 | Heart of a Dog
Publication Date: January 1998This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Love in Another Town
Publication Date: June 1996Jake Cantrell is suave, charming and blessed with film-star looks. A brilliant and imaginative electrical engineer, Jake, however, is saddened by the failure of his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Amy.Maggie Sorrett is bright, poised and elegant. An interior designer, she, too, has suffered a broken marriage, and is painfully out of touch with her two grown children.Kent, Connecticut is picturesque; it beckons to both Jake and Maggie. There they become involved with the local amateur dramatics group, and are introduced. They begin to meet, initially on busine...
|  | Age Of Reason
Publication Date: September 14, 2012This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
|  | Early New England Meditative Poetry (Sources of American Spirituality)
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|  | Escape to Malmillard
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|  | Garden of Shadows
Release Date: November 15, 1990| Series: Garden of Shadows (Book 5) Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions -- of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jeal...
|  | Better Late (Samuel French Acting Editions)
Publication Date: October 27, 2011| Series: Samuel French Acting Editions Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female This play was the recipient of the Selma Melvoin Playwriting Award, given by Northlight Theatre in Chicago, IL.As Better Late opens, Julian (Nussbaum) is forced to move in with his ex-wife and her new husband in order to recuperate from a sudden illness. With each passing day, the awkward situation spirals further and further out of control. As the laughter builds, the question becomes: how long will Julian have to stay? This bitingly funny December-December-December romance is a n...
|  | The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2005The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for massages and seaweed wraps, each struggling to reconcile her secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up her life.After eighteen years of trying to make peace with her husband’s cold-as-ice mother, Polly vows to be the perfec...
|  | Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry (Legenda Main Series)
Publication Date: December 31, 2008| Series: Legenda Main Series Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. With Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance, Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, focusing upon its most well-known and widely-read exponent, Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas. Through a sustained analys...
|  | Ghost Diary
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Beautifully inventive and filled with bravery of statement, Ghost Diary use many different forms to reveal a multifaceted poet, his shattered innards and pieced-together hopes. He is deceptive and truthful all at the same time, he loves and leers, curses God with his gratitude for God. With imagery so fresh, the reader is often unprepared for the connections he makes. ...
|  | Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600
Publication Date: October 8, 2007How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling natureRanging from alchemy to necromancy, "books of secrets" offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world. Allison Kavey's study traces the cultural relevance of these books and also charts their influence on the people who read them. Citing the importance of printers in choosing the books' contents, she points out how these books legitimized manipulating nature, thereby expanding cultural categories, such as mascu...
|  | Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: May 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230110878 | ISBN-13: 978-0230110878Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the ‘pre-post-colonializing’ European cultures, this study provides important new per...
|  | Opal Fire: A Stacy Justice Mystery
Publication Date: June 28, 2011This is book one of the Stacy Justice mystery series--laugh out loud crime fiction with a paranormal twist.Stacy Justice did not expect to be set on fire that night, but being raised by witches prepares one for life's little surprises. When her cousin is accused of arson, Stacy is determined to clear her family name--until something cryptic is discovered in the rubble that changes everything. Now, someone wants her dead and she finds herself dodging angry motorists, exploding chickens and a very creepy man lurking in the shadows. As she begins to dig up the pas...
|  | Secret Agent Seduction (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 107) Born to live a life of intrigue and adventure, beautiful Secret Service agent Lia Charles has never met a challenge she can't overcome. That is, until she receives her latest assignment—rescue the brilliant, boldly charismatic and bona fide hottie Armand Magliore, a revolutionary leader of a war-ravaged Caribbean republic. Lia will need all of her special-ops training and all of her professional objectivity to get Armand to safety, and to keep their relationship from heating up. Even so, it isn't long before Lia disc...
|  | Dork Diaries Box Set: Dork Diaries; Dork Diaries 2; Dork Diaries 3
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Brayden and Ryan's Summer Vacation
Publication Date: May 31, 2012When Brayden and Ryan find out that they are going camping for summer vacation, the boys are so excited that their two best friends Izzy and Cali join them. ...
|  | House of Dolls
Release Date: June 1, 2010 In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enjoying one another's company. For the three dolls, life is small but good. But life is not good for Madison Blackberry, the owner of the dollhouse. Her grandmother pays more attention to the dolls than to her. The dolls have one another, but she is lonely in her big, empty apartment. Then one day, as things always ...
|  | The Suppliants
Publication Date: June 17, 2004A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And in your left hands hold with reverence The white-crowned wands of suppliance, the sign Beloved of Zeus, compassion's lord, and speak To those that question you, words meek and low And piteous, as beseems your stranger state, ...
|  | Me Vs. You: Head-to-Head Pencil Games Challenge (Klutz)
Publication Date: February 15, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Summer of the Wolves
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Northern Minnesota. A phone call from their uncle sets them on a journey in a small floatplane over the thick green forest canopy, to spend the summer on a wilderness island. Nika, of all people, knows not to get her heart set on anything, but as she follows her uncle in his job stu...
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