 | The Case of the Gilded Fly (The First Gervase Fen Mystery)
Publication Date: June 2005Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University.Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut – a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men.Rounding out the cast are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and the women who love them.And watching from the wings is Professor Gervase Fen – scholar, wit, and fop extraordinaire – who would infinitely rather solve crimes than expound on English literature.When Yseut is murdered, Fen fi...
 |  | Ragtime: A Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2007Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldma...
|  | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 1: Including Three Novellas 'Lois the Witch,' 'The Grey Woman,' and 'The Poor ... Branch,' Seven Short Stories and One Poe
Publication Date: August 26, 2012A two volume collection of one of the finest female authors of Gothic ghost stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (or as she was known 'Mrs. Gaskell') was born as Elizabeth Stevenson in Chelsea, London in 1810. Gaskell was a prolific author, writing short stories, novels and non-fiction of social history as well as a notable biography of Charlotte Bronte. It would have been unusual had she not also written ghostly tales, because she lived at a time when chilling tales were highly popular. Indeed she was persuaded to do so by Charles Dickens, an enthusiast for th...
|  | John Saturnall's Feast
Publication Date: September 4, 2012A beautiful, rich and sensuous historical novel, John Saturnall’s Feast tells the story of a young orphan who becomes a kitchen boy at a manor house, and rises through the ranks to become the greatest Cook of his generation. It is a story of food, star-crossed lovers, ancient myths and one boy’s rise from outcast to hero.Orphaned when his mother dies of starvation, having been cast out of her village as a witch, John is taken in at the kitchens at Buckland Manor, where he quickly rises from kitchen-boy to Cook, and is known for his uniquely keen...
|  | Arrows of Fury (Empire)
Publication Date: November 28, 2011| Series: Empire The thrilling sequel to Wounds of Honour continues this action-packed series set in Roman Britain—fascinatingly authentic stories about the army from the point of view of the Roman soldier The Battle of the Lost Eagle saved Hadrian's Wall, but the new Roman governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. Rampaging south with sword and flame under the command of their murderous chieftain Calgus, they have stretched his forces to the limit. For...
|  | Coyote Blue: A Novel
Release Date: March 18, 2008From master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption. As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love -- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appe...
|  | For One More Day
Release Date: January 1, 1900This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he mi...
|  | The Privateer: A Pirate for the Queen
Publication Date: April 26, 1999Queen Elizabeth's young cousin is kidnapped; abductedfrom her ship as she is sailing home to be married. The race torecover Her Ladyship and England's honor is led by the notoriouscaptain and crew of the privateer BERNADETTE. The most capable CaptainMaxwell and his infamous horde might indeed rescue the royal hostage,but for what price? At what cost? ...
|  | Maggie-Now: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: January 24, 2012| Series: P.S. Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness.With characterist...
|  | Freshman Season: How I Dodged and Tackled High School
Publication Date: October 16, 2009A ninth grade hockey player finds an enemy in a place she loves, love in the place she dreadsboth challenge her to survive and thrive in her freshman season. ...
|  | The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny
Publication Date: June 15, 2006Worth (Houston, Texas), winner of numerous writing awards, researched the Wars of the Roses for ten years, lectures regularly, and is a member of U.S., Canada, and England Richard III societies. ...
|  | Leola and the honeybears: An African-American retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Publication Date: January 1, 2000With a large helping of rural southern flavor, a classic nursery tale becomes a thrilling new adventure children will want to hear again and again. When Leola wanders away from Grandmama's cottage, she encounters Ol' Mister Weasel and samples the pies, the chairs, and the beds of the three gentle Honeybears.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Brown Eyed Vision: Life Through the Eyes of a Black Man
Release Date: February 12, 2010Pierre D. Perry, author of The Voice of Blackness, is back with his second book of poetry. In this collection of poetry (just like his first collection), he lets his voice be heard and his blackness be felt. Once again he takes his readers on a poetic journey into a world of blackness, allowing them to visualize what many African-Americans experience every day. Mr. Perry shares a compilation of eye-opening, thought-provoking, and mind-boggling poems meant to allow his readers to see, feel, and understand what it is to have Brown Eyed Vision. ...
|  | Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
Publication Date: July 17, 2001Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual co...
|  | Arthurian Bibliography I: Author Listing (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 1970| ISBN-10: 0859910695 | ISBN-13: 978-0859910699A complete bibliography in two volumes of Arthurian literature to 1978.Volume I contains a complete alphabetical author-listing for all critical material recorded in the standard Arthurian bibliographies; Volume II gives full indexes by topic, keyword and individual work/author to form a complete subject index.This is a complete bibliography of Arthurian literature to 1978, the result of five years' work by Professor Cedric Pickford and Dr Rex Last of the University of Hull. It consists of a complete alphabet...
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|  | A Hidden Fire
Publication Date: March 27, 2012Semi-finalist--The Kindle Book Review, Best Indie Books of 2012***"No secret stays hidden forever." A phone call from an old friend sets Dr. Giovanni Vecchio back on the path of a mystery he'd abandoned years before. He never expected a young librarian could hold the key to the search, nor could he have expected the danger she would attract. Now he and Beatrice De Novo will follow a twisted maze that leads from the archives of a university library, through the fires of Renaissance Florence, and toward a c...
|  | Illusion (The Vampire Destiny Book #2)
Publication Date: August 24, 2012Her story continues... Psychic empath Josephine Anderson is surprised to discover that she's a little more than human. She's a vampire hybrid with a powerful vampire father...Her life will never be the same... She prepares to live as an immortal with her vampire mate,Stefan Lifsten. As she makes plans to abandon her old life to be at her lover's side, she begins to slowly transform,developing new abilities and desires... Long buried secrets are revealed... When she discovers the truth about her heritage, she's drawn into a web of passion, deception, and power...
|  | Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Blithedale Romance
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|  | Doctor Who Storybook 2008: Storybook (Dr Who)
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