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Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions and Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, to Petronius' Satyricon and Dante's Inferno, she shows that gluttony was in...
4) Lust
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Public Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue."...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Public Library
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one's health, destroy peace of mind and, at its worst, lead to murder, genocide, and war. In Anger, Robert A.F. Thurman, best-selling author and one of America's leading authorities on Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, offers an illuminating look at this deadliest of sins. In the West, Thurman...
6) Lust
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Harper plans to steal Adam from Beth while Kane wants Beth and Miranda wants Kane.
8) Envy
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Kane and Harper plot to break up Beth and Adam.
11) Wrath
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Beth, Miranda, and Adam have developed motives for revenge against Kaia, Kane, and Harper.
14) Carnal sin
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon hunter Moira O'Donnell fears the terror has only just begun. Racing to L.A., Moira discovers that the City of Angels is fast becoming the demon Lust's decadent playground. She suspects another coven is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Kathryn Caskie tempts historical readers once more with the Seven Deadly Sins-the deliciously licentious Sinclair family of unforgettable rogues and rapscallions-in The Duke's Night of Sin. This latest family chronicle of passionate misadventures pits Lady Siusan Sinclair against the one man who holds in one hand the power to ruin her…and in the other, the key to her heart. If you adore the amorous exploits of Stephanie Laurens's...
16) Original sin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O'Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira's global search has led her to a small California town that's about to become hell on earth. Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can't explain, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper joins Moira's dangerous quest....
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach. A local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard. Trouble arrives at a bad time to the backwater village of Morfi, just as the community is making headlines with a visit from a high-ranking government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble, there's Hermes Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine and whose investigative methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must investigate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hermes Diaktoros visits a remote island which is home to an ancient icon famed for its miraculous powers. But something about the Virgin troubles him, and he calls on an old friend to confirm his suspicions. Ready to hand the matter over to the authorities, Hermes intends to leave - until the island's icon painter is found dead at sea." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"To save her kingdom, Princess Elizabeth has pinned her last hope on the infamous traitors, "The Seven Deadly Sins" and has set out on a journey with Meliodas--the Dragon Sin of Wrath--to seek out the rest of his fellow knights and former friends. Deepwithin an uninviting forest they find Diane, the Serpent Sin of Envy. Before they can celebrate their reunion, they must deal with an attack from Gilthunder, an electrifying Holy Knight!" --
