Author: Juvenal
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, satires, sixteen
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140447040
ISBN-13: 9780140447040
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In "The Sixteen Satires", he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: plum, stephanie, sixteen, sizzling
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0312383304
ISBN-13: 9780312383305
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didnt specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK:Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs.GOOD LUCK:Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Co
Author: Napoleon Hill
Publisher: Wilshire Book Company
Keywords: volume, lessons, sixteen, success, law
Published: 2000-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0879804475
ISBN-13: 9780879804473
Are you the next millionaire in the making? Countless people desire to know the wealth-making secret to substantially increase their income. Modeling yourself to individuals who are already successful is the easiest way to become successful! Napoleon Hill s The Law of Success in 16 Lessons , was his first masterpiece before Think and Grow Rich. With the wisdom, knowledge and challenge from Andre Carnegie, Hill organized one of the world s first books on personal achievement. Learn the covenant Laws of Success in an incredible sixteen lessons! It took Mr. Hill over twenty years to gat
Author: Brian M. Thomse
Publisher: Aspect
Keywords: tales, fantastical, sixteen, universe, yuletide
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0446691879
ISBN-13: 9780446691871
From A Christmas Carol to Connie Willis’ Miracle and other Christmas Stories to the stories of Mistletoe Mysteries, jolly St. Nick and other memorable Yuletide visitors have provided creative fodder for a host of writers commemorating the holiday season throughout the ages. A YULETIDE UNIVERSE collects the most memorable takes on the holiday season by some of fantasy and science fiction’s brighter lights of the past and present including such "Christmas stars" as Clive Barker, Anne McCaffrey, Connie Willis, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, and Neil Gaiman.
Author: Scott Cienci
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: slayer, vampire, buffy, sixteen, sweet
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0743427327
ISBN-13: 9780743427326
Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn, knows how it feels to be different. So when she overhears her classmates teasing a new girl, Arianna, she steps in, and the two become friends. But when Buffy comes home one afternoon to find her sister and Arianna hanging out, she’s surprised -- she encountered Arianna one night on patrol. A demon had been attacking her, but Arianna fought back on her own. What’s that about? The more the gang gets to know Arianna, the more puzzled they are. She has superstrength and accelerated healing power, just like a slayer. But what she also has is a dark
Author: Peter Iro
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: way, supreme, court, fought, americans, convictions, sixteen, courage
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140128107
ISBN-13: 9780140128109
Peter Irons introduces 16 Americans who had the courage and perseverance to pursue a belief in their constitutional rights all the way to the Surpreme Court. Their cases, decided by the Surpreme Court between 1940 and 1986, raise four major issues of our time -- religion, race, protest, and privacy.
Author: William W. Bascom
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: new, world, africa, divination, cowries, yoruba, sixteen
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0253208475
ISBN-13: 9780253208477
"... a landmark in research of African oral traditions." -- African Arts"... a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." -- Journal of Religion in AfricaYoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition.
