 | Body Movers
Publication Date: July 1, 2007So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiancé dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents are. But she's coping. Until——her lovable brother is arrested, and the hunky cop decides to reopen her ...
 |  | The Lottery and Other Stories
Release Date: March 9, 2005The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller. ...
|  | The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: November 2002| ISBN-10: 0393967948 | ISBN-13: 978-0393967944| Edition: Norton Critical The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar."Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton’s manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings. "...
|  | Memory Mambo: A Novel
Publication Date: August 5, 1996A brilliant new novel by the author of We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Juani, a 24-year-old Latina lesbian, is exiled, with her irresistibly crazy family, from Cuba to the United States. Here a chorus of cousins--blood cousins and "cousins in exile"--wreak havoc as Juani attempts to sift through layers of memories and family myth to find the truth about her life. ...
|  | Son of Perdition (Chronicles of Brothers)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Chronicles of Brothers (Book 3) The eagerly anticipated third novel in the Chronicles of Brothers series of novels. Forty years pass. It is the year 2021. Three brothers Jason, Adrian and Nick De Vere Media Tycoon, President of the European Union and Archaeologist playboy, rise in the world of men. The third world war has just ended. The Ishtar accord a seven year denuclearization treaty between Russia, the pan Arab union and Israel will be signed on January 7, 2022. A UN peacekeeping force occupies temple mount and Israel s boundaries. Solomon's temp...
|  | The Archer's Heart
Publication Date: September 1, 2008In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad's kings has been absolute. But now the line of succession is divided, and whispers of revolution are heard in even the royal palace.Keshan Adaru, an outspoken man of unearthly charms, welcomes these changes. All his life he has foreseen an uprising that will shatter the castes and end the tyranny of the old laws. His visions have driven him but now, at the brink of their fulfillm...
|  | Reilly's Luck
Release Date: July 12, 2011Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe—until the day Reilly’s luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn’t a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will’s fate. It was a far more complex story that Val would soon uncover, one that touched upon...
|  | Sword at Sunset (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: Rediscovered Classics This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war—and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the interweaving of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imaginat...
|  | THE SELMAN-TROYTT PAPERS
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|  | How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Release Date: September 20, 2011Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, M...
|  | Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Folger Library)
Publication Date: September 1, 1993| Series: The Folger Library Teachers nationwide have been enthusiastically recommending this unique series from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute. This text includes provocative essays written by scholars to refresh both teacher and student, successful and understandable techniques for teaching through performance, and teaching methods that engage students at all levels. ...
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| | Summer glory: A collection of contemporary Chinese poetry = [Xia zhao] (Chinese Materials Center, Asian Library series) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Zhongguo dang dai zhe li duan shi shang xi =: Zhong guo dang dai zhe li duan shi shang xi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Books that Changed the World
Release Date: March 2, 2004From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created....
|  | Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
Release Date: June 1, 2005To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition™ includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, "Who a...
|  | Anglo-Saxon Prose Swanton (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 1993| Series: Everyman Paperback Classics Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. ...
|  | Hell's Corner (Camel Club)
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Camel Club Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in #1 bestselling author David Baldacci's most stunning adventure yet.An attack on the heart of power . . . In sight of the White House . . . At a place known as . . . HELL'S CORNERJohn Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he's fought for decades to leave his past career behi...
|  | U.S.S. Seawolf
Release Date: May 1, 2001Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III -- a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city.National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. But then the unthinkable happens: Seawolf, collides with ...
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