 | There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say
Release Date: November 27, 2007Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can’t help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing in this unique laugh-...
 |  | The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury
Release Date: October 16, 2012| Series: The Walking Dead The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia.At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary. Squatters barter services for food, pe...
|  | I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Release Date: January 27, 2009 Bestselling author Pearl Cleage returns to the site of her Oprah pick novel, What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day, to affirm life's precious wonder once again. Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself mercifully busy by running The Sewing Circus, an all-female group she founded to provide badly needed services to single mothers and other young women at risk. But some nights, home alone, she knows something is missing. And if the state legislature cuts off funding, she'll soon not even have The Sewing Circus to fill up her life. ...
|  | The Eyes of Darkness
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|  | Mathilda
Publication Date: July 2005Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second novel of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820. It deals with common Romantic themes of incest and suicide. The act of writing this short novel distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, "on the hearth of pale despair". -- from Wikipedia...
|  | Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I (French Edition)
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|  | The Rabbit Factory: A Novel
Publication Date: August 26, 2003Larry Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, this "true original" (Chicago Tribune) weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning, fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results.Set in Memphis and north Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease...
|  | Lure of the Wild (Wilderness #2)
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|  | Jet Pink
Publication Date: August 6, 2012Jet Pink is a zany and irreverent novel about redemption that, in bygone days, might have been delivered to your door in a plain brown wrapper.It traces the confused life of Walter, a Southern California businessman, from the time he discovers the ex-wife he still loves is going to remarry, until he finds purpose and peace beyond heaven’s gate. Walter tries all the usual ways (drugs, sex and rock n’ roll) to quell the inner turmoil he feels, but peace does not come until he has the opportunity to examine his own soul. It’s not about reli...
|  | The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: March 11, 2008| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard International Bestseller Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is forced to unlock the secrets of a nearly perfectmurder in this taut psychological thriller.On a rainy April day, a body—or whatis left of it—is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet,or head, it signals the work of a brutal, methodical killer. The victim, LeopoldVerhaven, was a track star before he was convicted for killing two of his ex-lovers.He consistently proclaimed his innocence, however, and was killed on the day of hisretu...
|  | Shakespeare's Edward III: An Early Play Restored to the Canon
Publication Date: September 25, 1996| ISBN-10: 0300066260 | ISBN-13: 978-0300066265| Edition: 1st "Edward III" was first published, anonymously, in 1596. Though most scholars now discern Shakespeare's hand in the play, academic uncertainties over "collaboration," "plagiarism", and "memorial reconstruction" have kept it firmly outside the canon. Now Eric Sams, whose "The Real Shakespeare" confirmed the playwright as a writer of popular plays from an early age as well as an assiduous reviser of his own work, offers a new edition that authenticates "Edward III" as Shakespeare's own, unaided...
|  | Politics and the Novel
Publication Date: July 30, 2002Irving Howe’s classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction is here reprinted in a new paperback edition. In establishing the role of the political novel and tracing its growth into the twentieth century, Mr. Howe draws his examples from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. He also explains why American novels failed to integrate ideology, including Henry Adams’s Democracy, Henry James’s The Bost...
|  | 84, Charing Cross Road
Publication Date: July 1, 2007It all began with a letter inquiring about secondhand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the staid and proper Frank Doel of Marks & Company, a relationship blossoms into a warm, charming, feisty love affair. ...
|  | Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: September 2001| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed. ...
|  | Light My Fire (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 3)
Release Date: November 7, 2006Aisling Grey is juggling being a demon lord, a Guardian, and a wyvern's mate, even though she's keeping her distance from said wyvern, Drake, these days. But her presence is still required at a meeting of the green dragons. Since several attempts have been made on her life, Drake is sure to get protective of her. Which might not be a bad thing when war breaks out and all hell breaks loose-literally. ...
|  | Ultimate X-Men Vol. 9: The Tempest
Publication Date: August 30, 2006| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Musical Donkey (Karadi Tales)
Publication Date: January 1999| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Grade Level: P and up In his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriots ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British generals orders to his troops and Reveres own deposition relating the events, ...
| | Rock Climbing (Great Outdoors)
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|  | The Chicken Sisters
Release Date: January 9, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When a big bad wolf moves to town, it would seem that the chicken sisters' fate is sealed, but in a clever twist, the eccentric trio saves the day. The unwitting wolf proves to be no match for the good intentions of these itching-sweater-knitting, off-key-singing, burnt-cookie-baking neighbors. Here's one wolf that's off to live with his mother!"Off the wall fun."—Publishers Weekly"A winner."—School Library Journal...
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