 | Love on the Run (The Salinger Sisters #1)
Release Date: June 1, 1998The Salinger Sisters Series spins the tales of four sisters who find love—in spite of themselves.The love—and laughs—begin in Book One, Love on the Run.For years, Catherine Salinger’s father competed fiercely against his former friend and nemesis in the advertising business, Miles Riley. These days, however, Cat is in charge, and taking her responsibility very seriously—especially now that the two companies are competing for a multi-million dollar deal with one of the fastest-growing athletic shoe companies in the world. Thatȁ...
 |  | Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: May 25, 1993(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and v...
|  | White Stains & The Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil
Publication Date: October 31, 2008White Stains remains Aleister Crowley s most infamous work, his attempt at taking the Satanic/erotic decadencee of Baudelaire and ramping it up to new extremes of degradation, sexual depravity and demonic frenzy. Revelling in filth, Crowley includes odes to sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, analingus, rape, lesbianism, impotence, venereal disease, bestiality, sado-masochism, coprophilia, necrophila, blasphemy and devil-worship in this staggering, over-the-top compendium of eros and evil. This new edition of White Stains also includes Crowley s rare later volume...
|  | Marvel Zombies 5
Publication Date: November 3, 2010| Series: Marvel Zombies MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting down the plague in all its myriad forms...with a most unusual (but somehow oddly appropriate) partner! First up: in the Alterniverse known as "The Territory," the Old West never died. But when the greatest gunslingers of Marveldom - Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, Kid Colt, and many others - rise from their graves in Boot Hill...
|  | The Assassin's Mace
Publication Date: August 10, 2011Things are never what they seem, especially in the world of international politics. Janet Chang appears to be an attractive, successful scientist, but she's really a Chinese spy, sent to degrade United States nuclear submarine capability. If she succeeds, America's potential ally, India, will dismantle and fall apart. Of course, China isn't the only country out to get India on the ropes. Syed Ali is a former member of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence who served as a long term mentor to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. His orchestrated terror attacks are inflic...
|  | Water: A Novel
Publication Date: April 28, 2006The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta’s controversial film Water to the printed page.Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she beco...
|  | 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...
|  | 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
Publication Date: April 3, 2007Mickey Mantle loved sex. And getting drunk. Those are the topics of discussion as the baseball hero, now in heaven, pulls up a chair with writer Leonard Shecter. Together they rehash Mantle's life, from his X-rated bedroom exploits and his treatment of fans to his relationship with the media and his phenomenal career. Nothing is left uncovered in a story that reveals Mantle's dark side.Only two main voices are needed from Alan Smithee -- a drawly, scratchy Oklahoma twang for Mantle and a low, whispery tone for Shecter. The novel, rooted in truths, is a remorsef...
|  | The Conference of the Birds: A Novel
Publication Date: September 13, 2005The resonant sequel to Meritocracy: A Love Story.It is the late '70s in Manhattan and God is dead. A group of people come together to explore the void left behind. New York mongrels of the spiritual, as brash and defiant as their chaotic, bankrupt city, they embark on what seems like a journey described in the 12th century Persian poem that gives this powerful novel its title.Among them are the shy and sweet-natured Bobby, a gifted cartoonist and the group's mascot; Maisie, the acid-tongued rich girl who is fighting a two-front war against mental instabili...
|  | Light Threads
Publication Date: December 23, 2009An exciting suspense novel about energy and healing.When Timespace tears, who takes the 911 call? Cindy, a lifetime ahead of "String Theory", has always seen Light Threads - everywhere. But that's a universe apart from watching Earth unravel in front of her.Can she fix the fabric of time? ...
|  | Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery
Release Date: April 20, 2010 Anger . . . Jealousy . . . Gluttony . . . Sloth . . . Lust . . . Greed . . . Pride . . . These are the seven deadly sins, the roots of crime throughout human history. Greed and lust are Two of the Deadliest. New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George has gathered nearly two dozen chilling, boldly original stories, each published for the very first time in this outstanding collection. In addition to tales from some of today's top stars—including Laura Lippman, Susan Wiggs, Marcia Muller, Carolyn Hart, Nancy Pickard, and Elizabeth George herself...
|  | Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets
Publication Date: October 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 1894770595 | ISBN-13: 978-1894770590Poetry. South Asian Studies. Translated and Edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam. This collection brings together seventy-five poems by three internationally known Tamil poets--R Cheran, V.I.S. Jayapalan, and Puthuvai Ratnathurai--whose works, over the last three decades, have dealt with issues ranging from ethnicity and nationalism, to religion and diaspora. Together they have shaped the Tamil literary tradition, urging the reader to look at the past and present in new and important ways. All three poets have con...
|  | Poems (BUAI Series, 1)
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|  | Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism
Publication Date: February 24, 1992Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis explores their views on rhetoric, systematicity, hermeneutics, and cultural interpretation. Seyhan examines German Romanticism as a critical intervention in the debates on representation, which developed in response to the philosop...
|  | After Theory
Publication Date: April 15, 1997| Series: Postmodern Theory Series This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory - the intellectual and his or her knowledge - has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection.After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under the aegis of a philosophical and austere postmarxism. The 'waking' of theory adva...
|  | Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Performance Interventions)
Release Date: December 26, 2007| Series: Performance Interventions Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre. ...
|  | The Biblical Dante (Toronto Italian Studies)
Publication Date: November 26, 2011| Series: Toronto Italian Studies Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only be revealed when engaged with in a transformative manner - and that a lack of such encounters in his time had led to a rise in gr...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Season 9 Number 11 (Season 9 Number 11 2012)
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|  | The Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies (Bailey School Kids #41)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up The 16th book from the hugely popular early chapter book series to re-emerge with a new look! Brand-new eye-catching cover art brings a modern feel to this classic monster series for young readers.There's a new woman working at the snack bar at the Bailey City ice skating rink. Electra is tall and strange-looking, but her enormous cookies are out of this world! She's obviously the perfect girlfriend for Frank, the snack bar employee the kids are sure is Frankenstein's monster. But Electra couldn't really be the bride of Frankenstein, co...
|  | Native American Tales and Legends
Publication Date: February 2001More than 30 stories from a variety of Native American tribes cover creation myths, hero tales, and trickster stories, as well as tales of little people, giants, and monsters, and of magic, enchantment, sorcery, and the spirit world. Included are "The White Stone Canoe" (Chippewa), "Raven Pretends to Build a Canoe" (Tsimhian), many more. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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