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 |  | To Taste Temptation (The Legend of the Four Soldiers)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: The Legend of the Four Soldiers (Book 1) The ton loves nothing more than a good scandal, and they're giddy with the appearance of wealthy Samuel Hartley. Not only is he self-made, American, and in the habit of wearing moccasins, but he is also notorious for fleeing a battle in which several English gentlemen lost their lives. What the ton doesn't know, though, is that Samuel is in London because of this massacre. He believes his regiment was given up to the enemy and won't rest until he finds the traitor.Lady Emeline Gordon is captivated with Samuel. No...
|  | Loving Liza Jane (Little Hickman Creek Series #1)
Publication Date: March 12, 2007When Liza Jane Merriwether rode into the town of Little Hickman Creek, her first thought was, "Oh, Lord, what have I done?"Kentucky was much different than what she was used to back East, but she knew God had led her here for a reason.Soon, the new schoolteacher is beloved by all–including Benjamin Broughton, a handsome widower with two young children.Despite his protectiveness and the fact that Ben has rescued Liza from several scrapes, her contract implicitly states that she is to have "no improper contact with the opposite sex."Liza has a lot to lear...
|  | The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Publication Date: March 4, 1981| ISBN-10: 0192134264 | ISBN-13: 978-0192134264Questions are discussed in Professor Davie's introduction and answered implicitly on every page of his collection of over 260 poems. This anthology embraces everything from the Anglo-Saxon 'The Dream of the Rood' to the works of modern poets. The book also includes a selection of congregational hymns. ...
|  | Night Life
Publication Date: April 1, 2007NIGHT LIFE, a brilliant sequel to the classic novel of vampires re-imagined--LIVE GIRLSWhen Ray Garton's LIVE GIRLS was published in 1987, it changed the face of vampire fiction. The gritty, urban story of Davey Owen's dark seduction and reluctant transformation into a creature of the undead has become a classic of the genre.In NIGHT LIFE, nearly two decades after battling the vampires of the Midnight Club in New York City, Davey is a marked man. He lives a quiet life in Los Angeles with the love of his life, Casey Thorne. The vampires he did not destroy back t...
|  | Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt
Publication Date: March 23, 2010When ancient giants begin to reawaken in the British Isles, Hellboy is invited to join an ancient band of fellow monster hunters called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But an unexpected betrayal sends Hellboy after a quarry far more deadly: the Queen of Blood, first seen in 2007's best-selling Hellboy: Darkness Calls. This newly reborn evil has her murderous sights set on all of humanity, and the only way Hellboy can stop her is to finally confront the truth about his own dark heritage. ...
|  | Rules for Saying Goodbye: A Novel
Release Date: May 27, 2008In the world of Kate Taylor, heroine of Rules for Saying Goodbye, pleasure and melancholy are close neighbors--like the summer hats and lobster boilers squashed together in the tiny closet of her Manhattan apartment. In this hilarious, bittersweet story, we follow young Kate from her girlhood in Fresno California, through a career at a chilly New England prep school, and on to life in Manhattan, where she finds a sometimes dissipated, sometimes glamorous life of fourteen-dollar cocktails, empty cupboards, and extravagantly unsuitable men. In this witty and aff...
|  | Vadriel Vail
Publication Date: June 1, 2001A sweeping saga of love and danger among the aristocracy of early 19th-century New York, Vadriel Vail paints a vivid portrait of the excesses and arrogance of the privileged upper classes while providing a richly detailed and classic gothic tale of romance, secrets, and windswept coastlines. From the heights of glittering society to the depths of poverty in the unimaginably horrific immigrant slums, Vadriel Vail is a relentlessly entertaining historical romance of the highest order.Vincent Virga is the author of Gaywyck and A Comfortable Corner. He has researche...
|  | Istanbul: Memories and the City
Release Date: July 11, 2006A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartmentbuilding where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit ma...
|  | An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: May 25, 2006| Series: New Directions Paperbook An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexic...
|  | Die Moderne franzosische Lyrik: Interpretationen (German Edition)
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|  | Hindsight and Insight: Focalization in Four Eighteenth-Century French Novels
Publication Date: April 25, 1991William F. Edmiston revises current theories of what narratologists call "focalization" and applies his revised theory to four eighteenth-century French memoir-novels.Hindsight and Insight contributes to our knowledge of the history and evolution of the novel by demonstrating that France's earliest novelists were already engaged in the kinds of narrative experimentation that are usually associated with modern writers. It presents an analysis of the narrative point of view in both its theoretical aspects and its practical applications. Edmiston exposes ...
|  | Xenophon: Old Oligarch: 'The Athenian Constitution' (Classical Texts)
Release Date: September 2, 2008| ISBN-10: 0856687812 | ISBN-13: 978-0856687815'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420's B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists. It is an essay which replies to oligarchic criticisms of the Athenian democracy by agreeing with the critics that democracy is distasteful but arguing that it is appropriate for Athens as a city whose power depends on th...
|  | Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya: The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text
Publication Date: March 1, 2007The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is uniquely faithful to the original language. Retaining the poetic style of the original text, the translation is also remarkably ac...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: July 23, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521675073 | ISBN-13: 978-0521675079George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly, this Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's w...
|  | Collected Letters, 1944-1967
Release Date: January 25, 2005Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazin...
|  | Miss Darkness: The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown
Publication Date: April 3, 2012MISS DARKNESS collects the finest short crime fiction of Fredric Brown. Included in this generous collection are some hard to find gems, such as The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches, The Jabberwocky Murders and The Pickled Punks. Brown’s reputation has not diminished over the years; in fact, his following has grown since his death in 1972. First editions of his books fetch hundreds of dollars, and even the vintage paperbacks go for handsome sums. This is because his strong narrative voice and character driven stories read as fresh today as the time they we...
|  | Be Afraid!: Tales of Horror
Release Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up What scares you? Is it vampires and werewolves, or the terror that rises from the darkness of everyday life?Be Afraid! gathers fifteen stories, twelve of them original, by award-winning authors from both the horror and young adult fields in an anthology in which the shivers are as familiar as the touch of a cold hand on the back of your neck.Be afraid of an innocent-looking doll. Be afraid for the changes that occur to a young boy as he matures into adulthood. Be afraid for a girl who is teased by her schoolmates f...
|  | Charley Harper Classic Wooden Peg Puzzle
Release Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up A new take on a classic wooden peg puzzle featuring Charley Harper's illustrations from his beloved Biology book. This wooden peg puzzle is a lovely and graphic toy for young children to develop their cognitive and fine motor skills, all the while being influenced by this mid-century modernist's beautiful illustrations. ...
|  | Shoe Shakes
Publication Date: August 23, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up Wordplay with zip for the energetic preschooler.What would happen if your shoes shook you? If they pulled you to the park and they zoomed you to the zoo? Find out in this unconventionally active celebration of feet in motion by a much-loved children's poet.Loris Lesynski definitely knows how to get kids clapping their hands and stomping their feet. In Shoe Shakes, a collection of 10 new poems, she set her sights on preschoolers who get a kick out of wacky sounds and off-the-wall ideas. Rhythm lovers will hit the ground running with the j...
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