Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth. Views: 54
Mistaken Mistress Miss Georgiana Raithwaite decides to seek refuge with a female relative to escape imminent marriage to a cruel tyrant of a man. But she has no idea just how her decision to disguise herself as a boy for the journey, a caution undertaken with her own safety in mind, is about to change her life in more ways than she can imagine. For Georgiana is taken by the naval Press Gang that roams the coastal towns of Southern England and ends up amidst 185 sailors aboard ship. Lord Nathaniel Hawke, middle son of the Earl of Porchester, has worked hard to achieve his captaincy in Nelson’s navy. Disaffected from his father the navy is everything that is important to him in life, so when he discovers that his new third class ship’s boy is in truth a girl, he knows that her secret risks not only Miss Raithwaite’s reputation but his career. Forced into intimate proximity aboard HMS Pallas Nathaniel and Georgiana must fight to suppress not only exposure of her true identity, but also their growing desire for one another, a task that becomes increasingly impossible during their voyage across the stormy seas. The Captain's Lady Set during the dark winter months of 1804 The Captain’s Lady charts a story of passion, drama and intrigue on a journey from the rolling Hampshire countryside, across the high seas to the Rock of Gibraltar and back again... To her spiteful aunt, Kathryn Marchant is little more than a servant: she does not deserve a place in polite society. That's about to change, when Kathryn accidentally falls into the arms of the most notorious rake of them all. Lord Ravensmede draws the line at seducing virgins. Yet once he has tasted the lips of the delectable Miss Marchant, he wants her! He has the distinct impression that she's in need of a protector, but, no matter how much he strives to be honorable, her temptation may prove just too sweet to resist! Views: 54
Max barely made it out of Chicago alive and was looking forward to a long recovery in Iowa with his kids. Picked up by Colonel Draper he expected a quick return to his friend Bill’s home and chance to catch his breath. It is not to be, however, and he is compelled to use his abilities to go on one last mission; to find the Zombie-master, the man responsible for creating the outbreak. Pressed into service alongside his friends, Max heads out to beard the lion in his den and finish the fight once and for all. Views: 54
The carpet was quite
ordinary. In Man City an ocean liner is mysteriously stranded in Dry
Dock. The children are missing and a search party has been sent out. The
inhabitants of the city have taken to drinking Angel Wine, or dreaming
that they do. Meat and poultry are merging in disquieting ways. Only at
the zoo can the citizens be sure that dreams are not reality. It will
take Mike, the Hawler, to heal the city of its dream sickness. But first
he must learn what a Hawler is. Perhaps the carpet was not quite so
ordinary, after all.From D. F. Lewis, a novel like the spiralling
pattern of a magic carpet. Views: 54
IN THIS CLASS, YOU CAN COME OUT ON TOPTo eager students of human sexuality in all its wild and amazing forms: Welcome to Penthouse University, the premier center of higher learning in carnal knowledge. It's a place to explore-from making love in the library to steamy oral exams behind closed classroom doors. A place to experiment-with bi-curious coeds in the dorm and nubile sorority sisters at sex toy parties. A place to graduate-to shower room liaisons with the curvy phys ed teacher and thrilling threesomes with the seductive work-study housesitter. Class is about to start. Can you handle the hot and heavy workload? Views: 54
A detective juggles a murder investigation and possible romance in this modern day story involving the exposure of a building rebound scam in hurricane ravaged Louisiana. Views: 54
ReviewBy Linda Welch: The Witches Ladder is the first of Dana Donovan's paranormal mystery series starring Detective Tony Marcella...more: lulu.com/product/paperback/the-witchs-ladder/12190877--lulu.com/product/paperback/the-witchs-ladder/12190877By mmartinez "The beginning of a wonderful series" I enjoyed the book a lot and highly recommend it. The Witch's Ladder..more lulu.com/product/paperback/the-witchs-ladder/12190877 --lulu.com/product/paperback/the-witchs-ladder/12190877Product DescriptionA group of talented individuals proficient in the psychic academia of clairvoyance, mental telepathy and bilocation work together to understand life’s most unusual secrets. But secrets among psychics are hard to keep, and the members of this group soon realize that even their abilities of mind over matter can’t protect them from the blade of the Surgeon Stalker. Views: 54
Fantasy, whether classic or contemporary, has always been based on the conflict between the forces of Light and Darkness. Now some of the genre's most inventive authors bring readers into the Seelie Court, where all serve the Queen of Air and Light, and the Unseelie Court, where the forces of Darkness hold sway. Views: 54
Kate Skylar is an ordinary seventeen-year-old with an extraordinary destiny. A virgin, Kate suddenly finds herself pregnant with what she believes is the Son of God. But the Catholic Church is convinced Kate is carrying the Antichrist and, assisted by an artificial intelligence known as Grand Inquisitor, will stop at nothing to kill Ethan, her son. Ethan's only protection is Conversatio, a secret organization dedicated to the Second Coming—which may have its own dark agenda. As Ethan grows up in anonymity, ignorant of his true identity and not knowing whom to trust, he must come to terms with his miraculous abilities and make a fateful choice that will determine the future of all mankind. And for Kate, an equally difficult struggle looms, as well as a mother's devastating choice. Godsent is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a... Views: 54
