 | The Last of the Mohicans and Other Novels
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 |  | The Lightkeeper's Ball (A Mercy Falls Novel)
Publication Date: April 19, 2011| Series: A Mercy Falls Novel At the elegant Mercy Falls masquerade ball, Olivia's hidden identity will be revealed. It is the dawn of a new century and Olivia Stewart is heiress to an empire. Her family numbers among the Four Hundred-those considered the wealthiest and most distinquished in America. Unfortunately their wealth has nearly disappeared, and now their security rests upon the Stewart daughters' marrying well. Olivia's sister, Eleanor, was engaged to Harrison Bennett, one of the nation's wealthiest men, but has since died. Now the pressure is on Oli...
|  | Cooking the Books: A Sloane Templeton Mystery
Publication Date: April 2012| Series: Sloane Templeton Mystery After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, “What...
|  | Persian Love Poetry
Publication Date: September 30, 2005Love is a major theme in Persian poetry and can be interpreted in various ways-as mystic love, the basis of the relationship between humans and God, or as passionate or affectionate love between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, family and friends, or even as patriotic love of Iran. The literary style and indeed the Persian language itself are floral and elaborate, but the themes differ little from our preoccupations with love and romance today.This collection of extracts has been selected from the best of traditional and contemporary Persi...
|  | Spooky New York: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| Series: Spooky New York's folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Scholosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. ...
|  | Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places
Publication Date: April 18, 2006Mike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean. An ancient witch doctor, a giant fish woman and keeper of the secret history of the universe force Hellboy to either accept his role in the coming apocalypse, or have that role stolen from him. Weird undersea creatures and talking lions populate this turning-point adventure, which reveals secrets buried since Hellb...
|  | The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1: The Frontier Stories
Release Date: November 4, 2003With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer—Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson—will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour’ s short fiction, volume by handsome volume...
|  | Stargate SG-1: Sacrifice Moon
Publication Date: January 30, 2007The unity of the team is threatened on their first mission. ...
|  | Vampalicious
Publication Date: August 1, 2012After barely surviving the first brutal days of a zombie apocalypse, doomsday lovers Joey and Walt find themselves at the mercy of two blood deprived vampires; Santos, a charming sociopath once idolized by millions and his out of control progeny, Jeanette, hell bent on a quest for the unattainable. Also caught in the crossfire is lone vigilante Taco, fearlessly searching for her beloved's killer.In a world now dominated by flesh craving zombies, humans and vampires must forge a new existence, learn to trust and live amongst one another, or face certain annih...
|  | Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (Interface)
Publication Date: June 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0415137950 | ISBN-13: 978-0415137959Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:* open up some of the basic mechanisms o...
|  | Yellow: Stories
Publication Date: May 17, 2002"Elegant and engrossing...[an] unusually complete portrait of contemporary Asian America."—Los Angeles Times..."A gem....Lee has captured this truth beautifully, wisely, and with winning economy."—Cleveland Plain DealerAs the Los Angeles Times noted in its profile ofthe author, "few writers have mined the[genre of ethnic literature] as shrewdly ortranscended its limits quite so stunningly asDon Lee." Harking "back to thetimeless concerns of Chekhov: fate, chance, themystery of the human heart" (Stuart Dybek), these interconnected stories "are utter...
|  | Reasons to Live
Release Date: July 20, 1995Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit. ...
|  | Slave Trades and an Atrist's Notebook
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|  | Selected Poems
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|  | Metaphor and God-talk
Publication Date: October 1999| ISBN-10: 0820442356 | ISBN-13: 978-0820442358This volume contains a selection of the papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays in this volume analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives. The concept of metaphor has been developed by the sustained attention of theologians, philosophers, linguists and literary theorists for more than two millennia. The last twenty years have witnessed a renewed and intensified interest in this powerful dynamism of thought. The presen...
|  | Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries)
Release Date: December 28, 1996| Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries "[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewHe meets her at a suburban party. They share a flirtation over their red wine . . . and he doesn't see her again. It's the old familiar story for Morse. Then one day he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home--and Morse should know since her door is unlocked and he takes a quick look inside. Only later does Morse learn that the lady was at home, just not alive....
|  | Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel
Publication Date: April 7, 2010| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Trouble with May Amelia
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up May Amelia Jackson captured readers' hearts in the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia. Now, after over ten years, Jennifer Holm is bringing this beloved character back in a beautiful way. The Trouble with May Amelia is a gorgeously written story that's as heartbreaking as it is funny. May Amelia lives in pioneer Washingon State in 1900, and she just can't act the part of a proper young lady. Working a farm on the rainy Nasel River isn't easy - especially when you have seven brothers and a Pappa who proclaims that Girls Are Useless. May Ame...
|  | Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bloom's Major Novelists)
Publication Date: December 2002| ISBN-10: 0791063461 | ISBN-13: 978-0791063460Modern psychologists applaud Dostoevsky's insight into madness, while French Existentialists acknowledge him as the forerunner of their ethic. This edition of Modern Critical Views offers examinations of Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Writer's Diary, The Gambler, White Nights, and Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.This title, Fyodor Dostoevsky, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Fyodor Dostoevsky through full-length critical essays by...
| | Wolves (Wild Dogs)
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