 | Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Release Date: April 7, 1999Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly inAphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings, personal anecdotes, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of food and its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate an...
 |  | Our Red Hot Romance Is Leaving Me Blue: A Novel (Domestic Equalizers)
Release Date: June 15, 2010| Series: Domestic EqualizersFull-time hairdressers and part-time private detectives, Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin—the Domestic Equalizers—have dealt with cheating spouses, shady business deals, Elvis-obsessed shoe thieves, even murder. But ghosts? That's a whole new rodeo! Justin Sadler's just coming to terms with the absence of his dear departed Rachel—but now he's not so sure she's departed! Every time he goes home he knows someone's been there—and if it's not Rachel trying to communicate from beyond, it's someone e...
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|  | Allhallow's Eve
Publication Date: December 1, 1994Nothing unusual ever happens in Ashburg, until a local family are mutilated and left to die in their own home. Since then, the house has stood empty, but when mysterious invitations arrive announcing a party there, nobody thinks its a joke. After all, it is Allhallow's Eve. ...
|  | Saving the World
Publication Date: April 7, 2006Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later.The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked by a story she has stumbled across. It's t...
|  | A King's Cutter (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 2) In 1792, Nathaniel Drinkwater returns to the Royal Navy with an appointment to the twelve-gun cutter KESTREL, commanded by the inscrutable Madoc Griffiths. Beneath the gathering shadow of the French Revolution, he undertakes dangerous secret operations off the coast of France, including the rescue of emigres and the landing of agents.As Europe plunges deeper into war, KESTREL participates in the struggle for the Channel, and Drinkwater encounters the devious and sinister Edouard Santhonax, who is attracting...
|  | Hard Trail To Follow (Texas Rangers, No 7)
Release Date: December 30, 2008Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch Cordell and get justice for Tom Blessing.Cordell is something of an enigma to Andy, especially since the pursuit slowly reveals that he is very likely not the killer of Tom Blessing. Even so, Cordell and his cohorts mu...
|  | Humoristische Skizzen aus dem deutschen Handelsleben (German Edition)
Publication Date: August 10, 2011Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt ...
|  | Satyricon
Publication Date: March 1, 2000This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but also fresh, and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of Petronius, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work -- as well as such hallmarks of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices, households, dinner parties, religion, and philosophy. It offers, in short, a remarkably informative and engaging account of major aspects of Imperial Ro...
|  | Blood Brothers: A Novel
Release Date: August 2, 2011 Though they were raised by the same decent and well-respected parents, two brothers could not be more different than Frank and Joe Arnold. The pair have nothing in common but blood . . . and Alice Jacobs. Joe has fallen hard for the shy, kindhearted young woman. But it is Frank, a devious schemer, who is determined to have her. He sees Alice as the key to his fortune, and will do everything, including hide his brutal nature, to succeed. When Frank and Alice announce their engagement, Joe leaves home, determined to put distance between himself and temptation. De...
|  | Middle English Romances (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 17, 1994| ISBN-10: 0393966070 | ISBN-13: 978-0393966077| Edition: annotated edition This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one ofthe most important bodies of English poetry written before theRenaissance.The texts of the seven romances included—Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, SirOrfeo, Sir Launfal, The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, TheWeddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell, and The Sege off Melayne—arecomplete, authoritative (rendered from the best manuscripts), andcomprehensively glossed and annotated for undergradua...
| | Elizabethan Comedy (Hulton Drama Series)
Publication Date: October 1985| ISBN-10: 0717512320 | ISBN-13: 978-0717512324Traces the evolution of English drama from 1560 to 1642, examining dramatic styles, actors, and playhouses. Includes scenes from three comedies. ...
|  | The Government Inspector (Oberon Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| Series: Oberon Classics One of the most famous comedies, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. ...
|  | One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theater
Publication Date: January 12, 1994These eleven one-act plays present the major figures of the modern theatre in an art form that demands from the dramatist the best in vigor, intensity, and precision. They conduct the reader on a historical tour of the modern play, from the naturalism of Strindberg to the intellectual drama of Pirandello; from the lyrical drama of Saroyan to the social drama of Arthur Miller and the psychological drama of Tennessee Williams; from the verse of Yeats and MacLeish to Ionesco's theatre of the absurd. Included in this volume are: Miss Julie, August Strindberg; Pu...
|  | 500 Free: Swimming Against My Brother's Wake
Publication Date: July 6, 2007500 Freestyle is an almost 1/3 mile swim of endurance and heart. It be great to have your sports hero train you? How about if that sports hero is your own brother? Bobby Anthony is frustrated because he is an average high school swimmer and his brother, Shawn Anthony is the worlds' best freestyle swimmer and expected to make history and win more than 10 gold medals at the 2008 Olympics.Shawn's life changes when he and his girlfriend are involved in a traffic accident. Shawn looses his unborn baby, breaks up with the love of his life and is injured enough to pr...
|  | French symbolist poetry: An anthology
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|  | A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture The Viennese poet, dramatist, and prose writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was among the most celebrated men of letters in the German language at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. His early poems established his reputation as the `child prodigy' of German letters, and a few remain among the most anthologized in the German language. His early lyric dramas prompted no less a judge than T. S. Eliot to pronounce him, along with Yeats and Claudel, one of the three European writers who had d...
| | Among the Flowers: The Hua-Chen Chi (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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|  | The Romance of Victorian Natural History
Publication Date: March 30, 1989| ISBN-10: 019505203X | ISBN-13: 978-0195052039| Edition: First The nineteenth century is frequently referred to as the golden age of the amateur naturalist.This study focuses on how the enthusiasm for natural history in the 19th century produced characteristic ways of conceptualizing and visualizing the world--especially the Victorian fascination with particulars-- as frequently seen in Victorian poetry, fiction, history, and textual studies. Arguing for natural history as an influential literary genre, Merrill examines the language and recurrent motifs i...
|  | Anthology of Black Humor
Publication Date: January 1, 2001This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in the Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton’s selections are often surprising)—many others are sure to come as a revelation.The entries range fro...
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