 | The Ex Chronicles: A Novel
Release Date: February 23, 2010 The creator of the bestselling Brown Sugar series returns with her first sexy novel In a New York City rife with emotional land mines, four friends search for Mr. Right but too often settle for Mr. Right Now. Precious, a struggling writer, discovers her fiancé Darius in bed with another woman, but that doesn't stop her from wanting him. Bella, the wise-cracking, over-indulged only child of an absent diplomat father and pill-popping socialite mother, knows her boyfriend Julius is using her, but before she can give him up she has to give up her first love...
 |  | The Sinner (Jane Rizzoli, Book 3)
Release Date: August 3, 2004Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition. Together, I...
|  | The Hog's Wholey Wash: A Complete Allegorical Manual on Consciousness & Cosmos, With Vindication Sublime of That Most Maligned Terrestrial Species
Publication Date: October 1, 2002"Realise, then," said the hog, "your unfathomableness with everything - your organic unfathomableness." With that, the sty fell silent. So begins this capering odyssey for hog and human, weaving a way through different dimensions on a mysterious quest. Leading to cell-like empyreans, the enigmatic I'-lak, Consumer Megamagnet, and otherworldly others, the journey could at first seem a wanton jungle of metaphor. Yet as the tale unfolds, readers may be led to 'unfoldings' of their own - to find themselves on a uniquely personal ride at the crux of the universal....
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightenin...
|  | Sports Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Sporting's Best Short Stories series The energy and drama of the sports arena is unsurpassed as inspiration for the short story, and here, in these 24 stories from some of the world’s great writers, is all of the bone-crunching action, the devious strategy, the devastating defeats, and the high-soaring victories of some of the best-loved sports of our time. The lineup includes Pulitzer Prize winners E. Annie Proulx, John Cheever, Howard Nemerov, and Paul Horgan, as well as favorites such as Joyce Carol Oates, André Dubus, W. Somerset Maugh...
|  | alphabet (New Directions)
Publication Date: May 17, 2001| Series: New Directions A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based structurally on Fibonacci's sequence (a mathematical sequence in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers), in combination with the alphab...
|  | The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry and Accessories
Publication Date: June 30, 2001Now macramé is for making attention-grabbing jewelry, hot accessories, and other projects. Best of all, if you can tie your shoes, you can create any of these great-looking items. No expensive material to buy, no fancy equipment needed, and no experience required. The “Knots 101” course will show you how every stitch is done, so you can get started almost immediately. ...
|  | The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals
Publication Date: December 31, 2009Introduced and selected by Ralph Russell, an eminent Urdu scholar, this collection presents a representative selection of the works of Ghalib, the most famous and popular of the Urdu poets that the Indian subcontinent has produced. This complete Ghalib anthrology comprises poetry and prose translated from both Persian and Urdu, as well as biographical details. ...
|  | One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
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|  | Poesia feminista del mundo hispanico (desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad). Antologia critica (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 9682312795 | ISBN-13: 978-9682312793| Edition: 4 Si en el mundo hispanico el desarrollo de la poesia feminista fue lento, en los anos recientes ha florecido. Es tan voluminosa la produccion de poesia feminista reciente que ha sido verdaderamente dificil seleccionar entre tanto material que explora los diversos aspectos de los problemas de la mujer desde distintos puntos de vista. ...
|  | Las alas del espir
Publication Date: January 1, 2000Dadi Janki is a yogi - one who seeks union with God. Her life's work has been to build within herself the experience of the Divine and to share that experience with the world. Set in lyrical verse, Janki's timeless words explain ways of responding to life's challenges that help us to find true happiness and fulfill our highest potential.In this inspiring collection, framed by the stunning color images of French artist Marie Binder, readers will discover that it is indeed possible to banish sorrow from their lives. Chapters on Humility and Empowerment, Living ...
|  | Obras completas, 4. Generaciones y semblanzas. Dominio mexicano (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 28, 1994| Series: Obras Completas Los ensayos de este volumen Octavio Paz (1914-1998) tiene en común que todos abordan un territorio familiar: la literatura mexicana. Contiene seis ensayos sobre la poesía mexicana, desde su nacimiento en el siglo XVI hasta la época contemporánea. ...
|  | The Tyranny of Greece over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry over the Great German Writers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Publication Date: March 29, 2012Originally published in 1935, this book provides a study of the powerful influence exercised by Ancient Greek culture on German writers from the eighteenth century onwards. The text takes as its starting point Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), who was of fundamental importance to the introduction of Hellenistic ideas within the German intellectual tradition. This is followed by a chronological discussion of other key figures, such as Goethe, Schiller and Heine, revealing the complicated relationship between these ideas and the expression of an explicitly G...
|  | Locuela (Biblioteca portatil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: Biblioteca portatil (Book 33) The plot of this detective novel is interrupted by the arrival of a true mystery. Beyond the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, beyond the game that keeps the albino girls Alicia and Violeta from pleasant summer evenings, beyond the destiny of Neutria—a city that disappears with childhood and resurfaces with desire—, and beyond a Chilean literary movement that could be the last vanguard while at the same time being the greatest falsehood, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom i...
|  | Strictly Business: The Temp And The Tycoon\The Fiance Deal (Harlequin Romance)
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|  | The Final Battle (Bionicle Legeneds #11)
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up The Legends saga comes to a shocking conclusion!The Toa Nuva face off against the Brotherhood of Makuta in a final battle to awaken the Great Spirit Mata Nui. But when the battle is over, the Toa make a terrible discovery: Makuta has taken over Mata Nui's body and Mata Nui has disappeared. Makuta promises the Toa that they will never find him or know a minute's peace again. ...
|  | Stepsister from Planet Weird
Release Date: January 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up In the heart-warming style of Barbara Park and Bruce Coville, former children's librarian and well-reviewed author Francess Lantz brings to life a funny and accessible story filled with compassionate insights about growing up. Meet two girls who are galaxies apart--Megan, an insecure young girl and Ariel, a beautiful, brainy, and perfect girl from the planet Zircalon-6. The girls don't like each other very much and to complicate matters, Ariel's alien father has fallen in love with Megan's earth mother. But the girls ...
|  | Showcase Presents: Justice League of America, Vol. 1
Release Date: December 7, 2005The first volume of the Justice League of America in Showcase Presents, DC's competitor to Marvel's budget-priced black-and-white Essentials line, collects 20 early issues of the super team, starting in The Brave and the Bold 28-30 and continuing into the first 16 issues of the JLA's own book and Mystery in Space 75 (featuring Adam Strange).Truthfully, a lot of the issues have a sameness to them, with the Leaguers generally splitting up to tackle menaces (usually alien) individually and having to figure out how to handle something specifically designed to neutra...
|  | Dolphin Luck (Thorndike Juvenile)
Publication Date: February 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Meet Dwyane Wade: Basketball's Rising Star (All-Star Players)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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