 | The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
Release Date: September 11, 2012A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s &l...
 |  | Agent Undercover (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense What does little Alex know?The traumatized six-year-old boy hasn't said one word since the unsolved murder of his single mother. And now, the killer is after the child—and the devoted uncle raising him, Dr. Dylan Seabrook. Working undercover in the boy's school, DEA agent Paige Ashworth is determined to find the murderer. But she can't tell Dylan her real identity, what she knows—or just how close to the case she really is. Dylan's strength and fierce love for his nephew soon have Paige longing to join...
|  | Ritual
Publication Date: November 1988Tiny, picturesque Allen's Corner in rural Connecticut has a secret. It is a terrible one that eats at its youth, at their innocence and consumes their very souls with a twisted hunger which is never sated. ...
|  | The Empire of Ice Cream
Publication Date: April 1, 2006Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide, a demonic 16th-century chess set shows up in a New Jersey bar, and Charon, the boatman of hell, takes a few days vacation. Storylines both conventional and outlandish reveal humdrum routines as menacing, or imaginary worlds as perfectly familiar. Allusions to authors...
|  | Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Little Sisters of Eluria
Publication Date: June 22, 2011Near death from an attack by Slow Mutants, Roland Deschain is taken in by a group of Sisters who specialize in anything but the healing arts. These hideous, corpse-like creatures known as the Little Sisters of Eluria have murder on their twisted minds. And in his current, wounded condition, there's almost nothing the last gunslinger can do to prevent their tender mercies from taking hold. It's the beginning of a new Dark Tower story arc featuring the fine pencils of Luke Ross, whose work on this story will astound you! ...
|  | The Nurses
Release Date: December 1, 1995With the staff overwhelmed by a local plane crash, Chandler Medical Center becomes a teeming site of medical juggling and personal confrontations when a nurse tries to save the pilot she loves and a wife tries to destroy her doctor husband....
|  | The Wind Leaves No Shadow
Publication Date: October 1, 1951Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressAn historical novel depicting one woman's fight for power and respect in a world dominated by men; early 19th century Santa Fe. ...
|  | Buster's Diaries: The True Story of a Dog and His Man
Publication Date: October 2000In 1996, Buster, a half-German Shepherd mutt, was attacked by a goose in a public park. He defended himself-much to the detriment of the goose-who, unfortunately, was owned by the Queen, and Buster was brought up on charges. Grossly misrepresented by the media, he became an instant celebrity. Eager to present his side of the story, he dictated his diaries to his Man, the lord who had adopted him a year earlier. The result is a delightfully funny, sometimes touching romp through Buster's triumph over adversity, some dog psychology, the odd training rituals the Ma...
|  | Stone Rain
Release Date: May 1, 2007Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it’s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn’t want told that’s about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she’s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her…not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and eve...
|  | Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream
Publication Date: 1877This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This text refer...
|  | A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 1998"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czesław Miłosz's A Book of Luminous Things—his personal selection of poems from the past and present—is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Miłosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as “Travel,” “History, ...
|  | T.S. Eliot, the Philosopher Poet (Wheaton Literary Series)
Publication Date: August 1988| Series: Wheaton Literary Series Alzina Stone Dale gives us ...an excellent review of T.S. Eliot's entire career and it has the important virtue of showing how absolutely integral to his poetic achievements were his religious interests. It is ...a critical biography that makes just the right sort of book for marking the centennial of Eliot's birth."--Nathan A. Scott --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | The Permanent Wave
Publication Date: April 16, 1997With a sense always of what's at stake, 'The Permanent Wave' probes the hidden desires at the heart of everyday life. Here are poems of honesty and surprise, exploring how we forge our identities within the pattern of birth, ageing and death. An unforgettable grandmother uses religion to transform her sexuality; a sister's gift of a dictionary tests the 'limits of language'; a daughter's world is altered when she uncovers her father's cache of pornography. Composed with a painter's eye, these poems combine delicate observation with bold language- 'turning thou...
|  | The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Publication Date: April 10, 1997Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for a...
|  | Dialogi (Oxford Classical Texts)
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|  | Los Ejercitos/ The Armies (Andanzas/ Adventures) (Coleccion Andanzas) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Wedding the Highlander
Publication Date: January 26, 2010A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger...Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell. Wounded in love once before by a modern woman, Michael wants nothing to do with Libby, but he can't resist the intense desire she stirs within him. Can this proud warrior pledge his heart to a woman whose secret threatens to change their lives forever? ...
|  | Cain
Publication Date: July 7, 1997When the CIA took Cain's lifeless body from the ground, they intended to create the perfect soldier. Piece by piece, they rebuilt his soulless flesh and transformed it. A team of scientists outfitted him with the most powerful muscles and the deadliest weapons that the generals could ever have wished for. Alive, Cain had been their deadliest killer; dead, he became their greatest nightmare. When Cain awakes, he is transformed: he has become the ultimate predator. His body is now inhabited by a spirit that's been wandering the earth for millennia - one of the cro...
|  | A Cookie Before Dying (A Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery)
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Series: A Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery (Book 2) On a stormy night, Olivia Greyson and her Yorkie discover the bodyof a man stabbed to death-which looks suspiciously like the intruderseen fleeing the local health food store The Vegetable Plate. CharleneCritch, owner of The Vegetable Plate, has a grudge against Olivia'scookie cutter shop, but could Charlene be hiding a secret seriousenough to kill for? ...
|  | The Lost Sister
Release Date: March 15, 2011A teenage girl is missing. Her godfather is a known criminal and her mother is hiding a dark secret. For Private Investigator J. McNee, what starts as a favor for a friend soon becomes a nightmare as he races to find the girl before it’s too late. ...
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