 | Secrets
Release Date: December 1, 1999It is the week before the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia. Kalaman, a successful young businessman in Mogadiscio receives an unexpected house guest—the wild and sexually adventurous Sholoongo, his childhood crush returned from America. She announces that she intends to have his baby. Confronted by this dangerous interruption from his past, Kalaman starts to investigate his family's history, and uncovers the startling key to his own conception. Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the finest contemporary African novelists," Farah writes in a rhythmical,...
 |  | Consequences
Release Date: May 31, 2007Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away ...Lorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by ...
|  | Annapolis
Release Date: March 30, 2010From the days of pirate raids on the Chesapeake to swift-boat actions in Vietnam, the Staffords and their traditional rivals, the Parrishes, struggle with foreign enemies and each other to build a navy and a nation. They march across the deserts of Tripoli, sail into the South Seas to battle the British and dally with the native girls, fight aboard the Merrimac and the Monitor, fly into the battle of Midway, and look into the living faces of all four men on Mount Rushmore. When Stafford descendant Susan Browne sets out to film a documentary about her fa...
|  | Unbreakable Bonds (The Randalls Saga)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002Privilege was granted to one, poverty to the other. Identical twin brothers, separated at birth, are finally reunited in this Randall family saga by bestselling author Judy Christenberry.Gabe Randall struggled his entire life to own his Wyoming ranch, and it cost him the love of sweet Jenny Waggoner. Since then, Gabe had stoically kept to himself until a stranger with his exact face arrived at the Double Moon Ranch, and announced he was Gabe's twin.There was no denying that Nicholas McMillan and Gabe shared blood ties. But biology did not true brothers make. A...
|  | Assegai
Release Date: March 30, 2010Ex-soldier Leon Courtney guides the rich and powerful from America and Europe on big-game safaris. After a successful expedition with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Leon became one of the world’s most sought-after hunters. Now, he is about to find out that celebrity comes at a hazardous price.Leon has been recruited by the British forces to gather intelligence on Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist who builds aircraft for the Kaiser’s growing army. As his safari guide, Leon is closer to the Count than anyone—and it’s not lon...
|  | Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: February 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's c...
|  | Secrets in the Attic (Secrets)
Release Date: September 25, 2007 From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies -- and uncovers the price for keepingSecrets in the Attic Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart.In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with ...
|  | Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
Publication Date: January 15, 2004It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagún can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda...
|  | The Making of a Marchioness
Publication Date: July 7, 2010An unabridged edition of The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Burnett, with drawings by C. D. Williams ...
|  | The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 23, 1998| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle In this touching, hilarious novel of the heart and mind, of dreams and memory, of desire and first love, Abe Lee comes of age in the 1960s, living with his unforgettable family at the Flamingo Drive-In Theatre on a scrubby patch of coast between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. There, some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding.For Abe's father, Hubert, there's nothing better than presenting larger-than-life Hollywood fantasies on his vast silver screen. Nothing, that is, except gleefully sparring wit...
|  | The Forever Street: A Novel
Publication Date: May 24, 2005Berek, a young penniless Jew of eighteen is struggling to make a home of Turk Place, a desolate street that, in 1873 Vienna, was little more than a Gypsy encampment. But Berek believes fiercely in his own power to forge miracles. Taking the caretaker's daughter as his bride, Berek is confident he can thrive on faith. When a mysterious piece of stone comes into his possession, he and his wife believe their prayers have been answered; the stone may be a holy fragment of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.This relic, no larger than a brick, proves to transfigure the couple...
|  | Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Release Date: August 26, 2008In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step.Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love.Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos Aires at mid-century to the present day, this masterful novel intertwines two love stories across three generations. The deep suspicions of an isolated community in the midst of war force Louise and Schmidt—two near-strangers—to hide in a cave overlooking the ocea...
|  | Celestial Navigation
Release Date: August 27, 1996"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions."THE NEW YORK TIMESThirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily to...
|  | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Publication Date: January 30, 2005| Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a cons...
|  | Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets)
Release Date: April 15, 2008 Everyone SaysHer Mother Was Crazy.Is She Doomed to Repeat the Past? Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell, exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her life completely opens up -- she even attends the prom with a cute,...
|  | Hermanos de sangre / Blood Brothers (Trilog
Publication Date: September 15, 2010| Series: Trilogia Signo Del Siete / Sign of Seven Trilogy (Book 1) En la víspera de su décimo cumpleaños, los tres chicos quedan para acampar en el bosque que rodea Hawkins Hollow. Su destino es la Piedra Pagana, donde hacen un ritual de hermanos de sangre en el que cimentarán su amistad eterna. Cuando sus tres gotas de sangre se unen sobre la Piedra Pagana, un poderoso demonio que había estado escondido durante siglos reaparece. La ciudad se ve envuelta en siete días de caos después de este ritual, pero tras los disturb...
|  | The House
Release Date: January 30, 2007The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman s dream, an old man s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door....Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair...
|  | Thy Gold to Refine (Work and the Glory, Volume 4)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: Work and the Glory Author - Gerald N. Lund-Bookcraft-1993.First Printing-Signed by Author.Text - Clean and Tight.Dust Jacket - Very Good +.Only marks in book are the previous owners names. ...
|  | London: The Novel
Release Date: March 28, 1998In the tradition of his phenomenal bestseller Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd now gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the world. . . . ...
|  | A Young Wife: A Novel
Release Date: June 19, 2012An epic tale of a mother’s sacrifice, determination, and love spanning three continents When fifteen-year-old Minke van Aisma travels to Amsterdam to care for the dying wife of an older, wealthy man named Sander DeVries, she has no idea what awaits her. Within hours of his wife’s death, Sander proposes marriage, and within days the couple sets sail for the burgeoning oil fields of Argentina. But the future that seemed so bright takes a dark turn the morning their son, Zef, is kidnapped. Dire circumstances dictate that Sander immigrate to New York at onc...
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