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Dream for Me
by Becky BlackIn a society awake for twenty-four hours a day a man who sleeps is a freak. But not to neurobiologist Shay Mistry. Jacob Garcia, the last known sleeper in America, is the test subject whose brain Shay has been dying to get his hands on for years. When they meet, Shay discovers the sleeper’s brain comes accompanied by a gorgeous body and a hostile attitude. As Jacob sleeps night after night in his lab it’s harder and harder for Shay to resist their mutual attraction.Jacob is tired of being a lab rat, but he’s got his reasons to be in Shay’s lab -- one of them he’s not going to tell anyone about -- and his plan is to do what he came to do and leave. So falling in love with Shay is like adding a hand grenade to all the other balls he’s juggling. He doesn’t need this added complication, but his desire for Shay is too strong to resist.When Jacob’s secret comes out, it triggers a chain of events leaving Shay irrevocably changed and forcing Jacob to choose where his loyalties lie.
Dream for True Love: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by ZhenyinfangZuo Yichun and Guo Jiawei have made an engagement since they were young. It's a very happy thing for the big family to be able to marry the people they know. Guo Jiawei once ran into his daughter Li Xiangxiang in a trip, and the two people had feelings in the later contact. Guo Jiawei began to hope that he could marry a woman he liked to go home. After returning home, Guo Jiawei also put forward this idea with his parents. However, the two companies have always had cooperative contacts. If they quit marriage, it will have a great impact, unless Guo Jiawei can persuade Zuo Yichun to voluntarily quit marriage.
Dream for the Land
by Laekan Zea KempIn this lyrical picture book about the importance of caring for our Earth, a child and her father wish for a brighter, greener future for the parched land around their home.When a girl finds a horned toad among the rain-starved squash, tomatoes, and poblanos on her family's Texas farm, her Pa tells her that, if she kisses it on the head -- blech! -- she gets to make one wish. What will she wish for?Generations ago, when the girl's ancestors lived on this land, it was lush and green -- full of life. Now, because of a decades-long drought, their soil is parched and their crops are dying.The girl sees the worry lines on Pa's face getting deeper. She knows she has to do something to help. And so, thinking about the people who lived on this land before her, and all those who will live on it after her, she wishes for rain.This poignant father-daughter story reminds us that, when it comes to healing our Earth, change often starts with a simple wish. With a dream for a world that could be.
Dream in Pienza and Other Poems: Selected Poems 1963–1977
by Toni OrtnerDream in Pienzawas originally published by the Timberline Press in a handset and hand printed limited edition. The title poem written in Rome sings of the passion of unrequited love in another century. From birth through resurrection we sweep our separate shores for sight of stars. Although the angels may have left us to our devices, we become the measure of what we bellieve. This is God's gift to each of us.
Dream of Danger (The Brown and de Luca Novels #2)
by Maggie ShayneA mystery reunites a reluctant partnership—and rekindles unfulfilled desires in New York Times–bestselling author Maggie Shayne’s novella Dream of Danger.Self-help guru Rachel de Luca may have been blind for twenty years, but she’s always had an uncanny gift for seeing through people—and she distrusts her assistant’s new boyfriend at first sight. Amy isn’t interested in Rachel’s misgivings, though. She’s too eager to celebrate Thanksgiving by introducing her family to the new man in her life.Then Amy doesn’t show up for the holiday.Desperate to find her missing friend, Rachel has no choice but to turn to Detective Mason Brown. Their investigation into Amy’s disappearance takes them ever deeper into danger—and reignites the attraction that they’ve both sworn to resist. Now it’s a race against time as Rachel and Mason fight to stave off passion and save a life.“Maggie Shayne writes wonderful stories combining romance with page-turning thrills.” —New York Times–bestselling author Karen Robards
Dream of Darkness
by Reginald HillSairey Ellis, at age 18, is haunted by recurring nightmares of her childhood in Uganda and her mother's death there years before. She begins to bring her cloudy past to light...
