 | 3 Men and a Body (Body Movers, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008Carlotta Wren has always dreamed of taking a vacation from her life as daughter to fugitive parents and mother to her younger brother, Wesley. So when she is temporarily suspended from her job at Neiman Marcus, the invitation from hunky body mover Cooper Craft to ride to Florida for some fun in the sun and a VIP body pickup seems like a good idea.…And then Wesley tags along to elude an irate loan shark and to play chaperone.…And then they're greeted on arrival by three different men, each one laying claim to the celebutante's body they've been hired ...
 |  | The Lost Band: A Novel (Spanish Bit)
Publication Date: April 15, 2000| Series: Spanish Bit A continuation of Don Coldsmith’s Spanish Bit series, The Lost Band traces the sage of the People, a fictional nation of American Plains Indians in the late eighteenth century. Annually the People celebrate the Sun Dance, and each year the Council circle leaves an empty place of honor for the Lost Band, whose members disappeared and are presumed killed in a genocidal raid in the Great Plains two hundred years earlier. This group is the Lost Band, their fate an ongoing mystery in the history of the People.In The Lost Band, Story Kee...
|  | Lethal Deception (Amazon Adventure Series #1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #90)
Publication Date: February 12, 2008Who wanted her dead?Having rescued Cassidy McKnight from kidnappers in South America, Gabe Sinclair thought his job was done. Not that the former Navy SEAL could ever forget the brave, beautiful single mother. But when the danger followed her home, Gabe promised to protect her. Why anyone would want to kill Cassidy was a mystery. Was the motive related to the orphaned toddler Cassidy was raising, a sweet little girl who brought out the father figure in maverick Gabe? Or did a newly revealed family secret have killer consequences?--This text refers to the ...
|  | Missing Persons (Reunion Revelations, Book 2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #88)
Publication Date: February 12, 2008Leave while you still canThe warning had been spray-painted on Lauren Owens's walls. And whoever had vandalized her house meant business. But Lauren couldn't--wouldn't--leave the Magnolia College campus. Not when she'd finally found her way back to Seth Chartrand, the single father who'd broken her heart years ago. And not when the cold-case murder everyone was talking about remained scarily unsolved--including the young woman's identity. Because Lauren had a sinking feeling she knew exactly who the victim was.... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition ed...
|  | The Red Tent (Bestselling Backlist)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers—Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah—the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a fore...
|  | The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Publication Date: September 15, 1998Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent...
|  | Close Quarters
Publication Date: December 1, 1999A sequel to RITES OF PASSAGE, set on board a ship on its way to Australia. A ball is held on the ship whilst it is becalmed in a wilderness of heat and sea mists, and under the influence of this strange atmosphere, soon the passengers and the very ship itself start to go to pieces. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Sword and the Flute - Kali and Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions)
Publication Date: February 25, 2000| ISBN-10: 0520224760 | ISBN-13: 978-0520224766With a New PrefaceKali and Krsna are two of Hinduism's most popular deities, representing dramatically different truths about the nature of the sacred. The cruel and terrible Kali is thought to be born of wild, aboriginal roots. She is the goddess of thieves and often associated with human blood sacrifice. Krsna, in contrast, is the divine lover and inimitable prankster who plays a bewitching flute to draw all to him. But Kali and Krsna have much more in common than their contrasting personalities suggest. ...
|  | Services For Special Days
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Services for Special Days by Mary Lu Warstler is a worship service book. Here are a few of the topics covered in this book:-worship services-alternative worship service-out door worship service-important elements of the worship service-memorial day prayer""Looking for worship material specifically tailored for holidays and other special, out-of-the-ordinary occasions? If so, then you'll draw on this compendium of services for fresh ideas throughout the year. Each of these 13 services actively involves the congregation through the singing of several hymns, as ...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Memoria Esta antologÃa comprende las dos obras de teatro de que Rizal escribió (Junto al Pásig y El consejo de los Dioses) y una selección de sus mejores poemas. ...
|  | The Rain of Wisdom
Release Date: November 23, 1999The tradition of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over one hundred of these profound songs are found in this collection of the work of some of the greatest teachers of the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. With their vivid imagery and deep insight, the songs in this book communicate in a very direct way profound and timeless insight.The Rain of Wisdomis read aloud in its entirety by Tibetan Buddhists every year on the New Year. It has been reprinted in cloth in response to demand by Buddhist...
|  | Chanson de La Rue Saint (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Elogios.Eloges (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses (Sic), Plays, Poetics (Border Lines)
Publication Date: April 1993| Series: Border Lines Although Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is increasinglyrecognized as one of the great visual artists of the twentiethcentury—a recognition reconfirmed in 1985 by a highly acclaimedretrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art—his achievementsas one of the major poets and theorists of Modernism have not receivedthe same degree of attention. This collection of Schwitters' literarywork, presented by two American poets of international standing,brings the vast range and unique genius of his writings toEnglish-language audiences for the...
|  | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Publication Date: May 28, 2012When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. Written before the emergence of the Internet but newly updated for the 21st Century reader, A Gentle Madness captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes bri...
|  | Romanticismo (Spanish Edition) (Biblioteca Rudiger Safranski)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Biblioteca Rudiger Safranski (Book 341) En su retrato de ese excepcional movimiento que eclosiono en el paso del siglo XVIII al XIX, Safranski analiza el pensamiento y las obras de autores como Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Hoffmann o Schiller, explora las multiples manifestaciones de lo «romantico», y rastrea su pervivencia y continuidad hasta nuestros dias. / In the portrait of this exceptional movement that hatched at the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth century, Safranski analyzes the thought and works of authors such as Herder, Fichte, S...
|  | Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism
Publication Date: December 4, 2000| ISBN-10: 0520223497 | ISBN-13: 978-0520223493| Edition: 1 "Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influenti...
|  | Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives
Release Date: July 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0791424707 | ISBN-13: 978-0791424704In this book, each of the chapters offers an analysis of the origins and development of an important aspect of Japanese culture, including religion (Pure Land Buddhism and Zen, Shinto and folk religions, Confucianism and Tokugawa era ideology), philosophy (classical Buddhism and the contemporary Kyoto School), literature and the arts (medieval poetry and drama, modern fiction and films), and social behavior (family system, feminism, nationalism, and economic growth). The central, underlying theme is the uniqueness a...
|  | Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0754668134 | ISBN-13: 978-0754668138Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meads, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were gu...
|  | Love, Catch a Wild Bird, No. 28
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