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1. Short Cut to Red River

By Noel M Loomis

Texas was savage - a land of wild rivers, killing storms - alive with Comanches whose barbarism was legend, and white men who'd kill a man for his boots. It took a man like Ross Phillips to tame Texas. Phillips rode north from Mexico at the head of a mighty wagon train laden with bullion worth a mil...

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2. The Ghost Horse
The Ghost Horse DVD Audio

By Les Savage, Jr.

In The Ghost Of Jean Lafitte, Ernie Denvers is running for his life when the stolen horse he is riding collapses. He proceeds on foot until he meets a mysterious woman who leads him to an ancient Colonial house that was once the hideaway of the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte. To the woman's dismay, s...

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3. Sweet Surrender
Sweet Surrender Paperback

By Maya Banks

The author of "For Her Pleasure" makes readers surrender to erotic romantic suspense. It doesn't get much hotter. Dallas cop Gray Montgomery is on a mission to find the guy who killed his partner. So far, he's found a link between the killer and Faith, a beautiful stranger-and if Gray has to get cl...

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4. Gonzalo De Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin: A Translation and a Study

By Patricia Timmons

In "Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin", Patricia Timmons and Robert Boenig present the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Berceo, the first named poet in the Spanish language, used as a source for his thirteenth-century Spanish colle...

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5. The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity

By Kelly Matthews

This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from 1940 to 1954, consciously promoted a multi-faceted version of Irish identity, one that could embrace both rural and urban realities, Gaelic...

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6. Renato, the Painter: An Account of His Youth & His 70th Year in His Own Words

By Eugene Mirabelli

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7. The Isle of Kheria

By Robert Cabot

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8. At Night, beneath the Trees

By Michael Kruger

Pervaded by a peaceful stillness, yet resoundingly powerful, these poems speak of the fear and confusion of living in a chaotic, meaningless world.

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9. Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz

Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz's pluralistic, self-questioning approach to what...

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10. Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

By Raymond Gillespie

This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recen...

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11. Brill's Companion to Sophocles

"Brill's Companion to Sophocles" offers 35 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and state-of-th...

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12. The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

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13. Fearful Symmetries
Fearful Symmetries Paperback

By S Andrew Swann

This is the story of Nohar Rajasthan, a private eye descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock to become a moreau--a second-class humanoid citizen in a human world. Nohar retired from the private eye business ten years ago, and just wants to spend his remaining time in the peace and quiet of...

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14. Master Handicapping

By Davidowitz

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15. Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

By Alissa G. Karl

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between ...

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16. Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook

Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks remains d...

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17. Martin McDonagh: A Casebook

This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in th...

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18. And Silk and Love and Flame

By Birhan Keskin

Birhan Keskin's poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and repeat. Fluid and elusive, her poems inhabit a space between cognition and remembering, testimony and invention. This book selects ...

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19. Scotland Speak: Understanding the Natives

By Catherine Brown

Let's say there are three Scotlands. The Scotland of cityscapes, stunning and grim. The Scotland of open spaces, stunning and grand. The Scotland of the mind: inventors of television and telephone, proponents of the existence of underwater monsters, a world of jigs and reels and long traditions, a n...

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20. The Way the World Works

By Nicholson Baker

The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker's ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker-recently hailed as "one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time" by The New York Times-moves from political controversy to the intimacy of ...

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21. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

By Jan-Philipp Sendker

A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be until they find a lov...

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22. The Duke Is Mine
The Duke Is Mine Hardback

By Eloisa James

For Olivia Lytton, betrothal to the Duke of Canterwick -- hardly a Prince Charming -- feels more like a curse than a happily-ever-after. At least his noble status will help her sister, Georgiana, secure an engagement with the brooding, handsome Tarquin, Duke of Sconce, who is a perfect match for her...

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23. Madge's Mobile Home Park: Volume One of the Peavine Chronicles

By Jane F Hankins

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24. Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

Two unexpected tales written and read by the bestselling author of "The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories," and "The History Boys," Alan Bennett. "The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson" Mrs. Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much ...

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25. Shorewords
Shorewords Paperback

By Rosen

Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Rachel Carson, and Gretel Ehrlich: They hail from different regions, employ widely divergent writing styles, and are not known primarily as nature writers. Yet in Shorewords, Susan A. C. Rosen has compiled an imaginative and beautifully balanced anthology of selecti...

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26. Thought and Language

By Lev S. Vygotsky

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27. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

By Benjamin Lee Whorf

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28. John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society

This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and founded the Canadian city of Guelph while remaining in touch with local cultures and politics in Scotland and England. He wrote fiction, drama, a...

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29. Smoking with Crohn's

By George Chopping

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30. Demonica
Demonica Paperback

By Elliott Rose

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31. All the Way Home
All the Way Home Paperback

By Kristin Henry

Its the end of the 60s. American Jesse travels light. He has no family, just a guitar and a desire to do what hes always done - keep moving. Flannery is attached to plenty of strings in her Northern Ireland home, but she's worn out by sectarian violence and looking for a place to help her forget. Au...

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32. Lord Edgware Dies

By Agatha Christie

When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot himself heard her brag of her plan to "get rid" of him. But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was s...

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33. Dirty Bombs: Al-Qaeda's Second Nuclear Attack on Britain

By Robert Solent

Following the execution of Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda vengefully activates a sleeper cell of suicide bombers, two of which detonate a nuclear bomb in the heart of London. In panic, people are forced to take shelter from the insidious radiation dust, while waiting to be rescued. Soon, the numbers of dead an...

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34. The Road to Others
The Road to Others Paperback

By Anni Baobei

The fourth title in the Modern Chinese Masters series is The Road of Others by Anni Baobei. Baobei is a cult Chinese writer whose fictions generally turns around characters detached from life in big industrialised cities. Her fiction is celebrated for its romantic, artistic and individualistic char...

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35. Entering the Wild: Essays on Faith and Writing

By Jean Janzen

Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written her memoir. Although she writes here in prose, Janzens poetic voice is unmistakably present. And so she takes the reader with her into the depth and texture of what she has experienced.

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36. The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass

By Harry Clifton

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37. A Tract of Plutarch on the Advantage to Be Derived from One's Enemies (De Capienda Ex Inimicis Utilitate): The Syriac Version

Eberhard Nestle (1851-1913) was a German biblical scholar and theologian who studied at the University of Tubingen before teaching in London and across Germany. A talented linguist and textual critic, he published a grammar of Syriac and several editions of ancient manuscripts including the New Test...

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38. Operation Baby Rescue

By Beth Cornelison

Elise Norris wants nothing more than to be a mother. Her joy turns to agony when newborn baby girl Grace dies mysteriously--before the single mom could even say goodbye. But grief-stricken Elise can't shake the feeling that the final chapter of Grace's story isn't yet written....As he works through ...

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39. The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Essays and Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music

By Janita R. Hall-Swadley

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entree into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley's The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt'...

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40. Rode
Rode Paperback

By Thomas Fox Averill

When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud," he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history--a tale from "along about eighteen and twenty-five" of the legendary exploits of the g...

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