Dream of Darkness
by Reginald HillA father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who &“never fails to shock and surprise&” (Ian Rankin). Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother&’s death—or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a memoir about his time in Britain&’s security service—and he intends to include some explosive details about the country&’s secret connections to the brutal dictator Idi Amin and behind-the-scenes corruption. But there are some who are desperate to prevent his book from ever seeing the light of day—and now his family may be in lethal danger once again . . . This nerve-jangling thriller from a Diamond Dagger winner is a dark, action-packed look at the lives of those involved in espionage and the people caught in the cross fire—guilty and innocent alike. &“Reginald Hill&’s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&” —The Times Literary Supplement &“Hill is an absorbing, provocative novelist with great style and humour.&”—Frances Fyfield
Dream of Ding Village
by Yan Lianke Cindy CarterOfficially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling ring in contemporary China. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the Party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way.
Dream of Fair Woman
by Charlotte ArmstrongA nameless woman arrives in L.A., only to fall into a coma and be positively identified as three completely different people, in this twist-filled thriller. She arrived at Peggy Cuneen&’s Los Angeles boarding house with no ID. She asked for a room, fell asleep silently, and has yet to wake up. Even doctors are baffled. The only thing they know for sure is there are no signs of physical illness and no evidence of bodily trauma. In fact, she&’s so flawlessly perfect it&’s as if she&’s been wrapped in cellophane her entire life. When her picture hits the newspapers, she&’s positively identified—by three claimants who all have different stories. One swears she&’s his niece, a runaway heiress. Another, that she&’s a renowned mystic popular in religious circles. And the third, a frantic mother insisting the Jane Doe&’s her daughter, who came to Hollywood looking for fame and subsequently disappeared. Are they lying? Mistaken? In denial? Or is it something more insidious? As a protective infatuation turns to obsession, Peggy&’s son, Matt, is desperate to find out, but his investigation only yields a stunning new piece of the puzzle. From the Edgar Award–winning novelist who &“registers the cold blue shadow cast by Southern California&’s sunny promise,&” Dream of Fair Woman is a brilliant and chilling suspense novel (L.A. Weekly).
Dream of Freedom (American Dreams #1)
by Michael PhillipsThe author of the Secret of the Rose series transports readers to the South, as the seeds of Civil War are sown—and those against slavery take a stand. In the antebellum South, Richmond and Carolyn Davidson live lives of ease as wealthy plantation owners. But even though their prosperity and livelihood depend on slave ownership, their Christian consciences speak against the practice. When the Davidsons decide to follow their own moral conviction and God&’s will by freeing their slaves, they face consequences they never could have anticipated. Risking their lives as an important link in the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves escape to the northern states, the Davidsons must rely on their wits—and God&’s protection—to stay alive.
Dream of Glass
by Jean Mark GawronJean Mark Gawron creates a haunting world where information is God and artificial intelligences have joined ranks with misfit hackers to undermine a fascist state. Dream of Glass is an adventure in cyberspace and a mystery, too, that pursues the timeless question of what an individual is.
Dream of Life (American Dreams #2)
by Michael PhillipsThe author of Dream of Freedom returns to the South, where one family risks everything to help runaway slaves, as the drums of Civil War begin to sound. With their beloved plantation, Greenwood, now a vital link in the Underground Railroad, Richmond and Carolyn Davidson must balance the need for safety with their commitment to helping the many runaways who appear at their door. Compounding their danger, the Davidson&’s neighbors, the Beaumonts, do not approve of their decision—and view them with suspicion. The danger intensifies when the Davidsons&’ older son, Seth, becomes engaged to Veronica, the Beaumonts&’ beautiful, scheming daughter—against her parents&’ wishes. As the two families are swept up in events leading up to the Civil War, they must choose sides—in a conflict that will change their lives forever.
