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Scarlet Dreams: A Supernatural Story of Sex and Punishment (Incubus Book 1) | Mandy, a bored and frustrated Manhattan housewife realizes her dark fantasies when she takes control of her husband and releases her frustrations in a very sexual and dominating way, all with the help of Incubus.
This stories contains graphic depictions of sexual acts. |
Make Out With Murder (Chip Harrison, #3) | The streetwise gumshoe is Chip Harrison, who has finally secured himself a job, acting as the man-about-town for the corpulent detective Leo Haig. And it's on the dangerous streets of New York that Chip brings home his first case, one in which five beautiful sisters are being systematically murdered by a killer with a diabolical design. |
Indecent Proposals | A kinky collection of erotic stories exploring sexy propositions Twenty brand new stories about inappropriate behaviour in edgy situations. An obsession with the girl on the drug store counter turns into a threesome with a surprise for Perdy and Tom. Pinkie gets more than she bargained for when she visits her sculptor friend, Blare's, latest creation. And Larry discovers the wild cat in his wife Felicity when they attend a sexy feline costume party. Featuring the best new voices and established authors around today including Landon Dixon, Giselle Renarde, Ray Cluley, Eva Hore, Sommer Marsden and many others, these stories are indecent beyond your wildest dreams. |
Joseph Goebbels | Coming generations will ask themselves how it was possible that millions of people, victims of an artificially induced enthusiasm, could be moved to do the very things which led to their own ruin. The answer could be given in hundreds of thousands of words, but, if it were expressed in one word alone, that word would be: Goebbels. |
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo! | Big Brown Rooster is sick of chicken feed. So along with his friends--Turtle, Iguana, and Potbellied Pig--he sets out to make the most magnificent strawberry shortcake in the whole wide world. But there's one problem: none of his friends knows how to cook! The team bravely forges ahead, and with Rooster's help, they learn how to measure flour (not with a ruler) and how to beat an egg (not with a baseball bat). But can they keep Pig from gobbling up all the ingredients? Take an old family recipe, add four funny friends, and mix in some hilarious cooking confusion and you have a picture book treat for children of all ages! |
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night | Nominated for a 2014 Lime Award for Excellence in Fiction
Named a Best Book of Summer 2014 by Publishers Weekly
Named a Pick of the Week for the week of June 30th by Publishers Weekly
"An earnest, well-done historical novel that skillfully blends fact and fiction."
--Publishers Weekly
"A profound story of how one unforeseen event may tear a family apart, but another can just as unexpectedly bring them back together again."
--Publishers Weekly, Best Book of Summer 2014 Pick
"Solomon enticingly described the novel Sing in the Morning, Cry at Nightby Barbara J. Taylor (Akashic), set in a coal-mining town in 1913, as 'one of those sit on the couch and don't bother me' reads."
--Shelf Awareness, NCIBA Spring Rep Picks
"An absolute gem of a book filled with beautiful characters and classical writing techniques rarely seen in modern literature."
--The Christian Manifesto, Top Fiction Pick of 2014
"This story is at once poignant and hopeful, spiced up by such characters as Billy Sunday, the revivalist, and Grief, the specter who haunts Grace to the very edge of sanity. A rich debut."
--Historical Novel Society
"Like Dickens, the novel faces family tragedy, in this case the town blaming 8-year-old Violet Morgan for her older sister's death. As her parents fall victim to their own vices, Violet learns how to form her own friendships to survive."
--Arts.Mic
"A fantastic novel worthy of the greatest accolades. Writing a book about a historical event can be difficult, as is crafting a bestseller, but Barbara J. Taylor is successful at both."
--Downtown Magazine
"Taylor's careful attention to detail and her deep knowledge of the community and its people give the novel a welcome gravity."
--The Columbus Dispatch
"One of the most compelling books I've ever read...a haunting story that will stay with the reader long after reading this novel."
--Story Circle Book Reviews
"Rave reviews are pouring in for this historical novel of a family tragedy."
--The Halifax Reader, "6 New Books to Look for in July"
"This well-written book is peopled with characters the reader can really care about and captures the feeling of a gritty twentieth century coal mining community."
--Breakthrough, newsletter of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation
"Like all good historical fiction, I learned from this novel."
--Time 2 Read
"This book has...prizewinner written all over it....Worth the read!"
--I've Read This
"This haunting story of tragedy and hope in an early twentieth century mining town is...an expertly crafted arrow that shoots straight for the heart. Reminiscent of classics such as How Green Was My Valley...this book is a must-read for fans of character-driven, authentic historical fiction."
--Amy Drown Blog
Almost everyone in town blames eight-year-old Violet Morgan for the death of her nine-year-old sister, Daisy. Sing in the Morning, Cry at Nightopens on September 4, 1913, two months after the Fourth of July tragedy. Owen, the girls' father, "turns to drink" and abandons his family. Their mother Grace falls victim to the seductive powers of Grief, an imagined figure who has seduced her off-and-on since childhood. Violet forms an unlikely friendship with Stanley Adamski, a motherless outcast who works in the mines as a breaker boy. During an unexpected blizzard, Grace goes into premature labor at home and is forced to rely on Violet, while Owen is "off being saved" at a Billy Sunday Revival. Inspired by a haunting family story, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Nightblends real life incidents with fiction to show how grace can be found in the midst of tragedy. |
The Assembled Parties | "As eccentric as it is cunning, Greenberg's densely packed script sends your mind spinning while you laugh... Diffidence has rarely provided an audience with such enthrallingly readable hidden agendas." - Michael Feingold, Village Voice
"The Assembled Partiesis Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed." - Jesse Green, New York
"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grownups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know." - Linda Winer, Newsday
Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former movie star Julie and her sister-in-law Faye bring their families together for a traditional holiday dinner on a night when things don't go as planned. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' life may be about to crumble. An incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium, The Assembled Partiespremiered on Broadway in 2013 to rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.
Richard Greenberghas written two dozen plays, including Take Me Out(Tony Award for Best Play), The Dazzle(Outer Critics Circle Award), Three Days of Rain(L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), The American Planand the book for a musical adaptation of Far from Heaven. He has received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in midcareer. |
Perfect Match | Publisher's Summary
In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well.
In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son - no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.
(c)2002 Jodi Picoult (P)2013 Recorded Books |
Men Explain Things to Me | In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.
She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, "He's trying to kill me!"
This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the writer Virginia Woolf 's embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women. |
Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions | On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. "Earthquakes in Human History" tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of their previous book, "Volcanoes in Human History." They vividly explain the geological processes responsible for earthquakes, and they describe how these events have had long-lasting aftereffects on human societies and cultures. Their accounts are enlivened with quotations from contemporary literature and from later reports.
In the chaos following the Lisbon quake, government and church leaders vied for control. The Marques de Pombal rose to power and became a virtual dictator. As a result, the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order lost much of its influence in Portugal. Voltaire wrote his satirical work "Candide" to refute the philosophy of "optimism," the belief that God had created a perfect world. And the 1755 earthquake sparked the search for a scientific understanding of natural disasters.
Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible, to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to humankind's fragile existence, always at risk because of destructive powers beyond our control." |
Warrior Patient: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts | This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00NRX4WRE
Warrior Patient: a 2015 Gold Medal Winner, Readers' Favorite Book Awards. Awarded a B.R.A.G. Medallion in October 2015.
Enjoy the surprisingly funny story of someone who recovers completely from a relentless series of medical problems, many resulting from the system designed to prevent them.
Today, the patient plays tennis, walks, bikes and works out in a gym. Almost miraculously, he recaptures "normal." Read how he does it in this award-winning story of survival.
PREFACE: The world we live in has the best doctors and the most advanced medical system that our civilization has ever known.
Yet 100,000 patients die and nine million suffer injury every year. If medical mistakes were a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of deaths in America.
In this extraordinary age of medical miracles, patients continue to sink into the quicksand of "going to the hospital." Who has not heard about someone who checked into a facility for "normal" surgery ... leading to their death?
A cartoon makes a joke out of it. It shows a doctor in a laboratory, surrounded by white lab rats. "We don't need better medicine," he announces to his colleagues, "we need stronger lab rats."
As you read Warrior Patient you become one of the nine million who suffer injury every year. You take an extraordinary, often amusing journey into the quicksand of modern medicine. In the midst of a long list of life-threatening illnesses, you learn to laugh and you learn how to become a much stronger lab rat, a "Warrior Patient."
You take advantage of America's fabulous medical system. You are not taken advantage of by that system.
The story unfolds with humor and anecdotes that capture characters, times and places, from good doctors to bad ones, from childhood to old age, from Africa to Sweden. In the end, you fully recover. You live again. You have a life. Enjoy the trip. |
The Lizard Queen Volume One | Books 1-3 of 9 Part Lizard Queen Series 300 years ago, in a nameless world, a prophecy passed unfulfilled. A secret society that formed to prevent its occurrence believed it was their doing, while the secret society created to ensure that the prophecy came to pass wasn't certain it had been stopped at all. Eventually, the prophecy of Lacaruna, a female from another realm and the only being who can read the Lizard Queen's language, fell into legend. What no one realizes, however, is that Amy Darlidale is just a tad late. THIS SHRINKING WORLD Taking a break from a stressful workweek, Amy, a recently divorced CEO, goes out for a morning jog and crosses paths with an orange lizard. Suddenly, she finds herself under a starless sky confronted by oddly marked and strangely colored people who claim she's there to rescue the world from evil's grasp and expand it once again. But not everyone wants that to happen so there's a price on her head. This is far from the relaxing weekend Amy had intended. FROM THE ASHES Along with the young companions who found her, Licha and Jandro, Amy has accompanied the swaggering Colonel Dack Sangcertigre-a member of the Trotejo, the secret society sworn to protect her-to his home nation in search of a plan to fulfill the Promise of a New Morphosis. As the body count rises and she is confronted with raving rulers, military machinations, and crafty clergy, she quickly realizes there must be much more at stake than merely finding the prophecy. A SPECTACULAR LIE The sense of order in this mysterious world continues to collapse. Fires rage, clans are being slaughtered and townsfolk massacred, and leaders have proclaimed a great evil has returned. As Amy searches for clues within the first mythic journals of this world's origins, she's begun seeing visions and receiving messages from forces unknown. While she's trying to understand the extent of her power others have become aware of it as well. Soon a new group with its own mysterious agenda believes Amy may have another fated purpose and only she can save herself from their terrifying trap." |
Blue Twilight (Wings in the Night, #11) | Endover, New Hampshire, looksinnocent. But below its surface an ancient and powerful thirst boils fiercely. When two girls go missing, only one person can find them: private investigator Maxine Stuart.
No other living mortal knows as much about the undead as "Mad Maxie." But the dark force controlling Endover will use that knowledge to strengthen his hold on the town--and on her. Not even Lou Malone, the man Maxie most desires, can convince her to abandon her crusade against a madman's yearning for power...and resurrected love. |
Apocalypse (The Days of Elijah #1) | After a massive wave of disappearances, twenty-six-year-old CIA analyst, Everett Carroll, finally believes what he's been told about the biblical prophecy of the rapture. But will he be able to survive the gauntlet of destruction known as the Great Tribulation? Seven seals, seven trumpets and seven vials of God's wrath are about to be poured out upon the earth, and woe to the inhabitants thereof! Global currencies have collapsed, famine and plague have claimed the lives of millions, and the world has crumbled into chaos. The only reason Everett and his girlfriend, Courtney, have survived the mayhem is because they were warned by John Jones, Everett's recently deceased boss, that all of these tragedies would occur. And what's more, through his inside knowledge at the agency, mixed with his interpretation of prophecy, Jones predicted that a world leader would ride in on a white horse to fix the ills of the planet. But who is this leader and what is his motivation for mandating the new identification implant and the global cashless currency? Everett is surprised when he finds out that Elijah, the Messianic Jewish hermit who lives on the mountain above their retreat, did not disappear along with the rest of the Christians. When he tells Everett of a special mission that God has given him, the old prophet gives Everett more questions than answers. This is the highly-anticipated follow-up series to the best-selling trilogy, The Days of Noah, which chronicles the economic, moral, and social collapse of the United States. The Days of Noah series has received 848 five-star reviews to date! The Days of Elijah, Book One: Apocalypse is a fast-paced thrill ride through the last days in America. Buy your copy of this end-times adventure today . . . if you can stomach the peril. As with all books by Mark Goodwin, this novel contains no foul language and no embarrassing sex scenes. However, if you're more offended by biblical principles and scriptural references than profanity, this story might not be for you. |
what it means to be avant-garde | what it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence. |
Newswriting Unzipped | Though they say that the apple never falls far from the tree, these aren't your average hot-to guides. Peterson's Unzipped guides get to the core of what college students need to know with results as sweet as mom's apple pie. |
Philippics I-II | This edition is the first since J.D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text and commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of Cicero's most polished orations, composed less than six months after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC.
This period--roughly 63-44 BC--is important because the Roman state was in transition from Republic to Empire. The Second Philippic not only presents Cicero's assessment of his own political career and his place in Roman history from a perspective late in his life, but it also provides a vivid eyewitness account of how Julius Caesar, with the help of Mark Antony, made himself master of Rome. |
Angel (Maximum Ride, #7) | Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. No. Matter. What.Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a deadly force that's racing across the globe, and just when they need him the most--Fang is gone. He's creating his own gang that will replace everyone--including Max.
Max is heartbroken over losing Fang, her soul mate. Her closest friend. But with Dylan ready and willing to fight by her side, and she can no longer deny that his incredible intensity draws her in. Max, Dylan, and the rest of their friends must soon join forces with Fang and his new gang for an explosive showdown in Paris that's unlike anything you've ever imagined . . . or read. |
Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror - Volume Two | The journey into darkness continues...
DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - VOLUME TWO takes you even deeper into the twisted psyche of mankind with 14 deeply psychological tales of terror that seek to pull you into the true heart of darkness.
