 | Clickers
Publication Date: May 2005It had once been a man... that much had been apparent from the few remaining scraps of clothing. A tarnished security guard badge lay amid the tattered, slimy clothing. What remained of him was nothing more than a pile of red, smoking ooze with yellow bone poking out in a helter skelter of gunk. The head was little more than a skull completely stripped of flesh. The jaw was hanging off at an angle and Roy could see that the left side had been punched in to get at the brain... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Cactus Love: A Collection of Short Stories
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|  | I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore
Publication Date: December 2, 2010The darkly humorous stories in I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore take dead aim at how easily our desire to be good is perverted or undermined by a desperate need for love and recognition. Despite a world of fading optimism and advancing catastrophe, plans are formulated, deals drawn, bargains struck, and hope prevails. Beautifully flawed, well-meaning yet easily sidelined, the characters in these eight stories catapult off the rails of ordinary life before raising themselves up - if only for a moment - in oddly heroic ways. These stories will make you laugh...
|  | The Truth About Lou: A Novel After Salome
Publication Date: December 11, 2008From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salomé emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationships of her life: at twenty-one she meets the smitten philosopher Nietzsche; at thirty-six she takes the fledgling poet Rilke as her first lover; and at fifty she wins the deep affection of Freud.Who was she really, Lou Salomé? Willful, conniving girl, controlling femme fatale, or nurturing literary muse? Drawing on neglected historical sources and deftly wea...
|  | Heartland
Publication Date: September 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0955647657 | ISBN-13: 978-0955647659Cinderheath is in a state of molten flux. A mosque is about to be built on the site of the iconic steelworks. The `Tipton Three' are in Guantanamo, kids run wild on the grounds. A schoolboy whom Rob is teaching to read is stabbed in a gang attack. Within this cauldron, two local football teams, split along racial lines, play a Sunday league decider-'a match to spark a Black Country race war' says the press. While England plays Argentina for the World Cup, the characters gather-Rob, Glenn, Jim, Tom, and Stac...
|  | The Legend of Shiloh Woods: ...a Fairy Tale of Present Times
Publication Date: October 1, 2001A trip into the woods to ?get away for a while? leads to life changing adventures for a free-lance writer from the city. Elves, Fairies and other nature spirits aid in his education about the inner workings of the forest. ...
|  | Legends of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria
Publication Date: January 1, 1925In this book inhabitants of Atlantis and Lemuria come alive--their hopes and fears, their achievements and sins. The submerged continents are described in graphic detail--their location, history, flora and fauna, human inhabitants, customs, science, religion, and contact with advanced teachers. The information comes from the writings of Plato, from the esoteric tradition as set forth in The Secret Doctrine of H.P. Blavatsky, and from the clairvoyant writings of C.W. Leadbeater, one of the most remarkable sensitives of modern times. The result is a modern expr...
|  | Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Greek Commentaries Ser)
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|  | Break Any Woman Down
Release Date: August 12, 2003In this hip, vital, and sexy debut, winner of the 2001 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Dana Johnson launches a fleet of wonderful stories across unexpected terrain, upending notions of race, class and gender in utterly original ways.An eleven-year-old black girl from South Central LA discovers the strangeness of moving to the suburbs and falling in love with a white boy.A pair of enthusiastic middle-aged Iranian sisters debate whether or not their futures hold children. A punk musician falls for a girl out of his league.A black lap dancer gives u...
|  | Humanist Educational Treatises (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: September 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674030877 | ISBN-13: 978-0674030879The disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars in the early fourteenth century. These educators argued for the usefulness of classical literature as an instrument for training young men and women, not only in the arts of language and eloquence, but also in civic virtue and practical wisdom. This volume provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Ren...
|  | The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornograhy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
Publication Date: 1967A Study of Sexuality and Pornograhy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England--With a bold, New Examination of The Underground Erotic Classic, My Secret Life... ...
|  | Literature: Reading to Write
Publication Date: September 21, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205834302 | ISBN-13: 978-0205834303| Edition: 1Literature: Reading to Write masterfully weaves critical thinking skills, writing, and reading instruction using writing prompts, literary selections, and intriguing discussion points. Students transition from active readers to critical writers through a series of reading prompts and unique writing exercises. This process helps students find meaning in a broader context by forging connections between literature and their personal experiences. Additionally, the book features ...
|  | King of Sword and Sky (Tairen Soul)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Tairen Soul The Third Chapter in C. L. Wilson's Breathtaking Epic Tale of Magic, Passion, and Destiny One passion could unite them. One enemy could destroy them.Rain, the proud and haunted Fey King, risked everything to follow his heart and his destiny to Ellysetta—his truemate, his love, the woodcarver's daughter who possessed miraculous gifts she did not understand. He defied the nobles of Celieria to claim her, battled demons and Elden mages to wed her. And now he must protect her—and his imperiled kingdom—with magic, steel,...
|  | With A Southern Touch ("Adam"; "A Night in Paradise"; "Garden Cop")
Publication Date: May 2002Jennifer Blake, Heather Graham and Diana Palmer, well-loved voices of romance fiction, bring you three new stones of sultry Southern romance. With a Southern Touch will renew your faith in the power of love. An eighth-generation Louisianian, Jennifer Blake says "few things have stopped the women in my family from doing what we think is important. 'Steel Magnolia' grit and determination are in our blood." Married at fifteen, Jennifer and her husband recently celebrated more than four decades of happily-ever-after. "My mom and dad are Irish and Scottish respectively, ...
|  | Private Games
Publication Date: July 30, 2005Who would have thought a simple board game could change your life. Three women learn it can when they toss the dice, face a challenge or two, and win...love, laughter, and hot, hot sex.Playing for KeepsMaddy Beaudet needs to shake things up a bit, but playing a board game isn't exactly what she considers exciting.Jace Michael has just moved across country to recover from an ugly divorce. Anxious to dive into work with both feet, the last thing he needs is a distraction, but the minute he meets Maddy, his employee no less, and learns about the game she's playing...
|  | The Closers/The Ladies of Garrison Gardens/Heartbreak Hotel/Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 5: 2005)
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|  | Wild Wild Death (A Pepper Martin Mystery)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: A Pepper Martin Mystery (Book 5) Her job has been cut, she's low on cash, and her detective sometime- boyfriend refuses to even talk about her ability to see the dead andsolve their murders. So Pepper is most certainly down for a vacation toget her spirits up. But when her cute scientist friend Dan iskidnapped, Pepper soon stumbles upon another deadly mystery that bringsher to New Mexico. And she's after a clever murderer-one whose idea ofBoot Hill has nothing to do with Jimmy Choo. ...
|  | Jack the Giant Chaser: An Appalachian Tale
Publication Date: March 1993| Age Level: 6 and up A full-color retelling of an Appalachian version of an old folktale chronicles the adventures of Jack, who kills seven catfish and brags about killing "seven with one blow," which leads to a confrontation with an unruly mountain giant. ...
|  | The Danger on Shadow Mountain (Double Detectives)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Goldfish in the Chandelier
Publication Date: March 6, 2012A different kind of adventure story, The Goldfish in the Chandelier takes place just outside of Paris in the early 1800s. Uncle Henri is stuck. He has been commissioned to design a chandelier for a great house in Paris, but he can’t figure out what form it will take. His young nephew, Louis Alexandre, comes to the rescue with some dazzling ideas—inspired by Alexander the Great and the first hot-air balloon flights over Paris—that surprise them both. Together, they use a lot of imagination to create something that never existed before—som...
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