 | Cat of the Century: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: April 6, 2010| Series: Mrs. Murphy Mysteries Acclaimed authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back with this new mystery starring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. And this time they must catch a killer determined to turn a birthday party into a funeral.Harry’s beloved and tart-tongued Aunt Tally is about to turn the big 1-0-0. The alumnae association of her alma mater sees an opportunity to honor the event and make some loot off the centennial as well. The plan is...
 |  | Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
Release Date: September 26, 2006Hey, you! The one holding the book. Have you ever seen a volume like this? Well, whether you realize it or not, it’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary will teach you how to speak this unique Southern dialect fluently. Whether you’re blue-collar or hoity-toity, swimming in cash or betting your bottom dollar, a little bit country or a lot of city slicker, this practical reference to redneck words and turns of phrases will give you hours of laughs.So expand your horizons and learn another language with th...
|  | A Family For The Holidays (Silhouette Special Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Silhouette Special Edition (Book 1861) Seen and Heard: The Thunder Canyon NuggetMeet the New Girl in Town!Managing the Clip 'n' Curl and her daughter Kayla leaves Shandie Solomon no time for romance. But little Kayla has other plans for her wonder-woman mom...and they all involve Dax Traub. Recently divorced Dax has lost some of his swagger, but he's still one of the most tantalizing men in town. And when he meets stunning Shandie and her adorable daughter, they put some much-needed spring in his step. But Shandie has secrets, and she's not looking...
|  | Lux's Practical Erotica Adventure: A Tuesday Erotica Club Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2009A hysterically funny tale of Lux's hot pursuit of the 3 R's: relationships, real estate, and erotica Welcome to the New York City of the Tuesday Erotica Club, in which four women from different worlds get together once a week to read their erotic fantasies and share their latest real-life adventures in sex, finance, and friendship. Lux Fitzgerald grew up in a family more affected by incarceration rates than interest rates. But she's determined to blaze her own trail, and has gone deeply into debt to buy a neglected mansion to jump start her real estate empire....
|  | At Play in the Seas of the Lord
Publication Date: April 20, 2012THE DIABLO SANK BENEATH THE SEA WITH $800 MILLION IN GOLD. IT'S A DEATH SHIP BUT TWO CHRISTIANS ARE DETERMINED TO FIND IT. There is nothing more dangerous than a con man extraordinaire with a credible story. But Rutger Hollins not only has a credible treasure hunting tale, he has a gold doubloon and the backing of a respected, internationally known professor. Hollins wants divers to help him find the Diablo, a sunken Spanish treasure ship holding $800 million in gold and diamonds. Former police reporter and Christian Harrison Craig is skeptical but agrees to h...
|  | Mad Kestrel
Release Date: February 3, 2009Quartermaster of an infamous pirate ship, feisty Kestrel loves the freedom of living on the seas. But her way of life could end if anyone on board learns her closely guarded secret—that she has magical control over the wind.One day a black ship appears, and her life changes. Its captain is a handsome rogue of whom Kestrel is strangely, constantly aware. When Kestrel’s captain is led into a trap and arrested by royal agents, he’s whisked away to face trial before the king. With the handsome stranger following her every move, Kestrel ...
|  | The Wide Turn Toward Home
Publication Date: March 14, 2008The Wide Turn Toward Home is a novella and short fiction collection by Scott A. Winkler. Baseball becomes a lens and a barometer for exploring the lives of the characters who experience the magic and pain of hope, loss, and understanding themselves in the world in which they attempt to function. Unexpected moments catch them off-guard and compel them to make very difficult choices, as in the title novella, where an aging ballplayer must choose between the game he loves and running the family farm. Most of the stories in the volume occur in a distinctly midwest...
|  | Come Sundown
Release Date: November 27, 2007Reluctant hero, Honore Greenwood, has a knack for embroiling himself in the most violent conflicts of the Southern Plains. Known as Plenty Man to the Comanches, Honore serves as ransom negotiator for captives among the Indians. As if his life wasn't in danger enough, Honore has offered his services to the New Mexico Volunteers in the Civil War. But as Honore's luck would have it, he's in the same unit as Luther Sheffield, a man whose grudge against Greenwood knows no boundaries, even though they are fighting on the same side. Leaving behind his beautiful Arapah...
|  | Delhi: A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 1991historical novel set in Delhi, c. 17-20th Centuries ...
