 | Undead and Unpopular (Queen Betsy, Book 5) Release Date: May 1, 2007This New York Times bestselling author's Undead series is more popular than ever!With her birthday coming up, Betsy isn't in the best frame of mind to face the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects. Playing politics is not her strong suit, especially when she finds out her best friend Jessica may have a life-threatening illness. Sure Betsy can save her life by taking it-isn't that what friends are for?-but the choice isn't in her hands. With her fiancé Eric dodging all the wedding plans, Betsy's plate is full-and not with birthda...
 |  | A Dog's Journey Release Date: May 8, 2012Direct sequel to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron Buddy is a good dog. After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very much in need of a dog of her own. When Buddy is reborn, he realizes that he has a new destiny. He's overjoyed when he is adopted by Clarity, now a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated,...
 |  | All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Release Date: May 27, 2008A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous ac...
 |  | Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel Publication Date: October 30, 2001Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, she nervously goes up onstage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they'd laugh, but hey, it's a start.Mindy and her friend Ursula Duran, a man-magnet model-slash-actress-slash-deeply t...
 |  | Fallout (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell) Release Date: November 6, 2007| Series: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed-by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil. ...
 |  | The Collected Jorkens Volume 3 Publication Date: April 15, 2005The third in a three-volume set collecting all of Lord Dunsany's club stories, as told by Jorkens. Long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. Introduction by Pulitzer-winning critic Michael Dirda of the Washington Post. ...
 |  | Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology Release Date: June 1, 1988With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House. ...
 |  | The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations Release Date: May 10, 2005The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time. Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Bly introduced Neruda, Vallejo, Trakl, Jiménez, Traströmer, and Rumi. His most recent translations include Rolf Jacobsen, Francis Ponge, and ...
 |  | I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Modern Library) Release Date: November 4, 2003| Series: Modern Library One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.A moving document of decline, Rimbaud’s letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old...
 |  | 60 Classic Australian Poems Publication Date: January 1, 2010Featuring notable verses dating from the 19th century to contemporary times, this unique compilation offers a superb introduction to Australia’s poetry scene. With contributions by a prolific poet, this examination includes a short essay following each poem that justifies its classic” status. Offering such distinct and renowned voices as Adam Lindsay Gordon, Banjo Paterson, and John Kinsella, this collection is sure to be a treasured collection among both poetry fans and English students. ...
 |  | The Beat Generation and the Russian New Wave ...
 |  | A Garden Folly Release Date: December 1, 1996Invited to a month-long house party at a magnificent estate, Catherine Forsythe hopes that she and her sister will nab a pair of wealthy suitors, until she meets a hot-blooded man with only passion to offer....
 |  | The Eleventh Commandment: A Novel Release Date: June 3, 1998Connor Fitzgerald is a professional's professional.Holder of the Medal of Honor.Devoted family man.Servant of his country.But for the past twenty-eight years, Fitzgerald has been leading a double life as the CIA's most deadly assassin.And only days before his retirement from the CIA, he comes across an enemy who, for the first time, even he cannot handle.The enemy is his own boss - Helen Dexter - the director of the CIA.Dexter's stranglehold on the agency is threatened by one decision, and her only hope of survival is to destroy Fitzgerald.Meanwhile, on ...
 |  | Lisa33: A Novel Release Date: March 8, 2004Its circa 1999 and the first sex chat rooms are in full swing. Late at night as his family sleeps, Tag, a lawyer trapped in the golden handcuffs of a loveless marriage, makes his inaugural visit to the newly launched Literoticus.com. He cant believe what hes stumbled into. This freewheeling world of lonely misfits engaged in unbridled sexual activity is both shocking and intriguing. When Tag encounters the witty, insightful, and occasionally scathing Lisa33, he feels a chemistry that has eluded him his entire marriage. Late...
 |  | Black Wings Has My Angel Publication Date: June 30, 2011One of the best crime novels of the 50’s, and a sublime example of American Noir, is BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL by Elliott Chaze, whose earlier war novel, THE STAINLESS STEEL KIMONO, was much admired by Ernest Hemmingway. Chaze took the standard dime store crime novel and turned it into an edgy piece of literature. His use of complex sentences, long descriptive passages, and characters who continue to surprise us throughout the narrative prove that the American crime novel was capable of greater depths.The story follows the turbulent love affair of a pair ...
 |  | The Last Sherlock Holmes Story ...
 |  | Secret Missions: Book 1: Breakout Squad (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) Release Date: September 3, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | Beware Our Power! (Green Lantern) Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | Harmony: A Treasury of Chinese Wisdom for Children and Parents (This Little Light of Mine) Publication Date: October 15, 2008 ...
 |  | The Fool and the Phoenix: A Tale of Old Japan Release Date: September 12, 1997| Age Level: 1 and up Focusing on one of her favourite periods in history - Japan's Edo period - Lattimour writes of a poor bird catcher named Hideo who is banished from his village when he is accused of being the evil bandit who steals from Shogun and villager alike. Finding shelter under the boughs of a tree, Hideo hears a rustling and makes a catch beyond his wildest dreams. Painted in the art style of the Edo period, each is breathtaking in its detail; every page is awash in shimmering and vibrant colour. Once again, an acclaimed storyteller weaves a tale ...
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