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Effendi Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Book DescriptionMasterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trailof clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past.… It’s the twenty-first century and El Iskandryia—an alluring metropolis built on seduction, corruption, and lies—is the double-dealing heart of an Ottoman Empire that still rules the world. But these days a sense of dread hangs over El Isk—and over Ashraf Bey, the city’s new Chief of Detectives. A trial is set to take place, and it’s up to Raf to decide the case. There’s only one problem: the suspect is the billionaire father of the woman Raf should have married. Industrialist Hamzah Effendi is accused of crimes so horrible that even El Iskandryia wants him eliminated. But Raf finds that protecting......
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Tristeza Richard D. Jensen
Book Description Tristeza is Richard D. Jensen's stirring and enchanting new novel of life, death, redemption and reincarnation set in sultry Mexico in the 1930s. Drifting cowboy Will Riley (son of Pudge Riley from Jensen's hit novel WhenCurly Won A Cathouse ) travels to sultry Mexico seeking adventure. While there he meets iconic real-life Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and the mysterious Tristeza, a smoldering beauty with limitless black hair and sparkling eyes who bewitches Will and sets him on a collision course with destiny. Unbeknownst to Will, a dark secret threatens Tristeza's very soul and a lustful and vicious hacendado wants Tristeza for his own sordid game. Can Will save Tristeza from the evilSalvador's lust? Can Will's love save Tristeza's soul from certain doom? Tristeza is Richard D. Jensen's most exotic and enchanting novel to date, capturing the romance, intrigue and sultry rhythms of exotic Mexico. ......
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American Wives (Iowa Short Fiction Award) Beth Helms
Book Description AvailableOctober 2003 In Beth Helms's American Wives, winner of the 2003 Iowa Short Fiction Award, the women inhabit familiar roles?military wife, wealthy widow, devoted mother, lifetime companion. Yet despite their ordinary appearances, these women have deep secrets hidden beneath the thin veneer of duty, devotion, and privilege. Set in both the United States and abroad, American Wives is about hope and disappointment, failure and resignation, desire and, occasionally, joy. A military wife abroad has a brief and totally unexpected sexual encounter; a wife watches as her husband, obsessed with the au-pair, has an affair instead with her best friend; a young woman finds herself destined to repeat the patternsof her mother's long-hidden infidelities. At the heart of each encounter is the overwhelming need to connect with others?whether they be lovers, spouses, friends, or family?while balancing personal desires. Too often, Helms's......
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Unwritten Life Amy Witkowski
Book Description Four years ago, tragic events changed Alex Garrison's life forever. She has been running away from it since then, trying to put the past behind her. She changes her name, moves to a new town, and even starts a new career. Just when she feels that she can move on with her life, her past comes back to haunt her. Her best friend, Greg, appears out of the blue and constantly reminds her of what she did four years ago. During her personal venture for freedom, she gives into her attraction to a married man. When a violent stalker sets his sights on her, she finds love in an unlikely place. But who wants her love so much that he is willing to kill her for it?...
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Hamlet, A Longman Cultural Edition (Longman Cultural Edition.) William Shakespeare
Book Description From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hamlet , edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies readers with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in asection entitled ?Contexts?; these will help readers to understand the historical setting and the cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, readers can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world. Readers interested in Shakespeare's Plays and the time they......
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