 | The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Signet Classics Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning Includes Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America's most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel and five short stories included here. Swiftly paced and vividly written, they capture the main theme of London's work: man's instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. ...
 |  | Malena
Publication Date: April 17, 2012Publishers Weekly: Set during Argentina's Dirty Wars of the late 1970s and early 80s, Holzman's stunning debut novel follows two men clamoring for a woman's heart as they weather the country's descent into brutality. As Captain Diego Fioravanti dances with Inés to their favorite tango, "Malena," his thoughts pirouette from the woman in his arms to his dreaded impending rendezvous with a high-ranking military official. Entangled in a web of mistrust and state-sanctioned atrocities, Diego is desperate to escape the rogue military. Meanwhile, Kevin "Solo" So...
|  | Dreads
Publication Date: January 10, 1999Dreadlocks are a modern phenomenon with roots reaching as far back as the fifth century. According to ancient Hindu beliefs, dreads signified a singleminded pursuit of the spiritual. Devotion to God displaced vanity, and hair was left to its own devices.Dreads captures this organic explosion of hair in all its beautiful, subversive glory. One hundred duotone portraits present dread-heads from around the world, in all walks of life. Interviewed on location by the photographers, jatta-wearers wax philosophic about the integrity of their hair, and every stunnin...
|  | The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Publication Date: August 5, 2002Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It as our era’s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion wi...
|  | Triumph
Publication Date: January 28, 2010Leonard A. Slade, Jr., a native of North Carolina, has lived in Albany, New York, since 1988. The author of eighteen books, including twelve books of poetry, Slade has received a number of national awards for his work. He studied poetry with Pulitzer Prize Winners Stephen Dunn and Donald Justice. His poetry has been praised by Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Houston A. Baker, Jr.Triumph, his thirteenth book of poems, shares significant ideas and experiences in words that delight the ear and appeal to powerful feelings. This work inspires us to believe in...
|  | Eyeshield 21, Volume 11
Publication Date: December 5, 2006The Devil Bats are training harder than ever as they endure a grueling "death march" from Houston to Las Vegas! A biker gang whisks Sena off on a wild detour to San Antonio, where he tries to recruit a promising tight end prospect. And if the team survives the trek through the desert, what kind of havoc will they wreak in Sin City?! ...
|  | Texas Vendetta (Texas Rangers)
Release Date: February 1, 2005| Series: Texas Rangers In this fifth volume of his Texas Rangers series, Elmer Kelton takes the young ranger Andy Pickard, once a Comanche captive called Badger Boy, into the midst of a bloody vendetta between hate-filled families. Pickard and ranger Farley Brackett, a former Confederate soldier, are assigned to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to the sheriff of a neighboring county to stand trial for killing a man named Ned Hopper but from the outset the seemingly simple assignment gets complicated. The Landon and Hopper families are in a blood feud; the Landons ...
|  | I and Thou (Scribner Classics)
Release Date: June 13, 2000| Series: Scribner Classics Today considered a landmark of twentieth-century intellectual history, I and Thou is also one of the most important books of Western theology. In it, Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Frederich Nietzsche, united the proto-Existentialists currents of modern German thought with the Judeo-Christian tradition, powerfully updating faith for modern times. Since its first appearance in German in 1923, this slender volume has become one of the epoch-making works of our time. Not only does it present the best thinking of one of ...
|  | Comet Halley
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|  | An Indecent Obsession
Release Date: October 1, 1982To the battle-broken soldiers In her care, nurseHonour Langtry is a precious, adored reminder of theworld before war. Then Michael Wilson arrives under acloud of mystery and shame to change everything. Adamaged and decorated hero, a man of secrets andsilent pain, soon he alone possesses Honour's selflessheart -- inciting tense and volatile passions that canonly lead to jealousy, violence, and death. ...
|  | The Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G. K. Chesterton
Release Date: September 16, 1987A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G.K. Chesterton. ...
