 | Fly On The Wall (Urban Renaissance)
Release Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Urban Renaissance His Story: "I could have any chick at West Dade Senior High, but I went after the one I was told couldn’t be broken, Ms. Patrick, my English teacher and my coach’s ex-wife. It started with me proving something to myself, but ended with me trying to prove to her that I was all the man she’d ever need."Her Story: "I struggled to treat him like any other student. All I asked was that he arrive to class on time and I encouraged him to complete class assignments. However, the lustful way he looked at me, the intimate thing...
 |  | Last Light (Restoration Series #1)
Release Date: September 20, 2005Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and won't restart. You can't call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem . . . and it's just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won't operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky. Is it a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces ...
|  | The Man in White
Publication Date: October 26, 2011ABOUT THE BOOK:The Man in White is a book of poems that challenge the way we think about our Christian faith and the way we live it. Delight in fictitious short stories and thought-provoking musings reminding us that God laughs, cries, loves us, and is forever faithful. Many of the stories are emotionally-charged. They pull the reader in and immerse him in real-life situations. Some are serious in nature, touching on sensitive issues with which we are all faced. Others are light-hearted and entertain in a melodious style that will undoubtedly draw a smile. M...
|  | The Gilded Chamber : A Novel of Queen Esther
Publication Date: July 26, 2005In the Bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, a dazzling novel of the extraordinary biblical heroine who ascended to the position of queen and sacrificed love in exchange for the lives of her people. The story of Esther-- whose mesmerizing beauty was matched only by her clear-eyed wisdom-- has inspired women for centuries. Now her suspenseful tale comes to life through the eyes of a contemporary woman, debut novelist Rebecca Kohn. Capturing the passionate longings and political danger that have made Esther's legacy so timeless, The Gilded Chamber blends meticul...
|  | Drifting House
Release Date: February 2, 2012 An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience froman extraordinary new talent in fiction. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era tocontemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, DriftingHouse, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of theircollective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea areforced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set inAmerica reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out incramped apartments ...
|  | Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Bob Lee Swagger NovelsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHEN HUNTER RETURNS WITH HIS MOST RIVETING BOB LEE SWAGGER VOLUME TO DATE.Talk about a ride! Woe unto he who crosses Bob Lee Swagger, especially when his daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma, clinging to life, reporter Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southernfried conspiracy bubbling with all the angst, resentment, and dysfunction that Dixie gangsters can muster. An ancient, violent crime clan, a possibly corrupt l...
|  | Grace Doll
Publication Date: July 9, 2012Grace Doll had everything a girl could want: Fame. Fortune. Beauty.Everything except her freedom. So when a powerful movie producer forces an experimental treatment on Grace--one that's purported to make beauty immortal--she stages her own death to escape him. With the help of trusted friends, Grace slips into hiding. She's forever flawless. Forever young, and forever pursued by her past. But when a stranger arrives on her doorstep, holding the key to a life she thought she'd left behind, Grace must decide between the safety she's known...and embracing the role ...
|  | Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 11)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 11) With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows... New in the #1 New York T...
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|  | Sixty Minutes for St. George: The Everard Naval Series
Release Date: June 1, 2002| Series: Everard Naval Young Nick Everard leads the raid on Zeebrugge, termed by Churchill "the finest feat of arms of the Great War".Nick Everard is Executive Officer of the destroyer Mackerel, which has spent the winter months of 1917-18 endlessly patrolling the Straits of Dover to prevent German ships from reaching the Atlantic. Despite his lack of respect for his captain, Everard achieves successes in action. Then he is summoned for top-secret special duty: to command a raid to capture a German trawler's crew and bring them back to Dover. The raid is prefatory ...
|  | Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: "Reason Is But Choosing" (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Recent critical conversation has described John Milton's major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton's poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. ...
|  | Euripidea Altera (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne Supplements)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 9004106243 | ISBN-13: 978-9004106246This volume, which continues the textual discussions section of the author's "Euripidea" (Brill, 1994), discusses those passages in Euripides'"Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, Supplices, Electra, Heracles," and "Troades" - the plays of the author's Loeb Euripides, volumes Two and Three - where text or translation was in need of explanation or justification. A large number of new conjectures are proposed and some forgotten conjectures argued for. ...
|  | IPC (with Interactive eBook, Premium Web Site, Interactive Video Activities, InfoTrac 1-Semester Printed Access Card)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0495914541 | ISBN-13: 978-0495914549| Edition: 1 Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, IPC is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. ...
|  | Missives From Within
Publication Date: August 4, 2012Peter Mutanda is an artist and cultural activist whose works are inspired by his day to day life experiences, from his humble beginnings in Zimbabwe to living in the USA and Europe.His poetry raises awareness of maladies ravaging the lives of the poor and the corruption committed by elitist members of the ‘big society’. He also questions racial bigotry and explores the current global political and social turbulence. ...
|  | Shiki Kanshi no shuhen (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415350123 | ISBN-13: 978-0415350129| Edition: New A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis.This guide to Angela Carter’s complex novel, presents:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of ...
|  | My Darcy Vibrates...: A Collection of Pride and Prejudice-inspired Steamy Short Stories
Publication Date: October 30, 2011What if Darcy was an immortal? What if Mr. Darcy had certain urges? What if Elizabeth professed her feelings to Mr. Darcy first? What if Elizabeth was rumoured to be in love with Mr. Wickham? What if Mr. Darcy’s dead parents intervened?This collection of over 20 short stories contains sexy, over-the-top "pick-me-up" stories across the historical, fantasy and modern genres. They are not for the faint-hearted. Some may call the stories wild and say that they bear no resemble to the original, but Wilson finds Miss Austen's characters timeless and inspira...
|  | Your First Romance
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|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)
Publication Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage The year is 1896, and St. Paul’s magnificent Winter Carnival is under way when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city’s most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man disappears on the eve of his wedding—and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnival’s Ice Palace leads to a flurry of clues, Holmes is on the case. His pursuit of the murderer takes him through the highest echelons of St. Paul society and into c...
|  | The Ghost in Me
Publication Date: January 23, 2011THE GHOST IN ME... where Freaky Friday and Ghost Adventures meet.This is the kind of book I loved to read when I was a kid--lots of humor, lots of suspense, fun characters... just the right blend for kids that want a fun, exciting read.--Rick Walton, author of over 80 books for children If you love The Ghost in Me, you also may like SK Wenger's newest release: Reality Bites, Tales of a Half-Vampire.OVERVIEW of The Ghost in MeMyri Monaco has problems she doesn't know how to deal with: a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, a mother who's dating her...
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