 | I Live: A novel without heroes
Publication Date: May 20, 2012After a questionable arrest, a young man returns to his old neighborhood with a new perspective on life. Bitter from his experiences, he struggles to balance society’s standards and life’s harsh realities.Thought provoking and suspenseful, I Live: A Novel Without Heroes has the natural allure of sex, love, and violence with a twist.Wright whisks the reader into the mind of an intelligent outlaw experiencing the nuances of an unyielding and unjust city.Unforgettable and enlightening, this antihero's journey will leave you debating society's idea of ...
 |  | Blissful Lies
Publication Date: January 3, 2012Things are often not what they seem in the decadent lifestyles of the rich and famous. Life can be messy and at times people do what feels wrong, because in the end it may turn out to be the best decision ever made. A close bond between 5 lifelong friends, now of college age, find the limits of their relationships are tested when multiple secrets and lies begin to surface, which ultimately leave them wondering if it is all too much to move forward as the family they once were. Forbidden love, drug dealing, date rape, betrayal, cheating, and more begin to unra...
|  | Face of Betrayal (Triple Threat Series #1)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010FOX News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense series as timely as tomorrow's headlines. While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well as their uncanny ability to crack cases from ...
|  | Gateways (Repairman Jack Novels)
Release Date: February 7, 2006| Series: Repairman Jack Novels (Book 7) Following last year's successful The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages. His adventures are hugely entertaining."In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this i...
|  | Curse The Dark (Retrievers, Book 2)
Publication Date: July 1, 2005And you think magic is complicated? Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart. On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their "relationship" things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near! So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe n...
|  | Am I Evil
Publication Date: June 28, 2006Journey with William Smith as he documents his outlandish, yet very real, voyage from the Navy brig to the boundaries of Hell. Discover the burden of being forced to choose sides between the pure evil of a madman and the inherent evil of the drug dealers in the shadows of Virginia Beach. A vague offer takes Smitty, an escaped military fugitive, off the streets as a vagabond and puts him into a role that supports a strange man's dark endeavor. Prior to learning of Louis Hamburg's bizarre mission, Smitty naively professes allegiance to him in return for much need...
|  | Thief of Always (Elite Operatives, Book 2)
Publication Date: February 2, 2009Stealing a diamond to save the world is the easy part.Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro, one of the Elite Operative Organization's top agents--or from one affair to another, to avoid having to think about the things she's seen and done. Cocky, confident, and used to winning, Mishael confronts her greatest challenge when she's assigned to steal the priceless Blue Star Diamond from Dutch countess Kristine Marie van der Jagt. Not only must she win a high-stakes race with Arab terrorists and Neo-Nazis, she also ...
|  | Covert Warriors (A Presidential Agent Novel)
Release Date: December 24, 2012| Series: A Presidential Agent Novel Charley Castillo and the former members of Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis are officially “retired.” But that doesn’t mean they’re out of action…At a Mexican roadblock, a US Embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers murdered, and a fourth kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from US federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his gr...
|  | Dead Simple
Publication Date: February 8, 2007Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and now Ashley, his fiancee. While out celebrating with a group of friends a few nights before the wedding, Michael suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself enclosed in a coffin equipped only with a flashlight, a dirty magazine, a walkie-talkie, and a tiny breathing tube. It's all in good fun — payback for the grief his buddies had suffered at the hands of his own penchant for tomfoolery — that is, until his four buddies are killed in a drunk driving acc...
|  | Black Marigolds & Coloured Stars (Poetica)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Poetica For many, the versions from Asian and Oriental poetry made by E. Powys Mathers during and shortly after the First World War rank with those of Arthur Waley or Ezra Pound. This volume, pairing his first two books, Coloured Stars' and Black Marigolds', assembles the best of his remarkable poetry, which even now reads with undated freshness.Tony Harrison, a long-time Mathers admirer, describes the puzzles of Mathers' life and the fascination and originality of his poetry in his entertaining preface.E. Powys Mathers (1892-1939) is most often remem...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: February 26, 2008Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O’Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951 he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the city’s artistic life. O’Hara’s style exudes an insistent, seductive glamour; his mercurial poems, at once open-ended and startlingly immedia...
|  | Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: March 17, 2011| Series: Arthurian Studies Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. It dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and is the subject of rapidly increasing attention and research. Taking Geoffrey of Monmouth as his starting-point, and finally dovetailing his work into the romance tradition of the Lancelot-Grail, the author of Perceforest/ draws on Alexander romances, Roman histories and medieval travel writing - not to mention oral tradition - as he gives, for example, the (distinctly racy) ...
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|  | James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism
Publication Date: August 13, 2001| ISBN-10: 0521009588 | ISBN-13: 978-0521009584In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism. ...
|  | Delete All Suspects (A Turing Hopper Mystery)
Publication Date: September 5, 2006An investigation into a shady web-based business puts Turing Hopper, sentient computer and amateur sleuth, in the hot seat. The Feds are looking for an online vigilante, but Turing can't tell the FBI what she's found out without revealing her own identity. ...
|  | Louisiana Indian Tales
Release Date: March 31, 1990| Grade Level: 5 and up Louisiana Indian Tales vividly re-creates the struggles and triumphs of the stateís first inhabitants. Dating back to 10,000 B.C., when the Paleo-Indians occupied the area and huge woolly mammoths and mastodons roamed the land, these poignant stories are based on archaeological evidence and historical knowledge traced through modern-day findings. For young readers, the tales in this collection focus on many tribes from around the state, such as the Tchefuncte, Choctaw, Chitimacha, Caddo, Houma, and Bayougoula. ...
|  | LeBron James (Today's Superstars)
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|  | Soaring (First Books--Sports & Recreation)
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|  | Holt Elements of Literature: Student Edition Grade 6 2000
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|  | Perfect Ponies 3 in 1: " Keeping Faith " , " Last Hope " , " Sweet Charity " (Perfect Ponies)
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