 | Tales of Pain and Wonder
Publication Date: March 25, 2008This collection of twenty-two short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster, originally published in 2000, firmly established Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow. From the murderous backstreets of New Orleans to an abandoned shipyard of the Hudson River, from sun-weary Los Angeles to a maze of dank and...
 |  | When Europa Rode the Bull
Publication Date: August 4, 2004When Europa Rode the Bull is an erotic tale of betrayal and loss that spans two decades and traverses two continents. It is a suspenseful, often heartbreaking story that explores the mercurial nature of love and commitment, and what can happen when a man and a woman married to other people rediscover the abiding passion of their lives. ...
|  | The Chester Chronicles
Publication Date: February 1, 2010Chester "Chet" Patterson, the protagonist-narrator of Kermit Moyer's first novel,is an Army brat who grows up in the 1950s and comes of age in the 1960s. He has a high-strung knockout of a mother who may be drinking her way into alcoholism, an Army-officer father he both resents and admires, and a younger sister whose high-school popularity he can only envy. Moving every two or three years, Chester is a perennial new kid as well as a bookishand movie-besotted romantic who at the age of thirteen falls in love, he thinks, with his own first cousin, Frenchi...
|  | We Think the World of You (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: March 8, 2011| Series: New York Review Books Classics We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly easygoing nature. When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank gets caught up in a struggle with Johnny’s wife and parents for access to him. Their struggle finds a strange ...
|  | William Price and the 'Thrush' (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 25, 2012Inspired by Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park' this introduces William Price, just promoted to Lieutenant, who finds his new commission places him on a ship sailing under sealed orders and a potentially mutinous crew. ...
|  | When You Cure Me (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1854599011 | ISBN-13: 978-1854599018Rachel and Peter are seventeen. They have been going out for six months. It’s love’s young dream. Then Rachel gets ill—seriously ill. When You Cure Me is a bittersweet and poignant tale of love and misunderstanding, and discovering that what you say and do can be very different from what you think and feel. ...
|  | reasons to be pretty - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 0822223945 | ISBN-13: 978-0822223948Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carly is and chasing after a hot new colleague. The final part of Neil LaBute's 'beauty trilogy' (following "The Shape of Things" and "Fat Pig") about society's obsession with looks, "Reasons to Be Pretty" premiered in the UK at the A...
|  | Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance
Publication Date: March 3, 1992In this revisionary study of Ezra Pound's poetics, Scott Hamilton exposes the extent of the modernist poet's debt to the French romantic and symbolist traditions. Whereas previous critics have focused on a single influence, Hamilton explores a broad spectrum of French poets, including Theophile Gautier, Tristan Corbiere, Jules Laforgue, Remy de Gourmont, Henri de Regnier, Jules Romains, Laurent Tailhade, Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mallarme. This exploration of Pound's canon demonstrates his logic in borrowing from the French tradition as well as a paradoxical c...
|  | The Late Romances: Poems
Release Date: March 4, 1997Eros presides over the operatic spectacle of these poems, and Melancholia over their ravenous clarity. The tragic and comic dispute a border, a margin that divides death from resurrection, separation from reunion, renunciation from celebration, and the spirit from the body. The poems themselves are pilgrimages back and forth between Eden and this green world. This new collection more than confirms what David Baker in The Kenyon Review said in response to Pankey's last book: "He is outstanding among an emerging generation of talented and accomplished poets."From the...
|  | Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics
Publication Date: January 2, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754666875 | ISBN-13: 978-0754666875Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh", Clough's "Amours de Voyage", and Browning's "The Ring and the Book", Clinton Machann brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic. This critical approach enables Machann to take advantage of important research in evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, among other scientific fields, and to bring the concept ...
|  | The Eternal Highlander (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Zebra Historical Romance Cathal MacNachton and Connall MacAdie are cousins bound by far more than blood ties and the rugged Highland landscape their clan calls home. The ancient curse of their ancestry has fated them to live by night with an unquenchable thirst that neither can tame. The only thing that can save their souls is marriage to Outsiders - mortals whose untainted blood will weaken the curse in their children and break the chains of fear that have made their clan a breed apart. Bridget Callan and Exa Caxton are the women who will shape the c...
|  | A Crimson Frost
Publication Date: January 30, 2012Beloved of her father, King Dacian, and adored by her people, the Scarlet Princess Monet endeavored to serve her kingdom well-for the people of the Kingdom of Karvana were good and worthy of service. Long Monet had known that even her marriage would serve her people. Her husband would be chosen for her, for this was the way of royal existence. Still, as any woman does-peasant or princess-Monet dreamt of owning true love-of owning choice in love. Thus, each time the raven-haired, sapphire-eyed Crimson Knight of Karvana rode near, Monet knew regret-for in secr...
|  | The Vampire's Secret
Release Date: March 27, 2007“A masterly tale . . . dark, seductive, disturbingly erotic.”–L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series, on The Vampire’s SeductionOnce a mortal with a beloved family, William Cuyler Thorne is now a vampire on the prowl for blood and beautiful women. He has the perfect cover as an admired citizen of Savannah society. Though Reedrek, the ruthless old-world vampire who tried to destroy William has been defeated, he still has his followers–and they will settle for nothing less than all-out war.To counter this viciou...
|  | Death at the Alma Mater (A St. Just Mystery)
Publication Date: January 8, 2010| Series: A St. Just Mystery (Book 3) BOOK THREE IN THE AGATHA AWARD-WINNING SERIESSt. Michael's College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately-and in frightful disrepair. To replenish its dwindling coffers, the College's Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums. But all goes awry when the glamorous-and despised-Lexy Laurant is found strangled on the grounds. There's a lengthy list of likely suspects: Lexy's debt-ridden Latino lover, her titled ex-husband who left her for another woman, and a garrulous oil-rich Texan with something to hide, among oth...
|  | The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs (Ghost Mysteries)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales as Told By Manitonquat
Publication Date: April 30, 1994Eleven stories based on the oral traditions of the Wampanoag tribe of southern Massachusetts recount the origins of the world, the ancient history of the Wampanoag, and the ways in which the spirit Maushop aided the early humans. ...
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|  | Sports Illustrated Kids Full Count: Top 10 Lists of Everything in Baseball
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up Get everything you ever wanted to know about America's pastime in FULL COUNT: TOP 10 LISTS OF EVERYTHING IN BASEBALL . Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of the game. From the top World Series moments to the most colorful characters, SI Kids ranks a variety of topics from the baseball diamond. Readers are guaranteed to love the big, exciting action photos from the Sports Illustrated collection and the insider knowledge of SI Kids. Filled with trivia and informat...
|  | The Story of the St. Louis Cardinals
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|  | Competitive Basketball for Girls (Sportsgirl)
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