 | God Of The Dead: Unleaded Version With No Adult Language.
Publication Date: October 31, 2008Gas Prices are on the rise, economy is failing, & tensions build between nations. Enemies of the U.S. have decided it's time to attack. People long-dead begin rising from their graves & are taking the lives of the living. Meet Vinnie Pallito. He's an average guy, as mob guys go - until the outbreak of WWIII. Vinnie thinks that he has enough trouble keeping the family business hidden from the Feds & when the U.S. is threatened by the Russian & Chinese militaries, he can't believe that things can get worse - but they do. Suddenly, Vinnie begins to experience s...
 |  | Haint Blue
Publication Date: June 8, 2010In 1986, a novice businessman, Kip Drummond, rescued a sentimental landmark-the Lady's Island Oyster Factory-in Beaufort, South Carolina. But six years later, he finds himself pressured by corporate greed and paralyzed by Lowcountry desperation. On one side, a trio of predators from Philadelphia, spurred by plans to replace the rundown factory with a megamillion dollar waterfront development, enlists the aid of a local mole and an Italian connection to deliver a no-holds-barred squeeze for the sale. On the opposite side, fueled by rumors of the undisclosed sale ...
|  | Gossip of the Starlings
Publication Date: June 10, 2008When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her. No matter the transgression—a stolen credit card, a cocaine binge, an affair with a teacher, an accident that precipitates the end of Catherine's promising riding career...
|  | The 100th Human - Countdown 2012
Publication Date: December 26, 2011Global tensions rise as the ominous December 21, 2012 date approaches, marking the final day of the 5,000 year old Mayan calendar. Many people believe this day predicts the end of the world, as injustice and greed dominate societies world-wide. Millions of protestors have taken to the streets speaking out against rampant abuses of power. Amidst the turmoil, a trio of scientists uncovers a mystery revealing the symbolic meaning of the calendar’s end. Their serendipitous journey is discovered by the fraternity of the Veni Victus - determined to thwart ...
|  | The Dead Side of the Mike (Charles Paris Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 24, 2000| Series: Charles Paris Mysteries Text for Author Bio Box: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine. Married, with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village in West Sussex, England. Text for Book Description: Murder at the BBC? Its almost unimaginable. When Andrea Gower, the beautiful studio manager is...
|  | The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Publication Date: May 11, 2007| ISBN-10: 019921509X | ISBN-13: 978-0199215096The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays offer a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins in medieval literature to their adaptation in modern literature, arts, film, and popular culture. It also demonstrates the tremendous continuity of the legends by examining the ways that they have been reinterpreted over ...
|  | Chr
Publication Date: February 28, 1993| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 26) The pre-eminent role of Chretien de Troyes in the formation of Arthurian romance is reflected in the swift and brilliant response of German courtly poets to his works. Within a few years of their composition, Erec et Enide and Yvain were adapted for German audiences by Hartmann von Aue, while Chretien's unfinished Grail-story was taken up by Wolfram von Eschenbach and brought to a triumphant conclusion in Parzival. In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars contrast the treatment and reception of the ...
|  | Ninety-Nine Names of Love:Expressions of the Heart
Publication Date: December 1, 2003Perhaps no other human emotion has inspired as much of the world’s beautiful art and poetry as love.Artists, poets, and philosophers strive to define it for us, yet no single definition can capture this powerful emotion that changes in the context of each relationship.Ninety-Nine Names of Love is a gorgeous collection of words and images that draws on the world’s greatest art, poetry, and prose to describe the many aspects of the simple word “love.”Love is the protector or preserver of all things:“He who...
|  | How do I love thee ... let me count the ways;: A collection of love poems (A Stanyan book, 28)
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|  | The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 7
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0856831921 | ISBN-13: 978-0856831928As leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, Marsilio Ficino was teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men. He inspired leading statesmen, scholars and churchmen throughout Europe, who travelled to meet him or conducted an extensive correspondence with him. The ideas they discussed appeared again and again and in the works of literature and art that followed: in Spenser, Shakespeare and Donne, in Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer and many more. Volume 7 (Book VIII of the Latin edition) is dedicat...
|  | Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
Publication Date: August 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 1421400669 | ISBN-13: 978-1421400662| Edition: 1 This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-related ideas of revolution and commodification, set the terms of narrative surrounding the history of Romanticism as a movement. The book is both polemical and critical, engaging in debates with modern ...
|  | "Chasing after monsters with a butterfly net: " The Victorian approach to vampires in Stoker's "Dracula".
Publication Date: September 2, 2011Written and set in the last years of the nineteenth century,Dracula wrestles with a loss of confidence in how the Victorian British deal with their problems. It challenges the certainty that domesticity, dedication, faith, and science will make right all wrongs. The novel's protagonists bring all of the Victorians' methods to bear against Count Dracula: science, weapons, medicine, rationality, temperance. However, even as they take his life, in many ways they fall short of resolving the problems he poses. They kill him by resorting to methods that abrogate ...
|  | The Quest for Anna Klein
Release Date: June 26, 2012“Nobody tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook.” —Michael Connelly ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II, A HIGH STAKES INTERNATIONAL PLOT LEADS TO A DEADLY OBSESSION ThomasDanforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a wealthy importer, hewandered the globe in his youth, and now, in his twenties, he lives inNew York City and runs the family business. It is 1939 and the world ison the brink of war, but his life is untroubled, his future assured.Then, on a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park, a friend makes afateful request—and involves Thomas i...
|  | It Was A Very Bad Year (Rat Pack Mysteries (Severn House))
Publication Date: November 1, 2012| Series: Rat Pack Mysteries (Severn House) 1963 was a very bad year for Frank Sinatra,. but the Rat Pack are always ready to give a helping hand. - Eddie Gianelli is helping a friend’s wife get out from under a blackmailer when news comes through that JFK has been assassinated. Frank Sinatra was a close friend of JFK and the Rat Pack – including Eddie – rally round to give Frank moral support. Then comes the news that Sinatra’s son, Frank Jr, has been kidnapped. Eddie continues to search for the blackmailer while trying to help Frank...
|  | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Photo Comic
Publication Date: November 13, 2007Experience the fall of Jedi and the rise of the Sith with this manga-sized adaptation of Revenge of the Sith comprised of images from the film!Anakin Skywalker becomes the dreaded Darth Vader in this final chapter of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Desperate to calm his nightmarish visions of his lover Padme Amidala's death, Skywalker falls under the thrall of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and his promises of power beyond all imagining. Once a slave to the dark side, Skywalker helps carry out a tragic conspiracy against the Jedi that will see the Republic tra...
|  | Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: April 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. AESOP'S FABLES are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand. ...
|  | Sir Gadabout and the Camelot Calamity
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | At the Plate with...Ken Griffey Jr. (Matt Christopher Sports Bio Bookshelf)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Toy Story Treasury (Disney/Pixar Toy Story) (Padded Board Book)
Release Date: August 10, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Hello, Calico!
Release Date: September 11, 2007| Age Level: 1 and upMeet Calico -- a fluffy, puffy, itty-bitty kitten who can't wait to discover the world around her. Follow Calico as she jumps, climbs, and frolics her way through a very adventurous day! ...
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