 | Count Krinkelfiend's Quest (in Which We Meet a Vampire ... (Tall Tales of Draculas Daggers)
Publication Date: July 19, 2002| Series: Tall Tales of Draculas Daggers When princess of Gertcha realises that Walter, the King's head servant, has gone missing, it doesn't take her long to figure out who's the culprit. (Probably because the culprit-dastardly Count Krinkelfiend-sent a note, explaining.) Luckily, Inspector Klaw has already decided that the evil Count requires some investigation and who better to come to the Inspector's aid than the celebrated vampire scholar, Professor Erich Von Morcumstein? Together, they must find the Count's lair, rescue Walter from certain death (or at le...
 |  | Ghost (Paladin of Shadows Book 1)
Release Date: October 31, 2006Former SEAL Michael Harmon, Team Name "Ghost", retired for service injuries, is not enjoying college life. But things are about to change, if not for the better. When he sees a kidnapping a series of, at the time logical, decisions leave him shot to ribbons and battling a battalion of Syrian commandos with only the help of three naked co-eds who answer to the names ¿Bambi,¿ ¿Thumper¿ and ¿Cotton Tail.¿ A fast-paced, highly-sexual, military-action thriller that ranges from a poison factory in the Mideast to the Florida Keys to Siberi...
|  | "Heil America" Incorporated (We Didn't Think It Could Happen Here): Volume Two
Publication Date: October 28, 2011Becca had no way of knowing just how much her life would be changed by the following message she received that Saturday morning when she went on her social network to check out the postings. Not just her life…but her very being: “You don’t know me, but I work for your Social Network. This morning we had visitors from Homeland Security and they demanded that we turn over to them all information pertaining to your account. They also have access to all your phone contacts as well. This message will be deleted in 20 minutes and all traces of...
|  | Naked Lunch, 50th Anniversary Edition
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as interzone, its formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted their influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film and media generally. Naked Lunc...
|  | Flowers in the Rain & Other Stories
Publication Date: September 1991Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland.Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying.Seeing Lachlan again,. Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there:swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels.Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory. In the house, as the old lady lies serene and beautiful in the bed she has slept in since coming home to Lachlan as a bride, Lavinia meets Rory once again. Flowers in the Rain is one of sixteen stories, each giv...
|  | Iambic Pentameter from Shakespeare to Browning: A Study in Generative Metrics (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0773487409 | ISBN-13: 978-0773487406This study adds to the debate over metrical description. The debate concerns how best to describe and account for the rule-governed metrical practice of poets writing iambic pentameter in English. The major work in this study is to reconcile the opposing points of view of the Halle and Keyser theory and the Kiparsky theory. It accounts for the placement in the poetic line of all the stress and intonation break sequences observed by the earlier theorists, and some additional ones as well. It oultines a basis in ling...
|  | Vinaver Plays: 1: Overboard; Situation Vacant; Dissident, Goes Without Saying; Nina, That's Something Else; A Smile on (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 1)
Publication Date: October 16, 1997| ISBN-10: 0413717801 | ISBN-13: 978-0413717801The first collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrightsOverboard: "Combines Shakespearian tragedy, Aristophanic farce and a Chekhovian drama of lives consumed and memories that fade." Le Progrès, Situation Vacant: "The play builds to a climax which powerfully captures a mind under siege, bombarded by a cacophony of voices and tormented by guilt." (Independent); Dissident, Goes Without Saying and Nina, That's Something Else: "These two plays bring to a summit the art of suggestions&#x...
|  | Disney's Storybook Collection (Disney Storybook Collections)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Mind Of An Insomniac: A collection of poetry Featuring the Epic poem, The Adventures Of Gastan.
Publication Date: April 25, 2006A collection of poetry featuring the epic poem, The Adventures of Gastan. The epic story of a warrior knight fighting dragons, wizards, serpents and much, much more. Action, suspense and romance all tied into one amazing epic adventure. ...
|  | Modern Iranian Poetry
Publication Date: August 7, 2001Modern Iranian Poetry offers new horizons of poetic vision and imagination by major contemporary Iranian poets such as Nima, Shamlu, Forugh,Sohrab.The poetic English rendition provides the English reading public with a unique insight into the subconscious culture of a nation that has mystified the world. Poignant and lyrical, the poems generate visionary moments of clairvoyance for the experience of post modern life with all its wonder and complexity. Iranian poet and translator, Saeed Saeedpoor studied English literature in the U.S., where he lived for 12 yea...
| | Pictorial history of the Louisiana Purchase and the World's Fair at St. Louis: Containing captivating descriptions ... including an account of all the world's fairs for a century
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|  | Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
Publication Date: May 29, 1997What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes."Hard-Boiled: ...
|  | Assimilation: Tales of transformation and surrender
Publication Date: April 2, 2012"Rubber moves through me until every cell is coated, every nerve insulated; every part of me rubberised and assimilated. The process is slow, purposeful, unrelenting, and irreversible - and it feels like slowly drowning in a rising black tide of ecstasy."These stories weave tales of delicious perversity, unrelenting transformations, heady submission, and willingly given surrender. They speak of masculinity and hunger - of bondage, hypnosis, pup-play and water-sports... They tell of men released from their limitations to test and push and explore at th...
|  | Heart's Desire (Arabesque)
Release Date: May 1, 1998| Series: Arabesque From the moment Kara Kincaid had learned that the senator for whom she works was the father that had abandoned her and her mother years ago to pursue political ambitions, she has sworn revenge. Now, her goal is in sight. Kara sets her sights on his loyal, honest, right hand man, Brent Stevens. As they are both drawn into a dangerous game of desperate secrets and passionate schemes, Kara finds herself caught between desire and disaster. ...
|  | Peter Pan and Wendy
Publication Date: December 1988This is the classic story of the boy who nev er grew up. Illustrator Michael Foreman takes the reader on an adventure with Peter and friends in Never-Land, where the y meet the devilish Captain Hook along the way. ' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Epossumondas
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Who's Epossumondas? Why, he's his mama's and his auntie's sweet little patootie, that's who. He's also the silliest, most lovable, most muddleheaded possum south of the Mason-Dixon line!Better choose your words wisely when he's around, 'cause otherwise you never know what you'll get. Epossumondas just might bring you a fist full of crumbs, or a soaking wet puppy, or a scruffy wad of bread--oh, you just wouldn't believe it!Renowned storyteller Coleen Salley and Caldecott Honor illustrator Janet Stevens team up for t...
|  | A Little Giant Book: Football Facts (Little Giant Books)
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|  | Grains (Good Food (PowerKids Library))
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|  | Reading Otherways
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0966323378 | ISBN-13: 978-0966323375In this lucid book, Lissa Paul writes with insight and authority about a matter all English teachers will find compelling: how the ways we analyze and teach literature shape our views and expectations of the world. Paul urges us to give the texts we teach sensitive multiple readings. She points out that variant versions and different editions of classic children's stories hold different meanings. From a feminist perspective, Paul considers such questions as : whose story is this? who is the reader? when and w...
|  | Brenin's Crown
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