 | Fool on the Hill: A Novel
Publication Date: December 8, 1997As adventurous as the quests of J.R.R. Tolkien and as contemporary as the zany entertainment of Tom Robbins, "Fool on the Hill" is certain to bring laughs and be remembered for a long time to come. The hero is S.T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Soon George is caught up in an epic struggle of life and death, good and evil, magic and love . ...
 |  | Wings of a Dream
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Debut Author Delivers Sweet Heartwarming Historical FictionRebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promised adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he's the man she's meant to marry.While she waits for the Great War to end and Arthur to return to her so they can pursue all their plans, her mother's sister falls ill.Rebekah seizes the opportunity to travel to Texas to care for Aunt Adabelle, seeing this chance to be closer to Arthur's training camp as God's approval of her...
|  | The Morning Star (Fall of Zion)
Publication Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Fall of Zion (Book 1) The apocalypse has come and gone. The seals have been broken, the horns sounded, and the bowls emptied. God has passed judgment and created a new world for His faithful: Eterni. Settling the supervision of Zion in Archangel Mikael's loyal hands, God leaves with a third of the angelic hosts to create some other reality, universe, world, beings. A thousand years pass in harmonic serenity, but suddenly odd occurrences begin adding up, producing an uneasiness in heaven. An angel falls ill for the first time in eternity, sinister si...
|  | Dreams of Decadence #12 Autumn 2000 Vampire Poetry and Fiction
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|  | Heart of Oak
Release Date: March 4, 2008The new Bolitho novel from the greatest living writer of naval fiction.It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain’s fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy’s proximity. I...
|  | I Must Confess
Publication Date: August 28, 2007A stinging satire of tell-all showbiz memoirs starring a self-deluded gay icon who has managed to ride every pop culture trend of the last forty years.Marc LeJeune has had a remarkable career in the entertainment business. Despite the carping of critics, cruel twists of fate, and the treachery of former friends who were blind to his exceptional dramatic and musical talents, he has remained true to his unique artistic vision. From his early days as the face of Swinging London, to the late 1960s avant garde theater scene, through the sexually liberated cinema o...
|  | La hija de Robert Poste (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011In this classic tale, Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless. The proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora’s mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora’s confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics—from the mad woman in the attic to the peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs—provides a satirical look at a dark, rural scene....
|  | Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada
Publication Date: February 2002| ISBN-10: 075460229X | ISBN-13: 978-0754602293In the topsy-turvy 1580s and 1590s, as the episodic Anglo-Spanish war became the greatest threat to "English" security since circa 1066, Marlowe rose up in the London theatres like some Phaeton of the entertainment industry, taking war itself as a central subject of his art. This book reads his plays - especially "Tamburlaine", "Edward II", "The Massacre at Paris", and "Doctor Faustus" - as part of a bright new conversation then taking place in London about the nature of state security and martial law, the deco...
|  | Lo mejor de la poesia amorosa china/ The Best of the Chinese Love Poetry (Calambur Poesia) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Byron
Publication Date: December 20, 2000| ISBN-10: 0742511626 | ISBN-13: 978-0742511620Byron: The Erotic Liberal is the first book to focus on the erotic dimension of Byron's political career, as expressed in both Byron's poetry and his prose. Jonathan David Gross draws on extensive archival research into the life and letters of Lady Melbourne, whose correspondence with Byron shaped his erotic imagination and influenced his engagement with the biblical story of Joseph. Gross places Byron's politics in the context of the writings of other European aristocratic liberals, such as Madame de Sta`l...
|  | Stolen Paper Review 1
Publication Date: 1963Contains previously untranslated work by Jean Cocteau, translated by Charles Guenther, short essays on his childhood, Radiguet, Nijinski plus three poems.Also an exerpt from surrealist precursor Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros, translated by Michel Lifton. Langston Hughes Black African poetry, three paintings by Violeta Autumn, a poem by Verhaeren and more. ...
|  | The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
Publication Date: March 3, 2010| Series: Tantor Unabridged Classics "Holmes," I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?"Sherlock Holmes did not lose his life at the Reichenbach Falls. Nor has three years of absence taken away his power to startle the faithful Dr. Watson. But it is the Park Lane mystery-the murder of the Honorable Ronald Adair-that brings Holmes back to life and the search for the second most dangerous man in London.And when that case is satisfactorily concluded, Holmes is once again...
|  | Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Gold Ornate)
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|  | Androcles and the Lion
Publication Date: September 1991| Age Level: 4 and up A retelling of the fable describing the consequences of the meeting between the slave Androcles and a wounded lion. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Mermaid's Treasure Hunt: Peek inside the 3D windows!
Publication Date: October 16, 2012| Grade Level: P and up Join Sapphira the mermaid and her friends on an exciting undersea quest in this charming adventure, with pop-up pages that allow the reader to explore and peek through seaweed and coral reefs in three layers of pretty illustration....
|  | A Hen for Izzy Pippik
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up When Shaina finds a magnificent hen, she knows that Izzy Pippik, the hen's owner, is sure to return for her. In the meantime, Shaina decides she will care for the animal. But when dozens of eggs hatch and rowdy chickens scatter throughout the village, Shaina must fight the entire town if she has any hope of protecting the birds. Inspired by Jewish and Islamic traditional texts, this is a beautiful tale about doing the right thing, even in the face of adversity. ...
|  | 100 Unforgettable Moments in Pro Tennis (100 Unforgettable Moments in Sports)
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Falling Up (Hebrew) (Hebrew Edition)
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| | First Night Hanuk/gb (All-Aboard Reading)
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|  | Onions and Garlic: An Old Tale
Publication Date: March 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The youngest of a merchant's three sons proves that he is not as foolish as he was thought to be when he trades a sackful of onions for a fortune in diamonds. ...
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