 | The Yard
Release Date: May 29, 2012Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . .When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered det...
 |  | God's Courtier: Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's Temple
Publication Date: January 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 052133473X | ISBN-13: 978-0521334730George Herbert is regarded as a metaphysical and at times a solely religious poet. In this book, Marion Singleton focuses on the relation between Herbert's poetry and the cultural background of his life. Singleton examines the style, structure and thematic basis of The Temple in the context of the Renaissance ideal of aristocratic courtliness. She provides a detailed study of Herbert's association with the literary tradition of the courtier and his strategic use of it in The Temple. God's Courtier touches up...
|  | Tales of the Body Thief
Publication Date: September 29, 2010In Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his nightmare immortality. When, stalked in his turn by the only creature able to grant his desire, Lestat rashly seizes the chance. While the Body Thief, cloaked in ...
|  | Planet Love:The End of the World as We Knew It
Publication Date: June 30, 2011As the world seems to be turning apocalyptic, John Rullo experiences an inexplicable encounter with a supernatural entity that overwhelms him and turns his life inside out.Just when he thinks he has seen the full picture, a string of events unfold that leads to both the end of the world as he knew it and his role in Earth’s rebirth. Based upon real life events, Planet Love’s story of hope, intrigue and mystery speaks to our everlasting search for the ground of our being and our unity with all life. ...
| | Asylum a Play (Acting Edition)
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|  | 99 Film Scenes for Actors
Release Date: March 9, 1999 Looking for a great piece to work on in your scene study class? For an audition? You want something fresh, juicy, well-written -- something you haven't seen in every scene book. Give Chekov a rest and turn to memorable characters and scenes from the silver screen. This remarkable anthology offers an incredible range of contemporary dialogues from the pens of the industry's finest talents -- scenes that pulsate with emotional life, scenes that live on their own, out of context. Blistering drama and caustic comedy are excerpted from the classic screenplays of Jame...
|  | Scorched by the Sun
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0915380838 | ISBN-13: 978-0915380831| Edition: First Edition Poetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg. Moshe Dor's poems breathe, smell and taste like Israel. They express the pressures of living in a land constantly under siege, where hope and terror live side by side, where there is a fierce hatred of war and a fierce craving for peace. Here current events unfold in biblical landscapes. This is also a book about love—the love for a woman as well as a motherland. Cover art by Mordechai ...
|  | Anillos para una dama
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|  | Love Is Eternal
Publication Date: July 24, 2012This book tells about my personal experiences and of some events in my life that happened. It is all true. It is my hope to lead others to a higher truth and to encourage people to dare to dream and to ask questions. When your intent is love, amazing thin ...
|  | Hardy and His Readers
Publication Date: September 6, 2003This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Initially content to compromise, to provide them with congenial entertainment, Hardy resorted at first to strategies of subversion, smuggling material past his editors and finally to outspoken attack. T.R. Wright attempts to balance historical research into the response of "actual" readers and the material conditions of publishing with literary-critical analysis of the "implied" reader inscribed in the novels themselves. ...
|  | Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s (Studies in British Literature)
Publication Date: October 1989| ISBN-10: 0889469326 | ISBN-13: 978-0889469327This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry. ...
|  | Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: September 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408286033 | ISBN-13: 978-1408286036| Edition: 2Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature.Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new ...
|  | Against the Sun (Raines of Wind Canyon)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Raines of Wind Canyon Millions of lives are on the line. But for him, only one truly matters. It's not in bodyguard Jake Cantrell's job description to share his suspicions with his assignments. Beautiful executive Sage Dumont may be in charge, but Jake's not on her payroll. As a former special forces marine, Jake trusts his gut, and it's telling him there's something off about a shipment arriving at Marine Drilling International. His instinct is aroused...in more ways than one. A savvy businesswoman, Sage knows better than to take some hired gun'...
|  | Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance
Release Date: June 7, 2011From the co-editor of Steampunk'd comes an all-new collection of adventure and romance amid Victorian steampunk settings. Sparks fly in these original stories of a steam-driven airship searching for a lost city, a crazy inventor in a powered wheelchair with a plot to take over the world, and a love story set in an alternate history version of America. Adventure abounds in these stories of love, loss, and danger- and there is plenty of steam! ...
|  | And Gold Was Ours (Love Spell historical romance)
Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Love Spell historical romance At the age of 16, the beautiful Aurora had her fortune told in her Spanish homeland: an escape across vast waters, to a savage jungle and a man. Now on a plantation haunted by a tale of lost love and hidden gold, she awaits the warrior she has seen in her dreams. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)
Release Date: April 30, 2002| Series: Matthew Scudder Mysteries Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge. ...
|  | Brown's Requiem
Release Date: October 1, 1998Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem--a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music--he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his pa...
|  | Keith Van Horn (Basketball Legends)
Publication Date: March 1998| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Spike and Cubby's Ice Cream Island Adventure
Release Date: September 9, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up The great giant ice cream cone was visible across Torch Lake. In the distance, Ice Cream Island sparkled, so new and shiny, so beautiful and pink.A dogs-at-sea adventure filled with turbulence, friendship, and plenty of ice cream!Spike and Cubby are the best of friends. They are also a working dog team: Cubby is a writer with no time for interruptions, and Spike's an illustrator with a knack for distracting. But when the distraction is the amazing Ice Cream Island-specializing in Spumoni Baloney Grande-what dog can resist? This playful adv...
|  | Fairy Tale Breakfasts: A Cookbook for Young Readers & Eaters (Fairy Tale Cookbooks)
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