 | Pandora's Box: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: Zane Presents Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in nationally bestselling author Allison Hobbs’s unforgettable novel about a woman forced to sink to the darkest depths of morality . . . and her quest to fight her way back. Victoria Carlton invested everything into her dream of becoming a singer—her hopes, her time, her life savings—only to fall victim to the harsh realities of the recording industry. Devastated, broke, and faced with the choice between committing herself and her young son to a world of homeless shelters or...
 |  | Bliss
Release Date: January 30, 1996"Bliss" was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel, originally published in 1981 - a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld. As in his stories and some of his later novels, it is Peter Carey's achievement in "Bliss" to create a brilliant but totally believable fusion of ordinary experience with the crazier fantasies of the mind. ...
|  | The Cat's Table (Vintage International)
Release Date: June 12, 2012| Series: Vintage International In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: they are first exposed to the magical worlds of jazz, ...
|  | Fishing the Back Country
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|  | Duane's Depressed : A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Last Picture Show Trilogy Funny, sad, full of wonderful characters and the word-perfect dialogue of which he is the master, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises involving sex, drugs, and violence; his wife, Karla, who is wrestling with her own demons; and friends like Sonny, who seem to be dying, Duane can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. He gradually makes his way through a protracted end-of-life crisis of which...
|  | The Blithedale Romance (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 048642684X | ISBN-13: 978-0486426846A group of Utopians, unhappy with dissolute, mid-19th-century America, takes to the pastoral life; but the members find little satisfaction in the communal life. Instead of changing the world, they pursue self-centered paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Absorbing 1852 novel about love, idealism, and politics bristles with Hawthorne's perceptive wit and intelligence. ...
|  | Terje Viken of Henrik Ibsen
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|  | Nightingales & Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems (Middle East Literature in Translation)
Publication Date: June 30, 2005| Series: Middle East Literature in Translation The first anthology of Turkish love poetry in English, featuring more than one hundred poems by over fifty poets from centuries ago to the most recent decades.The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtually all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to t...
|  | Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Quiet, lulling, beguiling, and shocking, the poems in this collection explore the essential world of all things sensual. Reality is dissected in all its complex, tragic, and surreal forms. Playful and gruesome metaphors return again and again to themes of fire, ocean, moon, blood, and love. In sharply visioned images, the ironies of travel, the nonsense of religious exclusion and inclusion, and the politics that govern the world are explored. ...
|  | Despues del silencio/ After the Silence (Best-Seller) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Han fu yan jiu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)
Publication Date: April 30, 2010| Series: VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with colonialism, they have not considered how English novels themselves were radically altered by colonialism. In Educating Seeta, Shuchi Kapila argues that the paradoxes of indirect rule in British India were negotiated in “family romances” which encoded political struggle in the language of domestic and familial civility. A mixture of domestic ideology and liberal polit...
|  | Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VIII, Books 16.66-17 (Loeb Classical Library No. 422)
Publication Date: January 1, 1963| ISBN-10: 0674994647 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994645Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduce...
|  | An Unwilling Bride
Release Date: September 1, 2011Beth Armitage had the life she wanted. Her work as a teacher gave her the independence she'd always sought and a life free from the shackles of matrimony. Yet after a harrowing meeting with the Duke of Belcraven, Beth found herself caught in a web of aristocratic power - and engaged to marry his rakish heir Lucien de Vaux, Marquess of Arden! She was determined to despise her betrothed, but when Arden decided to seduce her, she needed all her strength to keep her from surrendering her heart. ...
|  | Night Heat (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: August 22, 2006| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 9) Sebastian Steele was the kind of man women dreamed about.He was drop-dead gorgeous, wickedly charming and fabulously wealthy. So why wouldn't Erin Mason accept his offer to help run her struggling company? It was his reputation. Sebastian was a corporate shark, and Erin knew the big fish didn't swim with the little fish, they swallowed them whole.It had been Sebastian's intention to take over Mason Builders, whether Erin liked it or not. But when he started to work with her, sparks began to fly and they shared a sizzling, unf...
|  | Theodore Boone: The Accused
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|  | Taming a Sea-Horse
Release Date: May 1, 1987In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. This phenomenal bestseller, with a million-copy paperback first printing is supported by national TV advertising and a 6-month backlist reissue program. HC:Delacorte. ...
|  | The Silver Chariot (Greek Beasts and Heroes)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | It's Fall, Dear Dragon (Beginning-To-Read - Dear Dragon)
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| | Yo Sacramento! - 1994 publication.
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