 | The Devil in the White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Release Date: February 10, 2004Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction. ...
 |  | Chicana Critical Issues (Series in Chicana/Latina Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0943219094 | ISBN-13: 978-0943219097Nonfiction. We are the daughters of Chicano working class families, who were able to receive a university education.. Our history is the story of working people - their struggles, commitments, and strengths.. We document, analyze and interpret the Chicana/Mexicana experience in the United States. We are particularly concerned with the conditions women face at work, in and out of the home. We continue our mother's struggle for social and economic justice.. Our research strives to bridge the gap between intelle...
|  | Nina's Got a Secret: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Zane Presents An emotional roller coaster of a read about a young mother who must decide whether to save her child by any means necessary— even if it means allowing her stepdaughter to die. Nina Arceneaux, a struggling single mother, has a choice to make— she’s been proposed to by a millionaire, a man she doesn’t love. Larry Denison offers to take her, and her eight-year-old daughter, Precious, out of their one-bedroom apartment and move them into a mansion in Monterey, California. But, there’s a catch. Larry has an auti...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: April 12, 2011Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky’s work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: “I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry.”That ambition was realized in a new way...
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|  | A Priest to the Temple
Publication Date: June 20, 2003Written at a time of very lax standards in the parish ministry, this short, classic text by George Herbert exudes the wisdom, humility, and love for the priestly life for which the poet became renowned in his short life. ...
|  | Drummer Boy
Publication Date: April 16, 2010On a Blue Ridge Mountain peak, three boys hear the rattling of a snare drum deep inside a cave known as "The Jangling Hole," and the wind carries a whispered name.An old man at the foot of the mountain believes something inside the Hole has been disturbed by a developer's bulldozers. A local reporter is determined to solve the supernatural mysteries that have been shared for generations. Sheriff Frank Littlefield, haunted by past failures, must stand against a public enemy that has no fear of bullets, bars, or justice. On the eve of a Civil War re-enactment, t...
|  | Kissing Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: August 13, 2011(Gay / Erotica / Erotic Romance / Historical / Mystery / Detective / Action / Adventure) 'My dear Watson, how does one go about kissing a woman?'... Sherlock Holmes' question leads to a lesson Watson never expected to teach. And feelings he never thought to explore. A single kiss alters Watson's world while the announcement of Holmes' upcoming marriage sets an odd fear in his heart. Amidst the beauty of an English country party, the greatest detective the world has ever known searches for a traitor. Somewhere among the glittering nobility a sadist lurks, usin...
|  | An Idol for Others
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|  | Close Quarters
Release Date: August 9, 2005From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights.It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and t...
|  | Battle of the Mountain Man
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Mountain Man Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants - even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperados back to hell. ...
|  | After the Bugles
Release Date: June 1, 2004In the aftermath of a bitter and bloody war for independence, Texans have finally claimed their freedom from Mexico--but they don’t have much else to brag about. Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war has cost him much but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Anna. Josh is travelling with Ramon Hernandez his best friend and the man who had fought with him, side by side. Where they are going, he isn’t quite...
|  | Fear and Trembling: A Novel
Publication Date: April 18, 2002According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight ...
|  | Dreamsongs: Volume I
Release Date: October 30, 2007Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.Gathered here, in Volume I, are the very best of George R.R. Martin’s early works, including never-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Neb...
|  | Spanish Short Stories 1 / Cuentos hisp
Release Date: November 30, 1966Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from "Spanish America", only one from Spain, an unsurprising ratio considering there are no less than nineteen Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, and that the short story is an extremely popular form among authors there. This selection also, therefore, gives the reader an insight into the differences between the ...
|  | Zen and the Art of Changing Diapers
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|  | A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex
Publication Date: April 1, 2008This poetry anthology was conceived as something of a stunt to heighten the visibility of New Zealand writers. All the contributors are New Zealanders, and all of the more than 100 poems address the topic of sex—not love, just sex. The result is a collection that tackles sex from every angle, including the comic in Karl Stead's "The Clodian Songbook," the confessional in Rachel McAlpine's "A Frightened Poem about My Breasts," the metaphysical in James K. Baxter's "On the Death of Her Body," and the just plain ...
|  | Coils of Mortal Flesh
Publication Date: January 17, 2008The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life. Reading the poems constitutes an individual journey. This poetic journey from Awakening that takes the reader to Moonlight Spells & Wreaths and leads her/him through Laments to the Epilogue is a continuous movement in the search for humanity's existence. As a metaphor of self-discovery, the poetic quest is both an expression of, and a s...
|  | Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry
Publication Date: August 12, 1988| ISBN-10: 0389208175 | ISBN-13: 978-0389208174Contents: Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry, Robert Welch; Yeats: the Creation of an Audience, Seamus Deane; Yeats and the Re-making of Synge, Nicholas Grene; Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot, Peter Denman; Louis MacNeice's Ireland, Terence Brown; Patrick Kavanagh's Parish Myth, Antoinette Quinn; An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets, Gerald Dawe; Derek Mahon's Humane Perspective, Brendan Kennelly; Poetic Forms and Social Malformations, Edna Longley; ...
|  | Vampire News (Volume 1)
Publication Date: April 6, 2012Whether you love the romantic, dangerous, or traditionalvampires, whether you prefer a good book or to wait up late at night to catch the noir classics; or whether you stand anxiously in movie lines, blog, join vampire community websites, support famous and up-n-coming authors, get vamp tattoos, go to Cons, or are waiting in the wings of some dark dream, then his Book is for You!The Vampire Professor, Bertena Varney, MA, and acclaimed author, Stavros, have compiled for you a truly delightful tome for vampire fans of all ages!Researched thoroughly with love and ...
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