 | Angelmaker
Release Date: March 20, 2012From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activat...
 |  | We Sinners: A Novel
Release Date: August 21, 2012This stunning debut novel—drawn from the author's own life experience—tells the moving story of a family of eleven in the American Midwest, bound together and torn apart by their faith The Rovaniemis and their nine children belong to a deeply traditional church (no drinking, no dancing, no TV) in modern-day Michigan. A normal family in many ways, the Rovaniemis struggle with sibling rivalry, parental expectations, and forming their own unique identities in such a large family. But when two of the children venture from the faith, the family fragments a...
|  | The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: May 20, 2008| Series: New York Review Books Classics In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Togethe...
|  | The Dream (Singing River Series #2)
Release Date: August 24, 2006Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother ... and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she has drawn the attention of Roger Langley, son of the richest man in town. Tensions run deep between the Freemans and the Langleys. And on top of it all, Louise Langley accuses Lanie of trying to snatch away her handsome fiance, Dr. Owen Merrit. Dr. Merrit has long helped ...
|  | The Missing Map of Pirate's Haven (Accidental Detectives, Book 5)
Publication Date: July 2004| Age Level: 9 and up Accidental Detectives book 12. A trip to Southern California, a house that once belonged to pirates, and a legend of buried treasure…what better could the Accidental Detectives want?But when they arrive and meet Lisa’s uncle, an aging hippie, Ricky isn’t so sure.Can Uncle Carl be trusted?Ricky’s search for the truth—and the treasure—leads to untold wealth…and untold peril! ...
|  | Love, Forgiveness, and Hope
Publication Date: June 1999This is a reincarnation love story which begins in thetime of Atlantis and progresses through the afterlife and into thetwentieth century.Deja vu, karma, soul development and the afterlifeare all explored.Follow the two souls as they experience the trialsand tribulations of their spiritual journey of growth andunderstanding.Learn about the Council of Three, the Globe of Life,and the Archives of Life where the Akashic Records are kept.Let yourmind explore what your soul knows and remembers. ...
|  | A Hideous Bit of Morbidity : An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I by Colavito, Jason published by McFarland Library Binding
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|  | The O'Briens
Release Date: March 6, 2012An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams. The O’Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O’Brien—grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul—Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for ...
|  | Rainbow Six
Release Date: August 3, 1998Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots” and his “natural narrative gift” (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before. At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse and well-known from several of Clancy’s novels as “the dark side of Jack Ryan,” the man who conducts the secret operational missions ...
|  | Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Release Date: May 1, 2012Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda,it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the lastyears of Salazar’s dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissionedto paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in theprocess about himself and the world around him. The brilliantjuxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nationforeshadows all of Saramago’s major works. A must-have for any devotee...
|  | La amargura del triunfo / The Bitterness of Victory (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Clean Kill: A Sniper Novel (Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels)
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Kyle Swanson Sniper Novels On the heels of the New York Times bestselling Dead Shot comes the most thrilling installment of the Kyle Swanson series yet, in which an attempt at a new peace in the Middle East is shattered by an unknown attacker, and only Swanson can find out who’s responsible At a 15th Century castle outside Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell is brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli Foreign Minister are scheduled to sign an historic peace treaty—that is, until their meeting...
|  | The Faerie Queene: Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos (Bk. 6)
Publication Date: September 7, 2007| ISBN-10: 0872208915 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208919Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of cont...
|  | The Cellist of Sarajevo
Release Date: May 15, 2008A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their mem...
| ![Letters to a young man,: And other papers (De Quincey's writings. [v. 21])](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-sm._AA500_V192198896_.gif) | Letters to a young man,: And other papers (De Quincey's writings. [v. 21])
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|  | Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star Crossed Love
Release Date: November 16, 2010IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate. Award-winning, bestselling author Neil Gaiman demonstrates why he’s one...
|  | About French Poetry from Dada to "Tel Quel": Text and Theory
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| | Quan Tang shi suo yin (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | He Taught Me To Hope: Darcy and the Young Knight's Quest
Publication Date: October 1, 2011OverviewWhat if Elizabeth is promised to another when she meets Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the one man who captures her heart and imagination like no other? What's more, Darcy has an entanglement of his own--an engagement of a peculiar kind.As dire as their chance for "happily ever after" seems, there is a measure of hope by way of a strong and enduring bond between them ...The legend of King Arthur meets the timelessness of Miss Jane Austen's endearing works in this delightfully entertaining Pride and Prejudice adaptationthat takes you back to a magica...
|  | Besos de sangre (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010Si Buffy y Angel tuvieran una hija, probablemente seria como Cat Crawfield, una cazadora de vampiros con un poco de sangre vampira y mucha personalidad.Cat se ha propuesto librar al mundo de las tenebrosas criaturas de la noche. Pero cuando es capturada por Bones, descubre que el maestro de vampiros, tan temible como sexy, tiene unas cuantas cosas que ensenarle.Convertirse en companera de uno de ""ellos"" no estaba en los planes de Cat, pero ahora que las apuestas se han redoblado debera enfrentar junto a el la mas dificil de las batallas. ""La novela que lo...
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