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 |  | The Jewels of Tessa Kent
Release Date: October 27, 1998For the first time Judith Krantz has chosen to tell a story rooted in the shattering emotions of a mother-daughter relationship gone desperately wrong. The story unfolds on a classic Krantz background, a magic carpet of gorgeous entertainment and sumptuous events. Yet, at its core, The Jewels of Tessa Kent is an engrossing, deeply moving, and ultimately inspiring tale of two women bound by blood yet torn apart by their deepest emotions.Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise ...
|  | Consequences
Release Date: May 31, 2007Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away ...Lorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by ...
|  | Wrinkle
Publication Date: October 10, 2008Young women are dying under mysterious circumstances in Pelican Cove, Florida.The police and medical examiner need to find out what's going on before the next victim falls prey to this new epidemic of death.Renowned plastic surgeon and confirmed bachelor David Layton finds himself a suspect.His beautiful new nurse, Lisa Martin, is eager to avenge a friend's death and unravel the cause of the suspicious events.The dead women all share a recent treatment for wrinkles as a common event --- could the 'Botox' they received be more dangerous than anyone imagined?T...
|  | Black Jack 11 (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The House on Sandstone
Publication Date: February 1, 2007Twenty-five years ago, Carly Griffin left Leland, Kentucky – sure that it held nothing for her future.Now weary of living overseas for one consulting project after another, she’s glad to have two months back in Leland to relax with her aging parents.When she catches a glimpse of her high school friend Justine in the doorway of her elegant home, she is surprised by the warm, famiiar feelings stirred within.Justine Hall made different choices, returning to Leland after college to marry and raise two children.Now divorced, she walks a fine line betwee...
|  | The Sixth Lamentation
Release Date: July 27, 2004Larkwood Priory, Suffolk, 1995: Following his afternoon confessions, Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselm’s response—claim sanctuary—is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined, for the man returns demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal. Meanwhile, with her life running out, Agnes Aubret unburdens a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier Agnes lived in occupied Paris and risked...
|  | Postcards from Berlin: A Novel
Publication Date: August 11, 2003Catriona Lydgate is a housewife with two children and an adoring husband. But beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect life are the dark secrets of the past she's tried to forget. Disturbing postcards begin arriving in the mail; she is recognized by a man who knew her from her past-an avalanche of small moments that will threaten everything she thought was real. When her youngest daughter falls ill with a mysterious illness, the doctors and even her husband suspect that she is deliberately making her child sick.As her marriage unravels, she comes dangerou...
|  | The Diary of a Nobody
Publication Date: November 20, 2008The Diary of a Nobody, the spoof diary of Charles Pooter, a London clerk, first appeared as a book in 1892 and has never been out of print since. The hilariously trivial doings of the accident-prone Pooter, his wife Carrie and their troublesome son Lupin have inspired many writers since, including the authors of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh called it "the funniest book in the world." This is the first fully edited edition of the Diary, with comprehensive notes on the many historical a...
|  | Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Release Date: November 30, 1993Argues that the rationalist political and social experiments of the Enlightenment have degenerated into societies dominated by technology and a crude code of managerial efficiency. These are societies enslaved by manufactured fashions and artificial heroes, divorced from natural human instinct. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Nectar for the Discerning Palate: Poetry, Song & Verse by
Publication Date: September 21, 2012Nectar for the Discerning Palate is a truly outstanding body of work from Doug Moody, the greatest ever Australian to put pen to paper. Within this tome you will find a collection of poems, songs and literary masterpieces of the highest order, all inspired by the people and places encountered by Mr Moody during his extraordinary life. This body of literary gems will take your mind to a higher level and arouse passions and feelings never believed possible by the written word.Indulge in The Captain’s Diamond, a tale of debauchery, greed, lust and reve...
|  | A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts
Publication Date: May 20, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415234689 | ISBN-13: 978-0415234689A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature.Aimed at AS, A2 and undergraduate students, Richard Jacobs draws a map of English Literature which is fresh and distinctive and which offers guidance to many familiar landmarks. In the process he shows that...
|  | Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry
Publication Date: May 1991Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms. Unending Design will be welcomed by anyone interested in American poetry in particular and postmodernism more generally. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love and The Motherhood of God (Library of Medieval Women)
Publication Date: July 20, 2006| Series: Library of Medieval Women Despite the strange and distant nature of her life and subject-matter, the works of Julian of Norwich remain immediate and compelling. Her Revelations are recorded in two versions: the short text, or "first edition", written near the time; and the better-known second version, which is both longer and more complex, completed some twenty years later. The short text, offering personal details edited out in her "second edition", but which allow a better sense of Julian as a person, is presented here in translation. It includes al...
|  | Little Annie Fanny, Volume 2: 1970-1988
Publication Date: November 7, 2001| Series: Little Annie Fanny Dark Horse concludes its complete reprinting of Playboy's legendary Little Annie Fanny strip, with an even bigger second volume, at the same price as the first. Picking up where the first volume left off, this collection follows the strip through to its end in 1988. Ralph Nader, the women's movement, Star Wars, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all fall victim to the merciless and masterful satire of Kurtzman and Elder. The first volume was a smash hit, and the second includes all the same goodies, with never-before-seen production art a...
|  | Prime Time (Charlotte Mcnally)
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Charlotte Mcnally In the cutthroat world of television journalism, seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally knows that she'd better pull out all the stops or kiss her job goodbye. But it's her life that might be on the line when she learns that an innocent-looking e-mail offer resulted in murder, mayhem and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring.All too soon her investigation leads her straight to Josh Gelston, who is a little too helpful and a lot too handsome. Charlie might have a nose for news, but men are a whole other matter. Now she has to decide whether sh...
|  | Spell Bound: A Novel (An Otherworld Novel)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: An Otherworld NovelThe #1 New York Times bestselling author sets the stagefor a battle of epic proportions in the 12th installment of her criticallylauded Women of the Otherworld series. Savannah Levine is all grown up. As a witch endowed withan array of spells, she is also a force to be reckoned with. As a paranormalinvestigator she is finally coming into her own. But her last case tore a familyapart, and Savannah swore she'd give up her powers to fixthe mess she helped create. Someone-or something-must have beenlistening. Powerless and on the ru...
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| | Roman Stories (Tales from Around the World)
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|  | Wayne Gretzky: Greatness on Ice (Crabtree Groundbreaker Biographies)
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