 | That Is Priceless: Art's Greatest Masterpieces... Made Slightly Funnier
Release Date: April 12, 2011Thirty-two million Americans consider themselves artists, and nearly 100 million consider themselves art lovers. They--along with anyone else who enjoys a good laugh--will appreciate the edgy blend of art, comedy, and pop culture inside comedian Steve Melcher's popular blog-turned-book, That Is Priceless: Art's Greatest Masterpieces . . . Made Slightly Funnier.It all started when Melcher stumbled upon a postcard in a museum gift shop for Peter Paul Rubens's The Finding of Erichthonius. Inspiration struck, and Melcher scrambled for a Post-it note and scribbled down...
 |  | Twelve Gates to the City
Release Date: December 6, 2011A novel of self-discovery, family bonds and the healing of one small southern townTwelve Gates to the City is the much-anticipated sequel to Black’s acclaimed debut, They Tell Me of a Home. In this novel, Sister assumes the voice of the narrator, speaking from the spirit realm, telling her brother TL things he could have never known about their family. She constructs the story as a series of spiritual revelations, exposing to readers both who she was in the years of TL’s absence and how every event in his life was an orchestration for his return. TL ...
|  | Take Me Out - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2005“A funny and troubling look at athletes and identity . . . Take Me Out is a dynamic, involving play.” —Donald Lyons, New York PostDarren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he’s gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, while he also emboldens his closeted accountant, Mason Marzac, to come to terms with his o...
|  | Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
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|  | There is a Season (Cheney & Shiloh: The Inheritance #3)
Release Date: July 1, 2005Hoping to escape a brutal New York winter, Cheney and Shiloh travel with a group of friends to Sangria House, a small citrus plantation in Florida. But when they arrive, all is not as they expected. Though the place seems deserted, with no supplies or staff, they manage to get settled in and look forward to enjoying a relaxing holiday together. But when they find something dreadful in the wine cellar, they wonder if perhaps Sangria House is not the haven they had thought it would be. Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance Book 3. ...
|  | Wicked Lies (Wicked (Zebra Paperback))
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Wicked (Zebra Paperback) For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission - one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. Laura Adderley didn't plan to get pregnant by her soon-to-be ex-husband, though she'll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison Frost is asking questions about the mysterious group of women who live at Siren Song lodge. Harrison hasn't figured out Laura's connection to the story yet. But Justice knows. And he is coming...All her life,...
|  | The Cursed (Vampire Huntress)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Vampire Huntress The Chairman has been slaughtered, along with Hell’s first almost-successful attempt at creating an Anti-Christ, using Carlos Rivera’s body-double. Dante’s son has also been vanquished. Now the evil Lilith sits on Dante’s old throne, a prize won in her negotiations with Cain. She is The Vampire Council’s new Chairwoman—and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.All Lilith needs is Damali’s newly discovered angelic powers to allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil betwe...
|  | Mendel's Dwarf
Release Date: July 1, 1999Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love. And when he finds it in the form of Jean—simple and shy—he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own capricious genes.As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty and surprisingly erotic novel reveals the beauty and drama of scienti...
|  | Lady First
Release Date: November 13, 2007Spencer knows he doesn’t have but so many chances left. He’s trying to stay off the streets, but bagging groceries in the local supermarket is just not bringing in the kind of cash he wants. And then in a very unlikely turn of events, an obviously well off woman walks into his supermarket, looking out of place and more beautiful than any other woman Spencer has seen. When he goes out of his way to assist her, she offers him a job. Tia Stern is looking for a new personal assistant and Spencer just mi...
|  | Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines
Publication Date: September 1, 2000Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898–1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting." Boyd wrote five other works before he died in Vermont of a cerebral he...
|  | Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (penn Greek Drama Series)
Publication Date: December 1997| Series: Penn Greek Drama Series The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.This volume includes translations by Richard Moore (Hippolytus), John Frederick Nims (Suppliant Women), Rachel Hadas (Helen), Elizabeth Seydel Morgan (Electra), and Palmer Bovie (Cyclops). --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
Publication Date: August 1, 2000First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature.This translation of HongzhiÆs poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary gift.In addition to dozens of HongshiÆs religious poems, translator Daniel Leighton offers an extended introduction, placing the masterÆs work in its historical context , as well as lineage charts and other ...
|  | Variations on the Song of Songs
Release Date: December 21, 2005Historically, the Old Testament's Song of Songs has always been interpreted as a mystical hymn of God's love for his people. More recently, it has been seen as a collection of secular love songs that Jewish and Christian tradition subsequently spiritualized. In this book Christos Yannaras unites both approaches in a powerful series of poetic images that invite us to see sexuality and spirituality as complementary to each other. We can choose how we lead our lives: according to the mode of nature or according to the mode of life. Yannaras takes us on a provocati...
|  | Le vers et le poeme: Du vers au poeme : evolution des formes et du langage (Nathan universite, information, formation. Linguistique francaise) (French Edition)
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|  | The Bureaucracy of Han Times (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Publication Date: February 12, 2009| Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time from 202 BC to AD 9 and from AD 25 to 189, analysing and describing the central and local administrations, the army, official salaries, civil service recruitment and power in government. Pr...
|  | A Regency Christmas
Release Date: November 1, 1993Stories by five romance authors--Mary Balogh, Gayle Buck, Sandra Heath, Emily Hendrickson, and Laura Matthews--illustrate the romance, pageantry, and celebrations of the holiday season....
|  | Betrothed
Release Date: September 1, 1996Baron Guy of Montague came to Lonsdale Castle prepared to fight for what was rightfully his...only to find a woman who made him all but forget his purpose. With her angel's face and womanly curves, Lady Claudia Chiavari was enough to tempt a saint to sin. And when she returned his kisses with innocent fire, Guy knew that he was bewitched. But in a matter of hours, everything changed, as he found himself betrayed, betrothed, and imprisoned, with only Claudia to blame...Five lonely years of exile under her uncle's tyrannical rule had taught Italian-born Claudia C...
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|  | Eggs in Purgatory (A Cackleberry Club Mystery)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: A Cackleberry Club Mystery Now Laura Childs is cracking a whole new case of murder in a brand new series?RECIPES INCLUDED. Introducing the Cackleberry Club Mysteries... Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club. Then their cozy cafe becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. What this all has to do with a religious cult and Suzanne?s past could put her own life on the line. ...
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