 | Nude Awakening (Wahida Clark Presents)
Publication Date: December 23, 2011After pulling a fifteen year bid, thirty-three year old Trev is out to get back on his feet. His mind-set is not focused on the quick come up by reverting back to the streets. He has his mind set on using his body and handsome looks to tap into the porn industry and earn a living as an adult film actor. Needing cash, he takes his talents to South Beach to be a porn star. Trev s arrival at Amatory Erotic Films has all the girls buzzing, including CEO Janelle Babin. She believes filming the first sex a male prisoner has had in 15 years will be a huge hit, and...
 |  | Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Release Date: January 19, 2002Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why. ...
|  | Mrs. Fytton's Country Life
Publication Date: November 12, 2001Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband.Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model.Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight.She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and waits.One day, she knows, her husband will return.Meanwhile, she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and country people are next to angels -- and finds tha...
|  | Heliand: Text and Commentary (Medieval European Studies, 2) (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| Series: WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES (Book 2) This is the first edition of this early ninth-century poem of the life of Christ published for English-speaking students. The anonymously-composed Heliand was written twelve hundred years ago to present Christ and Christian principles to non-Christian Germans during the period of European conversion to Christianity. The book begins with the historical setting, then offers a discussion of the manuscript followed by approximately 3000 of the poem's nearly 6000 lines set into sections. There are commentaries on each o...
|  | The Shilling shockers: Stories of terror from the Gothic bluebooks
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|  | Get Down: Stories
Release Date: October 17, 2006Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other more dangerous street. The adults in Get Down are...
|  | Capital Offense
Publication Date: August 2002Is the First Lady plotting to overthrow the President? This question seems inconceivable to journalist Jack Rudly, but so did the murder of his own father, Senator William Rudly. Now his father is dead and all roads lead to the White House. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel
Release Date: September 30, 2003In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order—rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant—and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law; his restless, sensual wife; and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet's quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master's paintings will draw her inexorably...
|  | Buda: La novela que cambiara tu vida (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the life of a prince who gave up the trappings of royalty for something much more important - wisdom and enlightenment. This revolutionary journey has changed the world forever, and the lessons Buddha taught continue to influence every corner of the globe today. This is a new form of teaching for beloved Chopra and with it he brings us closer to understanding the true nature of life. Description in Spanish: Buda es una figura sin igual en el mundo. Con el, no solamente se inicia una nueva religion, sino que sus ensenanzas ...
|  | Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität - Eine Biographie (German Edition)
Publication Date: October 6, 2011Teil 1 der vierbändigen Biographie des bedeutenden Mathematikers Alexander Grothendieck. ...
| | Aeschylus Agamemnon
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|  | House of the Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories
Publication Date: February 6, 2004From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. "He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the house warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort." With his promise to abide by the rules, Eguchi begins his life as a member of a secret club for elderly gentlemen who have lost their sexual powers. At an inn several hours from Tokyo they indulge in their last pleasure: lying wit...
|  | Ange Aux Entrail La PL (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Heros Limite/Le Chant de (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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| | Aleksander Griboedov's Woe from Wit: A Commentary And Translation (Studies in Slavic Language and Literature)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0773461469 | ISBN-13: 978-0773461468| Edition: illustrated edition This work seeks to account for the disparity between Griboedov's "Woe from Wit" and his other works, by examining his plays and poems, letters and travel notes, the memoirs of his contemporaries, his literary sources and social milieu. The early works in which Griboedov exercised his craft, his single work of art and the few later works are related to three distinct periods in his life. Positive and negative influences are discussed. The former include Griboedov's association wi...
|  | Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
Publication Date: June 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0816649650 | ISBN-13: 978-0816649655Like our own, early modern beliefs about race depended on metaphorical, selective, and contradictory understandings of how membership in groups is determined. Although race took distinctive forms in the past, the fallacies that underlie early modern racial experience generally are precisely-and surprisingly-the same as those in contemporary culture. Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race...
|  | Fury Calls (Silhouette Nocturne (Numbered))
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Series: Silhouette Nocturne (Numbered) (Book 60) Four years ago, overcome by hunger, Blake Richards took too much from a young woman, and turned her to save her life. Now Meghan Thomas is like him, a vampire...and their initial attraction has turned to anger and distrust. She hates what he has made her, but when a vicious killer threatens Manhattan's vampire community, Meghan has no choice but to turn to him--her sire. Blake is reckless and brash. Meghan is young and untried. Alone, they are no match for the killer. But with the fates of humans and vampires a...
|  | The Wizard of Seattle
Release Date: August 30, 2005She looked like a ragged, storm-drenched urchin, but from the moment Serena Smyth appeared on his Seattle doorstep, Richard Patrick Merlin recognized the spark behind her green eyes. Serena had crossed a country to find him, guided by her determination to become a master wizard. She knew he could be her teacher—but she never expected the charismatic, seductive power that was Merlin's. Nor had she dreamed of the fire he ignited in her body and soul, a flame that burned even hotter than the powerful talent she possessed but did not yet understand. Their love...
|  | Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: May 19, 1999A black Supreme Court justice. An assassin's bullet. A young U.S. attorney puts it on the line for the truth.When conservative Supreme Court justice Farrell Douglas is gunned down, it falls to young black U.S. attorney Marshall Jackson to investigate America's most important, and inflammatory, case. Together with his childhood friend, tough Irish cop Danny Cavanaugh, Marshall discovers that the conspiracy behind the assassination runs deeper than he ever imagined. Marshall's troubles really begin when he realizes that his fraternal twin, Moses, a gangster on the str...
|  | Paradise at Your Fingertips
Release Date: March 27, 2012Jeanette and Maria Vandermeer were born fraternal twins. Even though they have the same birthday, they don't have anything else in common. They are night and day different, inside and out-most notably in that Jeanette is always happy, while Maria never seems to be. Growing up together, they learned many of the same lessons; even so, the way they look at the world is very different. As an adult, Maria is kicked out of the family home for unruly behavior, and Jeanette moves away to marry her boyfriend. Despite their differences, they both find themselves settling fo...
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