 | Blood and Gifts: A Play
Release Date: December 20, 2011My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful.It’s 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try to halt its bloody progress, beginning a secret spy war behind the official hostilities. Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and the British and Pakistani secret services wrestle with ever-shifting personal and political loyalties. With the outcome of the entire Cold War at stake, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord decide to place their trust in each o...
 | ![The Bingo Palace [Paperback] by Louise Erdrich](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dzkPk7nkL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | The Bingo Palace [Paperback] by Louise Erdrich
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|  | Lives of Notable Asian Americans: Arts, Entertainment and Sports (Asian American Experience (Chelsea House))
Publication Date: February 1995| Series: Asian American Experience (Chelsea House) Discusses the lives of some Asian Americans primarily known for their writing, including Amy Tan, David Henry Kwang, Dharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Laurence Yep. ...
|  | Chasing the Sun: Land of the Lone Star Book One (Land of the Lone Star Series)
Release Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Land of the Lone Star Series (Book 1) When her father disappears in war-torn Mississippi, Hannah Dandridge finds herself responsible not only for her younger siblings but also for the Texas ranch her father recently acquired. A marriage of convenience could ease her predicament . . . but is it the true desire of her heart?Wounded soldier William Barnett returns home only to find out that his family’s ranch has been seized. Though angered at this turn of events, he’s surprised to discover that it is a beautiful young woman with amazing fortit...
|  | The Protector (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: July 13, 2010| Series: Love Inspired Historical Quintus Ambustus is a slave--Adiona Leonia is a wealthy socialite. He fights for his life in the gladiator's ring--she plays cutthroat politics in Rome's high society. He's sacrificed everything for his Christian faith--she believes in nothing and no one. But when Adiona's life is threatened, Quintus is chosen as her bodyguard, and their fascination with one another shocks them both. Neither thought to find joy in a match society would condemn...but their feelings cannot be denied. Have they lost too much to believe in happine...
|  | Contagio / Contagion (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Devil's Dictionary
Publication Date: January 12, 2012The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical reference book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms such as Salder Bupp and Orm Pludge; the most frequently appearing contributor is that learned and ingenious cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials. ...
|  | Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation.Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of Chekhov's involvement in the theater and an assessment of his accomplishment as a dramatist.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Cl...
|  | Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl
Publication Date: July 31, 1997Spenser's Irish Experience is the first sustained critical work to argue that Edmund Spenser's perception and fragmented representation of Ireland shadows the whole narrative of his major work, The Faerie Queene. The poem has often been read in specifically English contexts but, as Hadfield argues, demands to be read in terms of England's expanding colonial hegemony within the British Isles and the ensuing fear that such national ambition would actually lead to the destruction of England's post-Reformation legacy. Where A View of the Present State of Ireland at...
|  | 67 Mogul Miniatures
Publication Date: November 24, 2008In this powerful and beautiful sequence of poems, Raza Ali Hasan uses a traditional Urdu form to evoke the contemporary landscape of war and alienation in southern Asia. ...
|  | Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, and Dom Moraes (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Publication Date: October 31, 1991| Series: Oxford India Paperbacks Three Indian Poets introduces the poetry of three contemporary Indian poets--Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes--often considered the originators of modern Indian poetry in English. Vastly dissimilar in background, style, relationship to India, and vision, their poetry expresses in different ways some of the concerns of Indian writers in English. This work examines these concerns as well as each poet's major themes and preoccupations, the traits which characterize his poetry, and his evolution as a poet. Providing...
| | Old books, old friends, old Sydney
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|  | Lord of the Fading Lands (Tairen Soul)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Tairen SoulThe First Chapter in C. L. Wilson’s Breathtaking Epic Tale of Magic, Passion, and Destiny Once he drove back the darkness. Once he loved with such passion his name was legend. Once, driven wild with grief over the murder of his beloved, the majestic Fey King Rain Tairen Soul had laid waste to the world before vanishing into the Fading Lands. Now, a thousand years later, a new threat draws him back into the world—and a new love reawakens the heart he thought long-dead. Ellysetta, a woodcarver’s daughter, calls to Rain...
|  | In Her Name: Empire
Publication Date: March 20, 2012In the first book of the epic In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experi...
|  | Desde el corazon (antologia de novelas de Corin Tellado) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 6, 2012Una seleccion de las mejores novelas breves de Corin Tellado, la mas popular autora de novelas rosa del mundo de habla hispana. Corin Tellado es la dama de la novela romantica por excelencia. Sus novelas tratan de amor y desamor. Sus personajes son mujeres que viven historias romanticas, pasiones, aventuras eroticas, matrimonios rotos, pero que siempre luchan por su felicidad. / A selection of the best novels of Corin Tellado, the most popular author of romance novels of the Spanish-speaking world. Corin Tellado is the lady of romance novel. Her novels deal ...
|  | Frosting on the Cake
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Every woman with a taste for great fiction knows that Karin Kallmaker cooks up the world's most delicious lesbian romances. The only problem is her mouth-watering novels always leave you hungry for more. So, because you asked for it, more is exactly what's on the menu today!MORE PASSION. MORE PLEASURE. More of everything you crave from the undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance.As a special treat, our gal-loving gourmet has whipped up a baker's dozen of scrumptious short stories -- each one filled with your favorite characters and settings from her critically...
|  | Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of aPainful Childhood
Release Date: February 1, 1993A gentle, entirely new approach to uncovering a source of spiritual strength hidden in the scars of childhood. Wayne Muller brings together the teachings of many different religions and spiritual traditions in a healing program that will appeal to readers of The Road Less Traveled and Homecoming. ...
|  | Improved Lies
Publication Date: January 7, 2008Ken Edwards is a divorced lawyer and avid golfer. When Ten Armbruster, fellow golfer, calls in the early hours, telling him his wife Amanda is dead and the house is full of cops, Edwards heads out, but the trouble is Amanda's death is from vicious swings of a golf club and Ted is covered in blood. As Ken prepares for trial, but soon learns the judge is none other than the ex love of his life. ...
|  | The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
Publication Date: July 1984In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. And his heart still clings to the land. A representative of the World Bank recruits Craig to return to his war-torn homeland--to use his knowledge of Zimbawe's people, languages, and wildlife to stabilize its future. But once he sets foot on the continent, Craig cannot resist what runs in his blood… Soon, this scion of a legendary fam...
|  | Russian Pulp
Publication Date: November 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0742511405 | ISBN-13: 978-0742511408The detektiv, Russia's version of the murder mystery, has conquered what in Soviet days loved to call itself 'the most reading nation on earth.' Most Russians don't read much Tolstoy, but they devour the lurid covers and cheap paper of the detektivs by the millions. Serials based on the works of two of the most popular authors (Andrei Kivinov and Aleksandra Marinina) have been hits of the last few TV seasons, their characters now a part of Russian everyday life.The ubiquity of the detektiv may puzzle Wester...
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