 | Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Publication Date: July 30, 1997Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have significantly contributed to the world of literature. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 75 Jewish-American novelists whose major works were largely written after World War II. Included are entries for both well-known and relatively obscure novelists, many of whom are just becoming established as significant literary figures. While the volume profiles major canonical figures such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, it also aims to be more inclusive than ot...
 |  | Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison,Volume 1
Release Date: December 17, 1989Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview. ...
|  | Jewish Women Fiction Writers (Women Writers of English and Their Works)
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|  | In Extremis: Book Seven of the Latter Annals of Lystra
Publication Date: October 5, 2009"Come at once. Ares is dying."So reads the frantic message from Surchataine Nicole that brings Ares' adopted son Henry out of exile after two years. When Henry arrives at Westford, he discovers vultures gathering over the province, eyeing Ares' twin 14-year-old daughters, Sophie and Bonnie. Accustomed to patrolling the wild western border of Lystra to keep out slavers, Henry must now readjust to courtly intrigues-a task made all the more difficult by the meaningless but conspicuous leper's brand on his hand.Matters come to a head when Surchatain Magnus of Scy...
|  | Irish Ghosts & Hauntings
Publication Date: May 1, 1994What is it about Ireland’s past that so haunts the imagination? More than one answer can be found in Michael Scotts’s powerful new collection of 29 tales. To start with, in a newly Christianized Ireland, monks do battle with a devilish monster that has killed a river. All the water in this collection, from rivers to lakes, conceal dangers that men and women would best avoid. Ready to tempt Ireland’s new conquerors — humankind— supernatural forces hide beneath waves, in bogs, in the very land, waiting. With his usual inventiveness, M...
|  | Circle of Death (Damask Circle Book)
Publication Date: July 2002In one, vicious night, Kirby Brown’s world is tornapart. Her best friend is dead, killed by a madman who is now afterher. And she has no idea why.Doyle Fitzgerald has been sent to Melbourne, Australia to hunt down akiller. What he doesn’t expect to find is a circle of witches capableof controlling the elements and a sorceress determined to take thatpower for herself. And he certainly isn’t expecting to play bodyguardto a woman who is more than she seems.When the police prove incapableof protecting Kirby from the monsters that chase her, she has nocho...
|  | The Lurker at the Threshold
Publication Date: June 2003He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into his family's sinister past eventually lead to the unspeakable revelations of The Great Old Ones who wait on the boundaries of space and time for someone to summon them to earth. Acclaimed cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's notes and outlines for this tale of unc...
|  | Out of the Ashes (Ashes Series #1)
Release Date: January 1, 2008Searching for his missing family in the aftermath of a post-apocalyptic America, rebel mercenary and patriot Ben Raines is united with the civilians of the Resistance forces and moves to the forefront of a revolution for the nation's future. Reprint. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Black Death: A Personal History
Publication Date: June 9, 2009In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived—and died—during the Black Death (1345–50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague. Dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have exp...
|  | The Sheikh and the Dustbin
Publication Date: January 8, 1996These stories continue the career of Private McAuslan, described by his platoon commander as "the biggest walking disaster to hit the British Army since Ancient Pistol", as he goes across North Africa and Scotland. George MacDonald Fraser is the author of the "Flashman" novels. ...
|  | The Greek Myths (Volume 1)
Release Date: December 1, 1990Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. @GoldenFarceGood, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line! When he gets home we’ll talk. I’m sure we can work it out. But what’s the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less ...
|  | Crawl, Fade to White
Publication Date: May 7, 2010Comedy / 2m, 3f / Simple SetA scream is heard throughout the stratosphere. It is the voice of the lamp. Louise is selling this expensive family heirloom to keep her daughter April in school and cease her more sordid "consultant" profession. April rushes home with lover in tow to halt the proceedings and save the lamp, but it has been intercepted by a quiet and bizarre middle-aged couple with a haunting secret.Attempts to reclaim the lamp are made, as a misplaced father slowly fades to white in the background. "...A gutsy writer with a gift for creating vivid imag...
|  | Ships of Wood and Men of Iron: A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic
Publication Date: January 2004Over 100 years ago, in June 1898, Captain Otto Sverdrup and 15 crewmen put out to sea aboard the schooner "Fram" from the Norwegian city today known as Oslo. When they returned to Norway four years later, they came back with a record of geographic and scientific discovery, the richness of which is unparalleled in the annals of Arctic exploration. The first section of this book is the story of those four heroic years spent in the High Arctic and their impact on Canada’s subsequent efforts to ensure Canadian sovereignty in the area of the Norwegian discoverie...
|  | Mothers And Sons (The Love Between Series)
Publication Date: October 25, 1995| ISBN-10: 1850156417 | ISBN-13: 978-1850156413| Edition: Min Inspirational quotations ...
|  | Love Poems of Arif Khudairi
Publication Date: September 26, 2011 Love Poems of Arif Khudairiis a collection of 40 poems of love crafted with an adept and scholarly handcombining imaginative force with acute poetic sensibility. The poems of this anthologycapture the love story in a new and fascinating poetic form. The poet, Arif Khudairi,excels at both nocturne and aubade, and his employment of metaphor and simile isdirect, uncontrived and vivifying. He exhibits an astonishing mastery of pure light andshade, conveying the emotional anfechtungen of the 'voice' with remarkable ability. Thecollection is both compelling and...
|  | The Clean Shirt of It (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series (Book 10)The Clean Shirt of It marks the first English translation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her introduction, “No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto. At least not with such a keen sense of the relationship between form and content, or pop culture and high art.” Paulo Henriques Britto has received Brazil’s most prestigious prizes for literature and translation. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, ...
|  | MentalsexRaw Poetry
Release Date: July 6, 2006...remain relaxed and inhale then exhale deeplyI want to find what you keep hiddendon't blush when I reveal what was once forbiddenI'll kiss your thoughts and romance your minddon't get it twisted this is sex of another kindhold me tight as the nectar spills from your fruitrealize I get you nicer than the absolute (100 proof)you put your hand in between your thighsI know it's throbbing as we speak, and I'm not suprisedIt's not a coincidence you were sent to mestay fully dressed I'll make love to you mentally... ...
|  | Venice and Vitruvius: Reading Venice with Daniele Barbaro and Andrea Palladio
Publication Date: July 3, 2012In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, De architectura (On Architecture). These ideas have stimulated architects ever since. In the mid-16th century, the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and the humanist Daniele Barbaro (1513-1570) looked to the city of Venice in order to understand and interpret Vitruvius's text - still in need of clarification - which would enable them to solve contemporary architectural problems. They found in the city's medieval ...
|  | The Sea's Embrace
Publication Date: November 1, 2008Her heart would guide him home.Architectural mastermind Katherine Shaw has left her career in the States behind to follow a passion for antiquity to The London Museum for Art and Archeology. During a museum excursion, a controversial relic is pulled from the ocean depths—a relic containing a mystery to which she is inexplicably joined.His home might claim her life.Born of the old gods, punished and locked away from love, Derrick has crossed seas of time to find Katherine. Chosen as the guardian of his land’s magic, he knows what Katherine doesn...
|  | Diary: A Novel
Release Date: September 14, 2004Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon find...
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