 | Flatscreen: A Novel
Release Date: February 21, 2012 Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence—pasty, soft, and high—who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new. Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn has purchased Eli’s old family home. The two begin a dangerous friendship, one that distracts from thei...
 |  | The Cryptogram.
Publication Date: January 1998"I suspect that in time, The Cryptogram will take its place among Mamet's major works" John Lahr "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout Mamet's work: the notion that we use words as a destructive social camouflage to lie to others and ourselves...And here through all the repetitions, half sentences and echoing encounter of one question with another, you feel the characters devalue experience through their use of language. As Del cries in des...
|  | The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose (Darling Dahlias Mysteries)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Darling Dahlias Mysteries National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s—and the Darling Dahlias, the ladies of a garden club who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty solving mysteries… Just in time for the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling Dahlias are ready to plant Confederate roses along the fence of the town cemetery. Of course, Miss Dorothy Rogers, club member and town librarian, would be quick to point out the plant is in fact a hibiscus. The Confe...
|  | Love Finds You in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Love Finds You Two women with nothing in common except the need for a friend and a fresh start. When Amish-born Lydia Ann Raber and Southern belle Caroline DeMarco discover a shared history of loss, the unlikely duo decides to open a gift shop in beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Lydia Ann is surprised to find herself drawn to handsome woodworker Simon Zook. When God offers her a second chance at love and family, will she take it? Or will the secret Simon harbors cause her even more heartbreak? For Caroline, love comes in the way of newspaper r...
|  | Lady in the Mist: A Novel (The Midwives)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: The Midwives (Book 1) By virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets: the names of fathers of illegitimate children, the level of love and harmony within many a marriage, and now the identity of a man who may have caused his wife's death. Dominick Cherrett is a man with his own secret to keep: namely, what he, a British nobleman, is doing on American soil working as a bondsman in the home of Mayor Kendall, a Southern gentleman with his eye on a higher office.By chance one morning before the dawn has broken, T...
|  | The Wind of the Khazars
Publication Date: January 1, 2006At a time when Charlemagne ruled, the Byzantines were encroaching upon Russia, and the faith of Allah was flourishing in Baghdad, there existed a kingdom with a tolerant, advanced civilization: somewhere between the Caucasus mountains and the Volga, the Khazar kingdom grew and flourished, and in one of the oddest choices ever made, converted itself to Judaism. A thousand years later, when the writer Marc Sofer is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a mysterious visitor, he is drawn into investigating the fascinating enigma of the Khazars. Why did these Steppe ...
|  | GOLFING IN JESUS' SPIRIT: AN OLD GOLFER'S AMAZING STORY
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|  | Catlow (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 26, 2006Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance.... ...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: March 29, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth’s life—from “Tintern Abbey,” an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem, The Prelude. Also included are much-loved short works such...
|  | Confessio Amantis (Teams Middle English Texts Series) (Vol. 3)
Publication Date: May 2005| ISBN-10: 1580440924 | ISBN-13: 978-1580440929| Edition: Bilingual Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher.1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... servit. A propre hous hath in the liver For his dwellinge made deliver. Fei domus coiere. The drie coler with his hete By wey of kinde his propre sete Hath in the galle, where he dwelleth, So as the philosophre telleth. Nota de stomacho, Now over this is for to wite, qui una cum aliis .... . . cordi s...
|  | The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Publication Date: February 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 1566632986 | ISBN-13: 978-1566632980| Edition: Second edition This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment—the vaudeville show. Vaudeville was a meeting place, an inclusive form of theatre that flourished especially in New York, where it fostered cultural exchange among the city's ethnic groups. In The Voice of the City, Mr. Snyder reconstructs the famous acts, describes the different...
|  | Angelo's Journey: A Border Collie's Quest for Home
Publication Date: May 13, 2011You're a dog: a Border Collie. You're dognapped and taken hundreds of miles away. What do you do when you escape and make your way home? You herd a few sheep, and mend a few lives. Follow Angelo as he takes the long road home through the beautiful landscapes of New Mexico and Colorado. ...
|  | Goethe (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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|  | Yeats and the Poetics of Hate
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|  | The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 7
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0856831921 | ISBN-13: 978-0856831928As leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, Marsilio Ficino was teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men. He inspired leading statesmen, scholars and churchmen throughout Europe, who travelled to meet him or conducted an extensive correspondence with him. The ideas they discussed appeared again and again and in the works of literature and art that followed: in Spenser, Shakespeare and Donne, in Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer and many more. Volume 7 (Book VIII of the Latin edition) is dedicat...
|  | Men Cry in the Dark : A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2001The secret is out: Men have issues too!Derrick has a thriving business, good looks, and charisma to spare, but his success seems empty without a special lady to share it with.Tony was an unredeemable ladies' man until Tracie caught his heart. But will his conniving ex, Valarie, let them live happily ever after?Any woman would be lucky to have Benjamin. But his weakness for young women has only made him a target for gold diggers in search of a sugar daddy. Will he ever find true love?And, finally, there's Mark. Still bitter from being rejected by black wome...
|  | The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: June 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0708321968 | ISBN-13: 978-0708321966This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the Vulgate Cycle, and the Grail Continuations. ...
|  | An Introduction To The Study Of Dante
Publication Date: January 11, 2005This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy: 'Pride and Prejudice' meets 'A Christmas Carol'
Publication Date: October 25, 2011'Pride and Prejudice' meets 'A Christmas Carol'A Jane Austen/Charles Dickens crossover story, 'Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy' takes the best of both classics and spins them into a delightful Holiday treat!F.E. Darcy has fallen into pitiful self-loathing and sorrowful angst-ridden despair; all of this due to his belief that he has lost forever the chance to marry the only woman he has ever loved—Elizabeth Bennet.Seeing her son in such a state, the Ghost of Anne Darcy reaches out to him; informing him that three ghosts would visit him and give him hope. Wi...
|  | In Like Flynn (Molly Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: November 29, 2005| Series: Molly Murphy Mysteries A woman private eye in a man's world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding as a New York shamus. That's why she agrees to go undercover for the NYPD to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters as con-artists even though the offer comes from police captain Daniel Sullivan. Sullivan had once won Molly's heart--until she discovered he already had a socialite fiancé and an upcoming wedding. Now Molly's masquerading as a cousin from Ireland at the Hudson River mansion of Senator Barney Flynn. Flynn's invalid wife hopes the...
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