 | The Virgin Cure: A Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012 From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City. "I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely d...
 |  | On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Adventure. Peril. Lost Jewels. And the Fearsome Toothy Cows of Skree. (The Wingfeather Saga)
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|  | A Time for Everything
Publication Date: November 1, 2009“The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects...this is an extraordinary novel, and completely original.”—The Independent“The most original and promising Norwegian writer of his generation.” —Adresseavisen“Knausgaard joins the ranks of the greatest storytellers of our time.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungAntinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, loses his way in the woods in the mountains behind his home. Unseen, he stumbles upon two glowing b...
|  | Against All Enemies
Release Date: January 31, 2012Tom Clancy, the master of international intrigue and explosiveaction, introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare-against a newkind of threat. ...
|  | Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn (Star Trek, the Next Generation)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Star Trek, the Next Generation After the disastrous events in the Bajoran system, Captain Benjamin Sisko must confront the consequences of the recent choices he has made in his life. At the same time, the United Federation of Planets and its Khitomer Accords allies have come to the brink of war with the Typhon Pact. While factions within the Pact unsuccessfully used the recent gestures of goodwill—the opening of borders and a joint Federation-Romulan exploratory mission—to develop quantum-slipstream drive, they have not given up their goals. E...
|  | Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: May 20, 1993| ISBN-10: 0486275639 | ISBN-13: 978-0486275635Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862). ...
|  | Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)
Release Date: September 23, 1997| Series: Library of Yiddish Classics Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe.Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain.Long after the culture that produced them has disapp...
|  | The Friendly Guide to Mythology
Release Date: December 28, 2000From Athena to Zorya, a clever compendium of myths from ancient Greece and around the worldFrom classic literature and Jungian psychology to pop lyrics and Nike sneakers, mythology informs every aspect of our culture and thought. These timeless myths tell surprisingly modern-sounding tales of love and devotion--and of carnage, adultery, and incest. Whether they come from a Native American, Asian, African, or Greek and Roman tradition, they offer endless revelations and insights into the human psyche. ...
|  | Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library (Prebound))
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|  | Oedipus Rex (Absolute Classics) (Absolute Classics)
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|  | Theogony and Works and Days
Publication Date: September 11, 2006Written in the late eighth century BC by Hesiod, one of the oldest known of Greek poets, Theogony and Works and Days represent the earliest account of the origin of the Greek gods, and an invaluable compendium of advice for leading a moral life, both offering unique insights into archaic Greek society. There are a number of modern translations of Hesiod available, rendered in serviceable English, but until now no one has created a work of literature equal to the original. This translation is the result of a unique collaboration between a classicist and a p...
|  | El jorobadito y otros cuentos (Biblioteca Clasica Y Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Biblioteca Clasica Y Contemporanea Roberto Arlt (1900-1942) no necesita presentacion, pero de este libro, que reune los cuentos mas famosos del autor: Noche terrible, Las fieras, Escritor fracasado, Ester Primavera entre otros, es bueno recordar los conceptos que merecio a Luis Emilio Soto: ...los relatos de Arlt subyugan incluso por la promiscuidad de realismo y de imaginacion como el baul-mundo donde el viajero amontona a ultima hora todos sus, objetos dispersos (...) Todas esas creaciones de su sensibilidad eruptiva respiran la atmosfera de ciert...
|  | Metaphor and God-talk
Publication Date: October 1999| ISBN-10: 0820442356 | ISBN-13: 978-0820442358This volume contains a selection of the papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays in this volume analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives. The concept of metaphor has been developed by the sustained attention of theologians, philosophers, linguists and literary theorists for more than two millennia. The last twenty years have witnessed a renewed and intensified interest in this powerful dynamism of thought. The presen...
|  | Blood Moon (Blood Moon, Book 1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007Start of a stunning new series!THEIR DARK CURSE Jon Hyde-White was changed.Neither his horse nor his dog trusted him any longer, and with good cause; the transformation was almost complete.Soon he would cease to be an earl's second son and become a ravening monster.Already lust grew, begging him to drink, to devour, to swallow in great gulps hot blood from every opalescent neck--and the blood of his fiancée, Cassandra Thorpe, would be sweetest of all.Was that not why they were chosen?Was that not why the blasphemous creature Sebastian burst upon them from ...
|  | Ellora's Cave Presents Bad in Boots: Colt's Choice, Book 2
Publication Date: April 30, 2005AUTHOR'S NOTE: If you purchase the print book with this book cover, thisis an OLD edition. The eBook edition with this cover is no longer available. A NEWLY REVISED eBook edition of COLT'S CHOICE with a brand new cover is now available on AMAZON here: amzn.com/B0094A5KN4Colt is very aware the sexy part owner of his rodeo ranch is way out of his league.But the more he tells himself Elise Hamilton is ‘hands off’, the more he wants to put his hands on. Elise knows her broad-shouldered and lean-hipped cowboy partner has all the makings of Mr....
|  | The House of Haunted Dreams
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|  | WWIII:Force Of Arms
Release Date: March 1, 1995Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor,T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tank's ammunition and fuel tanks into great blowouts of orange-black flame. Four sleek, eighteen-foot long Tomahawk cruise missiles are headed for Beijing. It is Armageddon in Asia....From the Paperback editio...
|  | Death in Disguise (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Inspector Barnaby)
Release Date: April 15, 2007| Series: Inspector Barnaby (Book 3) The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. It's the most exciting thing to happen in Compton Dando since three boys burned down the bus shelter.In trying to solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, ...
|  | The elementary methods of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Writ in Stone (Nancy Drew Graphic Novels: Girl Detective #2)
Release Date: October 13, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up It's double trouble for Nancy and her friends, when an ancient artifact and a little boy are both suddenly missing. The artifact is a piece of an old stone marker that may prove that the Chinese were in America eighty years before Columbus. The little boy is Owen Zucker, a sweetie who Nancy sometimes baby-sits. Nancy's determined to recover both the artifact and little Owen, but someone's out to stop her - permanently! Ages 8 to 12. Papercutz is the exciting new graphic novel publisher th...
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