 | Hungry Woman in Paris
Publication Date: March 9, 2009A journalist and activist, Canela believes passion is essential to life; but lately passion seems to be in short supply. It has disappeared from her relationship with her fiancé, who is more interested in controlling her than encouraging her. It's absent from her work, where censorship and politics keep important stories from being published. And while her family is full of outspoken individuals, the only one Canela can truly call passionate is her cousin and best friend Luna, who just took her own life.Canela can't recover from Luna's death. She is haun...
 |  | Armadillo Charm
Publication Date: June 3, 1996poetry by Chicago publisher of MARCH/Abrazo...
|  | The Flint Saga
Release Date: January 25, 2011The Flint Saga ...
|  | Upon This Rock (Shelton Heights Series, Book 4)
Release Date: February 22, 2011The much-beloved and acclaimed Christian fiction author delivers a redemptive delight with the story of an ex-con who learns the hard way that it’s better to be with God than without Him. Deon “Rocky” Rockford is released after serving nearly twenty five years in jail. He may have been “saved” on the inside, but now that his term, originally a life sentence, has been overturned, and he’s free from the shackles of the prayers of the men’s ministry of the New Hope Church, he wants only to focus on himself. As fearl...
|  | Collins Classics - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Publication Date: August 4, 2003| Series: Collins Classics The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most ...
|  | Dance in the Dark: Poetic Reflections on Love and Culture
Publication Date: June 2002In Dance in the Dark, W. Eric Croomes writes with poetic candor and from a black male perspective about how the panoply of our experiences with love, relationship and culture conspire to produce within us an awakening of consciousness and, therefore, a new person.Using personal experience, interspersed with poem, myth and literary anthology, Croomes paints an absorbing, imaginative and enchanting tapestry of the mystery of love and the vibrancy of African-American culture. ...
|  | Mermaids on the Moon
Publication Date: December 2002Elizabeth Stuckey-French welcomes you to Mermaid Springs–a sparkling, bubbly world where secretive mermaids swim, a psychic cat gives mysterious messages, and Elvis still reigns.As a young woman, Grendy swam her way to fame in the kitschy underwater pageants of Mermaid Springs, a premier attraction of pre-Disney Florida. When she met her minister husband, North, she hung up her fins and moved with him to the Midwest. Thirty-six years later, a reunion of the Mermaids of Yesteryear brings Grendy and North back to Mermaid City, where they decide to purchase...
|  | A Long Way Home (Mysteries of Sparrow Island #11)
Publication Date: 2006When a whale is injured off the coast of Orcas Island, everyone is in a frenzy.Her calf has been missing since the accident, and no one seems to know where she went.Will the charismatic oceanographer who takes up the cause help them find the missing calf, or will his showmanship only lead to more trouble?Mysteries of Sparrow Island Series, meet Abigail Stanton, ornithologist, bird watcher and a keen observer who brings a sharp eye to bear on the secrets that lie hidden on Sparrow Island, a place of extraordinary natural beauty in the San Juan Islands.Abby, inspired by h...
|  | The Wrath of Kahn
Publication Date: May 9, 2012Dominique Strauss-Kahn seemed to have it all. The head of the IMF, with a rich and powerful wife, DSK, as he was called, was a man destined to become the next president of France. Then, on May 14, 2011, at the Sofitel Hotel in New York City, his world came apart when a maid accused him of sodomy and attempted rape. Now, for the first time, you can now learn the almost true story of what happened. Part satire, part science fiction, Voltaire 2.0's The Wrath of Kahn tells a picaresque tale of sex and greed and power, with some time travel and French movie references...
|  | Aladdin
Release Date: August 24, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Just in time for the release of the Platinum Edition DVD, this beautifully illustrated hardcover Read-Aloud Storybook retells the Disney animated classic, Aladdin! ...
