Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.

Don't Try and Sell Me No Pink Flamingos: From the forward by George Garrett York Harbor.

At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin.

The secret Society for Emigrant Women runs an international rescue operation for runaway women.

A 400-year-old puzzle, a modern-day hunt to the death.

These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End.

Twelve British Statisticians provides a description of the lives and contributions of a dozen scientists.

Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.

A review from the PENN STATER, Sept./Oct. 1997: ". . .Braund's descriptions of his agricultural mission will interest some readers.

Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.

The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.

It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.

William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.