 | The Sleeping Beauty Proposal
Release Date: June 3, 2008A wickedly funny fairytale for modern women from the ?laugh-out-loud funny? (Washington Post Book World) author of The Cinderella Pact.Genie?s commitment-phobic boyfriend is finally proposing?on national television. To the woman he?s been seeing on the side. It?s a major wake-up call for a girl who?s hit the snooze button on her life a few too many times. With no names mentioned on the broadcast, Genie finds herself flooded with presents and congratulations. It?s up to her to explain the mistake, but sometimes waking up is hard to do. When her parents start planning...
 |  | The Criss Cross (Life, Love & Loneliness)
Publication Date: March 22, 2011Nikki Ling is the independent, foxy daughter of the merciless streets of Brooklyn, forced to make a living the only way she knows how. Things seem to get brighter when a wealthy South African diplomat asks for her hand in marriage, but it doesn't take long after the honeymoon before she sees his true colors. The soft-spoken, reserved gentleman she thought he was, is actually pathologically kinky and sadistic. Entrenched in the midst of her marital turmoil, she one day meets a mysterious stranger who approaches her with what seems like the ticket to a better li...
|  | Esau (People of the Promise)
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|  | Ghost Tales from the Ghost Trail (Ghost Trial)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Ghost Trial (Book 1) A supernatural delight, Ghost Tales is a collection of stories as told to Cynthis Lee by the actual ghosts and spirits who make the Ghost Trail their home.When the young woman stumbles upon the trail while out on an evening stroll, she discovers an assortment of ghostly apparitions who insist that she stop and hear their stories about how they came to their ghostly end. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Stake
Release Date: April 1, 2000In an abandoned hotel in a California ghost town, horror writer Larry and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble across a naked woman in a coffin with a stake driven through her heart. Was she a vampire or the victim of a gruesome murder? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: October 25, 2005On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sister...
|  | Can't Buy Me Love
Release Date: April 1, 2001Thanks to his wealthy, doting lover, Jack Erikson's biggest daily challenges are working out and deciding which magazine to read. But when his benefactor suddenly dies, Jack is tossed out on the street, with no way of supporting the lifestyle he has become accustomed to. Jack's half-hearted stints at minimum wage jobs barely cover the minimum payments on his credit cards, let alone his Sunday brunches with the boys. Slipping into what he does best, Jack stumbles his way into a career running Harden Up, a male escort service, along with Ray, a professional hustler a...
|  | Fire on the Waters : A Novel of the Civil War at Sea
Release Date: June 24, 2003The year is 1861, and America shudders on the brink of disunion. Elisha Eaker, scion of a wealthy Manhattan banking family, joins the Navy against his father's wishes. He does it as much to avoid an arranged marriage to his cousin, Araminta Van Velsor, as to defend the flag.Eli meets Lieutenant Ker Claiborne aboard the sloop of war U.S.S. Owanee. An Annapolis graduate who's seen action in the West Indies and the Africa Station, Claiborne is cool and competent in storm and battle, but he now faces an agonizing choice between the Navy he loves and his native Virgin...
|  | Black Beaver: The Trapper (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Publication Date: April 3, 2009Black Beaver (1806-1888) was a Delaware Scout, interpreter and trapper. His Indian name was Sucktum- mah-kway. He spent many years in the Rocky Mountains, and led many expeditions. In 1834 he accompanied the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition and during the Mexican War he served in the U. S. Army as a captain of Indian volunteers. In 1849 he led Capt. Randolph B. Marcy and others westward to Santa Fe via the California Road. He later occupied Camp Arbuckle, and became chief of a settlement called Beaversville. In 1853 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple visited him there. He set...
