 | The Family Corleone
Release Date: May 8, 2012New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. V...
 |  | Summer On Blossom Street
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Series: Blossom Street Knitting and life. They're both about beginnings--and endings. That's why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who want to quit something--or someone!--and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander. She recently ended her engagement to a man who doesn't know the meaning of "faithful, " and she's trying to get over him. Then there's Alix Turner. She and her husband, Jordan, want a baby, which means she "has" to quit smo...
|  | Sugar VS. Spice
Release Date: May 30, 2006Sister, Sister...By day, thirty-year-old Tari Shields is an up-and-coming journalist for a major Boston newspaper. By night, she's a jazz singer, working the local club scene, seducing audiences with her silky voice and sultry style. Tari's a total contrast to her older sister, Melinda. In fact, Melinda isn't just her older sister, she's a supersista--a wife, mother, active church member, and career woman. Melinda would love to see Tari follow in her sensible footsteps. But Tari has no intention of slowing down, much less settling down. But just as she's feeling at ...
|  | Lawman-in-Charge (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: June 7, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense Former crime-scene investigator Megan O'Ryan helped convict the St. Patrick's Strangler, who killed Megan's sister. Now she's trying to heal in a small Wisconsin town. But a copycat killer is at work in Crystal Lake, and Sheriff Luke Torretti needs Megan's help…on the case and at home, where the widower's troubled teenage son has become a suspect. The boy claims he's innocent—and Megan believes him. Because the more she and Luke investigate, the more Megan becomes convinced that her own past has brought the killer to Cr...
|  | The Sweet Trade
Publication Date: April 15, 2002Anne Bonny, a pampered Southern belle, hungers for a life more exciting and dangerous than she knows keeping her father's household together. When she convinces a hapless sailor boy to marry her and take her to Nassau, that seething cauldron of piracy, prostitution and all things wicked, she alters the course of her life forever. . . Calico Jack Rackham, a devious pirate, returns to Nassau with hopes of accepting the governor's pardon and leaving the sweet trade. When he first lays eyes on Anne Bonny, however, he realizes that she is the one woman who could co...
|  | Royal Flush: The Story of Minette
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|  | Jurisdiction (Signet Western)
Release Date: March 1, 2002| Series: Signet Western Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is on the trail of the Ganston Gang, who have rampaged across the state and murdered a fellow ranger. But young Billy Odle is riding with the outlaws-and Burrack has to keep him out of the crossfire... ...
|  | Candida
Publication Date: September 1, 2004Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG- - A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong in comfortable, prosperou...
|  | Ubu Roi (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 13, 2003| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, the farce satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Championed as the first absurdist drama, Ubu Roi features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque. ...
|  | Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (Martin Classial Lectures)
Publication Date: November 18, 2002| Series: Martin Classial Lectures Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in w...
|  | The Anastasia File (Acting Edition)
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|  | Afternoon Tea at the Beijing Opera
Publication Date: February 28, 2006"On the Beijing opera stage, every human sound uttered is song, and every movement is dance; realism is taboo and real-life objects are banned."In fascinating detail, jingju aficionado Chengbei Xu, examines the cultural and artistic themes of Beijing Op ...
|  | Landscape as symbol in the poetry of T. S. Eliot
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| | Slow Chrysanthemums: Classical Korean Poems in Chinese (Poetica 21) (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
Publication Date: May 28, 1987| ISBN-10: 0856461636 | ISBN-13: 978-0856461637Kim Jong-gil's personal anthology of one hundred Korean poems written in Chinese covers a period of over a thousand years, from the late ninth century to the beginning of the twentieth. In his introduction to this fascinating poetry, Kim Jong-gil traces the background to the literary use of Chinese in Korea, and discusses the features which set Korean poetry in Chinese apart from traditional poetry from China. His elegant versions - here accompanied by the original poems - will appeal to anyone with a taste for ...
|  | The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
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|  | Best Gay Erotica 2002
Publication Date: January 9, 2002| Series: Best Gay Erotica Representing a wide range of literary styles and voices, Best Gay Erotica 2002 collects the year’s outstanding gay sex writing. Previous volumes included works by Felice Picano, Jack Fritscher, M. Christian, and Michael Lassell. ...
|  | The Art Of Desire (Arabesque)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Series: Arabesque TROUBLE COMES IN THREES...One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men.Now, she's determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career.Little does she know that a chance meeting with a strikingly handsome stranger, a mysterious obelisk, and lost kingdom will change her life forever.As Alex is about to discover, truth can be stranger--and far more dangerous--than fiction....BUT TRUE LOVE COMES ONLY ONCEAfter three years inside a terrorist organization, Phillip Turman is trying to rebu...
|  | Kiss Me Forever
Release Date: May 1, 2010If there is one thing Dixie LePage does not need in her life, it's complications. And the man sitting across the table from her in a crowded English pub is a major complication. For starters, there's the broad shoulders. The slightly amused smirk. That smoldering look that makes it impossible to concentrate. No doubt about it, the guy is hot and sexy. Of course, there is one wee little problem: He claims to be a vampire named Christopher Marlowe, as in The Christopher Marlowe, famous playwright, contemporary of Will Shakespeare. Amend that to hot, sexy, and totally i...
|  | Rejar (Timeswept)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Timeswept There is only one thing a woman can think of when looking at aman like him. Sex. But Lilac never guesses that bringing a stray cat into her home will soon have her stroking the most wanted man in 1811 London. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Town In a Lobster Stew (CANDY HOLLIDAY MYSTERY)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: CANDY HOLLIDAY MYSTERY Things start to boil over at the annual Lobster Stew Cook-Off when an award-winning recipe is stolen and a seven-time contest champion mysteriously disappears-leaving Candy no choice but to find out who in Cape Willington, Maine, would get steamed enough to break the law. ...
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