 | The Martian Chronicles
Release Date: April 17, 2012In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtakin...
 |  | Love and Shame and Love: A Novel
Publication Date: November 7, 2011Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be po...
|  | Summer of the Redeemers: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 1994Rebeccah Rich longs to find excitement beyond the confines of rural Mississippi, and the mysterious Nadine Andrews seems to offer that excitement in spite of her connection to a sinister religious group. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday. Tour. ...
|  | Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction: 1st (First) Edition
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|  | Sea Wrack
Publication Date: May 17, 2005This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Shootout of the Mountain Man
Release Date: December 1, 2010| Series: Mountain Man They're hanging Billy Ray Cabot in Cloverdale, Nevada on Friday. Or so they think. Thursday brings Smoke Jensen to town. In another life, Billy Ray was almost kin to Smoke, and guilty or not, Smoke will blast Cloverdale sky high if that's what it takes to set his old friend free. By midnight, Smoke and Billy Ray are riding hell-for-leather out of Cloverdale, and into a war between cunning railroad robbers and the organization sworn to stop them. Billy Ray was working for the railroads until he was betrayed. Now, both men are pursued by dea...
|  | Sophocles: Trachiniae (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Greek Edition)
Publication Date: November 30, 1982| ISBN-10: 0521287766 | ISBN-13: 978-0521287760Sophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts in her Introduction a detailed literary analysis of Trachiniae, helping the reader to understand better its intricate structure, the treatment of Deianira and Heracles, and the meaning of the final scenes. The notes in the Commentary of grammar, syntax and style inc...
|  | Haikai and Haiku
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|  | The Renaissance in Europe (Renaissance World)
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|  | Dante Alighieri (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Publication Date: January 2004| Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views Excellent collection of critical commentary for students of Dante ...
|  | How to Dance With a Duke
Release Date: January 31, 2012How to Dance With a DukeManda Collins What’s a wallflower to do when she’s suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants…Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father’s exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father’s name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club—and is willing to m...
|  | Exeter's Daughter (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Signet Regency Romance Exiled from London after disgracing herself, Lady Marissa Portemaine makes the mistake of her life when she falls in love with Lord Tristan Lynton, an iron-willed, morally upright aristocrat who has made it clear that he totally disapproves of her....
|  | Castle of Secrets
Publication Date: August 6, 2012Regency Gothic Romance Note: Previously published under the title of Stormcrow Castle Helena Carlisle turns down a convenient engagement because she is looking for more than a suitable match. Little does she expect to find it at Stormcrow Castle. When her aunt, the housekeeper at the castle, goes missing, Helena takes her place and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the castle’s enigmatic owner, Simon, Lord Torkrow. As her feelings for him begin to deepen, she is certain they are returned. But when the castle’s secrets begin to unravel, Helena m...
|  | Desperate Measures (Barbara Holloway Novels)
Publication Date: May 2002| Series: Barbara Holloway Novels Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases . . . and winning them. But this time she's up against an unbeatable opponent -- her father, the lawyer who taught her all she knows. Gus Marchand, a hardworking, God-fearing farmer, is found dead on his kitchen floor, and suspicion soon falls on Alex Feldman, Marchand's hideously deformed neighbor. At the request of another attorney, Barbara agrees to defend the young man, whom most of the town has already condemned. But there is another suspect, as well: Hilde Fran...
|  | Combat, Vol. 3
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Series: Combat (Book 3) A historic landmark work, depicting war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring: Harold Coyle, reporting from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited to combat the growing swarm of hackers who orchestrate online terrorism around the world.Ralph Peters, who takes us to the war-torn Balkan states, where a U.S. Army observer sent to keep an eye on the civil war is taken on a guided tour of the country at gunpoint, captured by the very people he was sent to monitor.James Cobb, pitting on...
|  | Deadline (A Jack McMorrow mystery)
Release Date: March 1, 1995| Series: A Jack McMorrow mystery This is hardworking Maine, poverty Maine, where the local economy of the town of Androscoggin is ruled by the paper mill...It's where Jack McMorrow, a former "New York Times" metro reporter has come to take over the local weekly...When a seemingly friendless and ineffective staff photographer is found drowned in the river, McMorrow wonders why, and wonders why the local police don't wonder more...The rhythms of the weekly newspaper work a wonderful counterpoint to the building tension of McMorrow's investigation, and the writing is...
|  | The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
Publication Date: February 7, 1995Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths investigate thedisappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and allegedmultimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by redherrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder in a railroad tavern.150,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | Door to Bitterness
Release Date: September 1, 2006“Limón’s crisp, clear storytelling opens a door to another world and leaves one hoping the next installment won’t be so long in arriving.”—The Baltimore Sun “As good as Limón’s series debut, Jade Lady Burning.”—The Plain Dealer “Plot, pacing, and plausibility are just about perfect. . . . Limón has a humane outlook that nourishes the spirit.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer (Editor’s Choice) The two GI cops Martin Limón first introduced ...
|  | Floaters
Release Date: March 3, 1997Who else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's howThe New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes that Wambaugh--and Floaters is his sharpest yet.Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds manage to cruise above the standard police stress-pools of coffee and Pepto-Bismol--they're water cops in the "Club Harbor Unit," man...
|  | Turtle Knows Your Name
Publication Date: September 30, 1993Though none of his friends can remember Upsilimana Tumpalerado's name, Granny insists that he learn and use it. "At the heart of this wonderful retelling of a West Indian folktale is the importance of names in black culture. Strong in rhyme and rhythm, this is great for reading aloud and even better for story telling".--Booklist. Full color. ...
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