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Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition (Mint Editions--black Narratives Ser.)
by Martin R. DelanyAn enslaved West Indian man travels the American South searching for his wife and raising a revolt in this classic American alternative history.Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene.This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present.Blake; Or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.Praise for Blake; Or, The Huts of America“An American literary classic most Americans have never heard of . . . The actual novel itself is unapologetically didactic, its characters mainly acting as mouthpieces for the author’s polemics—but those polemics possess a startling directness that makes a 21st-century reading of this fully-restored Blake as arresting as its original readers must have found it.” —Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor“McGann has done a painstaking job of recovering the work, providing scrupulous editing, an excellent introduction, and copious notes that will undoubtedly draw added critical attention to the novel . . . Largely owing to its historical significance, this edition will be of most interest to scholars.” —L. J. Parascandola, Library Journal“This version of Blake is without any doubt an edition to be welcomed, and will be cited as the principal text in the foreseeable future.” —Eric Sundquist, Johns Hopkins University
Blake's 7
by Terry Nation Trevor HoyleNew edition of the Terry Nation classic Galactic freedom fighters battle The Federation.Accused of a brutal crime and exiled from Dome City, where a vicious regime wields dictatorial power, Roj Blake swears vengeance on the corrupt leaders who have destroyed his future.Hijacking the Liberator, the most advanced spacecraft ever created, Blake travels to the sinister planet Cygnus Alpha and risks everything to rescue other victims of the regime. And with these allies he forms a new fighting force to combat galactic injustice and fight The Federation.Blake's 7 is born.
Blake's 7
by Terry Nation Trevor HoyleNew edition of the Terry Nation classic Galactic freedom fighters battle The Federation.Accused of a brutal crime and exiled from Dome City, where a vicious regime wields dictatorial power, Roj Blake swears vengeance on the corrupt leaders who have destroyed his future.Hijacking the Liberator, the most advanced spacecraft ever created, Blake travels to the sinister planet Cygnus Alpha and risks everything to rescue other victims of the regime. And with these allies he forms a new fighting force to combat galactic injustice and fight The Federation.Blake's 7 is born.
Blameless: Book the Third (The Parasol Protectorate #3)
by Gail CarrigerQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.
Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate (Parasol Protectorate #3)
by Gail CarrigerQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.***Also available as a manga adaptation***
Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate (Parasol Protectorate #11)
by Gail CarrigerQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.***Also available as a manga adaptation***
Blameless Desire
by Jenny CartwrightDesire and DeceptionIt seemed that Christie had always loved Lucas Merrick. He was so tall, so handsome, so wonderful. Then, one night, all Christie's dreams came true....But it was soon clear to Christie that Lucas wasn't interested in happily-ever-after, so she fled to London-pregnant and unwed.Four years later, circumstances force her to return-with her daughter. And she can't help wondering if Lucas will ask who Sara's father is...or if he'll even care.
Blameless in Abaddon (The Godhead Trilogy, Book #2)
by James MorrowIn Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid- Atlantic proved a serious menace both to navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body--comatose yet far from inert--has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Deus: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small. In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.
Blameless in Abaddon: Towing Jehovah, Blameless In Abaddon, And The Eternal Footman (The\godhead Trilogy Ser. #2)
by James MorrowIn Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace to both navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body - comatose yet far from inert - has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small.In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.
Blameless in Abaddon: Towing Jehovah, Blameless In Abaddon, And The Eternal Footman (The Godhead Trilogy #2)
by James MorrowA New York Times Notable Book: The People vs. God in &“a funny, ferocious fantasy&” from the two-time Nebula Award–winning author (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Hallelujah! God is not dead. He&’s just been a deep-freeze coma in the Arctic. Strapped for cash, the Vatican has sold the body (a bargain at $1.3 billion!) to Baptists in Florida. Enterprising souls that they are, they&’ve turned the Corpus Dei into a popular, two-mile long theme-park attraction at Orlando&’s Celestial City USA—hooked up to the largest life-support system on earth. Then things get weird. Martin Candle, a justice of the peace who&’s suffered a series of devastating setbacks, decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. Now, to accumulate evidence for the prosecution, Candle enters God&’s brain on a steamer to find out what in the world the Almighty could possibly have been thinking all these years. What ensues in this sequel to James Morrow&’s World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah is a &“square off for the greatest moral debate of all time . . . [and it&’s] not to be missed&” (Booklist). &“Surreal . . . dark and powerful.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A wildly imaginative novel . . . as barbed with high and low comedy as an Aristophanes play—and just as fundamentally serious.&” —The Bloomsbury Review &“Hilarious . . . [Morrow] demonstrates a sharp mind, [and] a sharper tongue . . . Salman Rushdie, eat your heart out.&” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
Blanc comme neige (Les contes de Pennymaker #Vol. 2)
by Julie Bénazet Tara LainLes contes de Pennymaker, numéro hors sérieLe jeune Snowden « Snow » Reynaldi est brillant, beau et seul. Bien qu’il soit timide, étrange et toléré par les étudiants de l’Université NorCal parce que c’est un champion d’échecs réputé et qu’il aide à faire connaître l’école, cela ne l’empêche pas de fantasmer sur l’objet de ses désirs : Riley Prince, quarterback de l’équipe de football. Lorsque Riley a besoin de cours de soutien en physique, Snow saute sur l’occasion et très vite, leur relation fait des étincelles – mais Riley doit encore sortir du placard avant de pouvoir avancer. Entre-temps, le véritable ami et mentor de Snow, le professeur Kingsley, épouse une femme qui veut secrètement s’accaparer la gloire et l’argent du championnat d’échecs. Peu de temps après, le professeur perd connaissance et Snow se retrouve submergé – littéralement. Dans une voiture ! Sept membres d’une fraternité de l’université de Grimm sauvent Snow juste à temps pour que sa vie aille de mal en pis et qu’il découvre que la seule relation qu’il a toujours désirée est en train de lui échapper. Avec le « diable » qui l’attend à chaque tournant, Snow se doit de survivre ne serait-ce que pour prouver qu’il est le plus honnête de tous et retrouver la confiance de son prince charmant.
