 | I'm Having More Fun Than You
Release Date: September 15, 2009Why settle down when you can hook up?"Happily married people and perpetually single people are similar: We've both given up on dating and have merely chosen different exit strategies."So begins Aaron Karo's hilarious exploration of bachelor life, from the alcohol-fueled pursuit of chicks in bars to sophisticated advances on defenseless bridesmaids. As his thirtieth birthday approaches, Karo observes the women around him growing increasingly desperate to tie the knot and finds himself equally determined—to remain uncommitted. What follows is an outrageous...
 |  | Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Publication Date: October 27, 2009In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornitho...
|  | Tier One Wild: A Delta Force Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2012| Series: Delta Force (Book 2) New York Times bestselling author and former Delta Force commander Dalton Fury (Black Site and Kill Bin Laden) is back with an explosive new thriller Former disgraced Delta Force commander Kolt "Racer" Raynor has earned his way back into The Unit after redeeming himself during an explosive operation at a black site in Pakistan. But he is about to face his deadliest challenge yet.The most wanted man in the world, American al Qaeda commander Daoud al Amriki, and his handpicked team of terrorist operatives, have ac...
|  | Harvest Tales and Midnight Revels; Stories for the Waning of the Year
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Harvest Tales and Midnight Revels is the surprising and thoroughly entertaining result of a ten-year odyssey of creative play. The 19 stories and poems presented here, along with beautiful original illustrations, were collected over the course of a Halloween story-writing party, thrown by a special community of creative adults, that spanned ten consecutive years. Each is a unique gem of a tale originally read aloud at the party and included in this volume for its readability and tested appeal. Some horrific, some laugh-out-loud funny, some deeply disturbing...
|  | Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996A novel set in a small town in Vermont in 1960 offers the storyof Marie Fermoyle, a lonely and vulnerable divorce+a7e, her threechildren, and dangerous con-man Omar Duvall. By the author of ADangerous Woman. Reprint. ...
|  | The Cross Of Sins: Dare Empire eMedia Productions
Publication Date: August 26, 2010THE BESTSELLING GAY ADVENTURES BEGIN! Somewhere in the world is a statue so sinful that a secret sect of the Church wants it destroyed at any cost. Somewhere in the Turkish desert, in the streets of London, and in the depths of Venice, are the clues to find it. And, somewhere in the hearts of five sexy, daring, thrill-seeking gay men, is the courage and die-hard determination to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Meet New York adventurer Jake Stone, Italian model Luca da Roma, Texas cowboy Shane Houston, Brazilian biologist Eden Santiago, and ...
|  | Pill-Billies
Publication Date: June 23, 2010Sissy Raymond struggles to find release after landing herself in a jail-rehab.Riddled with guilt, sex addiction, abusive relationships, and bereavement over the loss of her twenty-year old Brother, Sissy claws her way out through writing.Pill-billies takes place in Kentucky.Florida becomes an unwitting supplier as the addicts figure out to drive to the Pain Management clinics that cancer the Sunshine State. Addicts soon discovered they could drive to Florida's Pain-Management Clinics to stock up on oxycontin. Follow a drug-muling pill addict from her days as a ...
|  | Blueprints of the Afterlife
Publication Date: January 3, 2012From the “wickedly talented” (Boston Globe) and “darkly funny” (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age of F***ed Up Shit.” A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinn...
|  | Gotz Von Berlichingen: A Play
Publication Date: November 1, 1990The play that brought the youthful Goethe immediate fame, and inspired Scott, Hugo, Dumas, and others! Gotz von Berlichingen is a play written with all the fervor of youth. Published before its author was twenty-four, to instantaneous nationwide acclaim, it was an event in literary history. Immediately followed by dozens of imitations, Goethe's first play inaugurated a new era of dramatic art. Besides its warmth and joy and vigor, this play has a special importance. It launched a great literary career; it revived a tradition in abeyance since Marlowe and Sha...
|  | Laurel and Hardy
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|  | Bodies at Risk: Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: January 29, 1998| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture Taking a fundamentally post-psychoanalytical approach, Bodies at Risk links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of Romanticism, including subject formation, the disruptive effects of the human body, and the unique forms of textuality they enable through risky personal and artistic conflicts. Neveldine investigates how the body, designated as queer or otherwise, has placed itself at risk, such that it has questioned dominant...
|  | No Reservations (Black Lace)
Release Date: April 22, 2010| Series: Black Lace Christmas is not so merry for Kate and Leah. Kate's romantic winter holiday is destroyed by the sudden and uninvited presence of Dix's annoying ex-wife, while Brandon's super-perfect family and a diamond ring send Leah running for the refuge of a girls' vacation with Kate to Sin City. But Dix and Brandon both know what they want. In hot pursuit, the men show up in Vegas, ready to use every sensual trick they have to convince Kate and Leah to take a gamble on forever. Four days in Vegas, two sexy and determined men, one penthouse suit...
|  | Cast in Secret (Chronicles of Elantra, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008Still avoiding magic whenever possible, Private Kaylin Neya relished investigating a run-of-the-mill theft. Until she found out the mysterious stolen box had been taken from Elani Street, where the mages and charlatans mingled, and it was sometimes hard to tell the difference between the two. And since the box was ancient, without a keyhole, and held tremendous darkness inside, Kaylin knew unknown forces were again playing with her destiny—and her life.… ...
|  | The Whitechapel Conspiracy: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Release Date: September 28, 2010In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt’s testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End’s most dangerous slums. There he must work undercover investigating alleged anarchist plot...
|  | Identity Theft(the novella)(Library Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Identity Theftis a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him.Robert J. Sawyer's novella Identity Theft was a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Aurora Award, and it won the world's largest cash prize for SF writing. ...
|  | Essential Iron Man, Vol. 1
Publication Date: October 11, 2008| Grade Level: P and up Inventor, business-man, playboy...super hero! Gravely injured in combat, billionaire genius Tony Stark saved his own life by designing a life-sustaining shell - the hi-tech protective covering that transformed him into the invincible Iron Man! Now, the world believes him to be Tony Stark's personal bodyguard. In this dual role, he faces boardroom intrigue and super-powered menaces. A modern-day knight in armor, he fights injustice wherever it rears its ugly head! Collects Tales of Suspense #39-72. ...
|  | The Sigh (Archaia Entertainment)
Publication Date: December 7, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Storybook Stew: Cooking with Books Kids Love
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|  | Jump Ship to Freedom (Arabus Family Saga)
Release Date: February 1, 1987| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Let The Whole Earth Sing Praise
Release Date: January 20, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up This joyous book sings thanks and praise for everything in land, sea, and sky-from the sun and moon to plants and animals to all people, young and old. Beloved author-illustrator Tomie dePaola captures the beauty of God's creation in his folk art-style illustrations. With text inspired by Old Testament Scripture and artwork fashioned after the beautiful embroideries and designs of the Otomi people from the mountain villages around San Pablito, in Puebla, Mexico, this is a wonderful celebration for all to share. ...
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