 | Talking Leaves
Release Date: September 1, 1991An Anthology of contemporary native American short stories-Cherokee, Chippewa, Sioux, Navaho, Modoc... voices of native americans in stories uniquely their own. ...
 |  | The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 8)
Release Date: March 11, 2008In the eighth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's endlessly enjoyable, bestselling series, the judicious Precious Ramotswe comes to discover what is true, stable, and genuine in an ever-shifting world. There is rarely a dull moment in the life of Precious Ramotswe, and on Zebra Drive and Tlokweng Road many changes are afoot. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni wants be put in charge of a case involving an errant husband, and Mma Makutsi is considering leaving the agency, taking her near perfect score on the Botswana Secretarial College typing exam with her. Meanwhile, Mma Ram...
|  | Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary
Publication Date: July 2003| ISBN-10: 0754632938 | ISBN-13: 978-0754632931The author offers an account and explanation of the diversity of the more than 60 manuscripts of the "South English Legendary", a late 13th-century collection of lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The importance of the SEL to hagiographic and cultural studies has been increasingly acknowledged. Without denying the legendaries' religious purpose, this book looks at the way SEL narratives reflect and address the complex, interwined tapestry - political, social, religious - of Edward I's Engl...
|  | The Madness of Priests (Vampire: Victorian Age, Book 2)
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|  | Progeny-A Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 1999Progeny brings the fast-paced world of high-tech fertility projects right to our doorstep. As Matthew Hamilton enters into a dangerous pact with Dr. Chan, he betrays his wife, and turns his back on the ethics of medicine. If you haven't had concerns about cloning and genetic experimentation, you will now! A heart-stopping medical thriller in which a young medical student faces the moral dilemmas and life-long consequences that spring from a new reproductive technology that turns the miracle of birth into an instrument of death. ...
|  | Fingering The Family Jewels
Publication Date: February 15, 2004Derek Mason arrives in Charlotte, North Carolina for the funeral of his Aunt Walterene.He encounters the family who sent him away because he revealed he was gay.His mother and Uncle Vernon want him out of town because of Vernon’s senate campaign.His sister and Aunt Ruby urge him to stay.His cousin Mark denies their past relationship.Derek uncovers mysteries in the death of a family gardener, possibly at the hands of a young Vernon.Secrets and lies unravel as Derek digs into the family history with the help of hunky reporter Daniel. ...
|  | The Portable Edmund Burke (Portable Library)
Release Date: July 1, 1999| Series: Portable Library The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English rape of the Indian subcontinent; and, most famously, his denouncement of English Jacobin sympathizers during the French Revolution. The Portable Ed...
|  | A Dictionary of English Folklore
Publication Date: November 2, 2000With 1250 entries ranging from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this enchanting dictionary unfurls the colorful history behind the holidays, customs, legends, and superstitious beliefs of England.Ever wonder why we kiss under the mistletoe at Christmas or think a rabbit's foot brings good luck?Two folklore authorities provide reliable and often surprising answers to these and other curiosities that have shaped daily life in England for centuries.They explore the festivals and past celebrations of the English calendar, from St. Andrews Day and ...
|  | European Proverbs in 55 Languages with Equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese
Publication Date: April 2002The publication of European Proverbs must be considered a major event in paremiographical research, and the book most certainly belongs in every research library of the world and on the shelf of any scholar interested in the comparative study of proverbs. It is a standard reference work on the very day of its appeareance, and it will serve generations of scholars and students as the work on the most common proverbs known throughout Europe. The Hungarian scholar Gyula Paczolay and his classical European Proverbs are a major milestone in the historical development o...
|  | Penelope
Publication Date: November 23, 2010"One of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theater, and one who has a direct conduit to our wanting hearts."—Guardian"Superbly talented."—Paul Muldoon, The Times Literary Supplement"A writer who deserves to be better known in this country."—The New York TimesFrom the author of The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom—works whose joint publication was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Times Literary Supplement—comes an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, as only Enda Walsh could do it. Due to be presented at the...
|  | Aristophanes: The Acharnians, the Clouds, the Knights, the Wasps (Loeb Classical Library) (In Greek and English Languages) (English and Greek Edition)
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|  | The Masterpiece of the Wilderness
Publication Date: May 1, 2003Jesus Christ is sounding out His invitation now.He is wooing us - His people - out of our comfort zones and placing us into the unknown and uncharted wilderness.In the wilderness you will find out who you truly are and who He truly is.It is a known fact that the ability to deceive ourselves is great.By hearing His voice and renewing our minds as we embrace the cross, we are able to encounter the great love that He bestows upon us.In the wilderness you will find Him as your Beloved and you will discover yourself as someone who is deeply loved.The depth of the reve...
|  | The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 0300175868 | ISBN-13: 978-0300175868One of the most voluminous epics of world literature, the Shahnama (or "Book of Kings") narrates the history of the ancient kings of Iran, from their mythical beginnings to the Arab conquest in 651 A.D. Although illustrated copies of the poem were commissioned by numerous Iranian kings, the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1576) is arguably the most important and beautifully illustrated version ever produced. It was created by two generations of the most renowned early-16th-century artists at the royal ate...
|  | Passionate Intensity
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|  | Shamrocks for Mayakovsky: Anniversary lines 1933-1943
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|  | Club Fantasy
Release Date: August 1, 2004In this deliciously sensual novel, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd introduces Jenna and Marcy Bryant, identical twins who are very different in their longings, and reveals the secret heart of two sisters on the verge of an awakening. Jenna Bryant has always been the free spirit while her twin sister Marcy is the careful planner. Now, she has the sort of life Marcy - and most women dream of: a marriage proposal from her steady, reliable attorney boyfriend, Glen. But the house with the white picket fence isn't for Jenna. Instead, she wants the chance to explore the cravings sh...
|  | Cold Blooded
Release Date: August 1, 2011His Vengeance Will Be Repeated. . . A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town-And Repeated. . . Weeks later, another violent vision shatters Olivia Bechet's sleep. Convinced a serial killer is stalking the city, Olivia turns to the authorities. But jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her--even when a second body turns up, slain in exactly the same bizarre,...
|  | Unconditionally Single
Release Date: July 28, 2009New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison thrills readers with another riveting tale featuring beloved heroine Honey Thomas. This time, Honey goes into hiding to save her life--and fights to keep past enemies from destroying the future she so desperately wants. . .Honey Thomas once made her living as a tough-talking prostitute and madam, but those days are long gone. Now, Honey runs a counseling center she founded in Atlanta that helps women like her get off the streets. The best part is Honey's new life is being bankrolled by money stolen from her ex-pimp...
|  | The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom.Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfillment.This edition of The Mill on the Floss offers the definitive Clarendon text with a new Introduction which deals with Eliot, Darwinism, and the intellecutal life of the period, as well as providing close textual analysis.About the S...
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Publication Date: 2012On 8CD's: In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger, James Bond is about to get married to Teresa di Vicenzo, the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerland. Bond's marriage and Blofeld's schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire and high explosive from which neither man emerges the victor. ...
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