Eastern Promise

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Catherine Coulter

Lindsay Foxe is a successful model, a beautiful woman who hides behind a new name to protect herself from a past of betrayal and treachery and a present filled with sinister shadows. The product of old San Francisco wealth, the daughter of a man who despises her, she is brutally deceived by her sister's husband, and continues to live in the shadow of her sister's perfect image. Lindsay if finally forced to face up to her past when she meets tough and rugged S.C. Taylor, an ex-cop turned private investigator who is hired to protect her. It is Taylor who helps bring Lindsay out of a past filled with pain toward a future filled with trust and love. But first she has much to overcome, many fears to face. Her life has been threatened, yet her pursuer remains hidden in the shadows. Who wants Lindsay dead...and why?

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Adrienne Rich

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.

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Sophocles

"Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky." "Echoing through Western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destinies. This exciting new translation of the play is extremely faithful to the Greek, eminently playable, and poetically powerful." "For readers, actors, students, teachers, and theatrical directors, this new translation of one of the greatest plays in the history of the Western world provides the best combination of contemporary, powerful language, along with superb background and notes on meaning, interpretation, and ancient beliefs, attitudes, and contexts"--Book jacket.

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Henrik Ibsen

Halvard Solness, a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual, is reaching for love while clinging to a career that is on the verge of collapse. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.