 | Zeitoun
Release Date: June 15, 2010The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his ...
 |  | Latina Issues (Latinos in the United States)
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|  | Horror: The 100 Best Books
Publication Date: May 1, 1998Creators of horror (Stephen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straub etc) write about their favourite works. ...
|  | Crazy in Alabama
Release Date: August 9, 1994Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the stories he's heard and the people he knows.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA FEATURED ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD ...
|  | The Beloved Son: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 2008The acclaimed novel, now in paperback. In rich, lyrical prose, Jay Quinn tells of a family reunion over one weekend, as two sons come to terms with their parents’ declining health.Jay Quinn is also the author of Back Where He Started, The Good Neighbor, and The Boomerang Kid. ...
|  | Shield of Justice
Publication Date: September 2005First in the Justice Series. Special Crimes Unit investigator Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye is attempting to solve a series of sexual assaults and running into dead ends at every turn.Finally, she has a break in the case–a witness–one person who may help her bring a madman to justice.But, the witness is a victim herself and Rebecca must convince the injured woman's physician, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, to assist her–a task that will force both women to confront their own darkest fears.Amidst professional conflicts and a growing mutual attra...
|  | Ramage & the Saracens (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 17) Barbary Coast pirates—the Saraceni—are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another town. ...
|  | The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 3
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson The third of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction.Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.Introduction by Jeremy LassenThe Ghost Pirates The Silent Ship: (aka The Phantom Ship, aka The Silent Ship Tells How Jessop Was Picked Up)Stories of the Sea:* A Tropical Horror * The Voice in the Night * The Shamraken' Homeward-Bounder (aka Homeward Bound) * Out of the Storm * Albatross, The * In the Wailing Gully * 'Prentices M...
|  | The Bilbao Effect - Acting Edition
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|  | Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publication Date: May 15, 1972| ISBN-10: 0226347893 | ISBN-13: 978-0226347899Ranging from macabre fantasies to fairy tales and tales of crime, these stories from the author of The Nutcracker create a rich fictional world. Hoffman paints a complex vision of humanity, where people struggle to establish identities in a hostile, absurd world."The editors have made an excellent selection, and the result is a book of great distinction."—Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books"The translators have proved fully equal to all the challenges of Hoffmann's romantic irony and his richly allus...
|  | Anna's Poems of Love, Life, and Humour
Release Date: July 6, 2006I took up writing poetry on my retirement. In the last year I have had alreadypublished or soon to be published around 70 poems. Therefore, as the response was good,I decided to publish my own book.Being a romantic many of thepoems I write have a strong slant to interest the fair sex. I list a few poems asfollows: "A Beautiful Woman", "Mum, why did you marry Dad?" "How Mary got her Man", "MyFirst Passion", "Marriage the old-fashioned way", "She Pulls the Strings" and "The BoyNext Door".On the serious side, I have written "The Day theEarth Trembled" which relates...
|  | Haiku: Eastern Culture v. 1 (Japanese and English Edition)
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|  | Jeff Bezos: King Of Amazon.Com (Techies)
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|  | Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema: (Student Edition) (Studying (Auteur))
Publication Date: November 25, 2008| Series: Studying (Auteur) Pan's Labyrinth, Stranger than Fiction, The Science of Sleep...
|  | Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend: Papers from an Anglo- North American Symposium (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: September 6, 1990| Series: Arthurian Studies This volume comprises selected papers from a Tristan symposium held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London. The symposium was conceived by the organizers as an experiment in transatlantic dialogue and the papers representthe views of scholars from a variety of North American and British universities. The main focus of attention is Gottfried's Tristan. Familiar assumptions about the text are questioned and fresh perspectives are offered on many contentious issues: those disagreements which persist are themselves a reflecti...
|  | The Anonymous Marie de France
Publication Date: May 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0226059847 | ISBN-13: 978-0226059846The Anonymous Marie de France offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick’s Purgatory. Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of h...
|  | Chasin' Eight (Rough Riders)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Rough Riders She wants it. He’s got it. And the chase is on… Rough Riders, Book 11 Bull rider Chase McKay has finally landed in a pile too big to charm his way out of. Caught with his pants down, he finds himself bucked right off the PBR tour until he can get his act together. Hollywood actress Ava Cooper became the tabloids’ favorite target when her longtime boyfriend was outed as gay. Now she wants a place to lay low and a chance to prove to herself that she can satisfy a red-blooded man between the sheets. The sexy...
|  | Loving the Highlander (Highlander Trilogy)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Highlander Trilogy A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills...When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine. For he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval highlander in modern-day Maine, a man with the fury of the untamed wilderness pounding in his veins -- and the power to unlock Sadie's ...
|  | "M" is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Kinsey Millhone Brace yourself for an “ELECTRIFYING and THOROUGHLY SATISFYING” read (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue GraftonMalek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction—and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found.Now it’s up to Kinsey Millhone to find the ...
|  | Early German and Austrian Detective Fiction: An Anthology
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Often considered an Anglo-American and French phenomenon, the detective story is now known to have been German as well, at least since Adolph Mullner's 1828 novella The Caliber--published 13 years before Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders of the Rue Morgue." The Germanic stories, however, were neglected by German and Austrian academics with literary-canonical predilections, dismissed by self-important Anglo-American scholars, and suppressed by National Socialists. Now, as scholars reexamine noncanonical works in all genres, these stories arise newly appraised and app...
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