A collection of evil from which it is difficult to escape, the tales in this volume provide an even more insidious look into the concepts of life, death and how individual choices affect our eternal souls. From sadistic and supernatural evils, to love in the time of the apocalypse, DARK VISIONS TWO explores the true evil and its consequences for all of us, living or otherwise.
Including the exceptional work of sixteen very talented authors, DARK VISIONS TWO will reach into your chest, grab hold of your beating heart and won't let go until long after you put the book down. |
برقص برقص | In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldand The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Danceis a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. |
Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3) | Only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of the total annihilation of the universe. They are Arthur Dent, homeless Englishman currently marooned in the deep past; his friend Ford Prefect, temporarily insane to see if he likes it, also marooned; Slartibartfast, once of the planet builders of Magrathea; Zaphod Beeblebrox, ex-confidence trickster and part-time galactic president; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. In other words: we're doomed. |
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel | "I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful criminal in history, but also a hero to many of the people of Colombia. My brother was loved and he was feared. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in his funeral procession, and certainly as many people celebrated his death."
These are the words of Roberto Escobar-the top accountant for the notorious and deadly Medellin Cartel, and brother of Pablo Escobar, the most famous drug lord in history. At the height of his reign, Pablo's multibillion-dollar operation smuggled tons of cocaine each week into countries all over the world. Roberto and his ten accountants kept track of all the money. Only Pablo and Roberto knew where it was stashed-and what it bought.
And the amounts of money were simply staggering. According to Roberto, it cost $2,500 every month just to purchase the rubber bands needed to wrap the stacks of cash. The biggest problem was finding a place to store it: from secret compartments in walls and beneath swimming pools to banks and warehouses everywhere. There was so much money that Roberto would sometimes write off ten percent as "spoilage," meaning either rats had chewed up the bills or dampness had ruined the cash.
Roberto writes about the incredible violence of the cartel, but he also writes of the humanitarian side of his brother. Pablo built entire towns, gave away thousands of houses, paid people's medical expenses, and built schools and hospitals. Yet he was responsible for the horrible deaths of thousands of people.
In short, this is the story of a world of riches almost beyond mortal imagination, and in his own words, Roberto Escobar tells all: building a magnificent zoo at Pablo's opulent home, the brothers' many escapes into the jungles of Colombia, devising ingenious methods to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, bribing officials with literally millions of dollars-and building a personal army to protect the Escobar family against an array of enemies sworn to kill them.
Few men in history have been more beloved-or despised-than Pablo Escobar. Now, for the first time, his story is told by the man who knew him best: his brother, Roberto. |
Mr Bennet's Dutiful Daughter | A Pride and Prejudice Variation
When Colonel Fitzwilliam's disclosures are interrupted by the bearer of distressing news from Longbourn, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is compelled to accept an offer she would have otherwise dismissed out of hand. An offer of marriage from the all-too-proud Mr Darcy.
Yet how is she to live with a husband she hardly knows and does not love? Will she continue to feel trapped in a marriage of convenience while events conspire to divide them? Or would love grow as, day by day and hour after hour, she learns to understand the man she married, before she loses his trust and his heart?
Given the 'early marriage' premise, the issue of growing affection and intimacy is central to the story. The scenes are not graphic, but the novel does address mature themes. |
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought | In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the classical age "democracy" was seen as the failure rather than the ideal of good governance. Democracies were deemed chaotic and bloody, indicative of rule by the rabble rather than by enlightened minds. Beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries, however, first in Europe and then in England's North American colonies, the reputation of democracy began to rise, resulting in changes that were sometimes revolutionary and dramatic, sometimes gradual and incremental.
Kloppenberg offers a fresh look at how concepts and institutions of representative government developed and how understandings of self-rule changed over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Notions about what constituted true democracy preoccupied many of the most influential thinkers of the Western world, from Montaigne and Roger Williams to Milton and John Locke; from Rousseau and Jefferson to Wollstonecraft and Madison; and from de Tocqueville and J. S. Mill to Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Over three centuries, explosive ideas and practices of democracy sparked revolutions--English, American, and French--that again and again culminated in civil wars, disastrous failures of democracy that impeded further progress.
Comprehensive, provocative, and authoritative, Toward Democracy traces self-government through three pivotal centuries. The product of twenty years of research and reflection, this momentous work reveals how nations have repeatedly fallen short in their attempts to construct democratic societies based on the principles of autonomy, equality, deliberation, and reciprocity that they have claimed to prize. Underlying this exploration lies Kloppenberg's compelling conviction that democracy was and remains an ethical ideal rather than merely a set of institutions, a goal toward which we continue to struggle. |
The Witch Tree (Anna Denning Mystery #1) | Christmas in Colorado means snow. Lots of it. And murder.
Just days before Christmas in the mountain town of Elk Park, Colorado, genealogist Anna Denning discovers a client's body. When she starts asking questions no one wants answered, she becomes the killer's next target. Still grieving the death of her husband, Anna must draw on her wounded faith to enter a world of wicca and witchcraft--reminders of a past she buried long ago--and discover the secret of The Witch Tree. |
Into the Realm: The Call of the Rose | Jordan has fond memories of Rose Manor, his ancestral home. His family would stay there every summer holiday, listening to stories his grandmother would tell them about the Elves, Fae and Witches. She would tell stories of the realms these mystical creatures lived in so vividly, it was almost like she had been there. That's all they were, just stories.
That's until Jordan stumbles across one of these mystical realms. Not only has his life changed forever but, he now finds himself the main character from one of those Stories.
But will this one have the happy ending it should?
The second The Call of the Rose was sent out; Richard knew his brother had been up to no good. Now Richard must return to the Elvin Realm, to save his Son and future King of the Realm, without killing his brother in the process. |
Romance with a Touch of Love | My name is Kevin Hollingsworth and I would like to touch your heart. I would like to bring a love so special to your tender soul after your heart has been touched. Bring love to your spirit after your heart and soul have been fulfilled. Bring love to your being after your heart, soul, and spirit have together realized this great wonder. Love brings happiness to this life; happiness and more is what I want for you. |
Desert Heat | Assistant D.A. Elena Martinez never wanted to fall for police detective Seth King. When they are teamed up on a charity hike in the Grand Canyon, however, their chemistry sizzles under the desert sun. But a vengeful drug lord is determined not to let them survive the canyon with their lives--and love--intact... |
Operation Midnight | No bad deed goes unpunished...
Former Navy SEAL turned private investigator, Cameron "Wiz" Miller, has loved only one woman, his ex-wife, Olivia. She's beautiful, talented and the sweetest person he knows. With plans to remarry her, there is nothing she could ask of him that he wouldn't do except ... one thing.
Olivia has loved Wiz since high school. He is her hero. Her protector. She understands his hesitation to search for the woman who left her for dead. Forgiveness has been a long time coming, but Olivia has made peace with what happened. Wiz hasn't. For him, forgiveness is not an option.
