Insightful, funny, and sometimes tragic look at the collision of two different cultures featuring astonishingly beautiful scenery, a haunting score by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and a memorable supporting turn by Judy Davis.
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A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Mar...
"Homer's Daughter is Robert Graves' novel of the girl, Nausicaa, a character in the Odyssey, who Graves believed was its true author (not the blind and bearded Homer, whose Iliad was composed at least 150 years before.... ). That Homer did not write the Odyssey continues to be a ...
When young doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Lamb and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Grave. Edward is intrigued by Lamb's modern methods of treating the insane until a series o...
Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Sh...
"Flesh-hungry ogres? Brains full of spiders? Haunted houses you can't escape? This collection of 35 terrifying stories from the Horror Writers Association has it all, including ghastly illustrations from Iris Compiet that will absolutely chill readers to the bone. So turn off you...
The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.
"The future of Gotham begins with them! In celebration of the feature film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) comes Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey! Meet the characters that inspired the film in six classic tales starring: Harley Quinn, Black Ca...
"Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help ...
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the p...
In a sleepy southern town, the Larkin family suffers a terrible tragedy. Now the Larkins are about to endure another. Traffic lights blink an eerie warning, a ghostly visage prowls in the streets, and graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. And bene...
Attitudes toward outreach vary. Some librarians focus on marketing and advertising; others on relationship building with their constituents; still others focus on fun events to coax people into their facility. The essays in this casebook describe and address universal problems th...
When young doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Lamb and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Grave. Edward is intrigued by Lamb's modern methods of treating the insane until a series o...
"For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, and human error have all sent ships to watery graves. While modern technology has made sea-going vessels safer and rescues easier, te...