 | Candy
Publication Date: February 9, 1996Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy –– a satire of Voltaire’s Candide –– chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world. ...
 |  | It Happens Every Spring (The Four Seasons of a Marriage Series #1)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Meet the characters that live, work, dream, and love in the community of Deepwater Cove. Best-selling authors Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer team up to show how four married couples, all in different stages in life, experience the joys and hardships of marriage as examined in Gary Chapman's The Four Seasons of Marriage. In book one, Steve and Brenda face a common problem among middle-age couples: empty nest syndrome. Steve works too much, and with their two children out of the house, Brenda feels lonely and unfulfilled. In order to save their marriage, the...
|  | Chinese Astrology: Ancient Secrets for Modern Life
Publication Date: January 1, 2001This text unveils the unseen forces shaping your personality. It shows you the animal sign that matches your birth year, detailing your most compatible lovers, best and worst career choices and your health outlook. ...
|  | Heartlight
Publication Date: November 17, 2003| Series: Light Heartlight is the story of Bradley’s greatest champion of good, Colin MacLaren, as he carries the banner of Light through the second half of the twentieth century. Ghostbuster, exorcist, student and teacher of the mystic arts, Colin meets Claire Moffat, who becomes his dearest friend, when he rescues her from a cult bent on human sacrifice. The leader of that cult, Toller Hasloch, becomes one of Colin’s greatest enemies. Working behind the scenes for the next thirty years, Hasloch subtly manipulates politics and the economy to tu...
|  | Vampire Diary (The Embrace)
Publication Date: December 1, 1995In the shadows of Los Angeles, an ancient vampire courts Auston Jacobson, a nightclube bartender. This is her diary. ...
|  | An Atlas of Impossible Longing: A Novel
Release Date: April 5, 2011Already a sensation around the world: family life meets historical romance in an astonishing novel about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of a writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a ...
|  | Drug Free Actors
Publication Date: August 22, 2012When Cara Seymour starts working for a quirky youth services agency doing dramas on drug abuse in schools, her well-reasoned Christian faith takes a hit.Nothing in her sheltered background prepared her for the stories of abuse she hears, the bizarre behavior of her colleagues, or the intensity of her attraction to a passionately un-believing coworker.Neither did she know that dabbling in social work would force her to deal with her own painful issues.A story of spiritual zeal, unmanageable crushes, and the kind of dysfunction only possible in an underfunded a...
|  | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature: A Genre Guide (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 159158194X | ISBN-13: 978-1591581949Here is a long-overdue genre guide to a previously ignored body of literature. The book aims to provide the reader and readers' advisor with an introduction to 20th-century gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered literature. All popular genres of literature are examined, including fiction, drama, and life stories (biography, autobiography, and memoirs), with the main emphasis on current fiction. More than 1,100 titles are organized according to genres, subgenres, and formats. Annotations provide brief, engagi...
|  | ILICET - A Time To Begin Again
Publication Date: November 9, 2010A powerful true story of triumph over evil, the wonder of forgiveness, and the joy of second chances.Like a gazelle in the golden grasslands, Norma hides her child behind any brush and in any available hole around Roraima to protect him from vengeful prowlers and roving child snatchers.Ensnared by a local king - a charming con, a tyrant, and secret polygamist - she is trapped like other girls, in plain sight! Though it takes her ten blood-curling years bearing seven of the king’s children to be freed, it is with grit, poise, and purged of toxic bitter...
|  | On Dangerous Ground: Stories of Western Noir
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|  | The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914 (Short Oxford History of Europe)
Publication Date: August 10, 2000| ISBN-10: 0198731353 | ISBN-13: 978-0198731351| Edition: First Edition In the nineteenth century Europe changed more rapidly and more radically than during any prior period.These six specially commissioned chapters by eminent historians offer the student and general reader a unique approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues in Europe's political, social, economic, cultural, international, and Imperial history. ...
|  | London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 9, 2001| ISBN-10: 0192832964 | ISBN-13: 978-0192832962This is a unique edition of four "high society" Victorian comedies, currently enjoying revival on the London stage. The volume includes: Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, W. S. Gilbert's Engaged, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money, and Henry James's The High Bid. Each of the plays deals with marriage, tests of affection, and the power of money. A critical introduction, a wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performe...
|  | L'Avare (Dodo Press) (French Edition)
Publication Date: December 26, 2008| ISBN-10: 140995322X | ISBN-13: 978-1409953227Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière, (1622-1673) est un dramaturge et acteur de théâtre français. Considéré comme l'âme de la Comédie-Française, il en est toujours l'auteur le plus joué. Impitoyable pour le pédantisme des faux savants, le mensonge des médecins ignorants, la prétention des bourgeois enrichis, Molière aime la jeunesse qu'il veut libérer des contraintes absurdes. Très loin des rigueurs de la dévotion ou de l'a...
|  | Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: December 9, 2003| Series: Modern Library Classics Translated by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave DoréA groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences. ...
|  | The Rewriting of Njals Saga: Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas (Topics in Translation)
Publication Date: November 19, 1999| Series: Topics in Translation (Book 16) The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United States, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, between 1861 and 1945. The editions and translations in question claim to represent a medieval narrative to their audience, but Helgason emphasises how these texts simultaneo...
|  | Anthology of Second World War French Poetry
Publication Date: October 1, 1994This selection of the work of twenty poets contains enough poems to serve as a substantial introduction to the work of each. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Devil Himself
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|  | Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: British Library Studies in the History of the Book (British Library - British Library Studies in the History of the Book)
Publication Date: December 5, 2002| ISBN-10: 0712347771 | ISBN-13: 978-0712347778Nicolas Barker, OBE FBA, has made many contributions to the study of the book. In celebration of his 70th birthday, the British Library has published a selection of his essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts; books and people; typography and early printing; the history of the book; bookselling; and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as ph...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: August 2, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521648408 | ISBN-13: 978-0521648400| Edition: Reprint Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relationto modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, and modern cultural studies. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology. ...
|  | La citacion
Publication Date: July 15, 2005At one time Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi—a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee issues a summons for his two sons, Ray and Forrest, to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. When Ray arrives he finds his father lying dead beside his will, and three million dollars hidden in an armoire—money that threatens to tarnish the judge's shining reputation. ...
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