 | Dark War: A Matt Richter Novel (Matt Richter Novels)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Matt Richter Novels Meet Matt Richter. Zombie. PI.From his arrival at Nekropolis, Matt has found himself embroiled in disputes with the city's vampire lords, shapeshifters, golems and other monstrosities.Nothing has prepared him for the Dark War.File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Turf | Fang Gangs | Endurance | Dead Streets ] ...
 |  | The Goodbye Quilt
Release Date: October 25, 2011Linda Davis's local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: wedding quilts, baby quilts, memorial quilts, each bound tight with dreams, hopes and yearnings.Now, as her only child readies for college, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom?As mother and daughter embark on a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life—the hem of a christening gown, a snippet...
|  | Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Publication Date: November 2003| Series: Dr Who Radio Collection Vera small and Irene Spencer are at it again. The two keep up a regular correspondence and now with the advent of email, the ladies of letters can communicate daily. As Irene and Vera fall in and out of friendship, they accuse each other of everything from alcoholism to mental illness (but only in a loving, caring way, of course). Their hilarious put-downs and gossip give a wonderful insight into the trials of modern family life. ...
|  | The Ecumenical Cruise and Other Three-Legged Chicken Philosophy Tales
Publication Date: June 1, 2003A Chinese philosopher in the Fourth Century BCE was known for his claim that "a chicken has three legs." He was not hallucinating, nor are Chinese chickens different from the chickens of other nations. What the philosopher understood was that this "third leg" was the mental leg or concept of "chicken leg" that tells an observer that what he or she is seeing is a "two-legged chicken." This "idea leg" is in the mind of the beholder, and it is a paradoxical synthesis of perception and conception, of seeing and not seeing, of the possible and the impossible. Each st...
|  | The Eyes of Darkness
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|  | Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor
Publication Date: July 1, 2003What do two nice Jewish girls do when they want to start a family? They can marry two nice Jewish boys, or, if they happen to be lesbians, they can buy sperm online from California! Buying Dad is a hilarious, edgy, first--person chronicle of a year in the life of a woman engaged in a very alternative family-planning experience. Peeling back the layers of self-indulgence accumulated in 30-odd years as a self-proclaimed gay, childless, albeit happy neurotic, Harlyn Aizley takes the reader on one of the most personal, intimate and utterly female journeys any woman,...
|  | The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors
Release Date: November 17, 2005"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history. . . . It traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on."-from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become c...
|  | Greek Drama
Publication Date: 1978For this book, Moses Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of Greek tragedy, the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. ...
| | Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of "King Lear" (Oxford Shakespeare studies)
Publication Date: November 24, 1983| Series: Oxford Shakespeare studies Twelve specially commissioned essays re-examine the early texts of King Learfrom a series of interlocking perspectives, in a wide-ranging discussion with profound implications for all readers of Shakespeare. ...
|  | The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio. Part 1
Publication Date: March 1, 1991| Series: Divine Comedy This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition."The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner."Exactly what...
|  | Haiku Garden 5 x 7 Journal
Release Date: September 4, 2007The art of the haiku is that it captures the essence of a scene, an observation, or a momentary insight in the most succinct terms possible. Paired with elegant Japanese woodblock designs, the haiku scattered throughout this journal will inspire your own self-expression, whether you're filling up pages or just writing a few thoughtful lines. ...
|  | Prayerfully.
Publication Date: June 1971Helen STeiner Rice's work appeals to people all over the world because it deals with profound but everyday spiritual reality. She talks about God as if he were right at her elbow. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0804727996 | ISBN-13: 978-0804727990This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. ...
|  | The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 1, 1843-1873 (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Publication Date: April 22, 1997In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets--not just one of the major women poets--of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can help us understand the unique cultural situation of Victorian women writers. When complete in four volumes, this project will make available all of Rossetti's e...
|  | Five-Minute Erotica
Release Date: September 2, 2003| Series: Five-Minute Here's another entry in our wildly popular series of very short stories that can be enjoyed, start to finish, in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea. This new anthology of pleasingly brief tales features contributions from some of the best writers of erotica today. While most of the stories feature heterosexual sex, Five-Minute Erotica also offers a good mix of fantasy situations, including lesbian encounters and ménages à trois. ...
|  | Selfish is the Heart (Order of Solace)
Release Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Order of Solace (Book 3)The national bestselling author of No Greater Pleasure delivers a new novel featuring a reluctant student of seduction. To escape an arranged marriage, Annalise Marony decides to become a Handmaiden of the Order of Solace. But she is thwarted at every turn by Cassian, a teacher of the faith, who must test her dedication. Older than most of the girls, Annalise knows that she will be expected to please a patron in pleasures of the flesh-and she is not shy about teasing Cassian. And as they both play out the game of master and stu...
|  | The Secret Chronicles Of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Eclipse (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 4)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Oz: Ozma of Oz
Publication Date: September 21, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Ghosts of Cougar Island (Liza, Bill & Jed Mysteries)
Release Date: June 14, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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