 | The Fiercer Heart: A Novel of Love and Obsession
Publication Date: September 27, 2005This is the story of an American love affair.Intimate and painfully real, this epic tale from the pages of history is based on the lives of vivacious and iron-willed Diana Bullitt, a Southern woman from an illustrious colonial family, and General Philip Kearny, one of the Union's legendary military leaders, a dissolute and passionate man descended from two centuries of New York aristocracy.In antebellum America, a time when appearances are paramount, Kearny introduces his beautiful young bride to a mesmerizing world of opulence and power. But Diana's tra...
 |  | Fear the Fever: The Hot Blood Series
Release Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Hot Blood Series Fear the Fever, the seventh of the provocative Hot Blood anthology series, is the hottest yet....
|  | Wild Abandon
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Doctor Chandler Brogan’s favorite things start with the letter S: Speed, Sex, and as she soon discovers when a cop pulls her over on her motorcycle for reckless driving…Sarah. Chandler is a clinical psychologist who focuses on sexual dysfunction, but her professional expertise has never made her personal life any easier. She spends more and more time searching for the ultimate connection, and when she fails, she escapes on her bike. Officer Sarah Monroe enjoys being in control, so much so that she can’t let down her guard enough to achieve ...
|  | The Initiation #2
Publication Date: September 1, 2009You are going to love this second issue! It's packed with a ton of hot college guys, more intense escapades, and a stunningly hot conclusion that will leave you begging for a cigarette!Having earned a bit of power and respect at Zeta Mega Phallus, Alex has come up with a challenge for the new froshes that will have them showing their junk all over town! Meanwhile Dylan has joined the swim team to keep an eye one of the more promising froshes. It's a great thing that shaving each other's entire body is all part of team spirit!Bradley's been dumped for Dylan,...
|  | Shameless
Publication Date: June 1, 2004Martin is kind, decent, not bad on the eyes... and look where that's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute, and his friends John and Caroline both have enough excess baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton window display. What's a nice gay man to do? With no one to turn to, Martin decides to relive the wild youth he never had and, at the ripe old age of 32, jumps head-first into hedonism. But soon the nights of drugs, muscle-hard bodies, and even harder music take their toll, and Martin, John, and Caroline find that as fun as being abso...
|  | An Anthology of Somali Poetry
Release Date: September 22, 1993"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." —Bloomsbury Review"... this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the Somalis their most important cultural form, namely, poetry." —Bulletin of the School of Irental & African Studies"This affordable and beautifully produced book is a small jewel in the field of Somali studies, as it is the fruit of over forty years of dedicated linguistic and literary scholarship by ...
|  | The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
Publication Date: May 14, 2012| ISBN-10: 0748642498 | ISBN-13: 978-0748642496An invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century.The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory.Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field and a range of diverse contexts are explored in individual chapters on science, medicine, Queer theory, imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Additional chapters on the ghost story, realism, th...
|  | Marcel Proust: A Life
Publication Date: April 2000| Series: Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (long known in English as Remembrance of Things Past). The biography also sets Proust's life in the decadent artistic and social context of the French fin de sihcle and the years leading up to W...
|  | El Lugar Sin Limites (Paperback)
Release Date: June 30, 2005| Series: Vintage EspanolNew EditionIn this book, José Donoso unveils the false appearances, sordidness, violence and misery that give life to a sub world.The story takes place in a brothel owned by “la Japonesita” (the little Japanese girl) and revolves around the character of Manuela, an ambiguous yet brilliant character, a melting pot of passions who serves to reveal a dual morality and to question masculinity and its values.Description in Spanish: Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la...
|  | Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age
Publication Date: December 3, 2000With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleagured, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic populism,” an approach characterized by accessible, unspecia...
|  | Dreams in Late Antiquity
Publication Date: December 22, 1997| ISBN-10: 0691058350 | ISBN-13: 978-0691058351Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern scholarship has often condemned it as a cultural weakness, a mass lapse into mere superstition. In this book, Patricia Cox Miller draws on pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources and modern semiotic theory to demonstrate the integral impo...
|  | Body Rush
Publication Date: June 1, 2009Legal BriefsTaking orders from egotistical hot shots in suits is no turn-on for legal secretary Lydia Burke, but she knows where to find what she's looking for - at a local BDSM club. Three sexy, commanding men want to show Lydia their version of the law, and she's just the woman to yield to their demands. Doctor's OrdersNeurosurgeon Roni Smart is willing to play doctor in her spare time, but she's looking for a man who lusts after more than her money. Enter Jake, a computer whiz whose able fingers, red-hot body, and brash take-charge attitude are the perfect an...
|  | Lullaby for the Nameless (Nolan, Hart & Tain Thrillers)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Nolan, Hart & Tain Thrillers Missing girls are turning up murdered, in ways that eerily resemble the MO of the killer from the first case that Hart, Nolan and Tain worked on together. Did they get the wrong man the first time? --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Rainbow Magic Special Edition: Mia the Bridesmaid Fairy
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Star Wars Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
Publication Date: June 21, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Anakin, Rex, Ahsoka, Cad Bane, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Jabba and all your other favorite Star Wars Clone Wars characters! The Star Wars Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia will give you all the vital information from Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber skills to Ziro the Hutt's scheming, and everything in between. Includes characters from Seasons 1 and 2 of the hit TV series!(c) 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. (r) & TM All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization. ...
|  | Hawgeye
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The simplest things can bring the greatest rewards. Twelve-year-old Billy loves to fish. He always treasures the times he can sit by the water and wait for the fish to bite. But Billy longs for someone to fish with. His dad is busy with work, and his few friends don't share his passion. However, Billy learns there is one person whose love for fishing equals his ownthe mysterious W.R.R., whose trophies hang on the supermarket wall and whose brightly colored, handmade lures line the cases. Billy wants to be just like...
|  | Skating Dreams: The Turning Point - Book #1
Release Date: August 2, 2000| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Girls Play to Win Volleyball
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|  | Rembrandt and Titus: Artist and Son
Publication Date: May 5, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A son explores his father’s geniusRembrandt’s art is easily recognized by his masterful use of light and darkness. But why would Rembrandt choose to paint objects in such a way? Titus learned a lot about his father from what he painted and how he painted. Now children can learn about one of the most influential artists of all time from an adoring son’s perspective.• Thomas Locker is a prolific, best-selling author and illustrator with more than 30 books to his credit• Only book on Rembrandt fo...
|  | Johnnie's Blitz
Publication Date: April 2005| Age Level: 10 and up Johnnie Stubbs is forced to confront his conscience while dodging both bombs and the law in this exciting tale of adventure and morality set in World War II London. With no mother to answer to and a father in the army, Johnnie joins his relatives in a gypsy caravan in an attempt to hide from the authorities. The success of his refuge is jeapordized when a traumatized little girl, drawn to him in the aftermath of a nearby explosion, compels Johnnie to make a compromise between personal concerns and the welfare of the toddler who needs his pro...
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