 | Star Island
Release Date: June 21, 2011Meet 22-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen-and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed"-- meaning wasted -- to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and...
 |  | El Condado De Belken: Klail City (Clasicos Chicanos, 8.) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992| Series: Clasicos Chicanos, 8. (Book 8) novel, Spanish text, English intro Gonzales-Berry ...
|  | Hoodfellas
Publication Date: November 30, 2008When an Ex-con finds himself destitute and out of luck after he's released from prison, he turns to what he knows best, crime. Crazy D was doomed to become a statistic until he took matters into his own hands. Hungry and determined for success, he uses his street smarts and connects to build an empire with his click , The Hoodfellas. Who will be victimized by the Hoodfellas? Who will pay the price for their success? ...
|  | This Bitter Earth
Release Date: December 31, 2002In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the prying eyes of its small-minded, cruel-hearted townsfolk, praying for the strength to keep going. She doesn’t stop until she arrives at her childhood home in Short Junction. Here she learns the truth about her parentage: a terrible tale of unrequited love, of one man’s enduring hatred, and of the black magic that has cursed generations of Lacey w...
|  | Kiss of the Spider Woman
Release Date: April 3, 1991Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell, each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thi...
|  | London Under Midnight
Publication Date: September 1, 2006A novel of vampiric terror from one of the masters of the genre Vampyr Sharkz ? ?They?re coming to get you?. The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has the old African preacher seen emerging from undergrowth near the river? Is this the essence of evil encountered long ago? Ben Ashton is an investigative writer. When he's commissioned to find out who is res...
|  | The Delectable Mountains: or, Entertaining Strangers
Release Date: November 1, 2002Life seems to have little to offer Devin Donahue at the age of 23. Graduation thrust him out of college against his will, and the love of his life just left him to marry his older brother. With a broken heart and no direction to speak of, Devin pounces on his first opportunity to skip town-an invitation to help run a summer theater in Colorado with his high-school sweetheart.Upon arrival, Devin is shoved into a torrential melodrama of barroom brawls, outrageous love triangles and the worst performance of Hedda Gabler ever produced. He is sucked into the action b...
|  | The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology
Release Date: June 30, 1997The pioneering creator of transformative workshops and books, Dr. Jean Houston here explores the nature of spiritual yearning and demonstrates to readers how to facilitate a personal quest for fulfillment by focusing on the aspects of Sacred Psychology. Houston provides a passport to the wondrous and tragic dimensions of the human psyche. ...
|  | Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Plautus was the single greatest influence on Westerncomedy.In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors andMoliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directlybased on Plautine originals.Plautus himself borrowedfrom the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdyhumor, and irreverent characterizations are the originalwork of an undisputed genius.The comedies printed hereshow him at his best, and Professor Segal's translationskeep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making thesethe most readable and actable versions available. T...
|  | From Ibsen's Workshop: Notes, Scenarios, and Drafts of the Modern Plays (Da Capo Paperback)
Publication Date: June 1978| Series: Da Capo Paperback Publisher: New York : ScribnerNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ...
|  | Catullus: The Complete Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 22, 1998| ISBN-10: 0192835874 | ISBN-13: 978-0192835871Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader.Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful appeal on all kinds of readers.The 116 poems collected in this new translation include the famous Lesbia poems and display the full range of Catullus's mastery of lyric meter, mythological themes, and epigrammatic invective and wit. ...
| | Antologia del teatro del Siglo de Oro (El Retablo de Maese Pedro) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800
Publication Date: February 4, 2010| ISBN-10: 0521129559 | ISBN-13: 978-0521129558| Edition: 1 Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800. The first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama), it links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim...
|  | Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: May 13, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521586046 | ISBN-13: 978-0521586047The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism, through original readings of texts by Wor...
|  | Drugs and the 'Beats': The Role of Drugs in the Lives and Writings of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg
Publication Date: October 17, 2005In this fascinating and informative exploration of the relationship between drugs and literature, the reader will discover the lives and writings of three celebrated "beat" writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. In examining the drugs they used and the consequent effects on how they lived, what they wrote about, and how they wrote, the author offers an intriguing study of the role of drugs in the creative process. No literary movement had ever explored such a variety of drugs (heroin, morphine, alcohol, amphetamines, marijuana, LSD,...
| ![Heavenly Angel [Divine Creek Ranch 3] [The Heather Rainier Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hXq2dkkKL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Heavenly Angel [Divine Creek Ranch 3] [The Heather Rainier Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: February 22, 2011| Series: Divine Creek Ranch [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, sex toys] Angel Martinez has worked patiently for months to draw the fragile beauty out of her shell, wooing her with gentle kindness and falling for her delightful two-year-old in the process. Teresa left her painful past behind and built a new life for her and her son. She cares deeply for Angel, but is afraid to let down her guard. Just when she thinks she might be able to handle the flirtatious Divine Creek Ranch foreman, a holiday visitor arrives and th...
|  | The Tristan Betrayal
Release Date: December 1, 2009Moscow-a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalf has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy-an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and to convince him to resist. It's up to Metcalf to change the course of history. He's done it before.For Metca...
|  | The Handshaker
Publication Date: May 25, 2012In the darkest corners of hypnotic control who can say what is and is not possible? Eight women went obediently to their deaths with the Handshaker. Were they hypnotised? When another victim commits suicide, hypnotist Alex Croft believes he has the answer. Then The Handshaker takes Croft’s girlfriend and the game changes. A puppet dancing to killer’s tune, Croft is first the hunter, then in a dramatic turn of events, the hunted, running from the law, desperate to find this madman before he can kill again, brought face to face with his own mortality...
|  | Inside
Publication Date: October 8, 2007After fourteen years in prison, Myrden is released, proven innocent by new DNA evidence. Greeted by friends and enemies, and a wife who’d lost no time moving on while he was away, he is now unwittingly famous as he awaits a hefty financial settlement from the government. Myrden clings to his young granddaughter and to a girlfriend from his past, hoping that the money can free them all from the cycles of revenge and failure that have marked his life. But it’s not easy to leave the old neighborhood behind.Written in prose that brilliantly reflects M...
|  | Chronicles of the Red King: The Secret Kingdom
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author Jenny Nimmo is back with a brand-new series chronicling the origin and the adventures of Charlie Bone's magical ancestor, the Red King!Timoken is a prince born in a secret kingdom. At his birth, a forest jinnibestows magical gifts upon him: a cloak made by the last moon spider and a potion called Alixir. When the peaceful land is attacked, Timoken and his sister, Zobayda, must find a new kingdom to call home. Together, with only the magical gifts and a talking camel, the siblings set off.In th...
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