 | Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Stephanie Plum Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head – literally.Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she’ll talk to is Trenton cop, Joe Morelli.Pump up the heat: Chipotle’s sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers.Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the m...
 |  | Night Soldiers: A Novel
Release Date: July 9, 2002Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Nigh...
|  | Roc and a Hard Place (Xanth, No. 19)
Publication Date: October 15, 1996Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the delectable Demoness Metria asks for help from the wise Magician Humfrey. But before he will help her, she must perform a perilous mission: Rove the length and breadth of Xanth in search of a suitable jury for the trial of Roxanne Roc-a notably noble and virtuous bird charged with a most improbable offense.Exciting, exhilarating, and brimming with hilarious high jinks, Roc and a Hard Place is Xanth at its most enchanting. ...
|  | Before I Wake
Publication Date: September 20, 2006The sheriff of Justice, Illinois, is hunting a killer. Women visiting town are being murdered, tourists in nice hotels, money still in their billfolds, jewelry still on the dresser. Quiet kills—they go to sleep and never awaken. The sheriff is not pleased to find the new detective in town, Rae Gabriella, working the case on behalf of one of the families. She's staying in the same hotel as one of the victims—and her looks suggest she could be the next victim. ...
|  | Something New (The Plain City Bridesmaids)
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| Series: The Plain City BridesmaidsReturn to Plain City, Ohio, where lifelong goals open paths to something new. Lil Landis aspires to become a head chef…a far cry from her Conservative Mennonite upbringing. But as she chases after her dream, problems seem to hinder her every move—from her mother’s depression to her family’s failing farm. Veterinary student Fletch Stauffer comes to the Landis farm with some goals of his own. But as Fletch is drawn deeper into deceptive ambitions, he finds himself falling for spunky Lil and at odds ...
|  | Power Play
Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Misfortune Cookies (Until the Fat Ladies Sing Mystery Series #1) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #26)
Publication Date: December 9, 2008 WHEN EVEN THE FORTUNE COOKIES HINT AT CALAMITY AHEAD, WATCH OUT!Best friends Sue Jan and Lovita run a beauty shop/boutique in the little West Texas town of Wachita. They share a passion for food and fun. But one day,over lunch in a Chinese restaurant, Lovita opens a fortune cookie with a sinister message: “Your father was murdered. . .” a clue that leads them to God, an international spy ring, and several devastatingly handsome strangers. A most unlikely pair of detectives, these girlfriends “comb” the countryside with styl...
|  | Rista's Tale Part 1: Scarjheen
Publication Date: August 6, 2008| Series: Rista's Tale Rista's Tale is the story of a young woman who changes the future of her world through love, determination and courage. Scarjheen is the first of three parts.Human Beings have colonized a new world and upset the delicate balance between the planet and the indigenous First Ones, thus bringing about the plague Scarjheen that threatens to destroy all life.When Rista finds a crystal staff washed ashore on the beach near her crystal mining mountain, she is thrust into an adventure that promises to stop the plague and change her and those she ...
|  | Night of the Harvest Moon: Vampyre: A Tale Of The Living And The Undead
Publication Date: May 29, 2003Night Of The Harvest Moon: Vampyre is a gothic horror narrative, one that delves deeply into the souls of its characters. The tale begins in the late 1800's in Central Europe, primarily Moldavia and Transylvania and expands to London and Sweden. Harvest Moon is a story of immense reprisals, hatred, and passion. Sorcery, demonology, and religion are essential elements that interweave within the physical and supernatural planes of existence of all those involved. The Vampyre learns of ancient knowledge that existed long before Egyptian civilization, the Ta Merians...
|  | History of Middle-Earth (Pt. 2)
Publication Date: January 6, 2003J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for his unique literary creation, exemplified in "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". He also produced a vast amount of further material that expands upon the stories that were published, and which gives added life to the tales of the hobbits, Gandalf and the quest of the Fellowship as told in "The Lord of the Rings". It was to this task of literary construction that Tolkien's youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to, producing the series of twelve books, "The Complete History of Middle-...
|  | Meg's New Friend - Acting Edition
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|  | Huis clos et les Mouches (French Edition)
Release Date: October 1, 1976Garcin, r??volutionnaire l??che et mari cruel : douze balles dans la peau ; In??s, femme d??moniaque qui rendra folle de douleur sa jeune amante : asphyxie par le gaz ; Estelle, coquette sans coeur qui noie son enfant adult??rin : pneumonie fulgurante. Morts, tous les trois. Mais le plus dur reste ?? faire. Ils ne se connaissent pas, et pourtant, ils se retrouvent dans un hideux salon dont on ne part jamais. Ils ont l'??ternit?? pour faire connaissance : quelques heures leur suffiront pour comprendre qu'ils sont leurs bourreaux respectifs. "L'enfer, c'est les aut...
|  | Antigone and Other Classics, Contemporized
Publication Date: October 5, 2001At last you can read early world classics and understand them! Numerous great writers of the pastSophocles, Socrates, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Marguerite of Navarre, Confucius, Muhammed, and othersare here contemporized and excerpted for easy access. The classics have never been more interesting or understandable. ...
|  | Somebody Stand Up and Sing (New Issues Poetry)
Publication Date: March 2005| Series: New Issues Poetry Poetry. "An American original and even stronger than that, these last four decades, till these poems anchored by their extreme facts and debris-like assembling remind us of who this man Seidman has always been becoming, this maker made by his irreducible materials"--Joseph McElroy. ...
|  | Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
Publication Date: November 8, 1997| ISBN-10: 0226111768 | ISBN-13: 978-0226111766Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten...
|  | The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2: The Symposium
Publication Date: August 25, 1993| ISBN-10: 0300056990 | ISBN-13: 978-0300056990"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execu...
|  | Strabo: Geography, Volume III, Books 6-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 182)
Publication Date: January 1, 1924| ISBN-10: 0674992016 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992016| Edition: Vol. 3, Books 6-7 Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history.Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books ha...
|  | Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Publication Date: April 19, 2003Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways.In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of t...
|  | Daughter of Texas
Publication Date: April 1, 2011A woman's life in Texas, before the cattle drives, before the Alamo. Before the legends were born. She was there, and she saw it all. On the day that she was twelve years old, Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers. The witch-woman looked at her hands, and foretold her future; two husbands, a large house, many friends, joy, sorrow and love.The witch woman would not say what she saw for Margaret's younger brothers, Rudi and Carl - for Texas was a Mexican colony. Before the Becker children were full-grown, the war for Texas indepe...
|  | Knight's Gambit (Vintage International)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Vintage International Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens’sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives. ...
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