|  | A Plautus Reader: Selections from Eleven Plays (Latin Reader)
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0865166943 | ISBN-13: 978-0865166943The comic playscripts by Plautus-the earliest Latin texts we have-made it through the ancient world to reach ours because the moves and verbal jousting found in them have always made people laugh. Plautine comedies span a wide range of idioms, extending from saucy adventures in the sex trade with Father as the fall-guy who foots all bills, to the trouncing of bigmouth trooper by Ms. Hot Stuff; from the fairytale wishes come true of faraway foundlings fished up on a surprise romantic shore, to the caricature...
|  | Antony and Cleopatra (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 26, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare's most powerful tragedies. Fascinating characterizations of a pair of history’s most charismatic lovers, fast-paced action in scenes throughout the far-flung Roman Empire, and peerless poetry make this immortal drama a must for students of the theater and literature. ...
|  | You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Grade Level: P and up Designed with budding readers in mind, this collection features eight fairy tales, each given a new twist and set in three columns and three colors as a script for two voices to read separately or together. Full color. ...
|  | Poeziia russkogo futurizma (Novaia biblioteka poeta) (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: 1999| Series: Novaia biblioteka poeta V sbornike, vklyuchayushhem proizvedeniya bolee 50 avtorov, russkij literaturnyj futurizm predstavlen kak shirokoe, neodnorodnoe avangardistskoe ?hudozhestvennoe techenie. Avtory sgruppirovany po real'no sushhestvovavshim tvorcheskim ob"edineniyam ("Gileya", "Centrifuga", "Liren'", "41", egofuturisty, "Mezonin poehzii" i dr.), chto pozvolyaet nametit' bolee tonkuyu differenciaciyu v ramkax futurizma kak celogo. Proizvedeniya bol'shinstva publikuemyh poehtov ne pereizdavalis' s 1910-x - 1920-x godov. Pechatayutsya stihi ?hudozhnika P.Fil...
|  | Republic Of Love
Publication Date: June 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0710306806 | ISBN-13: 978-0710306807| Edition: Bilingual By far the most popular poet of the Arab World, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English for the first time. So popular is he that one of his poems is the greatest love song in the Arab world, recorded by the legendary Egyptian singer Um Khaslsoum and played on virtually every taxi's radio across the Middle East. ...
|  | Virgil: Aeneid IX (Bristol Latin Texts Series) (Bk. 9)
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|  | The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521026660 | ISBN-13: 978-0521026666| Edition: 1 Timothy Morton explores the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of a growing consumer culture and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. The Poetics of Spice includes discussion of a wide range of related topics--exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. The book surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes new readings o...
|  | Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership
Publication Date: May 1, 1994Although notorious for their idiosyncrasies, the surrealists revived artistic collaboration as an honorable and productive practice. Most of the famous surrealists were men, yet almost all were involved with women artists who were much more than sources of romantic inspiration. Precious little attention has been given to this most intricate of partnerships. Magnifying Mirrors is the first study of the complex partnerships that stimulated and provoked these men and women. Each couple collaborated in its own unique way according to the varying importance ascri...
|  | Poison Study
Publication Date: December 1, 2008Locked in a coffin-like darkness, there is nothing to distract me from my memories of killing Reyad. He deserved to die—but according to the law, so do I. Here in Ixia, the punishment for murder is death. And now I wait for the hangman's noose.But the same law that condemns me may also save me. Ixia's food taster—chosen to ensure that the Commander's food is not poisoned—has died. And by law, the next prisoner who is scheduled to be executed—me—must be offered the position. ...
|  | Amor em Segredo (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005?Every one knows the pain and the delight of being what they are.' The sentence by Caetano Veloso could serve as a presentation for the new book by Sonia Rodrigues. Daughter of Nelson Rodrigues, she spent a good part of her life living with the tragedy of having him as a father. Only fourteen years after the death of the playwright, the situation was clarified - Sonia went to Court, had a DNA test to prove her parentage. Now, in Amor em segredo - As histórias infiéis que aprendi com meu pai (secret love ? the unfaithful stories I've learned from my ...
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