 | Throat Sprockets: A Novel of Erotic Obsession
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 |  | Gai-Jin
Release Date: May 19, 2009The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan—an u...
|  | Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel
Release Date: May 11, 2004A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart. Flash forward twenty years. Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing .... Travis is the first to figure it out. He's still in love with Craig, and come what may, he's going after the boy who captured his heart, even if it means forsaking his job, making a fool of himself, and entering the great unknown. Told in narrative, lette...
|  | Lost Soldiers
Release Date: August 27, 2002Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees a nation or an era. Writing with an unerring sense of suspense and of history experienced firsthand, James Webb takes us on a myth-shattering cultural odyssey deep into the heart of contemporary Vietnam, with a riveting thriller that tells a love story — love for those who perished, for family and friends, and between a soldier and the land where he had always been ready to die.Brandon Condley survived five years of combat as a ...
|  | Wiener Lebensbilder (German Edition)
Release Date: July 12, 2011Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so daz...
|  | The Rover and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 18, 2000Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range.This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon.All the plays have been newly edited ...
|  | Jingo: Stage Adaptation (Discworld)
Publication Date: April 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 0413774465 | ISBN-13: 978-0413774460World war breaks out in Discworld play script Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. Jingo makes the World Cup look like a friendly five-a-side. Jingo was the twenty-first in Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series and the eighth title to be...
|  | Return Fire (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
Publication Date: February 16, 2010| Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction "I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay."The stories inReturn Fire are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Sou...
|  | Et Comme Disait Maqroll El (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Poetics (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: March 12, 1997| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Among the most influential books in Western civilization, the Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. It offers seminal ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more, including such concepts as catharsis, the tragic flaw, unities of time and place and other rules of drama. ...
|  | Romantic Genius
Publication Date: July 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0231107536 | ISBN-13: 978-0231107532 0 Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and, similarly, little discussion has emerged about homosexual themes in the lives and poetic careers of the major Romantics. InRomantic Genius, Andrew Elfenbein explores the correspondence between the stereotypes applied to the "genius" and those applied to the homosexual, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors -- from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake ...
|  | Modernist Fiction and News: Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century
Release Date: June 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230114512 | ISBN-13: 978-0230114517Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernist fiction in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with the newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry of the early twentieth century. This original study reveals the ways in which writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf engaged with the discourse and narratives of the news to establish an experimental space for representing experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to r...
|  | The Iliad (Bristol Classical Paperbacks)
Publication Date: May 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 1853997153 | ISBN-13: 978-1853997150| Edition: 2 No Western text boasts a life as long as the 'Iliad', and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. Professor Mueller follows Plato and Aristotle in seeing the plot of the 'Iliad' as a distinctly Homeric 'invention' which shaped Attic tragedy and the concept of dramatic action in Western literature. In this sec...
|  | Always A Bridesmaid (Feature Anthology)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Feature Anthology No more catching the bouquet . . .Three bridesmaids catch their man.Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erickson as they drive to her sister's Vegas wedding. A drive that takes three days . . .During a friend's Caribbean wedding, Emily Wakefield and ex-fiancé Loring Mackenzie are "accidentally" stranded overnight on a tiny island -- with a big bottle of champagne -- and Emily's warning bells ...
|  | The Wedding Shawl: A Seaside Knitters Mystery
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: SEASIDE KNITTERS MYSTERY (Book 5) Summertime’s salty breezes and the sun’s golden threads bring inspiration to the Seaside Knitters of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts. But when an old mystery washes ashore, they must cast their needles aside and bring some heat back into a cold case… Izzy Chambers is head over heels. She’s about to marry the love of her life, but much remains to be done before their big day. So the Seaside Knitters have pitched in to help and are even knitting Izzy a beautiful lace wedding shawl. Meanwhile, Izzy’s...
|  | Quarry's Vote
Publication Date: November 8, 2010When retired hitman Quarry turns down a million bucks to murder a presidential candidate, he becomes a "loose end" that the conspirators need to tie off. With his peaceful life in ruins, Quarry launches his own campaign--for vengeance. A new edition, with afterword by the author, of the fifth book in Max Allan Collins's cult classic series. They don't come harder-boiled than Quarry. "Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality . . . classic pulp fiction" (USA Today). ...
|  | The Panic Zone (Jack Gannon)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Jack Gannon A car crashes in Wyoming: A young mother is thrown clear of the devastating car crash. Dazed, she sees a figure pull her infant son from the flames. Or does she? The police believe it's a case of trauma playing cruel tricks on the mind, until the night the grief-stricken woman hears a voice through the phone: "Your baby is alive."A bomb explodes in a Rio de Janeiro café: The heinous act kills ten people, including two journalists with the World Press Alliance news agency. Jack Gannon's first international assignment is to find out whether...
|  | Football Files Pack a
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|  | Tiger in the Snow!
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up Usually Tiger the kitten has lots of friends and it isn’t hard for him to find someone to play with. But one day, when everything is covered in a chilly white blanket of snow, Tiger’s friends are too cold or too busy to go out, and he has to play by himself. But then he finds something very unusual buried in the snow. ...
|  | Mama Oca y la luna (Caballo alado series-Al paso)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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