|  | Antologia Poetica (Literatura Espanola) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001El contraste entre la voluntad de eternidad y la condena a permanecer instalado en un tiempo fugaz, asi como la lucha, eterna y dolorosa, entre el deseo y los limites que a este impone la realidad, confieren a la obra de Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) un marcado sentimiento elegiaco. La sensibilidad exacerbada del poeta y el desacuerdo entre su yo y el mundo lo llevaran al aislamiento y a una amarga soledad, pero tambien a reafirmar, con actitud rebelde y desafiante, su independencia y su individualidad. Esta Antologia poetica, preparada por Philip Silver, constitu...
|  | Follow Me To Glory
Release Date: December 8, 2006Follow Me to Glory is the story of Ian Carlyle's journey to becoming a warrior. Ian slashes through the Crimean War, ripping open the most mismanaged military campaign in British history! Deadly war is lived through the adventures and misadventures of this young spirited Scottish nobleman, who, despite his aristocratic background, family strife, and substantial odds against him, becomes a highly skilled fighting officer in one of the most prestigious regiments in the British army.You will live it with him as he comes to terms with the chaos, terror, and appallin...
|  | Beyond the Dark
Release Date: December 1, 2009Lora Leigh does it? in the lair of a strange breed, part man, part wolf, on the hunt for the woman he craves?and needs?to fulfill a hunger clawing at him from within Angela Knight does it? in the psychic realm of a woman attuned to the touch of strangers?and the powerful temptations of a seductive and mysterious protector. Emma Holly does it? in the fantastic Demon World where a powerful Queen rules?until she commits the sin of falling in love with the handsome son of her worst enemy. Diane Whiteside does it? in an alternate universe of Regency magic where two l...
|  | Strictly Taboo
Release Date: December 6, 2005Three sexy, original stories of men who are totally off-limits. From the author of the sizzling One Dark Night—three highly charged tales of unexpected desire, from the faraway past deep into the distant future... Here are three beautiful, daring women who find themselves succumbing to the forbidden, overpowering passion ignited by their arch enemies. Set in three different worlds-the past, the present, and the future-these stories will take readers way beyond their wildest imagination and into their most sensuous fantasies. ...
|  | Conquered: The Kivronian Vampire Series (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 12, 2012Claiming a mate on conquered Earth is driving alien vampire, Rafe, insane. Twenty years in the future, on conquered Earth, the sage-kissed breeze of Red Rock carries with it the taint of blood.Alien vampire, Rafe Nucretah, has lost comrades to a vile madness that strips warriors of reason and reduces them to murderous demons. Rafe has sworn against suffering that fate, but the only cure rests is the love of a woman. Time is out for this ruler of the Western Quadrant and claiming any female will do. Spunky and courageous reporter, Pepper Morgan, has lost both ...
|  | The Terrorist Next Door
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Sheldon Siegel has jumped onto best seller lists and into readers' and reviewers' affections with seven extraordinary novels featuring San Francisco defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. He now returns to write about his hometown of Chicago in his electrifying new thriller, THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR. He's Homeland Security's biggest nightmare. Someone is setting off fire bombs in Chicago in stolen cars using untraceable cell phones. The international terror channels are silent. A group calling itself the Islamic Freedom Federation demands the releas...
|  | Deep Black: Biowar (NSA Series)
Publication Date: April 28, 2005| Series: NSA Series (Book 2) Dr. James Kegan, a world-renowned scientist specializing in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Kegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 caliber hole in his skull - and a contact trail that leads to an alleged terrorist cell. Unraveling the mystery is a job for Kegan’s best friend, NSA operative Charlie Dean. His mission is to infiltrate the scientist’s circle of associates and decipher Kegan’s confidential research. Dispatch...
|  | Fairy Tales for Today: America's Favorite Read-Along Classics : The Frog Prince/Little Red Riding Hood/the Shoemaker & the Elves/Rumpelstiltskin/Sleeping Beauty/Hansel & gre
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|  | La historia interminable
Publication Date: June 1982Small Bastian is nobody's idea of a hero; but in an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers an enchanted world only he can save. It begins as a "will-o'-the-wisp" goes to ask the Childlike Empress for help against the Nothing, which is spreading all over. The Empress is ill, which may be the cause of the Nothing. She then reveals that the only thing that can save Fantastica is a human child, who must give her a new name to restart the cycle of life. Thus, Bastian re-names the Empress 'Moon Child'; and helps re-build Fantastica with his imagination. Descripti...
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