| A Good Excuse To Be Bad Release Date: June 28, 2011Smart, gorgeous, and too tough for her own good, bail recovery agent and single mom Evangeline Crawford moved to the burbs for a quiet life. Fortunately, it's not turning out that way...Angel has to admit she's feeling restless. The only excitement in her new life is her schoolgirl crush on the town's new pastor, Justus-too-Hot-to-be-Holy Morgan. But a fateful encounter and a job gone wrong at Club Night Candy in underground Atlanta is about to change all that... Soon, Angel's trying to save her divazilla twin sister from her big mouth and a scandalous murder charg...
| | William Henry is a Fine Name (Civil War Series #1) Publication Date: October 1, 2006A compelling coming-of-age story about a 13 year old boy inthe pre-Civil War south attempting to make sense of the surroundingchaos. As he comes to terms with his father’s involvementin the Underground Railroad and his mother’s antipathytoward abolitionism young Robert finds himself at a crossroads.His best friend is a black boy named William Henry and thedehumanizing effects of slavery are unquestionable in Robert’smind – he realizes he cannot just sit idly by. His family is pittedagainst him and Robert’s feelings of justice and...
| | Choice of the Cat (The Vampire Earth, Book 2) Release Date: May 4, 2004| Series: Vampire Earth (Book 2) The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control....
| | Moon Women Release Date: August 26, 2008In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s starting to lose her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried, and three months pregnant. Despite Ruth Ann’s best efforts to live a life that’s all her own, her family is coming together around her. First there’s her womanizing ex-husband, who has been hovering again, dredging up the past. And then...
| | Siddhartha: Eine indische Dichtung (German Edition) Publication Date: March 18, 2010Das Buch handelt von einem jungen Brahmanen namens Siddhartha und seinem Freund Govinda. Der von allen verehrte und bewunderte Siddhartha widmet sein Leben der Suche nach dem Atman, dem All-Einen, das in jedem Menschen ist. ...
| | The Gunsmith #367: The Omaha Palace (Gunsmith, The) Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Gunsmith, The (Book 367) THE GUNSMITH HAD BETTER PLAY HIS CARDS RIGHT…Men from all over are playing their way west to Iowa, hoping to make a fortune in a roll of the dice or in a backroom game of cards. They’re trying to cash in on an unpredictable little lady called Luck—and Clint Adams is no different.But along with big winnings come tough towns like Omaha, pretty saloon owners who need protecting, and crooked lawmen who’d just as soon run a man out of town as let him cut in on their action. Bred to the law of frontier survi...
| | W. B. Yeats: Poems (Highbridge Classics) Publication Date: June 5, 2006| Series: Highbridge Classics This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "Byzantium," and "Leda and the Swan." ...
| | Buson, Issa sono shuhen (Japanese Edition) ...
| | Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology Publication Date: July 25, 1998| ISBN-10: 041515782X | ISBN-13: 978-0415157827Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832 provides a valuable insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines and discourses. Each section includes a scholarly introduction, select bibliography, and annotations. Among the material assembled in the anthology are writings by previously neglected or under-represented women, working-class men, black radicals, and conservative and evangelical polemicists, as well as several unfami...
| | Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse Release Date: June 26, 1996In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jürgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other non-Kantian liberal theories in clear and accessible prose, Chambers develops her own views regarding the role of discourse and its importance within liberal democracies.Beginning with a deceptively simple question-"Why is talking better than fighting?"-Chambers explains how the idea of talking provides a rich and compelling view of morality, rationality, and political stab...
| | A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon Publication Date: February 1990A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow are analyzed. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
| | Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art) Publication Date: July 12, 1990| ISBN-10: 019817506X | ISBN-13: 978-0198175063In the first serious examination of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings, poetry, and unfinished erotic novel, this book looks beyond dismissals of Beardsley's work, and offers a stimulating reconsideration of his artistic perspective.By examining Beardsley's work within the social, artistic, and literary context of the 1890's, Zatlin demonstrates that behind the choice of his subject matter there was more than simply a desire for sexual exploration: there was also a serious protest against hypocrisy and against the sex...
| | Diarios De Adan Y Eva/Diaries of Adan and Eve (Spanish Edition) ...
| | The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Publication Date: August 23, 2010| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true...
| | Best British Mysteries 2006 Publication Date: December 29, 2005| Series: Best British Mysteries Following the huge success of the previous BBM collections comes the latest batch of stories from the UK’s top-flight crime writers. Alongside an Inspector Morse story from Colin Dexter and a Rumpole tale from John Mortimer, is Jake Arnott’s first short story and a wealth of exclusive stories from some of Britain’s most exciting up-and-coming young crime-writers. The Best British Mysteries 2006 will cause many sleepless nights of avid page turning! ...
| | Undercover (Harpur & Iles Mystery) Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Harpur & Iles Mystery When Harpur and Iles are called in to investigate an undercover investigation gone wrong, they can sense dark, hazardous times ahead . . . - After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force’s ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings. Harpur can imagine the pressure the officer would have been under. If a gang decided to kill, a spy would have to go along with it. But with careers of fello...
| | If I Were a Washington Redskin ...
| | Lets Go Zudie-O Book & Enhanced CD (Classroom Music) Publication Date: July 31, 2001 ...
| | Tales From Critterville Publication Date: January 1, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Down in Florida there is a community where lots of animals and birds live. It is called Critterville. In that town there is a bird whose name is Charles Wesley Mockingbird. He is the minister of Critterville Church. What follows that introduction are 54 fascinating tales that entertain and instruct both children and adults. Characters like F.J. Fox, Betsy Bunny and Tinker Skunk teach the reader/listener such virtues as obedience, forgiveness, sensitivity, friendship, being yourself, responsibility and many, many m...
| | The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) Release Date: September 9, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up...
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