 | Hot Water
Release Date: March 31, 2003| Series: P.G.Wodehouse A full cast of Wodehouse creations—including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads—return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks—who starred in the film version—and concerns a young man, his love life, and a burglary. Famiiliar Wodehouse characters from both sides of the ocean make appearances. Meanwhile, in Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything—but finds himself caug...
 |  | Wicked Ties (A Wicked Lovers Novel)
Release Date: January 2, 2007| Series: A Wicked Lovers Novel When a stalker ratchets up his attempts to get to her, cable sex talk show host Morgan O'Malley turns to Jack Cole-a self-proclaimed dominant- for help. Though Jack is a bodyguard, Morgan feels anything but safe in his presence. Because slowly and seductively, Jack is bringing her deepest fantasies to the surface. And when he bends her to his will, what's more shocking than her surrender is how much she enjoys it and how she starts to crave his masterful touch. A willing player in Jack's games, Morgan knows that his motives aren't ...
|  | Hidden
Release Date: July 31, 2007A captivating debut novel, Hidden marvelously re-creates New York City in the 1920s, from the hustle and bustle of the Lower East Side to the hushed hallways of the homes of the rich and powerful. In graceful, eloquent prose, Victoria Lustbader presents a fierce, compelling story of loyalty, forbidden desire, and the end of innocence. The battlefield traumas of The Great War cement an improbable friendship between Jed Gates, scion of the wealthy Gates family, and David Warshinsky, first-generation American from New York's poverty-ridden lower East Side. ...
|  | Dear Isabelle
Release Date: May 30, 2007Just weeks after moving to Seattle as a freshman at the university, Isabelle's world of safety in Campion Tower vanishes. Everything starts to go wrong in the worst possible way for her after her dramatic breakup with her British boyfriend. And before long, she is too afraid to run. ...
|  | Sally Hemings: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two ...
|  | Thomas Middleton's City Comedies.
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|  | Don Juan Tenorio (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 9, 2010Don Juan Tenorio es un clásico de la literatura española publicada en 1844.Su autor, José Zorrilla (1817-1893), es una de las figuras más prestigiosas del romanticismo ibérico.En esta obra, Zorrilla ha creado la mejor versión del viejo tema de don Juan mezclando temas de capa y espada con religiosos y morales. Don Juan Tenorio es el drama romántico por excelencia y una joya del verso español. ...
|  | Visit Me in California: Stories (Triquarterly Books)
Publication Date: August 13, 2008| ISBN-10: 0810124963 | ISBN-13: 978-0810124967| Edition: 1 Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of minor characters and looking at events from imaginative perspectives. His prose is rich with detail and emotion and he touches on themes of art and artifice, success and failure, family and its sacri...
|  | From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness
Publication Date: September 1, 2004The editors of the acclaimed Borderlands anthology series deliver a new collection of 25 all-original tales of terror by today's acclaimed masters, including Bentley Little, John Farris, and Tom Piccirilli, along with "Stationary Bike," a new novella by Stephen King. ...
|  | The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943
Publication Date: June 15, 1983The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party. They named their group the White Rose, and they distributed leaflets denouncing the Nazi regime. Sophie, Hans, and a third student were caught and executed.Written by Inge Scholl (Han's and Sophie's sister), The White Rose features letters, diary excerpts, photographs of Hans and Sophie, transcriptions of the leaflets, and accounts of the trial and exe...
|  | Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Release Date: September 30, 2010In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip H. Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From t...
|  | The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature)
Publication Date: October 2, 1997| Series: S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature The Endless Text is the first study to trace the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote. A set of specific rhetorical devices are traced through the development of medieval romance in the works of Chretien de Troyes, and a surprising number of these devices survive in Don Quixote: the troubled relationship between narrator and hero, the consistent image of the hero in contrast to the fluctuating portrayals of women...
|  | Intertextual Dynamics Within the Literar
Publication Date: October 26, 1990The book examines key texts by the writers James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot as moves within a shared group-game, that of creating a new literature for the New Age. It maps a great deal of intertextual reference, allusions and influence and suggests a psychoanalytically-informed hypothesis that certain literature can be constituted a species of interpersonal groupwork. It demonstrates how the core grouping within literary Modernism developed and experimental discourse through mutual rivalry and sharing. And it describes different group rol...
|  | Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure #2: Mars!
Publication Date: August 17, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Jade and El-Sea
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|  | Three Tales of Adventure (Once-Upon-a-Time)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | Extreme Sports: Snowboard!
Release Date: February 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Lucy Goes to Market
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Join Lucy on a delicately illustrated magical journey through an unforgettable alphabet When Lucy goes to market she finds everything she needs, from an asparagus angel and a delicate dragon to an invisible igloo and a vulture with vertigo. But will they all fit in her doll's house? Every page of this uniquely beautiful picture book, from four flamingos feasting on fruitcake to marmalade moons, is illustrated with charm, humor, and a vivid imagination. ...
| | Hunting: Pursuing Wild Game!
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