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Publication Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Arabesque Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi—a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris—a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.Jake doesn't have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong e...
 |  | The Hungry Tide: A Novel
Publication Date: June 7, 2006A contemporary story of adventure, history, and identity by acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh. Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters...
|  | Infinite Space, Infinite God II
Publication Date: November 15, 2010Twelve science fiction storiesfeaturing great adventure with a twist of faith. InfiniteSpace, Infinite God II spans the gamut of science fiction, from near-futuredystopias to time travel to space opera, puzzles of logic to laugh-out-loudhumor and against-the-clock suspense. A great read for any science fiction fan;a must-read for those seeking something new in their fiction.The Ghosts of Kourionby Andrew Seddon: A grievingprofessor escapes back in time to live among a doomed people.Antivenin by KarinaFabian: Rescue Sister Rita takes ona sh...
|  | I Fell for a Sailor (Fred Urquhart Collection)
Publication Date: October 28, 2011| Series: Fred Urquhart Collection Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart's first collection of short stories brings to life the modern Scotland of the 1930s, using his inimitably vivid dialogue.He shows the struggles of working-class women, whether labouring in a sweatshop, facing death in a tuberculosis hospital or seeking escape on a bike of her own.His male characters also have problems, caused by army life, religion or homosexuality in a period of oppression.Life is sometimes overshadowed by the approach of war.But there is comedy too, for exa...
|  | Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School's Passionate Humanist
Publication Date: March 16, 2011MILTON WINTERNITZ Dr. Milton Winternitz, Dean of Yale Medical School from 1920 -1935, was confident of his own wisdom and right-thinking. He hoped to turn that New Haven school from a local medical training center to the national and international reasearch institution it has become. He simplified the educational program, certain that graduate students, freed from compulsory attendance at lectures, would learn for themselves. â??Winter,â?? as he liked to be called, strengthen the requirement that students carry out a research project before graduatio...
|  | Pride/Code of the Mountain Man (Pinnacle Westerns)
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|  | Goddess: A Celebration in Art and Literature
Publication Date: October 1997In this elegant volume the editor has compil ed a unique and culturally diverse anthology of literature a nd art to reveal the many guises of the goddess. ' ...
|  | The Eternal Cycle: Indian Myth (Myth and Mankind)
Publication Date: December 1998| Series: Myth and Mankind From the formless mass of chaos appeared the GreatTrinity of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.But they were notinvulnerable, and when their world was threatened by demons the godsturned not to their own power but to that of the Mother Goddess, inthe fierce and vengeful form of Kali, the merciless destroyer.TheEternal Cycle recounts this and other tales form Hindu, Buddhist, andJain mythology. ...
|  | On Aristotle and Greek tragedy
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|  | Speaking Of Christmas
Publication Date: January 1, 2004If you want to celebrate the birth of the Savior by participating in a Christmas play but have a limited budget and want to avoid long rehearsals, you'll want to have this fascinating collection of twelve short plays in readers' theater format. Whether you're a novice or have plenty of experience, you'll find these scripts, varying from humorous to deeply religious and ranging from 5-20 minutes in length, to be easy to stage yet packed with meaning. Suitable for worship services, prayer groups, religious education classes, retreats, or for entertainment at pa...
|  | Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics
Publication Date: June 4, 2011| ISBN-10: 0199562326 | ISBN-13: 978-0199562329This collection of fourteen essays and six short responses reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors try to avoid making the controversial assumption that the politics of tragedy were of simple relevance to the Athenian democracy. Instead, they look for other ways to explain the Athenianness of tragedy. These include: the polyphonic discourse of tragedy; the presentation of Athens in some plays (and the representation of foreigners too); tragedy as an Athenian form...
|  | CliffsNotes Homer's The Odyssey
Publication Date: January 2005| ISBN-10: 1591252334 | ISBN-13: 978-1591252337| Edition: Abridged This title presents a 4 CD set, and offers critical commentaries, character analyses, essays, and review questions. ...
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|  | The Norton Introduction to Poetry
Publication Date: October 5, 2006| ISBN-10: 0393928578 | ISBN-13: 978-0393928570| Edition: 9th The most wide-ranging collection of its kind, The Norton Introduction to Poetry offers a completecourse in reading and writing about poetry thatis designed to appeal to students of allbackgrounds, abilities, and interests.It notonly sharpens students’ close-reading skills and deepens their appreciation for the emotionalpower of poetry, but also connects poetry to the larger world by providing a thorough introduction to poetry’s authorial, cultural, and criticalcontexts. ...
|  | Guillaume de Machaut, Le Livre dou Voir Dit (The Book of the True Poem) (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
Publication Date: June 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815313276 | ISBN-13: 978-0815313274| Edition: 1 This is a complete translation of this poem from the late Middle Ages, telling 'the true story' of the agedpoet's romance with a young admirer. Introductory essays survey Machaut's biography, re-evaluate the autobiographical content of the poem, explore the literary context and discussthe miniatures, which are reproduced within the text. The volume includes a full listing of variant readings, a commentary on references to contemporary events and the writing of the poem, an outline chronology, indice...
|  | New Soundings: An Anthology of New Writing from the North of Ireland
Publication Date: May 3, 2004A showcase for new writers in Northern Ireland in prose, poetry and drama. ...
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|  | The works of Robert G. Ingersoll: In twelve volumes
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| | Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1900-1940
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|  | The Admiral's Penniless Bride (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: December 21, 2010| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1025) Although Carla Kelly is well known among her readers as a writer of Regency romance, her main interest (and first writing success) is Western American fiction—more specifically, writing about America's Indian Wars. Although she had sold some of her w --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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