 | Fear The Darkness (Guardians of Eternity)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Guardians of Eternity Beautiful Cassandra is a Were, a prophet both vulnerable and defiant, blessed with visions that portend the fate of the world. A rare and delicate creature, Cassie must be protected at all costs. Enter Caine, a powerful cur turned pure-blooded Were whose recent tangles with a demon lord have left him in serious need of redemption. Caine is duty-bound to keep Cassie out of danger - and that means resisting his potent urge to seduce her. As Cassie's mysterious visions lead them in and out of danger, Caine believes he has found his tr...
 |  | The Liar
Release Date: July 1, 2003An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist."The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions."—The New York Times Book Review "Transforms the sophomoric into the sophisticated."—Los Angeles Times...
|  | True Courage (Uncommon Heroes, Book 4)
Release Date: April 30, 2004Dee Henderson wraps up her Christy Award-winning Uncommon Heroes series with a riveting story from the home front. When someone snatches his cousin's wife and son, FBI agent Luke Falcon hunts the kidnapper. He has never worked a case involving family, and it's tempting to let his hardened exterior weaken, given the circumstances. But he has to be strong if he's going to bring them home. When the ransom delivery doesn't go down as planned and the bodies start piling up, so does Luke's frustration. He fears that innocent people may not survive this crisis, and neith...
|  | The Fall of Mahkinoc: Volume I of the Shadowed of Gilead
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|  | Aegri Somnia
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Aegri Somnia is a Latin phrase, one that slides like silk off your tongue. It means, literally, ""A sick man's dream."" When you present a theme such as ""aegri somnia"" to a group of twisted horror writers, well, you should expect disturbing results. Read this book, and you'll have twelve names to listen for while spying the police scanner. You'll find yourself wanting to buy more locks for the windows, for the doors. If there are twelve people like this hiding in the masses, then there's got to be more...Contains fiction from Scott Nicholson, Cherie Priest...
|  | Pygmy
Release Date: April 20, 2010A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenop...
|  | Imperfect Birds: A Novel
Release Date: April 5, 2011A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family-from the beloved bestselling author.Seventeen-year-old Rosie Ferguson is smart, athletic, and beautiful- everything her mother, Elizabeth, and stepfather, James, hoped she would be. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the well-adjusted teenage life that Rosie claims to be leading is a sham. Slowly and painfully, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions have profound consequences for them all. Imperfect Birds ...
|  | Bad Medicine
Release Date: May 4, 1999Dr. Push Foster takes a 2-year job at the Lukachukai Health Station with no thought that he will soon be plunged into a medical mystery and crisis: the outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness whose terrible swiftness makes it almost impossible to treat. And most mysteriously all the victims have been Navajo, and young. With contacts at the CDC in atlanta, push calls in all the expert help he can. But the scientific answers to what is eventually identified as the rodent-borne hanta virus are unsatisfying, even irrelevant, to the Navajo, who believe something far more fri...
|  | King, Ship, and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures December, 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself ashore on half-pay? And where will Lewrie twiddle his thumbs until the war begins again, as he’s sure it will? Rejoin his wife and in-laws who (mostly) despise him like the Devil hates Holy Water, on his rented farm in Surrey? Peace and domesticity are hellish hard on the rakehells! ...
|  | Miss Julia Takes Over
Release Date: July 23, 2001As soon as readers met Miss Julia in Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, this Southern woman of a certain age and with an iron backbone and Steel Magnolia poise became an instant favorite. In that debut book, Miss Julia's proper existence was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a close "friend" of her deceased husband. Hazel Marie, with "heels too high, a dress too short, and hair too yellow," showed up on Miss Julia's doorstep, bringing scandal, adventure, and nine-year-old Little Lloyd into her life.Now, in Miss Julia Takes Over, she's Little Lloyd's guardian and fas...
|  | The Dust of Vrindaban
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|  | Masculinities, Violence, Childhood: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men
Publication Date: December 23, 2010This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Masculinities," "Violence," "Childhood," and "Pedagogies". Taken together, they considers women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean , and the Islamic world and explore the shift in scholarly understanding of women's lives and works when they are placed alongsi...
|  | Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence: Essays in Honor of Tom Trabasso
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0805833587 | ISBN-13: 978-0805833584| Edition: 1 This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical developments and thought-provoking empirical data. In doing so, they cover a broad range of communicative activities, including text comprehension, conversational communication, argumentation, television or media viewing, and more.A central theme across all chapters concerns the notion that coherence determines the int...
|  | The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image
Publication Date: August 24, 1998Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographical circumstances that motivated the four writers to choose their unusual retreats. From the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia to the ivory towers of the fin de si cle, the author traces the emergence of a variety of...
|  | Captivated (Donovan Legacy)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Series: Donovan Legacy His interest in her was purely professional ...Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Donovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the hardheaded skeptic didn't believe for a minute she was what she professed to be. But, as Morgana revealed herself to him, Nash found himself falling under her bewitching spell. Nash had never trusted his feelings and always kept them in check. So how could he be sure the irresistible passion he felt for Morgana was real and not just some conjurer's trick?...
|  | Perfect Secrets
Publication Date: August 1999Everyone has one.Everyone loves to hear one.Secrets can last for years, or can be exposed in one shocking moment.And sometimes, secrets can be the perfect thing to bring even the most unlikely lovers together...From the scorching plains of Texas to the moss-draped riverbanks of Savannah; from a small town in Upstate New York to the sun-baked terrain of the Old West, illusions will be shattered, lives will be changed--and nothing will ever be the same once they're revealed... ...
|  | Duets 7 (Annie, Get Your Groom/Taming Luke) (Harlequin Duets)
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|  | Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume 3 1991 Payment in Full, Home Ground, The Firm, Final Approach
Publication Date: January 1, 1991The Firm by John Grisham; Payment in Full by Henry Denker; Final Approach by John J. Nance; Home Ground by Hugh Miller ...
|  | Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
Release Date: May 1, 1989| Series: V.I. Warshawski Novels V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix of &...
|  | The Chalon Heads: Kathy and Brock #2
Publication Date: August 16, 2010| Series: Kathy and Brock (Book 2) Sammy Starling was once a notable villain, but for some years he?s been a semi-respectable businessman with two passions: His beautiful young wife and his stamp collection. And now, it seems, he?s a victim: Someone has kidnapped Eva Starling and is sending ransom demands in envelopes with rare and extremely valuable stamps. The stamps feature the likeness of the young Queen Victoria, to whom Eva bears a startling resemblance, and they have been rendered worthless. Dead, one might say. The message is not lost on Sammy. What?s...
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