 | How to Be Single: A Novel
Release Date: June 16, 2009Now in paparback, from the coauthor of He’s Just Not That Into You and a Sex and the City writer, How to Be Single is a humorous account of a woman who gets fed up with New York City’s dating scene and leaves the country to learn how women around the world deal with being single.Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia’s husband leaves her for a samba teacher, she forces Julie to organize a single girls’ night out to remind her why it’s so much fun not to be tied down. But the n...
 |  | Lidless (Yale Drama Series)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010| Series: Yale Drama Series It’s been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate half her liver as restitution for the damage wrought during her interrogations.But Alice doesn’t remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only when her in...
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|  | Size 12 and Ready to Rock: A Heather Wells Mystery (Heather Wells Mysteries)
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Series: Heather Wells MysteriesSummer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax. Fischer Hall is busier than ever, filled with squealing thirteen- and fourteen-year-old girls attending the first ever Tania Trace Teen Rock Camp, hosted by pop sensation Tania Trace herself—who just happens to be newly married to Heather's ex-boyfriend, heartthrob Jordan Cartwright. But the real headache begins when the producer of a reality ...
|  | Long Drive Home: A Novel
Release Date: May 17, 2011In his riveting new novel, Will Allison, critically acclaimed author of What You Have Left, crafts an emotional and psychological drama that explores the moral ambiguities of personal responsibility as it chronicles a father’s attempt to explain himself to his daughter—even though he knows that in doing so, he risks losing her. Life can change in an instant because of one small mistake. For Glen Bauer, all it takes is a quick jerk of the steering wheel, intended to scare a reckless driver. But the reckless driver is killed, and just like that, Glen&rsquo...
|  | Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know
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|  | The Letter (The Christmas Box Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 14, 1997The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is,most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up, but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all...
|  | The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 1 of 5: The Child Ballads (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: December 13, 2007Book Description: "The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in 10 Volumes. The ballads vary in age; for instance, a version of "A Gest of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late 15th or early 16th century, and the manuscript of "Judas" dates to the 13th century. The majority of the ballads, however, date to the 17th and 18th c...
|  | The Good Father: A Novel
Release Date: March 20, 2012An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son. As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting...
|  | Tobacco Road
Publication Date: February 1, 1995Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. ...
|  | Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Release Date: May 1, 1990| Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to ...
|  | Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 26, 2002| Series: Penguin Classics During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-"The Lady with the Little Dog," "The House with the Mezzanine," "My Life," "Peasants," "A Visit to Friends," "Ionych," "About Love," "In the Ravine," "The Bishop," "The Bride," and "Disturbing the Balance"-hail from this fertile period. They reveal a writer who, in response to the techniques of Symbolism and Impressionism, ...
|  | Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1994Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers. J M Barrie wrote Peter Pan first as a work of prose and then adapted it for the stage. John Caird and Trevor Nunn first adapted Barrie's book and play in the 1980s for the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in 1997 for the Royal National Theatre. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Bronzes of Grand Juction
Release Date: July 6, 2006The five Bronzes of Grand Junction are ordinary people instantly bronzed, like baby shoes, right in front of reliable witnesses, cause unknown. Could be the work of God, aliens, an artist, a magician. The bronzes cause quite a stir in town. And tourists arrive by the busload to see and talk about them. The result is an extended colloquy that is much more about us- America and Americans - than about the "bestatued" ones. ...
|  | Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary (Volume II, N-Z)
Publication Date: June 1, 1971| ISBN-10: 0486227278 | ISBN-13: 978-0486227276| Edition: 3rd Volume 2 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare's plays and poems. The 2 volumes contain more than 50,000 exact quotations, each precisely located. There is no other word dictionary comparable to this work. ...
| | Twentieth Century Russian Poetry
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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....
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|  | Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden (Lerner Biographies)
Publication Date: October 1990| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | A Spoon for Every Bite / Cada Bocado con Nueva Cuchara (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up “An entertaining marriage of pictures and words.”—Kirkus ReviewsIn 1996, master storyteller Joe Hayes and illustrator Rebecca Leer created A Spoon for Every Bite. It became an instant classic. In this lovely New Mexico folktale, a rich man tries to prove his wealth to his poor neighbors by using a new spoon for every bite. In the process, he’s served a pretty dish of come-uppance. A Spoon for Every Bite is available for the first time in the bilingual format for which Hayes is famous.Joe Hayes...
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