 | Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps
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 |  | Northwest Corner: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life’s most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, at fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn’t revealed the truth about his past. Then Sam, Dwight&rsqu...
|  | Falcon Seven
Release Date: June 28, 2011A MOVING TARGETA U.S. Navy F/A-18 flying over Afghanistan is suddenly diverted and ordered to bomb a building in Pakistan, where a meeting between al Qaeda and the Taliban is taking place. After destroying its target, the fighter is immediately hit by Stinger missiles and the pilots eject over Pakistan. They are captured, assaulted, and dragged through the streets of Peshawar. The world is on edge.a secret missionThe pilots are quickly forced onto a private Falcon jet headed for the Netherlands, where they’ll stand trial for war crimes at the International Cr...
|  | The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition)(Vol. A)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393912493 | ISBN-13: 978-0393912494| Edition: Ninth Edition The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value. ...
|  | Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 1988| Series: Bantam Classics HamletOne of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his father’s murder is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. The ghost, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, and the breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet a masterpiece of the theater.OthelloThis great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor. The doomed marriag...
|  | Unlikely Conversations About Jesus
Publication Date: January 1, 1972| ISBN-10: 0895362449 | ISBN-13: 978-0895362445| Edition: Revised Unlikely Conversations About Jesus is a series of five mini-dramas designed for the Lenten season to help refresh the memory of God's people concerning the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.Based on scriptural fact and tradition, these imaginary conversations may be performed in a church chancel or on a stage. Several of the mini-dramas use narrators. Costuming and props are minimal. Each mini-drama involves two or three people.The conversations occur between:An elder and Peter before the...
|  | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
Release Date: October 27, 1998The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.The companion stories in this collection each ...
|  | Diving Belles: And Other Stories
Release Date: August 7, 2012In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth. Strayinghusbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee.Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep a fretful watchon their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains and worrying aboutfrayed carpets. A mother, who seems alone and lonely, may be rubbingsore muscles or holding the hands of her invisible lover as he touchesher neck. Phantom hounds roam the moors and, on a windy beach, a boy andhis grandmother beat back despair with an o...
|  | Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre De Balboa's Espejo De Paciencia (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Litearute and Theory)
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|  | Adventures in Interpretation: The Works of Hartmann von Aue and their Critical Reception (Literary Criticism in Perspective)
Publication Date: April 14, 1996| Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective Hartmann von Aue is one of the great poets of the German vernacular which blossomed in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Although all his significant narrative works are readily available in English translations, and he has attracted considerable critical attention from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, this is the first book in English to be devoted primarily to the critical reception of Hartmann. In surveying the critical appraisal of Hartmann's oeuvre, from the late Romantics to contemporary criti...
|  | Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest
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|  | Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
Publication Date: December 14, 2004This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy.It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine.The author examines how writers have become cultural entrepreneurs, how state publishing houses are now motivated by commercial incentives, and how “second-channel,” unofficial publishers and distributors both compete and cooperate with official publishing houses...
|  | Character Studies, With Some Personal Recollections
Publication Date: January 10, 2012Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. ...
|  | The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies The Queer Uncannyinvestigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as definedby Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbian, gay, andtransgender characters in a selection of British, American, andCaribbean fiction published between 1980 and 2007. Paulina Palmeranalyzes novels by Christopher Bram, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollingurst,Randall Kenan, Shani Mootoo, Sarah Schulman, Ali Smith, Sarah Waters,and Jeanette Winterson, among others, highlighting the inventive waysthese aut...
|  | Wicked Nights (The Castle of Dark Dreams Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: April 5, 2005USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs now delivers the first book in a new trilogy of three extraordinary men who promise fulfillment for the women bold enough to accept their sensual challenges.Come to the Castle of Dark Dreams, the delicious attraction in an adult amusement park where women take role-playing to new erotic heights with the three brothers-Eric, Brynn, and Conall McNair-who work there. Okay, so they're not human, but that's a secret. Tonight, Eric, the castle's resident vampire, will prove that he's everything bad should be when he drives a fema...
|  | The Cowboy's Christmas Plan: Grass Valley Cowboys
Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: Grass Valley Cowboys Cadence Greer’s plans for a happy-ever-after are quickly derailed when her fiancé runs off with his secretary a week before their wedding. Homeless, jobless and jilted, she escapes to Grass Valley, Oregon, where she finds herself employed as a housekeeper and cook to seven cowboys on a sprawling ranch. Trey Thompson is a well-respected pillar of the community, running a successful ranch with his brother. All he wanted was someone to cook his meals and keep the house clean. When he hires Cadence Greer for the job, he...
|  | The Wall
Publication Date: December 1999First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal. This novel is at once a simple and moving tale and a disturbing meditation on humanity. ...
|  | The Stargazey (Richard Jury Mystery)
Release Date: October 2, 1999| Series: Richard Jury Mystery After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace...and goes no further. Days later, when he hears of the death in the palace's walled garden, Jury will wonder if he could have averted it. But is the victim the same woman Jury saw? As he and Melrose Plant follow the complex case from the Crippsian depths of London's East End to the headier heights of Mayfair's art scene, Jury will realize that in this captivating woman--dead or alive--he may h...
|  | Diving (Action Sports (Gareth Stevens))
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | X Games Xtreme Mysteries: Deep Powder, Deep Trouble - Book #1
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