 | GroundTies ('NetWalkers: Original Series)
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 |  | Wild Mountain Thyme
Publication Date: November 15, 1996When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us...Oliver Dobbs was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were tools. Even though he had broken Victoria Bradshaw's heart once, wh...
|  | Dangerous Mercy: A Novel (Secrets of Roux River Bayou)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Secrets of Roux River Bayou This intense psychological thriller is the second book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou series from best-selling author Kathy Herman. When elderly Adele Woodmore moves to Les Barbes to be near the Broussards, she wants nothing more than a comfortable, quiet life. Employing men from Father Vince’s halfway house for the homeless to do odd jobs, she takes an interest in their lives and is delighted to be helping them get back on their feet. Now a series of murders has cast a pall over the town and one of Ad...
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|  | After Kinship (New Departures in Anthropology)
Publication Date: November 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521665701 | ISBN-13: 978-0521665704What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology which will be of interest to anthropologists as well as to other social scientists. ...
|  | The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
Publication Date: September 29, 2004| Series: Routledge Classics Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bh...
|  | The Antigone
Publication Date: August 21, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal (Landmarks of World Literature)
Publication Date: April 24, 1992| Series: Landmarks of World Literature Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its "landmark" status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial condemnation on its first publication in 1857. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du Mal, offering new insights into its composition, themes and style, setting it in its historical context, and devotin...
|  | How I Got These Scars
Publication Date: October 12, 2011Garrison Keillor said, "It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." This quotation sums up my newest collection of poetry. Everyone has some type of scars in their lives that they must deal with, whether it's from relationships, family, love, children, or just life in general. Scars connect us all and make us real. I hope this book helps you embrace the scars from your past, present, and future. It helped me with mine. ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: August 2, 2004| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. Cindy Weinstein comprehensively investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change. ...
|  | Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology
Publication Date: February 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 0631210288 | ISBN-13: 978-0631210283| Edition: 1 Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility arise? Who are the key figures responsible for its emergence; which are the key texts of its expression? This Anthology provides ways of responding to such questions. ...
|  | Pleasure Seekers
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Ilene is a captivatingly beautiful supermodel, Faye is an award-winning advertising executive and Alana is a brilliant editor for today's hottest fashion magazine. Now all three women are caught in the whirlwind of the super rich and famous. They find themselves the objects of the desires of every man--from movie stars, politicians, CEOs and rock stars to European royalty--men for whom there are no limits, nothing is too expensive, nothing is forbidden. From Manhattan to Paris to Southampton, their new worlds are a torrent of sensual delights and unlimited lu...
|  | His Secondhand Wife (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 760) Noah Cutter was a man of his word… Scarred in body and soul, rancher Noah didn’t consider himself fit company for anyone. But when his brother’s philandering finally caught up with him, honour dictated that Noah claim his brother’s widow as his own… Noah was about the most intimidating man Katherine had ever seen. Yet though one man’s false promises had already dashed her dreams, she instinctively trusted this stranger. And Kate suspected she’d only be a fool this time if ...
|  | Wild Winds (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: June 1, 1998| Series: Zebra Historical Romance Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective, a profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the wild West. Now, having sworn to clear her stepbrother's name of a murder charge, she sets out to track down the real murderers, meeting ex-Texas Ranger and half-blood Cheyenne, Hawk Reynolds along the way. Together, they will ride into Tombstone and into a crossfire of lies, double dealings, and searing betrayal as they search for answers--and find passion fated to explode beneath the bright desert sky. ...
|  | Bones of Betrayal: A Body Farm Novel
Release Date: February 3, 2009| Series: Body Farm The first three Body Farm novels—Carved in Bone, Flesh and Bone, and The Devil's Bones—took readers deep into the backwoods of East Tennessee, where fascinating forensic science mixed with extraordinary characters, including the Farm's charismatic founder. Now, in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series Kathy Reichs calls "the real deal," truth, lies, war, and history intertwine in a story that reaches new heights of suspense. This is Jefferson Bass's most ambitious and enthralling book yet. Bones of Be...
|  | James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Release Date: September 1, 2004| Series: James Bond The legend continues! Titan Books presents the further adventures of the world's greatest secret agent, in this third instalment of a classic action series! After spending over a year on a fruitless search for Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his sinister organisation, Spectre, Bond decides he's had enough and pens his letter of resignation! Before he can deliver it, however, fate smiles on him once more and it's not long before he has ingratiated himself with the Corsican Mafia, managed to get back on Blofeld's trail and got involved with a beauti...
|  | Broken Silence (DI Jack Brady)
Publication Date: October 14, 2010| Series: DI Jack Brady The question of who killed Sophie Washington is a complex one, possibly implicating the whole community, in this debut crime novel taking place in the gritty underworld of North East England Early one cold November morning in a run-down seaside resort, the body of a young girl is discovered. Found abandoned just five minutes' walk from her home, her face has been mutilated beyond recognition. DI Jack Brady, just back on active duty after recovering from a vicious shooting incident, is on the edge. Struggling t...
|  | Jennifer Murdley's Toad: A Magic Shop Book
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Herbert's Wormhole
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upGreetings. This story concerns a scientific anomaly that opens a portal, allowing us to traverse the space-time continuum and triggering an adventure that those of limited intelligence might simply describe as "awesome." Hey! This is a book about how we get sucked into this wormhole thingy and it drops us in the future where there's all this really cool futuristic stuff, but also these super-freaky aliens and we mess everything up and have to save the world. How awesome is that?...
|  | Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter
Release Date: November 17, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up "Drawing or writing, Bush's pen is loaded with wit." Welcome to the spaceship home of Benjamin McFadden--where tennis is played in spacesuits, books are read in zero gravity, and robot babysitters have eight arms and are preprogrammed to send you to bed at 8:00 p.m. sharp. But the night his parents go to the Rings of Saturn Preservation Dance, Benjamin McFadden isn't ready for bed. Taking matters into his own hands, he reprograms Babysitter, and his own private party is soon underway--until Benjamin is finally ready to rest. The only hitch...
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