 | Jews Without Money
Publication Date: September 1996As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades.Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Moneythe author's only novelis a passionate record of the times.First published in 1930, this fictionalized autobiography offered an unusually candid look at the thieves, gangsters, and ordinary citizens who struggled against brutal odds in lower East Side Manhattan.Like Henry Roth'...
 |  | The Death of a Pope
Publication Date: May 15, 2009Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest, seems to be the model of nonviolence and compassion for the poor and downtrodden. So why is he on trial, accused of terrorist activities? His worldwide Catholic charitable outreach program is suspected of being a front for radicals. The trial is covered by Kate Ramsay, a young British reporter, who sets out to uncover the truth about Uriarte and his work. She travels with him to Africa to see his work first hand but soon finds herself attracted to him. Meanwhile an international conspiracy is growing, one...
|  | Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Publication Date: July 31, 2011Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti's first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by the same publishers.In the view of many commentators, it was with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his reputation as a horror writer of high stature. As Steven J. Marico...
|  | Forever Amber (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Rediscovered Classics Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England—that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. From whores and highwaymen to courtiers and noblemen, from events such as the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of ordinary—and extraordinary—men and women, Amber experiences it all. But throughout her tr...
|  | Clear Water
Publication Date: September 16, 2011Meet Patrick Cleary: party boy, loser, and spaz. Patrick's been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they've almost killed him. Meet Wes "Whiskey" Keenan: he's a field biologist wondering if it's time to settle down. When the worst day of Patrick's life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world's tackiest houseboat.Patrick needs to get his life together-and Whiskey wants to help-but Patrick is not entirely convinced it's doable. H...
|  | City of Tiny Lights
Publication Date: April 4, 2006From award-winning novelist Patrick Neate, a literary mystery that introduces a new kind of British detective, Ugandan-Indian Tommy Akhtar, and a side of London that the mystery world has never seen.A contemporary murder mystery set in the heart of London, this is the story of Tommy Akhtar, hard-drinking veteran of the Mujahideen, devoted on, sometime private investigator and sometime idol to the thug-lites of the ethnic motley of West London. Hired by a bewitching prostitute, he's to track down the whereabouts of her missing friend, last seen meeting a clien...
|  | The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts)
Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195068254 | ISBN-13: 978-0195068252This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. ...
|  | When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others
Publication Date: April 15, 1994How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtes...
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|  | Seances
Publication Date: March 1, 1998Composed between 1993 and 1997, Seances represents thefirst full-length collection of poetry from Sydney-born writer LouisArmand. Compared favourably to French poet Yves Bonnefoy, Armand hasattracted growing attention from editors and the reading public alike,particularly in his native Australia where his work has recentlygained hard-won approval from the literary establishment. ...
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|  | Thomas Usk: Testament of Love
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|  | Forbidden Falls (Virgin River)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Virgin River Virgin River is abuzz with the news that a stranger bought the town's abandoned church on eBay. The buyer, a young widowed reverend, is a little like the building itself: in need of some loving care. Noah Kincaid arrives ready to roll up his sleeves and revitalize his new purchase, but he's going to need some help. An ad in the local paper brings an improbable candidate his way."Pastor's assistant" is not a phrase that springs to mind when Noah meets brassy, beautiful Alicia Baldwin. With her colorful clothes and even more colorfu...
|  | Death Qualified (Barbara Holloway Novels)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Barbara Holloway Novels Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: "I need you."Nell Kendrick's husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since -- until the day Lucas Kendricks arrives at the edge of her property and is shot, instantly killed. Accused of his murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank Holloway for help. But Frank knows he cannot win this case alone. He calls upo...
|  | Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 1: The Five Nightmares
Publication Date: March 18, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up Tony Stark - Iron Man, billionaire industrialist, and director of S.H.I.E.L.D. - faces the most overwhelming challenge of his life. Ezekiel Stane, the son of Tony's late business rival and archenemy Obadiah, has set his sights, his genius, and his considerable fortune on the task of destroying Tony Stark and Iron Man. What's worse, he's got Iron Man tech, and he's every bit Iron Man's equal and opposite, except younger, faster, smarter - and immeasurably evil! Rising star writer Matt Fraction (Immortal Iron Fist) and superstar artist Sa...
|  | Chicken Little
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|  | A Summertime Song
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|  | Paper Stained Glass: Color-by-Number Art for Your Windows (Klutz S.)
Publication Date: January 1, 1948| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Raven Queen
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up I have lived the life of a princess since the day I was born. But it did not bring me what I wanted. I am still trapped. My beloved Ned speaks of love, freedom, a future. To walk with him in the forest, our raven soaring above us, is my only joy. But my father plans that I shall be betrothed to the King and I am afraid. Queens of England have a habit of dying. I have no desire to take the throne, no wish to find myself in the Tower of London. Wife, Queen - I fear it will bring me to my knees.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition editio...
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