Blanca & Roja
by Anna-Marie McLemoreThe biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan.But when two local boys become drawn into the game, the swans’ spell intertwines with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy them. Blanca & Roja is the captivating story of sisters, friendship, love, hatred, and the price we pay to protect our hearts.
Blancanieves y la leyenda del cazador
by Amini, HosseinSu destino está escrito... morir a manos de la reina o que el cazador la trasforme en guerrero. Blancanieves es la única persona en el mundo aún más bella que la malvada reina Ravenna, deseosa de acabar con ella. Pero lo que la reina no imagina es que la joven que amenaza su reinado ha sido entrenada en las artes de la guerra por el cazador que tenía la misión de asesinarla. Y es aquí donde la historia que conocíamos de Blancanieves tiene otro final# Una nueva, sobrecogedora y sorprendente versión del cuento clásico. Nuestros lectores opinan...«Blancanieves y la leyenda del cazador, con un argumento interesante y un desarrollo ágil, se convierte en una novela amena de principio a fin, ofreciendo una historia oscura, que se desmarca del clásico.»El cofre de Nebe «Lejos de un cuento edulcorado, hay en el relato un buen montón de violencia, de sangre, demuertes, de traiciones y de magia negra como para marcar las diferencias con anteriores versiones de la historia.»Sagacómic «Una lectura ligera que da un nuevo giro a la historia de Blancanieves.»Equinoccio
Blancanieves y la reina no tan malvada: Una novela gráfica poco tradicional (Caí en un cuento de hadas)
by Jasmine WallsSarah no es la chica más simpática de su escuela. No quiere ser grosera ni tratar mal a nadie, pero a veces no lo puede evitar. Cuando cae en el cuento de hadas Blancanieves, aterriza en el castillo de la reina malvada. Pareciera el lugar perfecto para una chica antipática, ¿no? Pero cuando Sarah se entera que la reina malvada es extremadamente mala (algunos hasta dirían que es una bully), toma las riendas de la situación. Sarah se hace amiga de la reina y llega a la raíz de su crueldad. Juntas aprenderán que amarse a uno mismo y agradecer lo que se tiene es la lección más importante en esta novela gráfica poco tradicional.
Blancanieves y los siete robots: Una novela gráfica (Cuentos de hadas futuristas)
by Louise SimonsonEn un planeta muy, pero muy lejano llamado Tecnomundo, nace una nin~a llamada Blancanieves. La nin~a, creada por las mentes ma´s brillantes para ser la perfecta cienti´fica, muestra de inmediato una gran habilidad para la electro´nica. La reina decide exiliar a la nin~a, temiendo que cuando crezca le arrebate su corona como la persona ma´s inteligente del planeta. Sin embargo, el deseo de Blancanieves de ayudar a los necesitados, especialmente a los oprimidos robots de Tecnomundo, hace que muchos este´n dispuestos a apoyarla en su causa.
Blandings Castle
by P. G. Wodehouse"I envy those who’ve never read [Wodehouse] before—the prospect of reams of unread Wodehouse stretching out in front of you is…something which is enticing to contemplate." —Tony BlairWelcome to Blandings Castle, home of the well-intentioned but often distracted Lord Emsworth—and there are quite a few distractions at this stately country house. Head gardener Angus McAllister has resigned before the Shrewsbury Agricultural Show, when Emsworth needs him most; Lady Constance, Emsworth’s officious sister, has caged her daughter in the castle to keep her away from the persistent Beefy Bingham; and the Blandings pigman, Wellbeloved, has been sent to prison for drunken and disorderly conduct just days before Emsworth’s adored sow can win first prize at the 87th Annual Shropshire Show. Through P.G. Wodehouse’s expert wit, we witness Lord Emsworth trying to solve these predicaments and others, with the unexpected help (and hindrance) of a lively array of characters.