But the sins of the past have come back to haunt Wiz, placing Olivia in danger. He must tap into his military training and every alliance he has formed over the years to save her. But is it too late? Will he and Olivia ever get that happily-ever-after? |
Barnaby's Shorts (Volume Nine) | Ten tales which are just the right length to read in your coffee break, in the bath, or in bed. Emily finally finds a real man in 'The Problem with Beans', The Poacher's Inn quiz team discuss the finer points of cycling in 'The Dandy Horse' and there is another tale from the Vertigo labs in 'Whichcraft'. Do ghosts really exist? What happens when visitors overstay their welcome? How would you define your life in one word? What exactly is a Rune?
Humour, mystery, sci fi, romance and more in this new collection. |
Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Beginner's Guide | This text investigates the background of Thus Spake Zarathustra,offering a concise summary of the book and giving close-up explanations of the most important arguments. |
Drina's Dancing Year (Drina, #2) | Drina and her new friend Rose successfully audition for the Dominick School in London, and thus begin their first year of proper ballet training. |
Lost at Sea | Looks at the story of the Flying Dutchman, clears up misconceptions about flaming wrecks, haunted ships, and reappearances of sunken ships, and discusses the Titanic and Lusitania. |
El Dia Que Nietzsche Lloró | This richly evocative novel portrays an astutely imagined relationship between Europe's greatest philosopher and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis. |
The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in The Classical Arabic Nasib | Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre.
Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib) of the classic Arab code, or qusidah. In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in Arabo-Islamic mystical poetry, into expressions of spiritual nostalgia. Stetkevych also draws intriguing parallels between the highlands of Najd in Arabic poetry and Arcadia in the European tradition. He concludes by exploring the degree to which the pastoral-paradisiacal archetype of the nasibpervades Arabic literary perception, from the pre-Islamic ode through the Thousand and One Nightsand later texts.
Enhanced by Stetkevych's sensitive translations of all the Arabic texts discussed, The Zephyrs of Najdbrings the classical Arabic ode fully into the purview of contemporary literary and critical discourse. |
All I Want for Christmas is Blue (Lord and Lady Spy, #3.6) | The thrilling follow-up to Shana Galen's popular Lord and Lady Spy novella The Spy Wore Blue!
This Christmas, retired spy Blue and his wife Helena have more to worry about than a holiday ball with his frosty parents. Months ago Blue promised Helena to put her first in his life and retire from spying. But when operatives from his past suddenly reappear, Blue will have to choose between the love of his life and the mission that could prove too enticing to refuse. |
Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching | In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another.
Preston's critical work was profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow, chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition. This encounter challenged Preston's assumptions about effective teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and misappropriation of noh, but Preston's analysis and her journey reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange. |
Price of Justice | Corruption, deception, revenge and murder abound when a high profile murder investigation in Austin, Texas, begins to spin out of control. For Detective Jason Scarsdale and police crime analyst Dani Mueller, the consequences of failure are unimaginable. When his beloved daughter, Shannon, is abducted by the killer and Mueller is taken hostage, will Scarsdale continue to play by the rules? |
A Bargain for Frances | One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind? Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT) |
Abducted by the Alien (Arcturus Mates, #1) | BBW In Trouble + Sexy Alien Savior = One Sizzling Story!
"Where am I?" she asked, her voice coming out stronger than she felt.
"Why did you bring me here?"
Seeming even the least bit imposing, as it turned out, was a bit difficult when she had to lean her head back to look at him.
"You will be my mate," he informed her plainly.
"I heard your voice even at such a distance, and it called to me."
"Wait, what?" Mariah demanded, suddenly standing up very straight.
"Your mate?" she reiterated.
"I'm pretty sure I should get some kind of say in this!"
He regarded her with quiet confusion. "Does it matter?" he asked.
This content contains hot romance with some scorching sex scenes, adult language and possible violence. |
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty | The title character of Barnaby Rudge, a feeble minded individual, is a passive actor who is swept along by events. Based on Gordon Riots of June 1780, the riots reach a climax in the storming and destruction of the Newgate Prison. This work is famous for its descriptions of mob violence which shows Dickens' descriptive abilities. First published in 1841. |
Badger On The Barge And Other Stories | A collection of five short stories set in the small towns of northern England, exploring complex relationships and rare understandings among the young and old. |
The Body's Memory | Poet, essayist, and disability-rights activist Stewart writes "a remarkable first novel . . . less about disability than about the evolution of a reflective soul through the vehicle of disablement" (Orlando Sentinel). "A frank calls to arms".--San Francisco Bay Guardian. |
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship | More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.
The Teammatesis the profoundly moving story of four great baseball players who have made the passage from sports icons--when they were young and seemingly indestructible--to men dealing with the vulnerabilities of growing older. At the core of the book is the friendship of these four very different men--Boston Red Sox teammates Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams--who remained close for more than sixty years.
The book starts out in early October 2001, when Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved friend Ted Williams, whom they know is dying. Bobby Doerr, the fourth member of this close group--"my guys," Williams used to call them--is unable to join them.This is a book--filled with historical details and first-hand accounts--about baseball and about something more: the richness of friendship. |
The Darkening | IT BEGINS WITH A BLACKOUT.
All electrical power ceases to run. Even the sun seems a little dimmer. Cities come to a halt. And then their inhabitants vanish.
But a small, clandestine group of warriors has been preparing for this moment for centuries. Their hopes rest on two strangers, a thousand miles apart, who hold the keys to the world's salvation: Dylan Barnes, a martial arts instructor who teaches his students the art of inner balance but is plagued by shadows only he can see and voices muttering in a language only he can hear; and Lucy Devereau, a private investigator who earns a living by prying into the lives of others but is haunted by her own birthright-and the mystery of her true parents.
The world around them-our world-is slipping into darkness. Now, as fate and blood push them to the front lines of an extraordinary battle, Lucy and Dylan must stare into the face of something ancient, something impossible, something that has come to blot out the light-forever. |
Her Mother's Daughter | A rich and compelling story about four generations of magnificent women, celebrating the love, pride, sacrifice, devotion, and unheralded triumph of all women's lives. |
Zoo City | Alex December finds people--even if they don't want to be found. Like missing pop starlet Zinzi. It's not long before the real truth comes to light--a truth the local crime lord, dark magician, and beast master will kill to keep hidden. Original. |
Soundtrack | Finn Silverweed has never felt he fits into the fishing community of Laggandall Bay. The uneasy truce between the fishermen and the patrolling navy subs is echoed by the tensions between Finn and his businessman father, who presumes his son will follow in his footsteps. With a comet hanging like an omen over the bay, Finn starts to hear strange noises in his head - noises that draw him to the sea. But a disaster is coming that will threaten to sweep away not only Finn but his town as well... |
StarCrossed 3 1/2: Angel Tears | Note: This story is now out of print, and has been incorporated into the the Second Edition of StarCrossed 3: Objects in the Mirror.
StarCrossed 3 1/2: Angel Tears is a lengthy "deleted scene" written for the novel StarCrossed 3: Objects in the Mirror. In the cemetery scene in StarCrossed 3: Objects in the Mirror, did you wonder how the injured angel Sariel came to be in John Banks' possession? Angel Tears answers that question while offering a deeper look at these two important characters from the StarCrossed universe.
