 | Head Game
Publication Date: September 11, 2007Someone wants you dead. But he doesn't want to kill you . . . He wants you to do it for him. He watches your every move. He studies you like a mouse in a maze. He knows everything about you—every dream, hunger, weakness, and strength. What you long for and what you fear most. What you live for, and what you cannot live without. He plans to take those things away from you one at a time, invisibly manipulating the events of your life until there is nothing left to live for. Then he wants you to take the final step. Or is it all in your head? Is he jus...
 |  | Country Delights - Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 2
Publication Date: October 15, 2010Volume 2 of a 3-volume series covering the evolution and scope of Japanese "kaiki" fiction: uncanny tales, including ghost stories, weird tales and subtle horror. Translations by experts in the field bring an entirely new genre of literature to the English language. The stories are accompanied by one manga, and a comprehensive introduction to the development of the genre in Japan by Higashi Masao, the foremost authority in the field. ...
|  | Code to Zero
Release Date: December 4, 2000Three days that could change the world's political landscape . . . A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems . . . The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in...
|  | Invisible
Release Date: June 22, 2010Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and move...
|  | Single Dad, Nurse Bride (Harlequin Medical Romance)
Publication Date: January 8, 2008| Series: Harlequin Medical Romance (Book 337) Wanted: mother for young twin girls! Dangerously handsome Dr. Dane Hendricks certainly isn't nurse Rikki Johansen's usual type. For one thing, she thinks he's arrogant and overbearing, and for another, he assumed she was scatterbrained and incapable of making good decisions. So why is he so adamant about taking her on a date?Rikki soon discovers that Dr. Dane is actually a kind an sensitive dad, and, like her, he's one of life's survivors. A foster mother herself, Rikki knows she can bring Dane's adorable twin gi...
|  | Sixty Shades of Blood. Episode I: Rote Lust
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|  | Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque
Publication Date: July 25, 2005On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, on...
|  | Death in England: An Illustrated History
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0813527899 | ISBN-13: 978-0813527895Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages people died; plagues and violence; wills and deathbeds; funerals and memorials; beliefs and bereavement. Richly illustrated -striking and often very powerful images. In time with the spirit of the age and coming Millenium key scholars in their field write on t...
|  | Foolish Wiseman: One-Act Play for Christmas, A
Publication Date: June 13, 2002For permission to perform Foolish Wiseman you are required to purchase the Production Pack.In addition to including 4 scripts at a reduced rate for the director and major characters, you receive permission to make photocopies of the script for minor characters and your technical crew and a Performance Licensing Agreement.The Performance Licensing Agreement is used to pay the Royalty fee(s) and is due two weeks prior to performance(s).The Production Pack price does not include the Royalty payment. Ogion has little chance of following the Bethlehem star until her...
|  | Boston Theater Marathon XII
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1575257785 | ISBN-13: 978-1575257785| Edition: 1st The Boston Theater Marathon is the winner of a 2000 Elliot Norton Award and a Dramatists' Guild Citation for its work in forging relationships between playwrights and theater companies all over New England. Now an annual tradition in Boston, the BTM utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10-hours (that's five plays an hour), each one supported by a different New England theater company. ...
| | Aunt Dan and Lemon.
Publication Date: October 1, 1986Aunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her life of her parents' friend "Aunt Dan," an eccentric, passionate professor whose stories and seductive opinions enthrall Lemon from the time she is a young girl. The relationship that develops between Lemon and Aunt Dan and the conversations that went on in a small house on the bottom of an English garden form the focus of this play about politi...
|  | Voodoo Heart
Release Date: May 29, 2007Scott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped.But in Snyder’s wondrous imagination there’s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress—in hiding after surgery—and a sporting goods salesman take...
|  | Face to Face. Poems and Short Stories about a Virus
Publication Date: January 1, 1999A Collection of short stories and poems by twelve younger, or previously unpublished writers from Ghana. The publication was inspired by a literary workshop and creative writing competition on the subject of HIV/AIDS, conducted and judged by the established Ghanaian writers Esi Sutherland-Addy and Amma Darko, with the German author, Lutz van Dijk, and the German writer, Norman Ohler. Typical subjects of the pieces are AIDS in the context of love, friendship, guilt, sex and beliefs. ...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: Poets of Great Britan and Ireland 1945-60
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|  | Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library)
Publication Date: November 24, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521497639 | ISBN-13: 978-0521497633This volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature, accompanied by a commentary. Confessions is concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and in search of God.In books I-IV, Augustine reflects on his infancy and childhood, adolescent rebellion and student days, and his early teaching career. The commentary, which can be used by those new to Augustine and his world, concentrates on his brilliant Latin and on his theology and philosophy. ...
|  | The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modernist Poetry Since Baudelaire
Publication Date: June 1, 2004What kind of truth does modern poetry offer? Michael Hamburger's approach to this question ranges over European and American poetry since Baudelaire and the result is one of the best introductions available to twentieth-century poetry and its antecedents. Stressing the tensions and conflicts in and behind the work of almost every major poet of the period, Hamburger's non-partisan approach and practitioner's appreciation of the aesthetic problems ensure that the many different possibilities open to poets since Baudelaire are lucidly and sympathetically discussed....
|  | The Next Accident
Release Date: April 30, 2002New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner is at the top of her form as she takes us on a desperate manhunt for a killer who preys upon his victims’ minds—just before he claims their lives.What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth—and there’s only one person willing ...
|  | The Secret War (Jack Blank Adventure)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Apollo & Daphne: Masterpieces of Greek Mythology
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|  | The Last Dragon
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up When the last dragon and the last elf break the circle, the past and the future will meet, and the sun of a new summer will shine in the sky.In a world shrouded in darkness and continually lashed by rain, a young elf named Yorsh struggles to survive. His village has been destroyed by the torrential waters, leaving Yorsh suddenly orphaned and alone—the earth’s last elf. But soon Yorsh discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy to save the world from the Dark Age that has begun. First, however, the young...
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