|  | Essays In Existentialism
Release Date: June 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0806501626 | ISBN-13: 978-0806501628| Edition: Reissue Examination of human consciousness; philosophy, metaphysics, semantics, existentialism. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
Publication Date: October 17, 2002Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.The indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests are on the verge of extinction. It was feared that the narratives which had sustained them over centuries might die with them. Betty Mindlin was determined to record these legends and the result is a startling piece of anthropology. Mindlin, inspired by the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, has shown that what often appears to be the creation of a fantastical, isolated imagination is just a...
|  | The Green Bird: A Commedia dell' Arte Play in Three Acts
Publication Date: January 1, 1985Carlo Gozzi's delightful commédia dell'arte classic has been translated into English for the first time from its original Venetian dialect. Complete with stage directions. ...
|  | Poets For Palestine
Publication Date: August 7, 2008Poets For Palestine is a unique collection of poetry, spoken word, hip-hop, and art devoted to Palestine. Unifying a diverse range of poets who have used their words to elevate the consciousness of humanity, the book aims to bridge a younger generation of poets with those who, for decades, have cultivated and strengthened the poetic medium. Poets For Palestine includes poems by the late Mahmoud Darwish, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Patricia Smith, E. Ethelbert Miller, Melissa Tuckey, Ghassan Zaqtan, Remi Kanazi, Dima Hilal, S...
|  | Leonardo Da Vinci: Dreams, Schemes, and Flying Machines (Adventures in Art (Prestel))
Publication Date: April 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, And James I : A Mystery For The Twenty- First Century
Publication Date: September 30, 2004For years, a popular debate has been raging about whether Shakespeare was really the author of the many plays and poems published under his name. Doubters argue that Shakespeare could not have accomplished such a great feat, pointing instead to other well-known figures. Richard Ramsbotham offers a completely different perspective by reexamining the available evidence and by introducing unexplored aspects of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research. The author discusses Shakespeare’s life as an actor, mysteries of the debate such as the enig...
|  | The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume III: No Union with the Slaveholders: 1841-1849
Publication Date: January 1, 1974| ISBN-10: 0674526627 | ISBN-13: 978-0674526624As early as 1842 Garrison advanced the idea of disunion, arguing that the Constitution was "a covenant with death." Distressed by Calhoun's signing of the annexation treaty for Texas, he prophesied that civil war was inevitable. Though plagued by illness and death in his immediate family throughout the years covered in this volume, Garrison drove himself to win supporters for the radical abolitionist cause. In 1846 he traveled to Great Britain, denouncing the Free Church of Scotland for accepting funds from S...
|  | Love Me Forever
Release Date: June 1, 2010All single mother Stella Schwartz meant to do was let her son, Sam, browse through books at Dixie's Vampire Emporium. She hadn't counted on the shop assistant, Justin Corvis, being a dark-eyed super-hunk with the kind of charismatic English accent that would make her heart skip a beat. And she couldn't know how close to the truth that was. When Justin smiles at her, it's as if he's known her forever. And when he asks for her phone number - Stella can't help wanting the thrill to last for eternity. For there's something dangerously different about Justin Corvus...dif...
|  | Writing Romantic Fiction: How to Make a Success of Your Creative Work (How to Books (Midpoint))
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: How to Books (Midpoint) Romantic fiction is the best-selling and most borrowed type of fiction. This book was written by the author of over 30 romance novels and offers advice and practical tips on the skills needed for writing romantic fiction and historical novels. ...
|  | Fear is a Killer: Sixteen Stories of Crime and Punishment
Publication Date: January 1, 2010The diversity of Bankier's stories ia as impressive as the output. Humour and suspense, whodunits and character studies, historical recreations and contemporary shock endings. The real mystery is why, with almost 200 stories to his credit, this is the first collection of Bankier's stories to be published. Welcome then, to the world of William Bankier. A world where nightmare comes silently, in the dead of night. where the last act is often deadly. Where fear is a killer. Now turn the page and enter a bar where the patrons demonstrate Bankier's finely tuned ea...
|  | Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel
Publication Date: April 7, 2010| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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