A Blanket of Bitter Frost
by Philippa Grey-Gerou Emery SanborneA race against time!Time Graeme Shepherd might not have before a mysterious ailment robs him of his mind and his lovers forever. The thrilling sequel to Shadows Of An African Sun. For Graeme Shepherd, words have always been important, be it complex spells or ancient, difficult to decipher texts. From sorcerer for hire to Ancient Studies professor, language and the ability to communicate have been his life.But a mysterious ailment is slowly robbing him of the ability to express himself, every day bringing him closer to being locked away in his own head.With his lovers Diana Glendower and Peter Oberon by his side, it becomes a race against the clock to find out what is turning a brilliant man into a gibbering idiot. When modern medicine fails to provide any answers, one avenue remains. Magic.And the answer is more devastating than any of them could imagine.
Blasphemy (Wyman Ford #2)
by Douglas PrestonThe world's biggest supercollider, hidden deep in an Arizona mountain, will probe what happened at the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.
Blast Off at Woomera
by Hugh WaltersIf the ladder hadn't slipped when Chris Godfrey was chalking up the sports results - and if Sir George Benson hadn't been passing at that very moment - it might never have happened. It had become imperative to fire a conscious human being into space and Sir George, who was Director of Research at Woomera, couldn't see how it was to be done until he met Chris. Once Chris agreed, things moved fast. Whisked to London by the R.A.F., he started his training, was fitted for a G-suit, got to know the landscape of the Moon as well as he knew the school sports ground. Then on to Woomera; and, at last, into space...
Blast Off at Woomera
by Hugh WaltersIf the ladder hadn't slipped when Chris Godfrey was chalking up the sports results - and if Sir George Benson hadn't been passing at that very moment - it might never have happened. It had become imperative to fire a conscious human being into space and Sir George, who was Director of Research at Woomera, couldn't see how it was to be done until he met Chris. Once Chris agreed, things moved fast. Whisked to London by the R.A.F., he started his training, was fitted for a G-suit, got to know the landscape of the Moon as well as he knew the school sports ground. Then on to Woomera; and, at last, into space...
Blastaway
by Melissa LandersTeens Ky and Fig become unlikely allies in a stolen spaceship, eluding space pirates and more as they try to save Earth.
The Blasted Lands
by James A. MooreThe sequel to SEVEN FORGESThe Empire of Fellein is in mourning. The Emperor is dead, and the armies of the empire have grown soft. Merros Dulver, their newly-appointed - and somewhat reluctant - commander, has been tasked with preparing them to fight the most savage enemy the world has yet seen. Meanwhile, a perpetual storm ravages the Blasted Lands, and a new threat is about to arise - the Broken are coming, and with them only Death.From the Paperback edition.
Blaze: A Dragon Romance
by Donna GrantHis strength, his masculinity brought out something primal within her. In his arms, she felt like the Amazon warrior she’d once pretended to be as a little girl.Anson is a fierce Dragon King, a dragon shapeshifter born and bred to protect his own. But when a rogue tech company hacks into their world, he must join forces with the unlikeliest of allies: a human female. Her name is Devon Abrams. A rising star at the firm, she has no idea that her boss is in league with the sinister Fae and their secret war against humanity. If Anson gains her trust, he can defeat the enemy from within. But first he must fight his own attraction—to this exquisitely beautiful mortal…Devon loves her job at the firm. But sometimes she wishes she could find a man—a real man—who isn’t threatened by her success. When she first meets Anson, she’s overwhelmed by his powerful masculine presence and disarmingly gorgeous smile. But when he reveals his true mission—and his ability to transform into a dragon—she’s irresistibly drawn into an epic battle between humans and immortals, magic and technology, danger and desire. Anson vows to protect her from the Fae. But can he control the flames of passion that blaze within his heart, in Blaze, the next sexy Dragon romance in the Dark Kings series from New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant.
Blaze: A Dragon Romance
by Donna GrantVolume One of an exclusive four-part volume by New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant.His strength, his masculinity brought out something primal within her. Anson is a fierce Dragon King, a dragon shapeshifter born and bred to protect his own. But when a rogue tech company hacks into their world, he must join forces with the unlikeliest of allies: a human female. Read all four parts of this sensational volume and look for the full volume of Blaze in June 2017.
Blaze: A Dragon Romance
by Donna GrantVolume Two of an exclusive four-part volume by New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant.In his arms, she felt like the Amazon warrior she’d once pretended to be as a little girl.Her name is Devon Abrams. A rising star at the firm, she has no idea that her boss is in league with the sinister Fae and their secret war against humanity. If Anson gains her trust, he can defeat the enemy from within. But first he must fight his own attraction—to this exquisitely beautiful mortal…Read all four parts of this sensational volume and look for the full volume of Blaze in June 2017.