Content Warning: This title contains adult language, graphic violence, coerced sex with dubious consent, and generally dark themes.
Excerpt:
Angels had very little need for cars, and Sariel's nature didn't allow him to have things in his possession just for the thrill of having. He walked or flew or simply materialized wherever he needed to be, and he knew enough people who owned cars that if one were necessary, they were at his disposal. Had the weather been better, Sariel would've insisted on walking, but John seemed quite eager to get somewhere sheltered. "I'll ride with you."
As the family and friends of Marlene Watson pulled their cars away from the cemetery, John walked beside Sariel silently until they reached the green SUV. "It's unlocked. Hop right on in."
"Nice ride. I like the color." Sariel slipped into the front passenger seat and buckled himself in just as the skies opened up. Rain hit the windshield in quarter-sized droplets.
"Thanks. I'm kind of fond of it myself." John slid behind the wheel, shut the door, and started the engine. He flipped on the lights and the windshield wipers, and pulled the car onto the gravel road. The last of the few remaining mourners had already pulled out onto the main street. The SUV sat still at the gate, John looking both ways before pulling out. He made a right-hand turn--heading in the opposite direction of the coffee shop. The sound of the car doors automatically locking interrupted the patter of rain on the roof.
John's gaze slid to Sariel along with a smile looking not so pleasant as before. "Sorry," John said. "Not much of a cinnamon roll fan, and my soul's in no need of warming."
Surprised, it took a moment for Sariel to comprehend the situation. The space between his shoulder blades began to tingle with warning. "Did I miss something? John, maybe you should just pull over and I'll be on my way."
"I don't think so, Sariel." John's eyes flicked up to check the rear-view mirror, and then re-focused on the road. "And before you think about pullin' any sort of hocus pocus, I got three words for you: Detective Samantha Wright." |
Purple Hearts | Courage. Patriotism. Words rendered meaningless to Erik when his brother Howard returns home from Afghanistan in a flag-draped casket. Months later, Erik finds the gentle words of Howard's Marine buddy, Greg, soften his pain. After losing a limb in combat, Greg understands the raw sorrow of loss. Erik and Greg spend a soul-searching night together and find the unexpected in each other's company. |
Way Station | An ageless hermit runs a secret way station for alien visitors in the Wisconsin woods in this Hugo Award-winning science fiction classic
Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age--a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch's eyes to humanity's impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that "to read science-fiction is to read Simak." |
City | This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.
Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city--first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion--leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man."
In the Golden Age of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction firmament. Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of interlinked stories and structures--at once dystopian, transcendent, compassionate, and visionary. |
Huber Hill and the Brotherhood of Coronado (Huber Hill, #2) | The Dead Man's Treasure has been stolen! Now it's up to Huber and his gang to find it. But solving a mystery this big will mean traveling across the world and learning to trust some new friends, including a mysterious stranger. With humor, action, and a plot that keeps you guessing, this is one book you won't want to put down. |
Let's Go...to the Park! The Adventures of Eddie McTeddie | A lovely illustrated children's book featuring a dog called Eddie.
He goes to the park and gets into lots of mischief!
The inside back cover features black and white drawings that educate children on how to take care of a dog, including 'don't pull a dog's ears,' and 'never try to take food away from dogs when they are having a meal.' |
Call After Midnight | A woman battles to protect her ex-husband from a murder chargeThe phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. He left her for another woman--a vicious trollop called Fiora--and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore. But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now Jenny feels only fear--fear that the police might not believe Peter's story that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter's side. Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again. |
Crave (The Clann Series #1) | Savannah Colbert has never known why she's so hated by the kids of the Clann. Nor can she deny her instinct to get close to Clann golden boy Tristan Coleman. Especially when she recovers from a strange illness and the attraction becomes nearly irresistible. It's as if he's a magnet, pulling her gaze, her thoughts, even her dreams. Her family has warned her to have nothing to do with him, or any members of the Clann. But when Tristan is suddenly everywhere she goes, Savannah fears she's destined to fail.For years, Tristan has been forbidden to even speak to Savannah Colbert. Then Savannah disappears from school for a week and comes back...different, and suddenly he can't stay away. Boys seem intoxicated just from looking at her. His own family becomes stricter than ever. And Tristan has to fight his own urge to protect her, to be near her no matter the consequences.... |
Oman: Under Arabian Skies | The Sultanate of Oman is a land of oases, deserts, rolling sands, shifting dunes and mountains upon which ancient cities have been carved from stone. A land that boasts the Queen of Sheba, Sinbad the sailor and The Lost City of Ubar buried for millennia under the Arabian Sands. A country that was heralded for its wealth in Frankincense and from here the ancient Frankincense trail began. Oman is a country where the Bedouin still wander the deserts as they have since time immemorial. A mystical land where eagles soar over the mountain that is home to the Tomb of the prophet Job, a prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In the mountains nearby live an ancient people whose language predates Aramaic. The age of the language remains a mystery. It is a spoken language with no written form. In these mountains one finds caves that are decorated with prehistoric art. Mines and distinctive cone like tombs dating from the Bronze Age feature all over the country. It is a country that has tales of wizardry and magic, jinns and exorcisms. Embark on a magical and mystical Arabian Odyssey to the ancient land of Oman. |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes - and the stuff of nightmare. |
ANATOMY OF AN AFFAIR: PART I | "In truth, I'm the culprit of something vile. Something that I was raised never to do. Something that is just plain wrong." ...excerpt from ANATOMY OF AN AFFAIR: PART I
Lily Wentworth grew up the daughter of seventies rock legend, Hugo Wentworth, and avoided the trappings fellow children of rock succumb to. By her late thirties, Lily had a loving husband, beautiful young daughter and tended bar at Sanctuary, her father's eclectic bar and showcase for musical artists, both old and new. All she needed was the picket fence and the picture was complete, right? Wrong!
Lily's been holding a secret...a BIG one that she's ready to confess! She had an affair; a passionate and obsessive one with Kyle O'Reilly. The twist? Kyle's best friend is her husband.
What makes a person commit an act so selfish and self-destructive? Even Lily doesn't understand. In order to move forward and face current circumstances in her life, she believes the answers will be found if she sits and tells you her story; all the ugly truths of her past that led her to do the unthinkable.
Is she expecting your sympathy? No, but maybe...just maybe...Lily can find what she desperately needs to change her life. To do that, she must go back to the beginning and break it all down. Step by step, she will uncover the reasons and you will learn the secrets behind...the anatomy of an affair. |
There's a Cow in the Cabbage Patch | All the animals in this mixed-up farmyard are out of place. The children want to know what to do, and of course there's an easy answer. The playful text in this book is accompanied by collage art in felt, stitched with antique fabrics, buttons and other bric-a-brac. |
Certainty and the Search for Absolute Truth | Wait! Before you fly into that building...
What is truth? Is it knowable?
Can we be absolutely certain about anything?
