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Publication Date: September 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1921372125 | ISBN-13: 978-1921372124An original and confronting portrayal of a woman facing a personal and professional crisis, this stirring novel is an elegant meditation on the power a single mistake can have on life. Doctor Anna McBride’s life is starting to unravel—the mother of two boys and a dedicated general practitioner, she is being sued for medical negligence, a case of delayed diagnosis. Deeply ashamed of her mistake, she retreats into family life, only to find that her husband seems preoccupied with a younger c...
 |  | Two in One
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Pramila U. Dugel, second time author, is originally from Nepal and was educated in Darjeeling, India. After receiving her Cambridge University Overseas certificate, she graduated with a bachelor degree in Kathmandu. She taught in International Schools in Vienna, Austria, New York, USA, and Beijing, China. As Principal of a private school in Long Beach, CA for nine years, she resigned in 2003 to pursue her dream-to be an author. She established the first Kindergarten in Kathmandu, she has given teachers' workshops, written educational articles (Macmillan) and has...
|  | The Gay Detective
Publication Date: May 2003Before there was Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, vintage pulp writer Lou Rand delivered this high-camp masterpiece. Set in Beat-era gay-mecca-in-the-making San Francisco, the 1961 novel stars a sissy gumshoe, his butch ex-Marine assistant, a nymphomaniac on the make, and plenty of dishy humor. This flamboyant whodunit is now available for the first time in three decades. ...
|  | Pride and Prejudice
Publication Date: June 23, 2012This is a beautiful new edition of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Complete and unabridged. Printed on high quality paper. ...
|  | Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien
Publication Date: February 28, 2012A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarshipWith the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien's popularity has never been higher. In Green Suns and Faërie, author Verlyn Flieger, one of world's foremost Tolkien scholars, presents a selection of her best articles--some never before published--on a range of Tolkien topics.The essays are divided into three distinct sections. The first explores Tolkien's ideas of sub-creation--the making of a Secondary Wor...
|  | The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
Publication Date: June 4, 2001| ISBN-10: 0520230698 | ISBN-13: 978-0520230699The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism. ...
|  | Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance
Publication Date: May 28, 2003At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form—the ancient Latin comedy—to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender and class roles. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance brings together the best of these works in lively new translations by Laura Giannetti and Guido Ruggiero, who also place the comedies in their cultural and social context. Presenting a fresh perspective on the Italian Renaissance, these deft...
|  | La de San Quintin; Electra (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Homer on Life and Death
Publication Date: July 1980| ISBN-10: 0198140169 | ISBN-13: 978-0198140160| Edition: First Edition This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it.Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Auserlesene Gedichte (German Edition)
Release Date: February 2, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1819 edition by G. G. Strasser, Heilbronn. ...
|  | The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature
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|  | On Poetry and Poets
Release Date: July 7, 2009T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as “The Three Voices of Poetry,” “Poetry and Drama,” and “What Is Minor Poetry?” as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in “The Music of Poetry,” “We must expect a time t...
|  | Bad Girl By Night: A H.O.T. Cops Novel
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: A H.O.T. Cops Novel A steamy new series that will have fans on lockdown.Meet the H.O.T. cops, a group of alpha males trained in law enforcement-but naturally skilled at the art of pleasure. The people of Turnbridge, Michigan, see Carly Winters as the respectable-yet painfully single- good girl. None of them knows what she does miles away, where she becomes Desiree, a seductress who lures men into nights of heated passion. Until the day she's introduced to the new cop in town-Jake, one of the men who fulfilled her darkest fantasy. His arrival turns her sa...
|  | Voice from the Planet
Publication Date: May 10, 2010Award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood join forcesin Harvard Square Editions' second volume of Living Fiction, andthey are donating the net proceeds from the sale of this book to theNobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins SansFrontières (MSF). Most anthologies are limited by their themes to a particular town or country, reinforcing entrenched literary nationalism whereby institutionalized literati only appreciate their own. Not Voice from the Planet. This collection of extraordinary voices is unlimited. It will trans...
|  | Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
Release Date: December 30, 2008| Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Aggressively investigating an American's murder in tranquilVenice despite his superior's order to keep things clean and quiet,Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic wastecover-up with political ties. Reprint. NYT. PW.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives
Publication Date: April 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0313333319 | ISBN-13: 978-0313333316The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other import...
|  | Myka la Diosa Bruja: El Secreto de Zeus (brujas - romance paranormal - mitologia Griega) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites
Release Date: November 26, 1996| Age Level: 2 and up A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..." ...
|  | Duck Hunting (Great Outdoors)
Publication Date: August 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Pearl (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992 ...
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