 | Dead Streets: A Matt Richter Novel (Matt Richter Novels)
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Matt Richter Novels The return of Matt Richter. Private Eye. Zombie.MATT RICHTER'S GOING TO PIECES - LITERALLY.You've got to keep your head to survive in the teeming undead city known as Nekropolis. It's a pity crazed genius Victor Baron couldn't manage that. Now everyone wants a piece of him.Zombie detective Matt Richter and his glamorous she-vampire companion Devona are back on the case, with another wild and wonderful investigation.FILE UNDER: Urban Fantasy [ Zombie Detective | Undead City | Crime Overlord | Off with his Head! ] ...
 |  | Sweet Like Sugar
Release Date: August 30, 2011In Yiddish, there is a word for it: bashert - the person you are fated to meet. Twenty something Benji Steiner views the concept with scepticism. But the elderly rabbi who stumbles into Benji's office one day has no such doubts. Jacob Zuckerman's late wife, Sophie, was his bashert. And now that she's gone, Rabbi Zuckerman grapples with overwhelming grief and loneliness. Touched by the rabbi's plight, Benji becomes his helper - driving him home after work, sitting in his living room listening to stories. Their friendship baffles everyone, especially Benji's sharp-...
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|  | The Study of Stolen Love (American Academy of Religion Books)
Publication Date: January 2, 1997| Series: American Academy of Religion Books This is the first complete English translation of an important work of Tamil poetics. Composed in southern India around the eighth century CE, this is a commentary structured around 60 verses of uncertain origin on the poetry of love. The commentary also includes hundreds of illustrative poems drawn from various Tamil literary periods ranging from the very earliest through the eighth century. ...
|  | Borrowed Light
Publication Date: February 8, 2011Julia Darling never expected to cook for some cowboys in Wyoming, but when she breaks off her engagement in Salt Lake City, it s the perfect opportunity for her to escape. Determined to stick the job out, Julia faces her biggest challenge yet letting go of borrowed light to find her own testimony. Set in the early 1900s, this is one romantic adventure you ll never forget! ...
|  | In the Dead of Winter: Ivy Towers Mystery Series #1
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Samantha "Ivy" Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her Aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect her aunt's death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasn't an accident after all. Childhood friend Amos Parker, now sheriff of Winter Break, seems anxious to get Ivy out of town. A missing book, a message scrawled by an unknown person, and an extra coffee cup leave Ivy with more questions than answers. ...
|  | Lieutenant Hornblower
Publication Date: November 1998| Series: Hornblower Saga (Book 2) In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as midshipman to face new responsibilities thrust upon him by the fortunes of war between Napoleon and Spain. Enduring near-mutiny, bloody hand-to-hand combat with Spanish seamen, deck-splintering sea battles, and the violence and horror of life on the fighting ships of the Napoleonic Wars, the young lieutenant distinguishes himself in his first independent command. He also faces an adventure unique in his experien...
|  | Michael Kohlhaas (The Art of the Novella)
Release Date: April 1, 2005| Series: The Art of the Novella "You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer, and I mean to."Based on actual historic events, thisthrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modernliterature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has beenthe basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels.It has become, in fact, a classictale: that of the honorable man forced to take the law into his own hands. In thisincendiary prototype, a minor tax dispute intensifies explosively, until the eponymoushero fin...
|  | Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel
Release Date: October 21, 1997THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURYIn 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time . . . ...
|  | Heart of a Dog
Publication Date: January 21, 1994This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats. ...
|  | The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 8, The Queen of Corinth, The False One, Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, ... Olden Barnavelt, The Custom of the Country
Publication Date: April 28, 2008| Series: Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon This is the eighth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of five plays and one composite Fours Plays in One, written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Nathan Field and Philip Massinger. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of ...
|  | Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Release Date: December 28, 2010Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows and matures for those on the spiritual path. Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani have crafted a translation that remains faithful to the original Persian while giving eloquent expression to the joy of Rumi’...
| | Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition
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|  | Books As Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II
Release Date: April 29, 2010Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo-crates of books-joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower's Supreme Headqua...
|  | Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
Publication Date: July 17, 1989| ISBN-10: 0860919366 | ISBN-13: 978-0860919360Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an ""unnecessary complication."" Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism...
|  | Germaine De Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist
Publication Date: April 13, 2003 By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Mrs. Humphry Ward. She argues that while the male Romantic artist saw himself as god and hero, the woman of genius lacked a guiding myth until Germaine de Staël and George Sand created one. The protagonists of Staël’s Corinne and Sand’s Consuelo combine attributes of the goddess Athena, the Virgin Mary, Virgil’s Sibyl, ...
|  | Toolbox
Publication Date: March 1999| ISBN-10: 1879378191 | ISBN-13: 978-1879378193| Edition: Bilingual A bilingual edition (Spanish/English) of Caja de herramientas, aseries of imaginative storiesor fantastic reflectionson the natureof things that help us to organize our lives, such as the hammer, thescrewdriver, the piece of string, by a promising Mexican writer. ...
|  | The Matter of Araby in Medieval England
Publication Date: July 1, 2005This book examines the literary and intellectual relationships between "Piers Plowman" and "The Faerie Queene". It links these two rich and problematical poems by showing their development from a common religious and artistic matrix and by assessing their roles in the evolution of allegory."A valuable contibution to our understanding of the medieval vernacular literature."--Robert W. Ackerman ...
|  | Alien Rule
Publication Date: June 14, 2011Marked for execution, Jessica McInness knows joining the enemy is her only hope for survival. However when Kalquor’s crown princes arrive to rescue her, she discovers the three alien men aren’t quite what she hoped for in lifelong mates. Arrogant and brutish, the royal clan infuriates her—and awakens passions as no other men have. The Kalquorians are determined to seduce the temperamental woman who inflames their lusts. They relentlessly pursue the hesitant Earther, resorting to forceful means to claim her as their mate. But love comes at a...
|  | Blood from a Stone
Release Date: February 23, 2010Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon's internationally bestselling crime series, is back, in a novel that combines an ingenious plot with an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice. On a cold December night, a Senegalese man who sells counterfeit fashion accessories is killed on the Campo Santo Stefano. What first appears to be a straightforward clash between rival dealers soon raises questions: What was a penniless foreigner doing with a fortune in diamonds? And why does Brunetti's boss want him off the case? Fans of Donna Leon will be thrilled with Blood f...
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