 | Callejones de Arbat (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 14, 2012Callejones de Arbat (Arbat Alleys) tells the adventures of a Cuban journalist in Moscow, during his work in an international organization in the former Soviet bloc. The plot takes place in the times of perestroika and the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Socialist system in Eastern Europe. The central hero of the novel lives an intense love story with a peculiar hispanic-russian actress, and through the father of hers, initiates in the study and research of the life and work of the Russian writers who were victims of the repressions of the Soviet regime. T...
 |  | Heat Wave, Premium Edition (Nikki Heat, Book 1)
Release Date: August 30, 2011MORE CASTLE! This new mass market premium edition will include a chapter from Richard Castle's new hardcover, HEAT RISES, to be published in September 2011. It also includes two chapters from NAKED HEAT, the second in the series, as well as a conversation with the author. A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes anoth...
|  | MizUnderstood
Publication Date: September 20, 2012Nikki Sanchez is a straightforward hood chick from Washington D.C. Tormented by her past, she tries to move forward and cope with her life by seeking the help of a family psychologist. Unable to get efficient help she decides to live life by her own rules. A bracing, shocking, and disturbing account of life scarred by torment and unthinkable violence.Slowly remembering her painful childhood makes everything come together full circle as she realizes her life has been full of nothing but lies and mind games. She is out to not only get revenge, but also seek ...
|  | Wait'n For The Sun To Rise
Publication Date: July 8, 2011Kevin Dawson finds himself falling in love with a biracial beauty. His love for this woman begins to be turned inside out when he discovers that she is dealing with an abusive relationship. Mayee Kitomaki is beautiful in every way. Spawned from a secret Japanese and African American love affair, this sexy educated woman has grown tired of the abuse her current fiance dishes out.Nathan Livingston one of Wall Streets most powerful Lawyers, uses his abuse tactics to control everything in his world. His power to manipulate the system comes to a shocking end, when hi...
|  | Student
Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
|  | Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: October 31, 2002| Series: New York Review Books Classics A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALMavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and stray...
|  | Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories
Publication Date: December 11, 2006| ISBN-10: 0978984803 | ISBN-13: 978-0978984809| Edition: 1st This collection of previously published short shorts by Emerson alumni celebrates the short short genre and the important role Emerson College's writing program has played in the history of that genre. The anthology features authors: Derrick Ableman, Joann Avallon, Rusty Barnes, Jane Berentson, Stace Budzko, Leslie Busler, JenniferCarr, Keith Carter, Chip Cheek, Amy L. Clark, Kirsten Culbertson, Mark DeCarteret, Erin Dionne, Denise Duhamel, Elizabeth Kemper French, Lee Harrington, Jen Heller,...
|  | Los Secretos Del Club Bilderberg/ the Secrets of Club Bilderberg (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Plotinus V: Ennead V (Loeb Classical Library, 444)
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0674994892 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994898Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and t...
|  | Latinity and Literary Society at Rome
Publication Date: May 1997Latinity and Literary Society at Rome is an examination of attitudes toward Latinity, reviewing the contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of Roman Literature. Author, W. Martin Bloomer, shows how that literature's reflections on correct and incorrect speech functioned as part of a wider understanding of social relations and national identity in Rome. ...
|  | Prince of Dreams
Release Date: August 1, 1995 A wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through threats and determination does nothing to fill the empty spaces in Nikola's heart—until passion's magic carries the handsome, tormented prince back to a bygone era of splendor and romantic dreams. For there his destiny awaits him in a distant life. And in one remarkable woman's tender touch—achingly familiar but gloriously new—he must ...
|  | Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Series: Rogue Warrior Investigating the murder of his friend at the hands of a Russian godfather, who has also died suspiciously, the Rogue Warrior uncovers a political conspiracy that leads to an attempt to disband the SEALs. Read by Richard Marcinko....
|  | Thirteen at Dinner: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries Bewitching actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She implores Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Laughing, she tells Poirot if he fails she may have to bump off her husband herself. But it is no laughing matter when Lord Edgware is murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis. ...
|  | Usagi Yojimbo Book 7
Publication Date: November 13, 1996The novel-length title story relates the heretofore untold story of the mercenary swordsrhino Gennosuke. This volume also introduces a new romantic interest for Usagi, tells the final fate of the Blind Swordspig, and more!The seventh volume in this legendary series about a wandering rabbit samurai in feudal Japan is now available in a newly redesigned edition! This dense tome collects issues 32 through 38 of the original Usagiseries as well as the Usagi strip from Critters #38. In addition to the novel-length "Gen's Story," which forms the centerpiece of th...
|  | Alerta roja en Vieja York / Danger In Redwitch Village (Benjamin Y El Dragon / Belmont and the Dragon) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Pequeno dragon aprende a echar fuego / Little Dragon learns to split fire (Pequeletra) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Bintou's Braids
Publication Date: October 7, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Bintou wants braids. Long, pretty braids, woven with gold coins and seashells, just like her older sister and the other women in her family. But she is too young for braids. Instead, all she has are four little tufts of hair; all she ever gets are cornrows. However, when Bintou saves the lives of her two young cousins and is offered a reward of her choosing, Bintou discovers that true beauty comes in many different forms. Rich, earthy illustrations and a heartwarming story capture the spirit of a West African vill...
|  | My Name is Jake
Publication Date: July 11, 2012My Name Is Jake is a colorfully illustrated, rhyming book centered around a boy named Jake. Each page leads the reader through an activity that rhymes with Jake.This book is perfect for a young child or an early reader, just beginning to put letters into words and rhyming them together. ...
|  | ABOUT THE SEA HARE: CONTEMPLATIONS ON FAIRY TALES II.
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|  | Measured by Stone
Publication Date: September 1, 2007These poems exhibit the range of Sam Hamill's celebrated practice and vision, from philosophical and discursive elements to the intensely lyrical, from his continuing poems of praise (and elegies) for fellow poets to the clear influence of the Zen classics he has so notably translated....
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