 | Indelible: A Novel
Release Date: May 3, 2011In a clash of light and darkness, can courage prevail? Rescuing a toddler from the jaws of a mountain lion, Trevor MacDaniel, a high-country outfi tter, sets in motion events he can’t foresee. His act of bravery entwines his life with gifted sculptor Natalie Reeve—and attracts a grim admirer. Trevor’s need to guard and protect is born of tragedy, prompting his decision to become a search and rescue volunteer. Natalie’s gift of sculpting comes from an unusual disability that seeks release through her creative hands. In each other they...
 |  | Two Moons: A Novel
Publication Date: April 19, 2001| Series: Harvest Book A galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph, by the writer John Updike called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work".It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison's plan to project an image through time and space takes on urgent life when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatory's human "computers." But the fate of Hugh's heavenly vision-and of his love affair with Cynthia, a Civil War widow whose beauty has bee...
|  | Gulliver Takes Manhattan
Release Date: May 1, 2012Gulliver Takes Manhattan (first published as Gulliver Travels) isthe tale of twenty-something Gulliver Leverenz, who abandons sunny L.A. for afresh start in New York. He’s leaving behind his family, his friends—and onebastard ex-boyfriend who can’t take a hint. With no money, job, or direction,Gully gratefully accepts an invitation to crash with his former fraternitybrother Todd. As luck would have it, Todd lives in Hell’s Kitchen, New York’shottest “gayborhood,” and is a rising star in the gay nightlife scene, complet...
|  | Looking For Julie
Publication Date: August 16, 2011Sam Thompson thinks her problems stem from an unrequited crush on her roommate, Nita Perez, until she and her best friend, Jamie Carpenter, are involved in a near accident while looking for Dr. Julie Decker. Sam and Jamie find themselves running for their lives, and everything pales in comparison to Sam’s fear—except her newfound friend, Karen McGregor.When Jamie turns to his aunt for help, Edie Carpenter arrives at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus hoping to solve Jamie’s problems and perhaps still have time to see the enticing Cl...
|  | One More Sunrise (Frontier Doctor Trilogy #1)
Release Date: January 8, 2004Countless perils menaced the early settlers of the Wild West - and not the least of them was the lack of medical care. Dr. Dane Logan, a former street waif who has been adopted by a doctor's family in Cheyenne, puts his lifelong dream to work filling this need. His renown as a surgeon spreads throughout the frontier, even while his love grows for the beautiful Tharyn, an orphan he lost contact with when he left New York City as a child. Will happiness in love ever come to Dane - or will the roving Tag Moran gang bring his hopes to a dark end?Showdown in Cheyenne ...
|  | No Longer at Ease
Release Date: September 16, 1994The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. ...
|  | The Music of the Spheres
Release Date: December 7, 2010In eighteenth-century London, a killer walks the teeming streets. His victims are always young prostitutes with red hair. Before they die, they hear whispers that speak of stars. Of a woman named Selene. Then they feel the cord around their necks... While the Revolution rages across the Channel, Jonathan Absey, working for England's Home Office, tracks down foreign spies in the war against France. But he is obsessed with the recent killings of prostitutes, all of whom resemble his lost daughter, who met her end in the shadowy alleys of London. The redemption he ...
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|  | Parables for the Theatre, The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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|  | Homeric Questions
Publication Date: July 1, 1996The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission?In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written te...
|  | Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction (Reading Women Writing)
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|  | This Place on Third Avenue: The New York Stories of John McNulty
Publication Date: June 2002"No one came closer to catching the common parlance of New York in all its uncommonness than John McNulty."--Phillip Lopate. "This Place on Third Avenue is a gift ofa book, long overdue, and with a tender and delicious memoir by Faith McNulty, John's widow...McNulty's characters arethe ones you just chatted with in the street, the elevator,or, God help us, in the saloon. He shows us that wherever you look, there's a story."Frank McCourt"John McNulty, city man and newspaperman, self-assigned in his mature years to human-interest stories of the world around him, left...
|  | Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture
Publication Date: January 10, 2012| Series: Best Sex Writing In Best Sex Writing 2012, sex columnist Rachel Kramer Bussel and noted commentator Susie Bright, this year's guest judge, collect the most challenging and provocative work on this endlessly evocative subject. Find out what's behind the latest political sex scandals in "Sex, Lies, and Hush Money," learn about how "Atheists Do It Better" and find out "Why Lying About Monogamy Matters." From an insider look at being gay in the military pre-DADT and an impassioned defense of circumcision to a dating site for people with STDs, nuanced e...
|  | A Love So Deep
Release Date: September 18, 2007How do you save a widower who weaves a road map of self-destruction because his wife of forty years has suddenly died and he's unable to cope with the reality of that loss? Graham Peters has shut everyone out of his life and has tried unsuccessfully to immortalize his wife, Amanda, by reliving daily (through flashbacks) their life together. But with a little prodding from best friend, Charlie Ford, Graham's spirit begins to lift, and he finds that there is life after death in the likeness of Ms. Rita Long, a sultry jazz singer at a local nightclub, far from th...
|  | North of Havana (Doc Ford)
Release Date: May 1, 1998| Series: Doc Ford Randy Wayne White?s Doc Ford novels have been praised as "witty" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "must-reads" (Chicago Tribune) and "superb." (Denver Post)Now, White?s newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where his friend is being held by the Cuban government.Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford ventures to Cuba--where he findshimself entangled in a web of murder, revenge, and assassination. ? From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Captiva (Prime Crime, 5/97) ? Another mystery featuring Randy Wayne Wh...
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|  | The Empty Mirror
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Nick is an orphan who has grown up in his uncle Jack's care on the wild, wooded coast of New England. His parents died when he was a baby during a terrible influenza epidemic that swept the region not long after World War I. Nick first realizes something is wrong when he notices he no longer has a reflection. Then a neighbor he has known all his life accuses him of ignoring her. Soon Nick is blamed for all kinds of trouble around town. Is some other boy who looks like Nick creating all the problems? Nick suspects that so...
|  | Monkey-Monkey's Trick (Step Into Reading: A Step 2 Book)
Publication Date: November 1988| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Baseball Heroes (Woodland Mysteries)
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| | Cycling Shooting & Show Jumpin (Olympic Sports)
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