 | Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610: A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition (Paso Por Aqui Series)
Publication Date: October 15, 2004| Series: Paso Por Aqui Series One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic poem about Juan de Oñate's entrada that led to the founding of Nueva México in 1598 (to become the state of New Mexico 314 years later) is full of the hopes and dreams of those who traveled with Oñate. Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 was written fourteen years before John Smith's History of Virginia. Its thirty-four cantos have long been considered a key source for early New Mexico history and this bilingual Spanish/English version pre...
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|  | The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism: Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage
Release Date: April 5, 2008The first book to reveal the history of Western sexual mysticism • Reveals the secret sexual practices that have been used since ancient Greece to achieve mystical union with God • Details the sects and individuals who transmitted the radical sexual practices that orthodox Christianity never completely silenced • Distinguishes between sexual magic and sexual mysticism Beginning with the ancient Greek Mystery traditions, Gnosticism, and the practices in early Christianity, Arthur Versluis uncovers the secret line of Western sexual mysticism that...
| | Das grosse Unterhaltungs-Lexikon. Western, Science fiction, Horror, Crime, Abenteuer, Komik, Romanze, Heimat und Familie, Sport und Spiel, Sex
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|  | Lilac Mines: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2009“Klein’s characters are compelling, one and all.”—San Diego Union-Tribune"A quirky, quickly paced story of a young woman ending a relationship with a young woman then developing a relationship with another young woman: herself. Klein’s first book, The Commuters, was a fine debut. Second books aren’t necessarily as good. In this case, it’s better."--Noel Alumit, FrontiersFelix Ketay, a twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she’s ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashe...
|  | Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view. Beattie packs insight and humor...
|  | Trojan Barbie
Publication Date: November 11, 2010DramaCharacters: 4 male, 7 female A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women. Trojan Barbie is the winner of the 2007 Jane Chambers Award, the Playwrights First "Plays for the 21st Century" Award, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, 2009.Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides' Trojan Women.Lotte Jones, a doll repair expert, needs a vacation. She books herself on a cultural ...
|  | The origin and early form of Greek tragedy (The Norton library)
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|  | Hymn to Old Age
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Hesse collected life sketches, poems, aphorisms and short essays dedicated to the ultimate challenge of a writer who had already accomplished a celebrated body of work—that of accepting his final years and the approach of death with grace. ...
|  | Cherry Blossoms (Japanese Haiku series III)
Publication Date: 1960In Japan cherry-blossoms are a favorite subject of paintings and poems, and are indeed a symbol to the Japanese people ...
|  | Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600
Publication Date: October 25, 2011In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and the public. Written by a leading authority on Venetian architecture, the book explores the complex dialectic between theory and practice; utopia and reality; and design and technology that infused these disputes. The bitterly contested debates are seen through the experiences of one particular Venetian nobleman, Marc'Antonio Barbaro ...
|  | Gabriel's Inferno
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Gabriel From national bestselling author Sylvain Reynard comes the haunting, unforgettable tale of one man’s salvation and one woman’s sensual awakening . . .Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well-respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and inn...
|  | Good Intentions: A Novel
Release Date: March 1, 1995New York Times bestselling author returns with a powerful novel about marriage, friendship, betrayal and good intentions.Lynn Schuster didn’t expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the other woman’s spouse. And she never expected to feel a strong attraction to him when they met and he offered her the perfect way to get even with her cheating husband. Savvy divorce lawyer Renee Bower warned Lynn to be careful. But Renee had a troubled marriage of her own; chilling suspicions about her stepdaughter’s hidden agenda and her handsome psychiatrist ...
|  | Loose Cannon: The Tom Kelly Novels
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Tom Kelly David Drake’s two Tom Kelly technothrillers in one volume. Day-after-tomorrow technothriller action with a raw, gritty and extremely effective hero you might want to forget, but can’t, fending off Soviet aggression and alien attack. SkyripperDuring the Cold War, a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens, but only the U.S. has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry. Enter Tom Kelly, American spy, navigator of the U.S. intelligence agency spaghetti, and ruthlessly effect...
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|  | Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane Austen Mystery)
Release Date: October 30, 2007| Series: Jane Austen Mystery In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer a dastardly demise.…On the heels of completing Sense and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the Fashionable Great at the height of the Season, Jane is...
|  | The Sherlock Holmes Cartoon Book
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| | The Norwood Builder - and - The Solitary Bicyclist (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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|  | Classic Goosebumps #1: Night of the Living Dummy
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Little Red Riding Hood (My Fairy Tale Library)
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