Dream of Love (American Dreams #3)
by Michael PhillipsA Southern family is torn apart by Civil War—and their convictions—in the final American Dreams novel from the author of Dream of Life. As the Civil War rages on, plantation owners Richmond and Carolyn Davidson continue to follow the path God set out for them—as an important link in the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves flee to the Northern states. Meanwhile, their older son, Seth, is working as a war photographer for the North—and their younger, Thomas, is a Confederate soldier. Torn by war on both sides, the Davidsons pray for both of their sons to come home safe—even as they struggle to keep their land in the face of financial troubles. When Seth is reported missing and feared dead, the family despairs. But his new love, Cherity Waters, refuses to accept the news passively. She sets out on a dangerous journey through the war-torn South to find Seth—and bring him home safe.
Dream of Me
by Ray HatchDaniel Trace dreams of days to come -- literally. Ever since he can remember, Daniel gathers hints and snippets of the upcoming day through his dreams. Of course, the dreams are never straight forward (and neither is Daniel), so the shy, rare book dealer spends his nights pulling together clues under the guise of a Medieval warrior or an ancient Greek fire fighter. Surrounded by an eclectic group of family and friends, he carves a refuge in his Chicago neighborhood.Daniel’s latest dreams warn of the return of an old nemesis, but nothing prepares him for Karden Templeton, a man with eyes the color of chocolate as it melts on the tongue. Along with unending flirtations, Karden offers Daniel a proposal that will turn his orderly world upside down and ignite long-forgotten desires.Will surrendering to Karden’s flirtations place Daniel at the mercy of an old love? Can Daniel learn to accept his gifts, and trust his awakening feelings for Karden?
Dream of Night
by Heather HensonUntamable. Damaged. Angry. Once full of promise and life, now a fiery knot of resentment and detachment. This is the story of Dream of Night, an injured and abused racehorse. It's also the story of Shiloh, a sarcastic eleven-year-old foster child. By chance, Dream of Night and Shiloh both find themselves under the care of Jessalyn DiLima. Just in time--it's a last chance for them both.Jess fosters animals and kids like Dream of Night and Shiloh for a reason--she's a little broken, too. And as the three of them become an unlikely family, they recognize their similarities in order to heal their pasts--but not before one last tragedy threatens to take everything away.
Dream of No One but Myself
by David BradfordAn expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical unravelling of the trauma-memoir-as-proof-it's-now-handled motif, illuminating what an auto-archival alternative to it might look like in motion. Through a complex juxtaposition of lyric verse and self-erasure, family keepsake and transformed photo, David Bradford engages the gap between the drive toward self-understanding and the excavated, tangled narratives autobiography can't quite reconcile. The translation of early memory into language is a set of decisions, and in Dream of No One but Myself, Bradford decides and then decides again, composing a deliberately unstable, frayed account of family inheritance, intergenerational traumas, and domestic tenderness. More essayistic lyric than lyrical essay, this is a satisfyingly unsettling and off-kilter debut that charts, shapes, fragments, and embraces the unresolvable. These gorgeous, halting poems ultimately take the urge to make linear sense of one’s own history and diffract it into innumerable beams of light.
Dream of Orchids: Hunter's Green, Dream Of Orchids, And The Winter People
by Phyllis A. WhitneyA bookseller reunites with her estranged, enigmatic father in Key West in this suspenseful New York Times bestseller by &“a master of suspense&” (Mary Higgins Clark). Twenty-five years ago, Long Island bookstore owner Laurel York was abandoned by her father, author Clifton York. Ever since, she&’s followed his life and career with morbid resentment. When Clifton&’s collaborator shows up in her shop with the gift of an orchid, she reluctantly agrees to accompany him back to Key West to help her and her father come to terms with the past—even in light of her late mother&’s warning: &“There is something terribly wrong in that house . . .&” Laurel arrives at her father&’s estate in the historic district of Old Town expecting past wounds to show their scars. But what she doesn&’t anticipate are her father&’s cool reception, two strange stepsisters, rumors of a buried treasure, and the whispers about Clifton&’s second wife—and her bizarre death in a greenhouse full of orchids. The only one who seems to be happy about her presence is the mysterious Marcus O&’Neill—if only she could be sure she can trust him. Now, in a house of bad blood and family secrets, Laurel finds herself alone, unprepared for the real reason she has been summoned, and, with every new revelation, more afraid for her life. Edgar Award winner Phyllis A. Whitney, &“headmistress of handsomely-schooled suspense [is] in full bloom&” in this gothic romance of deception and murder (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author&’s estate.
