No Way to Kill a Lady

No Way to Kill a Lady
Author: Nancy Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 045141862X

Not much is going right these days for once rich, now impoverished Nora Blackbird—what with her lover under house arrest and her best friend in the slammer. Then Nora and her sisters receive word of a million-dollar inheritance.... Great-aunt Madeleine Blackbird has died in a volcanic eruption on an Indonesian island and left her fabulous Bucks County estate to the three Blackbird sisters. But when Nora and her scandal-ridden sisters, Libby and Emma, go to claim their windfall, they find the house in decay and all of their aunt’s to-die-for treasures gone. They also find a woman’s body.... Nora feels compelled to seek out the truth, but even with help from her mobster boyfriend, Mick Abruzzo, who provides distractions both dark and delightful, solving this case proves challenging. Relatives are circling to claim a share of Madeleine’s property, the suspect list is growing, and Nora’s wild and wacky sisters are adding one surprise after another. It’s enough to put Nora’s couture undies in a serious twist!


No Way To Treat a First Lady

No Way To Treat a First Lady
Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2002-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1588362574

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the ambitious First Lady of the United States (and known in the tabloids as “Lady Bethmac”), is on trial for the death of her philandering husband, and the only man who can save her is the boyfriend she jilted in law school—now the most shameless defense attorney in America. Published to rave reviews, No Way to Treat a First Lady is a hilariously warped love story for our time set in the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C.


Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
Author: Nicole Loraux
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780674902268

In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet, exemplary existence as wife and mother. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their fate. Through her reading of these texts, Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.


Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 2018
Release: 2007-11-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0198185693

Thomas Middleton is one of the few playwrights in English whose range and brilliance comes close to Shakespeare's. This handsome edition makes all Middleton's work accessible in a single volume, for the first time. It will generate excitement and controversy among all readers of Shakespeare and the English classics.


The Power

The Power
Author: Jessica Gunn
Publisher: Jessica Gunn
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

I’m Ben Hallen, and three and a half years ago my son was stolen from my very arms. Now, the same demon that orchestrated his kidnapping is about to set her ultimate plan into motion. With Riley a demon, his Power is unstoppable. And with it, Lady Azar, heir to the Empire of Darkness, plans to destroy the City of Alzan and the world’s largest cianza with it. But Lady Azar and my demon son aren’t the only threats. A new power has come into town, claiming Rachel and I are a part of their civilization. And while neither of us believes the heritage these people claim we have, our magik starts changing… and our physical bodies with it. It leaves us no choice but to accept that our role in this war between good and evil has changed, and that instead of saving Riley, I might be forced to destroy him.