|  | The Devil's Ribbon (Hatton and Roumande Mystery)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Hatton and Roumande Mystery A trail of beribboned murders. A ticking bomb. A city about to explode.July, 1858: London swelters under the oppressive heat of the hottest summer on record, and trouble is brewing. Forensic scientist Professor Adolphus Hatton and his trusty assistant, Albert Roumande, have a morgue full of cholera victims. The dead are all Irish, the poorest of London’s poor. They came in their thousands ten years ago, forced into the London slums by the terrible famine. Now they live segregated from the rest of Victorian ...
|  | Paradise Lost
Publication Date: November 27, 2007In this authoritative edition of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses. Edited by one of the world's leading Milton scholars, the author of the acclaimed The Life of Milton (Blackwell 2000), which won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Book Award Offers readers the opportunity to experience the brilliance and beauty of Paradise Lost as it was experienced by his contemporaries Presents Paradise Lost in its original 1674 form I...
|  | Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625 (Early Modern Literature in History)
Release Date: December 6, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230301096 | ISBN-13: 978-0230301092Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection of essays examines the extensive and pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage and considers a range of plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster, Massinger and Heywood. The introduction situates the religious, political and ideological contexts within which the relationship between stage and book was negotiated. The individual essays then explore a variety of dramatic encounters with ...
|  | 60 Seconds To Shine Volume I: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men
Publication Date: April 2006| ISBN-10: 157525400X | ISBN-13: 978-1575254005Actors looking for short pieces to work on in class or to use for auditions need look no further. This volume is loaded with choices from contemporary and classic plays, novels, and stories. Shakespeare, Molière, and Chekhov are represented, along with contemporary writers such as Philip Roth and Steve Tesich. Many of the monologues in this book are from less well-known authors, making it the perfect choice for actors looking for something fresh--something auditioners have never seen before. ...
|  | The Outlaw Album: Stories
Publication Date: October 5, 2011Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological--motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire b...
|  | A Million Premonitions (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: In the Grip of Strange Thoughts Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit, Sosnora has written with a voice unique and wideranging. Historical allusion, conscious anachronism, humor, and intensity of word play dominate by turns his range of verse.Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in the Crimea. He is known as one of the most consistently experimental of Russian poets, and one of the foremost translators, into Russian, of Catullus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen Ginsberg.Mark Halperin teac...
|  | Zhongguo bai jia xian dai shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Modernism
Publication Date: October 25, 2011In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during which it thrived. Seeking a more subtle understanding of the relations between the period's texts and contexts, he provides not only an excellent survey but also a significant reassessment of Modernism itself.Spanning many decades, illuminating individual achievements and locating them within the intersecting histories of experiment (Symbolism to Surrealis...
|  | Die Frau, Fur Die Ich Den Computer Erfand (German Edition)
Publication Date: October 23, 2010Wie kam es zu dem Gerät, das heute auf allen Schreibtischen steht? Alles fing an in einer Wohnung in Berlin-Kreuzberg, wo der geniale Konrad Zuse handgesägte Einzelteile zu einer «Universal-Rechenmaschine» zusammensetzte. Doch das Leben lässt sich weit weniger gut programmieren als ein Computer. Bis diesem Apparat der Durchbruch gelang, musste sein Erfinder so einige Höhen und Tiefen durchmachen ...Friedrich Christian Delius erzählt in diesem raffinierten und höchst unterhaltsamen Roman die unglaubliche Geschichte des ...
|  | Brock's Hellion: Ellora's Cave
Publication Date: July 21, 2011Brock is cool, calm and in control. Except when it comes to the feisty hellion who pushes all his buttons for the sheer fun of watching his patience snap. Far worse than the intense desire to choke her is the alarming, all-consuming compulsion to tie Tink to his bed and fuck her into next week.Tink is no wimpy damsel waiting for a big strong man to rescue her or take over her life. Oh, hell no. She does her own thing, her own way, when she damn well feels like it. The last thing she wants or needs is some overbearing man bossing her around. Though she’d ...
|  | Savor Me Slowly (Alien Huntress Novels, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 18, 2009 HALF HUMAN, HALF MACHINE...ALL WOMAN Mishka Le'Ace was created to be an undercover operative...literally. Her beautiful body has been mechanically augmented to give her superhuman strength -- strength she's going to need. Her latest mission sends her to rescue Alien Investigation and Removal agent Jaxon Tremain from torture and death. With him, she discovers a passion unlike any other. A passion she was forbidden to know.... From the moment they meet in a darkened cell, Jaxon craves her touch. But the machine half of Le'Ace forces her to do things she doesn'...
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