of Louisa May Alcott served as the vehicle for exploring and analyzing this subject. Although Alcott was deeply influenced by popular currents of sentimentality, her own experience exposed her to the confusions and contradictions generated when sentiment confronted the reality of life in 19th-century America. In the first chapter Strickland outlines the ways in which sentimentality colored the perception of 19th-century Americans about such issues ...
| | Women in Arthurian Litera
Publication Date: February 19, 1996This study of women in Arthurian literature covers writings from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Examining the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Malory's "Morte D'arthur", Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and Tennyson's "Idylls", it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's "Mabinogion", Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works, and the Arthurian women writers of the 20th century. ...
|  | Madre mia, que estas en los infiernos / Oh My Mother, Who art in Hell (Nuevos Tiempos / New Times) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Sheik's Revenge (Harlequin Romantic Suspense)
Publication Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Harlequin Romantic Suspense (Book 1710) Faith Sinclair never missed a shot—or a kill. But when the mysterious man she knew only as Santiago was in her sniper's sights, the game changed. It had to. She couldn't kill him in cold blood. Not the father of her unborn baby.Sheik Omair Al Arif's mind was on one thing: revenge. The undercover king didn't bargain on an intoxicating enemy bent on foiling his plans. And when the two would-be foes joined forces, they discovered nothing was as it seemed—their identities, their missions and especially the ...
|  | To Love A Knight (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 68) Tamara Knight used her skills as a healer to save the hunk of a hermit next door. While caring for him, her awareness of his rugged sensuality and commanding strength kept her awake at night. His gruff exterior hid secrets he wouldn't share, but that didn't stop Tamara from sharing herself or her bed with him in nights filled with mind-blowing passion. When Kyle Austin opened his home to lovely Tamara, he almost forgot his painful past. Even as he warmed to her intoxicating touch, he was working out a plan, because now Tama...
|  | Rotten Apple #2: Zombie Dog
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Thea Stilton and the Ice Treasure: A Geronimo Stilton Adventure
Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
| | All About Football
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|  | The Two Trails A Treasure Tree Adventure
Publication Date: September 4, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up It seems hard to believe that an entire year has passed since the four best friend's last great adventure in The Treasure Tree.Now it is time to enjoy another birthday.This year Owl's present will take the friends on two different trails where they will learn that love, courage, prayer, and caring acts can build a bridge across their differences and help them love each other like best friends, as God's friends should. ...
|  | The Swim Race (My First Graphic Novel)
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| | Carlos and Little Wolf (The Bodley Head beginner series)
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