 | A Christmas to Remember (Cape Light, Book 7)
Release Date: October 3, 2006The New York Times bestselling authors take a journey into the Cape Light of Christmas past.As the citizens of Cape Light deck the halls for a Christmas to remember, the curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick has been confined to her bed with pneumonia. Cared for by her daughters, Emily and Jessica, she lets her thoughts drift back to the holiday season of 1955, to the magical time when she first met Oliver Warwick-the dashing man who would become her husband.Back then, Lillian was beautiful, spirited, and idealistic, and Oliver was a wonderful man who took a real joy ...
 |  | Habeas Corpses
Release Date: March 13, 2007¿Mark Simmons, who never met a wisecrack, pun, or pop culture reference he didn¿t like, explores different degrees of deadness in his latest Christopher Cjesthe novel. Poor Chris . . . if he¿s not being made unwilling ruler of the vampires, he¿s discorporated and floating through walls. Lupe the Werewolf, Suki the cat/vampire, the voluptuous Deidre, and, oh yes, Teresa¿s head . . . all are back for this lates event-packed romp through a vivid world that leaps into existence every time we open a Simmons book. ¿Charlaine Harris¿. ....
|  | Horror Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres)
Publication Date: July 13, 2005| ISBN-10: 0826415601 | ISBN-13: 978-0826415608This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series focuses on genres such asScience Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime, and the other focuses on movements or styles often associated with historicaland cultural locations—Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic.Authors covered in this volume includeWilliam Peter Blatty, Ira Levine, BramStoker, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter,Mary Shelley, Stephen King, Anne Rice,and Washington Irving. ...
|  | Legend: An Event Group Thriller (Bk. 2)
Release Date: July 1, 2008 The Event Group is comprised of the nation’s most brilliant men and women in the fields of science, philosophy, and the military. Led by Major Jack Collins, their job is to find the truth behind the world’s greatest unsolved myths. And this time, Collins and his crew will dare to uncover a terrifying secret—about the long-vanished tribe of the Incas—that’s buried deep within the Amazon Basin.The last expedition into the depths and darkness of the Amazon claimed the lives of a female professor and her team. Now the Event...
|  | Dark North
Publication Date: June 2007Roman Britain, 208 AD - Emperor Septimius Severus has arrived in Britain to conquer the barbarians in the north of the island. Memnon, an African scout, comes to Britain with his cavalry unit. When he saves the life of a beautiful young attendant of the Empress, he becomes aware of tensions within the imperial house. The bitter war tests them all to the limit, and if any of them are to survive, it can only be through their friendship. ...
|  | Rebels and Traitors
Release Date: January 19, 2010An epic novel of the turbulent English Civil War seen through the lives of those that fought for peace and struggled for love Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War, Rebels and Traitors is the story of how this turbulent era effected everyone, from rich to poor, and the hopes and dreams that carried them through years of deprivation, bloodshed and terror. When Gideon Jukes and Juliana Lovell, who are on opposites sides of the struggle, meet during one of the era’s most crucial events, their mutual attraction brings the comfort and compa...
|  | Neurotica
Release Date: August 26, 2003If he always has the headache, why should you suffer?In the bestselling tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary comes this outrageous, hilarious look at love, marriage, and sex, introducing Anna Shapiro, who believes that surely there must be more to married life....Tabloid reporter Anna Shapiro can pinpoint the day, three years ago, that she and her husband, Dan, last had great sex. Anna would be grateful if something as ordinary as a mere headache was her husband's excuse; Dan's hypochondriac terrors include brain tumors, tropical diseases, and spontaneous combustio...
|  | FROM FRINGE TO FLYING CIRCUS
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|  | Perverse Midrash: Oscar Wilde, André Gide,and Censorship of Biblical Drama
Publication Date: November 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 0826416225 | ISBN-13: 978-0826416223| Edition: 1 Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed. Traditional critical treatments seek to...
|  | Rilke, A Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus
Publication Date: August 2011| ISBN-10: 188860252X | ISBN-13: 978-1888602524"The presumption of a deep link between Rilke's art and the fount of psychology can draw upon biographical--as well as theoretical and textual--evidence. Rilke's life and work were, from the beginning, ineluctably entwined with intellectual historical developments that signaled the surfacing of psyche, the (re)emerging of the soul to consciousness. Born in the same year (1875) as the great Godfather of archetypal psychology, Carl Jung, Rilke's own formative years coincided with those of the professional field of ...
|  | Spider Eaters: A Memoir
Publication Date: November 10, 1998| ISBN-10: 0520215982 | ISBN-13: 978-0520215986| Edition: Reprint Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a ...
|  | Rumors: The McCaffertys: The McCaffertys: Thorne\The McCaffertys: Matt
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: The Mccaffertys The McCaffertys: ThorneWhen Thorne McCafferty rushes home to the family ranch, he is thinking only about whether his sister Randi will survive the car wreck that has put her in the hospital. He never expects that Randi's E.R. doctor will be Nicole Stevenson.Nicole has never forgotten the teenage passion she shared with Thorne…or the sting of his unexplained rejection. Now she's all grown up—but he still affects her in the very same way. Will they both be able to move beyond their pasts for a second chance at a ha...
|  | The Tomb (Repairman Jack Novels)
Release Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Repairman Jack Novels Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn’t deal with appliances. He fixes situations—situations that too often land him in deadly danger. His latest fix is finding a stolen necklace which, unknown to him, is more than a simple piece of jewelry.Some might say it’s cursed, others might call it blessed. The quest leads Jack to a rusty freighter on Manhattan’s West Side docks. What he finds in its hold threatens his sanity and the city around him. But worst of all, it threatens Gia’s...
|  | A Pale Horse: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
Release Date: December 23, 2008| Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge MysteriesThe Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he's dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose war work is so secret even Rutledge cannot know its true nature. Meanwhile, miles away, an unidentified body has been discovered in the ruins of a Yorkshire abbey, clothed in a monk's robe and wearing a gas mask. In the shadow of a great white horse cut into the chalk hillside—where cottages once bui...
|  | El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile y otros relatos/ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Tales (Spanish Edition)
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|  | It's Halloween, You 'Fraidy Mouse! (Geronimo Stilton, No. 11)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is a fast-paced adventure with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love.It's Halloween on Mouse Island, and it seemed like everyone was out to get me, Geronimo Stilton! My cousin Trap kept pulling scary pranks on me. And then my sister Thea told me I had to write a book about Halloween in less than one day!Before you could say boo, my nephew Benjamin had dragged me to a graveyard to do research. There I met a very s...
|  | World-Class Sprinter (Making of a Champion)
Publication Date: August 13, 2004 ...
|  | Mr. Squiggles's Halloween Party (Zhu Zhu Pets)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | I Can't Talk About It: A Child's Book About Sexual Abuse (Hurts of Childhood Series)
Release Date: July 1, 1986 ...
|  | A Tree Place: And Other Poems
Publication Date: March 1, 1994| Age Level: 8 and up A collection of forty poems about nature and the outdoor world. ...
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