 | The Pleasure of My Company
Release Date: October 6, 2004Steve Martin's "gifts for subtlety and slyness compare to those of the finest comic novelists" (People) and his latest New York Times bestseller -- a witty and tender tour de force -- is now in paperback!Shopgirl revealed the novelist in Steve Martin -- witty, tender, intelligent, and passionate about his craft. And with the successful publication of The Pleasure of My Company, his reputation as one of our most gifted writers has been confirmed. Here, the reader is introduced to Daniel Pecan Cambridge, whose life is full and rich -- but only within the ...
 |  | The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Literature)
Publication Date: August 31, 2005| Series: Literature Six years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, which he patched together from Mark Twain's three unfinished manuscripts, produced, Paine asserted, during a period of supposed creative paralysis. Scholars have since discovered that Paine's edition of the book was largely based on the earliest of those three versions, onto which Paine then grafted the final chapter of the last version. Indeed, Paine changed so many of the book's essentia...
|  | Blue Marrow
Release Date: September 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 1550503049 | ISBN-13: 978-1550503043| Edition: 1 This moving tribute to Native female strength, nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry is available again in a rewritten, re-edited and redesigned edition. The beautifully designed cover depicts the author's 4 grandmothers dancing among the Northern lights. ...
|  | A Class Apart
Release Date: August 11, 2009Jenneen, Kate, Ellamarie, and Ashley are enviable women. They are desirable and powerful, with glamorous jobs in the media and the theatre, and—most importantly—the closest of friendships. But each of the friends has a dark secret, and none of them can ever be entirely safe from the passion, deceit, and danger which threatens to seduce and then destroy them. ...
|  | A Promise to Believe In (The Brides of Gallatin County, Book 1)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Gwen, Beth, and Lacy Gallatin fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds, operating a roadhouse that is located at the crossroads of two major stage lines.When their father is accidentally killed, the oldest sister, Gwen, reasons that she's cursed.After all, death seems to haunt her: her mother, now her father...and she was married for a mere ten days before her husband died from a bout of measles.As Gwen and her sisters struggle to maintain the inn on their own, an unexpected visitor adds to the mayhem.Hank Bishop claims to be searching for somethi...
|  | The Knight (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 3)
Release Date: September 7, 2010The next move from the national bestselling author of The Rook and The PawnA unique clue is left for FBI criminologist Patrick Bowers at the scene of a ritual murder: a tape recording predicting Bowers' own next move. At a subsequent murder, Bowers uncovers something else: an ancient manuscript being used as a template for the crimes. And the more he deciphers the codes of the text, the more he fears how it will end. Because Bowers isn't closing in on the killer at all. The killer is closing in on him... ...
|  | Sophie's First Dance (Faith Girlz Sophie Series 5)
Release Date: March 24, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: A Novel
Release Date: June 2, 2009This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia “Gennie” Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudent–especially as she’s ...
|  | A Storyteller's Ghost Stories, Book 2
Publication Date: April 1990The author presents eighteen ghost stories collected from oral tradition in Nebraska and Iowa and adapted for storytelling. ...
|  | Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual (Gay Men's Fiction)
Publication Date: January 2004| Series: Gay Men's Fiction Showcasing a collection of authors that read like the Who's Who of gay and lesbian fiction, these bone-chilling stories invoke queer fear that breaks through to the other side. A groundbreaking anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama, this book brings readers face to face with the best from the dark side of queer writing. An acclaimed collection of authors gathers between these covers to swap stories of murder and mayhem, savouring every lurid detail. SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT presents tales of the doomed and the damned, including a gay t...
|  | Possessed by Shadows
Release Date: June 17, 2005Possessed by Shadows is the story of two climbers who spend a year traveling from the rugged desert of Joshua Tree National Park to the Alps, the Himalayas, and the High Tatra mountains of Czechoslovakia.Philosophy professor Tom Valen narrates part of their story: the time he spent climbing with his wife, Molly, as she fought cancer. He also explores the journal she kept during the emotional period before her death, which occurred in the weeks before the Velvet Revolution in late 1989.Told in alternating voices as Tom relives that year, Molly's journal reveals comp...
|  | Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories (Large Print Classics)
Publication Date: March 23, 2004| Series: Large Print Classics British humorist P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) charmed generations of readers with such whimsical characters as the Honourable Bertie Wooster — a deliciously dim aristocrat — and Jeeves, his imperturbable manservant. This entertaining collection presents six entertaining tales featuring the unflappable valet, among them "Leave It to Jeeves," "Jeeves Takes Charge," and "Jeeves in the Springtime."...
|  | The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (The A to Z Guide Series)
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0810868555 | ISBN-13: 978-0810868557Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that ...
|  | James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love
Publication Date: October 11, 1999James Tissot (1836-1902), the wry and urbane observer of manners and fashions, painted scenes from the life of "society" that simmered with undercurrents of sexual drama. Smiling at his characters' vanities and foibles, Tissot reveled in each detail of their finery, every sign of their savoir-faire. This beautifully illustrated book presents about a hundred paintings, prints, and watercolors that represent every phase of Tissot's career, including such signature paintings as The Ball on Shipboard, Hush! (The Concert), and London Visitors.Nancy Marsh and Malc...
|  | Dorothea Tanning
Publication Date: August 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0807614025 | ISBN-13: 978-0807614020| Edition: 1st From Library JournalThe unique surrealist painter/sculptor/designer Dorothea Tanning (b. 1910) well deserves this sumptuous volume. Her innovative oeuvre is lyrically evoked and reviewed by French critic, playwright, and poet Bailly. For clarity, however, Tanning's own afterword and the comprehensive chronology should be read before the critical essays. Some 214 color plates, four color foldouts, and 191 black-and-white illustrations mark out the visions of a fertile art not well known to the pu...
|  | Maxims (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 28, 1982| Series: Penguin Classics The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms. ...
|  | Honk If You Love Real Men
Release Date: May 26, 2005Wanted: Real Men. Must be irresistible, good with his hands, and know how to handle any situation. . .in or out of the bedroom. Honk If You Love Real Men is a contemporary erotic anthology featuring some of the brightest up and coming names in contemporary romance and erotic romance. "Naughty Girl" by Carrie Alexander: When a sexy, sassy woman driving in her convertible catches the eye of a gorgeous construction worker, they indulge in a delicious afternoon tryst."WANTED: One Hot Blooded Man" by Pamela Britton: A sexy firefighter is responsible for lighting more fir...
|  | The Wolf and the Dove
Release Date: August 28, 2007The WolfNoble Aislinn grieves as the Iron Wolf and his minions storm through her beloved Darkenwald. And she burns with malice for the handsome Norman savage who would enslave her. . .even as she aches to know the rapture of the conqueror′s kissThe DoveFor the first time ever, mighty Wulfgar has been vanquished--and by a bold and beautiful princess of Saxon blood. He must have the chaste, sensuous enchantress who is sworn to his destruction. And he will risk life itself to nurture with tender passion a glorious union born in the bliste...
|  | Brighter Than the Sun
Release Date: July 27, 2004Charles Wycombe, the dashing - if incorrigible - Earl of Billington, needs a bride before his upcoming 30th birthday, if he hopes to earn his inheritance. The vicar′s vivacious, determined daughter, Miss Eleanor Lyndon, needs a new home, since her father′s insufferable fiancee is making her old one intolerable. Destinly has brought Charles and Ellie together - though their match at the outset appears to have been made somewhere rather hotter than heaven ...
|  | A Test Of Time (Arabesque)
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