| The Glamorous Life: A Novel Release Date: December 28, 2010The #1 bestselling author of Natural Born Hustler and Relapse, Nikki Turner gives up the game that could never be sold, only told. The lure of Richmond, Virginia’s streets is too strong for Bambi, a good girl who fell in love with Reggie, a young hustler. Her thug love not only corrupted her but blinded her with the bling and cash that come with living the glamorous life of a gangsta’s girl—until Reggie hit her with a low blow, breaking her heart. From that day forward, Bambi vowed that whoever crossed her would pay—usually wi...
| | Fall Higher Publication Date: April 26, 2011"Dean Young is a high-energy poet. . . . His vigorous, vibrant, fast-paced poems make startling connections."Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist"Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become a crucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry."Tony Hoagland"The language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems are astounding."Charles SimicDean Young surmounts the failures of love and the body with his signature humor, verbal banter, and wild imaginative leaps. Embracing the elegiac, angry, and amo...
| | Compression & Purity (City Lights Spotlight) Publication Date: April 19, 2011| Series: City Lights Spotlight (Book 5) The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angelesbased African American surrealist Will Alexander.Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aimé Césaire and César Vallejo, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological, and historical concerns.Highlights include a monologue from the perspective of "The Blood Penguin," a song by the "New Water on Mars," and Alexander's autobiogr...
| | Twenty Wishes (Blossom Street) Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Blossom Street What do you want most in the world?What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness.On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…hope. They each begin a list of twenty wishes—things they always wanted to do but never did.Anne Marie's list includes learning to knit, falling in love again, doing good for s...
| | Ophan, Thomas Never Doubted: Book 3 Publication Date: November 18, 2010Nicholas Freeman has gained a close personal relationship with Jehovah, Jesus, and his spiritual teacher, Sophia, the mysterious Blue Lady, but in doing so, he has lost a lot of things along the way, like his family, his home, and almost all of his friends. Nicholas has temporarily found the other half of his soul, and he has been reminded of what a powerful force real Love is.However, circumstances beyond his control are trying to intervene and tear their engagement asunder.The Blue Lady teaches him about Didymus Judas Thomas, a previous incarnation of Oph...
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| | Snowleg Publication Date: October 3, 2005When sixteen-year-old Peter Hithersay discovers that his father is not the affable Englishman married to his mother but an East German political dissident with whom she had a brief affair in the 1960s, he travels, in search of his past, to Leipzig. There he falls in love with a beautiful young woman who is beginning to question the way her society is governed. But their romance ends quickly and badly when his scheme to smuggle her out of the country goes awry and he is forced to return to England.When the two Germanies are reunited nineteen years later, Peter...
| | Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner - A Sort of Love Story Release Date: April 1, 2000(Applause Books). In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he "merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head," and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation. ...
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| | Chaos Theory of the Heart: And Other Poems Publication Date: April 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 1770090975 | ISBN-13: 978-1770090972The final work of Lionel Abrahams, a highly respected, award-winning, South African poet and novelist who passed away in 2004, this collection of poems demonstrates what it is to be a writer in chaotic times....
| | Shine On: Irish Writers for Shine anthology Publication Date: October 1, 2011An anthology of prose and poetry by some of the best-known living Irish writers, in support of the voluntary body Shine, supporting people affected by mental ill health. Contributors include Colm Tóibin, Colum McCann, Claire Keegan, John Montague, Brendan Kennelly, Paula Meehan, Kevin Barry, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and many others. Edited and introduced by Pat Boran with a Foreword by broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan. ...
| | The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther ...
| | Women's Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture (The Nineteenth Century Series) Publication Date: June 5, 2008| ISBN-10: 0754652947 | ISBN-13: 978-0754652946The first full-length study to focus exclusively on nineteenth-century British women while examining queer authorship and culture, Jill R. Ehnenn's book is a timely interrogation into the different histories and functions of women's literary partnerships. For Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and "Kit" Anstruther-Thomson; Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Martin); Elizabeth Robins and Florence Bell; and Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, the couple who wrote under the pseudonym of "Michael Field," collab...
| | Something Wonderful Release Date: January 1, 1991Bestselling author Judith McNaught masterfully portrays a remarkable heroine, and an unforgettable passion, in this powerfully moving love story -- one of her most beloved novels of all time!The tempestuous marriage of Alexandra Lawrence, an innocent country girl, and Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne, is about to face its ultimate test of tender loyalty. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. B...
| | A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 7) Release Date: November 8, 2005When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined ...
| | Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Jacket library) Publication Date: 1932| Series: Jacket library This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. THE STRANGE STORY OF JONATHAN SMALL. A very patient man was the inspector in the cab, for it was a weary time before I rejoined him. His face clouded over when I showed him the empty box. "There goes the reward!" said he, gloomily. "Where there is no money there is no pay. This night's work would have been worth a tenner each to Sam...
| | Harry Potter y el c Publication Date: February 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | The Aesop for Children Publication Date: November 23, 1999A Version of Aesop's Fables for Children.There are Beautiful Illistrations by Milo Winter.One of the most famous book in the world, full of the truth of life.An excerpt:"The Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and th...
| | The Wind in the Willows (Sterling Classics) Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Skunks (Kids Can Press Wildlife Series) Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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