A momentous work of philosophy doesn't have to be massive and unreadable. No example of philosophy that you'll encounter will deal with Certainty and Truth more concisely and compellingly than this book, yet it does so while maintaining an engaging style that keeps the cerebral content very readable and accessible. Like previous philosophies that address Certainty and Truth, the work HAD to address the issue of God, yet unlike it's predecessors, manages to do so without any hidden assumptions. As a result, it holds confirmations of orthodox Christianity that are unprecedented.
The book adopts a partially autobiographical style as it details how the hyper-rational author went from the purest form of agnosticism to fundamentalist Christianity over a span of years. Within are essays that address common misconceptions that skeptics and Christians share. There is also a miraculous quality to the account that speaks to the heart.
The fact that the author is a recent stroke victim, cognitively impaired and partially paralyzed, makes it more apparent that he cannot take credit for any cleverness reflected in this book. There are things on a par with Einstein's "On The Photoelectric Effect" or "On Brownian Motion" Since the author admits to having the barest of math abilities, it's fortunate that the issues in this work do not require the same mathematical rigor to express as Einstein's remarkable understandings. Nevertheless, the assertion of novelty and momentousness for this work is appropriate. There are intellectually satisfying answers to questions that people have grappled with for centuries. Questions like:
To what extent is anything knowable?
How can Jesus be the Son of God and God Himself?
How can a loving God send anyone to Hell?
What is Heaven and why will it be replaced? |
Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2) | Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell.
Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the rapture of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover.
When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he be forced to share Dante's fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever? |
Riding on a Beam of Light | Albert Einstein adamantly emphasized the importance of imagination and so does Riding on a Beam of Light. In this vividly illustrated storybook, lights-out turns into learning as we're swept away by young Albert Einstein's fantastical, and ultimately world-changing idea in an adventure that's reminiscent of classics like Harold and the Purple Crayon and Where the Wild Things Are. At it's heart is a story about imagination and dreaming, adventurous and engaging, with gorgeous illustrations that captures our grown-up hearts and our children's curiosity. |
The Third Book | The Third Book is a fascinating story of a young Scottish woman, Elian, in the 1940s and 60s Scotland
"Elian told her captivating story; her story was the type that won't go off the mind easily, perhaps it caused mostly the people who had misconceptions about her to imagine her unwillingness to marry."
A deal was made on her behalf and in good faith when her mother died; but without her consent. The weight of its consequence came too much to bear.
"A promise to hide the truth was broken! The truth of Edinburgh saga was made known when least expected." |
Impulse | Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards Southwest Airlines heading from Phoenix to Baltimore. His goal is his 50th class reunion at Scott Academy, but behind him he leaves the highly suspicious disappearance of his wife into apparent thin air four years ago and the relentless quest of Officer Ledezma whose impulse is that Smith has killed her and buried the body.
But another mystery awaits Frank at Scott--a mystery 25 years old. A group of young boys walked from the campus into the woodsand disappeared. What could have happened to them? Who better than he to probe the mystery? In doing so, he not only relives his own boyhood when his father was the upright head of Scott's English Department, but that of the classmates of the missing boys, some of whom are back at Scott now for their 25th.
Warm yet suspenseful, rich with a floodtide of emotions and packed with little nuggets of pure gold characterizations, Ramsay explores the role of impulse on many levels. |
Loose Change (Petit Morts, #15) | If there's one thing you can always count on, it's change. But the shift in Chance's job description is one change he could have done without. It's an ill-fitting role, and his displaced colleague is just as much in the dark as to its purpose as he is.
Chance finds matchmaking particularly irksome from his lonely post behind the counter of Sweets to the Sweet. From Belfast to Auckland, Bruges to Los Angeles, he works his magic, hoping that sooner rather than later his own fate may be fulfilled.
Thus far, Chance's only reward for a job well done is more of the same. Since he's had enough with going through the motions, he decides it's time to make a big splash. Will management take notice? |
The Blazing World | The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction. |
These Are My People | Gladys Aylward follows God's leading from London to the mountains of China. Grades 2-4. |
Eunica | Skeleton Key Book Series
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A life full of death is no life at all.
But Devon prefers to stay away from the living and deal with the dead. No social life, no parents, no family and only one friend, she hides away in the possessions of the deceased. One of the dead leaves behind a key-- a small piece of glass that transports Devon, quite literally, to her destiny.
Grandin is a sicutus -- a human with very little powers. Set into his corona, or circle, of Air elements, he has given up on his world as well and has chosen to guard the Eunia Crystal with twenty others. They are solitary people, revered but left alone. And it on his watch that the Eunia comes alive--and bring his destiny to him.
As the government of Cardinal Terrun sits on the precipice of disaster, only Grandin and Devon can make the decisions that save his world, or throw it into a war in which they are the generals --and the spoils. |
The Passion of Mademoiselle S.: Letters to a Lover | Paris, 1928: two lovers are conducting a secret and deeply erotic affair.
Charles is a married man with a respectable office job when he embarks on a journey of wild sexual discovery with Simone, whose voracious appetite for the erotic is not confined to the bedroom, but is poured into the illicit letters she writes to him over the course of two years.
This extraordinary collection of letters, found in a dusty cellar decades later, reveals not just a carnal relationship but an obsessive and destructive love that pushed the boundaries and was, in many ways, ahead of its time.
The Passion of Mademoiselle S. paints a vivid portrait of a violently passionate love affair that evolves in astounding and unexpected ways. Framed by illuminating insights from its discoverer, Jean-Yves Berthault, this correspondence opens a window on another time and an exceptional woman whose voice echoes down the century and still resonates today.
Translated by Adriana Hunter |
Warlords and Merchants: The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment | Warlords and Merchants examines the history of the Lebanese warlord/business establishment and illuminates local attitudes, which have often seemed baffling to the outside world. The book provides a close-up study of Lebanese leaders and the business class. It provides a seminal illustration of and insight into the resistance of local cultures and small countries such as Lebanon to the juggernaut of globalization. Based on firsthand observations and knowledge of Lebanese history, economy, language and culture, the author deals here with most of the issues that vex Lebanon today - sectarianism, traditional leadership, outdated business practices, an archaic economic structure and a deep sense of historical grievances. Warlords and Merchants is a must-read for policymakers, business and political leaders, as well as students and academics with research interests in Lebanon, the Middle East and international affairs. |
The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2) | A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth.
Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge ever assembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria, which vanished without trace fifteen hundred years ago.
Now, Malone is forced to join the search for a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure a truth that, if revealed, will have grave consequences, not only for Malone, but for the balance of world power . . . |
Jeremy Visick | Twelve-year-old Matthew is drawn almost against his will to help a boy his own age who was lost in a mining disaster a century before. |
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine | Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou, the young and dynamic future king of England, arrives at the French court, he and the seductive Eleanor experience a mutual passion powerful enough to ignite the world. Indeed, after the annulment of Eleanor's marriage to Louis and her remarriage to Henry, the union of this roryal couple creates a vast empire that stretches from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees--and marks the beginning of the celebrated Plantagenet dynasty. But Henry and Eleanor's marriage, charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward spiral marred by power struggles and bitter betrayals. Amid the rivalries and infidelities, the couple's rebellious sons grow impatient for power, and the scene is set for a vicious and tragic conflict that will threaten to engulf them all. |
Chicago's Nelson Algren | They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn't pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay's camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren's poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools.
