 | Saga (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 1997A broken air-conditioner, warm beer, demented firemen and a mysterious letter.These are the starting points of Saga, a novel in which the reader is swept into an obsessive search for a woman.Her ever-changing form leads the protagonist into a surrealistic labyrinth of desire, and eventually into a hallucinating succession of images, where reality fades to become yet another distorted reflection of itself. ...
 |  | Rain Storm
Release Date: September 1, 2009Beautiful and lethal. Cynda Stephens' hatred for life and men grow as her addictions force her into prostitution.Keith Hosea Williams obeys God's call to marry Cynda. But as his love begins to open Cynda's heart in ways she never expected, her thoughts of unworthiness cause her to run away from a love she desperately wants to call her own. Then she discovers a love even greater than the love Keith gave her. A love that has been with her all the days of her life, a love that refuses to let her go. Only then, can she receive all that God has to offer. --This text...
|  | Dzelarhons: Mythology of the Northwest Coast
Publication Date: September 14, 1986Magic.The world is full of magic.It's everywhere ..."When I was eight or nine - or maybe ten or eleven - I don't remember for sure now, Klopinum would share her stories with me."And thus it begins, the long-awaited successor to Anne Cameron's ground-breaking Daughters of Copper Woman. Magic in many incarnations - mischievous, terrifying, benevolent, erotic-suffuses the pages of this extraordinary collection, from the humourous tales of the trickster Raven through the feminist fable of the bearded woman to the myth of the lazy boy who was reared by whales a...
|  | Glencoe Asian American Literature Teacher Guide
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|  | Quality of Care
Release Date: March 1, 2005Clara Raymond is the kind of obstetrician any woman would want-caring, skilled, dedicated. But she is caught off guard when a pregnant woman is wheeled onto the labor and delivery floor with what seem to be minor complaints. The patient turns out to be Lydia Benson, a childhood friend who once saved Clara's life after a terrible horseback-riding accident. And at Lydia's side is her husband Gordon Robinson, a man whom Clara once loved passionately and then left-although she has never forgotten him.That night in the labor and delivery rooms the brief reunion goes t...
|  | Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| Series: Irish Literature An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years prec...
|  | Leaving the Bronx
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Max is a Jewish kid from the Bronx.His mother dies when he is 15 and he moves with his father and younger brother to an Italian neighborhood. He befriends Tony, a tough and connected older boy which launches him into a new life with intricate relationships, temptations and a career that leads to a union showdown.This is a story about a young man with both conflicting loyalties and scruples trying to thrive while doing the right thing. ...
|  | Long Way Home: The Unseen Trilogy, Book 3 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel crossover)
Release Date: August 28, 2001| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Unseen (Book 3) This title concludes a three-volume crossover series which uses characters and settings from both Buffy and Angel. Buffy and Angel are stuck in an alternate reality where dragons and monsters rule. In the homeworld chaos is rife, Buffy and Angel must find a way home before it's too late. ...
|  | Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation
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|  | Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set)
Release Date: October 24, 2006In honour of its 35th anniversary, Ecco is proud to reissue Constance Garnett's 1929 13–volume Tales of Chekhov, heralded as one of the finest Chekhov translations ever.Anton Chekhov's short fiction is admired and cherished by readers the world over. This stunning boxed set brings together the largest, most comprehensive selection of his stories, all full of humor, truth, and vast insight. Included are the familiar masterpieces–"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"––as well as several brilliant but lesser–known ta...
|  | The Wakefield Mysteries (Methuen's Theatre Classics)
Publication Date: January 1, 1988| Series: Methuen's Theatre Classics As part of Wakefield's centenary celebrations in 1988, the author was commissioned to do a modern adaptation of the Wakefield Medieval Mystery Plays. Simple vernacular speech is retained, spanning the Creation to the Resurrection. The music is by Andy Roberts. ...
| | I Like You and Other Poems for Valentine's Day
Publication Date: December 1976A collection of poems of love and affection by a variety of poets. ...
|  | engulf--enkindle
Publication Date: December 15, 2010Poetry. Translated from the German by Kurt Beals. Anja Utler's poems touch the ground where feeling and thinking begin to take form and burst from the body, burst into language. Their interweaving pulls us into an almost still undifferentiated, preconscious world where the human body and the surrounding landscape are fused. Stretching syntax and semantics, Utler's poems trace speech to its roots in lungs, throat, tongue, and let it emerge as sound and song. ...
|  | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Release Date: December 30, 2003Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this ext...
|  | Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, II: From the Renaissance to the Englightenment
Publication Date: December 31, 2008| ISBN-10: 3525539827 | ISBN-13: 978-3525539828| Edition: 1 This third volume of the comprehensive international reference work on the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament deals with its reception within the time span of 13001800, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Written by Jewish and Christian experts. ...
|  | Charles Dickens and Other Victorians
Publication Date: September 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521736803 | ISBN-13: 978-0521736800| Edition: 1 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism. A novelist and poet who was also a Professor of English, he helped to form the literary tastes of generations of literary students and scholars who came after him. The freshness, enthusiasm and intellectual insight of his work is still evident in his writings nearly a century on. Cambridge University Press is delighted to reiss...
|  | Into the Darkness (Avon Red)
Release Date: March 27, 2007| Series: Avon RedAfter arriving in New Orleans—escaping from a tragic past—the virginal beauty falls victim to a series of strange, unearthly attacks. And for the first time in her life, she aches with sexual desire. Now Natalie is confused, frightened, out of control—desperately struggling to understand a world that is transforming around her. But soon she will be powerful and magnificent in ways she could never have imagined . . . Detective Rene Broussard knows the hot young woman in despair is trouble. But something about Natalie intri...
|  | Byline: Mickey Spillane
Publication Date: December 15, 2004MIKE HAMMER AND OTHER ADVENTURESProbably the most influential mystery writer to emerge after the Second World War and certainly the bestseller was Mickey Spillane and his tough P.I. Mike Hammer.I, the Jury, Kiss Me Deadly, and other novels introduced a tough, fast and violent hero who lived in a tough, fast, and violent world, but which he described with a rough poetry.Byline: Mickey Spillane is a treasury of riches for Spillane fans.It includes in short-story form two Mike Hammer cases which later appeared as novels, a long lost Hammer story which was reco...
|  | The Stagecoach: Lucky Luke Vol. 25 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: February 16, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Great Valley Grassland Adventure
Publication Date: October 16, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Patrick knew that nature held many hidden secrets and mysteries for an imaginative boy. He also knew that there were adventures just waiting for the right moment and the right person to stumble upon them. Like many thirteen-year-old boys, he was no exception. As the school year ended and his long awaited summer break began, he embarked on an adventure that would forever change how he felt about nature. During his long awaited visit to his cousins, who lived along the river at Hatfield Park, he discovers kayaking ...
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