 | Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
Publication Date: April 1, 2006When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination . . . Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophi...
 |  | Thomas Traherne: Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing)
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|  | The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life
Publication Date: May 2, 2007Trapped in a town surrounded by madmen, Rick must find a way out or die trying. Meanwhile, back at the prison, the rest of the survivors come to grips with the fact Rick may be dead, and a major turning point in the series is reached.Reprint Edition ...
|  | The Saint of San Francisco
Publication Date: December 5, 2011After finding himself still depressingly single on his thirty-second birthday, Jeremy Haniver accepts an invitation to move to San Francisco. Though he falls in love with the Castro and the city, it's not enough to cure him of his loneliness or the depression that dogs him. He almost throws his life away, but fate intervenes when Jeremy meets Mark Caparelli.Mark is a former Marine and a detective with the San Francisco PD. Unfortunately, he's also seeing someone else-at first. Life finally seems to be going Jeremy's way, until a homicide breaks up his firs...
|  | Los Ojos del Amarilis (Via Libre)
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|  | Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Myron Bolitar Mysteries Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent.Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood,primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier.That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number one suspect.Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough.Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death.But why is his phone numbe...
|  | Jonathan/Jonathan
Publication Date: April 1, 2005Opposites attract - it certainly is true in the case of two boys named Jonathan. Totally different in every way. One big and outgoing, the other small and quiet.Jonathan Colton Sherman had it all. A great family, popularity, and luck. Jonathan McBride (Johnny) had very little in comparison.The one thing in common was their passion for baseball. Each Jonathan played first base for their high school team. Each team made it to the finals for the play off.Johnny knew this was his only chance. Scouts would be at this game, and scholarships hung in the balance.Outsta...
|  | Strange Dreams
Release Date: June 1, 1993A collection of twenty-seven short works of fantasy features the work of Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear, Theodore Sturgeon, Jorge Luis Borges, and others....
|  | Modern Indian Drama: An Anthology
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|  | Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Publication Date: May 21, 2007| Series: Cambridge Classical Studies Lucretius' De Rerum Natura is a philosophical epic, devoted to the exposition of Epicurean philosophy. Since the system was materialistic, and highly critical of myth and poetry, Lucretius' use of mythological language and imagery is surprising.Dr. Gale considers the poem against the background of earlier and contemporary views of myth, and suggests that Lucretius was well aware of the tension between his two roles as poet and philosopher, and attempted to resolve it by developing a bold and innovative theory of myth and poe...
|  | Through Naked Branches
Publication Date: March 6, 2000| Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Tarjei Vesaas, one of Scandinavia's greatest fiction writers, has been less well known as a poet. Now Roger Greenwald, an award-winning translator of Scandinavian poetry, presents forty-six poems drawn from Vesaas's six volumes of poetry. This selection is intended to reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts appear facing the English versions, which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize.The translator's groundbreaking introduction explores why Ves...
|  | Egil's Saga (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library (Paper) SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literature.From the north-west midlands,it dates from the second half of the 14th century.Gawain,a knight in Arthur's court,takes up the challenge of the Green Knight,and cuts off his head.The Knight informs Gawain he will have his revenge.Journeying to the Knight's abode to receive his lot Gawain takes thehospitality of a Lord,and endures the advances of his wife.The Lord is the GreenKnight and,when the time comes,merely nicks Gawai...
| | Alcools
Publication Date: 1969Classic French poetry book, includes "Le Bestiaire" & "Vitame impendere amori" ...
|  | The Odyssey (Vintage classics)
Release Date: June 16, 1990Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, this is the most acclaimed translation of THE ODYSSEY of our time. ...
| | Basho no monjin (Iwanami shinsho. Shin akaban) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares
Publication Date: May 29, 2003| ISBN-10: 0199262187 | ISBN-13: 978-0199262182This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (...
|  | The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain
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|  | El luto humano (Obras Completas / Complete Works) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Caesar: Civil Wars (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1914| ISBN-10: 0674990439 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990432Caesar (C. Iulius, 102–44 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, ...
|  | Capitol Betrayal
Release Date: March 1, 2011Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. A fanatical foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to an underground bunker, but the president seems to be falling apart under the pressure—and the vice president wants to strip him of his powers. While Kincaid scrambles to defend the president, CIA agent Seamus McKay races through ...
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