 | Secret Sister
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 |  | Diary of a Sex Addict
Publication Date: August 31, 2011Witty, dark and explosively carnal, Diary of a Sex Addict chronicles a gay New Yorker’s month-long descent into a circus of anonymous hook-ups as he struggles to erase the pain of a failed romance and blot out the routine of a soul-numbing day job. Bizarre gang-bangs and fleeting attempts at celibacy are interspersed with visits to his wealthy and eccentric dowager aunt, visits which awaken lost memories of a chaotic youth. Written in prose that is at once poetic and unabashedly lewd, Diary offers a glimpse into a forbidden fringe world of longing and ...
|  | Blue Water & Me: Tall Tales of Adventures With My Father
Publication Date: April 22, 2012Blue Water & Me is a high-adventure story of Penn Wallace's magical first summer fishing with his father, Blue Water Charlie, at age eleven. The pair begin their adventure by ramming a thirty-thousand ton Japanese freighter.Charlie regales Penn with old-time fish stories. Penn swims with dolphins and explores desert islands. As the summer passes, Penn's undying belief in Charlie slowly erodes as he sees his father's feet of clay. Finally, they get caught in an out of season hurricane. They fight for their lives in hundred mile an hour winds and thirty foot wav...
|  | The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors
Release Date: November 17, 2005"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history. . . . It traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on."-from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become c...
|  | Collected Works of William Butler Yeats
Publication Date: August 18, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: April 2002| ISBN-10: 0393977536 | ISBN-13: 978-0393977530| Edition: 2nd This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most importanttheater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara,and Pygmalion.Each play is fully annotated."Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author andhis work, from traditional critical readings to more theorizedapproaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his allegedfeminism. Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis,John A. Bertolini, Stanley Weintraub, and J. E...
|  | The Ballymun Trilogy
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|  | A Chorus of Haiku
Publication Date: 1993Student's Haikus ...
| | The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances
Publication Date: February 1977Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest—three of Shakespeare’s final plays diverge from Shakepeare’s usual standards. Generically, stylistically, and dramatically, they each embrace hauntingly familiarShakespearean themes and incidents. However, with comic devices colliding with tragic passions, mimetic actions that give way to spectacle, and drama that yields to narrative, everything Shakespearean has undergone a puzzling transformation. Barbara A. Mowat argues that when a dramatist selects a genre, a theatrical style, a narra...
| | Bloomsbury and Modernism (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | Cuentos Completos Cortazar II (Complete Short Stories 2, Cortazar) (Spanish Edition) (Cortazar Cuentos Completos)
Publication Date: June 30, 2011| Series: Cortazar Cuentos Completos (Book 2) Includes the short stories found in Historias de cronopios y de famas, Todos los fuegos el fuego, Ultimo round, Octaedro and Alguien que anda por ahi.Spanish Description: Incluye todos los cuentos de: Historias de cronopios y de famas, Todos los fuegos el fuego, Ultimo round, Octaedro, y Alguien que anda por ahi. ...
|  | Miranda (Springwater Seasons)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Springwater Seasons Thrown out by her father for bearing an illegitimate child, Miranda Leebrook and her newborn are looking for a new chance at life. ...
|  | Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield Novels)
Release Date: March 2, 1996| Series: Jane Whitefield Novels "A CHALLENGING AND SATISFYING THRILLER. . .[WITH] MANY SURPRISING TWISTS. " --The New York TimesJane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness--not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows...
|  | Robert Crais CD Collection: The Last Detective, The Forgotten Man, Hostage (Elvis Cole Novels)
Publication Date: July 29, 2006| Series: Elvis Cole Novels The Last Detective: While attorney Lucy Chenier is away on business and her ten-year-old son, Ben, is staying with Elvis, Ben disappears without a trace. Amid the maelstrom of personal conflicts, Elvis and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are forced to consider a troubling lead - one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past. The Forgotten Man: Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking f...
|  | The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Sherlock Holmes '"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'. The one and only Sherlock Holmes is sensationally back from the dead, and devoting his life once more to examining the criminal complexities of the capital.Cases of mysterious codes, persecuted millionaires, stalkers, abductions and a meeting with 'the worst man in London' are all attacked with renewed vigour.But Holmes' old enemies are watching his every move. Watching, waiting, plotting....
|  | Prime Suspect
Publication Date: September 17, 2012Casey was a cop, and a good one.That didn't prevent her from looking like a suspect in the murder of her brother's girlfriend.Not that anyone actually thought she committed the murder.No, they were certain her brother did that alone in the heat of a passionate argument.Casey was suspected of covering up the murder.Who better than a cop to know how to do that? ...
|  | Dora's Storytime Collection (Dora the Explorer)
Release Date: December 2, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Great Canoe: A Karina Legend
Publication Date: September 9, 2001| Age Level: 2 and up A long time ago, Kaputano, dweller of the heavens, warned that a great rain was coming. He urged the Karinas to help him build a canoe and gather seeds and animals, but only four couples agreed to help. Soon, the rains covered even the tallest trees. When the waters finally receded, Kaputano created a landscape of marshes, rivers, mountains, and trees to ensure that the tribe would prosper. ...
|  | Soccer Scrapbook and Journal for Girls
Publication Date: June 2001Spiral bound scrapbook ...
|  | Stories for Literacy
Publication Date: January 19, 2006Myths, legends, folk tales, fables, trickster stories, humourous stories, adventure stories, mystery stories, historical stories, fantasy, science fiction, stories with familiar settings, stories that raise issues ...all kinds of complete stories for Literacy and reading for pleasure. Chosen by an expert in the use of children's literature in the classroom, this is a collection of 70 complete texts from a range of cultures which are perfect for the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy at KS2. It is also an exciting and immensely varied treasury of ...
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