Chicago's Nelson Algren is the compilation of hundreds of photos--many recently discovered and published here for the first time--of Nelson Algren over the course of a decade and a deeply moving homage to the writer and his city. Read Algren and you'll see Shay's pictures; look at Shay's photos and you'll hear Nelson's words. |
What is Life?: How chemistry becomes biology | Seventy years ago, Erwin SchrAdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: 'What is life?'. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and ever since.Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? Did life begin with replicating molecules, and, if so, what could have led the first replicating molecules up such a path? Now, developments in the emerging field of 'systems chemistry' are unlocking the problem. Addy Pross shows how the different kind of stability that operates amongreplicating entities results in a tendency for certain chemical systems to become more complex and acquire the properties of life. Strikingly, he demonstrates that Darwinian evolution is the biological expression of a deeper and more fundamental chemical principle: the whole story from replicating molecules tocomplex life is one continuous coherent chemical process governed by a simple definable principle. The gulf between biology and the physical sciences is finally becoming bridged. |
Half Empty | In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortablemakes an inspired case for always assuming the worst--because then you'll never be disappointed. Whether he's taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff's sharp observations and humorist's flair for the absurd will have you positively reveling in the untapped power of negativity. |
Tricky Situation | Doreen Cole loves Halloween, and everything that goes with it. She always overspends on candy for the neighborhood children, and always decorates so much that the neighbors remark on the gaudiness of the house. But Doreen doesn't care, those little infractions are worth the fun at Halloween, and she'll gladly pay the price of the spankings she receives for them.
This year, though, things are different. She and her husband, Walter, are now empty nesters, since the last of their three children has left for college. Doreen decides to host a murder mystery Halloween weekend in their huge house. She invites five other couples that will fit perfectly into their five extra bedrooms, and she sends out the invitations, and makes all the plans, without consulting her husband.
She figures she'll tell him a week before hand, he'll spank her for not telling him, and that will be the end of his anger. But when Walter finds out before Doreen is ready to let the cat out of the bag, she finds out that he
During the party, however, a prankster makes himself known, and the fake hunt for a murderer turns into a full-fledged hunt for a Halloween jokester. |
30-Second Economics | Keynesian Economics, Free Market Capitalism, Monetarism, Game Theory, and The Invisible Hand? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these economic theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your financial knowledge?
30-Second Economics takes the top 50 economic theories, and explains them to the general reader in half a minute, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture. Economics will suddenly seem a lot more fun than the economy, and make a lot more sense, and along the way you'll meet the founding fathers of modern economics such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Alfred Marshall. From Marxism to Mercantilism, plus everything in between, this is the ultimate "crash" course in economic theory. |
Charles James: Beyond Fashion | "His work went beyond fashion and was a fine art." --a Charles James patron
Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly original and complex designs, including intricate ball gowns worn by members of high society in New York and Europe. This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive study of James' life and work, highlighting his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as his influence on subsequent fashion designers.
Featuring exciting new photography of the spectacular evening dresses James produced between 1947 and 1955, this publication includes enlightening details of these intricate creations alongside vintage photographs and rarely seen archival items, such as patterns, muslins, dress forms, and sketches. A detailed and illustrated chronology of James' life describes his magnetic personality, his unorthodox design processes, his colorful supporters--such as Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Cristobal Balenciaga--and profiles of a number of his famous clients, such as Gypsy Rose Lee. With flair and style echoing that of its subject, Charles Jamesbrings to life one of the most fascinating and creative figures in American fashion. |
Hard Fall | The tragic bombing of EuroTours Flight 1023 was big news. To FBI Agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has to go on is a name: Anthony Kort...and the knowledge that Kort is in the United States with a detonator no airport security can detect. HE MUST BE STOPPED. Daggett's colleagues at the Bureau and his girlfriend tell him his vendetta has become an obsession. They suggest he leave the investigation to other agents, in order to keep it objective. But having painstakingly constructed a portrait of the terrorist, Daggett believes he's now the only one with any chance of predicting Kort's next target. A novel of madness and revenge, Hard Fall begs readers to fasten their seatbelts. |
Aberdeenshire: North and Moray | This volume is the first of two to illuminate the buildings of the northeast of Scotland. It covers not only Aberdeenshire's historic districts of Formartine, Buchan, and Banff but also the whole of Moray. Picturesque former fishing villages cling to the rugged coastline, while the inland rivers support some of the most famous whisky distilleries in Scotland. Also included are examples of the finest medieval ecclesiastical architecture, notably the ruins of Elgin Cathedral, major country houses such as Brodie Castle and Duff House, as well as the churches and public buildings of the numerous planned settlements, villages, and major towns. |
Dark Debts | In Dark Debts, Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, romantic comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has become a cult favorite since being published twenty years ago. In this new anniversary edition, the author has reimagined her work. The result is a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply spiritual novel that captivates from the very beginning and doesn’t let go.
When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he’s leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam’s brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened.
Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret from him.
How these characters converge is part of the thrilling mystery of Dark Debts, a cult favorite first published twenty years ago. In this new edition, author Karen Hall has re-imaged her southern gothic tale and the result is a work of even greater power—a brilliantly realized and suspenseful evocation of the conflict between good and evil. |
God in Neon | The characters in God in Neon are linked not only by the characters dependence on alcohol, but at times also by geographical location. These characters exist on the fringes of normal society. What is normal for them--using a bungee cord to tie an invalid father to a window in order to go drinking, engaging in an extreme competition to settle a bet for a classic Camaro, burning up a bar after being told that to have another drink would certify death, et cetera--would be appalling to most. It is in these appalling moments that the stories find the most traction. They scrape the bottom of the barrel of humanity and transform it, and readers watch as the characters struggle with those transformations and failed attempts. In the end, while the individual characters may not find some ultimate resolution for their vices, readers are left with a sense of completion as they watch the bar they've seen in multiple stories go up in flames. Later in the collection, the characters experience similar downfalls, but elsewhere, showing how similar we all really are when our backs are against the wall and alcohol seems like the only option.
The collection speaks to the Grit aesthetic of writers like Harry Crews and Barry Hannah. Readers of contemporary Southern fiction would find these stories appealing for their characters and the depravity that some sink into just to get their fix. Other readers would take interest in the hope that certain characters attempt to find when all else but the bottle seems lost. |
Trouble Brewing | A missing man leads Jack Haldean straight into danger . . .Mark Helston, the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, was successful and popular, with plenty of money and everything to live for. Yet at half past seven on the evening of the ninth of January, 1925, he walked out of his Albemarle Street flat and disappeared. Desperate to know what happened to Mark, his uncle, old Mr Hunt, appeals to Jack Haldean. Inspector Bill Rackham of Scotland Yard thinks it's a thankless task. Perhaps, says Jack, but why should Mark Helston vanish? And then Jack finds a body . . . |
Used by the Centaurs (Taken by the Centaurs #2) | Once, Orpheus was a Greek prince, the darling of the court, who loved to sing and play the lyre. Now, he belongs to the Centaurs who stole him.