Dream of Scipio
by Iain PearsIn national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II. An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice.Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.
Dream of a Common Language
by Heather McdonaldDrama / 2m, 3f, 1m child / This intriguing work produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and in New York was inspired by an actual incident: women were banned from the artists' dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, the dinner is at the home of Victor, a successful artist, and Clovis, an artist who no longer paints. After helping with the preparations and being excluded from the dining room, Clovis devises a "women only" dinner to be held outdoors. Winner of three 1995 Helen Hayes Awards including Best New Play.
Dream of a Falling Eagle (The Mongo Mysteries #14)
by George C. ChesbroCircus-performer-turned-PI Mongo takes on &“the CIA, neo-Nazis, and Haitian voodoo terrorists&” in a grand finale that is &“even more fun than usual&” (Booklist). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as &“Mongo the Magnificent&”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. Investigating illegal CIA activities in Haiti leads Mongo and his brother, former NYPD cop Garth Frederickson, to a grisly discovery: five victims of voodoo ritual sacrifice. But that&’s just the first surprise. Soon they uncover a wildly ambitious assassination plot that not only puts them in the cross hairs but also has the potential to change the fate of the United States forever . . . Employing his &“unlimited imagination&” and talent for creating &“terrific suspense&” in the Mongo mystery series, author George C. Chesbro delivers a climax that pulls out all the stops (Publishers Weekly). Dream of a Falling Eagle is the 14th book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Dream of the Blue Room: A Novel
by Michelle RichmondJenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth's ashes and finally fulfill her friend's dream of visiting her Chinese father's homeland. It's also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny's past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog ("Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard" --Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know ("Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned"--Family Circle), Michelle Richmond's stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us--wherever home may be.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dream of the Blue Turtle: Trouble At Trident Academy; Battle Of The Best Friends; A Whale Of A Tale; Danger In The Deep Blue Sea; The Lost Princess; The Secret Sea Horse; Dream Of The Blue Turtle; Treasure In Trident City; A Royal Tea; A Tale Of Two Sisters (Mermaid Tales #7)
by Debbie Dadey Tatevik AvakyanKiki Coral has an amazing gift: she can see the future. She doesn't have visions very often, but they are always surprising! When Kiki sees a vision of her classmate Rocky Ridge coming face-to-frightening-face with a gigantic leatherback turtle, she is frightened to the tip of her shiny purple tail. Can Kiki save Rocky from his dangerous fate? What if no one in Trident Academy believes her scary prediction?
Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
by YanyiFrom an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. &“A book like no other: tender, and eloquent, a singing across borders, across silences.&”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, National Book Award finalistThe poems in Yanyi&’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. How can we carry our homes with us? Informed by Yanyi&’s experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another. In tender, serene, and ethereal poems, Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundary-shifting ways. These are homes in memory—homes of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder.
Dream of the Falling Axe (The Grave of Empires)
by Sam SykesA standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed The Grave of Empires trilogy. Sal the Cacophony solves problems no one else can. Because she's caused more than a few herself. And the pursuit of such a problem from her past has brought her to a frontier town held together in the face of disaster through strength alone. But both the town and Sal will learn that strength alone can't save everyone. They called her for help. Unfortunately for them, she answered.For more from Sam Sykes, check out:The Grave of Empires:Seven Blades in Black Ten Arrows of Iron Three Axes to FallThe Gallows Black The Iron Dirge Dream of the Falling AxeBring Down Heaven:The City Stained Red The Mortal Tally God's Last BreathThe Affinity for Steel Trilogy:Tome of the Undergates Black Halo The Skybound Sea
Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary and Translation Perspectives (Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature)
by Kanglong Liu Riccardo Moratto Di-Kai ChaoThis edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture, the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations, either full-length or abridged, have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically, the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations, from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies.