 | Leaving Unknown: A Novel
Release Date: March 30, 2010 Sweet Lips, Tennessee . . . Toad Suck, Arkansas . . . Okay, Oklahoma . . . Truth or Consequences, New Mexico . . . Maeve Connelly's epic road trip is taking her through every colorfully named tiny town in America on her way to the far less imaginatively named Los Angeles, California. With her foulmouthed cockatiel, Oliver, her only companion, Maeve's heading way off the beaten track with little money and a load of painful baggage she wants to leave behind. But when her beloved rattletrap, "Elsie," breaks down outside Unknown, Arizona, she finds herself taking a m...
 |  | Soft Target: A Thriller
Release Date: May 29, 2012Black Friday America’s largest shopping mall Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles and the escalators of America, the Mall—a giant structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Stephen Hunter’s hyper-drive, eighth-gear thriller chronicles the day when the unthinkable happens: terrorists descend upon the heartland, opening fire in mall corridors and executing innocent victims o...
|  | Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
Release Date: June 1, 1996The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain HarryFlashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, wherethe irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target ofblackmailing beauties. Reprint. NYT. PW....
|  | Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
Release Date: November 18, 2004Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in an entirely new high seas adventure. It's 1798, and Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for them. First, he has rashly vowed to uphold a friend's honour in a duel to the death. Second, he faces the horridly unwelcome arrival of HM Government's Foreign Office agents (out to use him as their cat's-paw in impossibly vaunting schemes against the French). And last, he must engineer t...
|  | A Clearing in the Wild (Change and Cherish Historical Series #1)
Release Date: April 18, 2006Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue–and often doesn’t even try to do so, fueling the animosity between her and the colony’s charismatic and increasingly autocratic leader, Wilhelm ...
|  | The Malhotra Bride
Publication Date: April 14, 2009Sunita is the younger daughter of the Rishi family. She's just completed graduation and her parents are keen on arranging her marriage to Akshay Malhotra. She's dead set against this and fights tooth and nail against it. Sunita wants to study further and have a career in interior design. But her parents want her to get married and become a housewife. The tall, dark and handsome Akshay is also extremely rich. He's highly educated and quite a catch. Only, he's also against the idea of an arranged wedding. But a natural curiosity leads him to find out more about ...
|  | ACTS OF GODS, The Ugaritic Epic Poetry
Publication Date: 1996Since The Acts of Gods first appeared in 1968, additional clay tablets from Ugarit have been discovered and published, important research has been written and transliterations have been re-evaluated and revised. In this expanded edition we have added a selection of new material. We have presented the opinionss of scholars who have researched, interpreted, analyzed and translated the new tablets as well as the previous ones so that the Hebrew reader and student will be somewhat updated in the study of Ugaritic writings. Likewise we have added The Third Column, a Paraphra...
|  | Abandoned Poems
Publication Date: August 27, 2008Selection ofAlchemical Poems ...
|  | This Craft of Verse (4-CD Set)
Publication Date: November 2000| Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Available in cloth, paper, or audio CDThrough a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. ...
|  | Selena by Mary Tighe: A Scholarly Edition
Publication Date: May 2012| ISBN-10: 1409405494 | ISBN-13: 978-1409405498| Edition: annotated edition Mary Tighe's unpublished novel Selena is one of the great unknown treasures of British Romanticism. Completed in 1803, this brilliant, compulsively readable, beautifully written, and psychologically astute courtship novel is finally available in a scholarly edition that reveals Mary Tighe to have been as talented a fiction writer as she was a poet. The history of this amazing work's long journey from manuscript to print is only one of the stories Harriet Kramer Linkin recounts in this sc...
|  | The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series)
Publication Date: 1982| Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series (Book 1) These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin use...
|  | Tentacion al anochecer (Amor y Aventura) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Series: Amor y Aventura Poppy Hathaway ama a su familia poco convencional, aunque anhela la normalidad. Entonces, el destino la conduce a un encuentro con el enigmatico Harry Rutledge, propietario de un hotel, un hombre rico y poderoso con una peligrosa vida oculta. Cuando su coqueteo compromete su propia reputacion, Poppy deja a todos anonadados al aceptar la propuesta de Harry, solo para descubrir que su nuevo marido le ofrece su pasion, pero no su confianza. Harry estaba dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para ganar a Poppy, excepto abrirle su corazon. Toda...
|  | Scream for Me
Publication Date: January 1, 2009For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME. Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crim...
|  | Birdman (The Jack Caffery Series)
Publication Date: May 8, 2012| Series: The Jack Caffery Series Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer. In his first case as lead investigator with London's crack murder squad, Detective Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London. Brutalized, and mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area - all female and all ritualistically murdered. ...
|  | Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction (Critical Survey (Salem Press))
...
|  | The History of the Chicago Cubs (Baseball: The Great American Game)
Publication Date: January 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Farewell Season
Publication Date: November 11, 2011A story of how love endures and love heals. Eric and Glynnie go from butting heads to grudging friendship to something more...Eric used to think he'd live forever, but not any more. As football season starts, he hopes he can live normally again after the death of his father, but his refusal to face his grief results in anger at his coach, fights with his sister, resenting added responsibilities, and disillusionment with football. It takes a special relationship with Glynnie, who is dealing with the divorce of her parents, to open his heart to love again and...
|  | Masters & Heroes (The World of Martial Arts)
...
|  | Wicked Will: A Mystery of Young William Shakespeare
Release Date: October 5, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the law and forced them into hiding. When the actors arrive in the sleepy little town of Stratford-on-Avon, Viola’s uncle is arrested for murder, and she joins forces with Will Shakespeare, a local boy with a penchant for trouble and a smart turn of phrase, to uncover the real culprit. ...
|  | Como aprendi geografia/ How I Learned Geography (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008En esta historia, basada en los recuerdos de su infancia durante la II Guerra Mundial, Uri Shulevitz cuenta como un mapa lo llevo, con la ayuda de su imaginacion, muy lejos del hambre, la miseria y el sufrimiento. ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
留言列表