He is their lovely blond plaything, their toy. But only Kinna, the powerful Centaur leader, decides who can make use of Orpheus's talents. And those talents don't stop at singing...
Adult readers only! This 8.000 word gay erotic story contains explicit gay sexual situations. All characters are 18 or older. |
User ID: A Novel of Identity Theft | What if someone stole your identity . . . but you didn't want it anyway?
The New York professor Vera de Sica is tired of her life -- it hasn't turned out the way she hoped but, then again, it is her life. At least it is until a trip to Los Angeles, where she becomes the unwitting victim of a con artist when she returns her rental car.
Enter Charlene Cummins -- cosmetics salesperson, Internet surfer, and girlfriend of said con artist. Armed with a stray credit card receipt left in the rental car's glove compartment, Charlene finds her way into Vera's personal records, opens up new credit cards in Vera's name, and begins stealing not only her life but her sense of self.
Now it's up to Vera and her hacker boyfriend to find Charlene and take back Vera's identity before it's too late. |
The Person of The Holy Spirit: To Empower, Equip, and Enable | "The intended purpose for which the Father has given to us the gift of life and the indwelling Holy Spirit is the promotion of the cause of Jesus 'The Resurrected' Christ and His Earthly Kingdom". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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Almost Married: A Novel about Love, Longing, and Last Hurrahs | 28-year-old copywriter Karen has finally found bliss in the arms of a new boy, Bert Reyno, the very same one who stepped into her life when ex-flame Miko the Cheat stepped out. Will the fun last all the way to the altar, or is it doomed to lose steam on the race down the aisle? |
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers | When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of them--Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and Ariel--and shows us their world, a dizzying mix of familiar teenage cliques and crushes with far less familiar challenges like how to morph your body on a few dollars a day. Funny, heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls form a singular community. But they struggle valiantly to resolve the gap between the way they feel inside and the way the world sees them--a struggle we can all identify with. Beam's careful reporting, sensitive writing, and intimate relationship with her characters place Transparentin the ranks of the best narrative nonfiction. |
The Cripple of Inishmaan - Acting Edition | In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaanbecomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. |
Love Divide (Battlefield of Love, #2) | What happens when something you were not looking for comes along, and it's more than you ever could have imagined?
Changing you.
How do you live with yourself when you look in the mirror and don't recognize the broken reflection staring back? Because it makes you do things that you never expected you were capable of.
Will a heart that's been torn in two pieces keep on beating? I'm about to find out.
Love Divided. The decision should be easy... It Isn't. |
Orphan Black #1 | One. Of a kind. Sarah's life was changed dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looked just like her. Sarah learned that, not only were she and the woman clones, but there were others just like them, and dangerous factions at work set on capturing them all. Now, the mysterious world of Orphan Black widens, with new layers of the conspiracy being peeled back in this miniseries by co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson! |
Western Wishes ( Dream Agency #1) | Dream Agency Series: How does a Djinn with a need to feed on human emotions survive in the modern world? Only emotions produced as a result of his own actions are suitable sustenance, but granting wishes in public has been backfiring on his kind for centuries. The answer is to hide his nature under a scientific guise, after all its amazing what hypnosis can accomplish.
Western Wishes (Dream Agency 1)
Life as a faceless office worker in London, is lonely for a painfully shy wallflower who is paranoid that someone is watching her every move. Finding out that she had an ancestor with the same name, a woman that led a romantic and important life in the Old West, leads her to an experience of a lifetime, only it isn't her life.
In hindsight, maybe agreeing to a 'totally authentic' experience wasn't as good an idea as the people at the Agency had insisted. Mind numbing terror and pain, didn't fit into the 'enjoyable' category as far as she was concerned, but perhaps someone else was getting more of a kick out of this than the client. On the other hand she has to admit that getting to know her leading man was quite another matter. |
Best Of Friends | They're friends for life...and life is for living.
In the picturesque harbour town of Dunmore, four friends are facing hard times. Abby's TV career is taking off, but her marriage to Tom is rocky. Meanwhile, her teenage daughter Jess despairs of ever finding a boyfriend. Lizzie has time for everyone - her family and friends, but never for herself. And Erin, married and back in Ireland after eight years in Chicago, is finding it hard to face up to her past.
When tragedy strikes, it rocks the small town. Drawn together in their sadness, the four women suddenly realise what is important - life is for living and they must grab it with both hands. |
Rule of Law | Novel based on the Nuremberg Trial of major German war criminals.
Drama of history's most important trial which laid foundation for international criminal law. |
Քաոս | A novel describing the life of a large industrial city. |
X-Men Legacy: Salvage | Professor Xavier finds himself face-to-face with his half-brother - The Unstoppable Juggernaut! But is Juggernaut friend or foe? Then, It's the moment that X-Fans have been waiting for - Rogue makes her return to the X-Books. But while Xavier seeks out Rogue, who is searching for him? Hunter becomes hunted and friend becomes foe, in a story that will change your favorite Southern Belle forever!
Collecting: X-Men: Legacy219-224 |
Unscripted Love (Road to Blissville, #1) | Kyle Vaughn had three goals in life: become a vet, find the man of his dreams, and start a family. He easily checked off the first item on the list when he took over his grandfather's veterinary practice. Too bad he wasn't as lucky in love.
Chaz Hamilton took a leap of faith when he decided to pursue a career in writing, but one best seller didn't mean he could quit his day job. All work and no play threatened to make Chaz a very dull man when the only romantic action he saw was in the pages of his manuscript. Too bad he couldn't write his own happily every after.
Circumstances pushed the two men together, and one magical kiss beneath fireworks and stars changed everything. Kyle knew his luck had finally turned around and Chaz found a man far better than any book boyfriend ever written. There was just one problem. Chaz has kept a secret from Kyle that could ruin their chance at a beautiful life together.
Kyle and Chaz learn that the best-laid plans often go awry, the heart has a mind of its own, and the greatest love is unscripted.
The books in the Road to Blissville series can be read either as standalone books or as part of the series. This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for mature adults 18 and older. |
Diseases and Disabilities Caused by Weight Problems: The Overloaded Body | We've all heard the latest research reported in the news: Americans are overweight--and obesity has health implications as serious as smoking. What's more, our young people are at risk; 15 percent of all children between the ages of six and nineteen are overweight, and their numbers are growing. OBESITY: MODERN-DAY EPIDEMIC takes a look at this urgent issue from various perspectives. Consistent from book to book is the outlook that this is a lifestyle issue, and all of us are at risk. These books do not perpetuate the myth that each individual must conform to the media images of super-thin models. Instead, the books' timely information empowers readers to make necessary lifestyle choices, choices that will ensure a lifetime of good health. |