 | The Falstaff Vampire Files
Publication Date: September 15, 2011In this fresh revisioning of the vampire genre, Sir John Falstaff is undead and misbehaving in San Francisco. Middle-aged psychologist Kris Marlowe doesn't believe in vampires, but when she's attacked by a horde of murderous monsters, she must seek help from the most famous rogue in history, who once drank ale and now drinks only blood. "Alternatively funny and creepy, with a little sexy romance thrown in for good measure," says John Miller, author of Jackson Street & Other Soldier Stories, Coyote Moon & Tropical Heat. ...
 |  | Shot Glass Diva
Publication Date: September 15, 2008What happens when you combine one part fast-talker, one part hustler and one part taste for danger? You get Honey Davis; a twenty one year old Harlemite who knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it. When her parents cut her off from her trust fund after a bout of irresponsibility, the spoiled Honey knows she's going to have to work to get back on her feet. But growing up an overpriveleged child hasn't left her with the skills needed to survive in the corporate world. So Honey takes matters into her own hands. Using her taste for alcohol and her...
|  | For Love of the Game
Release Date: September 7, 1999Billy Chapel is a baseball legend, a man who has devoted his life to the game he loves and plays so well. But because of his unsurpassed skill and innocent faith, he has been betrayed. Now it's the final game of the season, and Billy's got one last chance to prove who he is and what he can do, a chance to prove what really matters in this life. A taut, compelling story of one man's coming of age, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME is Michael Shaara's final novel, the classic finish to a brilliantly distinguished literary career. ...
|  | Beneath the Aurora: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 12) The year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department. While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads Drinkwater into the forbidding fjords of Norway, and one of the most desperate missions of his career. Increasingly isolated and affected by the long war with France and her allies, Drinkwater pursues his personal odyssey against often daunting odds. In a compelling...
|  | Road to Glory: Volume I
Publication Date: August 21, 2012Twenty-six year old Adam Runner is an English teacher and head varsity boys' basketball coach at a small high school. Popular and successful as a coach and teacher, his emotional life away from school is in shambles. Distraught over the deaths of his girlfriend and then his entire family in separate automobile accidents less than a year apart, he blames himself for certain circumstances he believes could have prevented the tragedies. ...
|  | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: (The Old Arcadia) (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his 'Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke.A romantic story in the manner of Shakespeare's early comedies, the 'Old' Arcadia also includes over 70 poems in a variety of meters and genres. This edition contains a Glossary and an Index of First Lines.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to...
|  | Tom Raworth Collected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Poetry Pleiade The first collection of Tom Raworth's poetry available in one volume, this work will change the way British poetry, in particular the modernist tradition, is seen. Part tragedy, part comedy, these poems reflect Raworth's view of life's fated inevitabilities. His sense of modern urgency plays against a similar sense of readiness in the spirit of Shelley and Byron. His eager verse will both challenge and fascinate those who wish to understand the value of British poetry. ...
|  | KING ARTHUR IN LEGEND AND HISTORY
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|  | Celtic Lore & Legend
Publication Date: May 15, 2005This book includes tales of the heroes and gods from the Great Myth Cycles as well as tales of witches, ghosts, and fairies. It is an examination and celebration of the tradition of storytelling. This is the first anthology to seek out and record the traditions from many parts of the Western Celtic world--Ireland, Cornwall, Scotland, Wales, and Brittany--from as early as the 17th century. ...
|  | Gozilla Attacks A Truck. Selected Haiku 1972-80.
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|  | The Age of Eternal Brilliance: Three Lyric Poets of the Yung-ming Era (483-493) (Sinica Leidensia)
Publication Date: October 2003| ISBN-10: 9004120599 | ISBN-13: 978-9004120594| Edition: annotated edition This volume presents the nearly complete oeuvre of ShenYueh, Hsieh T'iao, and Wang Jung, i.e. the full original texts, Professor Richard Mather's full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who all had such a profound impact on succeeding centuries. The reader will here find first-hand reactions and ruminations by highly sensitive and articulate participants in the tumultuous events and intellectual currents of an age that was definitely more th...
|  | El misterio de la cripta embrujada (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006En aquella epoca me entretenia leer novelas policiacas. Acababa de leer una de Ross McDonald cuyo nombre no recuerdo, y tuve el capricho de seguir sus pasos a mi manera, mas como un homenaje que como parodia. Asi empece y acabe, casi de un tiron, en el plazo de una semana, El misterio de la cripta embrujada. Nunca mas he vuelto a escribir con tanta despreocupacion ni con tanto placer ni con tanto aprovechamiento de las horas. Eduardo Mendoza. Las enigmaticas desapariciones de ninas del colegio d elas madres Lazaristas de San Gervasio son el punto de inicio de...
|  | Visions in Death
Release Date: January 25, 2005| Series: In Death On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park-and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes-removed with such precision, as if done with the careful hands of a surgeon-that have Dallas most alarmed. As more bodies turn up, each with the same defining scars, Eve is frantic for answers. Against her instincts, she accepts help f...
|  | Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 (Best Lesbian Erotica Series)
Publication Date: December 30, 2000| Series: Best Lesbian Erotica Series Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 is as steamy as ever, featuring writers on a par with those in previous editions, such as Dorothy Allison, Heather Lewis, Joan Nestle, and Cecilia Tan. ...
|  | Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks Mystery)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Cat in the Stacks Mystery (Book 2) Aging eccentric James Delacorte asks Charlie the librarian to do an inventory of his rare book collection-but the job goes from tedious to terrifying when James turns up dead. Relying on his cat Diesel to paw around for clues, Charlie has to catch the killer before another victim checks out. Read Miranda James's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community....
|  | Marty Boggs & The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Publication Date: January 19, 2012Have you ever wondered if curses really do exist? Marty's grandfather always said that superstition was nothing more than nonsense that hindered fools from discovery, but now Marty's not so sure. Ever since his grandfather, a world-renowned archeologist, discovered a tomb in Egypt his family has been plagued with tragedy. First Marty's mother disappears, and then Reginald himself collapses at the museum in the weeks leading up to the mummy's unveiling. One by one children start to disappear as the town turns against Marty and his family, blaming them for unl...
|  | Great Race, The (Chinese Legends Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | NFL Today: The Story of the Pittsburgh Steelers
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|  | Tom Brady (Robbie Readers) (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Fun with Egyptian Stencils (Dover Stencils)
Publication Date: October 26, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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