 | By Nightfall: A Novel
Release Date: August 30, 2011A New York Times BestsellerPeter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He’s an art dealer, she’s an editor. They live well. They have their troubles—their ebbing passions, their wayward daughter, and certain doubts about their careers—but they feel as though they’re happy. Happy enough. Until Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, short for the Mistake), comes to visit. And after he arrives, nothing will ever be the same again.This poetic and compelling m...
 |  | Fudge Factor (Hyperlinkz #2)
Release Date: May 18, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up The Pursuers Become the Pursued...Thanks to a very weird digital camera, normal 12-year-olds Austin and Ashley Webster from Normal, Illinois are still stuck inside the World Wide Web. They’re meeting cyber-people, chasing their aunt’s dog AppletÉand trying to keep the mysterious Mattie Blankenskrean from erasing the truth!But truth can be tough, sometimes, especially when it would be so easy toÉ well, fudge the facts just a little. Even so, with Ms. B’s hand-held computer–the one she uses to wipe out the We...
|  | Darkhouse
Publication Date: May 13, 2011There's always been something a bit off about Perry Palomino. Though she's been dealing with a quarter-life crisis and post-college syndrome like any other twenty-something, she's still not what you would call "ordinary." For one thing, there's her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there's the fact that she sees ghosts. Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. Even though the show's budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a madde...
|  | Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 25, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic mu...
|  | Schrader on Schrader & Other Writings
Publication Date: March 3, 2004Paul Schrader defied his Calvinist upbringing to become the writer of American classics like "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver". Fully updated, this is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most daring writer-directors in American film, and includes some of Schrader's best criticism. ...
|  | The Red Balloon (Oberon Book)
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|  | Every Man Is a Race (African Writers)
Publication Date: May 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0435909827 | ISBN-13: 978-043590982618 short stories which look at the issues of civil war, petty officialdom and curruption against the backdrop of post-independence Mozambique. They tell the wider Mozambican story through tales of individual men and women, and contain many strange and fantastic incidents. ...
|  | A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry
Publication Date: January 1, 1995This anthology gathers over 1500 years if Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry, from the earliest writing -- including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the Third Patriarch -- to the poetry of monks living in this century. Drawn together by the Zen thread, this ragged line of poet-hermits forms a profound lineage for many contemporary poets. ...
|  | Life & Love Through My Eyes
Publication Date: July 12, 2012To view life and love through another's eyes is to ultimately acknowledge a different perspective. What we feel and what we think is almost always a direct result of what we know. When we come to the conclusion that another's standpoint cannot exist, we cheat ourselves and deny sight of the bigger picture. We are each interconnected by parallel experiences through life and love. This book is that crossroad. The lens, the looking glass, the kaleidoscope. Each twist, turn, torment and triumph can all be seen, through my eyes. ...
|  | A cada rato lunes (Letras Mexicanas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| Series: Letras Mexicanas Reconocida como una de las principales poetas contemporáneas, Ulalume González de León(Montevideo, 1932) comenzó su trayectoria literaria como narradora, precisamente con estos cuentos, publicados por primera vez en 1970. La autora engarza una serie de relatos de tintes autobiográficos que dan cuenta de su poética narrativa. ...
|  | Der Ring: Text - Ubersetzung - Kommentar (De Gruyter Texte) (German Edition)
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|  | From point A (Russian edition): Book of four poets
Publication Date: May 27, 2012This book is a collection of poems by four Russian authors living in Australia. Far from being limited to Australian motifs, they travel, return back to Russia, imaginary and real, reflect on themselves and others, reminisce and recollect... Their vastly different lives, experiences, and voices are entwined by the Russian language on the smallest continent far away from their motherland. ...
|  | Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England
Publication Date: August 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0754658554 | ISBN-13: 978-0754658559In her beautifully illustrated study, Patrizia Di Bello recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. While attentive to the albums of individual women, Di Bello also examines the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying images; unco...
|  | Jack Kerouac (Great Writers)
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|  | Jerusalem, Part 1: 1-704
Release Date: December 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 3110222191 | ISBN-13: 978-3110222197| Edition: 1 The first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Jerusalem from the time of Alexander to the Arab conquest in all the languages used for inscriptions during those times: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syrian, and Armenian. The approximately 1,100 texts have been arranged in categories based on three epochs: up to the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70, to the beginning of the 4th century, and to the end of Byzantine rule in the 7th century. ...
|  | Mahu Men: Mysterious and Erotic Stories
Publication Date: March 22, 2010Mixing mystery and erotica, the stories in Mahu Men take readers into the world of openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka. Moving from pickups to murders, Kimo surfs the waves of his professional and personal lives in a sexy, sensual tropical paradise, where danger and desire lurk behind every palm tree.The stories fill the gaps between Neil Plakcy's Mahu novels, showing Kimo dating as well as solving cases and establishing a relationship with his new detective partner. Mixing the sensuality of Plakcy's erotica with the sharp-edged attitude of ...
|  | Blood Hollow: A Novel
Release Date: July 21, 2009 Tough-as-nails former small-town sheriff Cork O'Connor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this "vivid and realistic" (Booklist) Anthony Award-winning novel from critically acclaimed author William Kent KruegerWhen the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora, Minnesota's former sheriff, ...
|  | Thor: Blood & Thunder
Publication Date: July 13, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up When the God of Thunder goes berserk, the most powerful heroes in the universe may not be able to stop him!See Thor tear through the ranks of Beta Ray Bill, Silver Surfer, Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Drax the Destroyer and even Thanos!And when the mad Thor gets his hands on the Infinity Gem of Power, even Odin may be powerless to stop him! ...
|  | The Big Book for Toddlers (Big Book of . . . (Welcome Books))
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|  | Princess Stories (Combined Volume) (Usborne Book of...)
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