 | Cocktails for Three
Release Date: March 7, 2006Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married manMaggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhoodCandice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns upAt the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on...
 |  | Old Flames
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Featuring a special afterword by the author explaining the origins of the story!When her lover betrays her and dumps her coldly, Dora's mind begins to crack.She tracks down her old high school love to recapture what she might have had.He's married with a family now, but Dora isn't about to let that stop her.... --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The K Street Boys
Publication Date: June 21, 2012In a plot that could have been taken from tomorrow's headlines, the U.S. economy is sliding into another Great Recession and a resurgent Russia plans to manipulate the oil market. With his reelection in peril, the President agrees with his close advisors. The time is right to unleash a secret weapon - Jacqueline Desjardin. Suicidal and suffering from PTSD, the beautiful French photojournalist seeks revenge for tragic losses suffered as a child.Manipulated by forces an ocean away, Desjardin becomes a pawn in a macabre plan devised by a secret Pentagon hit squad....
|  | Stands A Calder Man
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Series: Stands a Calder Man (Book 2)Webb Calder fought the newcomers who rushed to claim grasslands where Calder cattle grazed. But he could not resist Lilli -- a proud and lovely young immigrant, loyal to the homesteader's cause, and to her husband.Still, a Calder kept what he had and got what he wanted. Where a man stands for what he believes, there Stands a Calder Man. ...
|  | She Stoops to Conquer: Or the Mistakes of the Night (Library Edition Audio CDs) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
Publication Date: October 25, 2010| Series: L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections Love, lies, and dysfunctional families. Sound like your last family gathering? Try this one on for laughs. Two randy young gents, Charles and George, set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But inexperienced Charles is shy and clumsy around upper-class ladies, so it s the barmaid who catches his eye. But is she really who she seems? Bawdy high-jinx, popped pretensions, and good dirty fun are the hallmarks of this romping frolic that s kept audiences laughing for over two centuries...
|  | Reading Vergils Aeneid:An Interpretive Guide(Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
Publication Date: May 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 080613139X | ISBN-13: 978-0806131399Vergil’s Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem’s fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive.An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the...
|  | Greek Vases: Lectures by J.D. Beazley
Publication Date: January 18, 1990John Davison Beazley is responsible for making the study of Athenian vase-paintings a branch of art history.His lists of artists and groups, published in great volumes and widely circulated, have become standard reference books; but his lectures have never been available to a wide audience. The eight lectures collected here are fully illustrated and include a lively account of 6th-century B.C. Athenian vase-painting, a survey of peculiarly Athenian vase forms, a look at the historical, literary, and visual evidence for the art form, and a concluding lecture ...
|  | Ovid: Heroides I (Classic Editions) (Bristol Phoenix Press - Classic Editions)
Publication Date: December 2005| ISBN-10: 1904675050 | ISBN-13: 978-1904675051| Edition: Bilingual The Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid’s interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. It contains what is still the only detailed commentary in English on the whole co...
|  | The Poet and the Countess: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Correspondence With Countess Ottonie Degenfeld (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
Publication Date: September 26, 2000| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture The tragic early death in 1908 of her husband, combined with the birth of her child, left Countess Ottonie Degenfeld confined to a wheelchair and in a state of severe depression. But two years earlier, she had met the famous young Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Learning of her situation, he now started writing to the 27-year-old Countess, and her road to a new life enriched by literature and the arts began. Presented here for the first time in the English language, their remarkable corres...
| | Love Songs of Connacht
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|  | Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species (Nature's Treasures)
Publication Date: September 1991| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Strabo: Geography, Volume III, Books 6-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 182)
Publication Date: January 1, 1924| ISBN-10: 0674992016 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992016| Edition: Vol. 3, Books 6-7 Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history.Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books ha...
|  | Moon of the Mahatma Dons
Publication Date: March 5, 2012In this opulent and darkly amusing adventure, the reader is swept into the world of the Sacred and Profane, lifted to the dizzying heights of a frigid paradise, then plunged into the orgiastic, perfumed pools of sensual, forbidden beauty. Had Rose Doyle Fanshaw s mother not offered her soul and body to the visiting sideshow Adonis (naked but for a gilded fig leaf), her half-sister would never have been born. And Rose would not have been put in charge of the little she-devil. Nor would she have attracted the attention of one of the world s richest (and most deca...
|  | Private:#1 Suspect
Release Date: January 2, 2012| Series: Private Unsolvable casesSince former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm--sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world--and they always uncover the truth.Impossible murdersWhen his former lover is found murdered in Jack Morgan's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While Jack is under police investigation, the mob strong-arms him into ...
|  | The Lamorna Wink (A Richard Jury Mystery)
Release Date: September 27, 1999While Richard Jury has been sent on a dead end chase by Chief Superintendent Racer, Melrose Plants heads for Cornwall to take up temporary residence in an old Cornish manor. Unfortunately, Lady Ardry boards BritRail and follows him to Bletchley House, which sits high on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea like the set of a romantic old film.Bletchley Village is dominated by a stately home turned Hospice, thanks to the billionaire, Morris Bletchley, the American owner of a chain of fast food eateries. He is also the grandfather of two small children who died...
|  | Poppy and Rye (The Poppy Stories)
Release Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Book of Tricksters: Tales from Many Lands
Release Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up For centuries, people around the world have been telling stories about tricksters characters who solve problems by using their wits to fool others. Sometimes, these tricksters want to help people. Other times, they use their cleverness for selfish reasons. Occasionally, they aren t as clever as they think and are themselves tricked. Although trickster tales from different countries are similar in many ways, story details, problems to be solved and the personalities of characters reflect the beliefs and values of the c...
|  | Could a Tyrannosaurus Play Table Tennis?
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Well, could he? What about an Iguanodon? Could he ice skate? Could a Wannanosaurus lift weights? In this book, you ll find all sorts of dinosaurs from nearly the biggest to just about the smallest, all drawn to scale in relation to the things around them, whether it s a golf club, a table tennis table, or a basketball court. There s also some extra information what period the dinosaur lived in, where its fossils were found, how big it was, and what it ate. So now, what do you think? Could he? ...
|  | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Release Date: July 6, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
|  | Jesus and His Friends (I Can Read! / Beginner's Bible, The)
Release Date: June 5, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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